Haggstrom

"Haggstrom"
Song by

C418

Track released

March 4, 2011

Length

03:24

Genre

Ambient

Songwriter(s)

C418

Link

MHG MHG MHG

C418 on bandcamp.com

"Haggstrom" is a song composed by C418 that plays in the Overworld and when the player is in Creative mode in Java Edition.

Locations

Location Odds of playing
The Void
Plains
Sunflower Plains
Snowy Plains
Ice Spikes
Taiga
Snowy Taiga
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Hills
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Windswept Savanna
River
Frozen River
Beach
Snowy Beach
Stony Shore
Warm Ocean
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Ocean
Deep Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Frozen Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
Mushroom Fields
4.55%‌
4.76%‌
Forest
Birch Forest
Old Growth Birch Forest
Dark Forest
5%
Forest
Birch Forest
Dark Forest
5.26%
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Old Growth Birch Forest
5.88%
Badlands
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands
7.14%
Jungle
Stony Peaks
7.69%
Bamboo Jungle
Sparse Jungle
8.33%
Flower Forest 9.09%
Desert
Frozen Peaks
10%
Frozen Peaks 11.11%
Meadow
Snowy Slopes
14.29%

Track description

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.

"Haggstrom" is a cheerful, bright, hopeful-sounding melody being played on a kalimba (perhaps with some other chime instruments as well, such as a celesta or a glockenspiel), with a plucked bass and occasional string chords. The melody rises in intensity and the string chords become more drawn out and layered as a piano and a harp are layered with the kalimba and some quiet woodwinds join in to harmonize with the chords. After the chords stop, the piano, layered with a muffled glockenspiel, quietly plays some more of the melody before stopping.

Warm, plucky, echoing synths (or possibly a muffled harp sound) quietly fade in, playing mechanically staccato chords. A harp begins to softly play over them and the plucked bass continues quietly as what sounds like a trumpet distantly echoes in the background, before a louder glockenspiel begins playing a sparse melody, with reverse chimes echoing the melody and echoing synths in the background playing light staccato chords. These sounds become surrounded by grand, sweeping synths and strings playing chords as a harp plays an accompaniment. The chords stop and all of the instruments slowly fade out, leaving just the plucky synths as the track ends.

"Haggstrom" is played in septuple time (precisely 7/4 time).

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Haggstrom" haggstrom.ogg music.game,
music.overworld.badlands,
music.overworld.bamboo_jungle,
music.overworld.desert,
music.overworld.flower_forest,
music.overworld.forest,
music.overworld.frozen_peaks,
music.overworld.jungle,
music.overworld.meadow,
music.overworld.old_growth_taiga,
music.overworld.snowy_slopes,
music.overworld.sparse_jungle,
music.overworld.stony_peaks,
music.creative[dv 1]

Bedrock Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Haggstrom" hal2.ogg music.game,
music.game.meadow,
music.game.frozen_peaks,
music.game.snowy_slopes,
music.game.stony_peaks,
music.game_and_wild_equal_chance,
music.game_and_wild_favor_game,
music.overworld.desert,
music.overworld.mesa,
music.overworld.bamboo_jungle,
music.overworld.flower_forest,
music.overworld.jungle,
music.overworld.jungle_edge
  1. Included in music.creative via event-type sound music.game

Raw music files

In Java Edition, the music files can be found in .minecraft/assets/objects.[a]

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.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0Added "Haggstrom", as "hal3.ogg"
v1.2.1"hal3" now plays in multiplayer.
Java Edition
1.6.1June 13, 2013"hal3" is now stored in assets/music
1.7.2October 17, 2013"hal3" is now stored in assets/sounds/music.
1.7.4December 5, 2013"hal3" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder.
1.18.0October 20, 2021"hal3" can now play in frozen peaks, jagged peaks, meadows, snowy slopes, and stony peaks biomes.
1.19.0April 27, 2022"hal3" can now play in forests, flower forests, jungles, and old growth taiga biomes.
1.20.0April 26, 2023"hal3" can now play in badlands and desert biomes.
1.20.3November 8, 2023"hal3.ogg" was renamed to "haggstrom.ogg".
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added "Haggstrom", as "hal2.ogg". The track has to be downloaded separately.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.30Preview 1.19.30.22"hal2" is now included on Android and Fire devices and no longer needs to be downloaded from the marketplace.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1Added "Haggstrom", as "hal2.ogg"

Issues

Issues relating to "Haggstrom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

  • The Bandcamp page for "Haggstrom" is captioned with "MHG MHG MHG", likely referring to anosou, or Mattias Häggström Gerdt, who composed for other Mojang projects like Cobalt and Catacomb Snatch.

References

  1. The files in the objects folder are hashed. To locate the music files, see Tutorials/Sound directory.

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