It is not actually possible to spawn Herobrine into your Minecraft survival world while playing an unmodded version of the game. And as expected, this one change in Mojang’s pattern left the community wondering about the existence of Herobrine.
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That is until the Minecraft 1.16 update came around, just in time for Herobrine’s 10th anniversary, that for the first time since 2010, Mojang had not added the words “Removed Herobrine” to the changelog of the update. However, Herobrine had become so massively popular that even Mojang jumped in on the game and started adding the words “Removed Herobrine” to every changelog of every update to the game. Mojang often confirmed that they had never added an entity such as Herobrine to the game and neither did they plan on doing so in the future. Many Minecraft players claimed to have seen Herobrine haunting their world, but ultimately, none of these claims had any truth to them. Forums of Minecraft fans began sharing individual screenshots of either corrupted worlds or of Herobrine himself. While these two incidents were eventually proven to be fake, the story of Herobrine had already become too famous. However, the streamer ended up accidentally admitting that it was a hoax in one of his streams and was bombarded with negative comments by the Minecraft community of fans. He ended the live stream, kept claiming that he had seen Herobrine and got the desired result of his stream becoming a hot topic.Īnother streamer by the name of Patimuss ended up using the same trope in one of his videos, where he retextured a door to look like Herobrine was floating in a field of lava. Copeland had placed that painting there to fool his audiences. He started streaming his normal survival world, deliberately avoiding to go into one of the rooms of the build he was working on.įinally, he went into the room that contained a retextured painting to look like Herobrine. In fact, he took the story one step further and even staged a hoax using a live stream video. The story truly took off when the Brocraft streamer, “Copeland” photoshopped a few screenshots of the game to look like Herobrine has haunted his game. And even without any evidence, the legend of Herobrine kept growing. Despite Notch having denied having any brother, dead or alive, some Minecraft fans kept believing that Herobrine was Notch’s brother who had returned to haunt Minecraft. Some Minecraft players even started saying that Herobrine was the dead brother of Notch, the creator of Minecraft. It so happened that these corruptions became the story of Herobrine. Minecraft players began reporting corruptions in their singleplayer survival gameplay - entire forests with no leaves on the bark, weird structures that could not have naturally spawned in the world, and even manmade 2 × 2 tunnels in underground caves. The creepy legend first came to surface in a Minecraft player’s unclear screenshot, in which the player reported to have spotted a figure with white glowing eyes in his singleplayer world.Īt first, the image was ignored by the Minecraft community but soon, an urban legend was weaved around the mysterious figure. While Herobrine has never actually existed in vanilla Minecraft, his story has been around for a little over 10 years now. Image credits: Curse Forge Story of Minecraft Herobrine Eventually, Herobrine came to be known as a Minecraft community symbol, adapted into skins, mods, and meme material. Herobrine corrupted the worlds of Minecraft players, by stealing items, cutting down the leaves in forests, or by mining 2 × 2 tunnels in caves. And thus, began the legend of Herobrine, which eventually became a story that everyone wanted to be a part of! One Minecraft player even posted an unclear screenshot of what looked like Herobrine - basically Steve with glowing white eyes. Herobrine’s mentions go back to 2010 when a couple of Minecraft players claimed to have seen Herobrine haunting their single-player worlds. He is a creepypasta or horror story/urban legend that has been cooked up by the massive community of Minecraft fans. Since he never existed in Vanilla Minecraft, spawning him in an unmodded version of the game is impossible. His behavior is limited to corruption of the worlds, which is demonstrated by the presence of any structures that cannot be generated naturally in Minecraft and were not created by the player. Herobrine is a rumored mob to be seen in Minecraft possessing a similar appearance to Steve, with the exception of his glowing white eyes.