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The Splash texts are the 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 at a frequency of 2 Hz (120 BPM ).

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
Players are able to find the splashes.txt file in the minecraft.jar file. 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".

Trivia
There is a small easter egg that happens on the title screen very rarely. It was first teased by Notch that there was a secret in the game that nobody found yet on March 8th 2012. It was discovered what he meant the next day. It has a 1 on 10000 chance to occur every time the splash text changes (starting the game, or going in a menu then pressing ). Minecraft will be spelled Minceraft.