Minecraft Plus!



Minecraft Plus! is a app developed by Mojang Studios for  2021. It features many different Minecraft-themed screen savers, using block and item textures from the game, inspired by screensavers from old computers. The app is available to download for free and runs on 64-bit 7+ PCs. Alternatively, the app can also be used in a modern web browser.

Trivia

 * The box art is styled after the box of, an enhancement package for the operating system that included features such as desktop themes and screensavers.
 * Since "Microsoft Plus!" and "Minecraft" are Microsoft branded IPs, Mojang Studios was able to use both the name and the style.
 * While the MinecraftPlus.scr file can be run on UNIX based operating systems with wine, the bulk of the app does not work, as wine's functionality as a compatibility layer does not allow it to change the OS screen saver.
 * The icon for Minecraft Plus! is a Glow Squid, which also appears as an animation before starting the browser version and in one of the screen savers. Since the screen saver featuring Glow Squids parodies "Flying Toasters", this may be a reference to how the Flying Toaster was After Dark's mascot.
 * The download for windows contains a zip file with a .scr file inside. If the .scr file refuses to run, its extension can be changed from .scr to .exe and it will work. Note that this method can also work on other screensavers as well (including the default Windows screensavers).
 * Renaming the .scr file to .exe then running the app will open in windowed mode rather than fullscreen mode.
 * The .scr contains a version.txt with the line
 * The screensaver contains models and textures for many blocks and items in the game up to Java Edition 21w13a, as well as original and two-color creeper face textures.
 * The web page supports two query-strings :
 * , which will run automatically the screensaver if the  value is specified. If another value is specified then it will just skip to the "run in fullscreen or windowed" page.
 * In the HTML code of plus.minecraft.net, there are three comments that read "I definitely wasn’t hired for my webdev skills haha", "What is this? Where are all the libraries? This is never going to work in IE" and "Is that written by hand? Puzzling!".
 * The text "This is never going to work in IE" means that screensaver in browser does not work at all on.
 * In addition, a random splash text is written to the browser console once the screensaver has finished loading:
 * In addition, a random splash text is written to the browser console once the screensaver has finished loading:

Config messages
Attempting to configure the screensaver app produces one of the following messages, followed by closing the app after clicking on OK:

"to differentiate between the title and the window text. This specific config window will never appear.''"

Included entity sprites

 * Creeper
 * Glow Squid
 * Squid

Video
The video from the Minecraft YouTube channel.