Minecraftis undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary video games. In fact, the Strong Museum’s WorldVideo Game Hall of Fame inductedMinecraftinto its celebrated catalog this past July.
Even after more than a decade,Minecraftcontinues to grow its player base. Now, that dedicated player base has made an incredible discovery in the form of the world seed used in a famous screenshot from one of the game’s menu screens.
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Minecrafthas changed a lot since its releaseback in 2009. Though the game was still in its public alpha phase, it steadily became an internet sensation thanks to content creators at the time. As such, many players have a deep nostalgia for certain aspects ofMinecraft, from the game’s music to the menu screens. One such menu screen is known for using a screenshot of the in-game landscape, and is labeled in the game’s files as pack.png.
Pack.png is an actual screenshot from a random world seed that can be generated inMinecraft. Now, after nearly a year of work, theMinecraftcommunity has discovered the randomly generated seed that contains the landscape of pack.png. This isn’t the first time an iconic world seed was discovered inMinecraft,as last monthMinecraftplayers found title screen seed. AMinecraftcontent creator by the name of SalC1 posted a picture of the pack.png landscape generated by the actual world seed to Twitter earlier today.
The screenshot is from a different angle than the original pack.png screenshot but it is in fact the same exact landscape fromMinecraft’s server select menus. SalC1 put out the call for the community to find the pack.png seed in January of this year, so they have been hard at work reverse-engineering a single screenshot for around eight months. Every singleMinecraftworld seed that is generatedis pseudo-random, meaning the chance to actually find the seen based off a single screenshot is incredible, to say the least.
Find and documenting interesting world seeds is among the coolest things theMinecraftcommunity does. Plenty of players online documentthe bestMinecraftworld seedsfor players looking for ways to find specific biomes or items around their world. While each randomly-generatedMinecraftworld has something interesting to discover, some world seeds generate some crazy landscapes. All in all, the discovery of the pack.png world seed is a pretty significant accomplishment for theMinecraftcommunity.
Minecraftis available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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