Unused textures

This page documents textures which are or once were present within Minecraft, but are not actually used.

In specific, only textures which themselves were fully unused are documented here. Disused textures which were used for a given feature in previous versions are not listed here, nor are textures which became used in a version after the texture itself was added, even if the texture in question was changed first (examples being cobwebs, crying obsidian, calibrated sculk sensors, the original end stone texture, the original two sandstone texture variants, and the pigman, which was later retconned to the piglin). Unused duplicates of textures are generally also not listed here unless tied to another unused texture or being changed later down the line.

A much more quantitative, but less analytical, list of unused textures of varying levels of notability can be found here.

Blocks

Removed

Classic white texture

In the versions of terrain.png used between 0.0.14a and 0.0.14a_08 there is a white texture which was not used in any in-game block. It may have been an early experimental snow texture, as Notch had stated interest in adding snow and ice before this point, or it could relate to clouds, as they were added in the same version. This texture was removed from terrain.png in 0.0.15a.

Chair textures

From Indev 20100206-2034 to Infdev 20100627 two textures were present in terrain.png which were based off of the oak planks texture. The first texture is commonly recognized to be the side view of a chair, and the other texture is often interpreted as being either the front view of a chair or the side view of a table, although the latter was never mentioned by Notch and as such this interpretation remains speculative.

Indev 20100206-2034 also added a duplicate oak planks texture. This may have been intended to be used for such blocks as well (as the back or seat portion), or it may have simply been the texture copied for the other two textures to be cut from. This was removed earlier than the other two textures in Infdev 20100607.

In Infdev 20100618, the chair texture specifically changed to be slightly darker. The door and ladder textures, which were relatively close to it on terrain.png, were also darkened in that version, and the second texture remained completely untouched.

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  The original chair side texture.

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  The darkened chair side texture.

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  The chair front texture.

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  The duplicated wooden planks texture.

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  Recreated possible model of a chair using all 3 textures.

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  Recreated possible model of a table using the front texture.

During the period of time where these textures existed in terrain.png, Notch made multiple statements of plans to implement chairs, alongside mentions of other furniture (like doors, signs, ladders and chairs).

Intriguingly, these textures were added in the exact same version as wheat crops and farming mechanics were. Crops of invalid data values (8 and beyond, as wheat normally only grows to 7) would overflow to the next line of terrain.png, due to how wheat models and texture selection were defined at the time. Data values 11 and 12 specifically happened to use the exact spots where these two textures were positioned, resulting in wheat with these data values appearing as rather broken chairs.

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  Wheat with age 11 used the chair side texture.

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  Wheat with age 11 used a darkened chair side texture.

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  Wheat with age 12 used the chair front texture.

Mojang have since rejected the idea of adding "furniture" blocks to the game, as their existence would "inhibit natural creativity".

Coral block texture

In Infdev 20100629, a coral block texture was added to terrain.png. It was composed of several transparent, black, white and various shades of gray pixels. It was removed in Alpha v1.0.4 with its position being taken by the snowy grass block side texture.

Around the same time the texture was added to terrain.png, Notch mentioned an attempt to add coral blocks to the game, according to a post on The Word of Notch documenting a failed attempt to draw a realistic-looking coral block texture. The texture's hyperbolic appearance resembles early iterations of coral blocks showcased at Minecon in 2017.

Unused code for coral blocks was found in a development build of Beta 1.2_02, allowing randomly colored coral blocks to be created in-game. While the remaining code does not specify which spot in terrain.png corals would have used, the random coloring implies it would have been a grayscale texture such as this one.

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  Unused texture in Infdev 20100629

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  The texture applied to the unused block code

Grass block top texture duplicate

In Beta 1.6 Test Build 3, a duplicate of the grass block top texture was added to terrain.png. This version also added grass and ferns, which appear adjacent to this texture.

Interestingly, in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5, despite being completely unused in-game, this texture was actually changed alongside other block textures that changed in this version. The actually used grass block texture also changed in this version, however despite both textures being identical beforehand, the Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 textures made the two textures visually distinct from each other.

The terrain.png used in Pocket Edition v0.2.0 alpha, being based off of the terrain.png from Java Edition 1.0.0, also includes this texture. It was also present in Xbox 360 Edition since its inception, due to initially being based on Java Edition Beta 1.6.6.

The texture was eventually removed from Java Edition in 13w02a and Pocket Edition in v0.8.0 alpha build 2 due to the deprecation of terrain.png in those versions. It was removed from Xbox 360 Edition in TU12 due to being replaced by the vertical dispenser texture, although it still technically persists in the base game as the original terrain.png was never removed, despite never being used in TU3 onwards.

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  The original duplicate, identical to the actually used texture

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  The retextured duplicate

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  The retextured actual grass block top, which differs from the duplicate

"Footprints" texture

In Beta 1.8 Pre-release, a texture possibly composed of three footprints was added to terrain.png. Its intended use is unknown. The texture was eventually removed in 13w03a due to terrain.png's deprecation in 13w02a and the subsequent removal of it and results.png.

This texture also carried on to Pocket Edition in v0.2.0 alpha due to the terrain.png used then being based off of the one from Java Edition 1.0.0, before its removal in v0.8.0 alpha build 2.

The texture was also present in Xbox 360 Edition since TU0 due to said version including a copy of Java Edition 1.2's terrain.png. It was re-replaced by a lilac placeholder texture in TU12.

"Village border"

These textures, also added to terrain.png in Beta 1.8 Pre-release, remained unused and were removed in 13w03a per terrain.png's deprecation in 13w02a and the subsequent removal of it and results.png. These textures were said to have been used to mark the edges of villages as seen in the Beta 1.8 PAX demo, however footage of these textures in action does not seem to exist.

The "edge" texture was carried to Pocket Edition in v0.2.0 alpha, however the "corner" texture was not, as its place was taken up by the info_update texture. The "edge" was removed in v0.8.0 alpha build 2 alongside many other such textures.

Both textures were present in Xbox 360 Edition since TU0 due to said version including a copy of Java Edition 1.2's terrain.png. In TU12, the "edge" was replaced by the bottom texture of the block of quartz (later known as the smooth quartz texture), and the "corner" by the top texture of the hopper.

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  "edge"

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  "corner"

Beta/Release white texture

The last of four unused textures added in Beta 1.8 Pre-release, this white texture was located alongside the three others. Its use is also unknown (potentially, it could be meant to be a "snowy" overlay for saplings), and was removed in 13w02a per terrain.png's deprecation in 13w02a and the subsequent removal of it and results.png.

This texture never appeared in Pocket Edition Alpha, as its position was taken by the texture for info_update2.

The texture was present in Xbox 360 Edition since TU0 due to said version including a copy of Java Edition 1.2's terrain.png. It was re-replaced by a lilac placeholder texture in TU12.

Paeonia

The paeonia was a flower type originally planned for implementation in 1.7.2. Originally revealed by Jeb in a screenshot, the flower was never implemented, being superseded by the peony.

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  The screenshot revealed by Jeb on Instagram

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  Model

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  Texture

However, the texture for the paeonia was still added to the game's texture files in 13w36a as flower_paeonia.png, alongside all the actually implemented flowers. This texture persisted in the files for over four years, eventually being removed in 17w47a without a doubt due to resource changes and the Flattening.

Interestingly, despite the texture being completely unused throughout its presence in the game files, paeonias were redone in the Texture Update beta packs. The texture is present in the bedrock edition default resource pack, having been added along with the other texture update textures.

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  Texture Update texture

Vine variants

Three unused vine variant textures were present in early revisions of the texture update.

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Barrel variants

In a beta 1.9.0.0 resource pack template, two subsequently unused barrel textures were added, though it is uncertain if they were ever in any releases. The "empty" texture visually resembles the later-introduced open texture. What these textures were specifically intended for remains unknown.

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  fishbarrel_top_empty.png

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  fishbarrel_top.png

The textures would likely be used as follows:

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  How the empty barrel with the aforementioned texture as the top would look in-game. Again, the empty top texture is different than its later in-game counterpart.

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  How the fish-filled barrel with the aforementioned texture as the top would look in-game.

Wax block

A texture for a wax block was added to the game files in 19w34a. This texture was removed in 19w42a, as it was never actually intended to be used.

As this was a lone texture, it is implied that it would simply be rendered as a full cube:

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Root vines

In Java Edition 21w05a, this texture called root_vines_head.png was added to the assets/minecraft/textures/block/ directory. This was an early design for cave vines. There is no known "body" texture despite this being implied by this texture being named "head" alongside the naming of existing cave vines.

The texture was removed in Java Edition 21w16a.

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Unused

debug.png and debug2.png

In 15w31a, these two textures were added to the game, where they remain to the current day. Given their name, they are used for debugging purposes by Mojang, likely for the creation and testing of block textures and models. It appears that there are the letters N, E, S, and W on the texture of debug2, all placed at different rotations. This could possibly be used for rendering, with the letters signifying the 4 cardinal directions.

debug.png could be made to appear in-game in certain Java Edition 1.13 snapshots due to being defined as the particle texture for bubble columns, meaning actions that would result in the creation of particles (such as falling from a height onto the edge of a block next to a bubble column) would show particles with this texture. They could also be seen when the bubble column was pushed by a piston.

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  debug.png

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  debug2.png

Despite being unused, both of these blocks were given new textures for the 2018 April Fools' update: .

Items

Removed

Studded armor

A speculative render of what Studded Armor could have looked like

Studded armor refers to four armor item textures which were found in the initial versions of items.png, alongside the leather armor, chain armor and plate (iron) armor sets. First appearing in the second December 31, 2009 build, the sprites technically did see use in-game, but this is of little significance as all sprites on items.png were used at the time, with basically no functionality. These textures were taken directly from one of Notch's games Legend of the Chambered 2.

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  Helmet

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  Chestplate

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  Leggings

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  Boots

The textures were ultimately removed some time between the 4th and 6th of February, 2010 in preparation for the actual implementation of armor and its mechanics.

Quiver

The quiver was another item texture which existed in items.png from Java Edition Indev 0.31 20091231-2255, but which persisted for much longer. Having its origins in Legend of the Chambered, one of Notch's prior games, the texture was also included among the first item sprites in the game. While it too technically existed as an item, it was also ultimately nonfunctional and only existed for testing purposes.

Its texture was changed on the 22nd of January, 2010 by flipping it horizontally from its original orientation.

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  Original texture

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  Second version

The texture remained in items.png for as long as items.png itself existed, and even outlived it, becoming an individual file in 13w02a with items.png's splitting, and still not being removed in 13w24a with the advent of resource packs despite many other unused textures being deleted.

Despite the quiver texture continuing to exist in the game unused, Jeb stated in 2011 he would not add quivers to the game as an item.

During the development of Java Edition 1.9, Dinnerbone posted a 2×204960 image on Twitter which could be reformed into a 854×480 Minecraft screenshot, clearly depicting the quiver as a usable item in the inventory, where it had what seemed to be a dedicated slot alongside a slot for arrows. He shared another screenshot of the quiver in the inventory a few weeks later, with the quiver slot in a different location. On June 30, 2015, Dinnerbone stated that he scrapped quivers as he felt that holding arrows in the off-hand felt "more natural."

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  The screenshot which Dinnerbone's 854×480 image decodes to, showing a quiver in its slot in the survival inventory

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  A similar screenshot showing a quiver slot in the creative inventory

As a result of this scrapping, with there no longer being any planned future uses for the texture, it was ultimately removed from Java Edition in 1.9's first snapshot: 15w31a.

The quiver texture was also present in Pocket Edition's items.png file from the beginning and, reflecting the behavior of early Indev, was even unintentionally assigned to an invalid ID item.​ It remained part of Items.png and its successor Items-opaque.tga until the texture atlas was replaced with invidual item textures. It was removed at an unknown time but later re-added, and is still present in Bedrock Edition's vanilla resource pack. It was also present in the Legacy Console Edition from the start, being replaced by the end crystal item texture in TU43 and equivalent versions. The texture is also present in every version of Pi Edition.

Unused camera item texture

Prior to the addition of cameras in Pocket Edition v0.2.0 alpha, an unused item texture resembling a handheld camera existed next to the texture for the actual camera entity. It would be replaced by a "blocks" music disc texture with the full addition of the camera.

Ruby

Rubies were intended to be the original currency used for trading. They could be seen in a screenshot released by Jeb on 21 May 2012, in which the trading system was first being tested. While it was later decided that emeralds would take their place as a currency, a ruby texture was still in Java Edition 12w21a's items.png file alongside the emerald. The unused ruby texture which was present in the game differed from the version shown in the screenshot, however; both versions of the texture are shown below for the sake of comparison.

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  Jeb's screenshot showing rubies.

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  The unreleased ruby texture as seen in Jeb's screenshot

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  The unused ruby texture present in released Minecraft versions

Alongside emeralds, 12w21a also implemented emerald ore as a method of obtaining them. However, the texture used for emerald ore was accidentally set to a texture seemingly intended for ruby ore, and translation strings in the game's language files included references to rubies and ruby ore:

• item.ruby.name=Ruby
• tile.oreRuby.name=Ruby Ore

Java Edition 12w21b was swiftly released to give emerald ore its intended release texture, and the translation strings were removed in the full release of Java Edition 1.10.

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  Emerald ore in its first iteration, using the "ruby ore" texture

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  Emerald ore in its second iteration, using its intended texture

Emeralds were decided upon over rubies as Dinnerbone stated he had red-green color blindness, and had difficulty distinguishing between ruby ore and redstone ore.

Despite being completely unused throughout its existence in the game files, it, like the quiver, inexplicably survived the splitting of items.png and remained in the game as an unused texture file for much longer than expected. It even beat the quiver in longevity, remaining unused in the game for close to a decade prior to its removal in Java Edition 21w13a.

The texture was added to Pocket Edition in Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha build 2. It was eventually removed in the first v0.14.0 build, but later re-added and is still present in the vanilla resource pack. The texture was also added to Xbox 360 Edition in TU9, and remained in the console editions until TU54 and equivalent versions, in which it was replaced by one of the textures used for bed items.

The name "Ruby" was reused for a currency in the now-discontinued game Minecraft Earth, using completely different textures from those present in the main game.

Rubies were reimplemented as a joke feature in 23w13a_or_b snapshot, where they could replace the Emerald item model via a specific vote.

Banner item textures

During the Java Edition 1.8 snapshots, starting with Java Edition 14w30a, there were two unused item textures, "banner_base" and "banner_overlay", probably intended to be used together as a recolorable inventory icon for banners. The texture for "banner_base" was removed in 16w41a and the texture "banner_overlay" was removed in 17w47a.

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  The base texture.

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  The overlay texture.

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  Both textures put together.

Crystallized honey

A texture for a crystallized honey item was added to the game files in 19w34a. This texture was removed in 19w42a, as it was never actually intended to be used.

Unused

Unused potions

Bedrock Edition has unused potion textures for several effects, along with their splash variants. These effects are: Absorption, Blindness, Haste, Health Boost, Hunger, Mining Fatigue, Nausea, Resistance, Saturation, and Levitation, as well as the Luck potion textures also present in Java Edition. These unused textures were added along with the other potion textures in Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha, except for the potion of levitation, which was added in Pocket Edition 1.0.0. The textures were changed along with the other potion textures during the texture update in Bedrock Edition 1.10.0. Strangely, the potion of levitation texture is a duplicate of the splash potion of levitation texture.

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  Potion of Absorption

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  Potion of Blindness

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  Potion of Haste

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  Potion of Health Boost

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  Potion of Hunger

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  Potion of Mining Fatigue

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  Potion of Nausea

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  Potion of Resistance

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  Potion of Saturation

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  Potion of Levitation

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  Splash Potion of Absorption

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  Splash Potion of Blindness

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  Splash Potion of Haste

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  Splash Potion of Health Boost

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  Splash Potion of Hunger

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  Splash Potion of Mining Fatigue

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  Splash Potion of Nausea

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  Splash Potion of Resistance

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  Splash Potion of Saturation

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  Splash Potion of Levitation

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  Potion of Absorption (old version)

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  Potion of Blindness (old version)

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  Potion of Haste (old version)

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  Potion of Health Boost (old version)

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  Potion of Hunger (old version)

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  Potion of Mining Fatigue (old version)

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  Potion of Nausea (old version)

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  Potion of Resistance (old version)

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  Potion of Saturation (old version)

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  Potion of Levitation (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Absorption (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Blindness (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Haste (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Health Boost (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Hunger (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Mining Fatigue (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Nausea (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Resistance (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Saturation (old version)

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  Splash Potion of Levitation (old version)

Unused compounds

In the chemistry resource pack folder of Minecraft Education, there are numerous compound textures which are not used in the game, including a variant of the bleach texture.

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  Flask

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  Black Flask

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  Blue Flask

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  Brown Beaker

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  Brown Flask

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  Dark Gray Beaker

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  Dark Gray Flask

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  Dark Gray Jar

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  Green Beaker

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  Green Flask

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  Green Jar

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  Indigo Beaker

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  Indigo Flask

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  Indigo Jar

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  Light Gray Beaker

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  Light Gray Flask

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  Orange Beaker

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  Orange Flask

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  Orange Jar

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  Purple Beaker

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  Purple Flask

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  Purple Jar

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  Red Beaker

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  Red Flask

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  Red Jar

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  White Flask

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  Yellow Flask

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  Bleach

Entities

Removed

2char.png

2char.png is a texture that was added in Java Edition Classic 0.0.20a, consisting of an entirely white player skin. It was removed in Java Edition Alpha v1.2.2.

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  2char.png

char_2.png

char_2.png is a texture that could be found in the jar file for the first Indev build released on February 12, 2010. The texture is mostly identical to that of Steve, with the main difference being another layer of hair being present in the hat layer. Two potentially misplaced yellow pixels also appear on the head. It was removed two days later.

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  char_2.png

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  char_2.png used as a player skin

Door entity

On 3 June 2010, Notch discussed on his blog plans to add different types of furniture to the game, which included doors. These postings include discussions of implementing said furniture in the form of entities as opposed to blocks, as was previously done for paintings in Indev, with Notch also stating his successful reimplementation of signs the previous day as a block entity. If implemented as a block entity, this would allow doors to have a smooth opening and closing animation, similarly to what was added for chests a bit over a year later by converting them from normal blocks.

Doors were ultimately added on the 7th of June, 2010, as a relatively normal block, which would instantly open or close when interacted with, having no continuous animation in the process as had been mentioned. However, the /item directory in minecraft.jar, which stored the textures for other non-mob entities at that time such as minecarts and arrows, gained a texture called door.png in this same version, which is without a doubt linked to said opening/closing animation. An early iteration of the oak door can be seen in it, with empty space filled out in solid purple in a fashion resembling the placeholder texture from terrain.png and kz.png as well as the checkerboard missing texture.

An interesting thing to note about this door texture is the absence of any windows, a significant difference from the door actually implemented in the June 7th Infdev build, the top half of which does have a transparent window. The item form, however, still did not have a window in it until Alpha v1.0.1.

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  The oak door item from the June 7th build of Infdev

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  The oak door item in Alpha v1.0.1

This door entity texture was one of many unused textures removed in 13w24a with the reconfiguring of game assets and the introduction of resource packs as the successor to texture packs.

villager.png

Villagers were added to Java Edition in the first Beta 1.9 prerelease, with their textures located together in a dedicated subfolder of the mob textures folder: /mob/villager. However, another texture was added in this version, called villager.png, which is directly in the mob folder itself rather than the villager subfolder. (It is not to be confused with the "generic" file also called villager.png which is located in the villager subfolder, which was later used for nitwits.) This texture is completely unused, and closely resembles Steve, but with significant modifications to fit a different entity model.

If this texture is applied to a villager through use of a custom texture pack, the overall appearance is glitchy, implying that the model it was intended to be used for had changed since, and was eventually developed into the villager model that was actually released.

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  villager.png used as the texture for a villager using a texture pack

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  How this texture was likely intended to look, applied to a speculative entity model

Along with many other unused textures, villager.png was removed in 13w24a when texture packs were succeeded by resource packs.

Villager, vindicator, evoker, and witch hood

Witch hood seen on 18w50a.

Evoker hood seen on Meet the Evoker.

Evokers, vindicators and witches are hostile mobs based off the villagers, and they have an unused hood texture.

The evoker hood can be seen in the Mojang article "Meet the Evoker" and the witch hood can be seen in 18w50a.

Prior to the Village & Pillage update, the villagers also had unused hood textures.

The hoods on the evokers, vindicators, and witches were removed in Java Edition 1.18 Pre-release 5.

Early ender dragon textures

In Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4, two unused ender dragon textures, titled "body" and "dragon", were added, probably left over from an earlier phase in development, as they resemble other pre-release ender dragon textures that Notch shared on twitter. They were removed in Java Edition 1.6.1.

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  The "body" texture.

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  The "dragon" texture.

Skis

In 12w50a, a snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.6, a texture named skis.png was added to the game. 1.4.6 was released close to Christmas of 2012. The texture was never actually intended to be used, and instead added by Dinnerbone as a red herring.

Like many other unused textures, it was removed in 13w24a with the switch to resource packs. The texture was once again reimplemented as a joke feature in 23w13a_or_b.

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  A speculative model for skis.png

Unused

Gray Tabby Cat

In the Bedrock Edition's vanilla resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby cat exists. However, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.

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  Unused gray tabby texture

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  What the texture would look like on a cat.

Clownfish

In the Bedrock Edition's vanilla resource pack, there is a texture for a generic clownfish, which is completely unused; instead, clownfish are a variant of tropical fish.

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  Unused clownfish texture

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  A possible look of the unused clownfish mob.

Particles

Removed

Footprint particle

The particle itself was removed in snapshot 17w47a, and the texture file was removed in snapshot 21w13a.

Footstep particles on sand.

The footstep particle was introduced, but never used in-game. It was removed in snapshot 17w47a, as part of The Flattening. They were later added as an easter egg item in the 20w14∞ April Fools snapshot with the resource location minecraft:footprint. It could be obtained in the "missing" dimension or using the /give command. The particle itself was readded in 22w13oneblockatatime, which is spawned when the player walks around. It was once again readded in 24w14potato which is shown when the player has the Sticky effect and walks around.

Light blue particles

In Beta 1.4, two blue particles were added to particles.png of completely unknown use. They visually resemble water droplets, possibly implying early plans to add the water dripping event later added in 1.0.0, or a change to existing water splash effects. These particle textures were eventually removed in 19w06a due to the splitting of particles.png into its constituent textures, with unused particle textures being removed outright.

The textures were also added to Pocket Edition in v0.1.0 alpha due to its particles.png being the same as the version from Beta 1.4. It existed in Bedrock Edition up to release 1.16.

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It may be worth noting that these two particles also closely resemble the existing used "flame" and "lava" particles in shape, possibly hinting at a planned connection:

	flame	lava
fire
blue

Angry villager head

In 12w34a, a texture resembling an angry-looking villager head was added to particles.png. However, it remained unused. This texture was also removed in 19w06a due to being unused.

This unused texture was added to Pocket Edition in v0.12.1 alpha build 1 due to it changing to use a particles.png based on the one from 12w34a. It still exists in Bedrock Edition's particles.png as of 1.16.

Unused

Elephant toothpaste

An unused particle called elephant_toothpaste.png was added to the chemistry pack of Education Edition in an unknown version.​ It appears to be a particle atlas similar to that of campfire smoke, recolored to appear lighter.

Elephant's toothpaste is a popular demonstration in introductory chemistry, but was later scrapped.

Soul lava

In an unknown build of Bedrock Edition 1.16.0,​ a "soul lava" particle was added to particles.png. It can be seen that this particle is to the "lava" particle texture what the soul flame particle is to the ordinary "flame" particle. It appears completely unused.

Unlike normal campfires, soul campfires do not emit any type of ember. This is due to there being no defined particle for a soul ember, something which this texture would fill in. However, despite this, the texture is yet to make any appearance in Java Edition and remains unused in Bedrock Edition.

goldheart

Java Edition 23w12a added three particle textures: goldheart_0.png, goldheart_1.png and goldheart_2.png. As of Java Edition 1.21.5, they still exist in the game.

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  goldheart_0.png

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  goldheart_1.png

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  goldheart_2.png

Miscellaneous

tallterrain.png

Between Classic 0.0.14a and Classic 0.0.14a_08 a 16x4096 file named tallterrain.png was added to the jar file. It is dated from May 23rd 2009 and uses textures from Classic 0.0.13a_03, its intended use is unknown. The file was removed between Classic 0.28 and Classic 0.28_01.

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  tallterrain.png

Villager speech bubble

A villager speech bubble

The villager speech bubble is an image that was added along with the villager.png file in the jar when the trading system was added. It showed a trade, where raw chicken could be sold to villagers for another raw chicken. Both raw chickens have the old raw chicken texture. During an interview about villagers, Jeb offered a possible explanation: "We did some experiments with thought bubbles, but it didn't look good. So in the end, after I'd been lead on Minecraft for a year, we just decided to add an interface instead."

The texture was partially overwritten by the selection arrows. It was removed in snapshot 23w31a.

waterterrain.png

In the 15 June 2010 Infdev release, a texture file named waterterrain.png was added to the jar file. Resembling terrain.png in name, dimensions and the use of similar lilac textures in empty spots, it featured a multitude of different directional symbols.

This was added in the same version that implemented new flowing mechanics for water and lava.

Ultimately, flowing liquids simply used a 32×32 texture each (which remained within terrain.png), rotated accordingly depending on the flow direction (which could be orthogonal, diagonal or knightwise, the last of which this sheet did not account for), and this file fell into disuse. It was eventually removed in Alpha v1.2.2 with the addition of texture pack support.

watercolor.png

Java Edition Beta 1.6 Test Build 3 introduced this file to the /misc/ directory in the jar file. This image was a color map intended to be used depending on the biome, similarly to the existing grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png, where a color would be selected from a point on the image depending on temperature and humidity.

Intended for use on water, with the game even containing unused code around the time of its introduction which would apply it to water, it ultimately remained unused, with water maintaining a constant color regardless of biome at the time. This may or may not be due to water's texture being blue at the time, rather than the gray or white required for an effective tint, and as such multiplying it with a color would yield undesirable results (tinting already-blue water with another shade of blue would just make it much darker and unsightly); since water's texture was generated at runtime rather than defined as an image, actually making water's raw texture be gray would be a non-trivial task.

Biome-tinted water was first introduced in Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease, but only to a very limited extent, as swamps were the only biome to have a tint defined, and as water's texture was still blue by default, swamp water had to be tinted green to make it appear browner.

When procedurally-generated animated textures were replaced by texture files in 13w02a, the water texture was still inherently blue, even though making it gray or white would have been an easy task at this point and would allow watercolor.png to be used for biome-dependent water colors.

watercolor.png was ultimately removed in 13w24a alongside many others due to it remaining unused.

When Java Edition 18w15a expanded on biome-dependent water tints (and made the water textures white to accommodate this), the subject biomes still remained limited, as swamps and different temperature oceans were the only biomes to have colors which differed from the default color specified. These colors were values explicitly specified per biome, rather than taken from a colormap like watercolor.png. As a result of this approach, there are currently several oversights in the current game where special water colors have not been defined for certain biomes even when they should be.

Reimplementing and actually using this file for the majority of biomes, like is done for grass and foliage, with swamps and possibly a few other biomes being the only remaining special-cased biomes, would likely resolve this issue in its entirety, as there would no longer be a need to specify water colors in biome json files; a blank entry would cause the game to seek out a value from the color map, which is what happens currently for grass and foliage.