"Minecraft"
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"title": "\"Minecraft\"",
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"field": "(link to C418 article, displayed as C418)",
"label": "Song by"
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{
"field": "March 4, 2011",
"label": "Track released"
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"field": "04:14",
"label": "Length"
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"field": "Ambient",
"label": "Genre"
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"field": "C418",
"label": "Songwriter(s)"
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{
"field": "\n* [https://c418.bandcamp.com/track/minecraft Bandcamp]\n* [https://open.spotify.com/track/4iXkhdO1s4x1aleZNowIJ0 Spotify]\n* [https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vxmOcAde_0s YouTube Music]",
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"footer": "'''Part of ''[[Minecraft - Volume Alpha]]''<br><span class=\"explain \" title=\"Number\">No.</span> 8'''<br><div style=\"display:inline-block;padding:0 .4em\">◄ \"[[Haggstrom]]\"</div>\n<div style=\"display:inline-block;padding:0 .4em\">\"[[Oxygène]]\" ►</div>"
}
"Minecraft" is a song composed by C418 that plays in the Overworld and when the player is in Creative mode in Java Edition.
Previews of tracks in
Minecraft have been shortened to 30 seconds on this wiki in accordance with fair use rationale. "
11" and "
Magnetic Circuit" are exempt from this.
"Minecraft" consists of a chiming piano playing a calm melody that begins to loop and is later joined by melancholy string chords, strummed or plucked strings (possibly a harp or a guitar) and a glockenspiel, as well as some ambient synth sounds in the background.
It is the first song that C418 made for the game, and was used as a framework by C418 for the other songs in the Minecraft soundtrack.[1]
Java Edition:
| Soundtrack Title
|
File name
|
Sound events
|
| "Minecraft"
|
minecraft.ogg
|
music.game,
music.overworld.cherry_grove,
music.overworld.forest,
music.overworld.grove
music.overworld.lush_caves,
music.overworld.old_growth_taiga,
music.creative[dv 1]
|
Bedrock Edition:
| Soundtrack Title
|
File name
|
Sound events
|
| "Minecraft"
|
calm1.ogg
|
music.game,
music.game.grove,
music.game.lush_caves,
music.game_and_wild_equal_chance,
music.game_and_wild_favor_game,
music.overworld.cherry_grove
|
- ↑ Included in
music.creative via event-type sound music.game
In Java Edition, the music files can be found in .minecraft/assets/objects; however, like other files in that folder, they are hashed. To locate the music files, see Tutorial:Sound directory.
In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, it can be found in:
- Mobile:
com.mojang/resource_packs/music/vanilla_music/sounds/music/game/
- Windows:
%PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\
All music files are in Ogg Vorbis.
| Java Edition Classic |
|---|
| 0.0.22a | Added "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg". |
|---|
| Java Edition Indev |
|---|
| 20091223-1–20100227-1414 | Throughout Indev going into Infdev, "calm1" would cycle through being able to play and being disabled. |
|---|
| Java Edition Alpha |
|---|
| v1.0.14 | "calm1" now plays again, this time being able to play everywhere in the world. |
|---|
| v1.2.1 | "calm1" now plays in multiplayer. |
|---|
| Java Edition |
|---|
| 1.6.1 | June 13, 2013 | "calm1" is now stored in assets/music |
|---|
| 1.7.2 | October 17, 2013 | "calm1" is now stored in assets/sounds/music. |
|---|
| 1.7.4 | December 5, 2013 | "calm1" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder. |
|---|
| 1.18 | October 20, 2021 | "calm1" can now play in grove and lush caves biomes. |
|---|
| 1.19 | April 27, 2022 | "calm1" can now play in forests, jungles, and old growth taiga biomes. |
|---|
| 1.20 | April 26, 2023 | "calm1" can now play in cherry grove biomes. |
|---|
| 1.20.3 | November 8, 2023 | "calm1.ogg" was renamed to "minecraft.ogg". |
|---|
Issues relating to "Minecraft (song)" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
“
The very first and last song.
„
— C418 on bandcamp.com
“
“Minecraft” is by far the most minimalist song and also the first song I created for the game. It’s purely pentatonic in scale, builds up very slowly, and then slowly fades away. This is kind of what I built the entire soundtrack around on.
„
— C418 on c418.org
