I think the new update coming out actually fits well with the last part, the miner went too deep into the mine and encounters the Warden, since this is the first time the miner has ever encountered the beast his first response is to run the other way, not knowing the creature is blind and is highly sensitive to noise and echoes. The whole experience is him running away from this beast and making it out onto the surface.

The addition of cave noises already feeds into this fear of not being alone. We’re all aware that we’re all alone in a. SINGLE-player world. Yet, you get that lingering feeling you aren’t. You don’t want to be alone in a vast and infinite world, but at the same time, you hope you’re all alone and not with somebody else.

Cave sound 19 is actually the sound of an angry enderman in the stronghold... I believe

I fear no man but that thing... * cave sounds * *it scares me*

I have a theory, Steve was one of the miners who escaped, this shown by him narrowly escaping the creature in disc 11. He loses all of his items but his map. Steve is now haunted by the sounds of the accident and the trauma he has witnessed in the crash.

The miner tried to stop the minecart from crashing, a roar echos through the caves, at the Miner’s last breath he saw, The Warden.

I actually always thought that the player (steve, alex, you, ect) had a phobia of caves. Even the mere sight of one plays the noises on the surface. Or going through a dark tunnel. This theory has alot more to back it up though!

I have a theory that mojang added disc 13 as a love letter to the horror genre and or maybe to add more mysteries and overrall make the game more intresting maybe even as a way to branch out to other communities

Is there anyone who think that these sounds are Just underground vibrations and creepy ones is Steve/Alex hallucinations due to low oxygen? I once was in a Mountain cave, and same sh*it happened to me.

I have a theory of my own: the theory goes that the miner is the person who somehow survived the rail crash incident. He desperately tries to find a way to get to the surface, but fails. The breathing sound would be the miners last breath before initially passes away. The flint and steel sound is him cooking and eating his last meal while the warden is still in pursuit of the miner. Whilst trying to find a way to the surface, the miner accidentally stumbled upon an unknown creature, which is the warden not knowing that the creature was blind his first instinct was to run the opposite direction not knowing that the creature goes off by sound. In conclusion, it was the warden that killed the miner. Thanks for reading the theory of mine!

I think Disc 11 is when a miner tries to get out and somehow he survived the incident. He tries write a notebook to warn the others that might come to the mineshaft with danger. When he saw something that is so unusual that he starts running to nearest exist but the creature got to him first and killed him. Leaving the book unfinished and never heard of again.

So recent story: I decided to boot up audacity and play some Minecraft sounds. I then decided to play every Minecraft cave sound at once… Bad idea, I had earphones on and it literally felt like I had a heart attack

I don’t think the sound at 5:05 is anything you mentioned. Sometimes in when your in a cave or mine rocks may move under their own weight causing a clicking sound. This often comes before a cave-in. The sounds are referred to as “Tommy nockers”. back in more superstitious days miners believed that the sounds were made by dead miners warning the still living of incoming cave-ins by taping on the walls

So creepy when you hear that sounds while you're in jungle...

Just reinforces the theory that there were acient builder's and they were wiped out by an occurrence and eventually Turning into what we know as Endermen

Imagine if there's a mind theory where there was nothing and it was just your mind, similar things do happen in the real world

Damn. The whole minecart theory is hard to digest, but I love imagining it.

Ambience will probably be nostalgic someday

After putting both theories together, it seems like monsters attacked the mine. The music disc miner was running away, while the others took mine carts and died in crashes during the commotion. The music disc miner seems to be the only survivor. The player really seems to have come at just the wrong time, the last humans dying off as their civilization falls to monsters, villagers weighed down by illagers to prevent them from advancing and working together, the other dimensions being placed where humans once evacuated to, only to die off in those places as well. These theories seem to portray the end of humanity to monsters.

The best thing about minecraft cave sounds is that without hearing it multiple times you can’t really understand what’s making that noise Like the roar sound, if you think about it, no monsters are hiding in caves that would be scary. It’s just zombies skeletons creepers spiders and all the others But each mob has defined sounds, a zombie goes berrrhhh so when you hear that you know a Zombie is near Skeltons make bone noises and spiders making hissing noises as-well as creepers. But that roar sound, no mob you’ve seen before is capable of making that noise, and with how little time it plays for, you start to panic and wonder The biggest fear is fear of the unknown, and these unexplained sounds are just pure nightmare fuel for panic attacks. And they are the soul reason that I have ambience off AT ALL TIMES while playing Minecraft

I honestly think that the player (Or Steve) has both thalassophobia and nyctophobia (fear of deep bodies of water and fear of the dark), specially because some of the sounds are pretty much impossible to be made by some monsters, like the bells

Cave sound 19 is a ender man being angry

Theory for Cave 1: On a stormy day in 1855, during the California gold rush, a train was passing. It passed over a ravine before losing control and crashing down, killing every passenger. The trains locomotive was scrapped and all pieces were never found. All the ghosts of the train haunt the mine. They take turns blowing the train whistle, and just after that moment, the miners in the minecarts crash and die. It’s said that anyone that enters this mine, will never come back out alive.

Honestly 19 sounds more like an enderman then anything

I honestly love the fact that they added this sounds, it just makes you know that minecraft isn't really a kids game. It makes me wonder if I'm actually playing minecraft or not

I had another theory about cave sounds that I was thinking about that's honestly *far* more creepier. One of the conditions for cave sounds is of course, low light levels, right? Conditions low enough for mobs to spawn. Gameplay wise, this means that cave sounds function as danger warnings to players. Now, what this is basically telling me is that mobs that spawn in caves and cave sounds are from the same source, and here is where we get into creepy implications. Hostile mobs are more or less spontaneously generated out of thin air in darkness, right? Same as the sounds. So what if, and bare with me here this is going to get wild, darkness in Minecraft acts as portal or vessel for things outside of the world to appear inside it? Cave sounds often feature sounds completely unheard anywhere else in Minecraft. Aircraft engines, scream-like noises, breathing, and incoherent whistling. What if darkness acts as a gateway to other worlds, with mobs being simplified creatures translocated from them. Here's a few theories on some: 1. Creepers are military machines or artificial life forms. Their function is more or less similar to the idea of a suicide bomber. Very simple in function and probably easier to create then something that can aim a weapon. I lean more towards them being machines due to their bizarre faces that seem to lack function. It seems to me it's simply painted on or holes cut into panels for psychological purposes. One of the cave sounds heard is the sound of an aircraft engine, possibly a turboprop like a C-130 or similar aircraft. This may be sounds from the world Creepers are from. 2. Skeletons are from a world somewhat like Dark Souls, with magic allowing them to move and come alive. They could all be duplicates from some sort of defeated cursed archer legion, which is why there are so many. Strays are simply veteran skeletons who stay in the ice regions because of it's similarity to their home. They improvise clothing from killed animals and possibly work with Witches to acquire tipped arrows. Their world is cold and bitter, with howling winds creating vortexes through the mountains and trees. These can create the howling and sharp sounds sometimes heard in caves. 3. Zombies are an interesting case. They have an eerie similarity to the default player character's clothing that's hard to miss, but another similarity to notice is that, while the heads of zombies look different to the player they are all the same. This could be a case of translocation from a world very similar to Minecraft only with two differences: 1. Zombie infection can occur somehow. And 2. "Steve" is not the protagonist. Remember how I said that many skeletons are duplicates of each other, to explain their numbers? There is a possibility that all Zombies are exactly the same person created by one significant event from another world, or from multiple worlds. Familiar sounds such as blazes breathing or slamming doors may come from this source. So time for the final terrifying implication: What causes the translocation of sounds and creatures from these other worlds? It's my belief that the fabric of the Minecraft world itself is based on visual perception, much like how the game only renders blocks you can see. Darkness creates an "unstable space" that's thin enough in it's "realness" to cause other worlds to seep through from their own darkness, usually only in small enough ways to let sound through but occasionally large enough for creatures to accidentally fall through. The implication is thus: could any world be linked by this "darkness" to Minecraft? And if so that opens up the doors to the awful and terrible beings that could exist within the multiverse, who are only too large to cross the gaps into the Minecraft world. They might create some of the sounds that are completely unidentified. Imagine a massive dilapidated shelter built around a black hole in a dying universe, with corrupted computer systems broadcasting strange tones throughout the pitch blacks halls, seeping into the Minecraft world. Imagine primordial beings or 4th dimensional creatures phasing in and out of their worlds, making awful clicking that gets heard only by the thin darkness under hundreds of feet of rubble. Imagination was always what made Minecraft a terrifying game. It was never what you could directly see, only what you imagine being out there that you could not.

4:10 I think this could be staff using radio to contact with miners but as they are already gone, we only hear the waves with diffrent frequencies hitting the radio

That theory makes the cave sounds seem way more unsettling. Just imagine mining deep below the ground, the cold discomforting darkness. Then you hear the cries and echoes of a catastrophe that had taken place way long ago. It was a disaster that had happened way before you showed up, yet you hear the echoes as if you were nearby when it actually happened. That is what unsettles me.

I’m watching this with headphones. Pray for me

The angelic sound is like the angel taking the miner's souls from aether portal

5:01 that's just herobrine farting, it sounds like me after eating spicy food.

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If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend everyone go watch the other declassified videos in the series. They become 10x more detailed and interesting!

Damn im like half a year late, but this video is really, REALLY well made, especially for your size! Keep it up bro!

I think should be kept in mind most of these sounds would be distorted by distance and massive echo in the caverns, specially keeping in mind how large the new caves can be, for instance the ringing noise feel like a vibration traveling through a very long metal bar which implies some form of structure

I think, that our character is a survived miner, who was running from something right before the game starts but then lost his consciousness. And now, when the dark is near, he gets flashbacks with these distorted sounds

What if the noises are made by ghosts of miners that didn't make it alive when some terrific event happened

Well I think whatever the miner saw or if he saw the Warden he must of been recording when he fell from the explosion of the creeper he must of discord the deep dark, so he was coughing and must of trigger the sculk while he cough, from the dust, and must of flip though his book, to see where he was was the relights his torch seeing an unknown creature or the Warden and start to run and then get cornered and killed or even infected by it, who knows maybe the Warden is the miner who did the disc 11 recording

God this is a well made video

This is my theory of the Cave Sounds (and the 2 music discs) this post is pretty long so if you want to then read ig lol Steve (or player) was a Miner and worked in Mineshafts. He could have been in two locations: 1, the minecart that caused it (the one the creeper blew up), or a minecart which the main minecart collided into, and I have reasons that both of these could be true -Cave sound 6 (the engine) plays first and plays for pretty much the entire time leading up to the crash -14 happens, then right after 15, which is the creeper and the explosion -Cave sound 1 (whistle) plays as the minecart speeds into the crash and 11 is the wheels of it -10 and then very shortly after 12 plays right before the crash -17 is the minecart crash (and as the big climax being the crash), and with 2, 5, 9, 13, and 16 happening at either the same time or seconds apart from each other -4 plays a bit after, with 3 also being a bit after -soon 18 plays, which causes 8 to play in return -minutes afterward, 7 plays -then 19, which is probably an enderman, gets triggered or in the anger state towards steve (the only survivor of the crash, and in return starts discs 11 and 13) Theory 1: Steve was in the Minecart which caused the collision. When the Creeper blew up, Steve probably would have gotten blasted out of the Minecart, which might seem unlucky, but it might have saved his life by not going in the real crash. This makes sense because you hearing the creeper sounds vivid and hearing echos the minecarts getting softer instead of louder Theory 2: Steve was in the Minecart which the first one collided with. Steve might have made a last-second bailout, which also makes sense because of hearing the collision part pretty loudly. (i honestly think that the first theory is better but this could still be possible) Disc 11: -I won't get into too much description in what happens, but its probably steve getting chased by the enderman, and trying to light a flint and steel for something, and at the end of it you can hear steve running from the enderman and faintly hear what sounds like a dog death. disc 13 is just ambiance for disc 11 lol, nothing else to say about it Once Steve escapes, he is traumatized by what happened to him, so whenever you go near a cave as Steve (or player), a cave sound plays, which is just a memory of what happened tl;dr: cave sounds and music discs are connected and are the reason why steve hears the sounds

Cave sound 19 is possibly the echoes of an Angry Enderman attack

I always thought the cave sounds were the player's hallucinations from spending too much time in the caves.

Im still surprised how big this theories' gotten over the years, I made it up when i was like 13 and suddenly bam, Love the vid btw

Thanks, I'm never going mining again! Edit: Nevermind, I found out how to turn off cave sounds.

this cave theory sounds good. The sounds made me feel like it's a hidden mob or haven't been made yet hidden mob, who can move the caves around and the deeper you go the harder it will be to escape till you find a labrinth and beat it. The sounds can be heard in different caves because it's always moving around your map but always deep underground. Moving caves but making it hard to notice. If that add that, that would be awesome 😄

i think the last sound is the last surviving miner making the mistake of gazing up at an enderman. one that's has particularly sharp teeth.

Interesting thing about disc 13 and 11 is that 11 fits in the gap of 13 quite nicely

I don't think this is too different from the theory explained in the video but my personal theory is the the cave sounds are meant to foreshadow the player's actions and/or fate. These sounds are sort of meant to be psychological trigger that influences the player's action in the cave and what they should expect. You can think of it as being hallucinations or sounds that the player hears, but it is not actually there.

This is my theory on both the discs and the noises: (they both link btw) The disc theory A well known miner, known as Steve, went deep into a cave. Steve tripped on a rock that connected wall. The roof started to rumble as Steve got up and ran. The roof fell behind him, blocking his only way out. Steve stresses about getting out but as soon as the rumbling stopped, Steve tried to break through the rubble wall. He quickly started sweating, like there was a fire burning right beside him. Steve started to breath deeply as he felt something go through him. He started to hurry, just wanting to get through to the surface. Suddenly everything went black so he tried to light his flint and steel. Steve coughed as he struggled to emit light. Steve thought he saw something as his light sparked. He didn’t want to light it anymore so he rushed, trying to escape the wrath of this monster but as he was a few rocks away, a man with glowing white eyes that resembled Steve perfectly flew towards him. Steve held his last breath. He was gone. Vanished. Cave noises theory A subway train goes through it’s normal path. Recently, the miners had mistakenly opened a large wall that lead into the mine. The radio echoed through the train while the orchestra was setting up. Just before the train reached the hole, a man that looked like the famous Steve Minecraft with white eyes floated onto the train tracks ahead. The Steve-like man sent a yellow creature that created fire towards the subway train. (This fire creature was later named a “Blaze” and was later found in the hell-like area that Steve-like man created.) The driver, not knowing what to do, sent the train flying into the mine. The mine had a bridge that was halfway built and the train was heading in that direction. The radio started to glitch and the orchestra’s instruments went flying across the carriage causing deep noises that flooded the mines tunnels. The train killed many miners and, finished by falling of the unfinished bridge, killing everyone onboard. Over 100 people and 10 miners were killed. The Steve like creature was later named Herobrine. The angels of the passengers can still be heard, trying to flee the train and the demonic laughs of Herobrine can be heard. The mines were never touched afterwards. This is my theory! It is a little more gruesome but I think it’s a cool theory.. Thanks for reading, have a great day!

sound 19 is probably disc 11 breaking

imagine if you actually hear the first 4 in this order: cave3 (1st): the minecart almost heading into a dead end without notice cave1 (2nd): the whistle before the crash cave2 (3rd): the death of the miner cave4 (4th): the echo heard throughout the cave after the crash and death

music disc 11. While playing the disc, it sounds as if running away from *something,* placing blocks faster then usual, and running across stone or dirt.

wait if the broken peace is with the item why can't steve fix it?

Theory: The reason why you would never find a dead miner Corpse is because they are mostly Blown To Dust By Creepers Or On a Mine Cart Falling Into Lava Or Crushed By Rocks Or Maybe Torn Apart By Zombies And Eaten Alive

If your scared of Cave sounds and dont want to hear them Just make Ambience/Environment to 0% off

Cave sounds: *Plays* 9 Year old me: *"H E R O B R I N E"*

I was so confused looking at the quality of this video then seeing that he doesn’t even have past 1k subs dude you deserve more

I made a big ww1 trench system and the game started thinking it was a cave system and I'd constantly hear cave noises when around it

5:00 towards the end of that sound it kinda of reminds me of Predator. The creaking

"wind echos through the cave after the crash" it's kinda more like a glitching sound

cave sounds are the only thing keeping me from playing Minecraft at night

I got a theory, what if the remaining survivor was steve and he manged to escape with both tapes in his hand until he tripped over a high ledge and broke it which also gave him a alight concussion which gave him PTSD of the crash everytime he goes into a cave. Then later on he finds alex and micks sure to keep together no matter what to prevent the same thing from happening to him and his friends in the past. Until alex finds the tapes/discs and shows it to steve which gave him flashbacks to what happened to him in the past!

I like your theory behind the eerie cave sounds. It makes sense, and I agree with the comments about how it also fits in with the Warden. When I first heard the cave sounds in Minecraft, I thought it was a hidden enemy nearby or a sign that something was about to happen. I kept my guard until I found out it was just cave ambiance. But it still feels unsettling, and I always wondered about its meaning. Now I will imagine your story when I hear the cave sounds, making it even eerier. Also, there is a game called Pikmin 2, which has caves to explore with eerie cave sounds similar to Minecraft. What is it about caves and being deep underground being creepy in general?

I think 19 is the sounds of a wooden structure creaking as an engine makes it's way away from the station. The shriek at the start is the wheels squeaking as they unwillingly start moving again. I live near trains and they tend to squeak a bit when starting and stopping, especially when rusty.

6:43 this part of 11 always freaked me out. It makes me think of the realization of a creature staring back at the miner. I believe it could be the Warden, because that odd noise before the disk ends sounds like the growl of the Warden to me.

Back in the old days, these sounds added a bit of mistery to the game And I love dark misteries

It was really mean that I heard the “suspense of after the crash” as soon as I walked into a cave on my very first playthrough.

3:35 i would say this is a rescue plane miserable searching for the lost miner discoverer

Ambience and Cave sounds give the unnerving feeling of being followed by someone.....or something.......in the dark corridor of a Cave, Especially at Deep Darks

They aren't random. If you press f3 there is a mood tab with a %. If it reaches 100% a cave noise will play and it will reset to 0. It's determined by how dark the place you're in is. It's complicated.

I think disc 11 and 13 is the sound of the last surviving miner of the crash who fell down the hole while tumbling “sound 16” where he found the other creeper ready to explode and an enderman which chases him through the dark cave under the shaft which is why we hear the flint’n steel

I think 19 cave sound is that a minecart try to break fall off the tracks run over some rocks and its shake and stops before crashing into other minecarts or a zombie or spider ready to gets it next victim or the enderman

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MUSIC IN THE INTRO??? I heard it many years ago and I never knew what was it's name and I really like it AAAAAHHH I'm talking about the music that starts at 00:16. Please help me :(

4:19 all gamers keyboards when slammed

I actually think that the sounds where you hear the miner's last breath, the creeper's hissing and minecarts crashing are made by the ghosts of the miners trying to warn the player about the dangers of the mine and the fact they they could die in order to make them get out of the mine and save them or maybe the player is one of those miners who survives and has hallucinations of the incident, but i think the first one is more plausible since if you had an incident in the mines why would you go back there on purpose?

When I was younger I always thought there was like a music disc 12

3:06 that one scares me.

( Before you start to read, please, translate my comment portuguese Brazil to english) Pra você já ter uma noção dos sons de caverna do Minecraft, o som de caverna número 14 possui seu espectrograma no formato de um creeper, e o som também implica que se esse som estiver tocando, significa que tem um creeper por perto ou te procurando pelos seus " barulhos", independente se sua respiração for de longe ou perto. Também seu som é desconhecido, assim como o som do enderman ( cave sound 19 ) ele não emite esse barulho nos dias atuais, o que quer dizer também que esse acidente, aconteceu antes da atualização das cavernas ou do próprio minecraft, e provavelmente, ele aconteceu em 2005, que esses sons parecem ser antigos e as cavernas do minecraft começaram a ter sucesso em 2015 ( sons antigos + 2015 = 2005 )

imagine hearing the scariest disk and those sounds in the same time.....

4:20 Cave 15 (Distorted train engine) At beginning, I heard this sound one first time, but later, I started to heard it more and more. I don't know if where it came, but it's literally heard in the underground ravine.

3:43 this one has always been the most scary in my opinion.

6:37 you can here scuk sencor

I think that it’s possible that Steve is experiencing PTSD and having schizophrenia, though PTSD rarely causes auditory hallucinations.

this video is really well made bro! subbed.

This man might have just solved the cave sounds in mc

Underrated

i think steve was a miner and saw the crash and gets PTSD from it mining

I like to think the cave sound with the clicking at the end is some monster with echo location lurking around

music disc 11 is a casset tape I think.

Wow that’s spooky

I remember the very first time I heard the eerie noises. I used to find them super creepy so much so, that I couldn't play without my husband around. Now, I've heard them so much, that it doesn't even phase me anymore. I play both Java and Windows aka Bedrock. On Java, I would only heard them once in a blue moon whenever I'm mining. But in Bedrock, I would heard them almost every hour, hence why I've gotten used to the sounds. But the sound that did scare the ever living crap out of me, was one time when I was playing bedrock I was really deep in a large dark cave and I heard a really loud boom. It sounded like a creeper blowing up or tnt exploding, but much bigger and louder. It actually terrified me till I realized it was just lightening striking above ground.

with the new update it adds a whole new can of worms to the theory because now we stuff such as drip ambience and such so now it just becomes even more of a mystery

Cave 19 is a predator hunting down a miner

But apparently there is gonna be more cave sounds in the new caves and cliffs updates

In Cave Sound 19, going along with that theory of a minecart collision, my guess is the last part of the clicking / popping could be the creaking of broken wooden support beams. We see those all the time in mine shafts so it seems plausible, especially if you've heard thick wood cracking under severe weight. Perhaps caused by a cart running into and falling of rocks onto the beams. Super late to this video but felt like giving my 2 cents.

Fun fact: that if you check where your coordinates are you can see mood 1-100%, it increases when you in a cave or no light sources, in decreases when near light.

underrated :')

What if the roaring noise was "The Warden(s)"? Since it has been added in 1.17 / 1.18... no?

13 shows a great possibility of several of the cave noises being ambient and only a few tying to the crash

I’m adding on to the theory here, this actually could be Steve’s PTSD from being on that team kicking in when going back into the caves reminding him of what happened, and disk 11 could be him escaping after what happened