Music Re-cued

New music has been added yearly since 2020, 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! At the same time, there are so many songs now that some distinctions are warranted.

My solution here is to reorganize the new music into themed, mutually-exclusive pools. They are similar to calm/piano/hal/nuance. They then get different weights per biome based on the biome’s character. Every song still has a reasonable chance of playing in every biome, and it should even out across all the biomes. This keeps the randomness and nostalgia while still respecting the themes of the updates. Is it purely random like in beta? No. I still think it’s a better compromise, though.

Here is a summary of the changes:

• Songs by C418 are split by their old filenames (Calm, Hal, Nuance, and Piano), and play more often in older biomes such as plains and forests.
• Two pools are reserved for songs that felt more unrelated to biomes. All of them are in the default music.game event in vanilla, and play more often in biomes where other new songs don’t play as often. This “balance”s out the weights overall.

• The following pools play more often in biomes whose design matches the name of the pool. They should generally be self-explanatory.

• Underwater music is still C418’s Update Aquatic soundtrack from 1.13 with a few additions I found fitting to flesh it out. These extra songs don’t play in the regular overworld.

• 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. I’ve also moved two songs from survival into that list. Every other song except for the boss and credits can also play, at their lower probability.

• 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 regular overworld.

• The warped forest faintly plays the menu music 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.

Finally, I’ve updated the volume of many newer songs to try and keep it consistent. This was inspired by Minecraft: Askew, but I did my own testing and chose the values myself.

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. =]

Do not reupload in any capacity.

This pack DOESN’T change the actual music! Don’t be confused! ^-^