Splash

The Splash texts are the 259 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.

There are actually 260 splashes listed in splashes.txt, but one splash, "Check it out!", is listed twice.

Special splashes
Occasionally Notch replaces all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.