The story comes from a letter and a screenshot of a player named "creepypasta".
The player said in the letter that one day when he was playing a single game, he found an animal in the fog not far away. At first, he thought it was a cow and wanted to kill it to get some leather. As a result, he caught up and found that it was another player! This player uses the default skin but has no eyes. He thought he had entered the wrong multiplayer mode, so he double-clicked this person, but no information appeared. So he tried to catch up with him, but he disappeared at once.
Later, creepypasta continued to play his game. In the process of exploring the world, he found some artificial tunnels, some bare trees and pyramid-shaped buildings on the sea. He thinks that those are all done by another player, and someone has entered his "single player game". He shrunk, but found no one else.
So he posted a question on the official website forum, but after a while, the post was deleted. So he sent it again, and it was quickly deleted. At this time, he received a letter from the station, and a player named "herobrine" said to it: Stop!
When he wants to check the information of herobrine, there is a 404 error.
Later, the player received an email from another player, saying that he had also seen this man and those seemingly artificial buildings in minecraft.
In the following month, he also contacted many players who had the same experience. I also know that this account named herobrine is often logged in by a Swiss player.
So the player guessed that the man was Notch's brother, so he sent an email to ask if Notch had a brother.
Notch's answer is: "Yes, but he has passed away."
Now he has become a symbol of minecraft.
He appeared in WeddingWeeked posters, Minecon headlines, Mojang's "Summer Panic" facebook cover photo, and even appeared in Minecon's XBOX booth.
There was a video of Patty Moose playing a game, and then heroin was found in the lava pool under his house. The heroine stood in the middle of the lava without any harm.
The most controversial and discussed is the end of another video of Patty Moose. When he met herobrine, his game collapsed under the gaze of many netizens. Then a page pops up, which is the head of a minecraft player, and the pixel eyes in the head become real eyes. So he looked at the source code of the web page and found that there was a garbled code in it. When the garbled code is removed, what remains is this:
It is reported that some torture victims will fall into a fantasy world and never wake up. In this tense state, the victims live in the same world as normal people, except that they are not tortured. They realize that the only way they need to wake up is to find a note in their fantasy world. It will tell them about themselves and tell them to wake up. Even so, it often takes them months to get ready to abandon their fantasy world and wake up.
Translation:
It is reported that in this operation, some tortured victims will retreat into a fantasy world where they will not wake up. In this mental state, the victims live in a world exactly the same as their normal world, except that they are not tortured. The only way to make them realize that they need to wake up is to find a note in the unreal world, which will tell them their status and wake them up. Even so, it will take several months before the victims are ready to give up their fantasy world and are willing to wake up.
After that, more and more players claimed to have seen herobrine, and there were many videos about herobrine. Herobrine usually appears behind the door, in the corner, in the farthest foggy place, and often appears behind the player when you can't see it.
Later, Notch clarified the facts: "That thing called Herobrine is really interesting and scary at the same time. Explain that the content created by a creator is not only his own.
I've been telling people publicly that Herobrine doesn't exist, and I don't have any dead brothers. Even if you throw an animal into the magma, you can't summon him, but you don't need to be afraid of him. He just wanted to, uh, find you, and then tried to warn you of the dangers you couldn't see. He has absolutely no ability to climb out of your computer that kept My World open all night, then stand quietly by your bed, put his face a few inches in front of you, stare at you with his white eyes and wake you up with screams. Sometimes when he wakes up, he disappears, and all you can remember is the vague echo of the silent scream. Of course, this is just a dream. Absolutely no half-assed ghost with the complex of becoming a god will run out of my game to scare children "for himself", because there is no such thing. Wait, wait ...? The above is the original published text of Notch, the original author of the game.
-the above comes from the encyclopedia.