There’s now a toe-tapping Easter egg for this year’s A Minecraft Movie hidden within the actual Minecraft game — though you’ll need to hunt down a certain iconic enemy in order to find it.
Yes, you can now listen to A Minecraft Movie’s annoyingly catchy Steve’s Lava Chicken song (or a new version of it, anyway) within Minecraft itself.
The tune, and its performance by a typically jocular Jack Black, was one of A Minecraft Movie’s viral scenes — and to find it within Minecraft, you’ll need to go hunt down the enemy behind another of the film’s most-memed moments: a Chicken Jockey.
As detailed in Minecraft’s latest patch notes, for this week’s update 1.21.93, a music disc for the Lava Chicken song (remixed into a chiptune by Hyper Potions) can now be found, “when defeating a baby Zombie riding a Chicken (Chicken Jockey)”.
This fresh version of the tracks lacks Jack Black’s vocals, but extends the 34-second ditty to several minutes by increasingly amping up its dubstep beats. I’ve listened to it several times this morning and can report that, annoyingly, they’ve made it even more catchy.
Amid a breakout box office run in theaters that saw A Minecraft Movie notch up (no pun intended) $955 million, and the launch of a special singalong version of the film, Steve’s Lava Chicken found its own fame by becoming the shortest-ever track to make the coveted US Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
Minecraft has released a remixed version of the viral Lava Chicken song from the movie pic.twitter.com/gQER36wTTF
— barry scott (@barryscott33338) July 15, 2025
At just 34 seconds, the song — which boasts deep lyrics like “la-la-la-lava ch-ch-ch-chicken” — was written by Black and the film’s director Jared Hess, and marks the second video game movie appearance by Black to feature a breakout song, after his turn belting out “Peaches” as Bowser in the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Months after the end of A Minecraft Movie’s theatrical run, it seems there’s never going to be an escape from Steve’s Lava Chicken. And of course, plans for A Minecraft Movie sequel have already been floated.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
