Minecraft pays tribute to Technoblade after streamer's death

Minectaftreceived an update with a tribute to the popular streamer Technoblade, whose death from cancer was announced on

his family said last week. In the original image forMinecraftThe game launcher now features a pig wearing a golden crown – character symbolMinecraftfrom Technoblade, a human royal pig wearing a bejeweled crown.

Friday teamMinecrafttweeted that the team was “heartbroken over the loss of Technoblade”, writing that he “brought so much joy” game community.

Be careful to pass words but all outus in Minecraft are heartbroken over loss of Technoblade. He meant so much to our society and brought so much joy. He will be missed dearly. ????????????

– Minecraft (@Minecraft) July 1, 2022

Technoblade was very popularstreamerMinecraftwith over 13 million subscribers on YouTube and was part of the Dream SMP hit server. In the video onYouTubepublished last Thursday, fatherTechnoblade read the posts from the streamer and discussed the work that went into making this latest video as he battled cancer. At the time of this writing, it has over 54 million views.

Other Minecraft streamers and contributorshonoredTechnoblade. Since then, countless fanarts have also been posted on Twitter in memory of the occasion.

TeamMinecraftdid not directly acknowledge the splash screen update, butshe clearly squeezed in this small change to honor the streamer. The original version of the launcher image still features the pig in the same position, but is missing the signature Technoblade crown.

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