Minecraft:Terrain.png

File:Terrain.png

terrain.png in 13w01b, the last Java Edition version to actually use this file

terrain.png was a Minecraft:texture atlas found inside Minecraft:minecraft.jar. It was used to store the game's Minecraft:block and Minecraft:fluid textures, the block Minecraft:breaking animation, and some Minecraft:items. It has been superseded with minecraft_textures_atlas_.pngs, obtainable in the screenshots folder upon doing Template:Key in modern versions.

Format

terrain.png is a fixed-width 256×256-pixel file that is split into different 16×16 squares which correspond to the texture for each block found in-game.

Usage

Before the introduction of texture packs, terrain.png had to be manually edited or replaced in order to change any textures found in-game. The file would have to be placed inside an edited minecraft.jar file in order to work.

Empty regions

File:Placeholder Texture JE1 BE1.png

Template:Main Unused sections of the texture are occupied by lilac squares, which distantly resemble the Minecraft:missing texture used from 13w16a onward. The paintings sheet also used this purple texture, however other atlases, like Minecraft:items.png and Minecraft:particles.png, did not.

These regions are solely intended to mark unused spaces on the sheet. Despite this, there are several cases of these texture regions unintentionally being used by blocks, items and other features. The following list names some significant examples where this texture was used (full lists for each edition are available with example screenshots and version ranges: Java, Bedrock, Console)

• File:Placeholder Block JE1 BE1.pngFile:Locked chest JE3.pngFile:Locked chest (S) JE4.png Minecraft:Locked chest (Java/Console)
• File:Placeholder Block JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Invalid Data Value Wool items with nonzero integer multiple of 16 damage values (Java/Console)
• File:Placeholder Texture Wheat.png Wheat with a growth state over 7 (Java)
• File:Cake (15 bites) JE1.png Minecraft:Cake with more than 7 bites taken out of it (Java)
• File:Water JE5.png Minecraft:Water in a short version range during Minecraft:Survival Test (Java)
• File:Placeholder Block JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Leaves as a held itemTemplate:Verify in a short version range (Bedrock)
• File:Leaves carried BE1.png Minecraft:leaves_carried (Bedrock)

History

Gallery

• A guide to the textures in terrain.png
  A guide to the textures in terrain.png
• Most of the historically unused textures in terrain.png, excluding those whose positions would have coincided (e.g. fire placeholder textures)
  Most of the historically unused textures in terrain.png, excluding those whose positions would have coincided (e.g. fire placeholder textures)
• The terrain.png file from a modded version of 0.30, included in Mojang's archive, likely erroneously
  The terrain.png file from a modded version of 0.30, included in Mojang's archive, likely erroneously

See also

• Minecraft:Texture pack (Java Edition)