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.
| Version | # added | # changed | # removed | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indev 02-23-2010 |
? | ? | ? | 106 | |
| Alpha 1.0.0 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 159 | |
| Alpha 1.0.6–Alpha 1.0.11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 165 | |
| Alpha 1.0.12–Alpha 1.0.14 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 199 | |
| Halloween Update (Alpha 1.2.0) |
6 | 0 | 0 | 211 | One splash, "Check it out!", was listed twice prior to this version, on lines 21 and 47. |
| Alpha 1.2.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 212 | |
| Beta 1.0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 224 | |
| Beta 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 220 | |
| Beta 1.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 223 | |
| Beta 1.6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 226 | |
| Beta 1.8 pre1 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 260 | The removed splash was the "Check it out!" duplicate on line 47. |
| 1.0 RC1 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 288 | |
| 11w50a | 15 | 0 | 0 | 303 |
Complete list of splashes
| #[N 1] | Splash text | Explanation | Version added[N 2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | ...! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 123 | 0% sugar! | "Sugar-free" is frequently used in food-related advertisements and packaging. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 3 | 100% pure! | A reference to some juices which use "100% pure" or a variant thereof as a selling point.[1] | Indev |
| 234 | 110813! | Notch's and ez's wedding day, August 13th, 2011. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 55 | 12 herbs and spices! | KFC's secret chicken flavoring recipe contains 11 herbs and spices. | Indev |
| 184 | 12345 is a bad password! | 12345 is a commonly used password. This is also a reference to the film Spaceballs by Mel Brooks. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 285 | 150 bpm for 400000 minutes! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 124 | 150% hyperbole! | A hyperbole is an exaggeration used to generate emphasis or humor. 150% is, naturally, an exaggeration. Also a possible reference to the semi-popular blog Hyperbole and a Half. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 131 | 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). | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 136 | 4815162342 lines of code! | 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 are The Numbers that appear all over the television series Lost. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 53 | 90% bug free! | Indev | |
| 235 | 90210! | 90210 is famous for being the ZIP Code for Beverly Hills, California. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 137 | A skeleton popped out! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 57 | Absolutely no memes! | Indev | |
| 280 | Afraid of the big, black bat! | A quote from The Riddler in the film Batman Forever: "Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black bat?". In Minecraft, it could refer to the Enderdragon, since its big bat-like wings and the black color could inspire chiroptophobia. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 79 | Age of Wonders is better! | Age of Wonders is a PC turn-based strategy game. | Indev |
| 97 | All inclusive! | Indev | |
| 106 | All is full of love! | "All Is Full of Love" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 219 | "Almost never" is an interesting concept! | Possible reference to the inverse of the mathematical concept of "almost surely". | Beta 1.0 |
| 246 | Also try Braid! | Braid is a puzzle-platformer game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 244 | Also try Limbo! | Limbo is a puzzle-platformer game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 241 | Also try Mount And Blade! | Mount&Blade is a medieval-themed RPG for the PC. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 245 | Also try Pixeljunk Shooter! | PixelJunk Shooter is a PlayStation 3 game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 242 | Also try Project Zomboid! | Project Zomboid is a zombie apocalypse-themed game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 239 | Also try Super Meat Boy! | Super Meat Boy is a platformer game made by Edmund McMillen. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 240 | Also try Terraria! | Terraria is a 2D game with a similar premise to Minecraft, and is almost as popular. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 238 | Also try VVVVVV! | VVVVVV is a 2D puzzle-platformer game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 243 | Also try World of Goo! | World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 211 | A riddle, wrapped in a mystery! | From a quote by Winston Churchill; "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma[...]". | Beta 1.0 |
| 1 | As seen on TV! | A common marketing claim that is often lampooned. | Indev |
| 59 | Ask your doctor! | Similar to "As seen on TV", said at some point in almost every pharmaceutical advertisement. | Indev |
| 217 | "Autological" is! | An autological word is a word which describes itself. Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this read '"Noun" is an autonym!'. | Beta 1.0 |
| 165 | Autonomous! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 47 | Awesome community! | Indev | |
| 2 | Awesome! | Indev | |
| 191 | Bees, bees, bees, bees! | A line from one of Weebl's works, "cup". | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 12 | Best in class! | A frequently-used catchphrase in car commercials. | Indev |
| 5 | Better than Prey! | Prey is a first person shooter that was well-received by critics. | Indev |
| 253 | Bigger than a bread box! | Refers to a question asked by Steve Allen, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?", during a game of 20 Questions on What's My Line?. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 265 | Boots with the fur! | From the song "Low" by Flo Rida, featuring T-Pain. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 248 | Bread is pain! | This splash has two meanings: one related to translation ("pain" is French for "bread"), and one ironic (bread in Minecraft heals the player). | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 86 | Bring it on! | Indev | |
| 144 | Bring me Ray Cokes! | Has to do with the incident when JulianClark brought Notch Ray Cokes. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 65 | Bringing home the bacon! | "Bringing home the bacon" is a phrase that, similar to "breadwinner", refers to providing for a group of people or household. | Indev |
| 140 | BTAF used to be good! | Bob the Angry Flower is a comic strip that has been running since 1992. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 116 | Buckets of lava! | A bucket may be filled with lava. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 88 | Call your mother! | Indev | |
| 227 | Casual gaming! | Beta 1.8pre1 | |
| 68 | 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. | Indev |
| 21 | Check it out! | Indev | |
| 236 | Check out the far lands! | The Far Lands were the "limit" of the infinite map, until Notch accidentally fixed them. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 282 | Child's play! | A children's charity that organizes donations and worldwide toy drives to children's hospitals. Also a phrase used to imply something is easy. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 43 | Classy! | Indev | |
| 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".[2] | Indev |
| 61 | Cloud computing! | Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. | Indev |
| 135 | Cogito ergo sum! | Latin for "I think, therefore I am". A quote from Descartes. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 110 | Collaborate and listen! | Lyrics to "Ice Ice Baby" by American rapper Vanilla Ice. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 302 | Colormatic | This splash is stored as "§1C§2o§3l§4o§5r§6m§7a§8t§9i§ac" in splashes.txt; the "§" and the character following determine the color that the text following that code will be displayed as. | 11w50a |
| 73 | Complex cellular automata! | Both Minecraft and an earlier work of Notch's feature cellular automata; Notch has stated that he is fascinated by it. | Indev |
| 157 | Consummate V's! | Refers to an episode of Homestar Runner. | Alpha 1.0.11 |
| 268 | Conventional! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 109 | Cooler than Spock! | Spock is a very popular Star Trek character. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 158 | Cow Tools! | Refers to a Far Side comic by Gary Larson. | Alpha 1.0.11 |
| 36 | Create! | Indev | |
| 292 | Cześć Polska! | Polish for "Hello, Poland!". | 11w50a |
| 276 & 277 | Déjà vu! | A déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 134 | Do not distribute! | Part of the Minecraft terms and conditions; referred to as "The one major rule" by Notch. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 272 | Does barrel rolls! | Refers to a move that can be performed by the Arwing in Star Fox games. In Star Fox 64, the humorous way in which Peppy Hare said "Do a barrel roll!" led to the creation of a meme. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 270 | Doesn't avoid double negatives! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 281 | Doesn't use the U-word! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 258 | Don't bother with the clones! | Relates to the numerous "clones" of Minecraft such as FortressCraft, and perhaps an ironic reference to the fact that Minecraft conceptually is itself a "clone" of Infiniminer, and therefore clones might not be negative remakes of other games. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 203 | Don't look directly at the bugs! | Halloween Update | |
| 159 | Double buffered! | Another Minecraft feature. | Alpha 1.0.11 |
| 41 | Down with O.P.P.! | Line from the song "O.P.P." by American hip hop trio "Naughty by Nature". | Indev |
| 168 | DRR! DRR! DRR! | Refers to the horror manga short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault, which among fans is often used as an analogy for the origin of Creepers. May also refer to the sound that arrows make upon hitting something. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 38 | Dungeon! | Indev | |
| 233 | DungeonQuest is unfair! | Dungeonquest is a board game whose gameplay relies on the players creating the playing board by randomly selecting tiles and placing them on a grid. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 166 | Engage! | Refers to the Star Trek saying "Engage!" by Jean-Luc Picard, referring to the warp drive. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 52 | Enhanced! | Indev | |
| 199 | Eple (original edit)! | Title of a piece by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp. | |
| 69 | Euclidian! | Minecraft mainly relies on one of the simplest forms of Euclidian geometry, the cube. | Indev |
| 15 | Excitement! | Indev | |
| 39 | Exclusive! | Indev | |
| 33 | Exploding creepers! | The beloved creature. | Indev |
| 122 | Falling off cliffs! | Often happened accidentally before sneaking was implemented. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 160 | Fan fiction! | Alpha 1.0.11 | |
| 167 | Fantasy! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 56 | Fat free! | Often an advertising point on food, directed at people attempting to lose or keep from gaining weight. | Indev |
| 264 | Feature packed! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 263 | Finally complete! | A reference to the fact that Minecraft has finally left Beta. While it may have been "officially released" and known as Minecraft 1.0, it is (in reality) far from "complete".[3] | 1.0 RC1 |
| 205 | Finally with ladders! | Ladders were added to the game in Infdev. | Halloween Update |
| 145 | Finger-licking! | "Finger-lickin' good" was a previous slogan of KFC. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 9 | Flashing letters! | Indev | |
| 161 | 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 to English as "lucky spyglass". | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 255 | Fnord! | Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 230 | Follow the train, CJ! | A reference to the mission "Wrong Side Of The Tracks" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 92 | Freaky! | Indev | |
| 58 | Free dental! | Free dental is often a talking point about a job advertisement, and is similar to "As seen on TV". | Indev |
| 284 | From the streets of Södermalm! | Södermalm is the district in Stockholm where the Mojang offices are located.[4] | 1.0 RC1 |
| 107 | Full of stars! | Part of a quote from Dr. David Bowman ("The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of stars!") and his last line before being pulled through the monolith, from the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (while often attributed to the film of the same name, the line doesn't actually appear on-screen until its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact). | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 287 | Funk soul brother! | A repeated lyric in a vocal sample in the Fatboy Slim song "The Rockafeller Skank". | 1.0 RC1 |
| 303 | FUNKY LOL | This splash is stored as "§kFUNKY LOL" in splashes.txt; as with the "Colormatic" splash, the "§k" is a control sequence, but unlike "§1" through "§a", "§k" causes the text following it to be replaced with random, rapidly-changing characters. | 11w50a |
| 151 | Gargamel plays it! | Gargamel is the enemy of the Smurfs. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 189 | Gasp! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 275 | Ghoughpteighbteau tchoghs! | "Potato chips", spelled phonetically using obscure rules of English pronunciation.[5] | 1.0 RC1 |
| 181 | Give us Gordon! | A possible reference to Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of the Half-Life game, in which the military troops wrote "Give Us Gordon Freeman" in graffiti. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 179 | Google anlyticsed! | A past-tense misspelling of Google Analytics, a service that provides statistics about visitors to a website. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 278 | Got your nose! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 67 | GOTY! | A common abbreviation for "Game of the Year". Minecraft has been nominated — and voted — Game of the Year by a number of gaming magazines and news sites. | Indev |
| 84 | Guaranteed! | Indev | |
| 194 | Haha, LOL! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 279 | Haley loves Elan! | A reference to the webcomic The Order of the Stick, in which Haley Starshine has a long-concealed crush on Elan and eventually starts a relationship with him. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 195 | Hampsterdance! | Hampster Dance is one of the oldest internet memes. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 114 | Han shot first! | A contentious scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In the original version of the film, Han Solo pulls out his blaster and shoots Greedo before he knows it. In the special edition, Greedo shoots and misses, followed by Han shooting him. This was one of many changes to the film that angered fans. In their plight, they adopted the phrase 'Han shot first'. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 63 | Hard to label! | Indev | |
| 262 | Has an ending! | The End. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 103 | Haunted! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 18 | Heaps of hits on YouTube! | Minecraft is among the most popular topics on YouTube. Notch's channel is rarely updated, but has received over a million views. User-created tutorial and demonstration videos, "Let's Play" series, Machinimas and various other videos are also very common. Prior to Alpha 1.0.0(?), this read "700+ hits on YouTube!". | Indev |
| 291 | Helo Cymru! | Welsh for "Hello, Wales!". | 11w50a |
| 72 | Herregud! | Swedish for "Oh My God!". | Indev |
| 260 | Hobo humping slobo babe! | "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" was the critically-acclaimed first single of the band Whale. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 22 | Holy cow, man! | Indev | |
| 269 | Homeomorphic to a 3-sphere! | A "homeomorphism" is a mathematical property indicating that there is a continual topological mapping between two objects; in layman's terms, there exists a way to deform one into the other without cutting or gluing. A "3-sphere" is a sphere in 3 dimensions, or the set of points equidistant from a given center in 4-space, a higher-dimensional analogue of the "2-sphere" (what we think of as an ordinary sphere.) Since Minecraft technically exists in 4 dimensions (3 spatial and 1 temporal) it could, in theory, be homeomorphic to a 3-sphere. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 82 | Hot tamale, hot hot tamale! | Line from the Weebl song "Tamale". | Indev |
| 163 | Hotter than the sun! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 212 | 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. | Beta 1.0 |
| 141 | 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. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 298 | I see your vocabulary has improved! | Possible reference to the addition of multilingual support in Minecraft 11w49a. | 11w50a |
| 198 | idspispopd! | The NoClip command for Doom. | |
| 301 | if not ok then return end | This is Lua script code for exiting a function if the variable 'ok' is false or nil (not set). | 11w50a |
| 19 | Indev! | Indev was the second major version of Minecraft, after Classic. It was succeeded by Infdev. | Indev |
| 66 | Indie! | Indev | |
| 218 | Information wants to be free! | Slogan referring to the fact that keeping information contained tends to be more difficult than allowing it to disseminate. | Beta 1.0 |
| 32 | Ingots! | Iron and Gold Ingots are obtainable in the game. | Indev |
| 71 | Inspirational! | Indev | |
| 164 | Internet enabled! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 23 | It's a game! | Indev | |
| 13 | It's finished! | Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this read "When it's finished!". | Indev |
| 223 | It's groundbreaking! | Beta 1.6 | |
| 11 | It's here! | Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this splash said "Coming soon!". | Indev |
| 192 | Jag känner en bot! | Swedish for "I know a bot". Refers to the first line of the song "Boten Anna" by the Swedish dance artist, Basshunter. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 162 | Jason! Jason! Jason! | The main character of the game Heavy Rain yells "Jason!" repeatedly while looking for his son. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 226 | Jeb has amazing hair! | Referring to Mojang employee Jens Bergensten having long, red hair. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 210 | Joel is neat! | May refer to Canadian electronic music composer Deadmau5, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman. | Beta 1.0 |
| 209 | Jump up, jump up, and get down! | "Jump Around" by American hip hop group "House of Pain". | Beta 1.0 |
| 50 | Kaaneeeedaaaa! | Refers to the Japanese anime film Akira. | Indev |
| 30 | Keyboard compatible! | Indev | |
| 250 | Khaaaaaaaaan! | A reference to the scene in The Wrath of Khan when Captain Kirk screams Khan's name. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 169 | Kick it root down! | Lyrics from the song "Root Down" by American hip hop band "Beastie Boys". | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 14 | Kind of dragon free! | It may be a possible reference to a quote from Wurm Online, wherein Notch states that "we will never add dragons". Dragons were eventually added, however. The same thing happened in Minecraft with the addition of the Enderdragon in 1.9 Pre-release 4. Before Minecraft 1.0 RC 1, this splash read "Absolutely dragon free!". | Indev |
| 229 | Kinda like Lemmings! | Lemmings is a game which also features mining, digging and blowing things up. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 130 | Kiss the sky! | A reference to the lyrics from "Purple Haze" by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 35 | l33t! | Leet is a type of symbolic spelling in which letters are replaced by lookalike numbers, punctuation, other symbols, and even characters from other languages. For example, "hello" is written as "|-|3110". | Indev |
| 118 | Larger than Earth! | The theoretical maximum size of the map in Minecraft is roughly eight times the total surface area of the Earth. However, technical restrictions mean that the actual maximum size is much smaller, though still larger than the Earth. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 62 | Legal in Finland! | May be a reference to the urban legend that Donald Duck is illegal in Finland. | Indev |
| 297 | Lennart lennart = new Lennart(); | "Lennart" is a Swedish variant of the name "Leonard". This is a bit of pseudocode declaring a new Lennart, named "lennart", of type "Lennart". | 11w50a |
| 251 | Less addictive than TV Tropes! | TV Tropes is very addictive. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 224 | Let our battle's begin! | Probably a reference to Bob the angry flower. | Beta 1.6 |
| 126 | Let's danec! | A reference to a typo Notch made while working on Wurm Online. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 231 | Leveraging synergy! | A common example of business speak. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 129 | Lewd with two dudes with food! | A line from "If You're Into It" by Flight of the Conchords. Prior to Alpha 1.0.14, this splash read "Rude with two dudes with food!". | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 8 | Limited edition! | Indev | |
| 186 | Lives in a pineapple under the sea! | Part of the opening line of the theme song for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 102 | Livestreamed! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 220 | Lots of truthiness! | A reference to Stephen Colbert's favorite word "truthiness". | Beta 1.3 |
| 90 | Loved by millions! | Indev | |
| 85 | Macroscopic! | Indev | |
| 261 | Made by Jeb! | Jeb is the lead Minecraft developer now that Notch has stepped down from developing it. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 10 | Made by Notch! | Notch is the creator of Minecraft. | Indev |
| 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. | Indev |
| 187 | MAP11 has two names! | Doom II: Hell on Earth's MAP11. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 155 | Matt Damon! | May refer to Team America: World Police, in which Matt Damon can only say his name. | Alpha 1.0.11 |
| 4 | May contain nuts! | A common food allergen warning. | Indev |
| 273 | Meeting expectations! | 1.0 RC1 | |
| 197 | Menger sponge! | The Menger sponge is a fractal object constructed by dividing a cube into 27 smaller cubes and removing the smaller center cube from each of the larger cube's six faces and the smaller cube in the larger cube's center, and repeating this operation for each remaining smaller cube, and then for each of the even smaller cubes, and so on. A Menger sponge can be exactly represented in Minecraft up to about the sixth iteration. | |
| 254 | Millions of peaches! | A Possible reference to the "The Presidents of the United States of America" song Peaches, which features the line "Millions of peaches!". | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 27 | Minecraft! | Indev | |
| 60 | Minors welcome! | Indev | |
| 89 | Monster infighting! | Aggressive mobs can attack one another if the player can get one mob to accidently attack another. | Indev |
| 252 | More addictive than lemonade! | Beta 1.8pre1 | |
| 6 | More polygons! | Most of today's video games, including Minecraft, are visually based on polygons. | Indev |
| 16 | More than 500 sold! | In Indev and Infdev, this splash originally read "More than 5000 sold!". In Alpha 1.0, it was changed to read "More than 25000 sold!", and between Alpha 1.0.12 and Alpha 1.0.14 it was changed to the current splash, making it the only splash to be changed more than once. | Indev |
| 101 | Music by C418! | All of Minecraft's music was composed by C418. | Indev |
| 296 | My life for Aiur! | Aiur is the homeworld of the protoss in the StarCraft video game series. | 11w50a |
| 111 | Never dig down! | Digging directly under you is never recommended, since there could be a long drop, a dungeon, mobs or lava below you. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 115 | Nice to meet you! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 113 | Not linear! | As Minecraft is a sandbox game, there is no actual storyline to follow; the game's appeal instead lies in emergent gameplay. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 45 | Not on steam! | Minecraft is not sold via Steam, but only on the Minecraft website. | Indev |
| 100 | Notch <3 ez! | ez is Notch's wife. Prior to Alpha 1.0.11, this splash read "Notch <3 Ez!". | Indev |
| 70 | Now in 3D! | Minecraft has a 3D Anaglyph mode. | Indev |
| 180 | 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. Prior to (some version), this splash read "Now supports ÅÄÖ!". | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 51 | Now with difficulty! | Difficulty may be set to Peaceful, Easy, Normal, or Hard. | Indev |
| 99 | NP is not in P! | The P versus NP problem is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in computer science. In layman's terms, it is still unknown whether P is in NP or equal to NP. Either way, NP is technically not in P, so the splash text line is true. | Indev |
| 149 | Octagonal! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 46 | Oh man! | Indev | |
| 204 | Oh, ok, Pigmen! | Zombie Pigmen may be found in the Nether. A skin for regular Pigmen can be found in minecraft.jar, and they are planned for a future release. | Halloween Update |
| 143 | OICU812! | When read aloud, "Oh, I see you ate one, too." May be a reference to text messaging. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 188 | Omnipotent! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 17 | One of a kind! | Indev | |
| 76 | OpenGL 1.2! | Another technology used by Minecraft. Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this read "OpenGL 1.1!". | Indev |
| 274 | PC gaming since 1873! | The slogan of the UK-based PC gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun.[6] | 1.0 RC1 |
| 133 | Peter Griffin! | Head of the family from the animated TV show Family Guy. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 120 | Phobos anomaly! | The final map of Doom's first episode. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 48 | Pixels! | Indev | |
| 271 | Place ALL the blocks! | A snowclone meme originating from a post on the blog "Hyperbole and a Half", which contained an image with the phrase "Clean ALL the things!". | 1.0 RC1 |
| 83 | 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, frequently accompanied by the phrase "play him off, keyboard cat". | Indev |
| 207 | Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig! | Added during the yearly LRR Desert Bus charity drive. | Alpha 1.2.3? |
| 75 | Played by cowboys! | Indev | |
| 147 | Pneumatic! | A word meaning "air-powered". | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 104 | Polynomial! | Polynomials. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 54 | Pretty! | Indev | |
| 288 | Pumpa kungen! | "Pumpa kungen" is Swedish for "pump the king". It might also be interpreted as "the pumpkin king", though if so it's slightly misspelled with a very common Swedish spelling error. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 259 | Pumpkinhead! | Pumpkins are wearable as helmets in Minecraft. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 121 | 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. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 87 | Random splash! | Different splash texts appear randomly, just like this one. | Indev |
| 249 | Read more books! | Beta 1.8pre1 | |
| 128 | Reference implementation! | Refers to reference implementations. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 170 | Regional resources! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 154 | Representing Edsbyn! | Edsbyn is a city in Sweden. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 26 | Reticulating splines! | Refers to a running gag during loading processes in many games of the Sim and Spore series by Maxis. | Indev |
| 117 | Ride the pig! | Pigs can be ridden with a saddle. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 152 | Rita is the new top dog! | Refers to old Australian TV show, Prisoner. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 206 | Scary! | Halloween Update | |
| 108 | Scientific! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 283 | See you next Friday or so! | MineCon started on Friday, November 18, 2011, a little less than a week after the release of the Minecraft 1.0 release candidates. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 127 | Seecret Friday update! | Before Minecraft went Beta, updates were released weekly, every Friday. Notch called these updates "Seecret Friday updates". | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 81 | Sensational! | Indev | |
| 7 | Sexy! | Indev | |
| 29 | Singleplayer! | Indev | |
| 201 | Slow acting portals! | Portals to the Nether take a few seconds to activate. | Halloween Update |
| 200 | So fresh, so clean! | "So Fresh, So Clean" is a song by American hip hop duo "Outkast". | |
| 20 | Spiders everywhere! | There are three different types of spiders in the game. | Indev |
| 119 | sqrt(-1) love you! | Mathematical confession using imaginary numbers. sqrt(-1) is represented by the mathematical constant i, so this phrase translates to "i love you".
|
Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 214 | Stay a while, stay forever! | A quote from Impossible Mission, a game for the Commodore 64. Refers to the addictive quality of Minecraft. | Beta 1.0 |
| 215 | Stay a while and listen! | A quote from Elder Deckard Cain from the Diablo series. | Beta 1.0 |
| 266 | Stop, hammertime! | A phrase from the song "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 148 | 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.) | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 156 | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | The famous song from Disney's Mary Poppins. Before Minecraft 1.0 RC1, it read "Superfragilisticexpialidocious!"; Notch hinted it may have been a hidden message.[7] | Alpha 1.0.11 |
| 37 | Survive! | Survival was once the only given objective in the game, although more objectives were added with the inclusion of Achievements. | Indev |
| 196 | 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". | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 153 | SWM forever! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 125 | Synecdoche! | A synecdoche (Greek for "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech where an object or concept is represented by a part or subconcept. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 112 | Take frequent breaks! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 64 | Technically good! | Indev | |
| 286 | Technologic! | Title of a song by French electronic music duo Daft Punk. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 49 | Teetsuuuuoooo! | Refers to the Japanese anime film Akira. | Indev |
| 98 | Tell your friends! | Indev | |
| 105 | Terrestrial! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 267 | Testificates! | In the Beta 1.8 and 1.9 pre-releases, all villagers had the name "TESTIFICATE" over their head. | 1.0 RC1 |
| 34 | That's no moon! | Famous quote from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The full quote is "That's no moon, it's a space station!". Prior to Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this splash said "That's not a moon!". | Indev |
| 247 | That's super! | Beta 1.8pre1 | |
| 40 | The bee's knees! | A 1920's slang phrase originating in the United States of America. | Indev |
| 221 | The creeper is a spy! | "The […] is a spy!" is a common phrase used in Team Fortress 2 to warn other players of enemy spies; the Spy is a class that is able to disguise as the enemy team and kill them from behind, which creepers tend to do. | Beta 1.3 |
| 225 | The sky is the limit! | Beta 1.6 | |
| 139 | The sum of its parts! | Reference to the living systems theory. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 138 | The Work of Notch! | Probably a reference to The Word of Notch. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 146 | Thematic! | Alpha 1.0.0 | |
| 256 | This is my true form! | A common cliche stock phrase usually used by villains and godly figures in works of fantasy. It is mainly employed at the final battle of the game. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 232 | This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird? | Despite what this splash claims, the message does appear on the splash screen. This is the first splash that doesn't end with an exclamation point (!), other than the special "missingno" splash. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 193 | 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. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 77 | Thousands of colors! | Alias for highcolor, which can represent up to 65,536 colors, on a Macintosh. | Indev |
| 182 | Tip your waiter! | A phrase commonly said by comedians at the end of their performances. Other variations are "Tip your waitress!" or "Try the veal!".[8] | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 257 | Totally forgot about Dre! | Reference to the song Forgot about Dre by Dr. Dre. | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 216 | Treatment for your rash! | A commonly-used phrase in medicine advertising. | Beta 1.0 |
| 78 | Try it! | Indev | |
| 80 | Try the mushroom stew! | Mushroom Stew. | Indev |
| 202 | Try the Nether! | The Nether. | Halloween Update |
| 208 | Twittered about! | Notch often tweets about Minecraft on his Twitter feed, as do many other people. | Beta 1.0 |
| 222 | 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. | Beta 1.3 |
| 237 | Tyrion would love it! | Refers to Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf from the George R. R. Martin book A Dance With Dragons, in which he performs a mock joust while mounted on a pig. Minecraft lets you dig and ride pigs. Before Minecraft 1.0 RC1, this splash read "Tyrian would love it!". | Beta 1.8pre1 |
| 91 | Ultimate edition! | Indev | |
| 142 | umop-apisdn! | The phrase "upside-down", upside-down. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 228 | Undefeated! | Beta 1.8pre1 | |
| 31 | Undocumented! | Indev | |
| 150 | Une baguette! | Literally "a stick" in French, a baguette is a kind of bread. Minecraft also features bread and sticks. Could also be a reference to the Flight of the Conchords song "Foux Du Fafa". | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 95 | Uninflammable! | A joke on the fact that "inflammable" is often mistaken to mean "not flammable" due to the "in-" prefix. | Indev |
| 25 | Uses LWJGL! | Minecraft uses LWJGL. | Indev |
| 132 | Verlet intregration! | Verlet integration is a technique often used to calculate trajectories of particles. | Alpha 1.0.0 |
| 183 | Very fun! | Alpha 1.0.14 | |
| 185 | Vote for net neutrality! | Net neutrality is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 94 | Water proof! | Indev | |
| 213 | Welcome to your Doom! | The boss quote from Altered Beast. | Beta 1.0 |
| 299 | Who put it there? | 11w50a | |
| 96 | Whoa, dude! | Indev | |
| 173 | Woo, /v/! | The video game board on 4chan, where Minecraft is frequently discussed (and occasionally promoted by Notch). | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 171 | Woo, facepunch! | Facepunch is a game forum. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 175 | Woo, minecraftforum! | MinecraftForum is the official Minecraft forum. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 177 | Woo, reddit! | Reddit is a popular internet blog. | |
| 178 | Woo, 2pp! | A reference to 2 Player Productions, the company behind Minecraft:The Story of Mojang. | Beta 1.3? |
| 172 | Woo, somethingawful! | SomethingAwful is an internet site. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 174 | Woo, tigsource! | TIGSource is another game forum. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 176 | Woo, worldofminecraft! | World of Minecraft is yet another popular Minecraft forum. | Alpha 1.0.14 |
| 44 | Wow! | Indev | |
| 28 | Yaaay! | Indev | |
| 74 | Yes, sir! | Indev | |
| 300 | You can't explain that! | A reference to a popular image macro series using an image of Bill O'Reilly, with a misunderstanding of a standard occurrence followed by "YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT" | 11w50a |
| 93 | You've got a brand new key! | Refers to the song "Brand New Key" by American folk singer Melanie. | Indev |
| 295 | Γεια σου Ελλάδα! | Greek for "Hello, Greece!". | 11w50a |
| 294 | Привет Россия! | Russian for "Hello, Russia!". | 11w50a |
| 289 | 日本ハロー! | Japanese for "Hello, Japan!". | 11w50a |
| 290 | 한국 안녕하세요! | Korean for "Hello, South Korea!". | 11w50a |
| 293 | 你好中国! | Chinese for "Hello, China!". | 11w50a |
Special splashes
Occasionally Mojang will replace all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.
| Splash text | Date/version displayed | Occasion |
|---|---|---|
| 1K in 24h! | July 29, 2010 Alpha 1.0.13_02 |
Shown to celebrate the 1000 sales in the last 24 hours before the release. |
| [DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!] | — | Shown on the Halloween Update pre-release build given to PCGamer as a preview. |
| Finally beta! | December 20, 2010–January 14, 2011 Beta 1.0–Beta 1.2 |
Excluding "Merry X-Mas!" and "Happy New Year!", this was the only splash from Beta 1.0 to Beta 1.2. Beta 1.2_01 reinstated random splashes. |
| Happy birthday, ez! | November 9, 2010 November 9, 2011 |
Shown on ez's birthday. |
| Happy birthday, Notch! | June 1, 2011 | Shown on Notch's birthday. |
| Happy New Year! | January 1, 2011 January 1, 2012 |
Shown on New Year's Day. |
| Merry X-mas! | December 24, 2010 December 24, 2011 |
Shown on Christmas Eve. |
| 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 Pokémon Red and Blue. |
| PC Gamer Demo! | — | This is the only splash in the PC Gamer Demo. |
Changed splashes
- Note: the current versions of all splashes here are documented above; they do not need descriptions or explanations in this section.
| Original splash | Changed splash | Version changed |
|---|---|---|
| 700+ hits on YouTube! | Heaps of hits on YouTube! | Alpha 1.0.0? |
| Absolutely dragon free! | Kind of dragon free! | 1.0 RC1 |
| Coming soon! | It's here! | 1.0 RC1 |
| More than 25000 sold! | More than 500 sold! | Between Alpha 1.0.12 and Alpha 1.0.14 |
| More than 5000 sold! | More than 25000 sold! | Alpha 1.0.0? |
| Notch <3 Ez! | Notch <3 ez! | Between Alpha 1.0.5_01 and Alpha 1.0.11 |
| "Noun" is an autonym! | "Autological" is! | 1.0 RC1 |
| Now supports ÅÄÖ! | Now supports åäö! | Between Alpha 1.0.15 and Alpha 1.2.0 |
| OpenGL 1.1! | OpenGL 1.2! | 1.0 RC1 |
| Rude with two dudes with food! | Lewd with two dudes with food! | Between Alpha 1.0.12 and Alpha 1.0.14 |
| Superfragilisticexpialidocious! | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | 1.0 RC1 |
| That's not a moon! | That's no moon! | 1.0 RC1 |
| Tyrian would love it! | Tyrion would love it! | 1.0 RC1 |
| When it's finished! | It's finished! | 1.0 RC1 |
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.
| Splash text | Explanation | Version added | Version removed | Pre-removal line number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.95 euro! | The pricing of the Alpha version of Minecraft, which was half that of the final price. | Indev or earlier | Beta 1.2 | 48 |
| Alpha version! | Alpha version of Minecraft. | Indev or earlier | Beta 1.2 | 30 |
| Check it out! | Duplicate of "Check it out!" on line 21. | pre-Halloween Update | Beta 1.8 pre1 | 47 |
| Half price! | The pricing of the Alpha version of Minecraft, which was half that of the final price. | Indev or earlier | Beta 1.2 | 49 |
| Pre-beta! | Alpha version of Minecraft. | Indev or earlier | Beta 1.2 | 1 |
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".
Notes
References
- ↑ "100% pure" a reference to some juices: http://twitter.com/notch/status/49121829410975745
- ↑ http://www.minecraft.net/game Section "The future"
- ↑ jebtweet:135993912702672896
- ↑ notchtweet:27457305081
- ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/11920829
- ↑ notchtweet:136010450247753729
- ↑ Missing "cali" a hidden message?: http://twitter.com/notch/status/71462127361200128
- ↑ http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/41/messages/463.html