Mice on Venus

"Mice on Venus"
Song by

C418

Track released

March 4, 2011

Length

04:41

Genre

Ambient

Songwriter(s)

C418

Link
Part of Minecraft - Volume Alpha
No. 11
◄ "Équinoxe"
"Dry Hands" ►
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“

Or mars.

 „
— C418 on bandcamp.com
“

“Mice on Venus”, or Mouse on Mars. MOM is a definite inspiration for me, and this album directly. It’s a highly experimental German musician duo that has been super active in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and I obsessed over their work. The song started as a piano solo, but as game development went on, I added a kind of, uh, addendum to it. A little cheeky piece that kind of says, Minecraft is also quite silly.

 „
— C418 on c418.org

"Mice on Venus" is a song composed by C418 that plays in the Overworld.

Locations

Location Odds of playing
Badlands
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands 		7.14%
Bamboo Jungle
Sparse Jungle 		8.33%
Forest‌
Birch Forest‌
Old Growth Birch Forest‌
Dark Forest‌ 		5%
Frozen Peaks 11.11%‌
10%‌
Grove 8.33%
Jagged Peaks
Jungle
Stony Peaks 		7.69%
Lush Caves 8%‌
8.7%‌
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Old Growth Birch Forest‌ 		5.88%
Forest‌
Birch Forest‌
Dark Forest‌ 		5.26%
Other biomes:
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%‌

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.

"Mice on Venus" is a bittersweet track that begins with rising and falling synths playing an ambient intro, before a piano joins in and plays some more chords with them. The synth chords stop as a synth bass joins the piano, which plays part of a sparse melody before the synth chords come back in, with strings this time, to harmonize with the melody. An echoing celesta pattern can be heard in the background before all sounds but the piano stop and the piano continues the melody. The piano slows down and hangs on a high chord before descending to a resolving chord and then a second chord with the synth bass.

While the chord rings out, an echoing violin playing a variation on the previous celesta pattern can be heard. Suddenly, some synths and plucked strings begin playing a happier, bouncing rhythm and woodwinds play a musical flourish and strings begin to play chords. A glockenspiel or a celesta plays a bouncing, descending melody.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Mice on Venus" mice_on_venus.ogg music.game,
music.overworld.badlands,
music.overworld.bamboo_jungle,
music.overworld.forest,
music.overworld.frozen_peaks,
music.overworld.grove,
music.overworld.jagged_peaks,
music.overworld.jungle,
music.overworld.lush_caves,
music.overworld.old_growth_taiga,
music.overworld.sparse_jungle,
music.overworld.stony_peaks,
music.creative[dv 1]

Bedrock Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Mice on Venus" piano3.ogg music.game,
music.game.grove,
music.game.jagged_peaks,
music.game.lush_caves,
music.game.frozen_peaks,
music.game.stony_peaks,
music.game_and_wild_equal_chance,
music.game_and_wild_favor_game,
music.overworld.mesa,
music.overworld.bamboo_jungle,
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
v1.0.14Added "Mice on Venus", as "piano3.ogg"
v1.2.0"piano3" received an extension, adding a second part to the song.
v1.2.1"piano3" now plays in multiplayer.
Java Edition
1.6.1June 13, 2013"piano3" is now stored in assets/music
1.7.2October 17, 2013"piano3" is now stored in assets/sounds/music.
1.7.4December 5, 2013"piano3" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder.
1.18.0October 20, 2021"piano3" can now play in frozen peaks, groves, jagged peaks, lush caves, and stony peaks biomes.
1.19.0April 27, 2022"piano3" can now play in forests, jungles, and old growth taiga biomes.
1.20.0April 26, 2023"piano3" can now play in badlands biomes.
1.20.3November 8, 2023"piano3.ogg" was renamed to "mice_on_venus.ogg".
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added "Mice on Venus", as "piano3.ogg". The track has to be downloaded separately.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.30Preview 1.19.30.22"piano3" 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 "Mice on Venus", as "piano3.ogg"

Issues

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

Trivia

References

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

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