Enthusiasts completed a project to find a seed (grain) of the world in Minecraftwhere the iconic Pack.png image exists. This picture can be seen on the server selection screen in the game, more precisely, it can be found in “Options” – “Resource packs” when starting the game.
The world that contains this image has the number 3257840388504953787, its coordinates are x = 49, z = 0.
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Allegedly, more than 230 trillion possible Minecraft worlds were checked to find the exact location. A distributed supercomputer from several NVIDIA DGX-2 systems was used for the search. The open platform BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) was used as a software component. It is a distributed computing system capable of running on thousands of PCs around the world.
Note that the Pack.png image is probably the most popular one for Minecraft fans. The fact is that back in the winter a video was published with a search for the place shown in the image. The author of the video, under the nickname SalC1, even contacted the creators of the game, trying to find the place shown on Pack.png, but they could not help.
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However, fans only had a 256 x 256 pixel image from the game source. They needed to find a unique seed that created the world with the required parameters. A seed or grain in this case is a pseudo-random sequence of symbols, on the basis of which the game world is created. For this, procedural generation is used, because differences even in one symbol will lead to the creation of completely different worlds.
It is important, however, that the original world could only be computed in the alpha version of the game 1.2.2a. The later ones were no longer suitable.
SalC1 posted a tweet informing about the location.
This is real. pic.twitter.com/lZ7t8N6q1k
— SalC1 (@RealSalC1) September 5, 2020
Recall that earlier developers showed a map with a huge city created by 500 people.
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