Rip Hollow

Minecraft; Rip Hollow
:by: bwm117
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I recently started a new Minecraft world as of 1.7.2 or as some call it: "The Update that Changed the World.". I was excited for this update because of all the new biomes that were added. The savannas, the roofed forests, the clay mesas, etc.. I was looking forward to exploring these new biomes and having a new fun experience.
I spawned in a forest, a birch forest. I was glad that I spawned in this biome because it was one of the new ones, and I wanted to build my house in this rather peaceful-looking biome. The biome wasn't very special like the other ones were, but I didn't really care. I was going to adventure to other places anyways. I do the basic things you would usually do when starting a new world in Minecraft. I cut down some trees, mined stone, set up a house. While setting up my house, I noticed that it was sunset already. I didn't spend that much time cutting down trees and mining. I mean, daytime can go by quickly in Minecraft but I don't remember it going by that quick. I decided not to think much of it and I went in my shelter and waited out the night.
In the morning, I went out to kill some animals since my food supply wasn't really good so far. While being outside, I decided to go and see what the neighboring biomes were. I decided to keep track of what direction I was going in to make sure I know where to go when going back to my house. Traveling east, I saw that one of the biomes were just a regular forest biome. Being kind of disappointed on what I found, I went the other way, which is west.
 It wasn't long until I found a roofed forest. I was very happy to see the new biome. I went into the forest, killing some animals for food along the way. I already knew information about the new biome. This biome, the roofed forest, had giant mushrooms. And it was possible for hostile mobs to spawn during the day because of how dark it could get. While exploring, I noticed something... unusual. There was this streak, or tear in the ground. I thought it was going to be an entrance to a cave, or even a ravine. But upon closer examination, I was wrong. This tear in the ground appeared to be 12-14 blocks long. And it was 1-2 blocks deep. I was surprisingly dumbfounded by this, thinking it was a new feature in the game that meant something. I was about to try to dig into the tear in the ground, but then I started to get attacked by mobs.
I didn't even notice it was night time. I was so distracted. And it seemed so quick like the last time. I rushed home, almost dying on the way. I went to my furnaces, cooked the food I collected from killing the animals. While that was happening, I just stood there, waiting for the food to cook so I can eat and fill my hunger bar. Along with that, I waited out the night again. After waiting, it was finally morning. It seemed that I waited too long. I don't know if it was me being impatient, or what. But it was finally morning, which is what mattered. I went outside my house and... suddenly my game crashed.
 I knew my laptop wasn't the best at handling games, but was it really that bad? I didn't know what to blame: my laptop, or the game. I decided to think that the crash was due to a glitch from the new update. I started the game back up and started up the world again. I joined back in the world and everything seemed normal. The only thing that was different was that it wasn't morning. I looked outside and it looked like it was already going to be sunset soon. The game crashed when it was morning, why did time change in the game even though it wasn't running? I definitely thought this was some kind of glitch or the game didn't save all of my progress. I took the time I had and went chopping down trees for more wood. While collecting more wood, I notice another tear in the ground. It wasn't really surprising to see another one of these rips in the ground anymore. I looked at this one up close and this one was different from the other I saw. This tear in the ground was 2-3 blocks deep this time. I was really starting to think this was part of the update. I tried digging in it and was surprised to find a cave beneath this small trench. I fell down in the cave and found something even more surprising.
 There was no normal stone in this cave. All of it is was coal ore. I was dumbfounded to see this. Was this some kind of phenomenon in the game? I didn't have to go far to realize that this was a really small cave. It wasn't disappointing though. But it kinda scared me. Coal ore doesn't make up an entire cave like that. Being paranoid, I mined some of it as fast as I could mine and finally decided it was a good idea to go back up to the surface. I pillared my way up and I instantly got the shit scared out of me when I saw a player running away from me. I freaked out because this was a single-player world and because of that, it was completely abnormal to have another player in this world with me. I ran back to my house, ignoring any nearby mobs. I blocked my door when I got home and consistently checked the windows. After that, I took a break from the game. I was trying not to panic and was trying to process what just happened. I was too scared to pay attention to the details of the player. I didn't even didn't even see the front of him because he was running the other way. I only saw that he had a brownish-grayish skin. That was all I remembered seeing.
I decided to quit the game for now. I wanted to go to take a breather. Before getting off the computer completely, I decided to look up the things that I saw in my world and see if it's just a feature added to the game or if anyone else experienced the same thing I did. I found... nothing. I only found people talking about Herobrine and other Minecraft myths on the forums. A wave of desperation washed over me, being unable to find anything relatable to my situation. I decided to quit and go to bed. A couple days later, I started the game back up. I was scared to play on the world again, but was also kind of excited. I know it may be stupid, but I'm suddenly excited to take on these weird things happening in my game. I re-evaluated everything I remember and realized it's not that bad to experience those things in the game. There's something wrong, definitely. But it's just a game. If something bad happens, it will just be in the game. Nothing to worry about in real life. 
I open up the world and everything seems to be the way it was. However, it looks like the time of day changed again, even with me not being in the game. It was still day, so I wasn't that scared. I thought about the player I encountered yesterday and came up with an idea. The idea was to try to communicate with them in chat. I dreaded doing this but I built up the courage to do it. I opened up chat and typed "hello?". I pressed enter. There it was, the message in chat. I waited nervously and patiently, but there was no response. I broke the blocks blocking my door and went outside. I explored the area to search for anything abnormal. I searched around for a bit and found that there were an excessive amount of brown and red mushrooms in fairly small area. The most unusual part is that most of them were exposed to daylight, which was almost impossible for mushrooms to grow while exposed to daylight. What was also unusual was that there was way more than 5 in the area. In case you didn't know, mushrooms spread if there are less than 5 around the area, if there is 5 in the area, the mushrooms won't spread anymore. Like I said, there were way more than 5. I expected to see more weird things, so I decided to write down everything I saw so far, the small trenches or tears in the ground. A cave made of coal, day and night lasting different times, etc.. After writing, I collected all of the mushrooms. I did this because I was afraid that they would spread even more and it would get annoying to keep in check. I harvested and I collected 26 mushrooms overall. Well, that's another weird thing that happened. What next? I went back home and... my door was open.
I don't remember closing my door and instantly thought that my house was being intruded by that player that I encountered earlier. I was cautious but went inside, I was thinking about the items that might get stolen. I checked every chest and saw nothing missing. I looked around the rest of my house for... anything out of the ordinary. My house was small, but still had a lot of corners and spaces to hide in. I looked at the back of my house saw a 1x2 opening. He was in my house, but escaped. I replaced the blocks and didn't worry about chasing him since none of my items were stolen. I decided to search the basement and found it almost completely filled with course dirt. I had nothing in my basement yet so I wasn't worried. I was more confused than scared at this time. I mined out the blocks and went on with my day. Surprisingly, it was still day time, it seemed like it was lasting longer.
 Fast forward a few weeks, I haven't seen the player in weeks, but I have been finding more small trenches (tears in the ground, trenches, whatever you want to call them). I tried digging in all of them. Only one of them had another cave like that other one. It was made of coal ore, as usual. At this time in the game, I was rich, kind of. I only found 3 diamonds for a pickaxe. I had a lot of coal and iron at this point so I didn't bother mining the coal. But there was something else I found weird with the trenches. Every one I found, was always facing East or West. I never found one facing North or South.
Fast forward another week and I spotted the player again! I saw him at the edge of the roofed forest while I was fighting mobs at night. He was standing and and facing a different direction, but I was still able to see his face and front side. I couldn't make it out completely, but he had some kind of black crevice going down from the top of his torso, and went down onto his right leg or something. The only thing I saw on his face was 2 dreary-looking eyes. Like 2 jagged segments. They were completely blue and unnatural-looking. I walked a little closer to observe more. I was probably about 20 blocks away from him. I saw more of his skin. It was mocha brown, but was a little gray in areas, especially his back. The texture of his skin looked like the texture of wooden logs and maybe even grass. The player remained idle for a few more seconds. Then, with sudden haste, he started to build. I was starting to get scared and was afraid of getting seen, so I hid behind a tree. He was using dark oak logs (because he was in the roofed forest) to build up a wall. I then started to get attacked more monsters. I fought them off and he didn't notice, thankfully. I continued watching him as he continued building in a slightly peculiar way. I saw some mobs walk past the player and they didn't attack each other. I was getting the feeling that this guy was in creative mode. I wanted to try to do something, and I did. I typed in chat and said "hello? Are you in creative mode?". His reaction was suspicious. I saw him looking around everywhere and I hid behind the tree, probably just on time. I went in 3rd person mode to try to see him with little movement. He kept looking around and then he hit the air which caused a big sphere of black smoke. The smoke stayed for a bit and got bigger but faded away. I was dumbfounded by this. Did he teleport? Or he created a smokescreen to make it look like he vanished? I rushed back home and was scared and excited because of what I just saw. And that the fact that I was a spy.
I got addicted to this game after that experience. I was trying to find anymore weird structures in this world. I only found more trenches and more huge groups of mushrooms. Nothing new. I did find a group of ferns in one area in the regular forest next to the birch forest I live in, but I think that was a regular natural thing. It became night time so I ran back home and went to bed. Nothing interesting really happened after that.
 I had to stop playing the game for a while. I was addicted to it, but was forced to stop because it was affecting my time to study for school-related things. I barely played any video games for about a month or so. I got bored, but I was glad I took that long break. My eyes needed it.
I was going back onto Minecraft again. I went onto the same world. I didn't even think about the mysterious player I encountered. I went mining and got obsidian, just enough for a nether portal. I decided to build it about 10 blocks away from my house so the noise from the portal wouldn't annoy me. I built the portal and place the last block for it. I went inside to craft a flint and steel when unexpectedly, someone in the chat showed a message. I got startled when the message showed up. The message said "STOP". I looked at the username that typed it in the chat. The username was 'Rip Hollow'. The name by itself was intimidating, but the fact that he was able to chat was scarier. I expected this to be the player I encountered previously. Who else would it be? With hesitation, I typed "who are you?". A few seconds later, no response. I typed in chat again, "who are you?". No response. I started to get annoyed instead of being scared. After a few seconds of waiting, I crafted the flint and steel and lit the portal. I looked around to see if he was watching, because I assumed he was watching me and wanted me to stop building the portal. Out in the distance, I could see a glimpse of the player running into the roofed forest. I decided to chase after him, or Rip Hollow. I guess I should call him that from now on.
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 As I run closer and closer to the roofed forest, I see that he had built more when I was gone! There were multiple houses in the forest. It looked like a really small village. 3 houses were lined up next to each other, across from that there were 3 more houses lined up next to each other. In between was a path made of podzol and cobblestone. I was really intrigued by this build and went to the forest to confront Rip Hollow. I walk into the village. And saw that there was even a farm too. Anyways, I look in each house and found nothing. I look around and I actually found him. Standing a chunk away from me, standing next to a giant mushroom, he was staring straight at me. I typed in chat, "stop what?". He then pulled out an unfamiliar-looking sword that looked like it was made of stone or iron. He approaches me at fast speed. I sprinted out of that village as fast as I could, hoping he wouldn't follow me. I turned around and saw him standing at the edge of the village. I could've fought him, but I didn't have any armor and the fact that this player shouldn't even be in my world since it's singleplayer.
I went back home and made some armor with the iron I had. I went to the nether and got lucky and spawned on a nether fortress! I took this opportunity and quickly went in and killed some wither skeletons, blazes, etc.. I noticed that some of the nether mobs were acting weird. There were 2 blazes that were looking downwards and were twitching. There was a wither skeleton that was pacing back and forth, but once I got too close, it started to attack. It seemed more aggressive, or maybe it's just me. But it definitely went faster than other wither skeletons. I found this magma cube that stayed idle and didn't jump at all. Besides the wither skeleton, these mobs ignored my presence. I didn't know what to think of it, but then I thought of Rip Hollow. Is he causing this? I found some nether wart in the fortress and harvested it and got the soul sand too. I killed some more blazes and magma cubes. I ran back to the portal and went through.
I was hasty during this mission because since Rip Hollow can be hostile, I was afraid he was going to try raiding my house or something. On the other side of the portal, it was completely blocked with dirt, course dirt, and plant-related blocks. I mined my way out and checked for anything missing in my house. Nothing was missing. Everything seemed fine except for the portal being blocked. I decided to be less paranoid and focus on progressing. I made a nether wart farm outside almost right next to my house. I decided to go mining while they grew. I thought going on a mining trip would help me calm down. It kind of worked, or so I thought. I started finding weird things underground. First I found a lot of mushrooms, like I did on the surface. I was starting to feel unsettled again. I explore more and there was this section of the cave that had mycelium on the floor instead of regular stone. Then there was a section with course dirt and podzol with flowers and other plants growing on it. I suspected this to be Rip Hollow, of course. I could tell this player liked plants. Well, I already knew. All of these things that this player was doing seemed pretty harmless. But he did chase me with a sword, so getting prepared to fight him seemed like a good idea to me. I was in his territory before so I don't blame him for chasing me away, but he has gone into my house before so he could have attacked.
I wasn't in the mines for long until I decided to go back up. Didn't really get anything except for coal and iron. Most of the nether wart grew, I used it to make potions and after that, I thought I was ready to face him. I felt like an overconfident CIA agent. I ran out the door. I approached the roofed forest, expecting to see him there. I saw him. He was inside that village he had built. I saw him; he was at the end of the path in the village. I can see that the brown on his skin had turned into a more umber color. Darker brown than before. He started to approach. I got my potions ready. I felt like I was fighting a boss now. I was going to fight Rip Hollow. I sprint, mashing the keys on my keyboard. I spam-click him with my sword. He didn't take damage. He took that like it was barely anything. He never got knocked back once. He did damage me however. I got knocked back a few blocks and he didn't even use a sword to do it. I took about 1 heart of damage. I could still try. I try to hit him again. I barely prevailed. I heard some kind of sound come from him. It sounded like the sound of a door being broken down. You know, like how zombies try to break doors. He knocked me back again. Once again, I didn't take much damage. I decided to pull out a splash potion of harming and I threw it at him. It actually looked like he took damage. The braking sound came from him again and he walked back a few steps. Despite the flinching, he got more aggressive. He pulled out the unusual sword he had and ran at me. I ran at him too and he started to do a lot more damage to me. I retreat some distance and use a healing potion. He is still in pursuit and hits me again.
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I took like 3-4 hearts of damage. I couldn't really tell because I was trying to run home as soon as possible. Something popped up in chat. Rip Hollow talked again. He said: "Get rid of it". Was he talking about the nether portal? I decided to ignore it because I was getting ready to fight. I arrived at my house by then and waited for him. I had 2 more potions left; a harming potion and a healing potion. I waited and only a few seconds and there he was. Running at me. I begin to charge but saw that he went over the soul sand of my nether wart farm to get to me. He instantly started to get hurt when he stepped on that soul sand. The door-braking sound happened rapidly too. I realized he had a weakness. It was nether-related things. Or maybe only soul sand. I took this opportunity and threw the harming potion at him. He took even more damage. I could tell. He backs up and looks at the nether portal. I wanted to attack him again, but had no other potions left. He was idle, looking at the portal. I went into my house and got some nether-based blocks and and I got back outside and all the sudden I see a horde of wither skeletons and blazes that have emerged from the nether portal. Most of the wither skeletons chased Rip Hollow back through the other way, back towards the roofed forest. I fought the ones that attacked me. The blazes all shot fireballs simultaneously, creating a lot of lag. I used my remaining healing potion. No more potions now. I fought 1 or 2 blazes but it got chaotic. The forest and my house were burning down and I could see the wither skeletons in the distance near the roofed forest that Rip Hollow ran to. I wanted to see what would happen at the roofed forest. I didn't care about the fire nor the blazes anymore. I sprinted to the roofed forest as more fire balls from the blazes zipped by me and caused more fire. I ran the the edge of the roofed forest and saw wither skeletons patrolling the village that Rip Hollow had made. The roofed forest had caught on fire too due to the blazes. I stormed in, fought the wither skeletons as fast as possible to put the fire out. I caught on fire and got wither effect, nearly dying. I had to run away and hide for a few seconds. I went back and killed the rest of the wither skeletons.
At this point the forest fire was huge. The village was burning and almost completely destroyed. I saw a glimpse of Rip Hollow, simultaneously running and burning from the fire. He ran deeper into the forest. I didn't bother trying to put out any fires anymore at this point. The fire was too big and chasing Rip Hollow was now my objective. It kind of already was. I ran into the forest, going the same way he had went. Deeper into the forest. No one was found. I looked around, he wasn't anywhere. I found... something rather cool but ominous. It was a fairly large hole in the ground. I didn't even have to go in before seeing the biggest underground space I have ever seen in Minecraft. It was an underground forest! Most of the trees were dark oak trees, but I saw some oak trees, birch trees, and giant mushrooms. This went from scary to amazing. The problem was that it was a fairly large drop down. If this is where Rip Hollow went, then I would have a lot more searching to do. I went around the hole looking for him. I didn't know if he went underground or was still on the surface. The forests were too big. My mission to find and kill him was failing quickly. I ran back through the other direction, trying to look everywhere. I was hasty. I thought of those caves in the trenches. I went to the ones that I remembered exploring before. Nothing. I looked, found nothing, and went back to the surface. I then realized it was sunset. I rush back to my house to stay inside to avoid monsters. I also wanted to see if Rip Hollow was there. I made it home safely. The blazes had despawned. Nobody was in my house. It's like he just disappeared in the forest. He probably retreated to that underground forest. I decided to cancel my mission of hunting him down and killing him. Finding him would just be an annoying task at this point. I calmed myself and decided to quit the game. 
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The next day I got onto the world and things were okay so far. I went to the roofed forest and saw that the fire was gone. It just stopped. I didn't even see it happen. It is just not there anymore. Most of the village that Rip Hollow built was highly degraded. But strangely, almost the whole place seemed to be littered with leaves, they were spruce leaves. I didn't know what this meant, but I decided to leave it alone. I never seen the player: 'Rip Hollow' ever since. I just played the game normally from now on. I was done. Everything seemed to calm down. I have came across some more trenches or tears in the ground, and some patches of mycelium or course dirt, but not as often as before. I just continued to play the game regularly, everything seemed to be normal again. However, at rare occasions, I could swear I saw a small glimpse of Rip Hollow moving, moving or just standing, in the corner of my eye. I don't know if I'll ever have another abnormal interaction ever again. Time will tell. After all, I still didn't explore that underground forest yet...
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=== Author Notes- ===
I was into Minecraft creepypasta and myths for some time. I was inspired to make this surprisingly long story by the original Herobrine story and community interpretations of the other Minecraft characters like Entity 303 or Null. I am open to criticism, I think. I do not mean to copy anybody. If you think I copied off of someone, please tell me and I'll try to make a compromise. Anyways, thanks for reading.
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