Minecraft has been up to date with a tribute to the favored streamer Technoblade, whose demise from most cancers was introduced by his household final week. The splash picture for Minecraft within the recreation’s launcher now incorporates a pig carrying a golden crown — a callout to Technoblade’s Minecraft character, a royal pig-man carrying a bejeweled crown.
The Minecraft crew tweeted on Friday that the crew was ”heartbroken over the lack of Technoblade,” writing that he “introduced a lot pleasure” to the sport’s group.
We’ve got been looking for the phrases, however all of us right here at Minecraft are heartbroken over the lack of Technoblade. He meant a lot to our group and introduced a lot pleasure. He might be missed dearly. ️
— Minecraft (@Minecraft) July 1, 2022
Technoblade was a vastly fashionable Minecraft streamer, with greater than 13 million subscribers on YouTube, and was a part of the hit server Dream SMP. In a YouTube video revealed final Thursday, Technoblade’s father learn a message from the streamer and mentioned the work that had gone into making this closing video as he was scuffling with most cancers. As of this writing, it has greater than 54 million views.
Tributes to Technoblade have poured in from different streamers and members of the Minecraft creator group. Within the days since, numerous items of fanart have been posted to Twitter in commemoration, too.
The Minecraft crew hasn’t immediately acknowledged the splash display screen up to date but, nevertheless it’s clearly pushed out this small change in tribute. The unique model of the launcher picture nonetheless incorporates a pig in the identical place, nevertheless it lacks Technoblade’s trademark crown.