Unsolved Mystery of Minecraft’s Disc 11 & 13

Minecraft is an amazing game but its music is what ties it together from turning a boring farming session into a relaxing pastime to the eerie yet breathtaking feeling you get when stepping into the nether the soundtrack really sets the game apart from the many many many many voxel games that have

Come before and since but today we aren’t talking about just background music we’re talking about the famous music discs rare collectible items scattered throughout your minecraft world with special tracks you won’t hear anywhere else in the game most are just what you would expect and there’s some great tracks among them but

Two of them stand apart from the rest Disc 13 the first disc to ever be added into the game long ago back in july of 2010 but 13 is not a conventional piece of music like most of its counterparts or even just the cat disc that was added in the same update no disc 13 is a bit of an anomaly

Among the calming synths of cat the cheery chimes of maul and the let’s say unique recorder of style disc 13 hits you with ominous ambience that sounds straight out of a horror film project before an onslaught of eerie game sounds that paint a story familiar to a saw let’s take a listen

This is the opening of disc 13. cave ambience dripping water and tolling bells immediately attract your attention drawing you away from the nostalgic upbeat tone present throughout the rest of the minecraft soundtrack but after just over a minute the almost relaxing ambience is interrupted Two arrows fired from a great distance one is silent upon impact the other reaches its target who lets out a groan before the ambiance continues at 1 30 the disc goes silent that’s no coincidence or random design choice it’s a reference to the name of the track seven seconds later the ambience resumes

We hear the low hiss of a creeper then A distant explosion reverberating throughout the cave someone or something falls into a pool of water and seconds later they pull themselves out the water trickling off of them onto the rocky floor of the cavern they begin to run then stop they continue then stop again as the

Basey ambience of the cave begins to return the running starts once more and this time they don’t rest the running begins to speed up seconds later the cave sounds intensify with a hint of static filling the listener with a sense of dread for the safety of our protagonist until suddenly

Disc 13 cuts off leaving us sitting in silence for the last seconds of the track so what is disk 13 trying to tell us well we have everything we need now all that’s left is to piece it together fill in the gaps and form its story let’s start from the top

Disc opens with ambience cave sounds and dripping water which establishes our setting a cave of course with a source of water somewhere within possibly multiple considering how often we hear the water dripping but other than that the ambience is undisturbed no player sounds no mob sounds nothing complete peace that is

Until a minute and five seconds when two bow shots break the relative silence we don’t know who shot the arrows but considering the mob sounds we hear later on in the track i would imagine this is a skeleton one of the shots hits its target which judging by the groan we

Hear must be a player the second arrow on the other hand falls dead we don’t hear it hit the ground we don’t hear it hit the player and it doesn’t sound like it lands in the water it simply disappears this i can’t really explain maybe the

Arrow was shot far enough away that we just can’t hear it like if it missed the player and went down into a ravine maybe the arrow was shot into a nether portal and came out in another dimension which is why it fell silent or maybe and this is the most likely explanation

C418 just forgot to add the second arrow sound the simplest explanation is usually the right one after the bow shots everything falls silent once again no running no fighting the skeleton just stops shooting and the player sounds frozen in place this again i cannot explain it may lend some credence to the

Portal theory if the player went through a portal to escape the skeleton then everything here would be accounted for one shot hits you the other misses and goes through the portal and when you follow it through the cave returns to peace because there’s nothing to be

Attacked again this may be a stretch but it’s the only thing i can think of that would make sense but once the relative silence returns it stays serene and somewhat eerie until the sudden cutoff at 1 30. again that’s no coincidence disc 13 cuts to silence at 13 0. when

The sound returns the ambience does the same but it’s only a matter of seconds before a familiar hiss and nearby precedes a distant explosion reverberating throughout the cave to our ears of course this can be attributed to a creeper but some things seem a bit off the explosion sound itself doesn’t sound

Like that of a creeper or tnt and while the explosion is clearly very far away the hiss sounds nearby i would guess this is just a stylistic choice from c418 since i genuinely can’t see any other logical explanation for the discrepancy in sound as the explosion

Fades away we hear the iconic splash of minecraft someone has either been blown into a pool or jumped involuntarily trying to take cover i’m sure we’ve all made the mistake of thinking that water stops creeper damage when it only prevents damage to the terrain around it

This could very easily be a reference to that shortly afterwards our protagonist heaves themselves out of the water still trickling off of them onto the stone and they begin to run with a few short stops the pauses could mean anything maybe they had to eat maybe they were moving

Something in their inventory maybe they saw something in froze we truly have no way of knowing but the third time they take off they don’t stop as the sounds of the cave get louder the running speeds up until suddenly the record cuts to silence leaving us with an ominous cliffhanger

Disc 13 is one of the creepiest parts of minecraft history spawning theories and poorly written creepypastas for over a decade now but what does it all mean well to take an educated guess nothing there may seem to be some loosely connected story of a miner struggling to escape from the creatures

Surrounding him but there’s too much inconsistency and parts that can’t be explained to really say there’s a cohesive solid tale to be told for all we know the two parts of disc 13 may not even be linked disc 13 was almost certainly made simply to reflect the

Eeriness of cave mining even back in the day and the superstition and implied lore of it has written the track into minecraft legend disc 11 however is a different story no lore or scary story is needed to tell that disc 11 is different its sprite is slightly unsettling already in all black

Discs shattered into pieces with a cryptic name but if you do go looking for the more hidden meanings to the track your curiosity won’t go unanswered let’s start with the song itself the track opens with static before cutting to the sound of a player running in a rocky cave breathing hard suddenly

Our protagonist comes to a stop and we hear the sound of something shuffling as the cave sounds get louder and distant noises echo towards us an object begins to click before silence sets in then coughing another click and a short breath we hear the sound of either

Walking or blocks being placed but we’re interrupted more shuffling and breathing then we hear a pop followed by flipping through what sounds to be a book of sorts until we’re startled and as the sounds continue to get louder we frantically click and flip through the pages before we start to run deep breath

Faster now on the dirt it’s approaching static if disc 13 was unsettling disc 11 is frightening the snarls of monsters keep us on edge before some mysterious unidentifiable source of evil chases us to our presumed death but with all the atmosphere and creepiness of disc 11 what is its story

Well i think it may actually be easier to find than you may think the disc starts with static which isn’t too unusual that happens in the real world with vinyl records and other disks of all kinds and it’s just off putting enough to open for disk 11. but when the track

Truly begins we cut to the familiar sounds of a player running on the stony floor of a cave accompanied by heavy breathing as the running stops and the ambience of the cave grows louder we hear the sound of something shuffling before repeated clicking silence and a

Cough the sounds of a flint and steel with a source of light he begins to progress through the cave but a snarl of what sounds like an enderman stops him we hear him take a book out of his bag pop the clasp open and begin to flip

Through the pages this could be anything a collection of maps a journal a mining log maybe all three and more but the odd screech of what sounds like a ghast then sounds in the distance and steve pauses as would i if i heard one while mining in the overworld

And yet it’s not over someone or something dashes past him and he whips around trying to find his assailant he strikes the flint and steel together for light but the guest-like noises get louder and sound almost like a broken record while an eerie flush of air resonates back and forth he clicks the

Flint and steel once more but whatever he sees is met with a sharp inhale and fright and he begins to run breathing hard the beast is on his tail it sounds as if the very air around him begins to warp and distort as a wicked growl fills our ears then

The track is over at one minute and 11 seconds the cursed number itself disc 11 has been subject to a number of theories but most can be safely debunked the first which is obviously going to come up anytime anything remotely spooky happens in minecraft is oh my god

And while that’s a theory conceived by 10 year olds that spend too much time reading minecraft creepypasta it can’t be entirely ruled out just because of that in fact if you look at a spectrogram of disc 11 you can actually see what appears to be a steve or a

Herobrine face along with the signature of the disc’s author c418 with the 12 here standing for c in hex code but herobrine’s presence here is provably false we’ll get back to that in a moment because while herobrine might be an obvious pick for anything spooky there’s another theory a leading theory one

Promoted by big youtubers like wi-fi’s that may sound a bit more reasonable the enderman after all disc 11 was added in beta 1.9 just one update after the enderman was added and it could have easily been a reference to the new mob but see the 11 music disc wasn’t the

First time we heard this track in fact disc 13 wasn’t the first time we heard its track either 13 started off as ambience and 11’s origins are as an unused music file all the way back in alpha 1.0.16 that was over a year before the enderman

Was added to the game and the original herobrine story wouldn’t be conceived until 1.0.16 bill 2 came out a day later even the gas noises we heard are out of place not just because they’re taking place presumably in the overworld but because the guest wasn’t added to the

Game until minecraft alpha 1.2 two months later so 11 is simply too old for either of these to make any sense in other theories like being chased by the weather or a warden while fun and maybe believable if the track renewer are simply so much more recent that it’s not

Reasonable to give them any credence taking a look at the mobs that did exist at the time though doesn’t help us much nothing on this list has the sort of presence that we heard in the track half of these mobs are passive and the ones that aren’t are nothing more than a mild

Nuisance with the exception of the creeper which sounds nothing like any of the noises in disc 11. there is one candidate here that looks tempting though the giant for those that don’t know the ancient history of minecraft giants textured like zombies once used to exist and technically still do in a

Fully disabled state but the giant never spawned naturally and giant spawn eggs have never been part of minecraft without mods and while it’s not unreasonable to think that maybe giants were planned to have a larger part in the game at one point and this track banked off of that happening

Well it might sound silly but giants can’t fit in a cave plus giants made the same sounds as zombies at the time which we never hear throughout the track the only other major theory left is that discs 13 and 11 are somehow meant to be combined where one will fill in the

Silence of the other but that’s really just not the case you have to do some weird stretching and speeding up just to get them properly aligned and even then the audio isn’t linked enough to be considered significant but that cuts out each and every lead we had and leaves us

With something inexplicable a seemingly time traveling disc with sounds of the enderman and ghast long before they were ever even thought of in a mysterious ungodly beast chasing you to your supposed death so what is disc 11 with each and every lead now gone it leaves

Me with very few options but i think there is an explanation the gas and enderman might not have made an appearance in disc 11 but it may be the other way around see both disc 11 and 13 were authored by daniel rosenfeld much better known as c418

C418 was around from the very very early days of the game and was responsible for much of the early music but what seems to evade the mind of disc 11 theorists is that c418 also was responsible for parts of minecraft’s sound design in the early days including

That of the gas and very possibly the enderman so disc 11 may not have been an accurate depiction of minecraft in the early days but it would serve as the inspiration for the sounds of the minecraft ghast and endermen in the months to follow except that still

Leaves us with one loose end the boogeyman of disc 11. who or what is it that chases us to our doom as the track closes we’ve gone through every mob in the game at the time without success and there aren’t any modern mobs with the same sounds as the disc that would

Suggest it was ever used for inspiration which leaves me with just one theory assuming there is any meaning to the growls at the end of disc 11 it may have been a monster that never made it out of development there’s been 10 20 30 mobs that have either been removed or

Cancelled and this could very easily be one of the earliest examples of it perhaps this was an early prototype of the ender dragon or the wither before they ever made it into the game or maybe this is one of the last remnants of a minecraft overworld boss that we never

Saw the full truth may never see the light of day it’s been over a decade without confirmation from notch or c418 on just what these disks contain other than compressed uneasiness and fright but with 13 telling a familiar tale of a miner’s attempted escape from the monsters below and disc 11 presenting a

Troubling story filled with anachronous sound effects from the future of the game and an unknown force of evil chasing us to the very end it seems like the mystery for now has come to a close thank you all for watching the video i very much hope you enjoyed i tried to

Put a bit of an eerie feel into it with the atmosphere and the storytelling so i also hope that came off well but this is my first time doing it in quite a while so i’m probably a bit rusty sorry also that this video ended up taking a bit

Longer than it should have that’s partially because i’m sick i don’t know if you can tell and partially because i’m starting to realize that the videos i take my time on tend to turn out better and even do better here on youtube so i think i’m gonna stick to

That for a while don’t expect videos to take like months at a time or anything but weekly might be a bit less common from here on anyways though that’s about it thanks again for watching i have a discord in the description if you’re interested in joining uh like dislike

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