Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Wiki videos/Herobrine

Herobrine is a community-made creepypasta rumored to be the ghost of of the dead brother of Notch (the game's original creator) in Minecraft.

Herobrine is NOT in the vanilla game, never has been and never will be; furthermore Notch does NOT have a brother, dead or alive.

Herobrine's origins date back to August 30th, 2010, with a post on 4chan, with a description giving context, talking about how he posted his experiences on the forums but apparently they were almost instantly deleted, and was directly messages by Herobrine to stop, with Herobrin's user page 404ing. He later claims to have reieved an email from a mod on the incident who also stated to have seen him. Later somehow finding out it was Notch's dead brother, he supposedly asked Notch in an email if he had a brother, who apparently replied he had one, but he had passed away.

Some Minecraft community members would soon make streams faking Herobrine using tactics such as retexturing thing like paintings and doors. Players often credited world generation errors then common, such as trees with no leaves, dirt pyramids in water, 2x2 tunnels, and more, to Herobrine... this was worsened due to Minecraft's bugs and glitches, particularly terrain ones, being less known of, especially with world generation being changed frequently in the earlier Minecraft updates.

Mojang decided to "go along" with the creepypasta, with several developers tweeting things about him, and including him in artwork. Notch even mentioned they may add him (though this was in 2010, and that combined with him leaving Mojang in 2014 means his addition is extremely unlikely, especially with Mojang further distancing itself from Notch more recently, and the Feedback Site states that creepypastas including Herobrine are not coming). Since 2012, all major update changelogs (or of subsequent minor updates) have said "Removed Herobrine" as a continuing trend.

Any and all siting of Herobrine are fake, they are either another player, a texture/resource/data pack, or a mod (possibly installed by another person than who primary plays as a way to troll them). The community has made many mods and animations with Herobrine, and is remembered as the original Minecraft creepypasta. Anything that would previously would be credited to him is now known to likey be glitches and world corruption... and so the Herobrine creepypasta is just that... a creepypasta (Shows pixel art of creepy pasta). As stated, Herobrine is not in the vanilla game, never has been, and never will be.

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