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). The splashes are defined in a plain-text file within the Minecraft .jar file (versions/(Minecraft version)/(Minecraft version).jar/assets/minecraft/texts/splashes.txt). The splash pulsates on the title screen at a frequency of 2 Hz (120 BPM ).

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

History
Splashes have been in Minecraft since Indev, with new ones regularly added, usually as part of major releases. Prior to Alpha 1.0.14, splashes were stored in an array of strings in the source code.

The following table summarizes splash changes per version.

Special splashes
Occasionally Mojang will replace all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.

Changed splashes

 * Note: the current versions of all splashes here are documented above; they do not need descriptions or explanations in this section.

Removed splashes
When a splash is removed, the line it occupied in splashes.txt is deleted, meaning the line number of all subsequent splashes lowers by one.

Custom splashes
This file can be edited to the player's liking, listing only one splash per line. Before replacing the original splashes with user created ones, the META-INF folder needs to be deleted; otherwise the only splash that will be displayed is "missingno". Or you will crash. However, from 1.6.1 onward one can change the splashes with resource packs.

Bugs

 * The "Colormatic" splash sometimes appears pushed to the left.
 * The "Colormatic" splash sometimes does not appear colorful.
 * The "...!" splash may also appear pushed to the left