Minecraft wiki entry for Herobrine, associated text: There is a user called Herobrine registered on Minecraft servers. The account is a full account (meaning they have bought Minecraft after registering). They do not appear to have visited any MINECON using the Herobrine username, due to their lack of a cape. Ex-Mojang Andrea Jörgensen stated that a friend of hers owns the Herobrine account.[23]
In September 2013, Marc Watson created a series of skins for the head model. These skins were made to ensure a stable skin for various official entities could be used without fear that the skin could change. Herobrine was one of the skins that could be obtained through this system by using the command /give @s player_head{SkullOwner:MHF_Herobrine}. The skin used to show Herobrine without a beard, which was not canon to Herobrine's origins in both the the creepypasta and the Copeland stream, as well as official promotional materials Mojang often use. The skin was originally taken from the Herobrine account, whose skin is different to the originating materials. This mistake was corrected in December 2017 to reflect Herobrine's original canon design, using the same beard that the Steve and human mob had before the release of Survival Test.
"Removing Herobrine" is an episode in the Java Edition 3D Shareware v1.34 April Fools' update.
The seed for the world used in the original screenshot is 478868574082066804, with the player's position at x=5.06, y=71, z=-298.54. The screenshot was made using Alpha 1.0.16_02.[24]
Copeland eventually rediscovered the original world in which he had filmed the original Herobrine livestream, and made the world available to download here.[25]