The Thing

In the early days of Minecraft Alpha, a developer added a secret entity into the game.The entity's code was obfuscated, password protected, and, well, very fortified. If you were to try and edit the code, a message would pop up and say that you needed permossion from the developer.

Not much is known about the developer. His birth date, name, and age is completely unknown. All that is known is that he was male, used to work for the CIA and that the had supernatural abilities.

A year later, he died in a plane crash.

Dinnerbone was the first to find the secret entity. While working on Beta 1.7, he stumbled across an entiy that resembled a creeper. But the creeper was purple, and the original creeper was green. He used a special developer command line to spawn a real creeper(spawn eggs and Creative mode didn't exist at the time). The real creeper worked like normal. Get close, ignites, blows you up to pieces. The purple creeper didnt do anything. After respawning from the original creeper explosion, Dinnerbone died again. This time, the death message read, "Dinnerbone 776173206b696c6c6564206279205448455448494e472e6e616d65". Dinnerbone traced the error message back to a file called THETHING.class. After decompiling the code, Dinnerbone found the top line to be, "// 5570646174652041717561746963". The next line was a file path. Dinnerbone followed the path, and found a picture of a Minecraft ocean. Not the oceans we saw in Beta 1.7, but a very realistic ocean. It was still very blocky, but had fish and corals and, um,  zombies? It looked like modern-day Drowneds. In fact, they looked exactly like Drowneds.

Dinnerbone read the rest of the code, and found it to be very obfuscated. He used a superuser account to delete the file, and then, the pink creeper disappeared.