Music Disc

"Far" redirects here. For the phenomenon in Bedrock Edition or Beta Minecraft, see Far Lands.

"11" redirects here. For the version, see 1.1. For other uses, see 1.11.

Not to be confused with disk.

Music Disc

Rarity color	Rare
Renewable	Pigstep: No All others: Yes
Stackable	No

Music discs are 13 unique items that can be played in jukeboxes. By default, they play music made by C418 and Lena Raine; however, custom music can be added with the use of a resource pack or a mod.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Music Disc (13)	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Music Disc (Cat)	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Music Disc (Pigstep)	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	5.6%
Bedrock Edition
Music Disc (13)	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%
Music Disc (Cat)	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%
Music Disc (Pigstep)	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	3%
Music Disc (Mellohi)	Buried treasure	Chest	1	18.9%
Music Disc (Wait)	Buried treasure	Chest	1	18.9%

Creepers

When killed by any skeleton's or stray's arrow, a creeper drops a random music disc in addition to its normal drops. The Pigstep music disc cannot be dropped.

Discs

Tracks by C418 have been shortened to 30 seconds on this wiki, due to an agreement with the composer. "11" is exempt from this.

Item	In-game name	Composer	Description	Soundtrack title	Soundtrack	Track preview	Length
	13	C418	A somewhat unsettling ambient track consisting mostly of cave sounds, metallic clinks, splashes, wind blowing, creeper explosion and muffled bow firings.	"Thirteen"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 16		2:58
	cat	C418	A looping melody plays and eventually gains a beat. A toothlike synth plays throughout.	"Cat"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 19		3:05
	blocks	C418	An upbeat, catchy tune with a shuffling rhythm.	"Blocks"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 28		5:45
	chirp	C418	A retro tune with a sample from the 1970 MATTEL Bossa Nova Style Program Disc playing in the background, along with a vaporwave-like version of Mall.	"Chirp"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 20		3:05
	far	C418	A calm, relaxing, nature-like melody.	"Far"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 29		2:54
	mall	C418	A calm, underwater-like, piece of serene music.	"Mall"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 27		3:17
	mellohi	C418	A slow, slightly melancholic waltz with a sample from a mellotron playing in the background.	"Mellohi"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 22		1:36
	stal	C418	A moderate jazz-like piece played on a piano, saxophone, and double bass, with playful recorder interludes.	"Stal"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 23		2:30
	strad	C418	A tropical-sounding piece with the main melody being played on a handpan and steel drum, accompanied by a glitchy electronic beat and ending on some melancholy melodica chords.	"Strad"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 24		3:08
	ward	C418	The record starts off with an excerpt from Chopin's Funeral March played on synth organ but goes into an electronic, upbeat, exploration and adventure tune with a dark undertone.	"Ward"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 26		4:11
	11	C418	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	C418	An upbeat remix of "Minecraft". This disc was originally named "where are we now".	"Wait"	Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 21		3:58 (Fades at 3:51)
	Pigstep	Lena Raine	The only disc that may be obtained exclusively in the Nether, in bastion remnants. It has an intense beat, along with more mellow parts further in reminiscent of a radio. Frying bacon can be heard in the background.	"Pigstep - Mono Mix"	Minecraft: Nether Update (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 4		2:28

Usage

The music discs can be played on an jukebox by right-clicking on it. If the player places a comparator besides a jukebox, the intensity of the redstone signal depends on the disc currently played, with the following values :

Disc	Intensity
(no disc)	0
13	1
cat	2
blocks	3
chirp	4
far	5
mall	6
mellohi	7
stal	8
strad	9
ward	10
11	11
wait	12
Pigstep	13

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Track	Namespaced ID	Item tags (JE)	Translation key
C418 - 13	music_disc_13	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_13
C418 - cat	music_disc_cat	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_cat
C418 - blocks	music_disc_blocks	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_blocks
C418 - chirp	music_disc_chirp	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_chirp
C418 - far	music_disc_far	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_far
C418 - mall	music_disc_mall	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_mall
C418 - mellohi	music_disc_mellohi	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_mellohi
C418 - stal	music_disc_stal	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_stal
C418 - strad	music_disc_strad	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_strad
C418 - ward	music_disc_ward	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_ward
C418 - 11	music_disc_11	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_11
C418 - wait	music_disc_wait	creeper_drop_music_discs music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_wait
Lena Raine - Pigstep	music_disc_pigstep	music_discs	item.minecraft.music_disc_pigstep

Bedrock Edition:

Track	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
C418 - 13	record_13	500	item.record.name
C418 - cat	record_cat	501	item.record.name
C418 - blocks	record_blocks	502	item.record.name
C418 - chirp	record_chirp	503	item.record.name
C418 - far	record_far	504	item.record.name
C418 - mall	record_mall	505	item.record.name
C418 - mellohi	record_mellohi	506	item.record.name
C418 - stal	record_stal	507	item.record.name
C418 - strad	record_strad	508	item.record.name
C418 - ward	record_ward	509	item.record.name
C418 - 11	record_11	510	item.record.name
C418 - wait	record_wait	511	item.record.name
Lena Raine - Pigstep	record_pigstep	759	item.record.name

Raw music files

See also: Sound directory for Java Edition

In Java Edition, the music disc files can be found in .minecraft\assets\objects/minecraft/sounds/records.

In Bedrock Edition, it can be found in:

• Mobile versions: com.mojang/resource_packs/music/vanilla_music/sounds/music/game/records/
• Windows 10: %PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_1.16.40_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\records

All music disc files are in Ogg Vorbis.

History

Java Edition Alpha
April 2010					C418 uploaded a video to YouTube, containing previews of many music tracks that were later added as records.
v1.0.14					"13" and "cat" are the first records to be added to Minecraft.
					Records are officially named "music discs".
					"13" was an ambient track before this update.[more information needed]
					Music discs have been added to dungeon chests.
?					Music discs are now dropped by creepers shot by skeletons.
Java Edition 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			9 new music discs have been implemented, adding up to a total of 11 discs, although they are not dropped by any creepers. These are stored along with the first discs, 13.mus and cat.mus, (which have been decoded as 13.ogg and cat.ogg respectively). Before this update, there were 10 unused music files, now only one remains unused, which is the song "where are we now". "Where are we now" has not added with the rest of the new 9 music discs because of problems with the spaces in the name.
1.1		11w50a			All of the music discs, except for "11", can now be dropped by creepers killed by skeletons.
					All music discs now have the same probability of being dropped.
1.4.4		1.4.3			The disc "where are we now" has been renamed to "wait" and made available in game.
					The music disc "11" is now available in survival. It is dropped by creepers in the same way as other discs.
1.5		13w04a			Active jukeboxes now give off a redstone signal when a redstone 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 format, all the other discs were in .mus format, which was decrypted by Minecraft on-the-fly.
1.9		15w44a			The average yield of music discs from dungeon chests has been decreased.
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			The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.
					Music discs are now also dropped by creepers killed by strays.
1.16		20w16a			Added a new music disc called "Pigstep".
					The "Pigstep" music disc cannot be dropped by creepers, and can be obtained only from bastion remnants.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Added music discs.
					All of the music discs, except for "11", can be dropped by creepers killed by skeletons.
?					The music disc "11" can now be dropped by creepers.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			The music discs "Mellohi" and "wait" can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.
					Music discs now are dropped by creepers killed by strays.
1.16		beta 1.16.0.57			Added a new music disc called "Pigstep".
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added "13" and "cat" as music discs.
TU5					Added the remaining 10 music discs.
TU12					The "where are we now" music disc now uses the blue texture used in the PC version, opposed to the green "Cat" texture it used to use.
TU22	CU10	1.15			The "wait" music disc has been added to survival.
		1.90			The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Music Disc" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Before The Flattening, data values used by music discs ranged from 2256 to 2267, while all other blocks/items used the first free data value available.
• 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 the 45-RPM vinyl records that replaced them.
• The title "13" is a reference to the 13 ambience tracks that existed when the disc was added. A few of these can be heard throughout the track.
• In Legacy Console Editions, the track "dog" is appended to the "cat" music disc. Once "cat" is done playing and the soundtrack fades out, "dog" begins playing for another two minutes or so, making this version of "cat" the longest music disc in the game.
• The "blocks" disc is one of the only non-block items in the game that has the word "block" in its name, the other being the minecart with command block. That makes it the only item that appears when searched for in the Creative item selection menu.
• 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". C418 stated that it was coincidental.
• The music disc "wait", originally titled "where are we now", was finally added to Java Edition 1.4.3 after existing solely in the game's files for an unspecified amount of time.
• The title "Stal" is a Swedish word meaning stole in English and a Polish word meaning steel.
  • This could be the Swedish word stål (with an added ring diacritic), which would mean steel in English.
• Discs "Stal", "Mellohi", and "Pigstep" use samples from the Mellotron, a musical synthesizer famously used by The Beatles on the track "Strawberry Fields Forever". The sample is seen being used here.
• Disc "11" is the 11th music disc in the game, according to its data value before Java Edition 1.13 and the Redstone signal strength it causes jukeboxes to output.
  • Disc "11" is the only visibly damaged music disc (this is possibly the reason why the disc sounds distorted).
  • Disc "11" lasts for 1 minute, 11 seconds and 111 milliseconds.
  • 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, except for "Pigstep").
• "Pigstep" is unique in a few different ways. It is the only music disc to have a different color for the groove part, it is the only disc not composed by C418, it is the only disc to have its name capitalized, it is the disc that has the fastest beat, and it is the only disc that is non-renewable and is obtainable exclusively through chest loot, they can only be found in Bastion Remnant(s)
• "Pigstep" is a portmanteau of "dubstep" and "piglin".
• On average, a skeleton must kill a creeper 49 times before all 12 music discs (excluding Pigstep) are dropped.
• The cat and 13 discs may have the oldest textures used in the current game, remaining completely unchanged after introduction even through the Texture Update.^[verify]

See also

• Music

• C418
  • Minecraft - Volume Alpha
  • Minecraft - Volume Beta
• Lena Raine
  • Minecraft: Nether Update (Original Game Soundtrack)

References

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