The Outsider

== The initial encounter is as follows: ==
A couple weeks back, something very odd happened to me. I had gotten up early at around 6:00 to play some good ol' Minecraft for a while. I started up a survival Minecraft world that I had been working on for a while. My base contained some tall towers and wonky houses, as I usually make.
I headed down into my strip mine system to gather gold for a nether reactor recreation, to honor the old MCPE versions. My world had some recreations of old MC features in it, and the one I was working on at the time was the nether reactor.
Just as I was mining the last piece of ore I'd need, I saw a bright magenta glint out of the corner of my eye. In an instant, I jerked my player's head over to look at it. Nothing was there.
Unlike what most would do, I did not simply disregard it. After finishing mining the last block of gold ore, I deposited it all in the furnace and headed over in the general direction of the flash to inspect.
The area that the flash had come from was a large open cavern with a small lava lake in the middle. There was cobblestone scaffolding above the lake from when I had last visited the area. The cavern was well lit, but still had a few bats.
I looked around the area, before heading up the scaffolding into the hole that led to a cave. After briefly looking around, I spotted the magenta flash again, this time from a branching cave. Without thinking, I chased after it.
The source of the flash was not very fast, as I caught up to it pretty quickly. Instinctively, I punched once I was near enough. It was a creature with the standard biped model used by the player.
It flashed red, as a mob normally would when hurt, but then it zoomed off through a wall like an enderman would when teleporting. This was odd, as the only mob that has that ability are the endermen themselves.
I pulled out my pickaxe and started mining through the wall I had seen it teleport through. On the other side was an empty 2-wide strip mine and a sign that simply read "java.lang.NullPointerException in MissingResourceException.class (105)." The length of the text caused it to go off the edge of the sign.
Right then and there, I knew I was dealing with an error. "That's good," I thought, as I had some experience as a programmer and might even be able to patch this bug.
I hesitantly exited the game, and turned on my hacked client. Rejoining the world, I turned on X-Ray to see if I could find where this creature had gone. I searched for roughly an hour with no luck. Eventually, I gave up and switched back to vanilla. Upon joining, a message appeared in the chat. "I don't show myself to hackers," it read, with no source. Whoever- or whatever- sent it was able to tell that I had tried to find it with X-Ray.
I began exploring in search of this creature, this time using the vanilla, un-modified game.
Occasionally I would send chat messages asking questions such as "Where are you?" and "Who are you?" but never got any response. I searched for quite a while, before deciding to give up. Just before I pressed "Esc" to return to the pause menu, I spotted the glint of purple out of the corner of my eye again. Instantly, I was back on pursuit of the creature again.
Being faster than them, I went around them to the front, and stopped. They halted, dead in their tracks. I stepped closer to the mysterious thing, and it backed away slightly. "Who are you?" I requested in the chat. No response.
I stepped forward a bit once again, and held out a diamond. I dropped it on the floor as an offering. They looked at it for a few seconds, before stepping towards it and picking it up.
"Who are you?" I asked once again. Finally, they answered. "I don't belong here," they replied. "Why is that?" I was about to type, before coming to a realization. Perhaps this creature was a manifestation of some copy-pasted code within the game? I doubt the devs would leave an error as lethal as a NullPointerException in the code. Unless they simply copy-pasted a class from another project.
As a Java programmer myself, I do find it handy to occasionally copy-paste entire classes between projects. Especially things like GUI elements, and even exceptions. What if this creature was a manifestation of that broken MissingResourceException?
The creature sprinted away, breaking my concentration. I ran after it, but after turning a corner, it was gone.
I searched for a few more minutes, before getting bored and logging off for the day.
== The second encounter happened a few days later: ==
I hadn't played on that specific world for a while, though I did play Minecraft. I had played mostly on servers with friends and was beginning to forget about what had happened just a few days before.
Eventually, I logged off of my friends' SMP and started browsing through my single-player worlds. I had many worlds on there, the majority of them in survival. One of the worlds in particular caught my eye. The world was titled "HDMI 6 and a half" (Don't ask why.) This was the world I played on when I met the error creature originally.
I thought about it for a bit, then reluctantly opened it up.
The world was just as I left it. I was still in the mines where I left off. I remembered that when I logged off before, I was chasing after the entity. This time however, I simply grabbed my gold from the furnace, and headed up to the surface to finish my nether reactor.
I crafted the 4 blocks of gold I'd need, and one diamond block to substitute for the nether reactor core. I started with the plus-shaped base of cobblestone with the gold block corners, and put a block of cobblestone on each of the gold blocks. I put the diamond block in the middle, and built a plus shape of cobblestone on top of that.
After completing the structure, I pulled out my sword and jokingly clicked the core. Nothing happened, as expected, but when I turned around I was met with the purple and black entity, looking particularly curious.
I quickly turned back toward the reactor but when I turned back toward where the entity was, he had sprinted off toward my mine. I decided I'd run after him again. Stepping away from the reactor, I was surprised to see a tall cobblestone structure beside my weird giant house.
Putting aside following the entity for now, I walked towards the structure to inspect it. After breaking a hole in the wall of it, I peered inside to see a spiral staircase. I climbed it to the top and was surprised when it opened up into a cave system, despite going up. This was very odd.
I began searching the cave system for anything weird. After entering what looked like one of my strip mines, I found a sign that oddly read "Mine Here." I broke the wall next to it and found a room with a crafting table, a furnace, and a chest. There was also a bed, and currently occupying the bed was the same entity. I cautiously approached the entity.
When I was within a block of it, I was suddenly teleported to the top of the cobblestone spire. I was shocked for a second and accidentally walked off the tower, and fell to my death. Oops.
I respawned to find the tower and my stuff completely missing.
After entering my storage room to restock on items, I found that one of my double-chests (that was previously filled to the brim with cobblestone) was now nearly empty, containing only 3 stacks of cobblestone. I collected some gear and stone, and then ventured back into my mine again.
Upon entering, I was shocked to see that many of my strips (mainly the ones that I found lots of ore in) were now fully blocked up with dirt. One of the strips that was filled in looked just like the one where I had previously seen the entity's bunker-like room. I cleared it out up until the wall where the sign was.
Of course, the sign was gone, but I dug through the wall anyways. It opened into a dirt pocket, which, when I excavated it, was shaped just like the room I had seen before.
I exited my mine to grab a bed, a crafting table, a chest, and a furnace. I came back to the room and put them in their original spots to see if anything would happen.
Nothing happened at first, but then I turned around to see a sign that read "Observant one, are you?" Shortly afterward, my game crashed, and I decided to play something else and forget about this for a while.
=== This pasta was loosely based on an old pasta I made 5 years ago called "CorruptedFile." Even I think that one was garbage. This one is at least decent. ===
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