Splash

The Splash texts are the 222 randomly selected yellow lines of text with often humorous content on the title screen. The splashes are defined in a plain-text file within minecraft.jar (minecraft.jar/title/splashes.txt). The splash pulsates on the title screen, with a frequency of 120 Hz.

There are actually 223 splashes listed in splashes.txt, but one splash, "Check it out!", is listed twice.

Special splashes
Occasionally Notch replaces all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.