The menu screen comprises all of the buttons and text for both the main menu and the pause menu. It is the interface that allows players to change options such as the game language and resource pack active, as well as create a new world or join a multiplayer server. Upon the opening of the game's menu, the game's logo will appear with a splash caption beneath it. The game's menu can be accessed anytime in-game by pausing the game, with the Esc by default.
By default, there are 6 buttons in the title screen menu: Singleplayer, Multiplayer, Minecraft Realms, Options, Quit Game and Language. In the background, there is a constantly moving, blurred image of a Minecraft world with distinguishable features. The map shown can be edited with the use of a resource pack.
There is a 1‱ (1/10,000 or 0.01%) chance that the title screen will display "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft".
Notch made it as a small secret, and enjoyed that he was the only one who knew of its existence. After stating a secret was in Minecraft undiscovered, the internet went wild, trying to find it. Soon after, Notch wrote an article called, "A Post-Mortem of Minceraft".
In crash logs, a reference to Minceraft may appear as a joke, stating, "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!".