How To Get Discs In Minecraft 2025: Adding Your Own Music Discs To The Game?

You will never run out of things to do in Minecraft. This sandbox game offers a wide variety of activities, catering to all kinds of players. Whether you're a miner, a builder, or a full-on adventurer, you'll always have a great time playing Minecraft. But now, another profession has been added to the list. Here's our complete guide on How To Get Discs in Minecraft and how to add your custom music into the game, updated for 2025 with the latest 1.21.7 features.

What are Music Discs in Minecraft?

If you're a fan of music, then you'll love the Jukeboxes in Minecraft. It's a craftable item that plays music whenever players insert a disc into it. As of 2025 in Minecraft 1.21.7, there are a total of 21 unique music discs in the game, featuring tracks composed by C418, Lena Raine, Samuel Åberg, Aaron Cherof, Amos Roddy, and Hyper Potions. Players can also add their own music into the game using resource packs or data packs.

How to Craft a Jukebox?

To craft a Jukebox in Minecraft, you'll need 8 planks of any kind, plus a Diamond. Place the Diamond in the middle of the crafting table, surrounded by 8 planks, and you'll have yourself a Jukebox. This recipe remains unchanged in 2025.

Types of Default Music Discs

As stated, there are now 21 different music discs in Minecraft as of 2025. Here's a full list with their composers and lengths:

How to Use Music Discs?

To play the music discs, simply place them into a Jukebox by right-clicking on it. Players can also use a hopper to insert a disc into the Jukebox. Right-clicking on the Jukebox again releases the music disc and stops any music currently playing. Music discs play only once before they need to be ejected and inserted again. The music played by the Jukebox travels roughly 65 blocks in every direction. In 2025, jukeboxes also emit redstone signals based on the disc played, which can be detected by comparators for automation.

How To Get Discs in Minecraft?

There are several ways to obtain music discs in Minecraft as of 2025, including natural spawning in structures, loot from specific mobs, and crafting (for one disc). Most can also be obtained as drops from creepers killed by skeletons, wither skeletons, strays, or bogged.

Natural Spawning and Structure Loot

Music discs can spawn in various chests and structures with specific probabilities. Here's a breakdown:

• 13 and cat: 21.5% in dungeon chests, 21.8% in woodland mansion chests, 16.1% in ancient city chests.
• Pigstep: 5.6% in bastion remnant chests.
• otherside: 3.1% in dungeon chests, 2.5% in stronghold altar chests, 8.4% in ancient city chests.
• 5: Crafted from 9 disc fragments (29.8% in ancient city chests).
• Relic: 8.3% by brushing suspicious gravel in trail ruins.
• Creator: 7.5% in ominous vaults in trial chambers.
• Creator (Music Box): 1.4% from decorated pots in trial chambers.
• Precipice: 3.6% in vaults in trial chambers.
• mellohi and wait: 18.9% in buried treasure chests (Bedrock Edition only).

Creeper and Other Mob Loot

When a creeper is killed by a skeleton, wither skeleton, stray, or bogged, it drops a random music disc (excluding some like Tears and Lava Chicken specifics). For special discs:

• Tears: 100% drop from ghasts killed by player-deflected fireballs.
• Lava Chicken: 100% drop from chicken jockeys (kill the rider first).

Another trick: Use a skeleton to ignite TNT with a flaming arrow to kill creepers, attributing the kill to the skeleton. The skeleton needs a Flame-enchanted bow or to shoot through lava.

Note: Most music discs cannot be crafted, except "5" from fragments. However, content can be customized using resource or data packs.

Add Your Own Music to Minecraft Music Disc

The base game doesn't allow direct modification of records, but you can use resource packs or, as of 1.21 in 2025, data packs for custom jukebox songs.

Resource Pack Method (Classic Way):

• Create a folder in your Minecraft directory for the resource pack.
• Copy assets from the game's .jar file (change to .zip).
• Convert your music to .ogg format.
• Replace existing sound files in assets/minecraft/sounds/records.
• Edit pack.mcmeta and lang files for names.
• Zip and add to resource packs in-game.

Data Pack Method (New in 1.21):

For Java Edition, create a data pack with jukebox song definitions to add entirely new custom discs without replacing defaults. This involves JSON files for song metadata and requires .ogg files in a resource pack. Check the Minecraft Wiki for detailed tutorials.

Tips and Tricks for Music Discs

Here are some additional tips to enhance your music disc experience in Minecraft:

• Build an Automatic Farm: Trap a named skeleton (to prevent despawning) and lure creepers in front using pistons and pressure plates. This farms most discs efficiently. Materials: 8 pistons, 2 pressure plates, blocks, 2 trapdoors, name tag.
• Redstone Looping: Use hoppers and droppers with redstone clocks to automatically reinsert discs into jukeboxes for continuous play.
• Comparator Automation: Jukeboxes output redstone signals based on the disc (e.g., 13=1, Pigstep=13). Use this for sorting or triggering events.
• Allay Duplication: Play any disc in a jukebox near an allay holding an amethyst shard to duplicate it.
• Targeted Hunting: For rare discs like Lava Chicken, explore at night for chicken jockeys. Deflect ghast fireballs in the Nether for Tears.
• Multi-Disc Rooms: Build redstone contraptions to switch between multiple jukeboxes for a playlist effect.

That concludes our updated 2025 guide on How To Get Discs in Minecraft. They're mostly loot-exclusive, but with farms and tricks, you can collect them all. For more Minecraft guides, visit our website at GuruGamer.com.

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