The Unending Minecraft World

At 2:17 AM I created a new single-player Minecraft world, but the name auto-filled as **WORLD_███.DAT**,

and no matter how many times I erased it, it came back. The world loaded

silent—no wind, no footsteps—and although sheep stood in front of me, the debug screen

said **Entities: 0**. When night fell, the game told me *“You are not alone

enough to sleep,”* even though nothing was there, and I began hearing footsteps perfectly

matching mine. By morning my base had changed, my items rearranged, and signs read *“I

fixed it”* and *“You forgot again.”* I entered a Nether portal and emerged into a burned version

of my own world filled with broken Steve models named **Player**, all staring at me,