Talk:Easter eggs/Archive 1

Halloween & Christmas Easter Eggs is occurring regularly
I think these things will happen yearly, so let's expect that in Christmas 2013, "Gift Chests" will appear.--DiamondCubeMiner (talk) 07:04, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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)

"Missingno" stood for "missing number" and would make no sense to reference a missing slash file. A error for such would more likely read something like "error.splashes". Impossybull (talk) 04:20, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Bouncy
Not an easter egg. It's just the bouncycastle.org java crypto library. 91.55.30.153 14:00, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Pirate speak section should be removed
Pirate speak is not an easter egg, it's just a language setting. Although it may be amusing, it doesn't reference anything and should not be considered an easter egg. 142.197.88.106

11 Disc??
I have tried to replicate the 11 disk Easter egg which shows the default player head and C418s signature using the Spek program. I can get a sort of curved line somewhere in the sonograph, but nothing as detailed as what is shown on the main page. Could somebody explain how i could get to see this Easter egg for myself? C4an7 (talk) 17:21, 23 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I didn't check the spectrogram myself, but I did watch someone else's video. The area shown here is supposedly at the end, right as the sound cuts out.  I did see that curved line in the middle too and was wondering what that was about. Firebastard (talk) 05:32, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Strange Voices Accompanying Music?
OK. I was playing minecraft yesterday about 7:35-7:40 pm. I will describe the experience exactly.

I opened the Minecraft launcher and in the update notes it came up with the "minecraft is experiencing some difficulties with the villagers" thing. I wasn't too worried so I just clicked play.

Then the strange things began to happen. Instead of the menu music, some strange low-pitched voices were singing "duh duh duh". This freaked me out a bit so I closed it and opened it again just in case it was a bug. Sure enough, those duh duh duh voices were back. I did a test next.

I went onto my own creative multiplayer server. Music began to play and sure enough, those voices accompanied the song with duh duh duh. Except they accompanied this time instead of playing instead of the music.

Then I realised it was April Fools Day. I thought maybe it was an april fools, but it could also be the "villagers have taken over" update notes. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone experienced this? Either way, I think it should go on the Easter Eggs page - unless it was a bug, but I am pretty sure it was a joke.

April Fools 2014
This section is very confusing and should be edited by someone with knowledge of the actual April Fools hoaxes.

Oh my goodness! I love the Duh Duh Duh DUH Duh Duh Duh song. I recorded it since I couldn't find it anywhere in the music files. Maybe I can post it here.

"Important" Message
This does not appear to actually be an easter egg, but rather a warning for modders of the game.

Notch's birthday?
On 1st June,the only splash that is displayed is"Happy Birthday, Notch!". This happens in 1.7.9 and the snapshots, haven't tried on earlier versions.
 * It's in 1.6.4, so it must be in later versions. 108.196.142.46 15:08, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Dinnerbone's secret
Dinnerbone can switch if he's rightside up or upside down by toggling his cape. He uses this to go on small servers so people won't go too crazy over him being there (they think he's fake).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59sRgPP6POE&t=5m34s

But, this isn't proven yet. Can somebody do some more research for me?

Notch dropping apples
The code for dropping an apple with the rest of Notch's items remains in the JAR (viewed with MCP in v1.7.10), but does it actually occur when a player with the username "Notch" dies? This page states it "no longer works". --Einsteinsci (talk) 17:49, 6 August 2014 (UTC)