Minecraft@Home

Minecraft@Home is a volunteer computing project on the BOINC platform that needs your help to research projects related to Minecraft.

Why Minecraft@Home?

Minecraft@Home enables the study of the fundamental laws of Minecraft to answer unanswered questions regarding the features and true limits of the game.

Goal

Discover many of Minecraft's most famous seeds.

Methods

* always including "why BOINC"?

* impactful final statement

Results

* Smash' Backgrounds Steve has been added to Super Smash, now it's time to uncover the origins of the six different background images.

* Minecraft Trailer One of the most iconic Minecraft video ever.  Now we want to remake it scene-by-scene.

* Tallest Cactus What's the tallest cactus that can naturally occur in Minecraft? The tallest one we've found so far is over 20 blocks.

* The 'Herobrine' World What lies beyond the fog? Now, over a decade since the original Herobrine screenshot was posted, the world seed has been uncovered.

* Main Menu Panorama This panorama graced the menu screen for over seven years.  The discovery of this world seed was Minecraft@Home's first major project.

* Pack.PNG Pack.PNG is perhaps the most-viewed Minecraft image ever.  Now, thanks to thousands of BOINC volunteers, this iconic hill can be visited once again.

* Skull-on-Fire Have you ever noticed the terrain in the background of Minecraft's in-game skull painting? The world seed for this mountain has been found.

* 1.13-1.16 Backgrounds Following up on previous work, we've recently discovered the seeds for all four remaining menu backgrounds, up through release 1.16.

Project team / Sponsors

https://github.com/minecrafthome

Contributing

If you're interested in supporting this project, download and install BOINC and attach to the project using its official URL: https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/.