MineBot

The MineBot was a creature purported to exist in Minecraft Alpha Version 1.1.2, according to a Youtube video simply entitled "Minecraft new monster." The video was uploaded on Sep. 24th, 2010, by SSLithuania and has over 4.9 million views on Youtube as of 2020.
The video is so popular, in fact, that Googling "Minecraft new monster" brings it up as the second Google Images result, only after a clickbait video about Minecraft 1.16, though even that has only a fraction of the views on Youtube.
The video simply consists of a player walking up to a berm of cobblestone, which then reveals itself as a robotic monster that proceeds to fire a missile at the player, killing them instantly in an explosion.
While the mob, called the "MineBot" in the video description, looks very out of place for modern Minecraft, it's important to keep in mind that Minecraft was still in its very early stages at the time this video was released, and earlier that year mobs with a similarly alien artstyle (Steve, Black Steve, Beast Boy, and Rana) created by Dock, the then-artist for Minecraft, had still been in the game. As a result, many people believed the contents of this video to be genuine at the time, and thought such a monster really could exist in Minecraft.
The creator of this mob, SSLithuania, was also known for creating the first UFO sighting in the game.
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