Minecraft (song)

"Minecraft"
Song by	C418
Track released	March 4, 2011
Length	04:14
Genre	Ambient
Songwriter(s)	C418
Link	Bandcamp;
	Part of Minecraft - Volume Alpha; No. 8; ◄ "Haggstrom" "Oxygène" ►

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^{[Java Edition only]}

Birch Forest‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Old Growth Birch Forest‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Dark Forest‌^{[Java Edition only]}

5%

Grove

8.33%

Lush Caves

8%‌^{[Java Edition only]}
8.7%‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Old Growth Pine Taiga

Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Old Growth Birch Forest‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

5.88%

Forest‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Birch Forest‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Dark Forest‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

5.26%

Other biomes:
The Void‌^{[Java Edition only]} 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%‌^{[Java Edition only]}
4.76%‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Track description

"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`

↑ 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 Tutorial: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.

History

Java Edition Classic
June 4, 2009							C418 showcases "calm1.ogg" playing over edited footage of 0.0.14a_08.
0.0.22a							Added "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg".
Java Edition Indev
20091223-1–20100227-1414							Throughout 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
1.6.1			June 13, 2013				"calm1" is now stored in `assets/music`
1.7.2			October 17, 2013				"calm1" is now stored in `assets/sounds/music`.
1.7.4			December 5, 2013				"calm1" is now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the `.minecraft` folder.
1.18.0			October 20, 2021				"calm1" can now play in grove and lush caves biomes.
1.19.0			April 27, 2022				"calm1" can now play in forests, jungles, and old growth taiga biomes.
1.20.0			April 26, 2023				"calm1" can now play in cherry grove biomes.
1.20.3			November 8, 2023				"calm1.ogg" was renamed to "minecraft.ogg".
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg". The track has to be downloaded separately.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.30			Preview 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 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added "Minecraft", as "calm1.ogg"

Trivia

"Minecraft" was remixed in A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
When hovering over the New Nintendo 3DS Edition's icon, or the cartridge icon when the New Nintendo 3DS Edition cartridge is inserted, on the system's home menu, "Minecraft" can be heard for a few seconds, before returning to silence or the current theme's music.

Issues

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

References

↑ Minecraft - Volume Alpha on C418.org

Navigation

[2] Included in music.creative via event-type sound music.game

[1] Minecraft - Volume Alpha on C418.org

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