C418 - The End (Buildup + Sweden)

[@DataOperativeX]

It was my first time ever making it to the end and beating the dragon legitimately and this was on a Hardcore world. I had been a Minecraft player for almost 8 years. And when i finally did and started bridging across the void this part played and holy shit, I've never felt anything like that before. I knew if i stopped crouching for even a split second, everything I'd worked for would disappear and the song playing coupled with the rush of adrenaline is a feeling I'll never forget

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

This right here? This is the shit. Slowly bridging over certain doom as this plays in the background. Inching towards a goal you aren't even sure is worth risking your world for - all as the song in the background reminds you just how *alone* you are in all of this. You better watch your crouch key. Because I didn't watch mine.

[@LOL_MANN]

@@TheCakeIsNotLie F 😟

[@Harshit0725]

@@TheCakeIsNotLie sed😔 F in the chat for respect

[@Mikegaming202]

@@TheCakeIsNotLie even if you have friends with you, the abyss of loss and the music make you feel so alone, so distant from everything. They did an awesome job making the end feel like a place of abandonment and darkness. And it just makes it so much more worth it

[@therealbryguy938]

Same I just beat the game last year and I've been playing for about 9 years. I was beating it with my little bro and I stopped and said "listen to the music!" I was getting goosebumps all over it's sooo good 😭

[@cory3171]

The Sweden part always gives me chills, C418 made a god damn masterpiece.

[@valastralium]

the buildup actually has subwoofer lullaby hidden in it

[@theawesomeguy3053]

and haggstrom

[@cory3171]

And Sweden

[@vestlandpropaganda]

@@cory3171 sweden isnt the buildup it was the beat drop 😅

[@nikocob1228]

and danny and oxygene

[@TIMOTHYEET69420]

@@cory3171 the sweden is in the drop and it starts at 1:45

[@Jeerven]

I remember the first time hearing this part, I was in the end about 10000 blocks away from the end island flying around looking for more elytra's. it was so god damn epic. I was like: "Is this even Minecraft music?"

[@CEntertainArt]

You literally summarized why I even listen to this track in the first place...

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

Well, yeah, it's a good track for offing yourself what can I say

[@Watermelloncat123]

As a person who lives in The End i confirm that i always listen to this music and this has become one of my favorites since

[@XDRevnge]

Pfp checks out

[@lawfulcartoon72]

same

[@ThreeHeadedGhast]

@Watermelloncat123 So how much time do you hang out with the Endermen? Are they nice to you or are they crazy? Also, how much chorus fruit do you normally eat?

[@Watermelloncat123]

@@ThreeHeadedGhast 2 to 4 hours, nice most of the times actually, just the right amount per day.

[@ThreeHeadedGhast]

@@Watermelloncat123 Just making sure because I just want you to have a great time in th End. Also because my daily routines are different to where I live. I usually wandering around, seeing if anything is happening in the Nether. I also love to take baths in the lava pool. I also love to burn victims I found either annoying or just plain rude. Now unlike other Ghasts, I'm mainlu chill with humans. As long as the humans are nice and polite to me, them I won't burn them. However, if humans are rude, annoying, and just plain evil, well, *you know what's going to happen.* Other than that, I just mainly just relax in my home, watching KZbin, playing video games, listen to video game soundtracks like Conrete Halls, and just sleep a lot when I get bored. And that's basically what I do. Nothing crazy. Just straight to the point.

[@kube6873]

This is just a headcanon, but I sort of envision the end as less of an actual reality and more of a dream, a liminal space of the player’s mind, if you will. Whereas the nether seems to be more of an actual, tangible dimension, the music of the end mirroring/corrupting that of the over-world’s gives me the impression that this is more of a personal journey for the player. Whatever bad things have happened to the player, both in-game and irl, any bad memories or feelings or experiences are represented in the endermen population. They are peaceful until looked at, almost like how a bad memory can almost feel like a dream until it is focused on, when it brings back the horrible experience with a vengeance. The dragon seems to almost be the core of the problems. The self doubt. The fear. The anxiety. The depression. All the negative feelings and thoughts stored up in your mind as a result of your toils and struggles. Defeating the ender dragon is the representation of the player realizing that their final boss is themselves. As soon as they realize how to deal with negative situations, as soon as they realize how to ‘free the end’, they have truly “beat the game”. Notice how the endermen never disappear with the enter dragon though. A representation of how even though bad things can still happen and most likely will, there is a better way to deal with them than letting your inner dragon rule them. BUT HEY THAT’S JUST A THEORY-

[@mitchellkafka4282]

I cant believe I just read this whole paragraph.

[@kube6873]

Lol I get a bit fanatic when theorising, sorry for the long comment

[@Nada-V]

@@kube6873 interesting

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

...A game theory

[@ripjawsquad]

A GAAAAMEEEEE THEORRYYYYYY

[@urnix69]

This is where real men cry.

[@CEntertainArt]

Like, I know this is just a meme comment and all, but after years of not having played this game, I listened through the entirety to just land at this part. And I literally began crying...

[@xshzdowx]

This game makes me reflect my whole life. So many memories here. I cry sometimes when I listen to Mc music. I feel like my childhood was taken.

[@schm1nty]

​@xShzdowX nah I am 20 now and very little will make me cry, but this and slowed minecraft music will get me every single time

[@WatercraftGames]

True, I consider this to be, if not the greatest, one of the best soundtracks of the century or even of the history of media.

[@cassandra_bonnet]

And women !

[@VoidRays2665]

This is my favorite part of the music, thanks for this

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

yw

[@cousinoftheflame01]

The funny thing is that I actually heard and recognized this part from playing Minecraft and I had heard Sweden somehwere before (I don't play survival often so I didn't hear it there) but I didn't realize 1:47 - 3:17 was actually the melody from Sweden slowed and higher pitched! It's just crazy how C418 can put so many references in his music but incorporate it in a way that it sounds like a new song. And it's awesome.

[@Molten546]

i swear this gives HUGE everywhere at the end of time vibes

[@idmk]

this is the way

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Sounds like a terminal lucidity segment

[@dylanisntvibing]

@@notjebbutstillakerbalMe when I’m 104 years old in my last stages of dementia before dying and I have terminal lucidity and remember that time over 90 years ago when that one friend I used to play for hours with on that server and me were flying around the end islands for hours tryna get elytras and loot until his elytra broke and he died in the void while this song played in the background (now i’m just depressed, why didnt i just continue forgetting and die instead?)

[@AStackofcookies]

sounds like TL

[@turkey_sandwhich]

me in 60 years trying to remember funny block game:

[@user-32u]

Holy shit subwoofer lullaby and Danny here hit so hard especially at the end before the bass drop. I can’t describe the immense horror I felt from subwoofer lullaby being used one last time before eternally falling. For Danny it’s like seeing that rose you planted years ago now withered and decaying

[@WatercraftGames]

This part is beautiful, a distorted Sweden that makes you think about how the end is just the decaying future of the overworld

[@Nameselroy]

the nostalgia this brings

[@LordHookie]

Yeah, it's scary to be in the end. It's way scarier to be in the end when you're a hoarder who can barely justify getting rid of his polished granite.

[@theblackmaster8032]

summer nights with the boys

[@williamgrierson]

This is so unbelievably nostalgic. This feels like looking back in time to when I used to play Minecraft but somethings different now. So beautiful.

[@chimai_hcxb]

I just imagine myself floating in space looking at the galaxies, at peace

[@tudopuro]

That captures the feeling of this part so well, it can be either peaceful or intense depending on what you visualize this song to be, and it does feel like you’re watching the stars peacefully while drifting away

[@SUZGamer125]

This is the soundtrack i was looking I think it's only played in the end if I remember correctly The part is around 1:50

[@notzachpowers]

best part of this part of the song is the drop off at the end, its chilling

[@cyberdemonic260]

I always saw this as the most epic track in the game, just listening to it at the balcony at the top of an end city above and beyond everything, almost makes you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself

[@ZenPlaysVideoGames]

The light at the end of the tunnel is the same light you have been seeing since the start. Now is not the time for your struggles to be in vain.

[@L4ng3l]

We all know that this is the best theme from the end but anyone else got the theme that plays when entering the end¿ it plays before beating the dragon

[@RigelNarcissus]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHOlqXpvl86kZ7M i didnt even realize this existed until a few weeks ago when i was digging through minecraft's audio code, trying to see how stuff worked

[@kavishp9399]

that fact that this was uploaded just last year makes me happy

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

i'm curious why exactly

[@kavishp9399]

@@TheCakeIsNotLie nothing much, just the fact that i usually find very few people uploading content related to the soundtrack of minecraft, and i am super enthusiastic about it! so it makes me really happy that people were still acknowledging the soundtrack even after like 7 years of its release. just goes to show how timeless C418's work was, doesnt it :D

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

@@kavishp9399 see, the thing is, i had the soundtrack disabled for the good few early years i'd played minecraft, then i enabled it somewhere in 2019 forthe first time, and swiftly added myself to the c418 fan club

[@kavishp9399]

@@TheCakeIsNotLie ayyy nice :D

[@Oscario2004]

I have always imagined that this is the last thing you hear before dying. Like memories flashing before your eyes.

[@numberonenate]

The end makes me feel like its an alien city in space, far from home. It makes me realize how small the world is.

[@theautonomous]

The first time I heard this song was on a survival SMP. I had my main base blown up and griefed so I thought "How can they grief me if I build in the VOID!?" so I built a LITERAL 256x256x64 obsidian BOX. No mods no creative just mining the end towers to collect obsidian. There was a /home feature so like... I guess it was kinda modded? But I spent a total of 48 hours in that server. They finally shut it down cuz no one was playing it anymore... anytime I hear this song I think about the beautiful box I built. All the work and effort to make a grief-proof base. What made it even more memorable was this happened in late 2020 (for obvious reasons this is memorable lol) Thank you for putting this here. I don't blame anyone for crying while listening to this beautiful work of art. (P.S. I've owned the game since Alpha but I just never went in the end to kill the dragon (except in creative lol))

[@turkey_sandwhich]

thats wild lmao, sad that the server shut down though

[@tall_prince]

Truly a soul ringing track

[@servantofaeie1569]

Holy crap we need C418 back. No other composer in Minecraft is able to make me feel *this*

[@Majora404err01r]

had a little bit of subwoofer lullaby at the beginning.

[@watchpointoh3354]

I always get bored and start a new world before taking on the Ender Dragon. But today, I finally got over myself and beat the game.

[@robinto8620]

We dont bring memories, memories bring us

[@Nebby_smells]

I see people posting stories and headcannons here so heres mine: I see the end like its all one dimension. while the world and nether are their own, the end exists amongst all worlds. But its so vast and empty that its near impossible to find the remains of another world. I would like to see that. Like you travel so far into the end you find your old worlds and stuff. Like a memory that isn't yours

[@cousinoftheflame01]

For some reason this is the only part of the song I actually remembered hearing when I was playing Minecraft in the end

[@p0is0n49]

3:25 In my head this part plays when you the dragon comes down onto the nest and then you land the final hit onto it

[@Mrpooandrobociguy1974]

BIG BIG BALLER

[@christinabalfoort2126]

I honestly think that there should be more ‘corrupted’ end audios. Imagine The End 2 music soundtrack would be something like feather fall or infinite amethyst

[@christinabalfoort2126]

Heck, maybe if you apend enough time near the bottwm of the end dimension, maybe a corrupted version of Axolotl or Shuniji would play.

[@KiiBon]

An End version of Infinite Amethyst would make me bawl bro

[@EpicAndrew97]

This is my favorite track in the entire game, it has so much emotion behind it

[@MbtaVideoClips]

This is what makes the end amazing. What i'd like to see is the end looking more "glitchy"/corrupted the further you go out.

[@CrusaderOfStupidity]

The music when the world's credits roll

[@Sium_Rahman]

It would've been perfect

[@CrusaderOfStupidity]

@@Sium_Rahman would've

[@turkey_sandwhich]

@@Sium_Rahman yeah but we just HAD to survive 2020 lol

[@Galaxius2117]

The entire soundtrack for the End gives me goosebumps. But the buildup to Sweden literally gives me the most goosebumps!

[@DistortedProvidence]

This part of the song be like: You feel your muscles tense up as you bridge block by block over the echoing void. Even one mistake can cost everything you’ve worked on up until this point. Your friends, your pets, your precious enchanted Protection 5 Netherite Armor, all gone because of the slip of a joystick. Desperately looking for a gateway you bridge for countless minutes, maybe hours. You think about all the good times you’ve had in the past before this empty, lonely, decaying nightmare. In the distance you believe you’ve stumbled upon something much Superior to a gateway, a city? “What Barbarian would want to Set up a base in this Nightmare?” As you walk to the city, you enter the first room where you find a box, and it’s alive…? Without warning, the Mysterious box fires a Omni-Directional Rotating bullet at you. Upon making contact with the bullet, you start levitating…? You think to yourself “What kind of sick structure is this? Why would anyone want to live with these things?” As you levitate up, you suddenly feel your weight come back to you and within a 2.5s span, you are descending straight back to the ground. Luckily, you have Protection 5 Netherite boots, Right…? As much as the fall hurt, you had to shake it off for the future of your world. Without hesitation you start swinging at the shulkers and claim a piece of their shells. After find a few chests and learning how to deal with shulkers the hard way… You find yourself in a 20 Block Gap from a floating ship at the cityscape. Carefully so you don’t fall to your Eternal and final doom, you bridge, Endstone, by Endstone, making your way to the ship where more fierce shulkers reside. After a short but hard battle, you make your way into the ship. You find a brewing stand with Instant Health potions and decide to drink them. As you make your way deeper into the ship, you stumble upon some wings and chests. As you grab these mysterious wings, you can’t help but notice the familiar feel. But, “Past lives, couldn’t ever hold me down. I’ve got the strangest feeling.” In the admittance to your wild day dream, or night dream? This place isn’t Helping with my sense of time. Suddenly you hear your Router’s power cord plunged out of the very socket it resides in. As this happens, your are unable to move do to the Immense, Traumatic, Disturbing fear in your body. There’s a pair of footsteps coming up the stairs. As this happens, you check the clock and it reads, “2:09am.” Suddenly your door opens and it fades to black…

[@cheiftainvulpix]

Tysm, I was looking for only this part everywhere qwq

[@brumanLenard]

The end music is something else, literally beautiful

[@lawfulcartoon72]

the end is my favourite dimension in minecraft. i would sometimes build overworld styled bases in the end because of this music and the mysterious unknown vibes given off by the place. i hope one day we get an end update where it gives this dimension more life llike what the nether update did. but for now. i can explore and build in the end to make it feel less empty

[@GiantFrostedBreadbug]

It’s like you’re running through your past memories, I don’t know how to explain it but it gives that feeling that you’re in a hurry to save someone you love, maybe they’re dying and this is the music that plays on the rainy drive to the hospital, only to find out that they have already passed before you can say your final goodbyes..

[@EthanRDoesMC_]

I used The End in a very personal and emotional school project of mine. I knew of nothing better that could hit the way I wanted it to.

[@Asher9173]

This is why I built my house in the end, the music is just too good to not listen to.

[@BePostiveStayHydrated]

Well this part of it at the least

[@Boatsnack7777]

Always over the void Looking at a slight angle Focus in the end

[@soltanfortnite8715]

This is perfect picture

[@Hat-Kid]

C418 is a goddamn master music maker

[@PatoshoxD]

Thanks for posting this

[@BingusFG]

Listening to this made me want to cry. No further information needed.

[@stronkboi999]

more people would notice this part if there was some end material that was an upgrade to netherite like enderium

[@masonasaro2118]

imagine if it lets you take no damage from using an ender pearl

[@theawesomeguy3053]

64 likes... perfect. A stack of likes

[@St0pLookingAtMyProfile]

280

[@lucahategan]

407

[@St0pLookingAtMyProfile]

2 Duodecillion

[@ratte62]

​@@St0pLookingAtMyProfile567 vigintillion

[@turkey_sandwhich]

​@@St0pLookingAtMyProfile 7 Untrigintillion

[@TIMOTHYEET69420]

It took me 4 years of searching to find this lol the feeling of finding it was insane

[@p0is0n49]

Real gigachads cry here

[@thejackmc_249]

I already feel the void

[@derpboxstudios]

this is probably the minecraft song of all time (behind creeper aw man, of course lol)

[@ash_0928]

I remember trying to kill the ender dragon using items from creative mode when I first got the game in 2016

[@snailshell8552]

feels like outer wilds

[@culting]

c418 is too goated with the sauce i think

[@BePostiveStayHydrated]

Thats haggstrom and sweden

[@chikle5918]

I never defeated the ender dragon or finished my singleplayer survival world ;(

[@NoOneIsHere-y6b]

did you ever manage to do it?

[@brumanLenard]

Don't give up, if its hard change it to peaceful You don't have to take the hardest route to your goal.

[@KINGBIG007Z]

Good old days 😔💔

[@joshslayer45_]

i will beat the ender dragon today because of this.......mark my words

[@chocolabp7649]

well, did you?

[@joshslayer45_]

@@chocolabp7649 I did

[@chocolabp7649]

Congrats!!!

[@TheDirtyBubble73]

I wonder if the end was just like the overworld at some time

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

I think it's its own thing. Something like Xen.

[@john_tornado]

It's like horrific beauty.

[@FFGARENA104]

What a nice memory when I was 8 years old and playing Minecraft😔🥺🥺❤❤❤❤❤

[@value-0626]

This has a weird feeling of everywhere at the end of time.

[@Moncayo_02]

it was already vaporwave

[@TheGreenPig321]

Melancholy...

[@EEeEEeEEe-y3u]

This song is acculty the bomb

[@LOL_MANN]

Very Pog part ngl

[@LOL_MANN]

ikr

[@LOL_MANN]

jn

[@somerandomguyonyt6475]

1:44

[@moavideogamer8417]

Best Part

[@wiwee]

How lonely must it be to be a shulker

[@LOL_MANN]

FeelsStrongMan

[@LOL_MANN]

😭

[@LOL_MANN]

přesně

[@Alpha5-7]

Spotify inc.

[@yalta5060]

nah

[@evelinagarcia6012]

Girls: men don’t cry Men:

[@vebotv_gaming]

this song when you play minecraft in 2020-2021

[@servantofaeie1569]

Reminds me of 2015 exploring all the new stuff in the 1.9 snapshots

[@Nikita-xi7lo]

Oh thank you

[@CombustibleLemon77]

i agree with your username

[@Flamerex1435]

Minecraft has a backrooms vipe at your the only human.there are different worlds

[@KohniHart]

this goes way too hard for some crappy dragon fight

[@santiwabito]

i have a question ¿why i hear music end dimension? btw im playing on 1.12.2 and i hear the start of sweden but in 8 bit and in a part sounds like a glitch

[@Necrovortex-x2n]

You have 420 subs

[@Oscario2004]

@WalterBLACK72430 now

[@stronkboi999]

can I reply to my own comment

[@stronkboi999]

yes I can, can I do it again?

[@stronkboi999]

no

[@TheCakeIsNotLie]

can i reply to yours?

[@Altayus]

Scram

[@mateusoliveira5670]

This dragon is in all religions, player, it's up to you to decipher the mystical enigma of your life on earth, this game is a communication with you

[@adamlato253]

1:48

[@0sFunPlace]

1:38