Untitled Minecraft album

Untitled Minecraft Album
Release date	TBA
Running time	3:19:40+

An untitled album for Minecraft, also unofficially referred to as Volume Final or Volume 3, is an unreleased C418 release. Many believe that the album will be titled Minecraft — Volume Gamma, but this was confirmed to be untrue.

Initially planned to merely be a physical release of the first two volumes, it later became a separate third installment. Progress was smooth and routinely teased from 2015 until 2018, when the three Update Aquatic songs were released as singles. However, public acknowledgement and information about the album mysteriously stopped afterwards. Rumors were spread about a conflict between C418 and Microsoft that was causing the delay. On October 20, 2021, C418 announced he was no longer doing work on Minecraft due to disagreements with Microsoft and long-time exhaustion with the game.

So far, the only known songs are the three songs used in Minecraft's Update Aquatic and an elusive 15-minute bonus track.

Official descriptions

I’ll still work on Minecraft, so there’ll probably be another album. In fact, it’s gonna be more ambient than the other, just as an experiment.

—C418, FACT

Tracks

Three tracks were added to Minecraft on 1.13 pre-release 1 as a part of the "Minecraft - Update Aquatic". All of them were sporadically released onto streaming services throughout 2018.

Dragon Fish

Dragon Fish
Length	6:12
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Trivia

• Dragon Fish was released as a single on August 9, 2018, featuring the first piece of the Volume 3 cover.
  • Dragon Fish was the first "Update Aquatic" song to be released on C418's spotify.
• Dragon Fish has its IP rights owned by Microsoft, as well as the other 2 singles.
• Dragon Fish was featured in "A Minecraft Movie".

Shuniji

Shuniji
Length	4:04
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Trivia

• Shuniji was released as the second "Update Aquatic" single on November 10, 2018, featuring a new piece of the album art, varying significantly from the previous one.
• Shuniji is also the name of a free synth that C418 might have used when creating this track.
• In Japanese, shuniji (主虹) also means "primary rainbow".
• Shuniji has its IP rights owned by Microsoft, as well as the other 2 singles.

Axolotl

Trivia

• Axolotl was released as the third and the last "Update Aquatic" single on December 12, 2018, featuring new piece of album art, varying significantly from the previous one.
• The title of this track is a reference to the species of aquatic salamander of the same name. Coincidentally, Axolotls were officially added as mobs in Minecraft as part of the 1.17 update.
• Axolotl has its IP rights owned by Microsoft, as well as the other 2 singles.

Untitled 15 Minute Ambience

I’m interested in seeing how people use music as sleep aid, so I think on the next album I might put a bonus track on there that’s just 15 minutes of complete ambience and see what people think.

—C418, FACT

In December 2015, Daniel confirmed that the idea was still on the table.

Trivia

• Not to be confused with The End. Although it is a 15-minute Minecraft ambience song, it released two years prior to this interview.

Album Trivia

• C418 also confirmed that the album will be longer than Volume Beta and Volume Alpha combined, which is 3 hours, 19 minutes, and 40 seconds.
• The album was originally slated for a summer 2017 release.
• It was speculated that the four tracks C418 made for Minecraft's Battle Mode will appear in the album, however this had not been officially confirmed.
• The final cover art's color scheme was stated to be "kinda red ish maybe", although the three singles are mostly blue with hints of red.

Axolotl
Length	5:03
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