Minecraft (song)

{
    "title": "\"Minecraft\"",
    "images": [],
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "(link to C418 article, displayed as C418)",
            "label": "Song by"
        },
        {
            "field": "March 4, 2011",
            "label": "Track released"
        },
        {
            "field": "04:14",
            "label": "Length"
        },
        {
            "field": "Ambient",
            "label": "Genre"
        },
        {
            "field": "C418",
            "label": "Songwriter(s)"
        },
        {
            "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]",
            "label": "Link"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [],
    "footer": "'''Part of ''[[Minecraft - Volume Alpha]]''<br><span  class=\"explain \" title=\"Number\">No.</span> 8'''<br><div .4em\">◄ \"[[Haggstrom]]\"</div>\n<div .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.

Biome	Probability
	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
Beach	2.70%	2.78%
Birch Forest	4%	4%
Cherry Grove	7.14%	7.14%
Cold Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Dark Forest	4%	4%
Deep Cold Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Deep Frozen Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Deep Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Eroded Badlands	—	2.86%
Forest	4%	4%
Frozen Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Frozen River	2.70%	2.78%
Grove	7.14%	7.14%
Ice Spikes	2.70%	2.78%
Lukewarm Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Lush Caves	6.25%	6.25%
Mushroom Fields	2.70%	2.78%
Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Old Growth Birch Forest	4%	4%
Old Growth Pine Taiga	4.76%	4.76%
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	4.76%	4.76%
Plains	2.70%	2.78%
River	2.70%	2.78%
Savanna	2.70%	2.78%
Savanna Plateau	2.70%	2.78%
Snowy Beach	2.70%	2.78%
Snowy Plains	2.70%	2.78%
Snowy Taiga	2.70%	2.78%
Stony Shore	2.70%	2.78%
Sunflower Plains	2.70%	2.78%
Taiga	2.70%	2.78%
Warm Ocean	2.70%	2.78%
Windswept Forest	2.70%	2.78%
Windswept Gravelly Hills	2.70%	2.78%
Windswept Hills	2.70%	2.78%
Windswept Savanna	2.70%	2.78%
Wooded Badlands	—	2.86%

"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:

Bedrock Edition:

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: Content\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\

All music files are in Ogg Vorbis.

• "Minecraft" was remixed in A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
  • It was also remixed in the "life changing moments seem minor in pictures" album, under the name of "Minecraft Is Acid".
• When hovering over the New Nintendo 3DS Edition's icon, or the cartridge icon when the New Nintendo 3DS Edition cartridge is inserted, on the system's home menu, "Minecraft" can be heard for a few seconds, before returning to silence or the current theme's music.
• The motif of "Minecraft" can be heard in several songs in the soundtrack:
  • Minecraft - Volume Alpha: "Key", "Door", "Chris", and "Beginning".
  • Minecraft - Volume Beta: "Alpha", "Mutation", "Beginning 2", "The End", "Wait", "Strad", and "Far".

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