Daniel Rosenfeld

Daniel Rosenfeld
Daniel Rosenfeld new.jpg: Infobox image for Daniel Rosenfeld the person in Minecraft
Real name

Daniel Rosenfeld

Date of birth

May 9, 1989 (age 36)[1]

Occupation

Freelance musician

Nationality

German

Languages

English, German

Known for

Producing the soundtrack and sounds of Minecraft

Website

c418.org

Wiki name

C418bla

Reddit name

C418

X (Twitter) username

@C418

Bluesky username

@c418.org

Minecraft name

C418 

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Daniel Rosenfeld, also known as C418, is a musician who composed a majority of the background music for Minecraft[2] as well as the songs for all of the music discs added before the Nether Update. He also produced some sound effects for the game, such as footsteps and ghast sounds.

All of his songs are featured in his albums Minecraft - Volume Alpha, which includes all the music present in the game made by him up to the soundtrack's release with some bonus tracks, and Minecraft - Volume Beta, which includes more music and the remaining music disc tracks, as well as some music for various Minecraft productions.

Biography

Daniel Rosenfeld was born on May 9, 1989, in East Germany, and his parents were both from the Soviet Union. His brother, known as C818, nicknamed him C418[3] and introduced him to creating music with a computer. Since then he has had an interest in music.[4] Rosenfeld has one cat and a corgi.[5][6]

Works

Official Minecraft soundtracks

There are also official physical and non-physical copies made of Volume Alpha and Volume Beta. They were released on vinyl, cassette, CD and for download.

Unreleased third Minecraft volume

In 2015, Rosenfeld hinted at a potential upcoming third album for Minecraft's soundtrack, stating "I'll still work on Minecraft, so there'll probably be another album".[7] In 2017, he confirmed the future release, claiming the album "is still far from done".[8] He confirmed on Twitter that the third album would have not been called "Volume Gamma"[9] and it would have be longer than the previous two albums combined (which in total is over 3 hours and 18 minutes).

In January 2021, Rosenfeld was asked in an interview whether there was still a third volume of the soundtrack in the works. He responded, "I have something—I consider it finished—but things have become complicated, especially as Minecraft is now a big property, so I don't know".[10] Later, in October 2021, when the Caves & Cliffs music was added to the game, he stated on his Discord server "I still want to do stuff for minecraft, but I've never managed to get to an agreement with the big guys", and "I have a lot of music but only time will tell how we will get it out. it will involve at least 20 lawyers."[11]

In an April 2025 interview done with Kristin Robinson for Billboard Pro, Rosenfeld revealed that he had parted ways with Microsoft in terms of negotiations with his musical compositions with Minecraft, unable to compose new music for the game but desiring to work on other projects over Minecraft.[12] The details of his third album for the game remain unknown.

Other soundtracks

Film
Games
  • Rosenfeld created the soundtracks for the Mojang games Catacomb Snatch and 0x10c.
  • He also created the soundtrack for the Steam version of the game Cookie Clicker, as well as various TIGsource games or prototypes and unreleased games.
  • He is the composer of the soundtrack for the game Wanderstop.

Trivia

  • His Minecraft skin is the Steve skin, but the head is replaced with a small variant of the texture for a jukebox.
  • C418 revealed in an AMA on Reddit that the ghast sounds are taken from his pet cat when he is disturbed while sleeping.[13] He was also going to have his cat voice ocelots, but since his cat never meows clearly, C418 decided to use cat sounds from Freesound instead.[14][15][16][17][18]
  • C418's only uncredited work for Minecraft are songs that play on free maps in Battle mini game for Legacy Console Editions. Those are also the only songs that were never released as a part of any album.
  • He performs the vocal sounds of villagers.[19]

Gallery

External links

See also

References

  1. ↑ I'm 27 today! Or 30 if you believe the Minecraft wiki, which the German tax agency did, I shit you not. Happy fake 30th to me? - @C418, May 9, 2016
  2. ↑ "Minecraft Credits | Minecraft" by Mojang Studios – Minecraft.net.
  3. ↑ "C418 INTERVIEW, Minecraft Music & Sound Composer" – BebopVox YOGSCAST on YouTube, May 12, 2011
  4. ↑ "Minecon 2012 - The Music of Minecraft & Minecraft Documentary" – PC Gamer on YouTube, November 28, 2012
  5. ↑ "The world is in a pretty bad spot, but honestly the only thing I can think about is "when will valve ship me an index" and also "how much longer until I can get my dog"" – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), April 1, 2020
  6. ↑ "And I know the answers to both of these questions and yet I still ask this daily. They are "never" and "6 weeks"" – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), April 1, 2020
  7. ↑ "Can You Dig It: FACT meets Minecraft composer C418" by Tom Fenwick – factmag, September 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ I’m still far from done, but I tallied up a few numbers, and the third Minecraft soundtrack is gonna be longer than Alpha and Beta combined. - @C418, February 9, 2016
  9. ↑ Minecraft Volume Gamma? nope- @C418, January 21, 2017
  10. ↑ "10 Years of the Minecraft Soundtrack - C418 INTERVIEW" – fantano on YouTube, January 7, 2021
  11. ↑ "Please be respectful and remember not to take any of this out of context. From C418’s discord shortly after 21w42a released and discussion was going on about the new music and his Third Album:" – u/Blainezab on Reddit, October 20, 2021
  12. ↑ "How the ‘Minecraft’ Game Score Unexpectedly Became Big Business For Its Composer" by Kristin Robinson – Billboard Pro, April 16, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Well, to make this story short, my cat has this interesting behaviour of sounding very human if you disturb him while he's sleeping. It just so happens that a microphone was next to him when he complained." – u/C418 on Reddit, December 14, 2011
  14. ↑ "In other news my voice actor refuses to say his lines today." (archived) – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), January 31, 2012
  15. ↑ "My voice actor (cat) finally did some lines (meowed) and I acutally captured it this time" (archived) – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), January 30, 2012
  16. ↑ "The only well recorded cat sounds I have are meowing with purring. Makes it sound somewhat horny. Freesound! To the rescue!" (archived) – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), February 6, 2012
  17. ↑ "My cat only purrs and purreows" (archived) – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), February 9, 2012
  18. ↑ "It's actually done with the help of the freesound community's weird cats" (archived) – @C418 on X (formerly Twitter), February 9, 2012
  19. ↑ Daniel also used his voice for the villagers who inhabit the strange, isolated towns. Dallas’s Daughter: All they go is “Hmm hmm hmm.” Daniel: I think some sound effects got lost with the villagers, because I originally did the "eh" sounds [sfx: Minecraft villager], but then I also made very contrasting sound effects for the children villagers. They were like, "Hahahaha." Like screechy little kids. And I'm kind of bummed that that never got into the game, because like what they put in the game ultimately was just the “eh” but pitched up, [sfx: Minecraft villager child] which was really bizarre for little children. Like “eeeh.”

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