Splash Texts

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The Java Edition main menu, showing the splash: Played By Cowboys!

Splash texts are yellow lines of text on the title screens, randomly chosen from the game's files and often featuring references to popular culture (e.g. websites, quotes, video games). The splash pulsates on the title screen at a frequency of 2 Hz (120 beats per minute).

Splash texts are not translated and appear the same regardless of the chosen language setting.

Splashes can be edited using a Resource Pack by editing the splashes.txt file.

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The Windows 10 Bedrock Edition menu, showing the splash: OICU812

List of Splash Texts

• Ты не сбежишь! <playername>!
• Yare Yare Daze
• OH MY GOD!
• OH NOOO!
• Это я! ДИО!
• SPEEDWAGOOON!
• Mr.Joestar!
• Shizaaaaaa!
• Nigerundayo!
• Yes, I am!
• The World!
• MUDA MUDA MUDA!
• ORA ORA ORA!
• Сюда смотри!
• Отказываюсь!
• У меня есть мечта
• 4444
• Арриведерчи!
• LERO LERO LERO!
• ДИООО!
• GO GO JOJO!
• заставь меня сиять ДЯДЯ!
• BURAVO BURAVO!
• Mistaaaaa!
• а у тебя есть злой дух?
• OVERDRIVE!
• Хамон!
• Star Platinum!The Warudo!
• Emerald splash!
• Твоей следующей фразой будет...
• Gang Star
• Судить будет...
• Меня зовут Кира йошикаге...
• pizzaа mozzarella
• Idk something in japaniese i think

Others

• When a splash is removed, the line it occupied in splashes.txt (PE) or splashes.json (PC) is deleted, meaning the line number of all subsequent splashes lowers by one. 

Trivia

• As of Java Edition 1.15.x and 1.16 snapshot 20w12a, the list of available splashes was temporarily changed to reflect the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. In 1.16 Release Candidate 1, the COVID-19 splashes were mixed back into the normal set of splashes, which include:
  • Wash your hands!
  • Stay home and play games!
  • Stay safe!
  • Stay strong!
  • Don't touch your face!
  • Support elderly relatives and friends!
  • Prepare, but don't hoard!
  • Save the world - stay inside!
  • Shop for your elders!
  • Hang out with your friends online!
  • Support local businesses!
  • Soap and water!
  • Cough or sneeze into your elbow!
  • Gamers unite - separately in your own homes!
• A majority of the splashes are references to popular culture. Below is just a short list:
  • "Lives in a pineapple under the sea!" is a reference to SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • "That's no moon!" is a reference to Star Wars.
  • "Engage!" is a line from Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • "Boots with the fur!" is a lyric from the Flo Rida song Low featuring T-Pain.
  • "Ph1lza had a good run!" is a reference to Ph1lza, who played and survived on a hardcore world for five straight years, longest ever lived by one player.
  • "Does barrel rolls!" is a reference to Star Fox.
  • "Stop hammertime" is a lyric from the MC Hammer song U Can't Touch This.
  • "Child's Play!" is the name of the original Chucky the killer doll movie.
  • "90210" is the ZIP code for Beverly Hills and the name of a teen drama series.
  • "Plants vs. Zombies!" is a video game.
  • "Haley Loves Ethan!" is a reference to the order of the stick.
  • "Play them off, Keyboard Cat!" is a reference to the Keyboard Cat internet meme.
  • "Peter Griffin!" is a character from Family Guy.
  • "Follow the train, CJ!" is a reference to a story mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in which Big Smoke, a character, says this line while scolding a player on failing to complete the mission objective.
  • "Khaaaaaan!" is a reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • "The true meaning of covfefe" is a reference to a misspelling in a tweet made by Donald Trump.
  • "& Knuckles" is a reference to the game Sonic and Knuckles, one of the first Sonic The Hedgehog games.
  • If a user deletes the "splash.txt" text file without deleting META.INF, they will be greeted with a splash reading "missingno.", a reference to the Pokémon glitch of the same name.
  • "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a reference to the film "Mary Poppins"
  • "As seen on TV" is a reference to commercials for items such as toys.
  • There are several splashes that are in languages other than English. Most of them say "Hello (name of the nation that speaks the language the splash is written in)." For example one of the splashes says: "한국 안녕하세요." This is a sentence in Korean, and it translates to "Hello Korea."
  • "Bringing home the bacon!" is a reference to the popular saying "Bring home the bacon!"
  • "Han shot first!" is a reference to the Star Wars saga.
  • "Gargamel plays it!" may be a reference to the Smurfs movies.
  • "Welcome to your Doom!" is a reference to the video game Altered Beast created by Sega in 1988.
  • There are several splashes that say "Also try (another video game)!" Some of the games that are included in one of these splashes have references to Minecraft in them, such as Terraria having a creeper outfit and a title screen message called "Also try Minecraft!"
  • "Phobos Anomaly!" is a reference to the DOOM level, Phobos Anomaly.
  • "Team Mystic" is a reference to the Pokemon GO team of the same name.
  • "Yaaaay!" is a reference to Marshmallow from the Annoying Orange.
  • "Cool as Spock" is another Star Trek reference, referring to the character Spock.
  • "Hamspterdance" could either be referring to the meme or the song in general.
  • "Cow tools!" is a reference to a comic from Gary Larson's comic strip "The Far Side".