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A TL;DR for people:

'This project attempts to find the world seed of the iconic panorama image which appeared in the background of the main menu of Minecraft between 2011 and 2018.'

Essentially it's Folding@Home but for finding a specific Minecraft world seed.

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They actually already found the panorama world seed [1]! Currently they are working on figuring out what the tallest naturally generated cactus in Minecraft is and so far they found a world seed with a cactus that is 22 blocks tall [2]. This project however is just a filler until they get some more work done trying to figure out how to best brute force the world seed of the iconic pack.png image [3].

[1] - https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?i...

[2] - https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?i...

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE (Interesting bit is around 7:50)

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