
The last 5 Minecraft updates have added new music, getting increasingly biome-dependent. This clashes with one of the special things of Minecraft music; that music plays randomly, with few exceptions. Many packs have 'fixed' this by removing the new music, but I think that is no good since the new music is great!
My solution here is to reorganize the music into larger, mutually-exclusive pools. This keeps nostalgia in most areas without removing any songs and being more random than 1.21. Is it purely random like in beta? No. I still think it's a better compromise, though.
Here is a summary of the changes:
- Normal Overworld music (music.game) only plays songs by C418. If they were in the overworld before Caves & Cliffs, they're here and nowhere else. That means calm, hal, nuance, and piano.
- This includes other biomes separated out, such as the forest or the taiga.
- Mountain biomes (all 7, base and peak) are most of the new songs from 1.18 and many later ones. The mountains got a big overhaul which gives them a new lofty feeling, matching all of this new music.
- An Ordinary Day (Tanioka)
- Comforting Memories (Tanioka)
- Floating Dream (Tanioka)
- Stand Tall (Raine)
- Left to Bloom (Raine)
- One More Day (Raine)
- Ancestry (Raine)
- Aeirie (Raine)
- A Familiar Room (Cherof)
- Eld Unknown (Raine)
- Endless (Raine)
- pokopoko (Tanioka)
- Watcher (Cherof)
- yakusoku (Tanioka)
- Broken Closks (Roddy)
- Fireflies (Roddy)
- Lilypad (Roddy)
- O's Piano (Roddy)
- Underwater music is still C418's Update Aquatic soundtrack from 1.13 with a few additions I found fitting to flesh it out.
- Dragon Fish (C418)
- Shuniji (C418)
- Axolotl (C418)
- Firebugs (Raine)
- Echo in the Wind (Cherof)
- komorebi (Tanioka)
- All nether songs play in all the biomes, instead of being biome-specific (barring the warped forest). I've also moved Deeper by Lena Raine to the nether.
- I did not touch end, boss, and credits themes.
- There's now a much higher chance of playing the creative tracklist in creative mode. The rest of the music comes from the main old and new selections.
- Biome Fest (C418)
- Blind Spots (C418)
- Haunt Muskie (C418)
- Aria Math (C418)
- Dreiton (C418)
- Taswell (C418)
- Labyrinthine (Raine)
- Puzzlebox (Cherof)
- The menu no longer uses songs for their novelty, instead having a permanent selection. As with the rest of the pack, separation means they don't play in the mountains.
- Mutation (C418)
- Moog City 2 (C418)
- Beginning 2 (C418)
- Floating Trees (C418)
- Wending (Raine)
- Infinite Amethyst (Raine) (Woah, the New Theme of Minecraft)
- Bromeilad (Cherof)
- Crescent Dunes (Cherof)
- Featherfall (Cherof)
- Below and Above (Roddy)
- The warped forest is quiet.
Warped forest is an exception to separation. If you listen closely, you can hear very faintly the menu music playing out of tune. The idea is that it's a faint echo or some memory of hearing those songs. It should be quiet and unintrusive so you barely hear it.
Always feel free to report issues or give feedback in the comments of the PMC upload! (It is linked with the issues.)
That's all. Enjoy! I hope you give this pack a try. =] I think the new composers' music is good, although it's sometimes more themy than people want. That's why they gets the beautiful mountains as the location of their banishment!
Do not reupload in any capacity.
This pack DOESN'T change the actual music! Don't be confused! ^-^
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.6
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as Recued Music 1.21.6.zip
- Download size: 112 KB
- Download link checked 28 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.