Minecraft (soundtrack) Minecraft (soundtrack) The soundtrack of the 2011 Mojang video game "Minecraft" was composed by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. The game's soundtrack is instrumental ambient music, and has been praised by critics. In 2011, the video game blog Kotaku chose the soundtrack as one of the best video game soundtracks of that year. "Minecraft"′s soundtrack was released across two soundtrack albums, "Minecraft – Volume Alpha" (2011), and "Minecraft – Volume Beta" (2013). Both albums include music featured in the game, as well as other music included in trailers, and instrumentals that were not included in the game's
Minecraft apparently taking full ownership of the CraftBukkit modification, although the validity of this claim was questioned due to its status as an open-source project with many contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License and Lesser General Public License. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the "Minecraft" intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for "trying to do the right thing". It was completed on 6 November 2014, and