Talk:Easter eggs/Archive 1

Notch mentions easter egg?
So, in his livestream, just before he started playing HL2, Notch mentioned an easter egg in MC. http://da.twitch.tv/notch/b/307511278 at 2:21:52. I guess this might be interesting to the wiki?

"Buttershoes"
When this article was first written, it had SkyDoesMinecraft. It then got changed to SeaNanners, and then reverted to SkyDoesMinecraft, and finally removed. This is either an actual reference to a Youtuber or just plain Pirate speak where someone from Mojang blurted out Buttershoes and actually isn't an easter egg.

Before that section is touched again, research must be accomplished throughout these two Youtubers' channels or some kind of reference from Mojang or another place proving where "Buttershoes" came from. 06:58, 16 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Remember that the language translations are created by users on crowdin.net, not by Mojang, so 'buttershoes' was probably added by one of those Youtubers and/or their fans. Unless some connection to Mojang can be established (e.g., evidence that Jeb had submitted that translation), this is just personal advertising, and I don't see a need to have it in the article. I'm more tolerant of the Croatian Morse code, since there's no advertising aspect to it. -- Orthotope 07:40, 16 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually, that makes sense. Going through SkyDoesMinecraft, it seems he does have a running butter joke when it comes to gold and gold items, but I've only seen him refer to the boots as "butter boots", not shoes. Either way, if Mojang was not behind the Pirate speak and that was only included as a joke when crowdin did all the other languages, it really isn't an easter egg and just something fun from a fan that happens to be in Minecraft.


 * Also, as I was searching the web, I have seen many references to gold being likened to butter, and I don't believe it was even started by Sky, unless someone comes up with dates. I'm just going to remove that section, but keep a wikinote there (even though people never read them or just don't care).  23:15, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Mincecraft
The article says that Mincecraft is no longer shown...I don't know...a few days ago, on Minecraft 1.4.7, I saw "Mincecraft!" on the splash screen. I thought it was a typo or something but apparently was (is) an Easter egg...sorry, I don't know how to replicate this. 70.196.37.246 03:15, 8 February 2013 (UTC) (not sure what that'd do since I have not an account)


 * You may have simply seen the splash Minecraft! wrong. As for the article, it is talking about the actual rearranging of the 'E' and 'C' in the title, not the splash. I have checked the splash.txt file in 1.4.7 and 13w04a (the last weekly I downloaded) and there is no Minceraft! splash. What version did you see this on?  04:31, 8 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I also noticed that on 1.2.3 (officially known version to have Minceraft easter egg), there isn't image file for Minceraft to appear. But normal Minecraft. Maybe it's deep hidden in source file or marked as hidden? If so, should that be mentioned in article? Kevin J Rattman 07:58, 2 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The logo used on the main screen is located in minecraft.jar/title/mclogo.png . However, the image isn't displayed directly: instead it's copied onto the Minecraft window in two pieces. In order to display 'minceraft', it copies the logo in five pieces, swapping the locations of the 'e' and 'c'. There is no minceraft image file, and the code responsible isn't very obvious unless you know where to look. -- Orthotope 10:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Unused Splash
Looking through splashes.txt, I found a splash saying, "This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?" You can look yourself if you don't believe me. NightstormKitty 02:20, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * it's not actually unused: See Splash, entry number 232 in the list. --Mental Mouse 02:40, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I just corrected that entry, as the game goes to a bit of trouble to avoid displaying that splash; it will even get stuck in an infinite loop if it's the only line in splashes.txt . See here for more details. -- Orthotope 03:51, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Missingno splash
Martin847 recently removed this section, saying that it's a bug, rather than an easter egg. In the code, the splash text is initially set to "missingno" before attempting to read splashes.txt (good programming practice, avoids null pointer exceptions). Given the search results from googling 'missingno', and that Mojang could have used any default text string (such as "missing splashes.txt"), I think this is most likely to be a deliberate reference. -- Orthotope 18:29, 22 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I would also like to add that the wording Martin847 used in his summary suggests he was trying to follow the same issue we regularly have on the splash article regarding the "Mmmph, mmph!" splash. That is a very vague phrase or wording and can be anything. Mojang could've easily meant that as Steve yelling for help in a cave-in, as heard by a passing cow above. As Orthotope pointed out, missingno is a very unique "word" and it is extremely likely (but impossible to prove) that its appearance in the Pokemon franchise was the only appearance of that term anywhere back then. This also means that any other unique appearances (usage without knowledge of the Pokemon franchise's usage) is improbable.  22:34, 22 March 2013 (UTC)