He is confirmed to be a retextured painting. Herobrine was introduced to the stream 20 minutes and 45 seconds in. Ĭopeland had played through the world as a normal lets-player would, deliberately avoiding the work-in-progress room he had set up for the hoax. He has explained exactly how that took place in an email. After getting largely good reactions, he decided to stage a hoax. He had recently taken a liking to the story, and wished to be a part of it. It was only later that Herobrine grew in popularity, when the Brocraft streamer 'Copeland' photoshopped Herobrine into several screenshots to show to his chat.

It is the first media to name him as Herobrine. It stated how Herobrine had appeared in someone's single-player game, littering the map with various pyramids and tunnels.

The first photo of Herobrine's first canonical sighting was posted on 4chan's paranormal board, /x/, in August 2010, but gained little attention. Herobrine first appeared in a single image detailing an encounter. He also cuts off all the leaves from trees. The image all Brocraft viewers were redirected to at the end of the Herobrine streamįrom the original creepypasta, Herobrine creates random constructions, such as sand pyramids in oceans and long 2×2 tunnels. Zoomed-in picture of Herobrine in the original.

Herobrine's first video 'appearance' on Brocraft The image Copeland edited, which led to him starting the hoax stream 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 unmodded Minecraft, and never has been.

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