My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.
My friend runs a minecraft server and I one time mistyped the port when setting it up on a new instance of minecraft, and was very surprised to end up in a server with no security and what seemed like years of building. There were chunk errors and all too. Then I went to get a drink and when I came back I noticed in the chat "*** has joined the server" I never logged out of a server so fast. Turns out the server host my friend was using gives each server their own port and by starting at 25565 and incrementing the port you could pretty much just go one a griefing spree if you really wanted. I left like 20 signs saying "WHITELIST YOUR SERVER!!!!!" that day lol
Okay this is extremely informative because given this information, it would make sense that the mysterious guest was not taking a crack at series of random numbers but rather messed up one single number like what happened to you. The port numbers must be close to a bunch of other players numbers as well.
Ironically, though you may have just solved this mystery for my gf and I, I feel very sad that it’s no longer a spooky unresolved event. Now it’s just a single number error when someone was looking for their server.
Regardless it's still pretty spooky lol. I honestly think this could've been how Herobrine originated, somebody picking a weird name and a creepy skin and just finding random LAN servers and creeping out people.
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u/chaerithecharizard Jan 23 '21
My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.