Pocketbrat/Reports

There have been a few times people encountered a strange player on their server or even in their world since update 1.20.4. Some of them told others about that, some probably didn't. Here are a few sightnings of this dangerous entity.
== "I saw another player in the singleplayer world" - 08/12/2023 ==
A player had been playing his new world on a new update 1.20.4 when noticed something strange. Here's his own story:
It was the next day after update 1.20.4. I just opened Minecraft to play it for the next few hours for training (I was planning to beat Minecraft and get dragon egg on an SMP server). At first, everything seemed the same, which is obvious, because the only change in 1.20.4 was a random bug fix. At this point I'd like to tell you, that I never played or even thought about 1.20.3, I didn't even remeber when it released, so I thought, why did Mojang just add one feature? And after a few minutes of thinking, while crossing the river, the game suddenly froze. And this was not just a random freeze, it was like the glitch with the snow on Sodium. I still don't get, why did that happen, I am used to low FPS because of the device I play on, but this kind of freeze seemed unusual for me, I don't know why. And what is even stranger, once I reached the bottom of the river, the freeze just stopped. I just swam out of the river to not drown, as I didn't have much food, but once I did, the freeze came back. It was like 0 FPS or something, so I noticed a player figure standing far in the woods, after a few seconds it just disappeared and the game became playable again. Even though it was not very likely to be a feature that made the game lag so much exactly when you see it, I thought it is a new feature. Oh, I regret so much, that I didn't quit at that point... After that, I went to the forest to try and find it. But I didn't, so slowly but surely, I just forgot about it. Until the moment, that made me actually feel scared. I went mining diamonds for armor, that I needed to go to the nether (last time I went there without armor, it ended up with me losing all my stuff). I found a random cave in the deepslate level near Y: -50 and started mining a little bit to go down to Y level -59 and mine some diamonds. But when I was half way there, I suddenly felt like someone or something was watching me from my back. As I lit my area up with torches, I quickly looked back and saw... nobody! But the feeling didn't disappear, so I went out of my little mine. And that's when the things got even creepier! I saw a player figure in the dark, very close to me. And the nickname: pocketbrat. This made my game lag so much, that I thought I'd better install Sodium before I started playing on an old laptop. That would probably solve it, but I didn't have time for it. I just ran away as fast as possible, while my FPS was not quite "0", but very low. I ran up to the surface, when I decided to look back, and for a split second, I saw the blocks in the end of the stairway turning into pink concrete powder. The game froze, and my laptop did not respond. I tried to close Minecraft, but it didn't work. It just completely stopped working, and even when I pressed power off button, it continued showing that moment, when I look back and see pink concrete powder instead of deepslate and stone right behind me. And when I looked at this picture later, I saw a player with completely pink skin in the end of the stairway. It was staring right at me, and I couldn't even turn it off! And since then, I've never seen my laptop working ever again...
From this story, we notice, that this player can appear in singleplayer worlds. It doesn't attack at first, like if it was tryin to figure something out. But when it gets ready, it will attack, and it will be very difficult to get away. The main tip here is to never look at it - by an unknown reason, "pocketbrat" is very difficult for Minecraft to render. There is no known explaination for that currently.
== "Unknown hacker ruined my SMP" - 31/01/2024 ==
A player, who had own SMP server, had reported to server host, that their server got hacked by a player nicknamed "pocketbrat", then the report had been sent to me.
I am the owner of an SMP server on your hosting. My SMP is well-organized, has a few admins, and is almost vanilla. [...] Yesterday, on January, 31, I decided to play in the morning, it was 4 AM or something. I logged in and started playing. At first, it was okay. I spawned in my newly built spruce house and went out to chop down some giant trees for sticks, that I could sell to a fletcher. If you wonder, we've built an ultimate trading hall for the new players to get stuff quicker. Our town also has professions, [...] We've also recently built a shulker farm, so the whole server now has enough shulker boxes for happy survival. After a few minutes of chopping down trees, I've replanted them, and went back to the town. But on the way back, I suddenly saw a player standing near our nether portal. And once I looked at them, the game suddenly started to lag. At this point, I have to say, that normally my PC runs Minecraft with 400-500 FPS, but once I saw the player, it dropped down to 20-30 FPS. I was shocked, and just looked away, and the game started working as usual, but when I looked back there, nobody was there already. I started searching, looked everywhere it could be, even in the mine, but the player just disappeared. Just then, I realized, that when I logged in, I saw nobody else in the tab list, and there were no join messages in the chat. Only then, I decided to look at user list again, and then... there was nobody there! But what made me feel strage was that I saw that TPS was lower, than usual 19 or 20. That was not okay for sure. I decided to check console, and then I saw the message, that I don't have access! This was so much not okay, that I just opened chat and started looking for join messages again, but still nothing! So I turned on TPS bar and started monitoring it. It slowly rised up. [...] I went to the trading hall to buy some enchantments for a fishing rod, but once I crossed the border of it, I saw that player again. This time my FPS dropped even further, to 1-5 FPS. But this time, I could clearly see the nickname - "pocketbrat". Pocketbrat was trading with a villager. But once they saw me, they just ran away. And when they did, TPS suddenly dropped to 10 or something, and I heard TNT fuse sound. I looked behind and what I saw shocked me. Pocketbrat was floating in creative with flint and steel. My FPS was still low, but then they looked directly at me, and the game froze completely. The last sound I heard was explosion, and my client just crashed. I was so shocked I literally just opened the server dashboard to back it up, but then I saw, that all the back up files were deleted! The logs were full of weird messages, they were in english, but 75% of the text was shortened, letters were replaced and some weird symbols were in the end of every message. And one of them still makes me feel anxious: "its c0ming, run". [...] After that, the server is not starting, the world is corrupted, there is no way to start it up. All our efforts are ruined by a hacker!
Later, server's owner could start it up with a new world, but then found out that online mode got turned off. When he tried to turn it back on through the dashboard, it didn't work. The player said he's happy with that he didn't lose his account, as this is what could probably happen.
== "I lost my own hardcore world to a player" - 02/02/2024 ==
The player nicknamed ShadyCat1930 had been playing her hardcore world, when something ruined her 5-month effort. She made a topic on Minecraft forum, but it got deleted immediately. Then, she sent it to me.
I had been building storage for my stuff I might need later, when I saw something on a mountain. I live inside a mountain ring, my mountains are very high, so I wouldn't even have a chance to get down and up less than in 10 minutes. So, I just used my optifine zoom to take a closer look, and it was... a player?! That shocked me, and I quickly ran there. I could've picked up ender pearls from my house, but by some reason, I didn't do that, and ran straight up there. Using a water bucket, I got up there very easily, but the player was gone. Only then I realized, that when I saw it, my Minecraft performance got much, much worse! So I got down to my house and decided to stop making the storage for a while and pick up some chests, but when I did, by some reason I forgot, why did need chests. The only thing I thought about was a super-strong feeling, that something is watching me. I ran down to my mine to look for any clue, but when I did, I suddenly remembered why I needed chests. But the feeling! It didn't disappear! [...] I went into the cave, that I lit up earlier, and then, by some reason, I decided to mine a block in the end of that cave. And guess what? I found diamonds! With these, I could finally make myself a pickaxe, that I couldn't make with my single diamond at home. But when I looked back, I saw that player again. The nametag above it said "pocketbrat". Player quickly moved away. I was terrified, so I ran away from there, but then I heard something following me. And then... it suddenly stopped! I looked back, but there was noone. I wanted to go back, but something inside told me I mustn't go there, so I decided to build up to the surface instead. After a long time mining and building up, I finally saw the sunlight. And then I looked around, and what I saw made me feel very scared. I was in exact place, where I wanted to build my storage, but it was empty! And the house I built had a tree in front of it, that I never planted, and never seen before. I quickly got down there, but then, when I looked back, I saw it. The player stood on the mountain, looking down at me. I quickly ran into my house and covered up the door with blocks, but then the game started lagging. I heard blocks breaking, and then sound of player taking damage. The frame changed, and I had a death message: ShadyCat1930 was slain by pocketbrat. [...]
Later, ShadyCat1930 said about that when she tried to spectate world, the game crashed, and she got logged out of her Minecraft account. When she tried to log in, it failed. She then figured out her account has completely disappeared, and there is no way to recover it.
== "My Minecraft account with old capes got permanently deleted by no reason!" - 04/02/2024 ==
A player just started up his own server, when this happened...
I had been playing on my server. I was mining redstone for a railway between my house and the closest mesa biome. When I mined enough, I needed to get some gold, so I broke down a giant tree, converted it to planks, planks to sticks, sold sticks to a fletcher in my house, that also sells arrows (remember that for later!) and went to my village nearby. There, I had a villager, that sold enchanted silk touch books, I bought one, enchanted a diamond pickaxe with it and went to the nether. In the nether, everything seemed totally okay. I spawned in a warped forest, there was a little house I built to get ender-pearls, when I had been beating the game. I went through the warped forest and entered the nether wastes - this is where I went. But then I noticed, that my framerate dropped, and something very bright pink in the distance ran away. Once it disappeared behind the wall, FPS came back to normal. But I wondered: what was that? It didn't look like any of the mobs that were in the game. So I thought that it might be a player, that somehow found my server. I opened tab, and what I found shocked me. I was alone, but only had one ping line, which is very rare, I never had that before. I mined some gold and headed back home - and that's when all of this had begun. When I entered the overworld, I smelt my gold and crafted powered rail. I didn't need much - I wasn't planning to move anything except myself using this railway. So I just placed rail and sometimes powered rail. But when I was far enough from my house, I suddenly realized I never made any redstone torches for the railway. So I ran back. On my way back, my FPS dropped again for a few seconds, and then nothing weird happened. Until... when I came back home, I noticed, that something was not quite right. When I looked around, I realized, that in my sheep pen with multicolored sheep, I never had the green ones. I looked around and saw a few more oddities, so I entered my house and saw my fletcher there. I right clicked him to see, if he is okay, and I thought he is, but I didn't even notice, that he now converts gravel to flint instead of selling arrows. But when I exited my house, I understood it. "Oh no..." - that was the first thing I thought. And then I saw something pink again in the distance - it was a player! It just slowly went by the trees, and right when it was in front of me, it stopped and looked right at me! This is the moment I will remember for all of my life!!! I ran away, but then I heard the blocks breaking sound. And then... they suddenly stopped. I looked back and saw the player floating in the air - they have the nickname pocketbrat, ban them! They are a hacker! And the player just didn't do anything. I tried hitting him, but nothing happened. Even the sound of hitting did not play. That was strange... AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD TURNED INTO [...] PINK CONCRETE POWDER, THAT FELL INTO THE VOID, SO MY MINECRAFT [...] CRASHED!!!!!!!
Then, player said about the technical part, that their graphics card literally stopped working a few days later, and when they wanted to log into their Minecraft launcher, they found out they no longer own Minecraft. After some research, player found out their account no longer exists, and there is no way to recover it, it is completely gone.
== "Do not update your world to 1.20.4!" - 05/02/2024 ==
This report had been published by a player, who got the worst situation, but the least consequences of all known sightnings.
This is probably the first time I've seen a thing like that! And you know what? I don't think it's okay, that there are player-like entities added to Minecraft in 1.20.4, one of them tried to do something really bad to me! So, I accidentally opened up my world on 1.20.4, and when I realized that I used the wrong version, it was too late. The thing is, I commonly play on a 1.20.4 server, and I use a launcher, that uses one instance, so if I change version, I'll have the same server, world, shaderpack, etc. lists. So, I forgot to change version and opened my world on 1.20.4. I appeared in the same place as I was before - my mine. I had a ton of stone picks and one iron pick - that is how I mine diamonds. It works very good! So, I continue mining. I don't know why, but when I was mining, my game lagged more than usual. At some point, I decided to go back. When I went out, I put all the pickaxes in a chest near mine. 5 stone pickaxes, 1 iron pickaxe, as I left two stone picks in my inventory. Mining with a stone pickaxe is too slow, so I went to mountains to get some more iron. And you know what? On my way through a dark forest, I felt like something was watching me from the trees. I didn't really notice that, and went through the dark forest as usual. But when I finally crossed the border of Dark Forest, I saw tall birch forest. By some reason, I decided to look back. I SAW A PLAYER!!! A PLAYER WITH BLACK SKIN WAS STANDING BETWEEN TO TREES, STARING RIGHT AT ME!!! I went backwards, but I saw that I have 0 FPS, that is definitely not okay! Another player just ran away, and when I lost him out of line of sight, my performance came back to usual 100 FPS. "How?!" - that's what I thought. Then, I ran through biomes to the mountains, I couldn't forget about the black player figure watching me. I just had a feeling, that it is about to do something very bad! At last, I saw the mountains. I thought that might be what saves me, but the feeling didn't vanish. I came up the mountain and started seeking for iron, when I heard someone breaking blocks and gaining experience. I looked back and saw nobody, just a hole in the ground. I came closer and looked at it - it was empty, but was shaped like real ore was there. It made me worry even more. But then I saw the black figure again! It was standing on a mountain, staring at me. And it was a player! A player with a nickname, pocketbrat! The player jumped and then ran away. I followed them, but it just vanished! Then I looked down and saw some more iron. I mined it and decided to go back for now. But then, in the roofed forest, I remembered that I marked trees with my axe to not get lost. The marks were gone! This was the worst that could happen already, but then I looked back and saw the player! Player jumped and flew up, then placed TNT and lit it up. I was so scared I ran away as quickly as possible. I ran, but my hunger bar had 3 units left, so my sprinting has stopped. I ate a steak, and suddenly I heard hurt sound and I had half a heart now! I looked back and saw the player, that looked right at me. Pocketbrat wanted to punch me again, but I ran away. Player was chasing me, but soon, it stopped. I looked back and saw nobody. The player was gone. Then I looked at my house and quickly saw something odd - the tree was between the house and the mine, not the mine between the tree and the house. And it couldn't be perspective, I remember how I planted the tree behind the mine! I looked into the chest, and saw... seven stone pickaxes and one iron pickaxe! Two of them were with me, so they couldn't be inside! At this point, I was very confused. Then, I suddenly saw black player on the roof of my house! It was staring right at me, and then took the command block and placed it on top of my house. Then it placed a button on it and pressed it, all the world turned into pink sand!!! I quickly placed water and turned some into pink concrete, and then saw that the builds didn't turn pink, but the game was lagging so much, that I looked back and saw my nether portal. That was my gateway to safety! I jumped into the portal and looked back, and through the lags, I saw Pocketbrat flying off the roof and quickly trying to punch me out of the portal, but I teleported just in time! I was in the normal nether, without pink sand or black figure. The world was just usual. I wanted to break the portal, but then thought, that it will get me before I do that, so I ran away. After a few seconds, I thought, that if it even broke the portal, it could've fixed it in seconds and instantly teleport here, but it didn't! So I thought: maybe it is still there waiting for me to come back? So I just blocked the portal off with the blocks I had and build myself a house. [...] As it still didn't attack me, I decided to come back and take a look at the world. I broke the cobblestone that covered the portal and went in... When I spawned, I saw my world, without any damage, with the tree behind the mine and the grass under me. I looked at the roof - there was no black player watching me, then opened the chest with pickaxes - it had 5 stone picks. Just like it was before I left. [...] I still don't get, where was I at when the world turned into pink sand, and who was the black figure who did it with a command block. But what I know for sure is that what I saw was not my world and my house, and the player was not an actual player, I didn't even open my world to LAN!
The player then didn't see "pocketbrat" in his world, after what he saw, the world was completely usual. But he asked others if they saw a player in their singleplayer world on 1.20.4, but nobody else said anything about that. The player then decided to not open the 1.20.4 version ever again, and he never did.
== "I got griefed on singleplayer" - 06/02/2024 ==
This player decided to play at night from February 5th to 6th, and paid for that with all his world.
It happened just a few hours ago, technically yesterday. I had a lot of homework, that I was doing for the whole evening, so when I finally got time for Minecraft, I opened up my only world and started playing. My house was in a hill, with a way out to savanna with an empty pen that I built for my animals, and a wheat farm. I decided to find some animals, that was my next goal, so I harvested wheat, replanted it and went looking for animals. After a few minutes of searching, I found no animals. I decided to go far away to the plains, but first, I had to skip the night, so I wouldn't have to go through the monsters. [...] When I came back home, I looked up my hill and saw... A PLAYER?! And just when I saw them, my performance got like *very low*. I thought for a second and ran to the player to see what is this. But when I did, the player ran away! I looked at them and now my attention got off animals. How could a player enter my singleplayer world? So I followed this player, but when I ran up the hill, I saw nobody here! The player disappeared! [...] I decided to continue searching for animals, after all the player didn't harm me. So, I ran away. At first, everything was normal. But then I realized I haven't seen any mobs at all! And then I suddenly saw a sign, that had something chinese. I wanted to break it, but something inside me said that if I break it, something bad happens. But what happened then was maybe even worse... So, I went through the land, and then I noticed that player in the distance. It looked right at me, and then I felt like it is something very bad. So, instead of coming closer, I ran away. I ran forward, knowing, that the player will catch me, but I had no way to escape. But then... After a minute or two of running, I looked back and didn't see anyone. The player was gone! [...] And then I saw a village! I remembered my friend saying to me, that she got full diamond armor and tools in just 40 minutes. I decided to go and see if I can do the same thing. But when I went in, I saw a sheep! It went somewhere. I followed it, but it was always far from me, even though I am faster than it. At last, the sheep entered the cave, and I followed it. The cave was dark, and I couldn't see, if it has an end, even with optifine dynamic lighting. But the sheep was there, and I wanted to bring it home, even though it would take another hour of my time. But then I saw the other side of this cave. When I went out, I saw... MY HILL?! There was never a cave like that in my hill, I knew it! At this point I understood something was wrong, as there was no physical way for me to go through a cave and move nearly 1000 blocks the opposite way! I looked around and saw my house. It was blown up!!! The player stood in front of it with flint and steel. I looked at the nickname - pocketbrat. The player stood on a command block, and then, when it noticed me, it took a button and placed on it. I quickly ran to the player and punched it off the command block, but it punched me once, and I lost nearly all my health! And my FPS was at actual 0, I realized "pocketbrat" can easily kill me, as my frames changed like once per ten seconds or something. But it didn't. I looked away and wanted to run into my house, my performance became slightly better, but it was still awful, and I heard a button click sound. Then, in the chat, I saw a lot of chinese hieroglyphs in chat, they were changing very quickly. I only got to say "not good", when I saw that everything turned into pink concrete, and I fell into the void. Well, at least that's what was supposed to happen. But you know what? The last frame I saw was me falling through thousands of blocks, and then Minecraft crashed and my screen turned off. Since then, I can't do anything with my computer.
Later, a few days after this, the player figured out his graphics card stopped working, and his CPU is working, but much worse. The only explaination to first is that rendering pocketbrat is too difficult for modern PCs.
== "There seems to be a way to get opped without owner's permission" - 06/02/2024 ==
The following story has been found on official bug tracker. The player who reported it complained about an unknown player joining his server and crashing it
I have a private Minecraft server, that I often play on. I use a server because I play with plugins, and sometimes I even invite my friend. But this time, I was totally alone. I finished building a boat in the ocean, now I wanted to build a flag. But while I gathered resources for it, I suddenly saw something odd. I just felt like something is wrong, but didn't get, what exactly. But then I used optifine zoom and realized, that a player with completely pink skin is staring at me from behind the corner. I came closer - the player didn't disapper. And once I moved, I saw that my framerate got very bad. I zoomed again and saw nickname - pocketbrat. I immediately started to type in ban command, but then the player disappeared. I finished command and pressed enter, but instead of a successful ban message, I saw something in chinese! I thought I accidentally changed language, but it was still english! I didn't get what happened, so I decided that they got banned and now I can continue playing. I was so much mistaking... [...] When I finished building the flag, I jumped into the water, and then looked up - the player was there again! I was so scared I dropped my coffee on keyboard. That was it. I wanted to turn off my PC, but then, through super-low FPS, I saw the player jump off the flag, place command block and activate it! All the world turned into pink sand, and my game crashed, so did the server. [...] So, a player bypassed whitelist, got operator on my server and at last, crashed it. Also it damaged my computer, the computer guy said my graphics card looked like someone burned it.
This person also said, that his framerate dropped when he looked at the player, and the closer he was, the less FPS he had.
== "I just played Notch's joke "Ultra-hardcore" mode" - 06/02/2024 ==
The player was playing hardcore, but they did not only lose their world, but minecraft account too...
I was playing my set seed hardcore world. My island was big enough for me to obtain all the resources I need. So, I decided to not leave it at all. On my way, I've got everything that I needed, but that was not on the island, including villagers. I decided to take both, it took very long. So, I've got all I needed, and now I started building house. I built it out of cherry wood, used some pink petals I brought from the near-spawn cherry grove, and finally, my house was finished. But then I needed sheep pen to make beds for villagers! And as the forest was the biome surrounding me, and jungle was pretty far from my house, I needed additional protection from wolves. Better than wolves... So, I built the fence, broke the surrounding blocks. Sheep! I saw them and ran closer, but when I did, I felt something strange. Like something is watching me and about to do something very bad! I wanted to come closer to the sheep so they would come to me, but something inside told me, that if I go forward, something is gonna happen. I stood for some time, and sheep came to me themselves. I looked at them and went back. But when I looked back, my performance got a lot worse! At first I think I've got to say, that I have a very old laptop, so I'm used to lags. But this lag was like 1 or 2 FPS, that only happens if something is wrong. And something was. When I looked away, my framerate came back to normal, when I looked to the side of sheep pen, it dropped again. I looked at the trees and saw something! It immediately moved. I wanted to run away, but again, something told me to not go back. I looked at the ocean and went there! I heard footsteps, but these weren't sheep footsteps. THESE WERE PLAYER FOOTSTEPS! I looked back and saw it. It was a player. Nicknamed pocketbrat. The player took out a command block. I wanted to hit them, but the player punched me, and I lost almost all my health! It then placed down the command block, took out button and placed it on command block. I jumped into the water, but then I heard button click sound, and... "Game Over! [MY NICKNAME] suffocated in a wall." - that's what I saw!!! AND IN THE BACKGROUND, ALL THE WORLD TURNED INTO FALLING BLOCKS, AND DISAPPEARED! I was infuriated, so I closed the game!
Later the player mentioned, that couldn't start up the game, as their account got deleted by some reason. Graphics card didn't get much damage, as player was lucky enough to have half a heart left when the world turned into pink powder concrete.
== "Some player-like entity killed me and my pet dog" - 08/02/2024 ==
A player was peacefully playing his world, building a tent for his base. But even though the world was never open to LAN or a server, a player joined it...
I finished building my tent in my own survival world. I decided to collect some resources for a second tent, the storage. So, I went shearing my sheep. While I was, I noticed how my average framerate dropped like A LOT, what never happened before! Normally I have 200 FPS on average, but this time it was 60 or something. At last, I came back with wool, crafted some fences and went building. [...] When I finished and went out, I felt like something was watching me. My base was in the forest, so it was hard to tell, who exactly. I looked, nobody was there. But... the feeling didn't disappear. With this feeling, I put stuff to the storage tent and went mining. I thought when mining, nobody can be watching me... nope! When I was, I still had that feeling, so after I mined 3 diamonds and crafted a diamond pick, I could no longer mine. But when I looked back - I SAW A PLAYER FIGURE IN THE DISTANCE!!! It was very far, and it immediately climbed up my mine ladder. I could no longer see it, but the framerate... when I was seeing it, it was much lower! Like if this player was so difficult for the game to render, that it couldn't. But why? I quickly ran there, but when I reached the ladder, nobody was there. On surface, it was night. I skipped it and decided to look for the player in the forest. I ran through the woods, but couldn't find anything. At last, I came back. And the player was there, in the storage tent. I realized it can easily just steal my stuff, and through the lags that got even worse, I ran into the storage and for a second, my framerate dropped, but then it came back to normal. And now listen! When I put campfire, it was at the place, where the surface goes one block down. And I placed it on top layer. BUT WHEN I LOOKED OUT, IT WAS ON THE BOTTOM LAYER, NOT ON THE TOP!!! I quickly understood what happened. The player... but then something pushed me into the campfire! It was the player. The player nicknamed pocketbrat hit me, and I died from the campfire. I respawned - my dog was there for me. It growled at something. I right-clicked it and it immediately ran away. And you know what? I SAW THE PLAYER AGAIN! I didn't really see what happened, the player stood close to me, and the lags were insane! But I heard the dog hurt sound, and then sound of a critical hit and the next second, I saw the message in the chat: Wolf was slain by pocketbrat. That was too much, so I quickly ran to the player, but it killed me with one crit. Then I heard explosion, and when I respawned, my base was gone. It was blown up. And since then, I've not seen this player in my world.
The player lost his graphics card, processing core was okay. After replacing the broken part, the player has never seen this player "pocketbrat" again.
== Untitled - 09/02/2024 ==
This report has been sent to us by a user of a secret discord server. So far it is the most mysterious sightning of all. User CatFisher7000 said that he found this creepy thing, but nobody believed him.
Guys, a creepy thing just happened to me on our Minecraft server! Remember the mine I made in our town? I was mining there. Branch mining is a cool idea I think, so I made a few. But then, after a few ended up with a lava pool, I started digging the last one. I thought when it ends, I'll go back and do everything the way you told me to. But after like ten minutes I noticed, that the hall is still not ending. The adjacent hall hit the lava pool after two or three minutes, but when I looked out, it was a giant lava pool. But this one, despite it was going in the same direction, didn't hit the lava pool. I remember seeing a big cave out there, so I decided to listen, if there is any mob sound. But after standing there for a minute or two, I didn't hear anything. Then, I continued mining for another 10-15 minutes. But after these 10-15 minutes, I still haven't seen or even heard any lava! At this point I decided, that I should stop mining right now! I came back to the surface and went looking for a taiga biome for spruce saplings. But on my way, I suddenly saw something. It moved by between the trees, but when it was visible, Minecraft froze for a matter of second. I followed it, but quickly lost the trail. I continued looking for spruce trees, when I saw a mountain in the distance. It was my chance! But then I zoomed in to check if there is grove biome, and saw a house! I thought it was someone's house or something, so ignored it. I went up the mountain, but then I felt a very strong feeling, that I must go back. I looked around and saw a player! And here I need to note: I was alone on the server when I joined and never saw join messages, so it was impossible for anyone to be online. Looking at the player made my game lag, and I could clearly see the nickname: pocketbrat. The player, when noticed I saw it, ran away. I wanted to follow them, but the strong feeling made me go back. But on my way back, I thought: who was that player? I never saw anyone with that nickname, so it can't be anyone of my friends + it is not possible to join without a join message! When I came back, I skipped the night and went back to mine. But instead of strip-mining, I decided to go caving. I entered a cave, and then it happened... I mined some diamonds, and then needed to come back to go to a village. I went through the caves, and... the player was there! It stood in front of me. I came closer, heard hit sound and saw I'm now on half a heart. I turned and ran away, but I was sure it was chasing me. But then I saw a lava pool, and decided to quickly speedrun a portal. I did, lit it up, and at the last second, I saw that player jumping and raging in the distance. I spawned in the nether wastes biome. I looked around and remembered our nether portal is in red forest, and red forest was seen in the distance, so I went there. When I looked back, I saw "pocketbrat" going out of the portal with a netherite sword and in full netherite. I realized that fighting it will be really hard, as even looking at pocketbrat makes my game lag. So I continued running. But when I finally reached the portal, I didn't see pocketbrat. I teleported, AND WAS SHOCKED BY WHAT I SAW! I WAS IN MINECRAFT ALPHA, WITH A NETHER PORTAL BUT WITHOUT BIOMES!!! My inventory was clear, so I quickly closed Minecraft and now I'm here, messaging this to you.
It's not proven, if this is a real sightning, but it seems to be. CatFisher7000 seemingly escaped pocketbrat, and it attacked him by somehow replacing the portal. With this, it becomes the most unusual experience of all.
== "Our survival challenge has been ruined" - 12/02/2024 ==
Two players, one of them is youtuber, who planned a video with nether survival. But instead of release, youtuber made a post in the community tab, where they described, what happened.
First of all, me and my friend wanted to make a survival video in the nether. I gave me and my friend respawn anchors and we started playing. We had a red forest nearby, so we got wood and made ourselves pickaxes. But then we needed to find a good place for our house. By good place I mean having all the biomes nearby. Without looting structures, we could get everything we need: blackstone for tools from basalt deltas, bones for bonemeal from soul sand valley, porkchops from red forest and enderpearls from warped forest. Warped forest is not that necessary, so we decided to look for the place that has at least three first biomes. On our way, we mined glowstone for respawning, as this is our only way to live here. The best armor we can get is diamond, but to get it we have to enter one of two structures, and they are very dangerous, so we also need glowstone. When we finally found a good place, we built a home out of warped planks. Nether wastes were also here, and they can give some food too, as they have mushrooms. I was planning to make an overworld portal, but first, we need food. I went to the crimson forest to kill some hoglins. When I had 24 porkchops, I was coming back, but then I stopped. Behind the gap, in the warped forest, there was something bright pink standing. I thought it could be enderman's eye, but it was completely pink, shaped not like an eye, and there was nothing black nearby to prove that theory. But there was a thing - my game was lagging when I looked at it. But then a crossbow piglin hit me! I looked at it and killed it. But when I looked back, I saw that the pink thing was gone! I continued my way back home, thinking: what was it? Could it be a glitch, or a new mob... finally, I came back home. We are using voice chat mod, so when I came back, I told my friend what happened. After I explained everything, we went there to see, if it is still there. We came to the place where the piglin attacked me, bridged over the lava lake and finally, we were there. First of all, there were no endermen. The forest was quite large, but empty. And second, once I came in, I felt like something is close, and it is something bad. "There's nothing here!" - said my friend. I'll remember this for long, because once he said that, I turned back to go, and saw the pink thing stand on our bridge. It was a player. I clearly saw nickname "pocketbrat". Friend also looked there. We both saw lags, while pocketbrat just ran away. I immediately opened chat to ban them, but when I pressed "Enter", I saw output in chinese. My friend speaks chinese, so I asked him, what does it mean. He said it means "You can't ban me", and a swear word. Microsoft would never add swearing to their product! We quickly went home, while asking each other, what could it be. But when we came home, we didn't see our house!!! IT WAS GONE!!! So were our respawn anchors. We decided to leave this server, as it seems to be dangerous. And that's what we did, and then deleted this server, so nobody could damage my computer, where the server was hosted.
And what they did was correct - if they didn't leave, anything could happen to them. They could lose their computers, as the components are often damaged by pocketbrat, and even lose their Minecraft accounts!
== "I lost my Minecraft account to something, that attacked my server!" - 14/02/2024 ==
This report is from a player, who is an owner of an SMP server. While playing, they noticed something was wrong, and when they wanted to quit, it was too late...
Hi! I am owner of [Name of SMP] server! Today in the morning, I was an owner of Minecraft account. I was playing on my server, decorating spawn for Valentine's day. At some point, I had no more resources, so I went back home. But when I was coming back to the spawn with more decoration blocks, I thought I saw something bright pink in the distance. Too bright for Minecraft. It couldn't be a magenta concrete, because I didn't build there, it was far from the spawn! And my game was lagging when I looked at it. I stood, checked that rendering it is actually causing lags, and decided to come and see, what is it. But on my way, I fell down two or three blocks, and lost it out of line of sight. The framerate came back to normal, but when I saw the place where pink thing was, there was nothing! I was disappointed and went back. I continued decorating, but soon, ran out of blocks again. It was nearly finished! I went back home. Again, when I was half way home, I saw the pink thing again - it was a player! Completely pink player was standing in the cave entrance. I stood and looked at it. This time, I sneaked to them to not fall anywhere and not lose it out of line of sight. But pink player just went into the cave! I followed it, but when I came into the cave, I saw nothing! I lit up the area with torches and saw a little 2x1 hall! I went there, and went out to the surface! I immediately realized I was going home, so I turned back... but there was no hall! I was very scared, I checked tab list - I was alone. And then I heard footsteps, and then something hit me! I was now half a heart, but quickly started regenerating. I ate a steak, but then I saw pink player place a command block. I quickly typed in the chat: /ban pocketbrat, but got a no permission message. I WAS AN OPERATOR OF THE SERVER!!! I understood something is not right and just left the game. [...] A few minutes later, I decided to rejoin and try to ban it again, but then I got an error: Failed to verify username! I was shocked. I closed the game and opened launcher - BUY NOW!!! I closed Minecraft Launcher and now can't play!
The player's computer was not damaged, but the server was. Owner's account was deleted, there is no way back. And the server was crashed by pocketbrat, the dashboard was hacked and the whole world has been destroyed.
== Untitled - 18/02/2024 ==
A player has just installed a new launcher and made a new world.
I've spawned in a jungle. By some reason, this jungle made me feel strange. I got some wood, then stone, and finally, went looking for mountains for iron. I don't like mining or caving! [...] I found nice-looking plains, so I built a house here. The night was coming, so I quickly sheared some sheep and came back home. I had biiiig plans for the next day. I made a bed and slept over the night. But then, when I looked out of the window, and saw something! A magenta object stood very far away, nearly on the edge of the plains. I had no zoomify, just sodium, so I couldn't zoom in and see, what is it. But it didn't look like anything usual, so I went to see, what did I see from the window. But you know what? When I came out - it was no longer there! It just disappeared!!! I decided to do my plans, and the first one was: making a wheat and animal farm! I made a hoe, broke some grass, and finally, was ready to do it. I did a wheat farm. When I finished, I came in to take some stuff and go make an actual mine (yes, at this point I understood I actually DO need a mine). But then I looked out of my window, I saw it again. This time it was closer. I went out and decided to see it again, so I ran out, and then to it. Soon, I saw it was a player. HOW COULD A PLAYER BE IN MY SINGLEPLAYER JAVA WORLD?! It walked away. I followed it. Soon, I saw the player's nickname: pocketbrat. I continued chasing, but then, when I went between two big oak trees, my framerate suddenly dropped, and immediately came back to usual. A command block and a button appeared in pocketbrat's hands, it placed them and I wanted to go back, but then I got teleported to it. The player pressed a button, and everything, except for the command block and button, got turned into pink concrete powder! My Minecraft slowly started to lag, but then it stopped. "pocketbrat" seemed to be very mad, so it just hit me. I lost nearly all my health and fell into the void, as bedrock was also gone. [...]
The player then told he lost his Minecraft account, but because it had a lot of swearing (he just bought Minecraft, spent own 30$, and it was all lost), I can't show it here.