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All Music Discs in Minecraft and How to Get Them

All Music Discs in Minecraft and How to Get Them

Music discs are Minecraft's collectible trophies: records you play in a jukebox, each with its own track, composer and — most importantly — its own oddly specific way of being obtained. There are 23 in the game. Here's the complete list and how to get every single one.

The Creeper Rule

Twelve discs drop the same way: a creeper must be killed by a skeleton's or stray's arrow. Lure a creeper between you and a skeleton, let the skeleton shoot, and dodge until the creeper dies — it drops one of these twelve at random, each with an equal share of the odds:

DiscComposerThe Vibe
13C418Unsettling cave ambience — clangs, hisses and wind
CatC418Light, sweet melody; a timelapse favorite
BlocksC418Upbeat track with a shuffling waltz rhythm
ChirpC418Retro and playful, built around a vintage sample
FarC418Calm, nature-like melody with watery echoes
MallC418Peaceful track that starts slow and picks up
MellohiC418Slow, melancholic waltz (also in Bedrock buried treasure)
StalC418Slow jazz with a nostalgic melody
StradC418Bright, tropical feel
WardC418Opens with Chopin's Funeral March, turns electronic
11C418Not music — a 1:11 recording of something terrifying
WaitC418Upbeat remix of the main Minecraft theme (also in Bedrock buried treasure)

Discs 13 and Cat also turn up in dungeon, ancient city and woodland mansion chests, so you may own those two before your first skeleton-assisted kill.

The Loot-Only Discs

  • Otherside (Lena Raine) — the fan-favorite bright, modern track. Chest loot in dungeons, ancient cities and strongholds, with ancient cities offering the best odds at 8.4%.
  • Pigstep (Lena Raine) — a hip-hop beat made for piglin dance parties. Bastion remnant chests only, 5.6% chance.
  • Disc 5 (Samuel Åberg) — the only craftable disc. Collect nine disc fragments from ancient city chests (29.8% each) and fill a crafting grid with them. The track itself retells an encounter with the Warden.
  • Relic (Aaron Cherof) — an upbeat 8-bit tune brushed out of suspicious gravel in trail ruins, 8.3% per block.
  • Precipice (Aaron Cherof) — cheerful and fast; open regular vaults in trial chambers, 3.6%.
  • Creator (Lena Raine) — ancient, industrial, then suddenly electric guitar. Ominous vaults in trial chambers, 7.5%.
  • Creator (Music Box) (Lena Raine) — a gentle music-box arrangement, found by smashing decorated pots in trial chamber corridors.
  • Bounce (fingerspit) — chillwave energy from mineshaft chests in sulfur caves, at a generous 42.1%.
  • Flurry (Hyper Potions) — a wintery electronic track hiding in igloo chests, 30%.

The Two Discs With Weird Rules

Tears (Amos Roddy) drops at a guaranteed 100% — but only if you kill a ghast in the Nether by deflecting its own fireball back at it, the classic "Return to Sender" method. Lava Chicken (Hyper Potions) is even fussier: defeat a chicken jockey, but kill the baby zombie rider first. If the chicken dies before its rider, no disc. Both reward patience over firepower.

However you complete the set, build yourself a jukebox — one diamond ringed by planks — and a listening room to match. Twenty-three discs is a serious collection, and it deserves better than a chest in the corner.

Frequently asked questions

How many music discs are in Minecraft?

There are 23 music discs in total, from the original C418 records to newer additions like Tears, Lava Chicken, Bounce and Flurry.

Why did a creeper drop a music disc?

When a skeleton or stray kills a creeper with an arrow, the creeper drops one of twelve specific music discs at random instead of only gunpowder.

What is the rarest music disc to get?

Creator (Music Box) is among the hardest, with roughly a 1% chance from decorated pots in trial chambers. Pigstep and Creator are also rare, gated behind bastion chests and ominous vaults.

Can you craft a music disc?

Only one: Music Disc 5. Gather nine disc fragments from ancient city chests and fill all nine slots of a crafting table with them.