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Ancestry

"Ancestry" is a song composed by Lena Raine that plays in the deep dark. It is included in the soundtrack for the Caves & Cliffs update despite not being added to the game until The Wild Update.

This song is meant to provide the ambient eerie energy inherent to the deep dark, consisting of mostly background music that adds a sense of unease. In the beginning, the song consists mostly of hollow ringing with static. This is supplemented by very quiet keyboard tones that chain into the different ringing tones. Further in, the song is mostly a repeating background part with spontaneous piano for ambience. Overall, the song is very blended together, with nothing really standing out from the rest; this helps to make the music stay in the background. After about 5 minutes, the song fades with sounds almost similar to a Sculk shrieker heard in the background.

In Java Edition, the music files can be found in .minecraft/assets/objects.[a]

Source: Minecraft Wiki cacheUpdated: 2026-06-20 Open Original
"Ancestry"
Song by Lena Raine
Track released October 20, 2021
Length 05:43
Genre Glitch, Dark ambient
Songwriter(s) Lena Raine
Link
Part of Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack)
No. 3
"Wending" ►

"Ancestry" is a song composed by Lena Raine that plays in the deep dark. It is included in the soundtrack for the Caves & Cliffs update despite not being added to the game until The Wild Update.

Locations

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Deep Dark50%50%

Track description

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This song is meant to provide the ambient eerie energy inherent to the deep dark, consisting of mostly background music that adds a sense of unease. In the beginning, the song consists mostly of hollow ringing with static. This is supplemented by very quiet keyboard tones that chain into the different ringing tones. Further in, the song is mostly a repeating background part with spontaneous piano for ambience. Overall, the song is very blended together, with nothing really standing out from the rest; this helps to make the music stay in the background. After about 5 minutes, the song fades with sounds almost similar to a Sculk shrieker heard in the background.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Ancestry" ancestry.ogg music.overworld.deep_dark

Bedrock Edition:

Soundtrack Title File name Sound events
"Ancestry" ancestry.ogg music.game.deep_dark (Unused)
music.overworld.deep_dark

Raw music files

In Java Edition, the music files can be found in .minecraft/assets/objects.[a]

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, it can be found in:

  • Mobile: com.mojang/resource_packs/music/vanilla_music/sounds/music/game/
  • Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game

All music files are in Ogg Vorbis.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19April 20, 2022Added "Ancestry".

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.27Added "Ancestry". The track has to be downloaded separately.
1.19.30Preview 1.19.30.22"Ancestry" is now included on Android and Fire devices and no longer needs to be downloaded from the marketplace.

Issues

Issues relating to "Ancestry" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References

  1. ↑ The files in the objects folder are hashed. To locate the music files, see Tutorial:Sound directory.
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