2010 年，一位玩家在论坛 4chan 上发帖称，他在游玩《我的世界》的单人模式时，遭遇了一名与《我的世界》的玩家默认形象类似，但双眼一片空白的角色。当时这位玩家所处的地图上遍布着浓雾，他也没能看到这一神秘角色身上有弹出任何名称信息。神秘角色看到玩家之际，迅速移动至浓雾之中，当玩家追赶上前，早已不见对方的身影。被称为 Herobrine 的神秘角色在之后的探索中，玩家发现地图上有大量不像是系统随机生成的地形特征，例如在岩石中出现了 2*2 方格大小的隧道，海上能看到沙子材质构成的比例完美的金字塔，还有不少没有叶子的树木。这一诡异的状况在之后进一步的蔓延至了现实世界。玩家在保存地图后，开始上论坛查找是否有其他遭遇相似的玩家。但他一无所获，而后发出的询问帖在五分钟后就被删除了。在第二次发帖又被删除之时，
In 2010, a player posted a post on the forum 4chan, saying that when he was playing in the single player mode of my world, he encountered a character who was similar to the player's default image of my world, but his eyes were blank. At that time, the player's map was covered with thick fog, and he could not see any name information on the mysterious character. When the mysterious characters see the players, they quickly move into the thick fog. When the players catch up with them, they will not see each other. The mysterious character known as & amp; nbsp; herobrine. In the later exploration, players found that there are a lot of terrain features on the map that do not seem to be generated randomly by the system. For example, there are 2 * 2 squares of tunnels in the rocks, perfect proportions of pyramids made of sand and many leafless trees on the sea. This strange situation further spread to the real world. After saving the map, players start to go to the forum to find out if there are other players with similar experiences. But he got nothing, and then the post was deleted five minutes later. When the second post is deleted,
