Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be
by Codewyrm
Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be adds 14 music discs to the Adventure category, found in structures or crafted at a smithing table, along with the items needed to make them.
What it does
Most of the 14 discs cannot be crafted. Nine of them can only be obtained by exploring, and they are sometimes found in chests inside existing structures, alongside Disc Cores. The other five are crafted at a smithing table from a disc core, netherite scrap and the disc's associated materials. Each disc plays through a jukebox and gives a comparator output that matches its album order, as vanilla discs do, and jukeboxes can still be inserted into and ejected from as usual.
Alongside the discs the mod adds a few exploration items. The Unrefined Music Disc Core is the crafting ingredient for most of the discs, and the whistles and sherds expand the collection. Ancient Whistles are found in Trail Ruins buried inside Suspicious Gravel. Three musical sherds are found across the Overworld.
Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be is for Fabric players who want vanilla-styled music content that fits into exploration. Music Notification and cat_jam are optional dependencies that add to the mod. The mod is published for Fabric only and runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Builds cover 1.20.1 – 1.21.11, and the latest file is 1.7.0 for 1.21.11. The code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
14 music discs
Fourteen discs with their own albums, each playing through a jukebox like a vanilla music disc.
Discs found in structures
Nine discs are obtained only by exploring, sometimes in chests inside preexisting structures.
Smithing table recipes
Five discs are crafted at a smithing table from a disc core and netherite scrap.
Ancient Whistles
Whistles found in buried suspicious gravel can be upgraded at a smithing table into melodic variants.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 2
How it compares
New Music Disc is an open source Fabric mod for 1.20.4 that also runs on client and server, adding its own disc set. Tears Music mod is open source under the MIT License, but its files are for 1.21.1 and it is client-side only, so servers run without it. Craft Music Discs is server required with client optional, and it is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2025-12-13 |
| New Music Disc | Fabric | 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2024-03-02 |
| Tears Music mod | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2025-09-09 |
| Craft Music Discs | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-28 |
Questions
Does Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be need Fabric API?
Do servers and players both need the mod?
Why can most discs not be crafted?
In the catalog
Discs Where Discs Shouldn't Be is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,052 Adventure mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
This mod adds 14 unique music discs to your game. Composed by Jacob Thomas, these discs were crafted to fit the Minecraft style while pushing the envelope on the original sound. You can check out every song on his SoundCloud! Along with the music discs, other musically inspired items such as whistles and sherds aim…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/dwdsb
- Owner
- Codewyrm
- Published
- 2023-07-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
