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Minecraft contains many music tracks, which play at various points in game, including the main menu, in Creative mode, in the Nether, in the End, and during the credits.

Playing

Music tracks can play at various points during gameplay. Some types of music are triggered by events, while others play randomly while certain criteria are met. The song "Alpha" always plays instantly during the credits, and the song "Boss" always plays instantly while the player is in the End if the ender dragon is undefeated or resummoned. Both of these tracks start playing in place of any already playing music. If the player is in the End and the ender dragon has been defeated, the normal End track plays for 15 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.

If the player is underwater in an ocean or river biome, random underwater tracks play randomly 10 to 20 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.^[1]

If none of the previous criteria are met, but the player is in the Nether, a random general Nether track or a Nether biome-specific track plays, except warped forests, which don't have any music. If the player is not in the Nether and is currently in Creative mode, a random track plays (Creative only on Bedrock). If the player is not in Creative but is currently playing (i.e., not on the menu screen), a random general track plays. These tracks all play 10 to 20 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.

All of these above conditions do not apply for music played with the /playsound command. As such, a second track may play overlapping the one played with commands.

If the player is on the menu screen, a random menu track starts playing after 1 to 30 seconds.

Menu music stops playing in Java Edition when the player leaves the main menu and stops playing in Bedrock Edition when a loading screen finishes. Game music stops playing when the player quits the world. When the game is paused in Java Edition, game music also pauses and resumes when the player exits the pause menu. in Bedrock Edition, this is not the case because the game does not pause. All music regardless of type (including from /playsound) stop playing immediately when the player sets the music slider in settings to 0, and won't continue afterwards.

All music as well as sounds in Minecraft are stored in the sound directory. However, the sound files are obfuscated and cannot be directly accessed. To get around with this, the sound directory can be extracted by the methods showed in Tutorials/Sound directory.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

List

Overworld music

These music tracks are played when the player is in the Overworld.

Underwater music

These music tracks can be heard while the player's head is submerged in water in any river or ocean biome.

Nether music

These music tracks play while the player is in the Nether.

End music

These music tracks play while the player is in the End and throughout the Credit Sequence.

Menu

These music tracks play in the main menu.

Composers

All music in Minecraft was originally composed by C418. However, as the game got more popular (specifically starting with the Update Aquatic, according to Mojang^[3]), others started to produce music and soundtracks for the game. Tracks for the Nether Update, Caves & Cliffs: Part II, The Wild Update, Trails & Tales, and 1.21 Soundtrack were composed by Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, Samuel Åberg, and Aaron Cherof. They also composed many recent ambient sounds. Some of the mash-up packs created by 4J Studios and certain songs that play during Minigames on Legacy Console Edition include music by Gareth Coker.

History

Trivia

• The End track is "Calm1" echoed and samples from the original Minecraft - Volume Alpha distorted.^[5]
• "calm3.ogg", or "Sweden", is a Passacaglia, with a changing melody over a repeated bass line.
• On April Fools' Day 2014, Mojang played a bunch of villager themed pranks on the players, including temporarily replacing the track "hal1.ogg", 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. This was reverted on April 2, 2014.
• hal3.ogg (Haggstrom) is in septuple time (precisely 7/4 time).
• The word "Shuniji" (しゅにじ, 主虹) means "primary rainbow" in Japanese.
• According to C418, the track "Mice on Venus" (game filename is piano3.ogg) was originally a short piano solo, but was then changed later in Minecraft's development and an addendum was added, which made the track that we have currently.^[6]
• The title of the track "So Below" is a reference to "As above, so below"^[7], a phrase heavily associated with Hermeticism that is derived from a passage from the Emerald Tablet of Thoth^[8]. The Emerald Tablet is widely associated with the secrets of creating the philosopher's stone. The choice to use the "so below" part of the phrase was meant to be evocative of the underworldly nature of the Nether.
• The word rubedo is Latin for "redness". The term was adopted by alchemists to refer to the final stage of creating the philosopher's stone.^[9][10] It is also likely associated with the red-colored environment of the Nether.
• The word chrysopoeia (χρυσοποιία) is an alchemical term that describes the creation of the philosopher's stone, or the transmutation of a given object into gold.^[11][12]
• "Bromeliad" refers to a taxonomic family of flowering plants. This family contains a few pitcher plants, as well as several species which resemble torchflowers.
• The Warped Forest is the only biome in the game devoid of music. However, in Java Edition, a sound event (music.nether.warped_forest, empty by default) exists nonetheless.
• Even though the tracks weren't supposed to appear in-game, Flake and Kyoto appeared in the Festive Mash-up pack for Legacy Console and Bedrock editions.
• "Relic" can also be heard while playing Sniff and Seek in the 15 Year Map.
• "otherside" can also be heard while playing Cave Parkour in the 15 Year Map.
• "pigstep" can also be heard while playing Strider Stroller in the 15 Year Map.

See also

• Music Disc
• C418
  • Minecraft - Volume Alpha
  • Minecraft - Volume Beta
• Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, Samuel Åberg, Aaron Cherof
  • Minecraft: Nether Update (Original Game Soundtrack)
  • Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack)
  • Minecraft: The Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack)
  • Minecraft: Trails & Tales (Original Game Soundtrack)
  • Minecraft: 1.21 Soundtrack

References

Soundtrack
Minecraft Minecraft - Volume Alpha C418 March 4, 2011 Key Door Subwoofer Lullaby Death Living Mice Moog City Haggstrom Minecraft Oxygène Équinoxe Mice on Venus Dry Hands Wet Hands Clark Chris Thirteen Excuse Sweden Cat Dog Danny Beginning Droopy Likes Ricochet Droopy Likes Your Face Minecraft - Volume Beta C418 November 9, 2013 Ki Alpha Dead Voxel Blind Spots Flake Moog City 2 Concrete Halls Biome Fest Mutation Haunt Muskie Warmth Floating Trees Aria Math Kyoto Ballad of the Cats Taswell Beginning 2 Dreiton The End Chirp Wait Mellohi Stal Strad Eleven Ward Mall Blocks Far Intro Axolotl C418 August 9, 2018 Axolotl Dragon Fish C418 November 10, 2018 Dragon Fish Shuniji C418 December 12, 2018 Shuniji Minecraft: Nether Update (Original Game Soundtrack) Lena Raine June 14, 2020 Chrysopoeia Rubedo So Below Pigstep - Mono Mix Pigstep - Stereo Mix Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack) Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka October 20, 2021 Stand Tall Left to Bloom Ancestry Wending Infinite Amethyst One More Day otherside Floating Dream Comforting Memories An Ordinary Day Minecraft: Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack) Lena Raine, Samuel Åberg April 20, 2022 Firebugs Aerie Labyrinthine Five Minecraft Trails & Tales (Original Game Soundtrack) Aaron Cherof April 26, 2023 Echo in the Wind A Familiar Room Bromeliad Crescent Dunes Relic Other 11 Boss Magnetic Circuit
Minigames Minecraft: Battle & Tumble (Original Soundtrack) Gareth Coker December 21, 2016 Toys on a Tear (Shrunk) Dance of the Blocks (Shrunk) Master Builder (Shrunk) Double Time (Tumble) Nimbly Does It (Tumble) Chop Chop (Tumble) Agile Accelerando (Tumble) Lickety Split (Tumble) Time Is of the Essence (Tumble) Swift Descent (Tumble) Dashing on the Double (Tumble) Pronto (Tumble) Breakneck Boogie (Tumble) Hastilude (Fantasy) Crusaders (Fantasy) Born to Arms (Fantasy) 8-Bits, Pieces & Chunks (City) Beat Around the Block (City) From District to District (City) Precincts at Night (City) Industrial Quarter (City) Clockwork Crafter (Steampunk) Magnificent Machines (Steampunk) Steaming Superstructures (Steampunk) Airship Adventurers (Steampunk) Sunset Riders (Frontier) The Outlaw (Frontier) Desert Duel (Frontier) Ghosts in the Tower (Halloween) Warped World (Halloween) Happy Halloween (Halloween) Wondrous Workshop (Festive) Crafter's Candy Canes (Festive) Giftwrapped (Festive) Minecraft: Glide Mini Game (Original Soundtrack) Gareth Coker December 22, 2020 In the Flow (Map 4) Flight of Fancy (Map 3) Glide (Map 1) Departures (Map 7) Soothing Voyage (Map 2) Tense Takeoff (Map 6) Wonderful Wings (Map 5) Shrunk Soaring (Shrunk 1) Pacy Piloting (Shrunk 3) Wicked Wings (Shrunk 2) Velocity and Dynamism (Body 2) Locomotion (Body 1) Mobile Maneuvers (Body 3) Progression and Passage (Canyon 2) Canyon Clearance (Canyon 1) Roaming Wanderer (Canyon 3) Icaria (Icarus 2) Wings of Daedalus (Icarus 1) Aviation (Excalibur 2) Excalibur Excursion (Excalibur 1) Celtic Crossing (Celtic 1) Tour of Tors (Celtic 2) Yinglong (Chinese Mythology 1) Pixiu (Chinese Mythology 2) Tianma (Chinese Mythology 3)
Minecraft Mash-up Packs Minecraft: Greek Mythology (Original Soundtrack) Gareth Coker December 21, 2016 Seikilos' Epitaph (feat. Aeralie Brighton) Demeter - God of Farming (Overworld) Artemis - Goddess of the Wilderness (Nether) Lelantos - God of Moving Unseen (Battle) Hades and Persephone - Gods of the Underworld (Nether) Apollo - God of Music and the Lyre (Overworld) Zeus & Hera - King and Queen of the Gods (Overworld) Ares - God of War (The End) Poseidon - God of the Sea (Overworld) Hermes - The Messenger God (Overworld) Hephaestus - God of the Forge (Nether) Homados - God of Battlenoise and Tumult (Battle) Britomartis - Goddess of the Hunt (Battle) Hestia - Goddess of the Hearth (Overworld) Aphrodite - Goddess of Love (Overworld) Minecraft: Chinese Mythology (Original Soundtrack) Gareth Coker December 21, 2016 Xuanzang Chang'an - Perpetual Peace (Overworld) Jinshan Temple (Overworld) Tianxi Mountains (Overworld) Sun Wukong (Battle) White Dragon Horse (Battle) Hotan Ruins (Nether) Maijishan Grotto (Nether) Mountains of Infinite Longevity (Overworld) Hanging Monastery (Overworld) Zhu Baije (Battle) Sha Wujing (Battle) Terracotta Army (The End) Tsaparang (Nether) Kunlun Mountains (Overworld) Mount Huaguo (Overworld) Danxia Rainbow Mountains (Overworld) Minecraft: Norse Mythology (Original Soundtrack) Gareth Coker December 19, 2017 Asgard (Overworld) Jotrunheim (Overworld) Midgard (Overworld) Aegir and Ran (Nether) Vanaheim (Overworld) Alfheim (Overworld) Valhalla (Nether) Svartalfheim (Overworld) Muspelheim (Overworld) Folkvangr (Overworld) Hel (Nether) Einherjar (The End) Minecraft: Egyptian Mythology Soundtrack Gareth Coker May 29, 2018 The Great Pyramids (Overworld) Hathor (Overworld) Hibis (Overworld) Journey Through the Duat (Nether) Shai (Interlude) Alexandria (Overworld) Heliopolis (Overworld) Temple of Isis (Overworld) Judges of the Dead (Nether) Renenutet & Meshkenet (Interlude) Abu Simbel (Overworld) Memphis (Overworld) Final Judgement (Nether) Osiris (The End)
Minecraft: Story Mode Minecraft: Story Mode OST Antimo and Welles July 11, 2017 101 Order of the Stone Automatic Chicken Farm Training Montage Stone By Stone Ocelot Mob Action Suspense Pale Blue Dot Credits 101 Ivor Theme Endercon DJ Wither Storm Theme Map Room No More Creepers (Instrumental #3) Reuben 102 Boomtown Suite Magnus Theme Redstonia Credits 102 Redstonia Freewalk Dome Of Concentration Command Block Ivor Fight Repeater 103 Mob Grinder (103 Credits) Further Back Redstone Baby First Suit Up Soren Theme Dark Sky Wither Storm Rises 104 Cave 104 Credits Witches Jitter Atop the Maze Four Heroes Wither Storm Destroyed Don't Be Toasted Reuben Theme (Reprise) 105 New Order Jungle Biome Blaze Rods Skyland Aiden in Skyland Milo Showdown in Skyland What Goes Around 106 106 Credits Detective Jesse Red Crosses 107 107 Credits Badlands Pama Harper Harper's Lab Access Denied 108 108 Credits Survival The Old Builders Sport Central The Finishing Blow Sports Finale 201 No More Creepers (Vocal Version - End Credits) Boot Up Make It [Main Menu] 201 Credits + Beacontown Freewalk Beacontown Freewalk Nell's Surf Shop Stampy Cat and Stacyplays Celebration Season 1 Medley (Season 2 Opener) Prismarine Mobs Beacontown Outskirts How Bright Your Life Could Be How Dark Your Life Could Be Bad Luck Alley Jack Track Call to Action Travel By Map Underwater Temple Underwater Guardians Indoor Guardians Sea Temple Treasure Room Colossus Victory for Beacontown 202 Wandering Star (202 Credits) Wonderland Theme Wonderland Puzzles Shooting Gallery Shooting Gallery (Final Stage) Last Moments in Wonderland The Spire The Admin in Wonderland Zoom (End Credits) 203 Escape The Maze (203 Credits) The Lethalest Weapon Warden's Office Sunshine Stella Always Watching Mush Room Zombie Mine Friends till Death I'll Be My Own Friend Prisoner X The Warden's Duty Bowie Wallow 204 Jack-o'-Credits The Oasis Scavengers That's the Spirit! Fred Trivia Ninja Fight Ivor in the Underneath Challenge Room Old Friends Just Kids Dangerous Eyes Jack's Lament Jack's Lament (Instrumental) 205 Tunnels Into Town 205 Credits Beacontown Twisted Xara In Beacontown Map Shop Twisted Heist Planning Freewalk Twisted Jesse Con Inside The Tower Bedrocking The Terminal Zone Parrot Party Protocol Terminal Zone Teleporting Gold Protocol Story Mode Archives Antimo and Welles December 21, 2018 Level Up Bridges Sprouting Leaves Voice Memo #1 Resurrection Don't Panic Rising Sit Don't Stand Coffee Break West of the Sun Song to Stay Alive It Used to Be Beautiful Beautiful Again Theme for No One 1:42 AM Shimamoto at Last And the Universe Said I Love You Bridges (Continued)
Minecraft Dungeons Minecraft Dungeons (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont, Johan Johnson, and Samuel Åberg June 24, 2020 Opening Cinematic (Extended) Finnbacka Intertile Halland Dalarna Stuga m 0 O Wanderlust Subjugation Squid Coast Finally What You Came For Caravan Creeper Woods Skogsstuga Spider Den Graveyard Crypt Town Bell Pumpkin Pastures Mary Haven Beach House Witches Soggy Swamp Soggier Cave Cauldron Rumblings Redstone Mines The Maze Cacti Canyon Fizz Monstrous Machines Fiery Forge Outside Fiery Forge Redstone Monstrosity Gjermund's Lament Desert Temple Necromancer Grand Throne Highblock Halls Make Haste Obsidian Pinnacle Cellar The Arch-Illager Arena1 Arena2 Enderman Evoker The Four Horsemen Ending Cinematic (Extended) Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont June 24, 2020 Dingy Jungle Fossil Canyon The Ancient Tree Jungle Hat Lava Cave Treasure Cave Underground River Panda Plateau Panda Nests Jungle Hut Dank Cave Hidden Rock Pool Creeper Pit Overgrown Temple Flooded Temple Spider Nest Booby Trapped Tunnel Steamy Chamber Temple Tunnels The Treasure Room Minecraft Dungeons: Creeping Winter (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont November 5, 2020 Frozen Ship Ice Caves Igloos Iron Mine Frozen Fjord Outpost River Lock Battlements Bailey Staff Lone Fortress Ice Dungeon Dining Hall Royal Quarters Lost Settlement Gloomy Cave Ice Cabin Light Cave Shelter Retlehs Shrine Look Out Minecraft Dungeons: Howling Peaks (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont December 1, 2020 Howling Ascension High Low Cabin Cave Windswept Peaks Misty Vista Ravine Ruins Summit Towering Tempest Golem Scud Fog Gauntlet Golem Workshop Inside Llama Gale Sanctum Outside Rush Skyroom Stairs Flurry Garrison Legion Endless Rampart Vanguard Frontier Squall Stables Workshop Minecraft Dungeons: Flames of the Nether (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont, Eugnosis, and Rostislav Trifonov February 19, 2021 Aentra Ashes Torn Ascinder Basalt Deltas Kermetic Crimson Forest Soulsand Valley Metaluna Warped Forest Ghast Ancient Untold Captivity Invocation Ground Floor Roof Borgen Nether Fortress Humus-Sifting Steppe Routers Nether Wastes Menta Menardi Spider Cave Camp Cartography Minecraft Dungeons: Hidden Depths (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont, Grant Kirkhope, and Rostislav Trifonov May 25, 2021 Rest in Reefs Coral Rise O1 The Bilge Nematocyst Hydrothermal Vent Twilight Cavern Cnidoblast What Gazes Back The Abyssal Monument O2 Dry Dry Dungeon Pit Fight Pufferfish Panic Swashes Pyramid Point Ancient Guardian Radiant Ravine O3 Sunken Megalith Truched Lava Ledger Molten Monument Lava Ledger (Alternate) Klyka Tropical Slime Scramble Primal Oil Sect Raid Captain Minecraft Dungeons: Echoing Void (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont and Rostislav Trifonov July 25, 2021 To. The Stronghold Drawn Vault Closer The. End Wilds Void City Ethereal Blocks Tower Ship Nothingness Obsidian Cavern End. Broken Citadel Apart Astray Archipelago Obsidian Gate Tower Mountainside Cavern Shattered Tent End Shrine Broken Heart of Ender To the Beginning Mojam Minecraft Dungeons: Ultimate Additions (Original Game Soundtrack) Peter Hont, Johan Johnson, and Samuel Åberg October 20, 2021 Rune Room Brunn Spoopy Chills Wet Feet Roaming Mooshroom Island Guldrum
Minecraft Earth Minecraft Earth (Original Game Soundtrack) Shauny Jang February 19, 2021 Earth Sprouting
Minecraft Legends Minecraft Legends (Original Game Soundtrack) Crispin Hands April 18, 2023 A Time of Legends A Call to Action The Coming War Preparations The Well of Fate Cliffs and Canyons Broken Shadows Secrets in the Forest Deepest Woods, Deepest Night The Green Expanse Seas of Stars and Grass Deep in the Jungle Night Among the Vines Alone with the Sky Jagged Peaks, Jagged Darkness Slow Waters Where Dark Things Grow A Dry Heat Sand and Stars Blue Ice, White Snow Moonlight on Ice Targeted... Village Attack! Bringer of Night Battle for Daylight Unexpected Allies Hunters in a Horrendous Hurry The Horde of the Hunt An Implacable Foe The Horde of the Bastion Rotten to the Core The Horde of the Spore Anger Takes Root Repercussions Rise of the Vindicators Burly and Surly Commander of Caustic Corpulence The Darkest Time Porcus Humungous Friend or Foe? Nicely Fought, Nicely Won! Defeated A Day Long Awaited New Worlds, New Adventures
Films One C418 December 23, 2012 Cliffside Hinson Surface Pension Independent Danny Makes Chiptune The First Million Certitudes Impostor Syndrome Buildup Errors For the Sake of Making Games Preliminary Art Form Lawyer Cage Fight Lost Cousins Total Drag Drunken Carboni The Weirdest Year of Your Life Swarms Diskdance Pr Department Faux Video Production One Last Game This Doesn't Week Wooden Love I Glove Thy Flob (feat. Disco) Post Success Depression Social Lego Jayson Glove Clumsiness and Innovation No Pressure One Fifflas (feat. Nifflas) Tsuki No Kobumi (feat. Laura Shigihara) No Pressure (minusbaby 'By the Snow in Brooklyn' Mix) Jayson Glove (Bud Melvin '2 players 1 piggy' Mix) The First Million (Danimal Cannon 'MultiMillion' Mix) Preliminary Art Form (Crashfaster 'Nether' Mix)