The Splash texts are the 225 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, with a frequency of 2 Hz.
There are actually 226 splashes listed in splashes.txt, but one splash, "Check it out!", is listed twice.
Complete list of splashes
#[N 1] | Splash text | Explanation | |
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191 | ...! | ||
124 | 0% sugar! | This is no longer true, as sugar is now an item. Also, "sugar-free" is a marketing stance. | |
3 | 100% pure! | Some juices use "100% pure" or a variant thereof as a selling point.[1] | |
56 | 12 herbs and spices! | KFC's secret chicken flavoring recipe contains 11 herbs and spices. | |
185 | 12345 is a bad password! | 12345 is a commonly used password. This is also a reference to the movie Spaceballs by Mel Brooks. | |
125 | 150% hyperbole! | Refers to Hyperbole and a Half. | |
132 | 20 GOTO 10! | Refers to BASIC. When executed, this line would create an infinite loop, continuously re-executing whatever instruction was on line 10 (usually a PRINT statement). | |
137 | 4815162342 lines of code! | 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 are The Numbers that appear all over the television series Lost. | |
54 | 90% bug free! | As the game is still in development mode, it has some bugs. | |
138 | A skeleton popped out! | Refers to a pretty funny, rather than creepy, bit of creepypasta. Of course, Minecraft also features skeletons, though they do not tend to pop out. | |
14 | Absolutely dragon free! | Dragons are not in Minecraft, although Notch has hinted at them before. Also a possible reference to a quote from Wurm Online, wherein Notch states that "we will never add dragons." Dragons were eventually added, however. | |
58 | Absolutely no memes! | Minecraft is a popular source for internet memes, which often only grow greater because of statements like this. | |
80 | Age of Wonders is better! | Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy game. | |
98 | All inclusive! | Everything the game has to offer is all included in the bought version. | |
107 | All is full of love! | "All Is Full of Love" is a song by Björk. | |
220 | "Almost never" is an interesting concept! | Possible reference to the mathematical concept of "almost surely" and its inverse. | |
212 | A riddle, wrapped in a mystery! | Winston Churchill once said something similar about Russia. | |
1 | As seen on TV! | A common marketing claim that is often lampooned. | |
60 | Ask your doctor! | Similar to "As seen on TV", said at some point in almost every pharmaceutical advertisement. | |
166 | Autonomous! | There are very few rules or restrictions in "Minecraft". | |
48 | Awesome community! | The Minecraft community has produced many amazing works. | |
2 | Awesome! | ||
192 | Bees, bees, bees, bees! | A lyric from one of Weebl's works, "cup". | |
12 | Best in class! | A reference to awards given to car brands or manufacturers for producing high-quality vehicles. | |
5 | Better than Prey! | Prey is a first person shooter that was well-received by critics. | |
87 | Bring it on! | ||
145 | Bring me Ray Cokes! | Ray Cokes is an English television presenter popular in Europe. | |
66 | Bringing home the bacon! | May refer to Minecraft sales being Notch's source of income. Also, pigs are a very common source of food in Minecraft. | |
141 | BTAF used to be good! | Bob the Angry Flower is a comic strip that has been running since 1992. | |
117 | Buckets of lava! | A bucket may be filled with lava in Survival. | |
89 | Call your mother! | ||
69 | Ceci n'est pas une title screen! | "Ceci n'est pas une" is French for "This is not a"; the phrase refers to The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), a painting by the Belgian René Magritte which depicts a pipe with the sentence "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." ("This is not a pipe.") written beneath it. | |
21 & 47 | Check it out! | This splash is listed in splashes.txt twice, first on line 21 and again on line 47. | |
43 | Classy! | Minecraft is, indeed, Classy. This may also be a reference to Classes in computer programming. | |
42 | Closed source! | Minecraft is currently closed-source proprietary software, meaning the source code has not been publicly released. However, Notch mentioned this could change "once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed", at which point he would "possibly release it all as public domain". Notch has mentioned that in the Beta 1.7 update he will release the source unedited to a very small group of people. | |
62 | Cloud computing! | Cloud computing. | |
136 | Cogito ergo sum! | "I think, therefore I am" in Latin. A quote from Descartes. | |
111 | Collaborate and listen! | Lyrics to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. | |
11 | Coming soon! | Minecraft is still in a developmental phase, and has not been "formally" released yet. | |
74 | Complex cellular automata! | Both Minecraft and a piece of Notch's earlier work feature cellular automata; Notch has stated that he is fascinated by them. | |
158 | Consummate V's! | Refers to an episode of Homestar Runner. | |
110 | Cooler than Spock! | Spock is a popular Star Trek character. | |
159 | Cow Tools! | Refers to a Far Side comic by Gary Larson. Also, Minecraft features cows. | |
36 | Create! | Minecraft is a sandbox game. | |
135 | Do not distribute! | Part of the Minecraft terms and conditions, referred to as "The one major rule" by Notch. | |
204 | Don't look directly at the bugs! | Minecraft is still in an incomplete Beta stage, with a number of known bugs. | |
160 | Double buffered! | Another Minecraft feature. | |
41 | Down with O.P.P.! | Line from the song "O.P.P." by Naughty by Nature. | |
169 | DRR! DRR! DRR! | Refers to the horror manga short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault, which among fans is a popular origin story for the Creeper. | |
38 | Dungeon! | Dungeons may be found in Survival. | |
167 | Engage! | Refers to the Star Trek saying "Engage!" by Jean-Luc Picard, referring to the warp drive. | |
53 | Enhanced! | Minecraft has been much advanced since its first public release. | |
200 | Eple (original edit)! | Title of a piece by Norwegian electronic music duo Rökysopp. | |
70 | Euclidian! | Minecraft mainly relies on one of the simplest forms of Euclidian geometry, the cube. | |
15 | Excitement! | Minecraft inspires Excitement in those who play it. | |
39 | Exclusive! | Minecraft was only for people who buy the game, until the demo came out. | |
33 | Exploding creepers! | The beloved creature. | |
123 | Falling off cliffs! | Often happened accidentally before sneaking was implemented. | |
161 | Fan fiction! | Minecraft has fan fiction. | |
168 | Fantasy! | Minecraft is a work of fantasy. | |
57 | Fat free! | Often an advertising point on food, directed at people attempting to lose or keep from gaining weight. | |
206 | Finally with ladders! | Ladders are an item in Survival. | |
146 | Finger-licking! | "Finger-lickin' good" was a previous slogan of KFC, however it has since been updated. | |
9 | Flashing letters! | May be a reference to this bug. | |
162 | Flaxkikare! | A reference to Bobo, a children's comic created by Swedish cartoonist Lars Mortimer in which the title character had a magical spyglass called the Flaxkikare, which can be translated as "lucky spyglass". | |
93 | Freaky! | Some people find Minecraft freaky. | |
59 | Free dental! | Similar to "As seen on TV", free dental is a talking point about a job advertisement. | |
108 | Full of stars! | Part of a quote ("My god, it's full of stars!") from 2001: A Space Odyssey. | |
152 | Gargamel plays it! | Gargamel is the enemy of the Smurfs. | |
190 | Gasp! | Minecraft often startles most players. | |
182 | Give us Gordon! | A possible reference to Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of Half-Life, in which the military troops write "Give Us Gordon Freeman" in graffiti. | |
180 | Google anlyticsed! | A past-tense misspelling of Google Analytics, a service that provides statistics about visitors to a website. | |
68 | GOTY! | PC Gamer UK, among others, crowned Minecraft their game of the year 2010. | |
85 | Guaranteed! | If you have bought any version of Minecraft other than classic, you are guaranteed to have the full version when it comes out. | |
195 | Haha, LOL! | Might be what some players will say when playing on multiplayer. | |
196 | Hampsterdance! | Hampster Dance is one of the oldest internet memes. | |
115 | Han shot first! | A contentious scene in Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. | |
64 | Hard to label! | May refer to Minecraft being a diverse game. | |
104 | Haunted! | Likely a reference to Herobrine, the mythical entity that supposedly stalks the player. He is widely regarded as a community meme, hoax and iconic figure. | |
18 | Heaps of hits on YouTube! | "Minecraft" is among the most popular topics on YouTube. Notch's channel is rarely updated, but has received more than 800 thousand views already. | |
73 | Herregud! | Swedish for "Oh My God!". | |
22 | Holy cow, man! | ||
83 | Hot tamale, hot hot tamale! | This Weebl animated song. | |
164 | Hotter than the sun! | May refer to Minecraft becoming very popular very fast. | |
213 | Huge tracts of land! | A quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, describing the "assets" of a bride-to-be. Also refers to the large areas of terrain present in Minecraft. | |
142 | I miss ADOM! | Ancient Domains of Mystery is a very old, but popular and unique roguelike game, featuring a world made completely of ASCII characters for graphics, dungeons (random and infinite), and monsters, but also many (optional) storylines that help hold all the features together to stop it from becoming boring. | |
199 | idspispopd! | The NoClip command for Doom. | |
19 | Indev! | Indev was the second major version of Minecraft, after Classic. | |
67 | Indie! | Minecraft is an indie game. | |
219 | Information wants to be free! | Slogan observing that keeping information contained tends to be more difficult than allowing it to disseminate. | |
32 | Ingots! | Iron and Gold Ingots are obtainable in Survival. | |
72 | Inspirational! | ||
165 | Internet enabled! | Minecraft has online multiplayer, as well as a website. | |
23 | It's a game! | Minecraft is, in fact, a game. | |
224 | It's groundbreaking! | Minecraft is considered to be a pioneer game, creating a new genre. This is also a pun on the nature of Minecraft, which involves breaking ground... a lot. | |
193 | Jag känner en bot! | "I know a bot" in Swedish. Refers to the first line of the song "Boten Anna" by the Swedish dance artist, Basshunter. | |
163 | Jason! Jason! Jason! | The main character of the game Heavy Rain yells "Jason!" repeatedly while looking for his son. | |
211 | Joel is neat! | May refer to Deadmau5, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman. | |
210 | Jump up, jump up, and get down! | "Jump Around" by House of Pain. | |
51 | Kaaneeeedaaaa! | Refers to the Japanese anime movie Akira. | |
30 | Keyboard compatible! | Minecraft is compatible with a keyboard, but does not need one to be played. | |
170 | Kick it root down! | Lyrics from the song "Root Down" by the Beastie Boys. | |
131 | Kiss the sky! | Impossible because there is a barrier stopping you from moving more than 128 blocks above bedrock; also a reference to the lyrics from "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix. | |
35 | l33t! | Leet is a common Internet phrase. | |
119 | Larger than Earth! | The theoretical maximum size of the map in Minecraft is roughly eight times the total surface area of the Earth (technical restrictions mean that the actual maximum size is much smaller, although it is still larger than the Earth). | |
63 | Legal in Finland! | May be a reference the rumor that Donald Duck is illegal in Finland. | |
225 | Let our battle's begin! | ||
127 | Let's danec! | A reference to a typo Notch made while working on Wurm Online. | |
130 | Lewd with two dudes with food! | A line from "If You're Into It" by Flight of the Conchords. | |
8 | Limited edition! | May refer to Alpha and Beta, as they are both limited editions, and they will soon become a full game. | |
187 | Lives in a pineapple under the sea! | Part of the opening line of the theme song for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. | |
103 | Livestreamed! | There are quite a few livestreams of people playing Minecraft, with Notch making occasional appearances. | |
221 | Lots of truthiness! | May be a reference to Stephen Colbert's favorite word "truthiness". | |
91 | Loved by millions! | Over 2 million copies of Minecraft have been sold. | |
86 | Macroscopic! | Can either mean to be visible to the naked eye, or to be large and complex; Minecraft is both. | |
10 | Made by Notch! | Notch is the creator of Minecraft. | |
24 | Made in Sweden! | A parody of the very well-known phrase "Made in _" (China, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, etc.), based on Notch living in Sweden. | |
188 | MAP11 has two names! | Doom II: Hell on Earth's MAP11. | |
156 | Matt Damon! | May refer to Team America: World Police, in which Matt Damon can only speak his name. | |
4 | May contain nuts! | A common food allergen warning. | |
198 | Menger sponge! | The Menger sponge is a fractal object that can be built in Minecraft. | |
27 | Minecraft! | ||
61 | Minors welcome! | Minecraft is suitable for children due to its lack of overt violence or gore, and complete lack of profanity. It may also be a pun on the fact that much of Minecraft's gameplay revolves around mining. | |
90 | Monster infighting! | Aggressive mobs can attack one another if the player can get one mob to accidently attack another. | |
6 | More polygons! | Most of today's video games, including Minecraft, are visually based on polygons. | |
16 | More than 500 sold! | Minecraft has sold over 2 million copies, so this is indeed true. | |
102 | Music by C418! | All of Minecraft's music was composed by C418. | |
112 | Never dig down! | Digging directly under you is not recommended, since there could be a long drop or lava below you. | |
116 | Nice to meet you! | ||
114 | Not linear! | As Minecraft is a sandbox game, there is no actual storyline to follow; the game's appeal instead lies in emergent gameplay. | |
45 | Not on steam! | Minecraft is not sold via Steam, but only on the Minecraft website. | |
101 | Notch <3 ez! | ez is Notch's fiancee. | |
218 | "Noun" is an autonym! | An autonym can be a pseudonymous author's actual name, an automatically-assigned botanical scientific name, or the name for a group of people or their language in their language. Notch probably meant an autological word, which is a word which describes itself - the word "noun", in this case, is a noun. | |
71 | Now in 3D! | Minecraft has a 3D Anaglyph mode. | |
181 | Now supports åäö! | These characters are not part of the standard 26-character Latin alphabet, but are used in the Swedish alphabet (many Scandinavian languages use such extended versions of the Latin alphabet). Minecraft now supports these characters in in-game input fields. | |
52 | Now with difficulty! | Difficulty may be set to Peaceful, Easy, Normal, or Hard. | |
100 | NP is not in P! | The P versus NP problem is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in computer science. Despite being unsolved, many computer scientists believe that NP is not in P. | |
150 | Octagonal! | May be a reference to this thread, or this thread. | |
46 | Oh man! | ||
205 | Oh, ok, Pigmen! | Zombie Pigmen may be found in the Nether. A skin for regular Pigmen can be found in the .jar file, and they are planned for a future release. | |
144 | OICU812! | When read aloud, "Oh, I see you ate one, too." | |
189 | Omnipotent! | The player can do nearly anything to the surrounding world. | |
17 | One of a kind! | Refers to Minecraft being a unique game. | |
77 | OpenGL 1.1! | Another technology used by Minecraft, though not the advertised version. | |
134 | Peter Griffin! | Head of the family from Family Guy. | |
121 | Phobos anomaly! | The final map of Doom's first episode. | |
49 | Pixels! | Minecraft is heavily influenced by pixel art. Additionally, "Minecraft" has a pixelated look, due to low-resolution textures. | |
84 | Play him off, keyboard cat! | Keyboard Cat is an internet meme wherein after someone makes an embarrassing mistake a cat is shown playing a keyboard. | |
208 | Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | This one was added during the yearly LRR Desert Bus charity drive. | |
76 | Played by cowboys! | May be a reference to the Redstone Cowboys. | |
148 | Pneumatic! | ||
105 | Polynomial! | A term used in algebra. | |
55 | Pretty! | The landscapes in Minecraft are often very visually appealing. | |
122 | Punching wood! | While not strictly necessary, it is nearly impossible to start a new game without collecting wood, which, lacking tools, must be done by punching it. | |
88 | Random splash! | Different splash texts appear randomly. | |
129 | Reference implementation! | May be a reference to this. | |
171 | Regional resources! | Minecraft has biomes which contain specific resources. | |
155 | Representing Edsbyn! | A city in Sweden. | |
26 | Reticulating splines! | Refers to a running gag during loading processes in many games of the SimSeries by Maxis. | |
118 | Ride the pig! | Using a saddle, you can! Also, it could be a reference to the Invader Zim episode "Attack of the Saucer Morons". | |
153 | Rita is the new top dog! | Refers to old Australian TV show, Prisoner. | |
207 | Scary! | Some people find Minecraft scary. | |
109 | Scientific! | Minecraft is scientific in that it uses computer science but also players can craft or smelt items to make them into better or more useful items. | |
128 | Seecret Friday update! | Before Minecraft went Beta, updates were released weekly, every Friday. Notch called these updates "Seecret Friday updates". | |
82 | Sensational! | Minecraft has become an internet sensation. | |
7 | Sexy! | ||
29 | Singleplayer! | Minecraft does indeed have a Single Player mode. | |
202 | Slow acting portals! | Portals to the Nether take a few seconds to activate. | |
201 | So fresh, so clean! | "So Fresh, So Clean" is a song by Outkast. | |
20 | Spiders everywhere! | The creature. | |
120 | sqrt(-1) love you! | Mathematical confession using imaginary numbers. sqrt(-1) is represented by the mathematical constant i, so this phrase literally means "i love you".
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215 | Stay a while, stay forever! | A quote from Impossible Mission, a game for the Commodore 64. Refers to the addicting quality of Minecraft. | |
216 | Stay a while and listen! | A quote from Elder Deckard Cain from the Diablo series. | |
149 | Sublime! | A term that flourished in the Romance period, used to describe a feeling of simultaneous wonder and terror at natural phenomena- quite apt for many a player's experience of the game. (Additionally, the German Romance painter Friedrich's "The Wanderer over the Sea of Fog", frequently cited as a prototypical example of the sublime in art, is the source for an in-game painting.) | |
157 | Superfragilisticexpialidocious! | The famous song from Disney's Mary Poppins. Notch probably meant to have it say "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", though he has hinted it may be a hidden message.[2] | |
37 | Survive! | Survival was once the only given objective in the game, but more objectives were added with the inclusion of Achievements. | |
197 | Switches and ores! | Redstone is used to create switches, and many types of ore can be found. Also a reference to the meme "Bitches and Whores". | |
154 | SWM forever! | Possibly a reference to This swedish gaming community called Swedish Maffia. | |
126 | Synecdoche! | A synecdoche (Greek for "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech where an object or concept is represented by a part or subconcept. | |
113 | Take frequent breaks! | ||
65 | Technically good! | Minecraft is good according to popular opinion. Could also refer to the technical side, such as building redstone circuits. | |
50 | Teetsuuuuoooo! | Refers to the Japanese anime movie Akira. | |
99 | Tell your friends! | Minecraft has reached its current popularity mainly by word of mouth. | |
106 | Terrestrial! | Minecraft is located entirely on Earth (or at least, an Earth-like planet). | |
34 | That's not a moon! | Famous (though not quite accurate) quote from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The actual quote is, "That's no moon, it's a space station!". May also be a reference to the fact that the minecraft moon is highly pixelated and does not resemble a moon. | |
40 | The bee's knees! | A slang phrase originating from the 1920's U.S. | |
222 | The creeper is a spy! | "The […] is a spy!" is a common phrase in Team Fortress 2 to warn other players of enemy spies, a class that is able to disguise as the enemy team and sneak behind their victim's back in order to kill them instantly with a backstab. | |
226 | The sky is the limit! | The building limit is in the sky, at layer 127. | |
140 | The sum of its parts! | Reference to the living systems theory. | |
139 | The Work of Notch! | Notch created Minecraft, also a possible reference to The Word of Notch. | |
147 | Thematic! | Relating to a talking topic. Like "Tell your friends!", Minecraft has reached its current popularity mainly by word of mouth. | |
194 | This text is hard to read if you play the game at the default resolution, but at 1080p it's fine! | The splash text scales to fit, making this particular splash difficult to read at lower resolutions. | |
78 | Thousands of colors! | Alias for highcolor, which can represent up to 65,536 colors, on a Macintosh. | |
183 | Tip your waiter! | A phrase commonly uttered by comedians at the end of their performances. | |
217 | Treatment for your rash! | ||
79 | Try it! | You really should. | |
81 | Try the mushroom stew! | Minecraft contains Mushroom Stew. | |
203 | Try the Nether! | There is a region in Minecraft called The Nether. | |
209 | Twittered about! | Notch often tweets about Minecraft on his Twitter feed. | |
223 | Turing complete! | Turing completeness is a term used in computer science for machines and programming languages that are able to perform all operations of a Turing machine. The Redstone mechanism is one of them. | |
92 | Ultimate edition! | ||
143 | umop-apisdn! | The phrase "upside-down", upside-down. | |
31 | Undocumented! | There is no formal documentation from Notch about Minecraft. | |
151 | Une baguette! | Literally "a stick" in French, a baguette is a kind of bread. | |
96 | Uninflammable! | A joke on the fact that "inflammable" is often mistaken to mean "not flammable" due to the "in-" prefix. | |
25 | Uses LWJGL! | Minecraft uses LWJGL. | |
133 | Verlet intregration! | Verlet integration is a technique often used to calculate trajectories of particles. | |
184 | Very fun! | ||
186 | Vote for net neutrality! | Net neutrality. | |
95 | Water proof! | Most blocks in Minecraft are unaffected by water. Note: Minecraft itself, and by extension, your computer, are not water proof. Do not submerge your computer in water, even partially. | |
214 | Welcome to your Doom! | The boss quote from Altered Beast. | |
13 | When it's finished! | Minecraft is still in an incomplete beta stage. Also a reference to Blizzard's scheduled release date for StarCraft II. | |
97 | Whoa, dude! | ||
174 | Woo, /v/! | The video game board on 4chan. | |
172 | Woo, facepunch! | Facepunch. | |
176 | Woo, minecraftforum! | MinecraftForum. | |
178 | Woo, reddit! | Reddit. | |
179 | Woo, 2pp! | A reference to 2 Player Productions, the company behind Minecraft:The Story of Mojang. | |
173 | Woo, somethingawful! | SomethingAwful. | |
175 | Woo, tigsource! | TIGSource. | |
177 | Woo, worldofminecraft! | World of Minecraft. | |
44 | Wow! | ||
28 | Yaaay! | ||
75 | Yes, sir! | ||
94 | You've got a brand new key! | Refers to the song "Brand New Key". |
Special splashes
Occasionally Notch replaces all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.
Splash text | Occasion |
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1K in 24h! | Shown on the Alpha 1.0.13_02 update, to celebrate the 1000 sales in the last 24 hours before the release. |
[DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!] | Shown on the Halloween Update build since Notch gave it to PCGamer as a "preview". |
Happy birthday, ez! | Shown on 9 November 2010, ez being Notch's fiancee. |
Happy birthday, Notch! | Shown on 1 June 2011. |
Finally beta! | This was the only splash in Beta, excluding other specials, until the January 14, 2011 update. |
Merry X-mas! | Shown on December 24, 2010, celebrating Christmas, aka X-mas. |
Happy New Year! | Shown on January 1, 2011, celebrating the new year of 2011. |
missingno | Shown when the splashes.txt file has been modified or deleted without also deleting the META-INF folder. References a glitch Pokémon found in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue for the Gameboy Color and another rumored glitch for the DS Pokémon games as well. |
PC Gamer Demo! | This splash is only shown on the demo. |
Removed splashes
Splash text | Explanation |
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Pre-beta! | Alpha version of MineCraft. |
Alpha version! | Alpha version of MineCraft. |
9.95 euro! | The pricing of the Alpha version of MineCraft, which is half that of the final price. |
Half price! | The pricing of the Alpha version of MineCraft, which is half that of the final price. |
Notes
- ↑ This is the number place of the splash in the "splashes.txt" file.