Easter eggs: Difference between revisions

An '''easterEaster egg''' is an intentional -hidden message, inside joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, television program, movie, book or any other form of media. ''[[Minecraft]]'' features several Easter eggs hidden in the game.

From December 24–26, [[chest]]s, large chests, trapped chests, and minecarts with chest have their textures changed to Christmas chests that resemble wrapped Christmas presents. This was added in Java Edition 1.4.6 for Christmas 2012. A texture file called "skis.png" was also added in Java Edition 1.4.6 in the same folder as the Christmas chests, but it was added by [[Dinnerbone]] as a [[wikipedia:red herring|red herring]]. This was re-added for Christmas 2013,<ref>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283385906587652096|Enjoy your fancy gift-chests, minecrafters! They'll look great under a giant tree. (And those skis? They're attached to a rouge fish.)|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283386906950119424|@Le_flobi I wouldn't consider them christian, just fun. If you still don't like them; two days.|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283392354851901440|@Crimson5M Bingo.|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283387224194707460|@MCTheWatershed Certainly not rogue.|December 24, 2012}}</ref> along with a new "rain feature"—[[pig]]s riding [[chicken]]s (this is not planned to be fully implemented). This also happened again in 2014 with a new splash reading, "Merry X-Mas!" and repeated in every Christmas since. The change doesn't apply to [[boats with chests]].<ref>{{bug|MC-249378}}</ref>

The first released texture of the [[creeper]]. The old leaf texture is overlaying a lighter version of the pig test texture with some green added. Areas for arms and long legs are seen, which were never used.

Naming a sheep "[[Jens Bergensten|jeb_]]" using a [[name tag]] or a renamed [[spawn egg]] causes it to continually cycle through all colors a sheep can be dyed. When sheared using shears, however, the sheep drops wool of the original color of the sheep rather than the color that currently appears on the sheep. {{IN|be}}, ifIf a sheep is named jeb_, and then sheared, the leftover wool on its skin continues to cycle through all the colors.

Within the "texts" folder, there is a text file named <code>splashes.txt</code>. The text file contains all the splashes[[splash]]es that appear on the title screen. One of them is "This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?" If you modify the text file to only contain this string of text the game will crash. As its text implies, the splash is never displayed. However, in Legacy Console Edition it does display, but it has never been confirmed if it is a bug or an intentional feature.

The splash was added in [[Java Edition Alpha v1.0.12]] and it's the only vanilla version with this splash by default since splashes.txt was nottemporarily added yetremoved.