c418only

Only hear the Original Minecraft OST composed by C418. No one else. And this mod actually works.

Minecraft's ambient soundtrack has been slowly replaced since 1.16. In my opinion the new composers they introduced were never able to replicate the feeling C418 gave to me. Besides I noticed that I stopped hearing the original music altogether as they pushed newer versions. None of them fitted Minecraft despite their talent. So I looked for music removal mods but none of them worked.

That's when I decided to take the matters into my own hands and make a Fabric mod that actually works.

IMPORTANT: Version

There is a separate jar for each Minecraft line, from 1.16.2 up to 26.3. Download the one matching your game version (see Compatibility).

What it does

• Strips all non-C418 ambient and background music added since 1.16
• Remaps every replaced music slot back to C418 tracks from Volume Alpha & Beta
• Covers overworld, nether, the end, and creative mode
• Zero performance impact whatsoever. pure sounds.json remapping, no mixins, no audio pipeline

What it doesn't touch

• Music discs: Pigstep stays Pigstep, that's your business
• Sound effects, ambience, cave sounds
• Anything that was already C418

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API for your Minecraft version
2. Download the jar for your Minecraft version from Releases or Modrinth
3. Drop it in your mods/ folder
4. Launch the game

Client-side only. Works on any server.

How it works

The mod bundles a resource pack that overrides assets/minecraft/sounds.json with "replace": true on every non-C418 music event across all namespaces (music.game, music.overworld., music.nether., music.dragon, music.end, music.credits, music.creative), redirecting them to C418 tracks already present in your vanilla installation. No audio files are bundled or redistributed. Everything you hear is already on your machine. This approach also means it works correctly where standalone resource packs don't; Mojang broke external resource pack sound overrides in recent versions (I guess). Bundling it inside a Fabric mod bypasses that entirely.

Compatibility

Minecraft	Jar	Branch
1.16.2 to 1.16.5	c418only-1.1.0+1.16.x.jar	1.16.x
1.17 to 1.17.1	c418only-1.1.0+1.17.x.jar	1.17.x
1.18 to 1.18.2	c418only-1.1.0+1.18.x.jar	1.18.x
1.19 to 1.19.4	c418only-1.1.0+1.19.x.jar	1.19.x
1.20 to 1.20.6	c418only-1.1.0+1.20.x.jar	1.20.x
1.21 to 1.21.10	c418only-1.1.0+1.21.x.jar	master
1.21.11	c418only-1.1.0+1.21.11.jar	1.21.11
26.1 to 26.3	c418only-1.1.0+26.x.jar	26.x

All jars are Fabric only and need Fabric API. 1.16 and 1.16.1 are not supported because Fabric API for those versions has no built-in resource pack support.

Legal

No music files are included or redistributed. This mod remaps vanilla sound event keys only. All audio remains Mojang's assets in your own installation. C418's music is his own work, go buy Volume Alpha and Volume Beta on Bandcamp.

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/sudoers/c418only
cd c418only
./gradlew build

Output jar will be in build/libs/.

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Made with Fabric · for the people who still hear Sweden and feel something