Splash
Splash texts are the yellow lines of text on the title screen. They are randomly chosen from the list below and often feature references to popular culture (e.g. websites, quotes and video games). In the Java Edition, the splashes are defined in a plain-text file within minecraft.jar (.minecraft/versions/version/version.jar/assets/minecraft/texts/splashes.txt
). Template:IN, the splashes are defined in a .json
file. The splash pulsates on the title screen at a frequency of 2 Hz (120 Template:Tooltip).
Splash texts are not translated and appear the same regardless of the language setting chosen.
Splashes can be edited using a resource pack by editing the splashes.txt
file.
Complete list of splashes[edit | edit source]
#[N 1] | Splash text | Explanation |
---|---|---|
185 | ...! | |
304 | .party()! | A java method call to the "party" method. |
<PLAYERNAME> IS YOU! I HAVE MY FRIEND | A reference to indie puzzle game Baba Is You, which centers around forming <X> is <Y> sentences to manipulate the "rules". This splash is currently the only splash that does not exist in the splashes.txt file. The player's name is in all caps as well. | |
120 | 1% sugar! | "Sugar-free" is frequently used in food-related advertisements and packaging. Before Minecraft 1.9, this splash read "0% sugar!". |
3 | 100% pure! | A reference to some juices which use "100% pure" or a variant thereof as a selling point.[1] |
386 | 10 years of Mining and Crafting! It’s a Minecraft anniversary! | Added on Minecraft’s tenth anniversary. |
53 | 12 herbs and spices! It’s a parody of KFC?! | A parody of KFC's secret chicken flavoring recipe containing 11 herbs and spices. |
179 | 12345 is a bad password! What should you do? | 12345 is an easily guessable password. |
279 | 150 bpm for 400000 minutes! | This is a reference to pregnancy: 400,000 minutes is approximately 9 months and 150 BPM is the average fetal heart rate. |
121 | 150% hyperbole! | A hyperbole is an exaggeration used to generate emphasis or humor. 150% is, naturally, an exaggeration. |
128 | 20 GOTO 10! | Refers to BASIC. When executed, this line would create an infinite loop, continuously re-executing whatever instruction was on line 10 (usually a PRINT statement). |
133 | 4815162342 lines of code! | 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 are The Numbers that appear all over the television series Lost. |
51 | 90% bug free! | |
230 | 90210! | 90210 is famous for being the ZIP Code for Beverly Hills, California. |
134 | A skeleton popped out! | |
360 | Absolutely fixed relatively broken coordinates? | Changelog in blog post for snapshot 16w20a contains puns about fixing broken absolute and relative coordinates. |
55 | Absolutely no memes! | |
274 | Afraid of the big, black bat! You gonna run away | A quote from The Riddler in the film Batman Forever: "Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black bat?" Also, could be a reference to the ender dragon. |
77 | Age of Wonders is better! | Age of Wonders is a PC turn-based strategy game. It's often to be compared with "Civilization", which is also a turn-based strategy game. |
375 | Ahhhhhh! | |
95 | All inclusive! | |
103 | All is full of love! Even the Icelanders | "All Is Full of Love" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk. |
370 | All rumors are true! | Reference to a tweet by Michael Stoyke teasing the 18w20a snapshot. |
214 | "Almost never" is an interesting concept! | Possible reference to the inverse of the mathematical concept of "almost surely". |
241 | Also try Braid! | Braid is a 2D puzzle-platformer game based on time manipulation. |
239 | Also try Limbo! | Limbo is a 2D puzzle-platformer game based on avoiding ingenious traps. |
236 | Also try Mount And Blade! | Mount&Blade is a medieval-themed RPG for Microsoft Windows. |
240 | Also try Pixeljunk Shooter! | PixelJunk Shooter is a 2D shooter for only the PlayStation 3. |
237 | Also try Project Zomboid! | Project Zomboid is a zombie apocalypse-themed game. |
234 | Also try Super Meat Boy! | Super Meat Boy is a 2D platformer game based on very difficult levels. |
235 | Also try Terraria! | Terraria is a 2D platformer game with a similar premise to Minecraft. Terraria features title messages similar to splashes; one of the messages reads "Also try Minecraft!". |
233 | Also try VVVVVV! | VVVVVV is a 2D puzzle-platformer game based on gravity manipulation. Both it and Minecraft were included in the Humble Indie Bundle 3. |
238 | Also try World of Goo! | World of Goo is a 2D physics-based puzzle game. |
367 | An illusion! What are you hiding? | Reference to a World of Warcraft meme (goes together with splash 373). It is also a reference to the minecraft.net 17w16a blog post for the illusioner addition, saying "An Illusioner! What are you hiding?". |
349 | Any computer is a laptop if you're brave enough! | |
206 | A riddle, wrapped in a mystery! | From a quote by Winston Churchill; "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". |
1 | As seen on TV! “What the heck is this?!” | A common marketing claim that is often lampooned. |
57 | Ask your doctor! If you have a syndrome,severe,headache etc | Similar to "As seen on TV", said at some point in almost every pharmaceutical advertisement. |
212 | "Autological" is… | An autological word is a word which describes itself. Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this read '"Noun" is an autonym!'. |
161 | Autonomous! | |
45 | Awesome community! | |
384 | Awesome game design right there! | A reference to the video "Random Changes and Bad Game Design" by the youtuber _MethodZz_ , where he repeatedly uses this phrase while demonstrating several bugs in Java Edition 1.14. |
2 | Awesome! This is Cool | |
186 | Bees, bees, bees, bees! | A line from one of Weebl's works, "cup". Predates the addition of bees. |
299 | Bekarton guards the gate! | A reference to Bekarton the Gatekeeper, a character in Jeb's game Whispers in Akarra. |
10 | Best in class! | A frequently-used catchphrase in car commercials. |
298 | Big Pointy Teeth! | "Big Pointy Teeth" is the name of a rabbit in Jeb's game Whispers in Akarra – this is a reference to a quote made by Tim the Enchanter from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail painting the picture of a Rabbit as a terrible beast with "nasty, big, pointy teeth!"[2] |
248 | Bigger than a bread box! | Refers to a question asked by Steve Allen, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?", during a game of 20 Questions on What's My Line?. |
330 | Blue warrior shot the food! | Refers to a line in the arcade game Gauntlet. |
361 | Boats FTW | |
259 | Boots with the fur! | Line from the song "Low" by Flo Rida, featuring T-Pain. |
243 | Bread is pain! | This splash has two meanings: one related to translation ("pain" is French for "bread"), and one ironic (bread in Minecraft heals the player). |
84 | Bring it on! | |
140 | Bring me Ray Cokes! | |
63 | Bringing home the bacon! | "Bringing home the bacon" is a phrase that, similar to "breadwinner", refers to providing for a group of people or household. |
136 | BTAF used to be good! | Bob the Angry Flower is a comic strip that has been running since 1992. |
113 | Buckets of lava! | A bucket may be filled with lava. |
389 | Buzzy Bees! | Name of the Java Edition 1.15 update. |
86 | Call your mother! | |
223 | Casual gaming! | |
66 | Ceci n'est pas une title screen! | "Ceci n'est pas une" is French for "This is not a"; the phrase refers to The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), a painting by the Belgian René Magritte, which depicts a pipe with the sentence "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." ("This is not a pipe.") written beneath it.The all-French version of this splash should be"Ceci n'est pas un texte d'accueil !" |
19 | Check it out! | |
231 | Check out the far lands! | The Far Lands were the "limit" of the infinite map, until Notch accidentally fixed them in Beta 1.8. Ironically, this splash was added to the game after the Far Lands were fixed. |
276 | Child's play! | A children's charity that organizes donations and worldwide toy drives to children's hospitals. Also, a phrase used to imply something is easy. |
41 | Classy! | |
40 | Closed source! | Minecraft is currently closed-source proprietary software, meaning the source code has not been publicly released. However, Notch mentioned this could change "once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed", at which point he would "possibly release it all as public domain".[3] |
59 | Cloud computing! | Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. |
132 | Cogito ergo sum! | Latin for "I think, therefore I am". A quote from Descartes. |
107 | Collaborate and listen! | Lyrics to "Ice Ice Baby" by American rapper Vanilla Ice. |
296 | Colormatic | This splash is stored as "§1C§2o§3l§4o§5r§6m§7a§8t§9i§ac" in splashes.txt; the "§" and the character following are color codes that determine the color of the text following the code. |
71 | Complex cellular automata! | Both Minecraft and an earlier work of Notch's feature cellular automata; Notch has stated that he is fascinated by it. |
153 | Consummate V's! | Refers to an episode of Homestar Runner. |
262 | Conventional! | |
154 | Cow Tools! | Refers to a Far Side comic by Gary Larson. |
34 | Create! | |
342 | Cruising streets for gold! | Line from the song "Americano" by "The Brian Setzer Orchestra"[4] |
286 | Cześć Polsko! | Polish for "Hello, Poland!". Before 1.3.2 Pre-release, the splash was "Cześć Polska". |
270 | Déjà vu! | A déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation. |
271 | Déjà vu! [N 2] | |
350 | Do it all, everything! | |
131 | Do not distribute! | Part of the Minecraft terms and conditions; referred to as "The one major rule" by Notch. |
317 | Do you want to join my server? | Relates to people in the community asking others to join their multiplayer servers. |
266 | Does barrel rolls! | Refers to a move that can be performed by the Arwing in Star Fox games. In Star Fox 64, the humorous way in which Peppy Hare said "Do a barrel roll!" led to the creation of a meme. |
264 | Doesn't avoid double negatives! | A double negative is where two forms of negation are used in the same sentence. This sentence itself uses double negatives. |
275 | Doesn't use the U-word! | |
253 | Don't bother with the clones! | Relates to the numerous "clones" of Minecraft, such as Total Miner: Forge, and perhaps an ironic reference to the fact that Minecraft conceptually is itself a "clone" of Infiniminer, and therefore clones might not be negative remakes of other games. |
301 | Don't feed avocados to parrots! | Avocados are poisonous to birds. This splash was added long before the parrot mob. |
365 | Don't feed chocolate to parrots! | Chocolate is poisonous to birds. This splash was added during the same development updates as the parrot mob. |
198 | Don't look directly at the bugs! | |
376 | Don’t worry, be happy! | "Don’t Worry, Be Happy" is a song by American jazz artist Bobby McFerrin. |
354 | doot doot | "doot-doot, thank mr skeltal" is a phrase related to the skull trumpet meme. The splash was added at the time skeleton trap horses were added to the game. |
155 | Double buffered! | A common screen rendering technique that Minecraft uses. |
39 | Down with O.P.P.! | Line from the song "O.P.P." by American hip hop trio "Naughty by Nature". |
164 | DRR! DRR! DRR! | Refers to the horror manga short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault. |
36 | Dungeon! | |
229 | DungeonQuest is unfair! | Dungeonquest is a board game whose gameplay relies on the players creating the playing board by randomly selecting tiles and placing them on a grid. |
162 | Engage! | Refers to the Star Trek saying "Engage!" by Jean-Luc Picard, a signal to act on previously given orders. |
50 | Enhanced! | |
194 | Eple (original edit)! | Title of a piece by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp. |
67 | Euclidian! | Minecraft worlds are mostly made up of one of the simplest forms of Euclidian geometry, the cube. |
13 | Excitement! | |
37 | Exclusive! | |
31 | Exploding creepers! | Reference to the beloved creeper in the game. |
322 | Extra things! | |
119 | Falling off cliffs! | Often happened accidentally before sneaking was implemented. |
355 | Falling with style! | Said by Woody about Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story (1995), "That wasn't flying, that was falling with style!". Added soon after elytra were added to the game. |
156 | Fan fiction! | |
163 | Fantasy! | |
54 | Fat free! | Often an advertising point on food, directed at people attempting to lose or keep from gaining weight. |
258 | Feature packed! | |
257 | Finally complete! | A reference to the fact that Minecraft has finally left Beta. While it may have been "officially released", it is (in reality) far from "complete" and continually being developed.[5] |
200 | Finally with ladders! | Ladders were added to the game in Infdev. |
141 | Finger-licking! | "Finger-lickin' good" was a previous slogan of KFC. |
8 | Flashing letters! | Referring to the flashing of the splash text itself. |
332 | Flavor with no seasoning! | Line from the song "Just Don't Give" by Eminem. |
157 | Flaxkikare! | A reference to Bobo, a children's comic created by Swedish cartoonist Lars Mortimer, in which the title character had a magical spyglass called the Flaxkikare, which can be translated to English as "lucky spyglass" or "happiness/flash telescope". |
250 | Fnord! | Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information. |
226 | Follow the train, CJ! | A reference to the mission "Wrong Side Of The Tracks" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. |
90 | Freaky! | |
56 | Free dental! | Free dental is often a talking point about a job advertisement, and is similar to "As seen on TV". |
278 | From the streets of Södermalm! | Södermalm is the district in Stockholm where the Mojang offices are located.[6] |
104 | Full of stars! | Part of a quote from Dr. David Bowman ("The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of stars!") and his last line before being pulled through the monolith, from the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (while often attributed to the film of the same name, the line doesn't actually appear on-screen until its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact). However, Minecraft is full of stars. They are square pixels on the screen that appear at nighttime. |
281 | Funk soul brother! | A repeated lyric in a vocal sample in the Fatboy Slim song "The Rockafeller Skank". The sample comes from the beginning of the song "Vinyl Dog Vibe" by Vinyl Dogs. |
297 | FUNKY LOL | This splash is stored as "§kFUNKY LOL" in splashes.txt; as with the "Colormatic" splash, the "§k" is a formatting code, but instead of changing the color of the following text, the code obfuscates the text, replacing it with random, rapidly-changing characters. |
147 | Gargamel plays it! | Gargamel is the enemy of the Smurfs. |
184 | Gasp! | |
337 | Getting ready to drop! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
339 | Getting ready to freak! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
336 | Getting ready to know! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
338 | Getting ready to shock! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
335 | Getting ready to show! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
340 | Getting ready to speak! | Line from the song "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder. |
269 | Ghoughpteighbteau tchoghs! | "Potato chips", spelled phonetically using obscure rules of English pronunciation.[7] |
347 | /give @a hugs 64 | A reference to the command Template:Cmd. If minecraft:hugs were an item, this would give all players 64 hugs. |
176 | Give us Gordon! | A possible reference to Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of the Half-Life game, in which the military troops wrote "Give Us Gordon Freeman" in graffiti. |
352 | GNU Terry Pratchett | Refers to the internet tribute for Terry Pratchett, where the text "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" is added to the headers of websites (see this article for more information). |
380 | Go to the dentist! | It is often recommended for people to have dentist appointments twice a year. |
174 | Google anlyticsed! | A past-tense misspelling of Google Analytics, a service that provides statistics about visitors to a website. |
272 | Got your nose! | Most likely based on an old joke where one person grabs someone's nose, then moves their hand away with their own thumb though the middle of their two first fingers. |
65 | GOTY! | A common abbreviation for "Game of the Year". Minecraft has been nominated — and voted — Game of the Year by a number of gaming magazines and news sites. |
82 | Guaranteed! | A common marketing term. |
189 | Haha, LOL! | |
273 | Haley loves Elan! | A reference to the webcomic The Order of the Stick, in which Haley Starshine has a long-concealed crush on Elan and eventually starts a relationship with him. |
190 | Hampsterdance! | Hampster Dance is one of the oldest internet memes. |
111 | Han shot first! | A contentious scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In the original version of the film, Han Solo pulls out his blaster and shoots Greedo before he knows it. In the special edition, Greedo shoots and misses, followed by Han shooting him. This was one of many changes to the film that angered fans. In their plight, they adopted the phrase 'Han shot first'. |
61 | Hard to label! | |
256 | Has an ending! | A reference to the The End. |
100 | Haunted! | This splash predates the creation of Herobrine (the story of which was posted no earlier than the Alpha v1.0.16_02 update) and therefore has nothing to do with it. |
16 | Heaps of hits on YouTube! | Minecraft is among the most popular topics on YouTube. Notch's channel is rarely updated, but has received over a million views, 16 million video views, and 91,394 subscribers. User-created tutorial and demonstration videos, "Let's Play" series, Machinimas and various other videos are also very common. Prior to Alpha v1.0.0(?), this read "700+ hits on YouTube!". |
285 | Helo Cymru! | Welsh for "Hello, Wales!". |
70 | Herregud! | Swedish for "Oh My God!". |
20 | Holy cow, man! | |
263 | Homeomorphic to a 3-sphere! | A "homeomorphism" is a mathematical property indicating that there is a continual topological mapping between two objects; in layman's terms, there exists a way to deform one into the other without cutting or gluing. A "3-sphere" is a sphere in 3 dimensions, or the set of points equidistant from a given center in 4-space, a higher-dimensional analog of the "2-sphere" (what is thought of as an ordinary sphere.) Possibly a reference to the Poincaré Conjecture. |
80 | Hot tamale, hot hot tamale! | Line from the Weebl song "Tamale". |
159 | Hotter than the sun! | |
207 | Huge tracts of land! | A quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, describing the "assets" of a bride-to-be. Also, refers to the large areas of terrain present in Minecraft. |
312 | HURNERJSGER? | A reference to a comment on Reddit about villager sounds. |
308 | I have a suggestion. | |
137 | I miss ADOM! | Ancient Domains of Mystery is a very old, but popular and unique rogue-like game, featuring a world made completely of ASCII characters for graphics, dungeons (random and infinite), and monsters, but also many (optional) storylines that help hold all the features together to stop it from becoming boring. |
374 | I need more context. | |
292 | I see your vocabulary has improved! | A reference to "Lands of Lore 2", a 1997 game by Westwood Studios.[8] |
193 | idspispopd! | The no-clip command for Doom, which allows flying and passing through walls. |
295 | if not ok then return end | This is Lua script code for exiting a function if the variable "ok" is false or nil (not initialized/not set). |
17 | Indev! | Indev was the second major version of Minecraft, after Classic. It was succeeded by Infdev. |
64 | Indie! | Minecraft was a game developed independently. |
213 | Information wants to be free! | Slogan referring to the fact that keeping information contained tends to be more difficult than allowing it to disseminate. |
30 | Ingots! | Iron and gold ingots are obtainable in the game. |
69 | Inspirational! | |
160 | Internet enabled! | This splash was added around the time when multiplayer was reintroduced to the game. |
388 | In case it isn't obvious, foxes aren't players. | Reference to the Mojira bug tracker ticket Template:Bug, in which foxes are referred to as players upon teleporting after eating chorus fruit. |
383 | It came from space. | Reference to @zarawesome's tweet in which it's said that Minecraft comes from space. |
341 | It swings, it jives! | Line from the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by the band Queen. |
21 | It's a game! | Minecraft is a game. |
11 | It's finished! | Prior to Minecraft Java Edition 1.0.0 RC1, this read "When it's finished!". |
218 | It's groundbreaking! | |
9 | It's here! | Prior to Minecraft 1.0.0 RC1, this splash read "Coming soon!". |
187 | Jag känner en bot! | Swedish for "I know a bot". Refers to the first line of the song "Boten Anna" by the Swedish dance artist, Basshunter. |
158 | Jason! Jason! Jason! | The main character of the game Heavy Rain yells "Jason!" repeatedly while looking for his son, linked to a famous glitch involving it. Also, possibly a reference to the famous Friday the 13th slasher movies, in which the background music usually includes the echoing voice of Jason's mother whispering "Jason! Jason! Jason! Kill! Kill! Kill!" |
362 | Javalicious edition | Referring to the Java Edition. Also a portmanteau of "Java Edition" and "Delicious". |
221 | Jeb has amazing hair! | Referring to Mojang employee Jens Bergensten having long, red hair. |
205 | Joel is neat! | May refer to Canadian electronic music composer deadmau5, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman. |
204 | Jump up, jump up, and get down! | "Jump Around" by American hip hop group "House of Pain". |
48 | Kaaneeeedaaaa! | Refers to the Japanese anime film Akira. |
28 | Keyboard compatible! | Minecraft is playable with a keyboard. |
245 | Khaaaaaaaaan! | A reference to the scene in The Wrath of Khan when Captain Kirk screams Khan's name. |
165 | Kick it root down! | Lyrics from the song "Root Down" by American hip hop band "Beastie Boys". |
12 | Kind of dragon free! | It may be a possible reference to a quote from Wurm Online, wherein Notch states that "we will never add dragons". Dragons were eventually added, however. The same thing happened in Minecraft with the addition of the ender dragon in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4. Before RC1, this splash read "Absolutely dragon free!". |
225 | Kinda like Lemmings! | Lemmings is a game which also features mining, digging and blowing things up. |
127 | Kiss the sky! | A reference to the lyrics from "Purple Haze" by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. |
33 | l33t! | Leet is a type of symbolic spelling in which letters are replaced by lookalike numbers, punctuation, other symbols, and even characters from other languages. For example, "hello" is written as "|-|3110". |
115 | Larger than Earth! | The theoretical maximum size of the map in Minecraft is roughly eight times the total surface area of the Earth. However, technical restrictions mean that the actual maximum size is much smaller, though still larger than the Earth. |
60 | Legal in Finland! | May be a reference to the urban legend that Donald Duck was illegal in Finland. May also be a reference to the fact that the sale of snus (Swedish tobacco) is illegal in Finland. |
291 | Lennart lennart = new Lennart(); | "Lennart" is a Swedish variant of the name "Leonard". This is Java code (the programming language that Minecraft is written in) that creates a new instance of Lennart, named "lennart", of type "Lennart". |
246 | Less addictive than TV Tropes! | TV Tropes is very addictive. |
219 | Let our battle's begin! | Probably a reference to Bob the Angry Flower. |
123 | Let's danec! | A reference to a typo Notch made while working on Wurm Online. |
227 | Leveraging synergy! | A common example of business speak. |
126 | Lewd with two dudes with food! | A line from "If You're Into It" by Flight of the Conchords. Prior to Alpha v1.0.14, this splash read "Rude with two dudes with food!". |
7 | Limited edition! | A common marketing term. |
181 | Lives in a pineapple under the sea! | Part of the opening line of the theme song for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. |
99 | Livestreamed! | Minecraft is livestreamed on many platforms. |
382 | Look mum, I’m in a splash! | |
215 | Lots of truthiness! | A reference to Stephen Colbert's favorite word "truthiness". |
88 | Loved by millions! | Minecraft has millions of sales. |
83 | Macroscopic! | |
255 | Made by Jeb! | Jeb became the lead Minecraft developer once Notch stepped down from developing it in 2011. This splash was added by Notch.[9] |
22 | Made in Sweden! | A parody of the very well-known phrase "Made in _" (China, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, etc.), based on Mojang being centered in Sweden. |
344 | Make me a table, a funky table! | Line from the song "Funkhauser" by Hard 'n Phirm. |
182 | MAP11 has two names! | Doom II: Hell on Earth's MAP11. |
151 | Matt Damon! | May refer to Team America: World Police, in which Matt Damon can only say his name. |
4 | May contain nuts! | A common food allergen warning. |
267 | Meeting expectations! | |
192 | Menger sponge! | The Menger sponge is a fractal object constructed by dividing a cube into 27 smaller cubes and removing the smaller center cube from each of the larger cube's six faces and the smaller cube in the larger cube's center, and repeating this operation for each remaining smaller cube, and then for each of the even smaller cubes, and so on. A Menger sponge can be exactly represented in Minecraft up to the fifth iteration. |
249 | Millions of peaches! | A possible reference to the "The Presidents of the United States of America" song Peaches, which features the line "Millions of peaches!". |
25 | Minecraft! | The name of the game. |
390 | Minecraft Java Edition presents: Disgusting Bugs | Pun on the word "Bugs"; refering to both software bugs, and actual animal bugs. It is also a reference to the 1.15 Pre-Release article. |
58 | Minors welcome! | A pun on the spelling of 'miners'. |
300 | Mmmph, mmph! | |
87 | Monster infighting! | Aggressive mobs can attack one another if the player can get one mob to accidentally attack another. |
353 | More Digital! | |
247 | More addictive than lemonade! | |
5 | More polygons! | Most of today's video games, including Minecraft, are visually based on polygons. |
14 | More than 500 sold! | In Indev and Infdev, this splash originally read "More than 5000 sold!". In Alpha v1.0.0, it was changed to read "More than 25000 sold!", and between Alpha v1.0.12 and Alpha v1.0.14, it was changed to the current splash, making it one of the only splashes to be changed more than once (another being #74 : OpenGL 2.1 (if supported)!) |
98 | Music by C418! | All of Minecraft's music was composed by C418. |
290 | My life for Aiur! | Aiur is the homeworld of the protoss in the StarCraft video game series. The phrase is typically said by Protoss Zealots. |
108 | Never dig down! | Digging directly down is never recommended, since there could be a long drop, a dungeon, mobs or lava below the player. |
112 | Nice to meet you! | |
106 | Not as cool as Spock! | Spock is a very popular Star Trek character. Prior to 1.8.5, this splash read "Cooler than Spock!". Leonard Nimoy who played Spock died on February 27, 2015, one week after the release of 1.8.3 and 84 days before the text was changed in Spock’s favor. |
110 | Not linear! | As Minecraft is a sandbox game, there is no actual storyline to follow; the game's appeal instead lies in emergent gameplay. |
43 | Not on steam! | Steam is an online service used to distribute many Indie games, as well as Valve games. Minecraft is not sold via Steam, but only on the Minecraft website. |
314 | Now contains 32 random daily cats! | A reference to a Twitter user who sent pictures of cats to Mojang every day until stained glass was added to Minecraft. There are 32 stained glass blocks. |
68 | Now in 3D! | Minecraft had a 3D Anaglyph mode until 17w43a. Even though 3D Anaglyph was removed in 17w43a, the splash still exists. Additionally, Minecraft takes place in a 3D world. |
310 | Now Java 8! | Support for Java 5 was dropped in Minecraft 1.6.1. Before Template:Vlink, this splash read "Almost java 6!". Before 1.12, this splash read "Now Java 6!" |
175 | Now supports åäö! | These characters are not part of the standard 26-character Latin alphabet, but are used in the Swedish alphabet (many Scandinavian languages use such extended versions of the Latin alphabet). Minecraft now supports these characters in in-game input fields. Prior to (some version), this splash read "Now supports ÅÄÖ!". |
321 | Now with additional stuff! | Since the release of Minecraft, there have been many updates through subsequent updates which have added new features to the game. |
49 | Now with difficulty! | Difficulty may be set to Peaceful, Easy, Normal, or Hard. |
309 | Now with extra hugs! | |
327 | Now With Multiplayer! | Does not reference the similar line "Updated for multiplayer" in the mod Wedge.[10] |
97 | NP is not in P! | The P versus NP problem is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in computer science. In layman's terms, the problem asks if certain problems are inherently much more difficult than others, measured by the computation time needed to solve them. |
145 | Octagonal! | |
44 | Oh man! | |
199 | Oh, ok, Pigmen! | Zombie pigmen may be found in the Nether. |
139 | OICU812! | When read aloud, "Oh, I see you ate one, too." Most likely a reference to the Van Halen album "OU812", but may also be a reference to text messaging. |
183 | Omnipotent! | |
320 | One day, somewhere in the future, my work will be quoted! | |
15 | One of a kind! | |
74 | OpenGL 2.1 (if supported)! | Another technology used by Minecraft. Prior to 1.8 (14w06a), this read "Open GL 1.2!". Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this read "OpenGL 1.1!". |
268 | PC gaming since 1873! | The slogan of the UK-based PC gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun.[11] |
130 | Peter Griffin! | Head of the family from the animated TV show Family Guy. |
385 | Ph1lza had a good run! | Refers to Ph1Lza, a YouTuber who played in a Minecraft hardcore world for over five years. |
117 | Phobos anomaly! | The final map of Doom's first episode. |
387 | Ping the human! | |
46 | Pixels! | Reference of Minecraft's texture. |
265 | Place ALL the blocks! | A snowclone meme originating from a post on the blog "Hyperbole and a Half", which contained an image with the phrase "Clean ALL the things!". |
379 | Plant a tree! | Saplings become trees after a certain amount of time. |
81 | Play him off, keyboard cat! | Keyboard Cat is an internet meme wherein after someone makes an embarrassing mistake a cat is shown playing a keyboard, frequently accompanied by the phrase "play him off, keyboard cat". |
202 | Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Added during the yearly LRR Desert Bus charity drive.
References Top Gear, a popular British motoring show. |
73 | Played by cowboys! | |
316 | pls rt | Shortened form of "please retweet", in relation to Twitter. |
303 | Plz reply to my tweet! | References how people on Twitter often request for a Mojangsta to reply to their tweet, often of a bug report, feature request, or question. |
143 | Pneumatic! | A word meaning "air-powered". Possibly a reference to the Aldous Huxley novel, Brave New World, in which "pneumatic" was used to denote a good thing. |
101 | Polynomial! | Polynomials. |
325 | Popping tags! | A reference to Macklemore's "Thrift Shop".[12] |
52 | Pretty! | |
307 | Pretty scary! | References the Pretty Scary Update. |
282 | Pumpa kungen! | "Pumpa kungen" is Swedish for "pump the king". It might also be interpreted as "the pumpkin king", though if so it's slightly misspelled with a very common Swedish spelling error. |
254 | Pumpkinhead! | Pumpkins are wearable as helmets in Minecraft. |
118 | Punching wood! | While not strictly necessary, it is nearly impossible to start a new world without collecting wood, which, lacking tools, must be done by punching it. |
318 | Put a little fence around it! | Refers to the "Catbug" episode of the YouTube series "Bravest Warriors". |
306 | Put that cookie down! | Said by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Christmas movie Jingle All the Way. |
85 | Random splash! | Different splash texts appear randomly, just like this one. |
372 | Rainbow turtle? | |
244 | Read more books! | |
125 | Reference implementation! | Refers to reference implementations. |
166 | Regional resources! | |
359 | Replaced molten cheese with blood? | In snapshot 16w21a, there was a graphical bug making lava appear blood-red, and when that was fixed, Searge compared lava to molten cheese and blood.[13] |
150 | Representing Edsbyn! | Edsbyn is a village in Sweden with around 4000 residents; Notch lived in Edsbyn for the first years of his life. |
24 | Reticulating splines! | Refers to a running gag during loading processes in many games of The Sims and Spore series by Maxis. |
114 | Ride the pig! | Pigs can be ridden with a saddle. |
328 | Rise from your grave! | Refers to the arcade game Altered Beast |
148 | Rita is the new top dog! | Refers to old Australian TV show, Prisoner. |
358 | Rule #1: it's never my fault | Searge posted this on Twitter, in regards to the lava texture being blood-red in 16w21a.[14] |
331 | Run, coward! I hunger! | Refers to the arcade game Sinistar, which includes the lines "Beware, I live!," "I hunger, coward!," "Run! Run! Run!," "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!," and "Run, coward!". |
222 | Ryan also has amazing hair! | Referring to former Mojang employee Ryan Holtz having long, brown hair. |
201 | Scary! | Refers to the Halloween Update. |
105 | Scientific! | |
277 | See you next Friday or so! | MineCon started on Friday, November 18, 2011, a little less than a week after the release of the Minecraft Java Edition 1.0.0 release candidates. |
124 | Seecret Friday update! | Before Minecraft went Beta, updates were released weekly, every Friday. Notch called these updates "Seecret Friday updates". |
79 | Sensational! | |
6 | Sexy! | |
363 | Should not be played while driving | The August 8, 2016 update[15] to the game Pokémon GO included a new warning to players traveling above a certain speed: "You're going too fast! Pokémon GO should not be played while driving." |
27 | Singleplayer! | Minecraft was, at the time, a one-player game. |
196 | Slow acting portals! | Portals to the Nether (but not the End) take a few seconds to activate, although in Creative mode, they are instant. In addition, it is satire on many claims about cleaning products i.e. "Fast acting stain remover" or "Fast acting solvent". |
195 | So fresh, so clean! | "So Fresh, So Clean" is a song by American hip hop duo Outkast. |
373 | Something funny! | |
368 | Something's not quite right... | Reference to a World of Warcraft meme (goes together with splash 372). |
324 | So sweet, like a nice bon bon! | Refers to a line in the song "Body Movin'" by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys. |
18 | Spiders everywhere! | |
116 | sqrt(-1) love you! | Mathematical confession using imaginary numbers. Imaginary numbers, including sqrt(-1) are represented by the mathematical constant i, so this phrase translates to "i love you".
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209 | Stay a while, stay forever! | A quote from Impossible Mission, a game for the Commodore 64. |
210 | Stay a while and listen! | A quote from Elder Deckard Cain from the Diablo series. |
346 | Stop being reasonable, this is the Internet! | Searge posted this quote on Twitter.[16] |
260 | Stop, hammertime! | A phrase from the song "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. /stophammertime was also an example command used in the Minecraft [[Pocket Edition version history/Development versions#{{ #replace: {{ #explode: JE 1.2.5 | ( | 1 }} | ) }}|JE 1.2.5]] changelog.[17]
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333 | Strange, but not a stranger! | Line from the song "Burning Down the House" by the band Talking Heads. |
144 | Sublime! | A term that flourished in the Romance period, used to describe a feeling of simultaneous wonder and terror at natural phenomena- quite apt for many a player's experience of the game. (Additionally, the German Romance painter Friedrich's "The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog", frequently cited as a prototypical example of the sublime in art, is the source for an in-game painting.) |
152 | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | The famous song from Disney's Mary Poppins. Before Minecraft RC1, it read "Superfragilisticexpialidocious!"; Notch hinted it may have been a hidden message.[18] |
35 | Survive! | Survival was once the only given objective in the game, although more objectives were added with the inclusion of Achievements. |
191 | Switches and ores! | Redstone is used to create switches, and many types of ore can be found. |
149 | SWM forever! | SWM stands for "Single White Male". |
302 | Swords for everyone! | |
122 | Synecdoche! | A synecdoche (Greek for "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech where an object or concept is represented by a part or subconcept. |
343 | Take an eggbeater and beat it against a skillet! | Line from the song "Funkhauser" by Hard 'n Phirm. |
109 | Take frequent breaks! | A common warning found in health and safety booklets for electronic games. |
305 | Take her pillow! | |
345 | Take the elevator to the mezzanine! | Line from the song "Super Bon Bon" by Soul Coughing. |
62 | Technically good! | |
280 | Technologic! | Title of a song by French electronic music duo Daft Punk. |
47 | Teetsuuuuoooo! | Refers to the Japanese anime film Akira. |
96 | Tell your friends! | |
102 | Terrestrial! | |
261 | Testificates! | In the Beta 1.8 and 1.9 pre-releases, all villagers had the name "TESTIFICATE" over their head. |
369 | Thank you for the fish! | Reference to the addition of fish entities in the Update Aquatic. Most likely a reference to So long, and Thanks for All the Fish". |
32 | That's no moon! | Famous quote from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The full quote is "That's no moon, it's a space station!". Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this splash read "That's not a moon!". |
315 | That's Numberwang! | A reference to "That Mitchell and Webb Look", a British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. |
242 | That's super! | |
38 | The bee's knees! | A 1920's slang phrase of unknown etymology, though it possibly originated in Britain. Predates the addition of bees. |
216 | The creeper is a spy! | "The […] is a spy!" is a common phrase used in Team Fortress 2 to warn other players of enemy spies; the Spy is a class that is able to disguise as the enemy team and kill them from behind, which creepers tend to do. |
220 | The sky is the limit! | A common phrase, meaning that there are very few limits to projects. Also, no blocks can be placed above the map height, commonly referred to as the "sky" or "sky box". |
135 | The sum of its parts! | Reference to the living systems theory. |
366 | The true meaning of covfefe | Reference to a tweet by US President Donald Trump whose misspelling went viral during the week of the release of 1.12. |
142 | Thematic! | |
356 | There's no stopping the Trollmaso | From an Oct 6, 2015 tweet by Jens Bergensten: "I didn't want a hypetrain but there's no stopping "Trollmaso", right? =) Yes, new dramatic feature, likely out in the next snapshot." "Trollmaso" refers to the Twitter account @trollmasso, active since August 2015, whose name "Trollmasso ChiChi" was a play on former MCPE developer Tommaso Checchi. Jeb was referring to elytra in that tweet. |
348 | This is good for Realms. | Realms is a server-hosting service run by Mojang. Most likely a reference to the "This is Good for Bitcoin" meme. |
251 | This is my true form! | A common cliché stock phrase usually used by villains and godly figures in works of fantasy. It is mainly employed at the final battle of the game. |
228 | This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird? | This is the first splash that doesn't end with an exclamation point (!), other than the special "missingno" splash. As its text implies, the splash is never displayed in Java Edition (but displays in other editions). |
188 | This text is hard to read if you play the game at the default resolution, but at 1080p it's fine! | The splash text scales to fit, making this particular splash difficult to read at lower resolutions. |
75 | Thousands of colors! | Alias for highcolor (16-bit), which can represent up to 65,536 colors, on a Macintosh. Minecraft uses 32-bit colors (24 bits for color and 8 bits for opacity), which can represent around 16.7 million colors (16,777,216) with each color having 256 opacity values. |
319 | Throw a blanket over it! | Refers to the "Catbug" episode of the YouTube series "Bravest Warriors". |
357 | Throw yourself at the ground and miss | From the Douglas Adams book Life, the Universe and Everything: "'The Guide says there is an art to flying', said Ford, 'or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'". This splash was added shortly after elytra were added. |
177 | Tip your waiter! | A phrase commonly said by comedians at the end of their performances. Other variations are "Tip your waitress!" or "Try the veal!".[19] |
252 | Totally forgot about Dre! | Reference to the song Forgot about Dre by Dr. Dre. |
334 | Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream! | Line from the song "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. |
211 | Treatment for your rash! | A commonly-used phrase in medicine advertising. |
371 | Truly gone fishing! | Lyrics from the song "The Trial" by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. |
76 | Try it! | |
78 | Try the mushroom stew! | A reference to mushroom stew. |
197 | Try the Nether! | A reference to the Nether. |
203 | Twittered about! | Notch often tweeted about Minecraft on his Twitter feed, as still do many other people. |
217 | Turing complete! | Turing completeness is a term used in computer science for machines and programming languages that are able to perform all operations of a Turing machine. The redstone mechanism is one of them. |
232 | Tyrion would love it! | Refers to Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf from the George R. R. Martin book A Dance With Dragons, in which he is forced to watch fellow dwarves belittled in a mock pig joust. Minecraft allows the player to ride pigs and perform such jousts. Before Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this splash read "Tyrian would love it!". |
89 | Ultimate edition! | A common marketing term. |
138 | umop-apisdn! | The phrase "upside-down", upside-down. |
224 | Undefeated! | |
29 | Undocumented! | |
146 | Une baguette! | Literally "a stick" in French, a baguette is a kind of bread. Minecraft also features bread and sticks. This could also be a reference to the Flight of the Conchords song "Foux Du Fafa". |
93 | Uninflammable! | A joke on the fact that "inflammable" is often mistaken to mean "not flammable" due to the "in-" prefix. |
23 | Uses LWJGL! | Minecraft uses LWJGL. |
129 | Verlet intregration! | Verlet integration is a technique often used to calculate trajectories of particles. |
178 | Very fun! | |
326 | Very influential in its circle! | A reference to a Comedy routine on Russell Howard's Good News done by Hannibal Buress, where he states "I'm very influential in my circle."[20][21] |
180 | Vote for net neutrality! | Net neutrality is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet. |
329 | Warning! A huge battleship "STEVE" is approaching fast! | Refers to the shoot'em up arcade game Darius Gaiden, where the message is displayed before encountering a boss. In the splash, the word "STEVE" is used as a placeholder for the name of the boss in the game. |
377 | Water bottle! | A glass bottle can be filled with water. |
92 | Water proof! | A common marketing term. |
208 | Welcome to your Doom! | The boss quote from Altered Beast. The capitalization of "Doom" also hints at it being a reference to the game, Doom. |
381 | What do you expect? | |
378 | What’s the question? | |
313 | What's up, Doc? | Reference to Dinnerbone being killed by MindCrack member Docm77 during the first episode of MindCrack UHC Season 11,[22][23] based on Looney Tunes character Bugs Bunny, who commonly greeted people by saying "What's Up Doc?" |
351 | Where there is not light, there can spider! | One of Ryan Holtz's "personal memes". According to a forum post on Mame World,[24] the phrase was "said by a mutual friend, drunk beyond belief, who had never played Minecraft." |
293 | Who put it there? | |
94 | Whoa, dude! | |
311 | Woah. | |
169 | Woo, /v/! | The video game board on 4chan, where Minecraft is frequently discussed (and was occasionally promoted by Notch). |
167 | Woo, facepunch! | Facepunch was a game forum. It has since shut down, but this splash is still in the game. |
172 | Woo, reddit! | Reddit is a popular online news and entertainment site driven by user-submitted content. |
173 | Woo, 2pp! | A reference to 2 Player Productions, the company behind Minecraft: The Story of Mojang. |
168 | Woo, somethingawful! | SomethingAwful is an internet site. |
170 | Woo, tigsource! | TIGSource is an indie game development forum where Notch originally posted Minecraft.[25] |
171 | Woo, worldofminecraft! | World of Minecraft is yet another popular Minecraft forum. |
42 | Wow! | |
26 | Yaaay! | |
323 | Yay, puppies for everyone! | |
72 | Yes, sir! | |
294 | You can't explain that! | A reference to a popular image macro series using an image of Bill O'Reilly, with a misunderstanding of a standard occurrence followed by "YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT". |
364 | You're going too fast! | The August 8, 2016, update[15] to the game Pokémon GO included a new warning to players traveling above a certain speed: "You're going too fast! Pokémon GO should not be played while driving." |
91 | You've got a brand new key! | Refers to the song "Brand New Key" by American folk singer Melanie. |
289 | Γεια σου Ελλάδα! | Greek for "Hello, Greece!". |
288 | Привет Россия! | Russian for "Hello, Russia!". |
283 | 日本ハロー! | Japanese for "Hello, Japan!". |
284 | 한국 안녕하세요! | Korean for "Hello, South Korea!". |
287 | 你好中国! | Chinese Simplified for "Hello, China!". |
Bedrock Edition exclusive splashes[edit | edit source]
Splash text | Explanation | Version added[N 3] |
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Ported Implementation! | A reference to the port of Java Edition features into Bedrock Edition, implementing them through gradual updates. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
100% more yellow text! | Implementation of Splash text. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
flowers more important than grass | All flowers can be crafted into dyes, while grass remains a mundane junk item. | Alpha 0.9.2 |
Dramatic lighting! | Implementation of dynamic lighting and/or sunlight shading. | Alpha 0.8.0 |
Pocket! | A reference to Pocket Edition. | Alpha 0.8.0 |
Touch compatible! | Most platforms that play Bedrock Edition use touchscreen. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Annoying touch buttons! | A common complaint when people who start playing Bedrock Edition that are experienced with Java Edition is that the touchscreen controls are awkward. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Uses C++! | Bedrock Edition was written in C++. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Almost C++11! | Alpha 0.11.0 | |
OpenGL ES 2.0+! | Bedrock Edition runs on OpenGL ES. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Multithreaded! | Alpha 0.9.2 | |
Haha, LEL! | A variation of the original splash "Haha, LOL!". Lel is a common phonetic variation on the word lol, originating in the practice of substituting random vowels when using the acronym.[26] | Alpha 0.9.2 |
Quite Indie! | Bedrock Edition was, at the time, an independently-developed game. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
!!!1! | A reference to a common typo when typing in several !s. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
DEK was here | Alpha 0.9.2 | |
Hmmmrmm. | References villagers' sounds. | Alpha 0.9.2 |
V-synched! | Alpha 0.7.3 | |
0xffff-1 chunks | 0xffff is hexadecimal for 65535, so 65535-1 is 65534 chunks. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Open-world alpha sandbox! | Bedrock Edition is an open world sandbox game. | Alpha 0.9.2 |
Endless! | A reference to Minecraft's infinite terrain. However, at the time of addition, infinite terrain had not yet been implemented in the Bedrock Edition. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
1 star! Deal with it notch! | Alpha 0.8.1 | |
Ask your mother! | May be an alternate to Ask your doctor! or "Ask your parents", a piece of common advice in advertisements that are aimed toward children. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
Episode 3! | Alpha 0.9.2 | |
Toilet friendly! | A mobile game is easier to play on a toilet than one on a bulky PC system. | Alpha 0.7.3 |
[snapshot intensifies]! | A reference to the intensifies meme. | Alpha 0.9.2 |
Cubism! | Alpha 0.7.3 | |
Less polygons! | ||
Now with skins! | Reference to the addition of skins in Alpha 0.11.0. | Alpha 0.11.0 |
Blame shogchips | A reference to this joke site, which allows users to 'blame' bugs on Shoghi Cervantes.[27][28] | Alpha 0.11.0 build 7 |
Glowing creepy eyes! | Alpha 0.12.1 | |
Also try Monument Valley! | Monument Valley is a 3D puzzle game based on impossible objects. | Alpha 0.12.2 |
& Knuckles! | Refers to the Sega game Sonic & Knuckles, which could be combined with Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 to allow play of the Knuckles character in both games. When this is done, the games become Knuckles in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles respectively. | 1.0.4 |
BAYKN | 1.1.4 | |
code.org/minecraft | This is a reference of Minecraft Hour of Code. Putting in this address and checking out the website proves this. | |
Let's danec! | ||
discord.gg/minecraft | This is a reference to the Minecraft Discord server. | |
YANNY OR LAUREL??? | Refers to a memetic audio clip which, due to poor recording quality, sounds like "yanny" to some listeners and "laurel" to others. | 1.4.0 |
FREE SHIPPING!! | A common marketing term. | |
Change my mind. | ||
The Floor is Lava! | Refers to a simple game in which the floor is imagined as lava and players must seek higher ground. | |
Make a viral video!!1 | ||
When it's ready! | A reference to the infamous development cycle of the game Duke Nukem Forever, which was given an official release date of "when it's done", as well as a reference to the continually-updated nature of Minecraft itself. | |
Mostly harmless! | Refers to Mostly Harmless of serial book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. | |
Alexander Hamilton! | ||
#Blessed! | ||
Have you finished your homework? | ||
We're working on it! | ||
Like that smash button! | ||
Minecraft 2 unconfirmed! | ||
A circle-free environment! | ||
Llama, llama, duck! | ||
Artisinal! | ||
Savage Dad jokes! | ||
Protec but also attac | ||
Potatoes gonna potate! | ||
Bananas! | ||
zhoolor | ||
mixer.com/minecraft | ||
Oh geez! | ||
Crush it! | ||
Keep your head down, there's two of us in here now. Remember? | ||
Sodium free! | ||
What DOES the fox say? | ||
#gartzkebrokeit | ||
All blocks covered! | ||
feedback.minecraft.net |
Special splashes[edit | edit source]
Occasionally, Mojang will replace all the regular splashes with a single splash or a set of splashes visible for a set time.
Splash text | Date/version displayed | Occasion |
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1K in 24h! | July 29, 2010 Alpha 1.0.13_01 (reupload) |
Shown to celebrate the 1000 sales in the last 24 hours before the release. |
[DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!] | — | Shown on the Halloween Update pre-release build given to PC Gamer as a preview.Template:Tag |
Finally beta! | December 20, 2010 – January 14, 2011 Beta 1.0 – Beta 1.2 |
Excluding "Merry X-Mas!" and "Happy New Year!", this was the only splash from Beta 1.0 to Beta 1.2. Beta 1.2_01 reinstated random splashes. |
Happy new year! | January 1 | Shown on New Year's Day. |
Merry X-mas! | December 24 | Shown on Christmas Eve. |
missingno | — | Shown when the splashes.txt file has been modified or deleted without also deleting the META-INF folder. References a glitch Pokémon found in Pokémon Red and Blue. This splash since removed. |
PC Gamer Demo! | — | This is the only splash in the PC Gamer Demo. |
OOoooOOOoooo! Spooky! | October 31 | Shown on Halloween. |
Minecraft is love, Minecraft is life | 15w14a | This is the only splash in the 2015 April Fools Snapshot. |
APRIL FOOLS! | 2.0 | At 1:00 GMT, the splash text in the 2013 April Fools' version 2.0 is huge and says "APRIL FOOLS!" in pink letters and obstructs the title screen. |
Beta!!! | Bedrock Edition beta builds | This is the only splash in all development builds of Bedrock Edition. |
Cleaner! | April 1, 2018 (1.12.x and versions from 17w43a to 18w11a) | These splashes were displayed with the 2018 April Fools asset changes, in reference to the new and "improved" textures. |
Simplified! | ||
Perfected! | ||
Art directed! (by robots) | ||
Machine learned textures! | ||
Not blurry! | ||
Not bubbly! | ||
Not cartoony! | ||
Photo realistic! | ||
Hand painted! | ||
mov ax, 13hint 10h | 3D Shareware v1.34 | These splashes were displayed with the 2019 April Fools joke snapshot. |
Thousands of colors! | ||
No co-processor required! | ||
MIDI support comming soon! | ||
Available on most BBSes! | ||
Too big for tape! | ||
Don't copy that floppy! | ||
Only 6 years until future! | ||
16-bit! | ||
Powered by Turbo Pascal! | ||
Program MineCraft; | ||
Memory protected! | ||
Not Windows 3.11 compatible! | ||
TCP/IP is just fad! | ||
IPX forever! | ||
AT! | ||
September got longer! | ||
Woo rec.games.computer.minecraft! | ||
As seen on teletext! | ||
Polyphonic (when supported) | ||
Watch out for MineCraft for Workgroups! | ||
"LINUX is obsolete"! | ||
Photorealistic rendering! | ||
FMVs! (CD-ROM version only) | ||
Degauss you monitor now! | ||
Perfect for LAN Party! | ||
Compatible with most phones! | ||
Visit as at gopher://minecraft.net | ||
Send us a postcard with your highscore! | ||
Patented exploding barrel technology! | ||
Kibo-free! | ||
Check out my geek code! | ||
31337! | ||
Clbuttic! | ||
VIRTUAL REALITY! | ||
Also try Another World! | ||
More dynamic than Myst! | ||
Serious Doom competitor! | ||
Dune II, but fantasy? Booooring! | ||
Really? What's next, SimChopper? | ||
Juice may be bad for you! | ||
More impact than Shoemaker–Levy! | ||
From country that brought you Ace of Base! | ||
I saw the sign! | ||
Woo, third place | ||
Two gold, one silver! | ||
Mir is still up there! | ||
Spielberg on the roll! | ||
Clever girl! | ||
Square Of Life! | ||
Blocky and Blockier! | ||
Somebody stop me! | ||
Lord of the Rings movie sucks! | ||
Wind of Change! | ||
Superman is dead! | ||
Look at that mullet! | ||
What if Greedo shot first? | ||
Ewoks? What next, talking seahorse!? | ||
My mom says it's nice! | ||
Smells Like Teen Spirit! | ||
By the power of Grayskull! | ||
Over 50mph! | ||
The most annoying sound in the world! | ||
Spared no expense! | ||
A whole new world! | ||
You can't handle the truth! | ||
Party time! Excellent! | ||
Rufio! Rufio! | ||
Cowabunga! | ||
The Year of the Cartridge! | ||
Now rated by the ESRB! | ||
Rated Kids to Adults! | ||
Now on Atari Lynx! | ||
Creepy babies! Highly collectable! | ||
You've got mail! | ||
As seen on the World-Wide Web! | ||
Rainbow unicorns! | ||
Welcome to Illager Mansion! | ||
Stay out of the Nether! | ||
Creeper Blood! | ||
Talk to the hand! | ||
Psyche! | ||
Woo, frosted tips! | ||
Have a cow, man! | ||
Degauss your CRT now! | ||
"Turning 10 years old!" | 18w30a–1.14.2-pre2 May 17, 2019 |
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the first public version of Minecraft, 0.0.11a, being released. |
Wash your hands! | 19w34a–20w12a From March 18, 2020 |
These splashes offer advice about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. |
Soap and water! | ||
Support local businesses! | ||
Stay home and play games! | ||
Stay safe! | ||
Stay strong! | ||
Cough or sneeze into your elbow! | ||
Don’t touch your face! | ||
Support elderly relatives and friends! | ||
Prepare, but don’t hoard! | ||
Gamers unite – separately in your own homes! | ||
Save the world – stay inside! | ||
Shop for your elders! | ||
Hang out with your friends online! | ||
Splash text | Date/version displayed | Occasion |
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One of the splashes from the 2018 April Fools.
Changed splashes[edit | edit source]
- Note: the current versions of all splashes here are documented above; they do not need descriptions or explanations in this section.
Original splash | Changed splash | Version changed |
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700+ hits on YouTube! | Heaps of hits on YouTube! | Alpha v1.0.0? |
Absolutely dragon free! | Kind of dragon free! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
Almost java 6! | Now java 6! | 1.7.2 (13w36a) |
Now java 6! | Now Java 6! | 1.8 (1.8-pre1) |
Now Java 6! | Now Java 8! | 1.12 (17w14a) |
Coming soon! | It's here! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
More than 5000 sold! | More than 25000 sold! | Alpha v1.0.0? |
More than 25000 sold! | More than 500 sold! | Between Alpha v1.0.12 and Alpha v1.0.14 |
Notch <3 Ez! | Notch <3 ez! | Between Alpha v1.0.5_01 and Alpha v1.0.11 |
"Noun" is an autonym! | "Autological" is! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
Now supports ÅÄÖ! | Now supports åäö! | Between Alpha v1.0.15 and Alpha v1.2.0 |
OpenGL 1.1! | OpenGL 1.2! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
OpenGL 1.2! | OpenGL 2.1 (if supported)! | 1.8 (14w06a) |
Rude with two dudes with food! | Lewd with two dudes with food! | Between Alpha v1.0.12 and Alpha v1.0.14 |
Cześć Polska! | Cześć Polsko! | 1.3.2 (1.3-pre) |
SOPA means LOSER in Swedish | SOPA means LOSER in Swedish! | 1.3.1 (1.3-pre) |
Superfragilisticexpialidocious! | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
That's not a moon! | That's no moon! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
Tyrian would love it! | Tyrion would love it! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
When it's finished! | It's finished! | 1.0.0 (RC1) |
This is good for realms. | This is good for Realms. | 1.8 (14w33a) |
Cooler than Spock! | Not as cool as Spock! | 1.8.5 |
0% sugar! | 1% sugar! | 1.9 (15w42a) |
Bedrock Edition[edit | edit source]
Original splash | Changed splash | Version changed |
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Now with 100% more yellow text![29] | 100% more yellow text! | Alpha 0.7.3 |
One star! Deal with it notch! | 1 star! Deal with it notch! | Alpha 0.8.1 |
Haha, LOL! | Haha, LEL! | Alpha 0.9.2 |
Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Play minecraftApp, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Alpha 0.10.4 |
Play minecraftApp, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Play Minecraft: PE, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Alpha 0.11.0 |
Play Minecraft: PE, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | ? |
OpenGL ES 1.1! | OpenGL ES 2.0+! | Alpha 0.11.0 |
Almost C++11! | Almost C++14! | Alpha 0.11.0 |
Almost C++14! | Almost C++11! | ? |
Removed splashes[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Bedrock Edition removed features#Splashes
When a splash is removed, the line it occupied in splashes.txt / splashes.json is deleted, meaning the line number of all subsequent splashes lowers by one.
History[edit | edit source]
Java Edition[edit | edit source]
Splashes have been in Minecraft since Indev, with new ones regularly added, usually as part of major releases. Prior to Alpha v1.0.14, splashes were stored in an array of strings in the source code.
The following table summarizes splash changes per version:
Version | Added | Changed | Removed | Total | Notes | |
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Minecraft Indev Template:Check version | ? | ? | ? | 106 | One splash, "Check it out!", was listed twice prior to this version, in spots 22 and 51. | |
Alpha v1.0.0 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 159 | ||
Alpha v1.0.6–Alpha v1.0.11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 165 | ||
Alpha v1.0.12–Alpha v1.0.14 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 199 | ||
Alpha v1.2.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 211 | ||
Alpha v1.2.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 212 | ||
Beta 1.0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 224 | ||
Beta 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 220 | The removed splashes were about Alpha's price and state. | |
Beta 1.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 223 | ||
Beta 1.6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 226 | ||
Beta 1.8 | Pre-release | 35 | 0 | 1 | 260 | The removed splash was the "Check it out!" duplicate on line 47. |
RC1 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 288 | ||
1.1 | 11w50a | 15 | 0 | 0 | 303 | |
1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 304 | ||
1.3.1 | 12w22a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 306 | |
12w26a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 307 | ||
1.3-pre | 4 | 1 | 0 | 311 | ||
1.4.2 | 12w32a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 313 | |
12w36a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 314 | ||
1.4.6 | 1.4.6-pre | 4 | 0 | 0 | 318 | |
1.6.1 | 13w23a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 320 | |
1.7.2 | 13w41a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 321 | |
1.7.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 322 | ||
1.8 | 14w02a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 323 | |
14w05a | 7 | 0 | 0 | 330 | ||
14w06a | 1 | 1 | 0 | 331 | ||
14w10a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 333 | ||
14w17a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 335 | ||
14w20a | 4 | 0 | 0 | 339 | ||
14w25a | 14 | 0 | 0 | 353 | ||
14w26b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 355 | ||
14w32a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 356 | ||
14w33a | 0 | 1 | 0 | 356 | ||
1.8-pre1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 357 | ||
1.8.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 359 | ||
1.8.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 359 | The splash removed was "Notch <3 ez!" – Notch had departed from Mojang at this time. | |
1.9 | 15w33a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 360 | |
15w38b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 361 | ||
15w42a | 3 | 1 | 1 | 363 | The splash removed was "SOPA means LOSER in Swedish!" – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States had not been an issue for several years.
The changed splash was "0% sugar", which was changed to "1% sugar" | |
1.10 | 16w21b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 367 | |
1.11 | 16w32a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 368 | |
16w33a | 2 | 0 | 0 | 370 | ||
1.12 | 17w14a | 0 | 1 | 0 | 370 | "Now Java 6!" changed to "Now Java 8!" |
17w15a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 371 | ||
1.12-pre7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 374 | ||
1.12.1 | 17w31a | 0 | 0 | 1 | 373 | The splash removed was "Better than Prey!" |
1.13 | 18w15a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 374 | |
18w20b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 375 | ||
1.13-pre8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 376 | ||
1.14 | 19w12a | 1 | 0 | 1 | 376 | The splash removed was "Hobo humping slobo babe!" |
19w13a | 11 | 0 | 3 | 384 | Removed splashes referencing Notch. | |
19w14a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 385 | ||
1.14.1 | pre1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 386 | |
release | 2 | 0 | 0 | 388 | ||
1.14.2 | pre4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 387 | The splash "Woo, minecraftforum!" was removed as the forum announced it would be shutting down.[30] |
1.14.4 | pre3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 388 | |
1.15 | pre3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 391 | |
1.15–1.16 | 19w34a–
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14 | 0 | 391 (all) | 14 | Changed the list of available splashes to give advice relating to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.[31] |
Version | Added | Changed | Removed | Total | Notes |
Bedrock Edition[edit | edit source]
Issues[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ This is the line number of the splash in the "splashes.txt" file; splashes are not actually numbered in any way in splashes.txt itself.
- ↑ This splash is intentionally a duplicate, and is part of the joke, see Template:Bug
- ↑ The exact version a splash was added is not always known. In such cases, the earliest version the splash is known to have appeared in is listed.
References[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/11920829
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlYoYxO0acc&t=10m25s
- ↑ https://www.mojang.com/2013/06/minecraft-snapshot-13w23a/
- ↑ http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=339376&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
- ↑ http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0
- ↑ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lel
- ↑ https://twitter.com/shoghicp/status/588665039000707072
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