Herobrine mostly avoided the player and constructed tunnels and pyramids, removed leaves from trees, and generally acted harmless in spite of its creepiness. Herobrine started life originally as a Minecraft community creepypasta, serving as the equivalent of a second player-character sharing a single-player world with the actual player. RELATED: Everything Revealed About Minecraft: Legends Who is Herobrine? New details revealed from the trailer are backed by Mojang's all too playful attitude toward this fan-fueled boogeyman, making it look like Herobrine could be a new villain inducted into actual Minecraft canon. Mojang clearly sees no end to Minecraft's potential, and it has ample room to explore and experiment with the ways the game can be adapted across genres.īut as Mojang continues to plumb the well that is Minecraft for all that it's worth, the studio could be dipping back into the history books and reviving one of the internet's oldest urban legends to feature as a new antagonist for the upcoming game.

It joins a series that now has games ranging from the original Minecraft to the hack-and-slash dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons, as well as the likes of ARG Minecraft Earth and a still-in-development Minecraft film. It seems the juggernaut franchise that is Minecraft is once again finding its numbers growing, as Minecraft Legends was announced this year at the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase.

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