Deadmau5

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Deadmau5
Deadmau5 Belknap Park 2023.jpg: Infobox image for Deadmau5 the person in Minecraft
Real name

Joel Thomas Zimmerman

Date of birth

January 5, 1981

Occupation

Record producer, DJ

Years active

1998–present

Nationality

Canadian

Languages

English

Minecraft roles
  • Guest at MINECON
Website

https://deadmau5.com/

Discord server

mau5cord

X (Twitter) username

@deadmau5

Instagram name

deadmau5

YouTube channel

deadmau5

Minecraft name

deadmau5

Signature

Pronunciation

"dead-mouse"

Joel Thomas Zimmerman, known professionally as Deadmau5, is a Canadian DJ known for his distinctive mouse head.

In the Minecraft franchise

Main article: Easter eggs

At an unknown time, Markus Persson took notice of Zimmerman's interest in Minecraft, gifting him a unique skin featuring his signature "mau5 ears." Later, he would attend MINECON 2011, hosting a segment called "Into the Nether." At one point, he and Notch beheaded a model chicken with a golden sword.[1][2]

Deadmau5 received a mention in the loading tips of Legacy Console Edition stating that he likes Minecraft.

Ears

With the addition of capes, Notch also added ears for deadmau5. The ears are additional geometry attached to the player's head, with the texture contained within deadmau5's skin file. deadmau5 cannot disable his ears; erasing the ear texture from the skin file would still render them with a solid black color. Deadmau5's name tag is also programmed to render ten pixels higher to be above the ears. The ears are set to show up based on the username, rather than the UUID of the player, meaning that if deadmau5 were to change his name, he would not keep his ears.

As a side effect of this Easter egg, in versions before Java Edition 1.21.9 Pre-Release 2 any entity with the name tag "deadmau5", including named mobs, had its name tag render ten pixels higher than a normal name tag.

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