items.png

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

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.

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.