The Farlands But in ROBLOX

Only real ones know how being flung randomly would cause you to go to the Nil Zone

Fun fact: If you go even further out, and I mean wayyyyy further out, the game will eventually fully break down to just black. No movement, no visual, nothing. You can achieve this by leaving the the actual confines of the roblox workspace (which is very hard to do). Sometimes you can glitch a part accidentally in roblox studio seemingly out of existence but when you teleport to it its in a black void which means it literally LEFT roblox itself! edit: Just so you guys know you can get into the same limbo state by deleting yourself from the game while you are playing it

there’s actually a unique name for it, and when I started to learn coding, the name made a lot more sense to me. it’s been named “The Nil Zone” by other Roblox players.

This error can be found in every 3D game in existence, its called the "float point single precision error"

there is actually multiple Nil Zones, one of them is where you go so high up in the roblox game that everything becomes flat, how to get there I have no idea, a hacker touched me after going super fast and I just became a pancake, funniest thing to happen to me in a while.

Fun fact, 99% of games have this and I don't mean roblox games I mean games as a whole.

The reason this happens is because floating point (decimal) numbers are limited and are more compact around 0 (more decimals), and less compact the further out you go, eventually it starts skipping whole numbers so that's why your movement on the X axis stops.

this also could break the void killzone, I’ve been flung below into the depths of the world and not dying while still falling and my character actively deteriorates

Floating point numbers are made of two parts: - 1-bit Sign (1 is minus, 0 is plus, marked as 's'). - 8-bit Exponent (marked as 'n'). - 23-bit Mantissa (marked as 'k'). When we convert those integers to decimal, the algebraic operation looks like this: (2(s – ½) (k * 2 ^ (n - 127)) When you're far away from 5 million studs, the float looks like this: 0 10010101 00110001001011010000000 In the algebraic operation: (2(s – ½) = 1) (2 ^ (149 – 127 = 22) × 1,611,392) Where is the problem? — you may ask. In the mantissa's precision. When we increment the mantissa – make it 1,611,393 – and do the operation, it results in the value being 5,000,000.5, so the precision is half a stud. When we increase the exponent instead, it becomes 10,000,000, so there's no room for more precision. Then, when the number exceeds 8,388,607 (the exponent is 150 now), the precision is exactly 1. So there are no fractions now. After exceeding 16,777,215 – the exponent is 151 – precision is exactly 2. Etcetera, etcetera. It reaches up to the exponent being 254, then the number is around 3.4028235e38 if the mantissa is at its maximum. When we set the exponent to 255, the number becomes infinity if the mantissa is exactly 0 – otherwise – it's just NaN standing for Not a Number, in Roblox terms it's the ACTUAL Nil zone, in other languages than Lua, and other engines not based on it it's the Null, Inf or the NaN zone. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG

I remember when as a kid, I had a obsession over this. Early early roblox, like when comic sans was still the main font and everyone had these dinky little green bars above their health, or when every 'morph' was named 'Dalek' I think? I don't remember-- It was like a boogieman style obsession, 'Nil' terrified me when I was really young, thinking it was some different dimension that hid within every Roblox game, and the only way to get there was to break the game and fling yourself far enough. I actually managed to do it a few times, rather consistently, I think I did it the most in this zombie survival DayZ clone and some random obscure obby that nobody could ever remember the name of at this point. Now, as an adult, I know that it's math getting real freaky when the numbers get big enough. It's fun seeing it in all sorts of games. Honestly, it's as cool as little kid me thought it was, an alternate dimension in the game where everything's ceasing to function and the world around you is starting to collapse. Actually pretty easy to find this in EVE Online if you look at someone's ship a couple hundred KM away from you. It's basically the same effect the playstation had with its polygons I think? It's cool. Nil is cool, You should make a followup video of going even further out showing the black screen @Tangled_Goo talks about. Would be pretty cool!

omg! i used to love going in the far lands!!! believe it or not it works vertically aswell, back in the day playing blockate id cannon myself a million blocks in the air and place a spawn next to me. then id just mess around in the weird distorted 'jello zone' as i called it. glad to see someone finally talk about it!

love how the wedge lived throughout the whole thing

I genuinely love this I like to imagine if you go far enough you will disconnect and suddenly join a other game like going from 1 universe to other universe

I get this all the time. I thought it was just a size issue because sometimes when I get to max size in a game I play, I get flung so far that I start glitching like this. I started to realize that it happens at all sizes and figured that it was a distance issue. Very cool video and gave me a lot of answers.

Farlands give me that vibe you get when looking at liminal spaces

I've been playing roblox for almost 10 years and never knew why this would happen if lets say I got flung out of the map somehow. The explanation was REALLY awesome! Thank you, and nice video!

I knew about this for years, in games like build a boat you can fly up there, also games with flying bugs also send you there, rip galleons

I just bought your course on udemy. It's going pretty well :)

This is actually a common occurrence in games, I remember an old kids game I used to play would get like this

64 bits, 32 bits, 16 bits, 8 BITS, 4 BITS, 2 BITS, 1 BIT, HALF BIT, QUARTER BIT.