`items.png`

This page describes content that has been removed from the game.

This feature was present in earlier versions of Minecraft, but has since been removed.

`items.png` in 13w01b, the last version to actually use this file.

items.png was a texture atlas found inside minecraft.jar that was used to load the game's item textures.

Format

items.png is a fixed-width 256×256-pixel file that is split into different 16×16 squares which correspond to the texture of each item found in-game. Like with particles.png, unused sections of the texture are completely transparent, unlike with terrain.png and the paintings sheet where such regions are colored magenta.

Usage

Before the introduction of texture packs, items.png was used as the texture file for all items in the game. To change any item textures in-game, it had to be edited and placed inside an edited minecraft.jar file.

items.png was in use by Java Edition until 13w02b, Pocket Edition Alpha until version v0.7.0 alpha and actively by Legacy Console Edition.

History

Java Edition Indev
May 24, 2008							This version of `items.png` can be found in the files of Legend of the Chambered. It contains some of the sprites later used in Minecraft but not in the same layout.
June 20, 2008							This version of `items.png` can be found in the files of Legend of the Chambered 2. It is the same as the version from the first version of the game, but with the armor textures removed.
June 20, 2008							The armor textures were instead moved to their own file, `armor.png`, which contains the textures for leather, studded, chainmail and iron armor.
0.31			20091231-2255				Added `items.png`.
			20091231-2255				The textures of empty armor slot icons, leather; studded, chainmail, and iron armor; apples, quivers, iron swords, iron shovels have been added.
			20100110				The textures of flint and steel, iron axes, and iron pickaxes have been added.
			20100110				An unused texture of bows and random purple сurve have been added.
			20100122				Changes were made to `items.png`, however the revision used in this version cannot be found as the version has not been archived.
							The texture of the arrow has been added.
							The textures of iron axes, bows, quivers have been changed.
							Bows use own texture.
			20100124				The texture of the iron axes has been changed.
			20100124				The random purple curve has been removed.
			20100128-2200				The textures of coal, diamonds, gold ingots, iron ingots, wooden, stone, diamond types of swords and tools have been added.
			20100128-2200				The textures of flint and steel, iron axes, iron pickaxes, iron shovels have been changed.
			20100129-1447				The texture of the sticks has been added.
			20100129-1447				The textures of gold and iron ingots have been changed.
			20100130				The textures of bowls, mushroom stew, gunpowder, feathers, strings, golden swords, golden axes, golden pickaxes, golden shovels have been added.
20100206-2034							The textures of the golden and diamond sets of armor, wheat, bread, wheat seeds, and wooden, stone, iron, golden, and diamond hoes have been added.
							The textures of the feathers and golden swords, pickaxes, axes, and shovels have been changed.
							The textures for the studded armor set have been removed.
20100219							The textures for cooked porkchop, raw porkchop, and flint have been added.
20100219							The textures for coal and flint and steel have been changed.
20100223							The texture for paintings has been added.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							The texture for golden apples has been added.
20100607							The textures for signs and wooden doors have been added.
20100615							The textures for buckets, water buckets, and lava buckets have been added.
20100618							The texture for minecarts has been added.
20100624							The texture for minecarts has been changed.
20100625-1917							The texture for saddles has been added.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1							The textures for iron doors and redstone dust have been added.
v1.0.1							The texture for wooden doors has been changed.
v1.0.5							The texture for snowballs has been added.
v1.0.6							The texture for boats has been added.
v1.0.8							The textures for leather and milk buckets has been added.
v1.0.11							The textures for bricks, reeds, clay balls, paper, books, and slimeballs have been added.
v1.0.14							The textures for eggs, 13 and cat music discs, minecart with furnace, and minecart with chest have been added.
v1.1.0							The texture for compasses has been added.
v1.1.1							The texture for fishing rods has been added.
v1.2.0			release				The textures for clocks, glowstone dust, cooked fish, and raw fish have been added.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							The textures for bonemeal, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans, ink sacs, bones, sugar, cake; and light gray, gray, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, purple, magenta, and pink dyes have been added.
1.2							Placeholder icons have been added around the dyes.
1.3							The textures for beds and redstone repeaters have been added.
1.4							The texture for cookies has been added.
1.6			Test Build 3				The textures for maps and fishing rods have been added.
1.7							The texture for shears has been added.
1.8			Pre-release				The textures for melon seeds, melon slices, pumpkin seeds, rotten flesh, ender pearls, raw beef, steak, raw chicken, cooked chicken, and the three stages of drawing a bow have been added.
							The texture of cooked porkchops has been changed.
							Placeholder Icons have been added under the bows, cooked chicken, ender pearl, and cookie, as well as to the right of the bed.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				The textures for fire charges, blaze rods, ghast tears, gold nuggets, and nether wart have been added.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				The textures for fermented spider eyes, spider eyes, magma creams, glass bottles; the liquid overlay for potions; 11, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, and ward music discs, and 5 extra discs, using the 13 and cat textures, have been added.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				The textures for eyes of ender, cauldrons, and brewing stands have been added.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				The textures for glistering melons and splash potions have been added.
1.1			11w49a				The texture for spawn eggs has been added.
			12w01a				The texture for spawn egg overlays has been added.
			12w01a				The texture for spawn eggs has been changed.
1.2.1			12w04a				The texture for bottles o' enchanting has been added.
1.3.1			12w17a				Added textures for book and quill and written book.
			12w19a				The texture for cocoa beans has been changed.
			12w21a				The textures for rubies and emeralds have been added.
			12w24a				The texture for ender pearls has been changed.
			1.3				The textures of flint, coal, charcoal, diamonds, redstone repeaters, rotten flesh, raw beef, steak, gold nuggests, nether wart, blaze powder, magma cream, boats, red dye, green dye, cocoa beans, and bone meal have been changed.
1.4.2			12w34a				The textures for potato, baked potato, poisonous potato, carrot, golden carrot, flower pot, empty map, item frame, and nether star have been added.
							The textures of the leather armor set have been changed.
							Placeholder icons have been added near the bottom of the file.
			12w34b				The texture for the leather chestplate has been changed.
			12w36a				The textures of carrot on a stick, skeleton, wither skeleton, zombie, player, and creeper heads have been added.
							The texture of golden carrots has been changed.
							Placeholder icons have been added near the bottom of the file.
			12w37a				The textures for pumpkin pie and the undyeable leather armor overlays (Helmet Piece, Kneecaps, Boot Piece) have been added.
			12w37a				The textures of apple, bread, raw porkchop, cooked porkchop, raw beef, steak, raw chicken, cooked chicken, carrot, golden carrot, baked potato, nether star, and heads have been changed.
1.4.4			1.4.3				The texture of one of the extra Cat discs has been changed into the Wait disc.
1.4.6			12w49a				The textures for enchanted books, firework rockets, firework stars, and firework star overlays have been added.
1.5			13w01a				The textures for nether quartz, nether brick, and redstone comparators have been added.
			13w02a				The `items.png` file has been replaced by individual item images, allowing for HD and animated textures. The `items.png` has been effectively replaced by procedurally generated texture atlases.
			13w02b				`items.png` has been removed from the jar file from this point onwards.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							It is set to match Java Edition Beta 1.3, with the addition of the camera, tripod, and an unidentified texture, similar in appearance to a real-life camera.
v0.2.0							The camera, tripod, and unidentified camera texture have been removed.
v0.2.0							The file has been updated to match Java Edition 11w49a.
v0.6.0							The textures for nether quartz and nether brick have been added.
v0.7.0							The textures for chicken, sheep, cow, and pig spawn eggs have been added.
v0.8.0			build 2				`items.png` is no longer supported and has been removed, now being replaced with items-opaque.png.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
Build 0016	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added `items.png`.
							Added textures for arrow; leather, iron, diamond and gold armors, tools and swords; apple, flint and steel, bows, coal, diamond, gold ingot, iron ingot, stick, bowl, mushroom stew, gunpowder, string, feather, bread, seeds, wheat, flint, raw porkchop, cooked porkchop, golden apple, bucket, water bucket, lava bucket, saddle, snowball, leather, milk bucket, paper, book, clay ball, brick, slimeball, sugar cane, egg, music discs, minecart with furnace, minecart with chest, compass, fishing rod, clock, glowstone dust, cooked fish, raw fish, bone, bone meal, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans, ink sac, charcoal, dyes, sugar, cookie, and maps.
							Added unused textures with words "CLCK 1", "CLCK 2", "CLCK 3", "CMPS 1", "CMPS 2", "CMPS 3".
TU1							Added unused version of items.png.
TU3							Updated `items.png`.
							Added texture for shears.
							Changed texture for cooked porkchop.
TU5							Updated `items.png`.
TU5							Added textures for melon, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, raw beef, steak, raw chicken, cooked chicken, rotten flesh, ender pearl; the 11, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, and ward music discs, chain armor.
TU7							Updated `items.png`.
TU7							Added textures for blaze rod, ghast tear, gold nugget, glass bottle, water bottle, spider eye, fermented spider eye, eye of ender, glistering melon, nether wart, blaze powder, bottle o' enchanting, magma cream.
TU9							Added textures for fire charge, item frame, nether brick and dragon fireball, base and overlay textures for spawn eggs.
TU12							Added textures for ocelot spawn egg, the skeleton, wither skeleton, zombie, player, creeper mob heads.
TU14		1.04					Added textures for emerald, nether quartz, enchanted book, enchanted golden apple, potato, baked potato, poisonous potato, carrot, golden carrot, carrot on a stick, pumpkin pie, potions.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Added textures for minecart with hopper, minecart with TNT, redstone comparator, firework rocket, firework star, nether star, lead, horse armor, name tag, the horse, donkey and mule spawn eggs.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Added textures for barrier and book and quill.
TU28	CU16	1.19	1.19	1.19			Added textures for armor stand, raw rabbit, cooked rabbit, rabbit stew, raw mutton, cooked mutton, rabbit's foot, rabbit hide, potion of Leaping, potion of Water Breathing, salmon, cooked salmon, clownfish, pufferfish, prismarine crystals, prismarine shard, spawn eggs for rabbits, endermites and guardians.
TU33	CU21	1.24	1.24	1.24	Patch 3
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added textures for beetroot, beetroot seeds and beetroot soup.
TU44	CU34	1.37	1.37	1.37	Patch 14		Change the texture of doors.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added textures for chorus fruit, popped chorus fruit, dragon's breath, elytra, end crystal, lingering potion, splash potions, potion of Luck, tipped arrow, the spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak boats.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added textures for shulker shell, iron nugget.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added overlay texture for beds.
							Changed base texture for beds.
							Removed unused texture for ruby.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Resized items.png from 256 × 256 pixels to 256 × 272 pixels.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Added base and overlay textures for leather horse armor.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added textures for buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish, kelp, dried kelp, sea pickle, nautilus shell, heart of the sea, turtle shell, scute, trident, phantom membrane.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Changed textures for raw cod, cooked cod, raw salmon, cooked salmon, pufferfish, tropical fish.
Pi Edition
0.1							Added `items.png`.
0.1.1							The textures for nether quartz and nether brick have been added.

Gallery

Most of the historically unused textures in terrain.png, excluding those whose positions would have coincided.

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