World selection menu

The menu screen comprises all of the buttons and text for both the main menu and the pause menu. It is the interface that allows players to change options such as the game's language and active resource pack, as well as create a new world or join a multiplayer server. When the main menu opens, the game's logo appears with a splash caption beneath it. The game's menu can be accessed anytime by pausing the game with the key by default.

Minceraft


There is a 1 in 10000 chance for the title screen to display "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft". Notch implemented this as an Easter egg, and kept it as a small secret, enjoying that he was the only one who knew of its existence. After stating a secret was in Minecraft undiscovered, the internet sought out to find it. Soon after, Notch posted "A Post-Mortem of Minceraft" on Reddit.

In crash logs, a reference to Minceraft may appear as a joke, stating "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!".

Panorama
The main title screen of Minecraft displays a panoramic background that slowly pans across a pictured scene. $$, this scene remained the same from inception until Java Edition 1.12, after which the background was changed for each themed update.

Original prototype


Dinnerbone has stated that the menu panorama was originally going to be an in-game render of a live world, with custom world generation with the seed 100. He also mentioned another panorama which came before the one seen in Beta 1.8, that was a plains near the beach.

Beta 1.8 – release 1.12
The seed for the menu screen panorama in the game from Beta 1.8 to 1.12 (Beta 1.8 Pre-release to 1.13-pre1) is or  (both are considered valid seeds), and work in versions from Beta 1.7.3 all the way back to Alpha v1.2.0 (except for population differences).

The actual version that was used to generate this panorama must have been a development version between Beta 1.6.6 and Beta 1.7, based on the file dates.

Dinnerbone noted that the panorama was taken by Notch (likely on his laptop) while he was traveling, around June 1–15, 2011.

1.13
The menu panorama was changed for the first time for the Update Aquatic. This panorama uses seed (numeric: ) in version 18w22a at coordinates X=1553.76, Y=58.62, Z=-1162.79.

1.14
The Village & Pillage menu panorama showcases a small plains village. This panorama image was taken near the spawn of in version 18w48a, at coordinates X=240.57, Y=78.12, Z=147.38.

1.15
The menu panorama for Buzzy Bees was taken on the seed in version 19w40a at coordinates X=339.691, Y=65.546, Z=-1072.041.

1.2.0 – 1.4.4
The panorama seed from the from Bedrock Edition 1.2.0 to 1.4.4 was. This was used in the “Winding River” seed picker.
 * Other panoramas from Java Edition 1.13 or later and Bedrock Edition 1.5.0 or later still have pictures of panoramas, but their seeds are unknown.