The seed for Minecraft's "pack.png" found

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A google doc about the methodology

From the packpng site FAQ:

Q: What is this about?
This is about finding the seed of the mysterious "pack.png" image that Minecraft uses. All of this started with a YouTube video made by SalC1.

Q: What is pack.png?
The image Minecraft used for the default texture pack in the texture pack selection screen, and also for greyed out if a server doesn't have a icon.

Q: How many seeds are there?
2^48*0.82 seeds.
230,809,480,902,738
230.8 Trillion

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[pswii60]

As someone who has never touched Minecraft, WTF is a seed?

 

[itfiend]

As someone who has never touched Minecraft, WTF is a seed?

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Random seed - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PixelatedDonut]

As someone who has never touched Minecraft, WTF is a seed?

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It's world data, every world in minecraft is different. So it's like the seed to plant the world.

 

[RedShift]

As someone who has never touched Minecraft, WTF is a seed?

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Minecraft is randomly generated. A 'seed' for a world is the seed used for the random number generator that generates it. You use the same seed, you get the same world.

 

[signal]

e: Answered multiple times lol.

 

[Ojli]

Wasn't this a couple of weeks ago? Thought I saw this title earlier or maybe it was another classic picture

 

[signal]

Wasn't this a couple of weeks ago? Thought I saw this title earlier or maybe it was another classic picture

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Yeah it's from earlier September. If there was a thread already then 🔒 !!!

 

[Chettlar]

So what happens with a seed for such an old build in minecraft being applied in a world with new updates? How does that affect it? Does it just all stay old minecraft or what.

 

[Deleted member 16908]

Wasn't this a couple of weeks ago? Thought I saw this title earlier or maybe it was another classic picture

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I thought the same but I believe this is for a different picture. IIRC the earlier thread was about the seed for the world from the title screen being found.

 

[Ojli]

Yeah it's from earlier September. If there was a thread already then 🔒 !!!

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The one I was thinking about was probably this. More than a couple of weeks, but you know, 2020 and all that
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ind-seed-for-title-screen-background-panorama

 

[Fliesen]

Has Minecraft's world generation algorithm never seen a change since this thumbnail photo had been taken?

 

[Chettlar]

Hey that video is using Viva Pinata music lol. Wat.

 

[signal]

The one I was thinking about was probably this. More than a couple of weeks, but you know, 2020 and all that
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ind-seed-for-title-screen-background-panorama

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Oh yeah that's different but related. It's mentioned in the video that finding that title screen one is what caused this pack.png project to get started up again lol.

 

[Kyougar]

I made a post on PC gaming thread about it a few months back.

So what happens with a seed for such an old build in minecraft being applied in a world with new updates? How does that affect it? Does it just all stay old minecraft or what.

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It would be a completely different map. A map from a seed changes with every change of world generation. Changes to world generation are rare, though.

 

[Deleted member 3038]

Has Minecraft's world generation algorithm never seen a change since this thumbnail photo had been taken?

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It has, there are new biomes & changes in world generation since then. On newer versions of minecraft it probably doesn't look the same.

 

[Thera]

8 months !!!
Totally worth it
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[Deleted member 21709]

This is crazy.

 

[Chettlar]

I made a post on PC gaming thread about it a few months back.



It would be a completely different map. A map from a seed changes with every change of world generation. Changes to world generation are rare, though.

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So you'd have to get 1.0 and do this on that correct?

 

[Kyougar]

So you'd have to get 1.0 and do this on that correct?

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yes

 

[Chettlar]

yes

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