The End (song)

"The End"
Song by	C418
Track released	November 9, 2013
Length	15:04
Genre	Dark Ambient
Songwriter(s)	C418
Link	Bandcamp;
	Part of Minecraft - Volume Beta; No. 19; ◄ "Dreiton" "Chirp" ►

“	“The End” is a 15 minute piece for the namesake in Minecraft, a place called “The End”, a dark and sinister place full of creepy things called Endermen. Oh, and there’s a dragon. Since The End is also the final stage the player has to go to to “beat” the game, this piece contains a lot of references to past songs. If you listen closely, you can essentially hear most of Volume Alpha embedded within. After building up the drone, the song breaks, as if some sort of audio device couldn’t handle it anymore. Lastly you hear someone fixing it, and it starts from the beginning. At least in the game.	„
	— C418 on c418.org

"The End" is a song composed by C418 that plays in The End, and is the longest track on the album.

Locations

Location	Odds of playing
The End Small End Islands‌ End Midlands‌ End Highlands‌ End Barrens‌	100%

Track description

"The End" is heavily built on modified versions of several tracks from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.^[1]. The track opens with vinyl static and the beginning part of the track "Minecraft", which slowly becomes more and more distorted and reverbed until it is barely recognizable. After it suddenly succumbs to excessive bitcrushing and glitching, it echoes out, and a low-pitched drone starts and grows slowly, eventually gaining a harmony of choir voices as the track becomes a very dark ambient piece with an ominous air of desolation and hopelessness.

Throughout the track, extremely distorted and/or remixed versions of parts of the tracks "Cat", "Haggstrom", "Dry Hands", "Wet Hands", "Équinoxe", "Subwoofer Lullaby", "Oxygène", and "Danny" from Minecraft - Volume Alpha can be heard, as ambient noises play in the background and build in intensity. The track slowly increases in volume as new layers of sounds fade in until it becomes much louder.

At the climax of this piece, a pulsing, one-note synth ostinato suddenly appears from the drone and is overlaid with a half-tempo rendition of the song "Sweden", which greatly increases in volume until the melody is overtaken by the choir and it abruptly stops with a motif from "Subwoofer Lullaby" and echoes out.

After a period of relative silence, the drone and ambience reappears, accompanied by soft, echoing chimes layered with reversed chimes, and then a sudden static hum brings in some very slowed down samples from "Minecraft".

The drone slowly fades away as an ambient wind sound comes in waves, and this wind sound continues for some time.

Then, the drone and ostinato quietly return for a very short time before another static hum interrupts the track and there is total silence, except for vinyl static.

A stuttered loop of a small portion of "Minecraft" begins, once again underneath a layer of vinyl static. An individual can be heard stopping the track by pushing a button on a turntable, and nothing but vinyl static can be heard for the remaining few seconds.

On Legacy Console Edition, the track was shortened to 6:55, trimming many longer sections of the song and shortening the beginning where "Minecraft" corrupts.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Soundtrack Title	File name	Sound events
"The End"	`the_end.ogg`	`music.end`

Bedrock Edition:

Soundtrack Title	File name	Sound events
"The End"	`end.ogg`	`music.game.end`

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/end/
Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\end

All music files are in Ogg Vorbis.

History

Java Edition
2013 Music Update							Added "The End", as "end.ogg".
1.7.4			December 5, 2013				"end" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the `.minecraft` folder.
1.20.3			November 8, 2023				"end.ogg" was renamed to "the_end.ogg".
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added "The End", as "end.ogg". The track has to be downloaded separately.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.30			Preview 1.19.30.22				"end" is now included on Android and Fire devices and no longer needs to be downloaded from the marketplace.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU9	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added "The End", as "end.ogg"

Issues

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

Notes

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

References

↑ - Genius's description Genius.com on "The End"

Navigation

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

[1] - Genius's description Genius.com on "The End"

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