Many years into the journey, another strange event came to pass. Herobrine was busy, and no longer spent all of his time focused on this strange human who seemed determined to use only his Notch-given legs in an attempt to reach the Far Lands, Herobrine's home, and who would sacrifice weeks of progress to preserve his one native ally - he only returned to check on the impossible human whenever he felt sad and in despair of humanity in general. However, for this, Herobrine was present, and very intrigued.

The human walked up to the side of a cliff, and, instead of attempting to scale it, began digging a tunnel straight through it. His beloved wolf, Wolfie, began to suffocate in the tight space, as the world was already growing unstable and navigating a safe path of the narrowest sort was no longer an easy task. When this happened, the man brought Wolfie back outside, sat him down, and resumed his tunnel. For a minute, Herobrine was concerned; however, this human had so impressed him that he decided to wait and see the conclusion of this event before passing judgement. After all, with the sacrifice he'd made to bring Wolfie back from strange state of nonbeing, surely he wouldn't leave the wolf behind now.

The tunnel went through a cave, which the man did not fill with light, as most humans were so prone to doing; throughout the entire tunnel, he only left enough light to see by (Herobrine had to remind himself that human eyesight was limited to where light shone). When at last the tunnel came out on the other side of the hill, the man turned back to look at what he'd done, and by chance happened to see a birthing area for zombies, where a sheep had decided to visit. Of course, he filled the birthing area with light and took from the stash left around the Cage of Life, but he did not break the cage, and Herobrine accepted the gesture. The man did also kill several newborn zombies, as humans were so wont to do, but it was self-defense, if nothing else - Herobrine had more or less given up on convincing the night-walkers to accept this human as a friend. The sheep made the battle difficult for both sides, however, as the man did appear to care about whether or not the sheep got caught in the crossfire - again, more than Herobrine would expect from a human, but no longer truly surprising for this particular one.

Once the birthing area was thoroughly raided, the man went back to his tunnel, and to Herobrine's surprise, crafted a sign and placed it over the exit. It read:

This is why
we don't tunnel

July 2, 2014

The man sheared a sheep out of habit, then went back, retrieved Wolfie, gave the dear wolf several pork chops to heal him, and then retraced the distance he'd tunneled, this time by walking over the hill. Then, he continued on his way.

Herobrine had to think hard to come up with an explanation for this; it was only after a minute that he remembered this human's apparent appreciation for the wondrous sights of Minecraftia (it had been a long time, but not that long). Perhaps he doesn't tunnel because doing so leaves nothing to see, Herobrine concluded. Impressive, and most noble…as always.

Carry on, my friend; you are a true brother if I ever had one.