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Minecraft contains music created by C418 Daniel Rosenfeld Real name Daniel Rosenfeld Date of birth May 9, 1989 (age 28) 1] Occupation Freelance musician Nationality German Website c418.org Known for Producing the music and sound in Minecraft, making Minecraft s official soundtrack Wiki 
. The music plays at various points in game, including the main menu, in creative mode, in the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures 
, and during the credits. In Minecraft: Pocket Edition, music is classified as DLC.
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". C418 stated that it was coincidental.
- "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 Apr. 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).
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- Notes
- ↑ "11" is not "Eleven" in Minecraft - Volume Beta.
- ↑ In the Console Edition, this track is named "Where Are We Now"
History
| Classic | |||||
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| 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. | ||||
| Official 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 | pre6 | The credits music now plays properly. | |||
| ? | meng 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. | |||
| 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. | |
Music Tracks
There are many music tracks which play regardless of where the player is located within a Minecraft world. However, each type of area in Minecraft (ie. The Overworld, The Nether etc) typically has a few tracks which are unique to that area. Creative Mode also has a few exclusive tracks, as does the main menu.
It is also possible for players to play special music tracks themselves through the use of a Jukebox and Music Discs.Types of Music
- In the Overworld, the music is calm and peaceful which creates a sense of harmony.
- In the Nether, the music is dark and sounds evil.
