The story details an encounter in Minecraft with a nameless human entity in a single-player world who displayed strange behavior such as stalking the player from afar, creating unnatural constructions such as sand pyramids in the ocean and long 2x2 tunnels, and removing leaves from trees. The first canonical sighting of Herobrine, and the first media about him in general, was posted as a now-deleted story on 4chan's paranormal board, /x/, around August 19, 2010. Zoomed-in excerpt of Herobrine in the original image. The /x/ story and screenshot detailing the first Herobrine 'encounter'. Origins and popularity For more detailed information regarding the Brocraft events, see the wiki's interview with Copeland and his recounting of the events. Any appearances of Herobrine are caused by either mods being installed or because of another player using the skin. It is not possible for Herobrine to have ever existed in any unmodded clients or servers. There are no references to him at all in the source code, and there is no code to allow for any entity to act like Herobrine.

Herobrine is not in vanilla Minecraft, and never has been.

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