The history of Minecraft title screen seed explained
Minecraft is a game that allows players to find rare items, build houses, farm animals and grow crops. There are hostile mobs and dangerous places to visit. However, to add to the excitement, the developers also added some mysteries. Over the years, players have turned into internet sleuths to find out little details about the game. One such detail was the title screen image that made an appearance in the early versions of the game.
This article will look at the Minecraft title screen seed. We will look at what the title screen seed is and at the collaborative effort that led to its reveal.
What is the Minecraft title screen seed?
People who played the older versions of Minecraft, specifically any version before version 1.13 might remember that the title screen of the game showed a blurred landscape showing some trees, a small patch of sand, and a lake. Some Redditors decided to take the task of finding the in-game location.
Players who want to go to the exact location shown in the old title screen will need to enter the specific seed and then travel to the exact coordinates. Also, it can only be found in older versions of the game, such as Beta 1.7.3.
The seed of the Minecraft title screen is 2151901553968352745 or 8091867987493326313. Both of these seeds work because older versions of the game used a different method of generating the world.
Putting the seed will only generate the world. To reach the exact location of the title screen image, players need to head over to these coordinates:
X61.48~, Y75, Z-68.73~
The history of Minecraft title screen seed explained
Finding the title screen seed of Minecraft was no easy task. The story behind finding the location is an interesting one. It also showed how the community can get together and work with each other to do something that seems almost impossible.
A group of people came together for this project after they were inspired by how people figured out the location of the pack.png image in the game. The title screen seed project was started by Reddit user u/Tomalcko, who also found the coordinates.
But this was not an easy task. It also required the effort of other people. Apart from u/Tomalcko, there were other players who handled other parts of this blocky investigation. Here are some other crucial members of the team, and how they contributed to the project:
- DutChen18: created important tools and mods needed to determine the date for checking the seed.
- Phillipp_DE: hosted the screenshotting bot and recreation MC server.
- Earthcomputer, Cortex, Neil: wrote the terrain and biome-checking code that determined the seed.
- MC PseudoGravity: found the biome values by reversing the tallgrass colors.
There were many others who contributed to the find. The video on the same topic by SalC1 goes deeper into the explanation of the process. This was a collaborative effort that took a good amount of time and the title screen seed was discovered on July 18, 2020, at around 5:45 AM UTC.
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