Minecraft how sounds are created

that's

nice yeah yeah I know that sounds so

that's right I think the funniest part

of my job is to really come up with the

ideas to make the sounds whether it's a

natural

thing or a totally unexpected

thing when you come up with that idea

that just works that's sort of the most

fun part of the job here we have very

nice little thing um it's a brush it's

used for when you put an item into an

item frame and when you then rotate so

this is when you put the item on the

item

frame and when you

rotate yeah small silly

thing one of the most challenging things

to do when sound is hiding for Minecraft

is Mob

sounds because there's um you have to

establish a character and the mob is

going to have like a variety of

different behavior that is always a bit

different from other mobs

if it's not an animal if it's a mob that

doesn't exist in the real world then you

have all the opportunities to do stuff

with this it there are no rules you have

to decide how it should

sound challenging things about creating

mob sounds is to find the right

character of the

sound and sometimes it's just me

standing in front of a microphone trying

to find the mob when it's fleeing it's

like sorry that kind of thing that kind

of thing it's scared but then it becomes

very angry then it was

like and then it FS

again they're very primitive as you can

hear I think the voice is powerful tool

because you have the power to do emotive

outputs on

command I can sound

happy I can sound

sad I can sound

angry you know all those things you can

control with your voice which makes it a

powerful tool especially if you apply

effects to

it well the cat sounds in Minecraft are

just basic recordings of my fun cat

called Udi main reasons to record real

animals for me has been that sort of

just by like the goats I met they have

their own unique voices which means we

now have unique goat sounds in Minecraft

you can't hear these goats in any other

game well one of the most advanced mob

recordings I've ever done is when I went

to call Modern Wildlife Park to recorded

Dolphins it was a pretty big setup with

a bunch of hydrophones which are you

know water microphones and and recorded

lots of both underwater sounds and

overwater sounds for the dolphing so

that was super

big I think Samuel used his child for

the Phantom sounds

mm well the Phantom is a interesting mob

because it appears when you haven't

slept enough and that's basically what

happens when you have a baby in real

life so I thought I just record my

little kid crying and then I put some

filters on it and when if you listen

closely you can actually hear that it's

a

cry all right I have a challenge for you

we have pre-recorded a sequence from the

game but removed all the sounds and you

have 20 minutes to recreate them all

right challenge

accepted so we need a wooden door we

need a toilet roll we need some kind of

bell huh oh

it's also part of the

job the working process that we have uh

at Mojang is quite unique I think

because we in the sound Department gets

to be involved from the very beginning

from the brainstorming part together

with designers and artists and

developers so we have huge impact on uh

on the feature from the very beginning

and that's really fun

I think the silent aspect of Minecraft

is one of its most beautiful things the

sound engine we use is very bare bone

it's only available to control things

like pitch and volume so every sound

really counts and it's still a very

comforting soundscape I would say I

think that is definitely something we

want to keep in the game okay here we go

action I think also a lot of Minecraft

sounds that already exist that Samu has

created that has been here for uh all

these years have uh like um homemade

feeling to it in a way it's sounds like

it's recorded and not some Li it doesn't

sound like a library sound uh so when we

when we create the new sounds we need to

follow in those footsteps and uh create

sounds that will fit into the already

existing m craft world so that means we

need to continue to do it in the same

feeling yeah definitely yeah well that's

it then yeah as we say we can live with

this I think yeah

nice thank

you a good example of the community

being really interested in what we do is

when I made the cave sound 14 I inserted

a picture of a creeper in it uh you have

to use a program like a spectrogram to

to see this I mean you can hear that it

sounds a bit funky but I thought when we

released it in snapshot it would take

like a couple of months until someone

found it but it just took a few minutes

and then people immediately got that it

was a creeper inside the sound I think

that's pretty

amazing there are some more Easter eggs

right Easter eggs Easter egg yeah if you

dig deep down in the caves maybe you

will discover something that you haven't

heard before

yeah doesn't become any better than that