"Far" redirects here. For the phenomenon in Bedrock Edition, see Far Lands.
Music discs are 12 unique items that can be played in jukeboxes. By default, they play music made by C418; however, custom music can be added with the use of a resource pack.
Obtaining
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (13) | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.8% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (13) | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.5% | |
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (cat) | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.8% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (cat) | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.5% | |
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (mellohi) | Buried treasure | Chest | 1 | 18.9% |
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Music Disc (wait) | Buried treasure | Chest | 1 | 18.9% |
Creepers
When killed by a skeleton's or stray's arrow, a creeper drops a random music disc in addition to its normal drops.
Discs
- These tracks (except for "11") have been shortened to 30 seconds on this wiki, due to an agreement with the composer.
| Icon | Track name | Description | Track | Length (time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | A somewhat unsettling ambient track consisting mostly of cave sounds, metallic clinks, splashes, wind blowing, creeper explosion and muffled bow firings. | 2:58 | ||
| cat | An upbeat, synthetic melody. | 3:05 | ||
| blocks | An upbeat, catchy tune. | 5:45 | ||
| chirp | A retro tune with a sample from a 1970 MATTEL Program Disc: Bossa Nova Style playing in the background. | 3:05 | ||
| far | A calm, relaxing, nature-like melody. | 2:54 | ||
| mall | A calm piece of serene music. | 3:17 | ||
| mellohi | A slow, slightly melancholic waltz with a sample from David O'Brien's "Lonely Joe" playing in the background. | 1:36 | ||
| stal | A moderate jazz-like piece. | 2:30 | ||
| strad | A tropical-sounding synth piece. | 3:08 | ||
| ward | The record starts off with an excerpt from Chopin's Funeral March[1] played on synth organ but goes into an electronic, upbeat, exploration and adventure tune with a dark undertone. | 4:11 | ||
| 11 | A deeply unsettling disc; the recording seems to be of a person running across (or maybe breaking) different block types and later on stopping to use equipment of some kind, coughing, and then continuing running with a hastened pace. The block sounds similar to that of dirt and stone. The person is struggling and haunting background noises are heard throughout the recording. Strange noises of barking or wind blowing are heard near the end before abruptly stopping. One can hear a hissing noise akin to what would be expected at the end of an older shellac record at this point. | 1:11 | ||
| wait | An upbeat and relaxing song, with a "blocky" feel to it.
This disc is the latest to be added to Minecraft, although it has existed in the game data for quite some time (as where are we now). |
3:58 (Fades at 3:51) |
Data values
| Track | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| 13 | music_disc_13
|
| cat | music_disc_cat
|
| blocks | music_disc_blocks
|
| chirp | music_disc_chirp
|
| far | music_disc_far
|
| mall | music_disc_mall
|
| mellohi | music_disc_mellohi
|
| stal | music_disc_stal
|
| strad | music_disc_strad
|
| ward | music_disc_ward
|
| 11 | music_disc_11
|
| wait | music_disc_wait
|
| Track | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | record_13
|
500 |
| cat | record_cat
|
501 |
| blocks | record_blocks
|
502 |
| chirp | record_chirp
|
503 |
| far | record_far
|
504 |
| mall | record_mall
|
505 |
| mellohi | record_mellohi
|
506 |
| stal | record_stal
|
507 |
| strad | record_strad
|
508 |
| ward | record_ward
|
509 |
| 11 | record_11
|
510 |
| wait | record_wait
|
511 |
Raw music files
The 12 music tracks created for records by C418 can be found in:
- Windows:
%appdata%\.minecraft\assets\virtual\legacy\records - Linux:
~/.minecraft/resources/streaming/ - macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/resources/streaming/ - Android:
~/storage/emulated/0/games/com.mojang/resource_packs/vanilla_music/sounds/game/records/
All music disc files are in .ogg format.
Video
- Note: This video is outdated, all music discs are now in game and obtainable in survival mode.
History
| alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April ?, 2010 | C418 uploaded a video to YouTube, containing previews of many music tracks that were later added as records. | ||||
| v1.0.14 | |||||
| Music discs were added to dungeon chests. | |||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.2_02 | Before this update, gold 13 music discs were noticeably more common than green cat ones. Now, green cat discs are more often dropped. | ||||
| August 1, 2011 | C418 announces new music discs. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | File:Music Disc (11) Revision 1.png | |||
| 1.1 | 11w50a | All of the discs except for 11 can be dropped by creepers killed by skeletons. Also, they all have the same probability of being dropped now. | |||
| 1.4.4 | 1.4.3 | ||||
| 1.5 | 13w04a | Active jukeboxes give off a redstone signal when a comparator is placed behind it; its strength depends on the ID of the inserted disc. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w24a | Custom music discs can now be made using resource packs. | |||
| Before this version, cat and 13 were the only discs in .ogg formats, all the other discs were in .mus format, which was decrypted by Minecraft on-the-fly. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | Decreased average yield from dungeon chests. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Music discs cat and 13 are now found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The IDs have been changed from record_$song to music_disc_$song.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 2256 through 2267. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Music discs are now also dropped by creepers killed by strays. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | File:Music Disc (11) Revision 1.png | |||
| All of the discs except for 11 can be dropped by creepers killed by skeletons. | |||||
| ? | 11 can now be dropped by creepers. | ||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Mellohi and wait can be found inside buried treasure chest. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| Music discs now are dropped by creepers killed by strays. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU5 | File:Music Disc (11) Revision 1.png | ||||
| TU12 | |||||
| TU22 | CU10 | 1.15 | Added Where Are We Now to Survival. | ||
| 1.90 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Music Disc" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- One of the disc names, stal, is in Swedish; "stal" means "stole", but can also be "stål" with the ring diacritic, which means "steel".
- Music disc "11", based on its data value before 1.13 and the redstone signal strength it causes jukeboxes to output, is the 11th disc in the game, and the only music disc that is shattered to pieces (this is why the end is static), lasts for 1 minute and 11 seconds and outputs 11 when put in a comparator jukebox.
- Chirp uses a sample from the Optigan disc "Bossa Nova Style".[4] It also sounds very similar to the song "The Orb Of Dreamers" from the PlayStation game series LittleBigPlanet, which also uses the sample. The two can be compared here.
- If the .ogg file for the music disc "11" is turned into a spectrogram in an audio editor, the static at the end displays what seems to be Steve's face and the numbers 12418.
- The numbers are a visual signature, where "C" is hexadecimal for "12", and combined with "418" creates "C418" (the producer of the music from music discs).
- The data values used by music discs range from 2256 - 2267, while all other blocks/items use the first free data value available.[Bedrock Edition only]
- The discs appear to be based on older 78 rpm records. These usually held a single 2-3 minute song on one or both sides, were made out of a noisy material called shellac (which was notorious for its fragility and hissing sound when no music was playing, both of which can be seen in "11"), and were larger than later, 45 rpm vinyl records which replaced them.
- Disc 13 is a reference to ambience tracks, the name 13 is a reference to the 13 ambience tracks that existed when it was first added. The player can also hear a few of them throughout the track.
- The beginning of the disc Ward sound almost identical to Frederic Chopin's Funeral March, from his Sonata No.2, before the audio cuts and switch to another melody.
- "blocks" is the only item in the game with "block" in its name which is not actually a block. Likewise, it is the only such object that appears when searched for in the Creative item selection menu.
- On the Legacy Console Edition, the track "Dog" is added to the "Cat" music disc. Once Cat is done playing and the soundtrack fades out, a few seconds later, Dog will start playing for another two minutes or so, making this version of Cat the longest music disc in the game.