And most importantly, DO NOT NOTATE when you add him. Don’t make him hostile, he never was to start.

At the very edge of the render distance, set a minuscule chance for his player model to spawn, before vanishing. Have a chance for a non-legible name tag to momentarily spawn in an open space at least 20 blocks away from the player, and only momentarily. Add extremely rare small structures that can generate (Random 1x2 mines with torches, connected to nothing, small sand towers nearish to the coasts, etc.) Something that can spawn, but not so often that you maybe even see one every game. Instead of something as tacky and obvious as a boss battle, instead go back to the legend’s roots. I have an alternative pitch on how to implement.

So many people have heard of herobrine, I know the creators don’t like the idea of adding in herobrine but I might have a solution to this, make something that can repel herobrine, and it will be extremely cheap to make so you can get it off start, herobrine will be exactly how it has been depicted but you can repel him with a glass eye, all you need is to smelt a piece of sand and put it in a crafting table and get 9 glass eyes, you can place the glass eyes down or you can keep them in your inventory with a special slot that puts it on your eye, placing them down will protect your base but keeping them in your inventory will keep him away from you, this should work with a 32 block radius, and there should also be an option to turn of herobrine, only 1 herobrine and it spawns in no less then 800 blocks and no more then 1500 blocks, 1000 will be the average spawn point from the player, he takes an hour to get to you so you have enough time to build up a strong defense to stay away from him, and don’t worry about not spawning next to sand because with a bonus chest you get 1 glass eye from the bonus chest, I just had the idea going back into old times and please take this into consideration

Herobrine cool minecraft