![]() ![]() ![]() Everything was normal at first as I began chopping down trees and crafting a workbench. “I had recently spawned a new world in single-player Minecraft. One fateful day on the Minecraft forums, a user posted a topic regarding something strange that had happened on his single-player world: You’ll build shelters and explore deep underground caverns in search of better ores and diamonds, so you can create better stuff.įor the most part, aside from the aforementioned creatures that exist in all the dark places, it’s a fairly ordinary, trouble-free experience. You’ll mine ores and dirt and sand, all in the form of singular blocks. Turquoise shirt, dark purple pants, with that kind of dumbstruck, “Do I need an axe to chop wood?” look on your face. When you first enter a world in Minecraft, unless you’ve modified your skin, you’ll look like an ordinary block person. ![]() The Legend Of Herobrine Your default look in Minecraft (Endermen are actually based on the Internet urban legend of the Slender Man, something I hope to talk about at length some time in the future.)īut today I want to talk about Minecraft’s original urban legend. Like the weeping angels in Doctor Who, the moment you turn away, he’ll attack. If you make eye contact, don’t look away. The Enderman, the game’s most recent edition, is a particularly frightening entity that quietly rearranges blocks. Some of that comes in the form of various creatures. You’re limited only by your imagination, and even then I’m not so sure. What began as nothing more than virtual LEGOs has evolved into one of the best sandboxes ever created, selling over 4.5 million copies. He is in the age group of people who would be playing Minecraft at its peak of popularity, and being interested in game design, he is well versed in gaming culture.If you’ve never played Minecraft, it’s a game of relatively endless possibilities. This informant does not believe in Herobrine, and provides very logical explanations for why he was such a phenomenon. Um, but it very, it can be something as just suddenly killing you, suddenly appearing and disappearing, things moving around, um, a lot of things you’ll find in a lot of other ghost story literature.” Informant: “Umm, I’ve heard various accounts because, obviously, it doesn’t actually happen, so people’s stories like to vary and people like to one-up each other. ![]() Interviewer: “What does Herobrine supposedly do? If he appears in a game.” Informant: “Umm… I knew a, I knew a lot of uhh… a lot of kids in uhh… uh middle school that would claim it. Interviewer: “Do you know anyone who claims to have seen Herobrine, or know someone else who claims to have seen Herobrine?” Informant: “Uhh, something about… the creator, Notch’s, brother passing away? Something like that? Which isn’t true… in the slightest. But something as ubiquitous as a software that can be downloaded that can be haunted is more interesting.” It’s the same concept as creepypastas of just writing haunted versions of games, especially because they think people are interested in exploring ghost stories as they relate to modern media and modern technology, um, as opposed to the old jaded, like, haunted house that no one’s scared of anymore because we’ve rehashed it in so many works of fiction. Um, but the creators had fun with people and would constantly tease about it, and all of their change logs ever since the old myth came up, they would put, like, ‘Herobrine removed,’ ‘Herobrine removed,’ like ‘he’s finally removed.’ And, um, yeah but it was really popular and it’s a common thing that people who play video games like to do. Uh, you can go through the codes of all, of every single version of Minecraft and see that there’s nothing. Uh, the idea it that it was, uh, an entity hidden in the code that would sort of on a random case-by-case basis do things to your game. Informant: “Uhh I know that it was, umm uh, a popular myth surrounding the game Minecraft. The informant first heard about Herobrine from a Youtube video in middle school, around the time when Minecraft was getting very popular. I began by simply asking, “What do you know about Herobrine?” Collected privately in an empty hallway while his friends played a horror game in the other room, which he returned to after the interview. ![]()
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