How to Make a Jukebox in Minecraft

With every update, Minecraft gets several amazing soundtracks that play randomly throughout your gameplay. Though, in addition to those, there are also manymusic discsyou can acquire and listen to with the help of a jukebox. This block is therefore necessary if you want to enjoy some of the best beats in the game like Otherside and Pigstep. So, in this guide, we will teach you how you can make a jukebox in Minecraft and how to use it.

Items You Need to Make a Jukebox

To craft a jukebox in Minecraft, you will need the following resources:

Wooden planks are one of the basic blocks in the game, which you can get from breaking down logs in the crafting grid.Diamondsare precious items you get after mining diamond ore with a non-silk touch pickaxe. Check out our guide onore distribution in Minecraftto find these and all other ores easily. You’ll also come across them while looting chests in some structures.

Thecrafting tableis a utility block you can make with four planks of any wood type.

Jukebox Crafting Recipe in Minecraft

Now that you’ve got all the needed resources, let’s make a jukebox.

You may also use acrafter in Minecraft 1.21to make lots of jukeboxes automatically. However, as I always remind you, you have to provide it with redstone signal for it to spit out items.

How Does a Jukebox Work in Minecraft

Using a jukebox is pretty simple. Once you have a music disc, you can select it on your hotbar and right-click the jukebox with it. It’ll get inserted in the block and the corresponding soundtrack will start to play. You’ll also see note particles appear above the jukebox if it’s currently playing a music disc. To remove the disc from the jukebox, right-click it again.

Now, let’s cover some more advanced mechanics. Jukebox, believe it or not, also acts as aredstone component. It emits a redstone signal when there is a disc inside. The strength of the signal depends upon the disc itself.

Here’s a table showing the redstone signal strength levels for each music disc in Minecraft:Music DiscPower LevelNo disc0131Cat2Blocks3Chirp4Far5Mall6Mellohi7Stal8Strad9Ward101111Wait12Pigstep13OthersideRelic14515

You can view and utilize this redstone signal with the help of aredstone comparator. Place the comparator so it reads signal out of the jukebox and attach redstone dust to it. By accessing theF3 debug screenon Java edition, you can view the signal strength of that redstone dust.

Moreover, hoppers and droppers can interact with a jukebox, as they canremove discs from and insert discsinto it. While a hopper is below an active jukebox, it’s locked since the jukebox emits a redstone signal.

But once the track finishes playing, the hopper will become active and will extract the disc from the jukebox. With a super simple hopper and dropper setup, as shown in the image below, you’ll be able to loop discs. So, when the disc finishes playing, it’ll be put back in the jukebox so it plays again. To stop the loop, power the hopper, and the disc will not be extracted.

Furthermore, while the jukebox is playing a song, any nearby tamed parrots andAllayswill dance to the beat. Not only that, but an active jukebox is necessary forduplicating allays.

So, that’s how you can make and use a jukebox in Minecraft. If you have some discs lying around, go ahead and make this wooden block so you can enjoy them daily.

Well, this may just be a funny feature, or perhaps it’s a reference to how phonographs often have diamond-tipped needles. There has been no official statement from Minecraft.

No, once the track reaches its end, the music disc will stop playing.

Not really. When a skeleton kills a creeper, only then one of the specific music discs will be dropped. Otherwise, there are other music discs you can find only while exploring structures.

You can use a hopper, two droppers, a redstone comparator and a repeater, and also three redstone dust to make a jukebox play forever.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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