[view] • Infdev (or Infinite Development) is the third phase in the Development Cycle of Minecraft and is only playable in single player Survival Mode. Infdev succeeded Indev when Notch decided to rewrite the game's code to allow terrain to be infinite and procedurally generated rather than finite. This principle of how maps are generated is similar to how current Minecraft levels are. Ever since Infdev, the maps generated would be, theoretically, 8 times the size of the Earth. Infdev also introduced the first appearance of the Far Lands.