This article is about music played in Minecraft. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation).
Minecraft contains music created by C418. The music plays at various points in game, including the main menu, in creative mode, in the Nether, and during the credits. In Minecraft: Pocket Edition, music is classified as DLC.
List
Please note, these tracks previews have been shortened to 30 seconds on the wiki due to an agreement with the author to allow them on the wiki. This does not apply to "11" and "Calm 4".
| Filename in Minecraft |
Gameplay | Soundtrack Title | Soundtrack | Track preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11[note 1] | Music Disc | — | — | |
| 13 | Music Disc | "Thirteen" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 16 | |
| Blocks | Music Disc | "Blocks" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 28 | |
| Boss | Ender Dragon battle | — | — | |
| Calm 1 | General gameplay | "Minecraft" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 8 | |
| Calm 2 | General gameplay | "Clark" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 14 | |
| Calm 3 | General gameplay | "Sweden" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 18 | |
| Cat | Music Disc | "Cat" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 19 | |
| Chirp | Music Disc | "Chirp" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 20 | |
| Creative 1 | Creative mode | "Biome Fest" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 8 | |
| Creative 2 | Creative mode | "Blind Spots" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 4 | |
| Creative 3 | Creative mode | "Haunt Muskie" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 10 | |
| Creative 4 | Creative mode | "Aria Math" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 13 | |
| Creative 5 | Creative mode | "Dreiton" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 18 | |
| Creative 6 | Creative mode | "Taswell" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 16 | |
| Credits | End Poem | "Alpha" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 2 | |
| End | The End | "The End" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 19 | |
| Far | Music Disc | "Far" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 29 | |
| Hal 1 | General gameplay | "Subwoofer Lullaby" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 3 | |
| Hal 2 | General gameplay | "Living Mice" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 5 | |
| Hal 3 | General gameplay | "Haggstrom" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 7 | |
| Hal 4 | General gameplay | "Danny" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 21 | |
| Mall | Music Disc | "Mall" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 27 | |
| Mellohi | Music Disc | "Mellohi" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 22 | |
| Menu 1 | Main menu | "Mutation" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 9 | |
| Menu 2 | Main menu | "Moog City 2" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 6 | |
| Menu 3 | Main menu | "Beginning 2" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 17 | |
| Menu 4 | Main menu | "Floating Trees" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 12 | |
| Nether 1 | The Nether | "Concrete Halls" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 7 | |
| Nether 2 | The Nether | "Dead Voxel" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 3 | |
| Nether 3 | The Nether | "Warmth" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 11 | |
| Nether 4 | The Nether | "Ballad of the Cats" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 15 | |
| Nuance 1 | General gameplay | "Key" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 1 | |
| Nuance 2 | General gameplay | "Oxygène" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 9 | |
| Piano 1 | General gameplay | "Dry Hands" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 12 | |
| Piano 2 | General gameplay | "Wet Hands" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 13 | |
| Piano 3 | General gameplay | "Mice on Venus" | Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 11 | |
| Stal | Music Disc | "Stal" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 23 | |
| Strad | Music Disc | "Strad" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 24 | |
| Wait[note 2] | Music Disc | "Wait" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 21 | |
| Ward | Music Disc | "Ward" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 26 |
- Notes
- ↑ "11" is not "Eleven" in Minecraft - Volume Beta.
- ↑ In the Console Edition, this track is named "Where Are We Now"
History
| classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.24 | Music was added. "Calm1", "Calm2", and "Calm3" were the only music available and would play as ambience music tracks. | ||||
| indev | |||||
| ? | Music would only play when the player was near the indev house now. | ||||
| infdev | |||||
| ? | "Calm 1", "Calm 2", and "Calm 3" were ambience music tracks again due to the removal of the indev house. | ||||
| alpha | |||||
| 1.0.14 | Added all twelve music discs files, though only "13" and "cat" are available as discs. | ||||
| 1.1.1 | Added sliders to change the volume of in game music. | ||||
| Added the "Calm 4" file. | |||||
| 1.2.0 | Added "Hal 1", "Hal 2", "Hal 3", "Hal 4", "Nuance 1", "Nuance 2", "Piano 1", "Piano 2", and "Piano 3" | ||||
| 1.2.1 | Music now plays in multiplayer. | ||||
| Minecraft Launcher 1.6.1 | Removed the "Calm 4" file. | ||||
| release | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre2 | "11", "Blocks", "Chirp", "Far", "Mall", "Mellohi", "Stal", "Strad", and "Ward" are now available in game as music discs. | |||
| "Where Are We Now" was left unused due to a processing problem because of the spaces in the title. | |||||
| 1.4.4 | "Where Are We Now" was renamed to "Wait", fixing the processing problem and adding it as the twelfth music disc. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w16a | All music discs are now stored in .ogg rather than the encoded .mus format. | |||
| 13w24a | Music can now be altered using a resource pack. | ||||
Music is now stored in assets/music | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | The volume of jukeboxes and other music can now be adjusted independently. | |||
| 13w42a | Music is now stored in assets/sounds/music. | ||||
| 13w43a | Music played by jukeboxes now loops. | ||||
| 1.7-pre | Music now pauses when pausing the game. | ||||
| 2013 Music Update | Added tracks "Boss", "Creative 1", "Creative 2", "Creative 3", "Creative 4", "Creative 5", "Creative 6", "Credits", "End", "Menu 1", "Menu 2", "Menu 3", "Menu 4", "Nether 1", "Nether 2", "Nether 3", and "Nether 4" | ||||
| 1.8 | Music files are now stored as an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder. | ||||
| 1.8.2 | pre4 | The credits music now plays properly. | |||
| 1.12.0 | pre6 | The credits music now plays properly. | |||
| ??? | menu2.ogg track changed from the song "Moog City" to the song "Moog City 2". | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | build 1 | Added downloadable vanilla in-game music which contains "Boss", "Calm 1", "Calm 2", "Calm 3", "Creative 1", "Creative 2", "Creative 3", "Creative 4", "Creative 5", "Creative 6", "Credits", "End", "Hal 1", "Hal 2", "Hal 3", "Hal 4", "Menu 1", "Menu 2", "Menu 3", "Menu 4", "Nether 1", "Nether 2", "Nether 3", "Nether 4", "Nuance 1", "Nuance 2", "Piano 1", "Piano 2", and "Piano 3" tracks. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added "Calm 1", "Calm 2", and "Calm 3", "Hal 1", "Hal 2", "Hal 3", "Hal 4", "Nuance 1", "Nuance 2", "Piano 1", "Piano 2", and "Piano 3" as ambiance music tracks. | |
| Added the music discs "13" and "cat". | |||||
| Added sliders to change the volume of in game music. | |||||
| Added the "Calm 4" file. | |||||
| TU5 | Added the music discs "11", "Blocks", "Chirp", "Far", "Mall", "Mellohi", "Stal", "Strad", "Ward", and "Where Are We Now" | ||||
| TU9 | Added tracks "End", "Nether 1", "Nether 2", "Nether 3", and "Nether 4" | ||||
| TU24 | 1.07 | Added tracks "Boss", "Creative 1", "Creative 2", "Creative 3", "Creative 4", "Creative 5", "Creative 6", "Credits", "Menu 1", "Menu 2", "Menu 3", and "Menu 4" | |||
| TU36 | CU25 | 1.28 | Patch 7 | Added Battle minigame tracks. | |
| TU41 | CU30 | 1.33 | Patch 11 | Added Tumble minigame tracks. | |
Trivia
- In-game music is cued by the time of day, with a random track being played at sunrise, sunset, noon and midnight.
- Chirp uses the same accompaniment samples as "The Orb of Dreamers" from the LittleBigPlanet series. The samples come from the Optigan disc "Bossa Nova Style".[1] C418 stated that it was coincidental.[2]
- "Calm 3", or "Sweden", is a Passacaglia, with a changing melody over a repeated bass line.
- In Console Edition, the music disc "Cat" includes a second tune at the end, a remix titled "Dog", from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
- On April Fools' Day 2014, Mojang played a bunch of villager themed pranks on the players, including temporarily replacing the track "Hal 1", or "Subwoofer Lullaby", with a version that had a villager singing along, as well as temporarily replacing all the menu songs with the villagers singing the Game Of Thrones theme song.
- 5 songs in C418's album "148" (Droopy Remembers, Vierton, Aria Economy, Biome Party, and Beta) are drum and bass remixes of some songs in "Minecraft: Volume Alpha" and "Minecraft: Volume Beta" (Droopy likes ricochet + Droopy likes your face, Dreiton, Aria Math, Biome Fest, and Sweden).
- Hal 3 (Haggstrom) is in septuple time (precisely 7/4 time).