Particles.png



particles.png was an image file found inside minecraft.jar that was used to load the majority of the game's particle textures, excluding those derived from other textures. There were also other texture sheets used for other different particles, such as explosion particles.

Format
particles.png may have changed width with time. The file is split into different squares, usually 8x8 but bigger for some other cases, which correspond to the texture of many particles found in-game. Like with items.png, unused sections of the texture are completely transparent, unlike with terrain.png and the paintings sheet where such regions are colored magenta.