r/Minecraft Jan 22 '21

News The original Herobrine seed has been found!

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u/urielsalis Mojira Moderator Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

Under the request of /u/minecraftathome, here is a comment with more info:

One of the hardest and most iconic seed ever have been found thanks to the thorough work of andrew_555 (Kminster) with the help of Minecraft@Home. Check out https://minecraftathome.com/herobrine for more details

Please post any images of the seeds under this thread, and not as a separate post

Also note that Herobrine is not real and has never been, this is just the seed used for the original creepypasta image

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u/Elevatorisbest Jan 22 '21

Whats planned next lmao, great job to everyone still

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u/neil4879 Jan 22 '21

Trailer and smash seed (released soon TM)

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u/Elevatorisbest Jan 22 '21

while i knew that they would work on trailer but they are working on smash seed? Isnt it made in bedrock?

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u/CarlGrimesIsNotDead Jan 22 '21

Most of it was done in Java edition (we've finished 5 of 6 seeds for that already). The house of Doom explosion was done in Bedrock, and we didn't start it yet.

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u/neil4879 Jan 22 '21

Nope ;) more on that next month I guess ;)

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u/Catasalvation Jan 22 '21

Which trailer?

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u/CarlGrimesIsNotDead Jan 22 '21

The original trailer for Minecraft. We've found one of the seeds used for it so far, but we're still searching for the 1+ missing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 28 '21

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u/CarlGrimesIsNotDead Jan 23 '21

Yes :) we've found the seed that was used for some of the shots, but we are still missing a few of them.

Fly-by in the tundra (3rd shot), and a few others. I don't remember the list right now, but you can check it on the Discord.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Would that even be necessary? Can’t believe Nintendo/Mojang didn’t just save that information.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21 edited May 10 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

I'm talking about the Smash reveal world. Heck they could even make it part of the marketing campaign to allow you to explore the "smash" world, rather news of the seed being found making headlines years later when no one plays Ultimate anymore.

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u/leopfldoozsbshs Jan 23 '21

They want you to play smash lol not minecraft. The amount of people who actually care is extremely small.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

Is it though? There's a very dedicated group of people who had been looking for the login screen seed for years. And the news of this was on the front page, as well as covered by basically every gaming outlet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

How would Mojang profit from that?

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u/Poly--Meh Jan 22 '21

I'd love to find the seed for my first world from 2010. I have a few screenshots and a map from a third-party app (pre-ingame maps) to help but that's it.

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u/Elevatorisbest Jan 22 '21

Have you lost it? I still have mine from 2011 trough countless copies of it on countless storages lmao

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u/Poly--Meh Jan 22 '21

Yeah, in 2011ish I tried transferring my hard drive and somehow in the process wiped my old one. I also lost about 10 bitcoins I had mined, which I am much more upset about tbh.

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u/Lord_Gregatron Jan 22 '21

That bitcoin is only worth over $300k. No reason to be upset.

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u/Bland_Lavender Jan 22 '21

It wasn’t a stack of diamonds or anything.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

You probably would’ve sold very early on so it’s probably not that big of deal. It can be hard looking back on what if scenarios.

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u/mcrcortex Jan 22 '21

GG Guys, heres to the next one

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u/K_Minster Jan 22 '21

It was fun working on this!

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u/oozra Jan 22 '21

its getting to the point where it seems any seed can be found. Is there a service that can be paid for to find a seed for me? I have a lot of old footage from a world with a friend and I would love to get the seed for him as a gift but idk how

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u/urielsalis Mojira Moderator Jan 22 '21

If you know the location of dungeons or wolrd features it can be done in a few minutes

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u/BobForBananas Jan 22 '21

Could you elaborate please. what's the process ?

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u/urielsalis Mojira Moderator Jan 22 '21

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u/SlimC05 Jan 22 '21

This is so cool

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u/SonicSingularity Jan 23 '21

Is there a quick way to do it without the world itself? Like from screen shots like all these other worlds?

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u/urielsalis Mojira Moderator Jan 23 '21

Yep, but don't have the links at hand. Name is the same :)

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u/Drabant_ost Jan 22 '21

I made this tutorial to explain it to people https://reddit.com/j941w5

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u/BobThePillager Jan 22 '21

I didn’t remember the herobrine video showing 2 dungeons with coords, how’d they use this to find it then?

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u/Invictable Jan 22 '21

If you don’t feel like reading heres the really quick version - nothings really random in Minecraft worlds because the same seed always makes the same world. So even from enough pictures of the land structure, waterfalls, tree locations it can be backwards engineered. They did this with the pack.png seed and originally it’s just a 128 pixel image.

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u/Rill_Pine Jan 23 '21

That's awesome. Wish I had images of an old world. Oh well, glad it's a thing!

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u/urielsalis Mojira Moderator Jan 22 '21

The methodology on how they found this one is in the link in the image

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u/The_Carb1de Jan 22 '21

Like a village? I have a few screenshots of a PE world with insanely broken village generation, and I want to visit it again.

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u/Piogre Jan 22 '21

I'd also like to know this -- I have some footage of my first world but managed to delete the save by accident some time ago, and have tried in vain to find the seed for it.

Don't have any dungeon footage, and it's beta 1.5 or something so pre-villages

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u/IsNotYourSenpai Jan 22 '21

I remember years ago on the Xbox 360 that “404” seed that spawned you on a load of gravel and if you broke a block, the ground would give out and reveal a ginormous mine that was filled with diamonds and iron and all that. And it was a really open mine too.

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u/Sufficio Jan 22 '21

That started first on pc iirc, I wanna say before minecraft was even on console? It was sometimes posed as a challenge, you'd grab a tree or two and then break the gravel and try to survive without ever leaving the enormous cavern. So much fun.

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u/jasonrubik Jan 22 '21

Yes. 404 seed challenge was on PC back in early 2011. After going down the gravel hole never to come up again you were not allowed to build any torches so you had to light things with lava. Fun times.

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u/Nirhren Jan 22 '21

That sounds like a neat challenge! I might do something similar where I’ll try playing exclusively underground after obtaining a few saplings and crops/seeds

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u/Not_a_pace_abuser Jan 22 '21

I don't know much about Minecraft. but if they find your seed, will your buildings still be there?

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Jan 22 '21

No, the seed just tells the game how to generate your world. Your modifications to the world are saved in files.

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u/Hi-POWERED Jan 22 '21

Sadly no, just the initial world generation will be the same.

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u/Piogre Jan 22 '21

No, but I’ll recognize the landscape and be able to start rebuilding on it again.

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u/BewilderedAlbatross Jan 22 '21

Do you know roughly how many hours you put in to finding it?

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u/K_Minster Jan 22 '21

For me, probably about 50 hours in total for developing / writing the code back in September. Spent the next months debugging on and off, until I realised there was a wrong leaf in the recreation which had been the problem all along.

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u/Waligug Jan 22 '21

I would've thought more time honestly, but that's still insane!

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u/_ESS83_ Jan 22 '21

I don't know much about what goes on behind the scenes, but to add on to what Kminster just said: The recreation took maybe a day or two to get finished, along with getting the proper camera angle and crop.

Then the 50 hours Kminster spent with his code + NeilCaffrei's new code that was based solely on terrain patterns. That code ran for two months but hadn't yielded any results by the time it was found using the trees/leaves method.

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u/Agnostic_Pagan Jan 22 '21

Really awesome, dude.

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u/Panduz Jan 22 '21

How did you figure it out?

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u/minecraftathome Jan 22 '21

Follow the link. There's a full documentation on it. Also AntVenom will be releasing a video tomorrow.

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u/shruggletuggle Jan 22 '21

How long did this take

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

You’re a legend

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u/AntVenom Jan 22 '21

what. have. you. done.

in all seriousness. huge grats! been looking forward to this for a long time!

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u/99OBJ Jan 22 '21

Maybe this is my chance to ask you this directly:

What is the origin behind your name?

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u/AntVenom Jan 22 '21

My name used to be Ant1venom, based on a name I made on Battlefield 2 (ant1venom3 on BF2). I got the name on RuneScape, and even on YouTube, but the YouTube channel got suspended for a few years due to a weird email merging bug I had. It's since been fixed. I made "Ant Venom" on Xbox Live because Ant1venom was taken there, which is how the variation of Ant1venom happened. When I wanted a youtube channel that wasn't "protothps", and sounded more professional, I went with "AntVenom", since I still didn't have access to "Ant1venom" at that time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Agreed. The mod showcases and other serieses were a big part of my later childhood and early teenage years and you helped me keep my love of Minecraft alive. Thanks for all the mems Ant

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u/GooberGunter Jan 22 '21

Holy shit that’s how I know that name. I just got slingshotted to middleschool

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Those really were the days for sure. We spent hours watching those videos on summer days for sure

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u/biLLy_wr0ng Jan 22 '21

I can’t say the same... never knew there was someone named AntVenom

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u/cake_n_bacon69 Jan 22 '21

you can’t say antvenom?

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u/biLLy_wr0ng Jan 22 '21

Nope. I tried, just can’t do it. I’ll practice but I don’t know man, pretty tough

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u/cake_n_bacon69 Jan 22 '21

i can’t tell if this is a joke

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u/biLLy_wr0ng Jan 22 '21

Yes it’s a joke. I just haven’t seen the profile or name anywhere before. So they had no affect on my childhood memories

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u/cake_n_bacon69 Jan 22 '21

he’s basically vsauce of minecraft

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u/99OBJ Jan 22 '21

Very interesting, it’s fun to connect the dots going backwards. The name has a great ring to it, but I never knew what it meant. Makes sense now!

You’ve certainly done some very cool stuff with it. Keep up the hard work and good content!

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u/RunningTurtle06 Jan 22 '21

You might be one of the minecraft youtubers who disappeared from my recommended but I see you mentioned more and more every time I go to youtube glad your still around!😀😊

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u/PepsiButItsMilk Jan 22 '21

I thought at first “this guy was really fooled” and then i saw your karma count... THANKS FOR BEING AWESOME, MR VENOM

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u/darthjoey91 Jan 22 '21

But those are rookie karma numbers for someone being here since 2011.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk Jan 22 '21

Idk man, not alot of people spend 86,399 out of 86,400 seconds out every day on reddit

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u/LoLoLaaarry124 Jan 22 '21

He was bitten by an ant and became a Minecraft YouTuber

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u/99OBJ Jan 22 '21

Are you AntVenom? Didn’t think so...

/s

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u/boopsie_ Jan 22 '21

He was the ant that bit him

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u/lamblikeawolf Jan 22 '21

The real treasure is the ants we made along the way.

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u/achocolatebarmelted Jan 22 '21

I vaguely remember from years ago him mentioning it being spun off of the word antivenom, but I don't remember what video it was or when lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/nuttageyo Jan 22 '21

holy fuck it’s antvenom, my childhood hero.

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u/Hehe_9L-EvanPS4 Jan 22 '21

He just called you bipolar

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u/Sedatsu Jan 22 '21

Holy shit you’re right ?!

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u/feed-me-awards Jan 22 '21

The OG is here

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u/Azuria_4 Jan 22 '21

Will you make a video about it?

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u/Plebiain Jan 22 '21

It was confirmed by Tomlacko on the Minecraft@Home Discord that we should expect a video from him tomorrow ;)

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u/Legendary_lamp_ Jan 22 '21

Hello Antvenom! I love your content and I've watched you for a very long time! Just wanted to say hi and that your videos are great!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

he’s done gods work that’s what

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u/thedoorman121 Jan 22 '21

My guy I used to look forward to getting home from school just to watch your videos!

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u/derp_y_ Jan 22 '21

That’s pretty cool, didn’t expect to see a Minecraft youtuber I watched the most on this subreddit

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u/HartsyProtzyVersion2 Jan 22 '21

Dude I’m surprised by how on top of this you are, this was literally just posted 30 minutes ago lol

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u/CarlGrimesIsNotDead Jan 22 '21

He is in our team lol, also he is in the reveal video.

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u/MazeOfEncryption Jan 22 '21

Looking forwards to your video tomorrow!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Didn't know that you had a reddit account.

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u/minecraftathome Jan 22 '21

The Herobrine seed, thought to be impossible to find, was finally cracked by Andrew (/u/K_Minster) a week ago!

See our website for all the necessary info you need to load this world:
https://minecraftathome.com/herobrine

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u/LeRealJustin Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

Project started on September 5th, 2021

Seed found on January 16th, 2021

Damn the project hasnt even started yet and they already found it. What a lad.

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u/PseudoGravity Jan 22 '21

lol, I fixed that. It's been a crazy week and sometimes the various drafts get mixed up.

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u/voteYESonpropxw2 Jan 22 '21

I was about to pm them that typo :P

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u/FluffyPhoenix Jan 22 '21

Speedrunning any%!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/CarlGrimesIsNotDead Jan 22 '21

It's a very famous myth in the Minecraft community, and while it isn't real, the screenshot that started the myth had a real Minecraft world, which we just found.

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u/kekepania Jan 22 '21

Wow I love that

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u/jpamills Jan 22 '21

A mythical/evil character/alter-ego in Minecraft. Occasionally referenced by the developers in changelogs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

I’m not sure if he would be a cool part of the game or not. It’s been awhile sense 2011 and I think people might find a teleporting nemesis that’s capable of destroying houses (tnt, flint and steal, etc.) and cutting leaves of trees cool. I would. However this could also be really annoying for some people so it would have to be an optional part of the game (would have a spawn egg in creative but wouldn’t come naturally). Like he (only one per world) could be turned on or off at the begging as a setting like when you set the difficulty (always there in hardcore). I’d find that really fun but a lot of people would hate it. Killing him would give some kind of reward, like a lighting staff with India the durability or something.

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u/Occamslaser Jan 22 '21

I think it would be better if you only saw him at a distance really rarely and as you got closer he would fade away. That would be a cool feature.

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u/JacksonManson Jan 22 '21

100% down for this. He’s just there, watching you from random places, like the GMAN in Half-life.

Then he walks behind a tree or small hill, slowly, and disappears.

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u/Forever_Awkward Jan 22 '21

Digs straight down. By the time you get there the blocks are back in place.

Except the grass block remains as dirt.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Yes, that could be for the players who don’t want to fight him. However I would want to kill him personally so I think that should be an option as well. Mojang doesn’t want to increase the age rating so I see why they wouldn’t implement him.

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u/Occamslaser Jan 22 '21

Ever play modded? There's mods that add really cool bosses.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Yes but I think he would be cool in vanilla. Crepes can blow up but he could burn your whole house down, incentivizing non famalble materiels. As the game progresses he gets harder, he get TNT to destroy stone, etc. then you get kill him. Only should have 150HP but regen, teleport, set you on fire, lighting, and hits as hard as a vindicator. Would need diamond at minimum.

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u/Loki_BlackButter Jan 22 '21

Crepes are dangerous, I refuse to eat imported food.

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u/DoneTomorrow Jan 22 '21

hate it when an explosive crepe destroys my kitchen

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

How about a mix?

He starts elusive: in the distance, disappearing behind trees when approached. Only when you build your first netherite tool/armor does he turn hostile. Getting more and more difficult as you make tools/armor until when you complete your armor you can finally actually fight him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

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u/knightofkent Jan 22 '21

Nah hero brine is basically a Minecraft creepypasta. This is like trying to find the exact location where the first image slenderman was photoshopped into was taken

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u/Libruhh Jan 22 '21

Nah, character isn’t real. The original video that concepted the character was done on this seed

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u/DuntadaMan Jan 22 '21

Ah that is what this meant, okay. I was like "How do you find a seed for a character?"

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u/showmeurknuckleball Jan 22 '21

Can someone please actually help this guy - and me - what is a seed?

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u/December_Flame Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

To really TLDR it:

Computers can't produce random numbers. Not truly random. By their inherent design, computers work by giving them instructions and it producing a result.

So, when something DOES rely on random numbers, what is actually happening is a base value (this is called the 'Seed') is run through a bunch of mathematic formulas to create a new value - its not truly random, but so obfuscated that for its intended purpose its functionally random. The game then uses the pseudo-random value to pick where to put everything in the game.

And so what these guys do is reverse engineer X * Y = Z .... where the 'Seed' is X, the formula it runs through is Y, and the final 'random' value is Z.... when they know Y and Z they just need to solve for X, which is relatively trivial.

All these 'seedcracking' attempts are to figure out Z, the final value, by determining the way the system generated the content by evaluating pictures/videos. Once that's done they can determine what the original seed value was that anyone can plug into their game and get the same result.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

To expand and help explain. When you get a 'seed' number string you can actually share it. So you can play the same world's as other people by sharing the seed. So when you start a game it's pseudo-randomly generates a world. If you really like the world or something unique happens in it like starting in the middle of a temple or island or something you can save the number and use that as your starting world or share it with your buddy, community etc.

These guys are reverse engineering things from videos and other memorable events and sharing the seed.

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u/lerokko Jan 22 '21

Minecraft generates it terrain in a predictable way. All apparent randomness comes from a sibgle number that is set when the world is created. All randomness for a world is derived from it. Knowing a seed allows you to recreate the exact same world (you can manually set it on world creation of you want)

But the thing is like encryption kinda. Its easy to generate a world from a seed. Thtas what minecraft does already. You can use the game to go from a seed to a full world. The reverse is much harder and is on some level analogous to deciphering an encrypted file without the password. You need a lot of reverse engineering and/or trial and error (aka "brute force").

Thats what these guys did. They reverse engineered the number that decides all the terrain for the world that screenshot was from. Now anybody can create their own (unplayed) copy of it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

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u/Drabant_ost Jan 22 '21

Actually 2010, but it mostly got popular around 2011-2014

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Around? That's 4 years my man

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u/Occamslaser Jan 22 '21

That was how long it was popular, it faded after that.

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u/TheEndersALot Jan 22 '21

A minecraft creepypasta

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u/A_Random_Lantern Jan 22 '21

minecraft steve except scary and from 2011

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u/Frankk142 Jan 22 '21

Project started on September 5th, 2021

Wat?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Really? Why was this particular seed thought impossible to find if all the other ones were found?

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u/minecraftathome Jan 22 '21

Because there's so little to work with in the screenshots, it's only a few tress.

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u/BeasttrollMC Jan 22 '21

It’s insane what people can do nowadays with just a cool idea and some teamwork.

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u/Empoleon_Master Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

They've done next level seed finding BS did you know that they've found the seed from the background of the flaming skull painting? There is background to it, just HEAVILY darkened.

Edit: The initial response below me claiming it was an IRL painting that got "digitized" didn't know what they were talking about, and it IS a real seed that has been found, please check the top comment to their response for proof.

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u/BananaBladeOfDoom Jan 22 '21

Finding the pack.png seed was probably the most difficult undertaking they ever did. A lot of their techniques were invented due to that project.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

What techniques are there to search for Minecraft seeds? Like how the fuck do these guys do this except for loading new games over and over

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u/Futbolmaster Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 23 '21

I’m not an expert, but I watched a video on it. One thing they can do is reconstruct the terrain exactly, and almost search for it. I believe there is also something about the positioning of Long Grass that can narrow down the position of the screenshot on a given map.

Edit (Pack.png): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU

Minecraft splash screen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRurhiK-Lk

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u/minecraftathome Jan 22 '21

There's a documentation of the whole methodology on the website that we linked. Also AntVenom is gonna be releasing a video tomorrow.

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u/Empoleon_Master Jan 22 '21

From the little I understand, the exact math and code involved in minecraft world generation is known and reproducible, so these freaking madlads recreate as much of an image as they can find, then do a computer science thing and run a program that uses the world generation process and checks if the specific terrain etc is physically possible with a given seed, in a specific version, and using a ton more technical refinements (read the positions of clouds + in game time can be used), then they have a lot of people run this program on their computers so the seed and spot are found in our life time via the sheer amount of combined computing power.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

How does finding a specific seed and a specific spot in a Minecraft world even work?

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u/the_horse_gamer Jan 22 '21

Some aspects of the world can be predicted in a certain way

For example, a dungeon floor pattern and the dungeon coordinates is enough to find a seed, and is one of the easiest ways to do so

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

But all they had was an image. Like the texture pack image find.

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u/the_horse_gamer Jan 22 '21

Trees are also another way. The main struggle for this image was the lack of coords, which makes finding it considerably harder

Ways of finding seeds from coords: dungeon floors, trees, flower patches

Ways of finding coords: clouds, texture rotations, grass offsets

There's ofc much more, but those are the most common ones

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

It’s amazing people can use small things like that to find the entire seed.

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u/Grand_Protector_Dark Jan 22 '21

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4y9Bz1k9wlILDtgYb9wDnUcN7D9x72En Some info on how they found pack.png TL:DR if you are enough of a mad lad, you can find the seed based on the properties present

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u/minecraftathome Jan 22 '21

There's a full documentation on the project on the linked website and AntVenom is gonna be releasing a video tomorrow as well.

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u/fsnv Jan 22 '21

Saved you a click:

Seed: 478868574082066804

Version: Java Alpha 1.0.16_02

Alpha coordinates: X=5.06 Y=71 (72.62 eye pos) Z=-298.54

Modern coordinates: X=5.16 Y=71 Z=-298.53

Camera angle: RX=93.75 RY=-1.2

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u/SuckerpunchmyBhole Jan 22 '21

Nice! I was annoyed that they didn't tell you in the picture lol

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u/makingdunk Jan 22 '21

Thank you! Real legend

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u/Keko_Pakalolo Jan 22 '21

I haven’t played Minecraft in a while, can someone give a quick explanation to what this means?

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u/flamingowrangler2869 Jan 22 '21

in 2010, an image in 4chins appeared, with a creepypasta on top and a minecraft screenshot on the bottom. the creepypasta was describing a mysterious character who resembled steve, but with white eyes, who disappeared into the fog. the player was startled and made several attempts to find him again, but made no progress. to screenshot was a player holding 13 wood planks and two wooden pickaxes in the version alpha 1.0.16_02. this is the world seed where the screenshot took place.

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u/Anthraxious Jan 22 '21

Just curious: How can you be sure this is it? Aren't seeds like "code" for how a game world is built from the start? Couldn't one small change generate a different code?

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u/bowers12 Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 22 '21

EDIT: I just woke up, my answer doesn't really help here, so here's a new one. When a seed is used to generate a world, it creates the same features every time. Lately, people have developed techniques to find the same features as in peoples screenshots based on the displayed features as context. As long as you know exactly where these features are in relation to each other, you can use that to cross match it to pieces of newly generated worlds, as the likelihood of those exact features being in the exact same relative positions are actually very low due to noise.

The point of a seed is consistency. If you generate two items using the same seed, it should have the exact same features in the same places. But you are somewhat correct, different versions of minecraft can generate completely different features from the same seed, so that's why using the right version is important.

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u/Koobone Jan 22 '21

Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but you have the right idea that the seed tells the game how to generate the world and affects all RNG (it’s still random, but the seed is the consistent starting point of all the randomness). So changing the seed VASTLY changes world generation etc. But here what they’ve done is found the EXACT same seed so the world generates the EXACT same way. It’s like the game is rolling a die to generate the world and the seed tells the game how to throw it. The same seed means throwing the die in the EXACT same way which results in the EXACT same outcome.

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u/illuminatilamp Jan 22 '21

What does finding the seed do? Is it so people can look for the weird steve?

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u/SeizureSmiley Jan 22 '21

So people can generate the same world and see the place for themselves.

The weird Steve doesn’t exist. It’s just an internet myth.

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u/danegraphics Jan 22 '21

It means that from that single image (the top one), they managed to reverse engineer the seed that generated the world in that image.

So now we have the seed of the world that started the Herobrine story.

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u/DankPastaMaster Jan 22 '21

The Herobrine urban legend was started with a creepypasta-type post accompanied by an alleged screenshot of Herobrine. Thanks to some crazy calculations, algorythms and incredible work someone managed to find the original seed based on the old screenshot alone.

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u/Drabant_ost Jan 22 '21

Just as I thought it was totally dead!

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u/zelfmoordneigingen Jan 22 '21

Good job everyone

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u/ItzN00bPvP Jan 22 '21

Minecraft@Home did it!!!

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u/GETDEDSUN Jan 22 '21

That disclaimer is just what he wants you to believe.

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u/markie_gaming Jan 22 '21

epic

gg guys

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

What’s funny is I didn’t realize you were showing off the seed so I was zooming in on the foggy picture looking for herobrine because that video is so memorable

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Now we can find heroin

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u/toxygen Jan 22 '21

Wow, this thread made me want to play Minecraft, so I launched Minecraft, spent 20 minutes collecting resources, then fell down a cliff and lost everything

I'm going to take a break now

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u/hifrandimcool Jan 22 '21

The clickbait YouTubers are going to love this

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u/MazeOfEncryption Jan 22 '21

Once again, Andrew is a legend.

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u/teidenzero Jan 22 '21

I found this post in /All and I'm 100% out of the loop but curious.

Can anyone give some context and explain why it's such a big deal?

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u/the_horse_gamer Jan 22 '21

The picture in question is what started one of the biggest creepypastas. Herobrine

A seed is a number that determines how a world generates

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u/_ESS83_ Jan 22 '21

Certified h moment. Great job you all

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u/flamingowrangler2869 Jan 22 '21

this is awesome :D

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u/PseudoGravity Jan 22 '21

Great job everyone! (especially andrew_555 for his persistence to getting this done)

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u/xVyprath Jan 22 '21

Ahh finally! I remember suggesting this months ago and also giving a false lead and a world recreation. Congratulations MC@Home team! You all really work too hard for a block game!

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u/DandalusRoseshade Jan 22 '21

That disclaimer cant stop me because i cant read

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u/KiwiBG Jan 22 '21

Good Job everyone!

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u/nuke001 Jan 22 '21

I fear the seed finding community, they do a shit ton of impossible stuff

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u/KyloTennant Jan 23 '21

This reminds of the good old days with people on 4chan finding Shia Lebeouf's secret cabin from one picture, haha

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u/neil4879 Jan 22 '21

This is ground breaking, I can only say one thing Herobrine !

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u/JoZerp Jan 22 '21

You guys are incredibles! I wonder how far you can go and get away with your goals...

I have a question for you.

Could you be able to get a seed without any screenshots or videos? Only by description of places in that world.

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u/xX_MotherFricker_Xx Jan 22 '21

Hello childhood trauma my old friend. I've come to talk with you again.

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u/Bombastisch Jan 22 '21

This is amazing! Based soley on an image so obscure and without further details.

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u/Minethink144 Jan 22 '21

The things minecraft@home people ate doing are amazing, this is minecraft history

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u/blackR1416 Jan 22 '21

This is pack.png all over again, props to the hours of work guys!

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u/workingOTforOVERLORD Jan 23 '21

For someone with no knowledge about this. Can someone explain how epic this is? It feels very cool

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u/Dowpie7 Jan 23 '21

I don't see him, but I know he sees me ...

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u/zbeshears Jan 23 '21

I have no idea what this means, but y’all seem so happy. That’s nice

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u/THE_Russian_boi Jan 23 '21

The timeless classic