Music Disc

Music Disc

Rarity tier	Discs composed by C418, Creator (Music Box), Relic, 5, Precipice: Uncommon Pigstep, otherside, Creator: Rare
Renewable	Discs composed by C418: Yes Precipice and Creator: No (except via vault) All others: No
Stackable	No

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        "Music Disc 13",
        "Music Disc Cat",
        "Music Disc Blocks",
        "Music Disc Chirp",
        "Music Disc Far",
        "Music Disc Mall",
        "Music Disc Mellohi",
        "Music Disc Stal",
        "Music Disc Strad",
        "Music Disc Ward",
        "Music Disc 11",
        "Music Disc Wait",
        "Music Disc Pigstep",
        "Music Disc Otherside",
        "Music Disc 5",
        "Music Disc Relic",
        "Music Disc Creator",
        "Music Disc Creator (Music Box)",
        "Music Disc Precipice"
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Music discs are a set of nineteen items that can be played in jukeboxes.

Discs

Item	In-game name	Composer	Track preview	[hide]Disc length
	"13"	C418		2:58
	"cat"			3:05
	"blocks"			5:45
	"chirp"			3:05
	"far"			2:54
	"mall"			3:17
	"mellohi"			1:36
	"stal"			2:30
	"strad"			3:08
	"ward"			4:11
	"11"			1:11
	"wait"			3:57
	"otherside"	Lena Raine		3:15
	"5"	Samuel Åberg		2:58
	"Pigstep"	Lena Raine		2:28
	"Relic"	Aaron Cherof		3:39
	"Creator"	Lena Raine		2:56
	"Creator (Music Box)"			1:13
	"Precipice"	Aaron Cherof		4:59

Obtaining

Mob loot

When killed by any skeleton, wither skeleton, stray, or bogged, a creeper drops a random music disc from the following pool:

• "13"
• "cat"
• "blocks"
• "chirp"
• "far"
• "mall"
• "mellohi"
• "stal"
• "strad"
• "ward"
• "11"
• "wait"

Since wither skeletons do not use bows, they cannot attack creepers without using commands, and therefore are unable to cause a creeper to drop a music disc in normal gameplay.

TNT ignited by a flaming arrow gives credit for all of the resulting kills to the entity that fired the arrow. Therefore, if a skeleton ignites a TNT block by using a bow with the Flame enchantment, or by shooting through lava or fire, then each creeper killed by the explosion drops a music disc.

Generated loot

Music discs can be found by exploring various structures in the game. 13 and cat are the most common discs that can be found this way; the other discs are generally rarer.

Some discs can be found only within structures and do not drop from creepers. Typically, the appearance of the music disc matches the structure in which it spawns. The disc "5" can be found only as disc fragments, requiring 9 fragments to craft the music disc.

Disc	Structures	Method of Obtaining	Loot Probability
"mellohi"	Buried Treasure	Digging up the buried loot chest in the ground	18.9%‌
"wait"	Buried Treasure	Digging up the buried loot chest in the ground	18.9%‌
"Pigstep"	Bastion Remnant	Looting General chests	5.6%
"otherside"	Monster Room	Looting chests	3.1%
	Stronghold	Looting Altar chests	2.5%
	Ancient City	Looting chests	8.4%
"5"	Ancient City	Looting chests	29.8% (as Disc Fragment)
"Relic"	Trail Ruins	Brushing Suspicious Gravel	8.3%
"Precipice"	Trial Chambers	Vaults	3.6%
"Creator"	Trial Chambers	Ominous Vaults	7.5%
"Creator (Music Box)"	Trial Chambers	Decorated Pots	1.4%

Usage

Playing Music

A music disc can be played on a jukebox by holding the disc and pressing the use control on the jukebox, or by using a hopper or a dropper facing toward the jukebox. Pressing use on the jukebox again ejects the disc and stops any music playing. Once it stops playing, the disc can also be retrieved by a hopper placed beneath the jukebox (a jukebox emits a redstone signal while the disc is playing, temporarily locking the hopper).

The in-game music disc tracks are all monaural recordings. Tracks released for listening outside of the game are in stereo (though "Pigstep" has a mono version included in the Nether Update soundtrack EP).

Redstone Signal

A jukebox playing music from a disc emits a level 15 signal, powering any adjacent redstone wires, redstone repeaters, and mechanism components. The signal turns off when the music track ends or if the disc is removed before the track ends.

If the player places a comparator besides a jukebox, the intensity of the redstone signal depends on the disc currently inserted, with the following values. The comparator is powered as long as a disc is stored inside the jukebox, even if it has stopped playing.

Disc	Intensity
(no disc)	0
"13"	1
"cat"	2
"blocks"	3
"chirp"	4
"far"	5
"mall"	6
"mellohi"	7
"stal"	8
"strad"	9
"ward"	10
"11" "Creator (Music Box)"	11
"wait" "Creator"	12
"Pigstep" "Precipice"	13
"otherside" "Relic"‌	14
"5" "Relic"‌	15

Raw music files

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

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, it can be found in:

• Mobile: com.mojang/resource_packs/music/vanilla_music/sounds/music/game/records/
• Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\records

All music disc files are in Ogg Vorbis.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Sound of Music	Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a jukebox.	Use a music disc on a jukebox in the Meadow biome.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Sound of Music	Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a Jukebox	Use a music disc on a jukebox that stands within a meadow biome.

History

[hide]Java Edition Alpha
April 2010							C418 uploaded a video to YouTube, containing previews of many music tracks that were later added as music discs. (This video is no longer available.)
v1.0.14							"13" and "cat" are the first music discs to be added to Minecraft.
							Music discs have been added to monster room chests.
							Music discs can also be dropped by creepers shot by skeletons.
?							References for 10 new music tracks were added to the game's assets. All were encoded in the .mus format.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2_02							Before this update, gold "13" music discs were noticeably more common than green "cat" ones. Now, green "cat" discs are more often dropped.
August 1, 2011							C418 announces new music discs.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				9 new music discs have been implemented, adding up to a total of 11 discs, although they are not dropped by any creepers. These are stored along with the first discs, 13.mus and cat.mus, (which have been decoded as 13.ogg and cat.ogg respectively). Before this update, there were 10 unused music files, now only one remains unused, which is the song "where are we now". "Where are we now" was not added with the rest of the new 9 music discs because of problems with the spaces in the name.
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				All music discs have an aqua tooltip. It is thus the first to be graded as Rare, and the second to have a graded rarity.
1.1			11w50a				All of the music discs, except for "11", can now be dropped by creepers killed by skeletons.
							All music discs now have the same probability of being dropped.
1.4.4			1.4.3				The disc "where are we now" has been renamed to "wait" and made available in game.
							The music disc "11" is now available in survival. It is dropped by creepers in the same way as other discs.
1.5			13w04a				Active jukeboxes now give off a redstone signal when a redstone comparator is placed behind it; its strength depends on the ID of the inserted disc.
1.6.1			June 13, 2013				Music disc files can now be modified using resource packs.
							Before this version, "cat" and "13" were the only discs in .ogg format, all the other discs were in .mus format, which was decrypted by Minecraft on-the-fly.
							The music disc files are now stored in assets/records
1.7.2			October 17, 2013				The music disc files are now stored in assets/sounds/records.
1.7.4			December 5, 2013				The music disc files are now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder.
1.9			15w44a				The average yield of music discs from monster room chests has been decreased.
1.11			16w39a				Music discs "cat" and "13" are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13			17w47a				The IDs of music discs have been changed from record_<song> to music_disc_<song>.
							Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 2256 through 2267.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.
							Music discs are now also dropped by creepers killed by strays.
1.16			20w16a				Added a new music disc called "Pigstep".
1.16.2			20w30a				The chance of finding the "Pigstep" music disc in bastion remnant chests has been increased from 3.3% to 5.6%.
1.18			21w42a				Added a new music disc called "otherside".
1.19			22w13a				Music Disc "13", "cat" and "otherside" may now be found in ancient city chests.
			22w16a				Added a new music disc called "5".
1.19.1			22w24a				Music discs are now essential to duplicate allays.
1.20			23w17a				Added a new music disc called "Relic".
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w07a				Music discs are now also dropped by creepers killed by bogged.
1.21			24w18a				Added three new music discs called "Creator", "Creator (Music Box)" and "Precipice".
			24w21a				With the addition of jukebox song definition, custom music discs can now be made using data packs.
							All music discs now have an associated .json jukebox song definition under data/minecraft/jukebox_song
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of music discs, with the exception of "Pigstep", "otherside", and "Creator", has been changed from "Rare" to "Uncommon".
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Added music discs.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				As a version exclusive, the music discs "mellohi" and "wait" can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.
							Music discs now are dropped by creepers killed by strays.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Added a new music disc called "Pigstep".
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.56				The IDs of music discs have been changed from record_<song> to music_disc_<song>.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.22				Added a new music disc called "otherside".
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.29				Added a new music disc called "5".
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.22				Music discs are now essential to duplicate allays.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.22				Added a new music disc called "Relic".
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.24				Added three new music discs called "Creator", "Creator (Music Box)" and "Precipice".
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				The rarity of music discs, with the exception of "Pigstep", "otherside", and "Creator", has been changed from "Rare" to "Uncommon".
[hide]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 "13" and "cat" as music discs.
TU5							Added the remaining 10 music discs.
TU7							All music discs have an aqua tooltip. It is thus the first to be graded as Rare, and the second to have a graded rarity.
TU12							The "where are we now" music disc now uses the blue texture used in Java Edition, opposed to the green "cat" texture it used to use.
TU22	CU10	1.15	1.15	1.15			The "where are we now" music disc has been added to survival.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Music discs "cat" and "13" are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
TU63	CU53	1.67	1.67	1.67	Patch 32	1.0.13	The "where are we now" music disc has been renamed to "wait".
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		The music discs "mellohi" and "wait" can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
			1.90				The texture of music disc "11" has been changed.
							Music discs are now also dropped by creepers killed by strays.

Gallery

Renders

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - 13

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - cat

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - blocks

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - chirp

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - far

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - mall

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - mellohi

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - stal

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - strad

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - ward

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - 11

• 

  Music Disc
  C418 - wait

• 

  Music Disc
  Lena Raine - otherside

• 

  Music Disc
  Samuel Åberg - 5

• 

  Music Disc
  Lena Raine - Pigstep

• 

  Music Disc
  Aaron Cherof - Relic

• 

  Music Disc
  Lena Raine - Creator

• 

  Music Disc
  Lena Raine - Creator (Music Box)

• 

  Music Disc
  Aaron Cherof - Precipice

In other media

• 

  Efe holding Precipice.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The music discs resemble older 78-rpm phonograph records from the early 20th century, which were often played in jukeboxes from that era.
• Before The Flattening, data values used by music discs ranged from 2256 to 2267, while all other blocks/items used the first free data value available.
• Jeb said at MINECON that the reason for the absence of the "where are we now" music disc was a bug related to the spaces in the name. It was only after the Java Edition 1.4.3 update that this disc appeared in the game, but its name was changed to "wait". It has the original title in Legacy Console Edition.

See also

• Music

External links

• Taking Inventory: Music Disc – Minecraft.net on January 14, 2021