Dream was right! Herobrine is in Minecraft 1.16 (video proof)
Addition to Minecraft
Notch posted on Twitter about the subject of Herobrine, early in his popularity boost. In reply to a tweet asking if Herobrine was a real entity in-game, Notch replied saying that he was not, but that there “might be soon”.[6] This confirmed there was no Herobrine, but suggested “Notch planned to add him at a later date”.
Due to increased drama surrounding the Herobrine page, a wiki administrator asked Notch over IRC if Herobrine would ever be added, to which Notch replied “i [sic] have no plans of adding herobrine as is, but I do like the rumors, haha”.[citation needed]
This shows Notch has decided against adding Herobrine. However, the fact that “as is” suggested that something like Herobrine may be added, fueling beliefs he will be added even further. So, once again, the same user asked for clarification, saying that the Minecraft community was “getting frustrated by the hero-spam”, to which Notch replied that he had no plans for adding Herobrine into the game.[7]
Interaction within Minecraft
Herobrine is able to build and destroy in Minecraft. The original states the player found long 2×2 tunnels, small pyramids in the middle of the ocean and trees with no leaves. The full extent of Herobrines building capacity is unknown, but the given examples indicate Herobrine has awareness of shape, and can differentiate materials from each other.
Herobrine shows a lot of characteristics of being a form of virus, such as manipulating game worlds, deleting threads and sending messages through the Minecraft Forums.
Herobrine seems to solely target human players. He did not seem to interact with any other mobs nearby in the Brocraft stream, some of which were spiders and zombies. His canonical relation to further mobs added since he appeared is a complete mystery. His interactions with other mobs is not mentioned in the original . While there is a chicken present in the , Herobrine does not seem interested in it at all, and is solely focused on the player.
Herobrine has, on occasion, interacted with other mobs. He is sometimes able to take control of passive animals, and revive/spawn undead mobs.
Herobrine seems able to drastically change his environments with no viable source of resources to do so. Most expansions to his abilities involves cobblestone placing, dungeon building, using redstone torches and setting traps. He exhibits all the behaviors of a Creative player in the game.
Herobrines intentions vary, but they usually fall under two categories. One variation is based on pure community interpretation, while the other, based on the canon.
In the Stalker variation, he stalks the player, disappearing if approached. This variation is derived from his origins.
In the Vengeful variation, he tries to ensnare the player in traps, presumably to steal their items. He waits for people to enter his dungeons, then either seals them inside, or teleports behind them, presumably killing them. Some rarer variations of this particular version says he breaks the players creations, and steals their items from chests. This variation is likely inspired by griefers and trolls.
In both the original creepypasta and the brocraft streams, Herobrine appears in the world without any apparent cause, and his presence is not implied to be due to a player’s actions. In the creepypasta he seems to avoid the player and appears to only be active in unexplored areas, whereas in the streams he seems to intentionally get close to players and appears mainly near player constructions.
A popular idea in the community is that Herobrine can be “summoned” through the use of a special arrangement of blocks, such as a “Herobrine shrine” or “Herobrine altar”, a 3×3 horizontal square of gold blocks, with a block of netherrack placed on top and 4 redstone torches placed upright on each side. The block beneath the netherrack varies between versions, with common choices being mossy cobblestone, soul sand, more netherrack or more gold. Igniting the netherrack is supposed to “activate” the structure, which then supposedly summons Herobrine into the world.
Building any structures claimed to be able to summon Herobrine in vanilla Minecraft does not actually summon Herobrine.
The discovery comes after recent efforts also unearthed the seed for Minecrafts fabled pack.png – dubbed “the most iconic in Minecraft history” – and the famous title-screen background panorama.
The seed was found last week by andrew_555, aka Kminster, who kicked off their search on 5th September, 2020. Kminster admitted it “probably about 50 hours in total for developing/writing the code”, but eventually stumbled upon the world on 16th January.
To visit yourself here are the details, although note youll need Minecraft Java Edition with “historical versions” activated. Select version a1.0.16 and use this information, or download this prepared world file (thanks, PC Gamer):
“Note that Herobrine is not real and has never been, this is just the seed used for the original creepypasta ,” a Minecraft moderator reminds posters on Reddit.
“Ever since the first Herobrine Creepypasta, people have faked his world multiple times”, teases the video description (see below). “So we used our seed cracking knowledge from Pack.png and the Minecraft panoramas to find the seed once and for all!”
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