Historical panoramas

Different panoramas have been used in the menu screens in both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, but they have been replaced for various reasons, such as a new update with a different theme. This page documents all such panoramas.

Dinnerbone had stated that the menu panorama was originally going to be an in-game render of a live world, with custom world generation with the seed 100. He also mentioned another panorama that came before the one seen in Beta 1.8, which depicted a plains biome near a beach.[1]

This panorama was introduced to Java Edition in Beta 1.8's early development and used for over six years before its replacement in 1.13-pre1.