Herobrine in Minecraft: Everything Explained!

Imagine going about your day-to-day activities in Minecraft only to realize that someone is watching you from the shadows. This would be a normal occurrence on the best Minecraft servers, but it sounds like nothing less than a nightmare in the single-player mode. If you have felt something like this in Minecraft, you aren’t the only one. For over ten years, a scary entity has threatened the Minecrafters of all ages, and if you didn’t know about it yet, we are here to change that. So grab your sword, as it’s time to dive into the story of Herobrine in Minecraft.

Who is Herobrine in Minecraft?

Herobrine is easily the most infamous myth of Minecraft that has been a creepy representative of the game for over a decade now. It first appeared as a canonical story (a creepypasta) but soon developed into one of the most celebrated stories in the Minecraft community. Leaving the debates around its existence for a later part of the guide, let’s first understand Herobrine as a character.

What Does Herobrine Do?

Over the years, Herobrine has gone through various iterations since its canonical appearance. Compiling the most popular myths around him, you can expect the following characteristics in Herobrine:

• Just like players, he can break and place blocks
• He can affect in-game worlds and even community forums
• Other mobs are safe from Herobrine as he only targets players
• As per the community, Herobrine is a dead miner who existed before the player entered the world
• Oddly placed and floating blocks are often credited to him
• In some variations of Herobrine, he is a stalker who follows players but doesn’t interact with them
• An angrier variant of Herobrine is known for attacking, looting, and griefing players in the game
• While the original version of Herobrine appeared out of nowhere, later iterations of this character were suspected to be summonable with shrine structures

Herobrine Origin: When was Herobrine First Seen?

The first time someone talked about Herobrine was more than a decade ago in August 2010 in a post on 4chan’s paranormal board. You can read the whole story in the screenshot above. The user explained that they were chopping wood and making a workbench (crafting table) when they noticed someone watching them. On close inspection, that entity turned out to be someone with default Minecraft Steve skin but with blank white eyes.

Things only get spookier from that point. Following this strange encounter, the user allegedly went online to ask others about the incident. But soon they found that their post was deleted, and a user by the name of Herobrine left them a message saying “stop”. Lucky for us, they didn’t stop there and started finding other players who allegedly had similar encounters in-game.

Then, alongwith other players, this user looked into the username Herobrine, which they believed to belong to a Swedish player, who is the brother of Notch, a senior Minecraft developer.

At this point, the mystery of Herobrine was about to become bigger than the in-game encounter. When this user allegedly emailed Notch to confirm if he has a brother, Notch replied and said, “I did, but he is no longer with us.”

This is the point where the user ends the 4chan post stating that they didn’t see the mysterious creature again in Minecraft. They even attached a screenshot of the first time they encountered it in-game. That’s where the canonical story of Herobrine ended. But this moment was just the beginning for Herobrine as a character.

Does Herobrine Exist and is it Real in Minecraft?

Markus Persson aka Notch, Minecraft’s Creator first talked about the entity in Minecon 2010. He claimed that while Herobrine was a myth, there might be a possibility that he is real, he further added jokingly. Later, in reply to a question about Herobrine’s existence on Twitter, Notch said, “It’s not real. But it might be soon!“

Both of these incidents confirm that Herobrine is, in fact, a hoax and not a real entity in Minecraft. But the ambiguity around its eventual addition to the game was still confusing to the community.

So, a Minecraft Wiki administrator allegedly requested Notch to clear up the confusion, to which, Notch replied, “I have no plans of adding Herobrine as is, but I do like the rumors, haha.” Again, the presence of “as is” fueled gossip around the internet about a new version of Herobrine coming to Minecraft.

Addressing the confusion and frustration in the community, the same Wiki user again reached out to Notch. Fortunately, this time the Minecraft developer clearly stated that he had no plans of adding Herobrine to Minecraft in a tweet. Since then, Notch has refuted the existence of Herobrine multiple times.

While Herobrine still makes occasional cameos in various Youtube videos, his days in the Minecraft world are long gone and there is no hope for a return. Notch is no longer a part of Minecraft and the last time Mojang talked about Herobrine was in August 2012. Back then, Dinnerbone, the joint developer of Minecraft, stated in an official tweet, “We have no plans at all to add Herobrine. I doubt this will ever change.“

How to Summon Herobrine in Minecraft

While the vanilla (unmodded) version of Minecraft doesn’t have any version of Herobrine, you can still add him to your game. But this is only possible in the Java edition of Minecraft, which supports the best Minecraft mods.

So, if you want to meet Herobrine in Minecraft, you may install one of the following mods:

• The Legend of Herobrine (Curse Forge)
• From The Fog (Planet Minecraft)
• Herobrine Remake (Curse Forge)

Once you have downloaded the mod, follow the steps below to meet Herobrine in Minecraft:

1. First download and install a mod in Minecraft using Forge. You can use any Herobrine mod but the steps might change accordingly. For our tutorial, we are relying on The Legend of Herobrine.

2. Then, launch your modded game and create a new world. Make sure to set the game mode as “creative” to make your first encounter with Herobrine a bit simpler.

3. After that, dig a one-block deep hole that’s 3 x 3 in area. After that, put a Netherrack block in its middle with gold blocks on all its sides. Finally, empty buckets of lava in all four corners of the hole.

4. Then grab a cursed diamond, four Redstone torches, and the Altar of Herobrine from your creative inventory.

5. Next, place the Redstone torches on top of blocks of gold and the Altar of Herobrine on top of the Netherrack.

6. Finally, place the cursed diamond into the altar to make Herobrine spawn.

So, this is all you need to know about the mythical Herobrine character in Minecraft. Although its not real and you will never find such an appearance in any original unmodded Minecraft servers, the character has surely created a massive hype among the community. Did you ever had any such experiences? Let us know in the comments below!