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.

And now, as detailed at (opens in new tab), the original Herobrine seed has been discovered as well.While Herobrine has never actually existed in vanilla Minecraft, his story has been around for a little over 10 years now. It is possible to crunch the numbers to discover specific seeds, though: The Minecraft title screen seed (opens in new tab) was discovered in July 2020, and the Pack.png seed (opens in new tab) was dug up a few months later. Unfortunately, nobody knew exactly which world it was: Specific Minecraft worlds, as we explain here (opens in new tab), can be perfectly recreated with 'seeds,' but if you don't know the seed, you're pretty much out of luck. What is real, however, is the Minecraft world in which Herobrine was first seen. Herobrine doesn't exist (Copeland explained how he got the ball rolling here (opens in new tab)) and, for the record, Notch never had a brother. Not that it really matters, because-spoiler alert-the whole thing was made up.

Like all good legends, this one had a hook in the real world: Herobrine was reportedly Notch's dead brother (opens in new tab), although to be honest I'm not sure whether the idea was that Notch coded his deceased sibling into Minecraft to preserve him for eternity, or if it was his vengeful spirit come back to haunt the game.

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