Zero.Zero

Zero.Zero remains with me, as my first exposure to Minecraft. Back then I couldn't afford the game at it's high price of $20. So I went looking for free copies or pirated versions of the game. I didn't know pirating was illegal, I just wanted to play a game with my friends. That's when I found it. The old 2010 google page showed me a website with the title "Free Minecraft Download." with the URL being "ZerodotZero.com," I weighed my options and decided to take the risk and downloaded the files. My memory of the old game was foggy since I was only 7 at the time of downloading it. The only notable thing I can remember was the title screen. It was similar to an old Minecraft texture pack, a black and white gradient design background, with the title Minecraft in bold font. Apart from that the game was your average Minecraft Beta 1.2 build with very few settings. Fog was always on high and brightness was always on medium. I rarely played the game within weeks and ended up having the file stored on my computer. That's when this part comes into place.
Around January of 2020, I started gaining interested in Minecraft again. I had seen many Youtubers including CallMeCarson start playing the game and decided to give it a shot. That's when I remembered I still had the Zero.Zero version on my computer and it seemed to have an update. Excited, I updated the game and booted it up. I was perplexed when loading it up, it looked nothing like the game all the youtubers were playing. The corner text said Beta 1.5.2 and fog was still very high. Brightness was at a medium range and no matter what I could not find the setting to change either of them. There was no music ambience either, the game felt entirely empty. Another thing to note, was that there were no mobs anywhere. Over my school years about every kid was talking about something called the creeper. Apparently it was a large bipedal creature with four legs and would blown up on contact with the player. Yet, despite searching for around 20 minutes, nothing matched the description of the entity I knew of.
That's when my friend Jonathan messaged me on Discord, he asked if I had ever heard of a game called Zero.Zero. I told him that I was playing the game and he told me about the strange things he could remember. It all matched my account of details, high fog, medium lighting, no mobs. He then mentioned something I had never heard of. Then he mentioned something I had no memory of nor had seen. The Zero block generation. When I asked he responded that Zero block generation is when a random gap would occur in the world, with zero blocks forming inside of the hole usually 2x2 holes in a circular pattern. Jonathan then asked if we could play since the files of the game were still on his computer. I said sure and looked up how to make a multiplayer world on Beta 1.5. The description on the tutorial was a bit scattered, but I was able to set up a small server for 2 people.
When loading up the world, something was off about it. Nothing was strange when I was playing Singleplayer but launching up the server it felt like I was being watched from somewhere in the fog. Whenever I would look in the direction, the feeling would move to a different location. It got so bad, I turned in my chair to make sure no one was behind me. In that moment the feeling completely vanished as Jonathan joined the multiplayer world. I brushed it off as just the ambience of the game freaking me out and decided to ignore it. If it were to happen again I would tell Jonathan and hop off the game.
Then, Jonathan mentioned it to, a strange feeling like someone was looking at him in the game, I told him I had felt that exact same thing. Jonathan said not to bug with it so I didn't. I trusted Jonathan, he was always very smart and never had a reason to lie to anyone. So we both ignored the feeling, chopped some wood and built a house in a flat region with very few notable things around us. When the sun went down me and Jonathan ran into our house and that's when we heard it, footsteps walking around the grass outside and occasional sound of blocks being mined. Jonathan and I began to freak out, nothing like this occurred in the videos I had watched of Minecraft and Jonathan said this wasn't a feature of the main game at all. When I finally braved some confidence after several minutes of this, I went outside the house, to confront the entity and saw... nothing. Absolutely nothing was there except a 2x2 hole directly to the end of block generation.
I hopped off the game at that very moment. I didn't want to deal with that server another second or whatever was in that game. I did a virus scan in case my computer had been hacked, but no. Nothing was detected, so I went into the files of the game and looked everywhere and found NOTHING. So Jonathan started sharing his screen on Discord. The remainder will be paraphrasing the conversation we had on Discord.
Me: "John, you need to get off that game."
Johnathan: "It's fine dude, you need to chill out, maybe it's just a feature of the game or something."
Me: "John, think why would someone code that into the game man?!"
Johnathan: "Dude, calm down!"
Me: "..."
Johnathan: "Someone could be on our server trolling us or somethin."
Johnathan: "Think, that's reasonable."
Me: "..."
Johnathan: "Do you hear that man?"
Me: "Hear what?"
Johnathan: "OH SHI-"
After that, Johnathan was immediately disconnected from the Discord call. I was entirely confused and in shock until I looked back at his screenshare. Every block underneath him had seemingly vanished and at the bottom of the hole was a large black fog containing numerous figures. I tried to call John back every few seconds, but he didn't respond. All he did was immediately deny the call. After several hours of suspense, John sent me a message. After falling into the void fog, his computer had overheated and crashed, it was a strong enough jolt to completely knock out his breaker.
During the remainder of the day, we both thought we were being watched from corners or in plain sight. We were in such terror, we turned on our cameras to see what they saw. Sometimes shadows would randomly shift or even move. We were forced to sleep at around 10 PM when Johnathan fell asleep at his desk and did the same a short time later. I have a distinct memory of the dream though. It was a black foggy void, with faint sounds of breathing all around. Suddenly the sky opens up and you see John's Minecraft skin fall down into the hole, when he reaches the bottom, he doesn't die rather the breathing gets louder as John's skin rapidly transforms into a pitch black skin and falls into the fog joining the characters. I woke up with a jolt in the dream and looked at our Discord call. Johnathan was still asleep and the sun was just beginning to come up.
I decided we were both safe and the event would pass over, though I deleted the files off my computer just in case. The weird thing is, sometimes I will still feel watched from the corners in my room. I don't know why and probably never will.
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