Music Disc
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.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Natural generation[edit]
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[edit]
When killed by any skeleton or stray, a creeper drops a random music disc in addition to its normal drops (excluding Pigstep).
Since TNT ignited using a flaming arrow will attribute all resulting kills to the entity that fired the arrow, a skeleton igniting a TNT block (due to holding an enchanted bow, or by shooting through lava) will also cause any creepers killed that way to drop a disc.
Discs[edit]
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[1] 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[2] 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 distorted noises that could be 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".[3][4] | "Wait" | Minecraft - Volume Beta No. 21 | 3:58 (Fades at 3:51) | ||
Pigstep | Lena Raine | 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[edit]
The music discs can be played on a 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[edit]
ID[edit]
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 |
Track | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|
C418 - 13 | music_disc_13 | record_13 | 500 | item.record.name |
C418 - cat | music_disc_cat | record_cat | 501 | item.record.name |
C418 - blocks | music_disc_blocks | record_blocks | 502 | item.record.name |
C418 - chirp | music_disc_chirp | record_chirp | 503 | item.record.name |
C418 - far | music_disc_far | record_far | 504 | item.record.name |
C418 - mall | music_disc_mall | record_mall | 505 | item.record.name |
C418 - mellohi | music_disc_mllohi | record_mellohi | 506 | item.record.name |
C418 - stal | music_disc_stal | record_stal | 507 | item.record.name |
C418 - strad | music_disc_strad | record_strad | 508 | item.record.name |
C418 - ward | music_disc_ward | record_ward | 509 | item.record.name |
C418 - 11 | music_disc_11 | record_11 | 510 | item.record.name |
C418 - wait | music_disc_wait | record_wait | 511 | item.record.name |
Lena Raine - Pigstep | music_disc_pigstep | record_pigstep | 759 | item.record.name |
Raw music files[edit]
In Java Edition, the music disc files can be found in .minecraft\assets\objects
.[a]
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_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\records
All music disc files are in Ogg Vorbis.
- ↑ The files in the objects folder are hashed. To locate the music disc files, see Tutorials/Sound directory.
History[edit]
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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April 2010 | C418 uploaded a video to YouTube, containing previews of many music tracks that were later added as records. | ||||
v1.0.14 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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 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 .
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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. | |||||
1.16 | 20w16a | ![]() | |||
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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 | ![]() | |||
Music discs now are dropped by creepers killed by strays. | |||||
1.16 | beta 1.16.0.57 | ![]() | |||
1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The IDs of music discs has been changed from record_<track> to music_disc_<track> . | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() ![]() |
TU5 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
TU12 | ![]() | ||||
TU22 | CU10 | 1.15 | The "wait" music disc has been added to survival. | ||
1.90 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Music Disc" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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.
- The track "dog"[Legacy Console Edition only] 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.[5] The samples come from the Optigan disc "Bossa Nova Style".[6] C418 stated that it was coincidental.[7]
- 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".[8]
- On average, a skeleton must kill a creeper 49 times before all 12 music discs (excluding Pigstep) are dropped.
- The texture used for the music disc Chirp was previously used for the camera tripod texture prior to Pocket Edition v0.9.0 alpha.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Optigan Program Disc: Bossa Nova Style"
- ↑ Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 - III Marche Funèbre
- ↑ a b c "I had trouble getting Where Are We Now to play because of the spaces in the name. Working on it. :)" – @notch, September 29, 2011
- ↑ a b c MC-894
- ↑ "Daniel Pemberton - The Orb Of Dreamers"
- ↑ "Optigan Program Disc: Bossa Nova Style"
- ↑ "Remember when people thought I plagiarized LittleBigPlanet music? Yeah, the Optigan is a lovely instrument that I will never utilize again." – @c418, March 20, 2013
- ↑ "I don't have any cool insight on the title, it's just dubstep for piglins." – @kuraine, June 26, 2020