Minecraft (song)

This article is about the music. For the video game, see Minecraft. For other uses, see Minecraft (disambiguation).
"Minecraft"
Song by

C418

Track released

March 4, 2011

Length

04:14

Genre

Ambient

Songwriter(s)

C418

Link

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

"Minecraft" 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
Cherry Grove 11.11%
Forest
Birch Forest
Old Growth Birch Forest
Dark Forest
5%
Grove 8.33%
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.

"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]

Data values

ID

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
  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; however, like other files in that folder, they are hashed. To locate the music files, see Tutorials/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.

Trivia

History

June 4, 2009C418 showcases "calm1.ogg" playing over edited footage of 0.0.14a_08.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.22aAdded "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg".
Java Edition Indev
20091223-120100227-1414Throughout 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
1.6.1June 13, 2013"calm1" is now stored in assets/music
1.7.2October 17, 2013"calm1" is now stored in assets/sounds/music.
1.7.4December 5, 2013"calm1" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder.
1.18.0October 20, 2021"calm1" can now play in grove and lush caves biomes.
1.19.0April 27, 2022"calm1" can now play in forests, jungles, and old growth taiga biomes.
1.20.0April 26, 2023"calm1" can now play in cherry grove biomes.
1.20.3November 8, 2023"calm1.ogg" was renamed to "minecraft.ogg".
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg". The track has to be downloaded separately.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.30Preview 1.19.30.22"calm1" 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 "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg"

Issues

Issues relating to "Minecraft (song)" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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