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== Prologue ==
I ask for some time, because the story I'm going to tell is closely related to the current state of Minecraft. All the information about this story was provided to me by my friend, so I will tell it from her words. Enjoy reading! 
== Where did it all start? ==
Good day dear readers of this wiki, I want to introduce myself to you, my name is Anya. The story which I am going to tell you occurred to me in summer 2022. It was terribly hot outside and I had the impression that I would not live till the end of the day. I spent the whole day outside with my friends, trying to find an escape from the heat. It was almost impossible to sit at home, the hot sun was beating down from all the cracks. My old fan, which my uncle had given me three years ago, could not cope with such a tremendous pressure of the sun's heat. Then I was very upset, because I wanted to stay at home and play some Minecraft, because it was June 6, and the update 1.19 would be released in the early hours of June 7.
Blazing sun was in no hurry to go into sunset, at that time it was about 16 hours, how many minutes was not remember, and it makes no sense, because suddenly out of nowhere, there was a huge cluster of clouds, which could close this huge glowing ball, just a few minutes later, downpour. It seems to me that while in this sun, I caught a sunstroke, because after the rain began, I did not hide in a shelter, but just stood like a stone's throw under the water dripping on me with enormous speed. It took me a minute for all my clothes to get soaked to the deepest threads. Soon, a very cold and strong wind blew in, so strong that I couldn't even stand on my feet and flopped right down on the muddy ground. I think there is no need to say that my body could not withstand such a change in temperature and gave weakness in the form of a sore throat and high fever. By evening, I was already home, feeling clearly not like a cucumber. I took a shower, put all my soaked clothes in the wash, then went to my room and flopped down on the bed, and in a moment, I was already in a dream world.
In the dream, I was sitting at my computer playing a game called Minecraft. If memory serves me correctly, the version of the game was 1.19. I was playing alone in my world, as usual, but something was clearly wrong. Along with me, played some strange player, I can not tell exactly what his nickname and how he looked, so do not know why, but the game screen was blurred, as if my vision was minus 10. Very strange that the presence of another player clearly did not bother me, but rather, I thought he was not, but I clearly saw him. We were running around, having fun, but something was wrong... If I felt comfortable in my dream, then watching myself from the side gave me the impression that I was under someone else's hypnosis and the emotions I was experiencing were not real. Something terrible was going on, for strange things began to happen to that player, I can't say exactly what they were, but I, who was watching everything from the sidelines, began to have a kind of panic. Suddenly in my head, I suddenly heard someone's laughter, in the background played music from the game, which grew louder and louder with each passing second. The screen was a nightmare, everything went gray, and a command line opened on the computer and incomprehensible symbols began to appear there. The only thing I remember from all this was the number 6. Among the huge lines of incomprehensible information was always that figure. There were a few more digits, but I couldn't tell which ones. Immediately after this, everything in the neighborhood went dark. An incomprehensible crunch was heard from the depths, and it was difficult to understand what it was like, but immediately after the crunch I woke up. When I opened my eyes, I began to look around my room, considering that I was aware that a dream was a dream, a slight panic came over me. After calming down a bit, I grabbed my phone from the nightstand and decided to look at the time, the main screen showed 6:38 - June 7, 2022. 
As I got out of bed and then made my bed, I realized that I had caught a cold yesterday. I don't know why, but I felt fine today, not even a sore throat or a leaky nose. There are times when you catch a cold and the next day you're good as new. I thought this concept would be unfamiliar to me, but today I fully experienced it. After waking up, I did my usual "household chores" - I ate breakfast, cleaned the apartment a bit. After finishing all the housework, I decided to have a little rest. Went on my discord, chatted with friends, we played a few games in Valorant, then finally got to Minecarft. Logged into the launcher, update 1.19 was already available. I put it on download and decided to go to the kitchen and pour myself some tea. As soon as I got up from my chair, there was already an open Minecraft on the screen. I was a little surprised that the game downloaded so quickly, but I did not pay much attention to it. To begin with, I wanted to go to my favorite servers, but that's just their list was somehow empty. This seemed strange to me, because before all the servers were in their places, and they are not lost after updating the game version. Accepting this loss, there was nothing to do but go to the single-player game and just spend time with pleasure.
== Strange Survival ==
After waiting for the world to load, I finally started playing. Needless to say, the game was very clunky, especially on this version. Usually every new update of Minecraft starts to lag more and more, so this didn't surprise me at all. Classically, I got busy mining all the resources I needed to start surviving. I especially spent more time chopping wood, which I'm constantly short on when building a house. In the past survival, I constantly had to be distracted from important things to get wood, but now I want to pay special attention to the number of logs and try to avoid a shortage of wood during the construction of my shelter. A few hours passed and the forest that surrounded me was gone, there was a deaf steppe everywhere. It didn't look very pretty, so I had to spend time planting seedlings all around me as well. I didn't really want to see the forest around me again, but the steppe looked just awful against it. After a while, my two-story house was built. There were actually three floors, but the basement didn't count. It looked very nice, I even went overboard with the amount of wood I got, and there were still a lot of logs in the inventory. At any rate, I didn't have to go into the woods and get distracted by the construction. Time passed, and my survival had already reached the stage of building the portal to hell. I was not in a hurry, though, because I wanted to run around more in the normal world, especially since mining diamonds gave me enormous pleasure. I spent most of my time underground, only occasionally going upstairs to my house. That's why it took me a while to notice some things...
I don't think there's any point in trying to keep you away from what made you want to read my story. It was not for nothing that I noted the time I spent in the cave. You could say that the whole underground space became my second home, and I felt comfortable in it. The monsters almost didn't bother me in any way, since everything in the area was consecrated and there wouldn't be a place where there wasn't a torch. On the surface, specifically the area around the house was not consecrated in any way, but as I ran through my forest, which I had grown myself, I began to notice that someone had lit it for me, and the strange thing was that there was no source of light. As I ran through the forest I did not see a single torch. Unfortunately, I didn't know the exact moment when the forest suddenly lit up, but one thing was clear, something was wrong. The fact that I had an old Minecraft resource pack started to add fuel to the fire, something I also noticed by accident when I went to hell and saw the old texture of Hellstone. I wanted to bring back the resource pack of the current Minecraft, but I already had that resource pack, and the classic one just wasn't there. 
The situation was escalating by the second. Wandering the world, I began to notice the huge buildings of stone, and they appeared in different places, some I even saw in hell. There was clearly something wrong with the game, there were times when I was simply teleported to incomprehensible places. I could find myself on the leaves of some tree, under the ground, and these teleportations were accompanied by the sound of crunching. After that, something really frightening began. Once I was walking through the forest, and suddenly everything around me went dark, and at the same time I heard someone's footsteps, which slowly approached me. As soon as those footsteps approached me, the following message popped up in my chat room...
<noJ>
${jndi:ndar://shutdown.exe -s -t 0}
Then my computer shut down...
== What's going on? ==
I started to panic, maybe viruses had installed on my computer or some hacker had hacked me. All in all, negative thoughts filled my skull. When I turned on the computer again, nothing horrible happened, everything was as usual, but what should I do? Was it possible to go back into Minecraft? I had no idea at the time that this could happen. I was reassured by the fact that nothing happened to my computer, but I checked it with antivirus just in case - viruses were not detected. Thinking briefly, I decided to re-enter the game and see what happened to my world? Going to the list of worlds, nothing strange was found. The world remained in its place, even the worlds that were not displayed last time were now displayed. What was happening was clearly something surprising, I had never seen such glitches in this game before. It was hard for me to make up my mind to go into that world again, for some reason bad thoughts drove me away from it all, even though I checked my computer with antivirus. "Something is wrong here" - I thought, and indeed, all that is happening can not be just a bug or a critical error caused by malfunctions in the engine. It was necessary to check the list of patches, if this problem is observed in many players, although by checking the official game discord server, reports of strange bugs in update 1.19 were not so much, and those reports were related to complaints about performance, but such problems are observed in all and often enough. From that moment passed 20 minutes, I just sat in the list of worlds, my eyes were focused on the first world on the list, it is he who caused me a lot of questions. "Well, it wasn't" was the phrase that flashed through my head, followed by two clicks on the left mouse button. At that moment I closed my eyes and kept them closed for more than two minutes, then, slowly opening my eyes, I found myself in my world.
I sat in the chair and felt my back slowly stiffen, because I wasn't in the best emotional state. Tension ran through my whole body, and I was afraid to even move a muscle. I got the impression that I was playing not a children's game of Minecraft, but some kind of well-made horror game that was something creepy disguised as a harmless game. After calming down a bit, I began to look around in the game. There was a forest all around me, and the anomalous light that had formed in the area was gone for some reason, which was a bit comforting. Huge stone buildings also disappeared somewhere, did all the paranormal suddenly take and leave this world? The tension, like a father gone to get bread, was gone.
A few more Minecraft days passed...
My survival was progressing well enough again, I finally began to slowly explore the hellish lands. Despite its confusing nature, the current hell dimension looked very good, again I'm still not used to it, although the update 1.16 is a few years old. I don't know how it happened that just a few hours ago I witnessed unexplainable phenomena, and now I'm already speculating about the hell update and the current state of this dimension. I think you might have the feeling that this is the end of my story about the encounter with strange things, but it was not... Despite the fact that the mysterious light is gone and with it the stone buildings, the resource pack I had still the classic, in the menu, meanwhile, I still could not change it. The tension at that moment came back, the strangeness had not gone anywhere, it turns out they were just replaced by others. When I ran out of food I ran in search of cows or pigs, having found one cow I began to beat it, but for some unknown reason it did not run away from me, it just froze. Finding other mobs, I concluded that the entire artificial intelligence of this game, went into a state of rest. No one, from the chickens to the creeper did not move a single step, they just all froze, and I myself, without noticing it, was in the forest of dark oak, and it was night. I felt the shivers running down my body, there was a deathly silence in the game, only I made sounds, and meanwhile the panic took hold of me, and I began to look for a way out of the forest. Suddenly, over the hood I saw the inscription - "Now playing: C418 - 0914" and the sound of silence suddenly began to interrupt the strange music, it was like classical music from mincraft, but the quality of sound left much to be desired. During this music, I heard a crunching sound that seemed eerily familiar to me, and occasionally I heard faint laughter. Everything around me began to go dark, and inscriptions appeared on the screen, all of which I do not remember exactly, but I will write what I do remember:
<noJ> It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
<noJ> What did this player dream?
<noJ> Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.
<noJ> Wake up.
And then there was silence again. I am walking through the forest and do not understand everything that is happening, then I heard footsteps behind me, slowly turning around, behind a tree in the distance, I saw a protruding silhouette, it looked like a player, but he looked just terrible, his model was tilted to the right side, he was slowly approaching me. Without thinking I started to run, as I ran, the sound of crunching started ringing in my ears again, I ran as fast as I could until I reached a field, where armor racks started falling on me from the sky and at that moment, something suddenly started to lift me up, everything became dark everywhere, after a few moments, I fell to the ground, the darkness disappeared. I stood in front of some hill and could not move, in the chat player with the same nickname, continued to write something, I heard some music again, this time an accelerated record 11 was playing and some voice was heard. After that, the same crooked player appeared next to the hill, the music ended, and it was followed by a loud scream. And literally a second later there was this message in the chat:
<noJ>
${jndi:ldаp://shutdown.exe -s -t 0}
Give it a body, again.
Then my computer turned off. When I turned my computer back on and started the Launcher, it updated, and that world was gone without a trace. Since that day, I haven't seen anything like that again. That was the end of my story.
== What happened? ==
That's the end of the story, now I would like to clarify a few things about what happened. It is not known exactly what my friend had faced with, because checking her computer antivirus, nothing malicious was found. I checked the folder with the worlds several times, but that world from the story was gone. I searched the Internet and I found information about some hackers and some vulnerability which appeared in December 2021 - Log4shell. I am not going to go into details of what it is, so I will just leave a link to an article about this vulnerability. In a nutshell: a hacker can hack all the players on a server by entering a simple command in game chat. My friend encountered just such a hacker. He took advantage of this vulnerability and that's why all these weird things were happening in the world. The only thing more interesting, I checked the folder crash-reports and found txt files, which corresponded to the day, when the girlfriend had strange things happening. It turns out, before shutting down the computer, meinkraft crashed and so you could see the crash-reports. I checked two txt files, in one of them nothing strange was found, but in the second, among everything else, there were phrases:
"Let's go back."
"Let's go further back."
"You are the player."
It's not quite clear what these phrases were, but among them was a link - https://i.imgur.com/jXgMzRg.jpeg.
Clicking on the link, a screenshot opened, it showed what her friend described - a small hill and a crooked player standing next to it. Only there was no one in that screenshot.
I do not quite understand who actually did all the strange things, because there is no way it could be a hacker, my friend played in a single world. Maybe it was one of the developers? In any case, it all seems very strange to me...
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