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p>Minecraft has been updated to pay tribute to the streamer Technoblade who died of cancer was announced by his family this week. The Minecraft splash image that appears in the game's launcher shows a pig with a golden crown. This is a tribute to Technoblade's Minecraft character. It's a royal pig-man with a crown that is bejeweled.

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p>Friday's tweet from the Minecraft team said that they were "heartbroken" by Technoblade's death and that Technoblade "brought so much joy to the game community."

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p>We've been trying to find the right words but we all here at Minecraft are grieving over the loss of Technoblade. He meant so much to our community and brought so many smiles. He will be greatly missed.

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p>Technoblade was a popular Minecraft streamer with over 13 million subscribers on YouTube?. https://futtrup-zacho.federatedjournals.com/minecraft-title-update-14-its-out-on-xbox-360-today-ps3-tomorrow-1663908826 Technoblade was also part of the popular server Dream SMP. In a YouTube? video that was released on Thursday, Technoblade's father read an email from the streamer and then discussed the effort that went into making this final video, as Technoblade was battling cancer. As of the time of writing it has more than 54 million views.

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p>Tributes to Technoblade have been flooding in from other streamers and members of the Minecraft creator community. Since the event the event, many fan art pieces have been shared on Twitter to mark the occasion, too.

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p>Although the Minecraft team hasn't yet acknowledged the splash screen update, they clearly made this small change to honor. While the original launcher image shows the same pig in the same location, it does not have Technoblade's signature crown.

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