The Sound of Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons is a new action-adventure game set in the Minecraft Universe. In this episode you can eavesdrop on a choir of villagers and find out if we opted for an original soundtrack or a dubstep remix of Vanilla.

Samuel Aberg (Audio Director)
Peter Hont (Senior Audio Designer)
Rostislav Trifonov (Sound Designer)

Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon crawler video game developed by Mojang Studios and Double Eleven. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a spin-off of Minecraft and was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on May 26, 2020.

Minecraft Dungeons is set in the same fictional world as Minecraft, consisting of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes and fluids, and commonly called “blocks”—representing various materials, and inhabited by both peaceful and hostile mobs. Unlike Minecraft, the game features a linear, story-driven campaign, and cutscenes.

The opening cutscene tells the story of a homeless “Illager” named Archie, who was rejected by all those who met. One day, he stumbles upon a powerful artifact known as the “Orb of Dominance”, which grants him great powers, but also corrupts him. Now called the “Arch-Illager”, he seeks vengeance on all those who wronged him, and subjugates the world with his new army, raiding villages and forcing villagers to work as slave labor. The player explores various locations and completes quests in order to pass on to the next level. Ultimately, they face the Arch-Illager in his castle, defeating him and destroying the Orb of Dominance in the process, which frees Archie from its influence. Afterwards, they show kindness to Archie, much to his surprise, and together they celebrate that evil has been defeated and the world saved, though the Orb is later shown to be rebuilding itself.