How to prepare for Herobrine (Image credit: Windows Central) As mentioned before, you'll need the Java Edition of Minecraft to pull this off. You can grab it from Mojang for $27.

Here's how to spawn Herobrine, the highly elusive NPC, in your game of Minecraft. Something fans have been trying to do for years.

Minecraft is considered to be eerie and scary despite being a simple block game. The game's vast community has come up with all kinds of myths related to this decade-old title.

If you'd like to check out the original Herobrine world for yourself, you'll need to use Minecraft Java Edition with "Historical versions" enabled in the launcher.