Steve's 'Lava Chicken' Tune Hidden on Chicken Jockey

An exciting Easter egg for this year's A Minecraft Movie has been hidden inside the actual Minecraft game—but you'll need to track down a specific iconic enemy to uncover it.

You can now listen to A Minecraft Movie’s irresistibly catchy Steve's Lava Chicken song—or at least a new remix of it—right inside Minecraft.

The tune, performed by the ever-energetic Jack Black, became a viral clip from A Minecraft Movie. To hear it in-game, hunt down the foe responsible for another of the film’s most-memed moments: the Chicken Jockey.

As announced in Minecraft’s latest patch notes for update 1.21.93, a music disc for the Lava Chicken song—remixed in chiptune style by Hyper Potions—can now be obtained when defeating a baby Zombie riding a Chicken (Chicken Jockey).

This updated version doesn’t feature Jack Black’s vocals, but stretches the original 34-second tune into several minutes by gradually building up its dubstep influences. After listening multiple times this morning, I must report—it's somehow even more infectious than before.

Following a record-breaking box office run that earned A Minecraft Movie $955 million and the release of a singalong edition, Steve's Lava Chicken made history by becoming the shortest track ever to enter the prestigious 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 only 34 seconds long, the song—with its profound lyrics such as "la-la-la-lava ch-ch-ch-chicken"—was written by Black and director Jared Hess. It marks Black’s second video game movie featuring a breakout hit, following his performance of “Peaches” as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Months after A Minecraft Movie left theaters, it seems there’s no escaping Steve's Lava Chicken. And of course, talks of a sequel are already in the works.