Herobrine: Difference between revisions

On July 31, 2010, [[Minecraft Forum]] user Flaky posted a comment, supposedly copied from a post on 4chan's /v/ board, containing a story of a player encountering an entity with glowing white eyes after listening to the [[Music Disc 13|"13" music disc]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/alpha/alpha-survival-single-player/814622-13-ogg-a-work-of-fiction-updated-nov-7-twice?page=3#c54|title=(Note: Copied from /v/, I didn't write this and the poster was Anonymous)|website=Minecraft Forum|author=Flaky|date=July 31, 2010}}</ref> One supposed instance of these eyes was linked in the comment, which was a YouTube upload of "13" posted the previous day (the same day that the disc was added to the game), showing a [[screenshot]] of a dark [[cave]] with two white eyes edited into the bottom left corner.<ref>{{ytl|2cFpTSQDyzo|Minecraft "music" - 13.ogg|Curchack Curchack|July 30, 2010.}}</ref> This story is the first known instance of the concept of a creepypasta regarding a white-eyed paranormal being in ''Minecraft''. These "white eyes" were likely inspired by a graphical bug in older versions that caused white dots to appear in the seams between blocks, which could resemble pairs of white eyes if two such dots were viewed from a distance.<ref>{{bug|MC-1794}}</ref>

At some point before August 19,<ref>{{citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118014621/https://twitter.com/TacticsNNiblics/status/21587389080|title=@xnotch Hey, someone made a story about your brother Herobrine! You remember him, right? *tap tap* You should TOTALLY add him to minecraft!}} - {{tweet|TacticsAndNiblics}}, August 19, 2010</ref> a similar altered version of the story surfaced: "White Eyes" gained the name "Herobrine", and was now described as the deceased brother of [[Notch]] (in reality, Notch has never had a brother<ref>{{tweet|notch|23849639551700992|Herobrine isn't real in any way, no. I never had a brother (well, there's a half brother I never meet..), and he's not in the game.|Jan 8, 2011}}</ref>), taking the form of a [[humanplayer]] entity with white eyes. The exact origin of this version of the story is unknown, with the earliest known instances of it being from a blog post from August 22, 2010,<ref>{{citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204220637/https://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/minecraft.html|title=Minecraft|website=Creepy + Pasta|author=Inunah|date=August 22, 2010}}</ref> a comment in a Minecraft Forum thread on August 30,<ref>{{citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903055441/http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29828&start=30|title=How about he's in the game BUT doesn't exist in any of the code, At all.... /rant|website=Minecraft Forum|author=TheCameraWorks|date=August 30, 2010}}</ref> and a now-deleted image posted on 4chan's paranormal /x/ board on August 31.<ref>[http://images.4chan.org/x/src/1283223082465.jpg Original defunct link] to the earliest known post containing the Herobrine story. The filename "1283223082465.jpg" is a [[Wikipedia:Unix time|Unix timestamp]] which points to this image being posted on August 31, 2010, at 02:51:22 GMT.</ref>

In September 2013, developer [[Marc Watson]] created a series of skins for the [[head]] model. These skins were made to ensure a stable skin for various official entities could be used without fear that the skin could change. Herobrine is one of the skins that can be obtained through this system by using the command {{cmd|give @s player_head[profile{SkullOwner:{=}}"MHF_Herobrine"]}}{{only|java}}{{info needed|what about bedrock edition and before java 1.20.5?}} (with "MHF" standing for "Marc's Head Format"). The skin used to show Herobrine without a beard and was originally taken from the Herobrine account. It was changed in December 2017 to use the same beard that Steve and the [[Mob (entity)|mob]] had before the release of [[Survival Test]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://namemc.com/profile/MHF_Herobrine.1|title=MHF_Herobrine|website=NameMC}}</ref>

HerobrineMHF_Herobrine No beardold.png|MHF_Herobrine, without the beard.

SkinPack3HerobrineSkinpack1.png|The Zombie Herobrine skin from [[Skin Pack 31]].

SP3 screenshot 8SkinPack3.jpgpng|The Zombie Herobrine skin from [[Skin Pack 3]].

Minecraft1stBirthdaySP1st Birthday Promo 3.jpg|The Party Herobrine skin from the [[1st Birthday Skin Pack]].

Party HerobrineMinecraft1stBirthdaySP.pngjpg|The Party Herobrine skin from the 1st Birthday Skin Pack.

Herobrine has been said to be removed from the game in numerous changelog entries. The first of these mentions was in [[Beta 1.6.6]], as a joke referring to the partial removal of the human mob's essential code, making it unspawnable within ''Minecraft''. An ulterior motive may have been to troll the community, as this was around the time Herobrine had gained memetic status. After that, most ''Minecraft'' update changelogs since then until [[Java Edition 1.16.2]] included the entry "Removed Herobrine" at least once every update cycle as a running gag, with an exception, [[Java Edition 1.1]]. This changed after Java Edition 1.16.2, where he was never mentioned in any changelogs up until [[Java Edition 1.20]], where he was once again removed. He was removed again in all subsequent changlogs.

| [[Java Edition 1.21|1.21]] || Noted on the [{{Mcnet|minecraft-java-edition-1-21}} official ''Minecraft'' website].

|[[Notch]]|Herobrine<ref>{{citation|url=https://archive.is/FysAV|title=Fine, Herobrine is real, and he gains spooky vengeance haunting power whenever you remind me of him. Only way to stop him is to ignore him.}} – {{tweet|notch}}, July 6, 2014</ref>|NotchfaceNotch-twitter.png}}

{{Q|Getting loads of tweets and emails about Herobrine again. I don't have a dead brother, and he never was in the game. Not real. Never was.|[[Notch]]|Herobrine<ref>{{tweet|notch|206375074608054273|Getting loads of tweets and emails about Herobrine again. I don't have a dead brother, and he never was in the game. Not real. Never was.|May 26, 2012}}</ref>|NotchfaceNotch-twitter.png}}

{{Q|The Herobrine stuff is awesome and kind of scary at the same time. It really shows how little control a content producer has over the content.<br><br>I've publicly told people there's never been any such thing as Herobrine, and that I don't have any dead brothers, and that letting too many animals die in lava is a fool proof way to summon him but that you don't need to be afraid of him. He only means well, he's looking out for you, trying to warn you of the dangers you can't see. There certainly are NO physical manifestations of Herobrine that will sneak out of your computer if you leave ''Minecraft'' running at night, looming over you as you sleep with his pale eyes inches away from your face, as he tries to shout at you to wake up. Sometimes you wake up with a jolt, and he's gone, and all that lingers is the memory and faint echo of his wordless screaming. Of course it was just a dream. There's no way a morally dubious ghost with a god complex could at any point decide to haunt the children who play my game "for their own good", as there is NO SUCH THING. etc etc|[[Notch]]|Herobrine<ref>{{reddit|qqenq/minceraft_a_post_mortem|c3zmd7n|The Herobrine stuff is awesome and kind of scary at the same time. It really shows how little control a content producer has over the content.|xNotch|March 10, 2012}}</ref>|Notchface.png}}

{{Q|@Kizzycocoa It was fun to see the brocraft stream with herobrine back in the day, was well done. But then it's been overused & worn out.|[[Ez]]chili|Herobrine<ref>{{tweet|Kizzycocoa|220625448982421504|@ezchili may we ask, what're your thoughts on Herobrine? trying to compile some ractions for the wiki ^^|July 4, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|ez|220633988623118336|@Kizzycocoa It was fun to see the brocraft stream with herobrine back in the day, was well done. But then it's been overused & worn out.|July 4, 2012}}</ref>|Eztwitter.png}}

{{Q|@Kizzycocoa Sure i can.. He has never existed.. Quote me if you want..|[[JahKob]]|Herobrine<ref>{{tweet|Kizzycocoa|201051586129178624|@JahKob I don't suppose you can tell us your opinion on Herobrine? for the wiki?|May 11, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|jakob|201053763451105280|@Kizzycocoa Sure i can.. He has never existed.. Quote me if you want..|May 11, 2012}}</ref>|Jakob Porser Square.png}}

; Marc Watson and Owen Jones

{{Q|Herobrine has been removed.|[[Slicedlime]]|Herobrine<ref>{{tweet|YouTubeGaming|1758197195520819435|Do you believe in Herobrine? 👀<br>Yes, be careful... 63.7%<br>No, tall tales. 36.3%<br>2,702 votes · Final results|February 15, 2024}}<br>{{tweet|Slicedlime|1758200283765633490|Herobrine has been removed.|February 15, 2024}}</ref>|Slicedlime_Twitter_avatar.jpg}}

*The Herobrine altar was referenced in the video "[https://web.archive.org/web/20211215041724/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXY74kWderc [One Trillion Minecraft Views on YouTube and Counting]]", at 0:33.