The Splash texts are the 220 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).
Complete list of splashes
| Splash text | Explanation |
|---|---|
| ...! | |
| 0% sugar! | Not necessarily true anymore. Sugar is an item now. |
| 100% pure! | |
| 12 herbs and spices! | KFC's secret chicken flavoring recipe contains 11 herbs and spices. |
| 12345 is a bad password! | 12345 is one of the most commonly used, and thus easiest to guess passwords. Also, this is a reference to the movie "Spaceballs" by Mel Brooks. |
| 150% hyperbole! | Refers to hyberbole. |
| 20 GOTO 10! | Refers to BASIC. |
| 4815162342 lines of code! | 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 are The Numbers that appear all over the television series Lost. |
| 9.95 euro! | |
| 90% bug free! | |
| 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. |
| Absolutely dragon free! | |
| Absolutely no memes! | Minecraft is a popular source for internet memes, which often only grow greater because of statements like this. |
| Age of Wonders is better! | Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy game. |
| All inclusive! | |
| All is full of love! | All is Full of Love is a song by Björk. |
| "Almost never" is an interesting concept! | |
| A riddle, wrapped in a mystery! | Winston Churchill once said something similar about Russia. |
| As seen on TV! | A common marketing claim that is often lampooned. |
| Ask your doctor! | |
| Autonomous! | |
| Awesome community! | |
| Awesome! | |
| Bees, bees, bees, bees! | A lyric from one of Weebl's works. |
| Best in class! | |
| Better than Prey! | |
| Bring it on! | |
| Bring me Ray Cokes! | Ray Cokes is an English television presenter popular in Europe. |
| Bringing home the bacon! | |
| BTAF used to be good! | Bob the Angry Flower is a comic strip that has been running since 1992. |
| Buckets of lava! | |
| Call your mother! | |
| Ceci n'est pas une title screen! | The French part means "This is not a". Refers to The Treachery of Images. |
| Check it out! | |
| Classy! | |
| Closed source! | |
| Cloud computing! | Cloud computing |
| Cogito ergo sum! | "I think, therefore I am" in Latin. |
| Collaborate and listen! | Lyrics to Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. |
| Coming soon! | |
| Complex cellular automata! | Both Minecraft and a piece of Notch's earlier work feature these kinds of mechanisms. |
| Consummate V's! | Refers to an episode of Homestar Runner. |
| Cooler than Spock! | The Star Trek character |
| Cow Tools! | Refers to a Far Side comic by Gary Larson. Also, Minecraft features cows. |
| Create! | |
| Do not distribute! | |
| Don't look directly at the bugs! | |
| Double buffered! | Another Minecraft feature. |
| Down with O.P.P.! | Lyric from the song O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature. |
| 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 Creepers. |
| Dungeon! | |
| Engage! | |
| Enhanced! | |
| Eple (original edit)! | Title of a piece by Norwegian electronic music duo Rökysopp. |
| Euclidian! | Minecraft mainly relies on one of the simplest forms of Euclidian geometry, the cube. |
| Excitement! | |
| Exclusive! | |
| Exploding creepers! | The beloved creature of this name. |
| Falling off cliffs! | |
| Fan fiction! | |
| Fantasy! | |
| Fat free! | |
| Finally with ladders! | |
| Finger-licking! | "Finger-lickin' good" is a slogan of KFC. |
| Flashing letters! | |
| Flaxkikare! | |
| Freaky! | |
| Free dental! | |
| Full of stars! | "My god, it's full of stars!" is quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Gargamel plays it! | Gargamel is the enemy of the Smurfs. |
| Gasp! | |
| Give us Gordon! | |
| Google anlyticsed! | Google Analytics is a service that provides statistics about visitors to a website. |
| GOTY! | PC Gamer UK, among others, crowned Minecraft their game of the year 2010. |
| Guaranteed! | |
| Haha, LOL! | |
| Half price! | |
| Hampsterdance! | Hampster Dance is one of the oldest internet memes. |
| Han shot first! | A contentious scene in Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. |
| Hard to label! | |
| Haunted! | |
| Heaps of hits on YouTube! | Minecraft is among the most popular topics on YouTube. Notch's channel is a rarely updated, but gathered more than eight million views already. |
| Herregud! | Swedish for "Oh My God!". |
| Holy cow, man! | |
| Hot tamale, hot hot tamale! | This Weebl animated song. |
| Hotter than the sun! | |
| Huge tracts of land! | A quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail, describing the "assets" of a bride-to-be. |
| I miss ADOM]! | Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike game, featuring a randomly generated and populated world like most of its brethren. |
| idspispopd! | The NoClip command for Doom. |
| Indev! | |
| Indie! | |
| Information wants to be free! | |
| Ingots! | |
| Inspirational! | |
| Internet enabled! | |
| It's a game! | |
| Jag känner en bot! | "I know a bot" in Swedish. |
| Jason! Jason! Jason! | The main character of the game Heavy Rain yells "Jason!" repeatedly while looking for his son. |
| Joel is neat! | |
| Jump up, jump up, and get down! | This song. |
| Kaaneeeedaaaa! | Refers to the movie Akira. |
| Keyboard compatible! | |
| Kick it root down! | Lyrics from the song Root Down by the Beastie Boys. |
| Kiss the sky! | |
| l33t! | Leetspeak |
| Larger than Earth! | The map in Minecraft can indeed be extended to be larger than the surface of the Earth. |
| Legal in Finland! | |
| Let's danec! | |
| Lewd with two dudes with food! | A lyric from "If You're Into It" by Flight of the Conchords. |
| Limited edition! | |
| Lives in a pineapple under the sea! | Refers to animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. |
| Livestreamed! | |
| Loved by millions! | |
| Macroscopic! | |
| Made by Notch! | |
| Made in Sweden! | |
| MAP11 has two names! | Doom 2's MAP11. |
| Matt Damon! | |
| May contain nuts! | |
| Menger sponge! | The Menger sponge is a fractal object. |
| Minecraft! | |
| Minors welcome! | |
| Monster infighting! | |
| More polygons! | |
| More than 500 sold! | |
| Music by C418! | |
| Never dig down! | |
| Nice to meet you! | |
| Not linear! | |
| Not on steam! | Minecraft is not sold via Steam, but only on the Minecraft website. |
| Notch <3 ez! | ez is Notch's fiancee. |
| "Noun" is an autonym! | |
| Now in 3D! | |
| Now supports åäö! | These are the three characters that are part of the Swedish alphabet, but not the English one. |
| Now with difficulty! | |
| NP is not in P! | The P versus NP problem is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in computer science. |
| Octagonal! | |
| Oh man! | |
| Oh, ok, Pigmen! | |
| OICU812! | Oh, I see you ate one, too. |
| Omnipotent! | |
| One of a kind! | |
| OpenGL 1.1! | Another technology used by Minecraft, though not the advertised version. |
| Peter Griffin! | Head of the family from Family Guy. |
| Phobos anomaly! | The final map of Doom's first episode. |
| Pixels! | |
| 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. |
| Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig | This one was added during the LRR yearly Desert Bus charity drive. |
| Played by cowboys! | |
| Pneumatic! | |
| Polynomial! | |
| Pretty! | |
| Punching wood! | |
| Random splash! | |
| Reference implementation! | |
| Regional resources! | |
| Representing Edsbyn! | A city in Sweden. |
| Reticulating splines! | Refers to a running gag during loading processes in many games of the SimSeries by Maxis. |
| Ride the pig! | Using a saddle, you can! |
| Rita is the new top dog! | Refers to old Australian TV show, Prisoner. |
| Scary! | |
| Scientific! | |
| Seecret Friday update! | |
| Sensational! | |
| Sexy! | |
| Singleplayer! | |
| Slow acting portals! | |
| So fresh, so clean! | So Fresh, So Clean is a song by Outkast. |
| Spiders everywhere! | The creature, of course. |
| sqrt(-1) love you! | Mathematical confession using imaginary numbers. |
| Stay a while, stay forever! | A quote from Impossible Mission, a game for the Commodore 64. |
| Stay a while and listen! | A quote from Elder Deckard Cain from the Diablo series. |
| Sublime! | |
| Superfragilisticexpialidocious! | The famous song from Disney's Mary Poppins. |
| Survive! | |
| Switches and ores! | |
| SWM forever! | |
| Synecdoche! | A figure of speech meaning "simultaneous understanding" in Greek. |
| Take frequent breaks! | |
| Technically good! | |
| Teetsuuuuoooo! | Refers to the movie Akira. |
| Tell your friends! | |
| Terrestrial! | |
| That's not a moon! | Famous quote from the first/fourth Star Wars movie. |
| The bee's knees! | |
| The sum of its parts! | |
| The Work of Notch! | |
| Thematic! | |
| This text is hard to read if you play the game at the default resolution, but at 1080p it's fine! | |
| Thousands of colors! | |
| Tip your waiter! | |
| Treatment for your rash! | |
| Try it! | |
| Try the mushroom stew! | The in-game item. |
| Try the Nether! | The in-game world. |
| Twittered about! | |
| Ultimate edition! | |
| umop-apisdn! | The phrase "upside-down", upside-down. |
| Undocumented! | |
| Une baguette! | Literally "a stick" in French, a baguette is a kind of bread. |
| Uninflammable! | |
| Uses LWJGL! | It does |
| Verlet intregration! | A technique used to calculate trajectories of particles. |
| Very fun! | |
| Vote for net neutrality! | Network neutrality |
| Water proof! | |
| Welcome to your Doom! | The boss quote from Altered Beast. |
| When it's finished! | |
| Whoa, dude! | |
| Woo, /v/! | The video game board on 4chan. |
| Woo, facepunch! | http://www.facepunch.com/forum.php |
| Woo, minecraftforum! | http://www.minecraftforum.net/ |
| Woo, reddit! | http://www.reddit.com/ |
| Woo, somethingawful! | http://www.somethingawful.com/ |
| Woo, tigsource! | http://www.tigsource.com/ |
| Woo, worldofminecraft! | http://www.worldofminecraft.com/ |
| Wow! | |
| Yaaay! | |
| Yes, sir! | |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Happy birthday, ez! | Shown on 9 November 2010, ez being Notch's fiancee |
| 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 |
| Happy New Year! | Shown on January 01, 2011 |
Removed splashes
- Pre-beta!
- Alpha version!