Pack.PNG has been FOUND! - Here's how they did it.

Seed: 3257840388504953787 (Alpha 1.2.2a - Can be generated up to Beta 1.7.3)
Coordinates: x=49, z=0

Mentioned Videos:

Pack.PNG Server:
Thanks so much to PebbleHost for originally hosting the server after the video's release!

[gwyn.]

*“Maybe the seed was the friendship we’ve built along the way.”*

[goosewithahorn]

The people who found it need to get a cape of this image

[ANSwer_this_nerd]

Achievement unlocked: King of the Hill
- Build a house on the Pack.png seed

[austinmajeski]

9:45
Funny seeing Dream talk about something being statistically impossible.

[MagRV]

when gamers have more free time, they're unstoppable

[Commenttube]

Notch in 2009: let's use this random image
Salc1: Ladies and gentlemen we got it!

[luk]

Sometime in 2009, Notch's perspective: "This random hill looks good."
11 Years later: "TAKE MY GRAPHICS CARD TO FIND THIS THING."

[Pixelcraftian]

It's been 10 months since they found it, how the time has passed...

[ACR_Legends]

-Someone reaching Farlands in survival
-People Recreating Earth
-People finding the loading screen world
History is being made, people!

[eliviton]

This all started when Notch was just wandering around to find a good pic of a hill.

[Nightcaat]

And now their work has been immortalized in 1.21 with the new painting :)

[dacrasherz]

Getting a math degree to find old minecraft seeds - how they did it

[Rispy]

Notch: casually takes a picture of his game for a texture.
Everyone: WHERE IS THAT PICTURE FROM WE NEED TO KNOW.

[Charmanderboi]

SalC1 : "So many friendships were made."
Me : "Ah yes.. Friends"

[Micha-Hil]

8:03 Imagine the mixed emotions of fear, shock, and excitement that occurred when being woken up at like 4:00 AM by this alarm

[pokcmvmxckm]

I wonder if anyone has been playing on Pack.PNG for years without knowing it.

[yuikonnu]

petition to make "pack.png has been found!" added to minecraft

[SchwachsinnProduzent]

One advantage of this discovery is, that now every texturepack could go and imitate the original Pack.PNG picture with their textures applied.

[ernestkhalimov]

it's cool that Mojang acknowledged this achievement, and added it as painting in new update.

[jackenminecraft]

And to think, notch just loaded up a world with a random seed, took a screenshot, from a random angle, and said yeah this looks good.