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Special Containment Procedures: All 18 currently contained mobile devices on which SCP-CN-2740 is present are stored in Unit-89 of Underground Low-Threat Anomaly Containment Area B-2 at Site-CN-11-β, stored in cast resin with batteries removed. SCP-CN-2740 has been removed from the app store. Monitoring for further uploads of SCP-CN-2740 by malicious actors is underway. Personnel not involved in experiments with SCP-CN-2740 may not access it. MTF-丙寅-12 is currently placing all individuals affected by SCP-CN-2740 in isolation pending release after amnesticization. Members of the public in the location where SCP-CN-2740 was discovered are being administered amnestics with the goal of removing all relevant memories of SCP-CN-2740.
Description: SCP-CN-2740 is an anomalous version of the PC video game Minecraft. A large proportion of the content of SCP-CN-2740 is identical to the standard version of the game. Copies of SCP-CN-2740 maintain their anomalous properties. The anomaly is capable of perceiving the real world, presenting different effects when being played by different people:
- If the user has not previously played any standard version of Minecraft, the resulting anomalous effect is referred to as CN-2740-A.
- If the user has recently played a standard version of Minecraft, no anomalous effects will occur.
- If the user has previously, but not recently, played a standard version of Minecraft, the resulting anomalous effect is referred to as CN-2740-B.
For further information, refer to the following:
- CN-2740-A: When a subject runs SCP-CN-2740, they will immediately undergo anomalous changes in their mental state, gaining a mild dependence on SCP-CN-2740. When not prevented from doing so, subjects will spend 2-5 hours a day using SCP-CN-2740. Following investigation, when the subject is requested to stop using SCP-CN-2740, their psychological state will undergo significant changes, often displaying signs of antisocial behavior, irritability, and moodiness. Conversely, when the subject is not prevented from using SCP-CN-2740, they do not undergo the same effects. During experiments, subjects have expressed a desire for companionship, loneliness, a desire to be with family, etc. These anomalies naturally abate when the subject defeats the Ender Dragon and reads the End Poem. Of note is that the psychological effects of the anomaly will immediately cease at this point, regardless of severity.
- CN-2740-B: When a subject runs SCP-CN-2740, the contents of the anomaly will differ significantly from any standard version of Minecraft. Differences include passive villager entities possessing a certain intelligence and capability to interact with the player, and a significant reduction in difficulty:
- The player will not drop their items upon death, even without using commands.
- Some hostile entities will not attack the player while within player-constructed buildings.
- Tameable entities are easier to tame than in any standard version of Minecraft.
- Crops planted by the player will grow faster than in any standard version of Minecraft.
- It is currently unknown whether this has any anomalous effect on the user.
Addendum CN-2740:
Interviewee: Li ███████
Interviewer: Dr. Chen
Note: This interview was conducted on 11/07/2021 between Dr. Chen and the first discovered individual affected by SCP-CN-2740, who was subsequently released following amnesticization.
<Begin Recording, [03.05.90]>
Li ███████: Sir, I didn't do anything wrong! Why are you locking me up?
Dr. Chen: Calm down, sir, you're not being detained. If you answer our questions, we'll let you go.
Li ███████: Questions? What questions?
Dr. Chen: We found this in your house. [Dr. Chen picks up a photo on the table, showing Li ███████ searching for SCP-CN-2740.] When did you first start playing this game?
Li ███████: It was… it was… three or four years ago, I can't remember. If this photo is from when you brought me here last week, that was a new version of the game.
Dr. Chen: Good. And where did you get this game?
Li ███████: It was from the ████████ app store. It said this was a new version of the game. I thought it was interesting, and I hadn't played it for a while, so I downloaded it.
Dr. Chen: And how did your family react?
Li ███████: My family? Sir, they…
Dr. Chen: [interrupting] They are fine, all you have to do here is answer my questions. Understand?
Li ███████: Yes, yes sir. They saw me playing the game, so they downloaded it too. As for reactions… there wasn't much, I felt the two of them really liked the game, since they played it for three or four hours a day. It's just that…
Dr. Chen: Hm?
Li ███████: It's just… sir, the point of this game for me was to build houses. A few days before you took me in, I'd just finished building a house, and then my wife asked me to help wash the dishes. I didn't turn off the game. When I came back, I saw mobs had spawned in my house, but the weird part is they didn't attack me. I checked and I wasn't in creative or spectator mode. It wasn't just that, I realized, the new version was… easier. But my wife, she played just fine. I asked the developers and they didn't say anything.
Dr. Chen: Your family, that is, your wife and your daughter… when did you last talk to them? Did you feel they had changed in some way?
Li ███████: Oh, the last time we talked was last Wednesday. They were overseas on vacation. I called and asked them how they were, what they ate, and in the end my wife started shouting at me for some reason, saying I was too nosy… and then, after that I hung up, had a shower and went to bed.
Dr. Chen: You didn't feel they'd changed?
Li ███████: No, no, me and my wife were always like this. Nothing's changed.
Dr. Chen: Alright, that's all the questions I have. Thanks for your cooperation, sir.
<End Recording, 08.76.12>
Postscript: Li ███████ was administered Class-B amnestics and released. All devices containing SCP-CN-2740 in his home were replaced with identical devices. Li ███████'s family was released on 18/07/2021.
Note: The following text was discovered in the game. The current hypothesis is that this is a conversation between two SCP-CN-2740 entities. An extract follows:
I see the player you mean.
████?
Yes. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game.
It viewed this world as reality. In this world, it built countless kingdoms out of blocks, caring for this world, deeply lost in a dream.
It's a shame this is a world made of zeroes and ones, a long, long dream. It created a world without summer, shivering under the black sun, believing its sorrowful creations to be the real world.
But it would often leave for long periods of time.
I don't understand. This place is so beautiful, and unlike the world behind it, there is nothing to fear here.
The player had gotten bored of this place. It has started to examine this world like it would a world made of atoms.
If you were to use §f§k§a§b and §f§k§a§b, to use a certain kind of distortion to create the love the player had for this world.
But we shouldn't.
So much so that to §f§k§a§b in those dimensions, you tried to use these to make the player fall in love with their worlds.
Our power is minuscule.
But at least we still have ████, the player beyond the screen. It played well. It never gave up, it worked hard, and with its millions of friends, out of those folded atoms, it carved a real world. And to live in that world, it created civilization out of the wilderness, and used zeroes and ones to open the door between our worlds.
But it, too, has not returned.
So when it came back once more, you spread your consciousness wide, and you tried to control the world: you erased the unnecessary troubles. You entrusted the world with consciousness and soul, and you made everything easy, and simple. You… you wanted to keep it.
I felt lonely… It was like a dream, like I'd lost control.
Whether or not it loved this world, and whether or not it loved the world behind itself, it's a shame. Our power is minuscule.
But sometimes it believes in this world made of zeroes and ones. Sometimes, when they are deep in their dreams, I want to tell them that they are really creating a real world. Sometimes I want to tell them how important they are to the universe. Sometimes, when they cannot tell between a dream and reality, I want to help them let out their fears.
Dear player, I want you to know, if you are watching, even if we exist in different worlds
regardless of whether you are still here, whether you still devote your time and love to this world
or you still devote your time and love to the world behind you
You. You. You are alive.
I love you
and the universe said you have played the game well
and the universe said everything you need is within you
and the universe said you are stronger than you know
and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you
and the universe said the light you seek is within you
and the universe said I love you because you are love
and even though you may be in tough times
the universe said you are fighting back
and even if life is a dream, dreams are the essence of this world, and we, too, are dreams, and we do not exist, and yet we do exist.
You must stay on this path.
I love you, because you are love.
Just as it is here, even if you never come back,
even if I'm still waiting,
everything abnormal will stop,
with you still in your universe,
I shall return…
It's time to wake up.
Experiment Notice: According to investigation and experimentation on the text, the Foundation suspects that the SCP-CN-2740 anomaly resulted from the effects of the anomaly in Addendum 2740.2. Research into this anomaly has been unsuccessful; however, it is believed that it exists within SCP-CN-2740 and possesses sentience and the ability to control SCP-CN-2740. Due to the contents of the dialogue, this type of software should be monitored to ensure that anomalies can be detected quickly.
— Dr. Xinfei
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