Background

The background is a decorative background of a GUI displayed during dimension teleporting, in some menu screens, and the end poem.

In Java Edition, backgrounds are only used when teleporting to another dimension. When teleporting to or from the Overworld or custom dimensions, a blurred panorama is displayed in the background instead. When teleporting to The Nether, the texture of the nether portal is displayed. When teleporting to The End, the texture of the end portal is displayed.

In Bedrock Edition, dirt backgrounds only appear in the credits, on connection error screens, and on the loading screen when teleporting to the Overworld using a nether portal.

Despite the texture of dirt being changed in Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 and Pocket Edition v0.2.0 alpha, the dirt backgrounds still use the old texture, except the dirt background when teleporting to the Overworld.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][1]}

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  Dirt background.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
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  Dirt background in End Poem.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
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  Dirt background when teleporting to Overworld.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

A background with netherrack texture is displayed when teleporting to the Nether.

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  Netherrack background‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

An background with end stone texture is displayed when teleporting to the End.

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  End stone background‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

An animated Nether portal texture is displayed when changing dimension to or from the Nether in Java Edition. However, the texture is stretched to the size of the window and not a repeated texture like on Bedrock Edition.

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  Nether portal background‌^{[Java Edition only]}

A background with unanimated darkened nether portal texture is displayed in warnings while joining a Realm in Bedrock Edition.

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  Nether portal Background‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

An animated End Portal texture is displayed when changing dimension to or from The End.

An animated End Portal texture is displayed when taking the end portal back to the Overworld after defeating the ender dragon.

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  End Portal background‌^{[Java Edition only]}
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  Animated end portal background used for the end poem‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Java Edition Classic
0.0.12a							Added a loading screen with a dirt background.
0.0.13a							Darkened overlay of the dirt background.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100131-2156				Added menu screen, which also used the dirt background.
							The dirt background on the main menu would slowly scroll, similar to the later added credits.
20100206-2034							The main menu background is now stationary.
Java Edition Beta
1.8			(preview)				Replaced background in the main menu with the panorama.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Added the End poem and the credits, which also used the dirt background.
1.20			Pre-release 1				The texture used for the options background has been updated.[1] The texture for dirt itself was updated in 1.0.0 (Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5), however the old version was still used until this version.
1.20.5			24w09a				The dirt background has effectively been removed, with new resource pack functionality relegating it to the Programmer Art resource pack. Instead of the dirt background for the main menu and settings, now a blurred panorama and blurred gameplay is used. The end gateway and nether portal textures are now used when travelling to The End and The Nether

Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added dirt background.
v0.7.0							Replaced dirt background in the main menu with the new blurred background.
v0.7.3							Replaced background in the main menu with the panorama.
v0.14.2							Brightened overlay of the dirt background.
v0.16.0			build 1				Replaced dirt background with the nether portal background when joining Realms.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added the End poem, which also used the dirt background.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.18				Dimension transition screens now have specific backgrounds with textures of dirt, netherrack and end stone.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Changed textures for the netherrack and the end stone.

Issues relating to "Background" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Panorama - The Images shown on the title screen.

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