🔊 Attract to Sound – Realistic Mob Sound & Visual Detection Mod [Forge & Fabric]

Enhance Minecraft’s AI with truly reactive mobs—now supporting multiple gun, voice-chat, and animation mods!

Attract to Sound transforms hostile mob behavior by making them respond dynamically to in-game noises: footsteps, block interactions, voice chat, gunshots, and more. Perfect for players who crave immersive stealth, strategic combat, and configurable AI challenges.

✨ Key Features

• Realistic Sound-Based Mob AI Hostile mobs actively hunt sound sources: walking, running, breaking/placing blocks, opening doors/chests, attacking, and more.

• Configurable Sound Ranges & Weights For each sound event, define a detection range (how far away mobs hear it) and a weight (how “loud”/urgent it is). Louder events (explosions, gunshots) draw mobs from farther distances.

• Sound Muffling & Block Attenuation Use wool, glass, doors, or any custom blocks to reduce both range and intensity of passing sounds. Build soundproof rooms, stealth corridors, or hidden tunnels.

• Dynamic Camouflage System Wear dyed armor sets and stand on matching blocks to greatly reduce detection.

  • Standing/Sneaking: Detection range scales quadratically based on adjacent matching blocks (up to 6).
  • Crawling: Maximum camouflage when directly on a matching block. Fully configurable for vanilla and modded armor/blocks.

• Advanced Mob Grouping & Pathfinding Mobs no longer simply run toward noise—they form investigation groups, elect leaders, and use “smart edge” scouts to decide whether a peripheral sound is worth rallying the entire pack.

• Highly Customizable Every aspect (AI scan rates, sound lifetimes, camouflage weights, muffling effectiveness, grouping parameters, etc.) is exposed in config/soundattract-common.toml.

• Server-Side & Multiplayer Compatible All logic runs server-side. Works in singleplayer and on any Forge/Fabric server without client-side hacks.

🔌 Supported Integrations

To maximize immersion, Attract to Sound includes optional hooks for these popular mods and datapacks. Simply install them alongside Attract to Sound and enable integration in the config:

1. Simple Voice Chat

   • Detects your actual microphone input as in-game “voice” events.
   • Whisper vs. normal talk have different ranges/weights.
   • Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/simple-voice-chat

2. TacZ Guns + Suffuse – Gunsmoke Datapack

   • Gunshots and reloads become decibel-based sound events.
   • Configure each weapon’s loudness and attachment decibel reductions.
   • TacZ Guns: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/timeless-and-classics-zero
   • Suffuse – Gunsmoke Datapack: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/customization/suffuse-gunsmoke

3. Scorched Guns

   • Adds futuristic firearms—each fire/reload sound can attract mobs.
   • Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/scorched-guns

4. Ewewukek’s Musket Mod

   • Black-powder muskets and flintlocks produce loud “blast” and “reload” events.
   • Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ewewukeks-musket-mod

5. MrCrayfish’s Gun Mod (Unofficial)

   • Modern handguns, rifles, shotguns with distinct firing/reloading sounds.
   • Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/mrcrayfishs-gun-mod-unofficial

6. Parcool Animator

   • Tie Parcool character animations (dash, roll, slide) to custom sound events.
   • Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/parcool

Plus Any Other Mod with Custom Sounds or Entities

• Add their sound event IDs to soundIdWhitelist and rawSoundDefaults.
• Add custom entity IDs to attractedEntities.
• Define Mob Profiles for elite or variant behaviors via specialMobProfilesRaw.

🚀 Installation Guide

1. Download the Mod

   • CurseForge • Modrinth

2. Install Minecraft Forge or Fabric

   • Ensure compatibility with the mod’s supported Minecraft version (check project page).

3. Place the JAR

   • Copy attract-to-sound-<version>.jar into your mods/ folder.

4. Launch Minecraft

   • Select the Forge/Fabric profile and start the game.

5. (Optional) Install Integrations

   • Place additional mod JARs (e.g., Simple Voice Chat, TacZ Guns, Scorched Guns, etc.) into mods/.
   • If using TacZ Guns, also install the Suffuse – Gunsmoke datapack in your world’s datapacks/ folder.

⚙️ Configuration Overview

Configuration is handled in config/soundattract-common.toml. Close Minecraft before editing; each setting is commented in-file. Key sections include:

1. General AI Settings

   • debugLogging, soundLifetimeTicks, scanCooldownTicks, arrivalDistance, mobMoveSpeed, soundSwitchRatio, etc.

2. Mob Configuration & Grouping AI

   • attractedEntities: list of all entity IDs (vanilla + modded) that react to sound.
   • edgeMobSmartBehavior, groupDistance, maxGroupSize, maxLeaders, leaderSpacingMultiplier, groupAssignInterval.

3. Sound Event Definitions & Whitelist

   • soundIdWhitelist: optional list of sound IDs to process (performance optimization).
   • nonPlayerSoundIdList / rawSoundDefaults: define custom sound events in format sound_id;range;weight.

4. Block Muffling Configuration

   • mufflingAreaRadius, woolMufflingEnabled, solidMufflingEnabled, etc.
   • customWoolBlocks, customSolidBlocks, customThinBlocks, etc., to include modded mufflers.
   • woolBlockRangeReduction, solidBlockWeightReduction, and other reduction factors.

5. Detection & Camouflage

   • Stance-based detection: standingDetectionRange, sneakDetectionRange, crawlDetectionRange and their camo variants.
   • camouflageSets, camouflagePartialMatching, camouflageArmorPieceWeight, camouflageBlockMatchWeight, camouflageDistanceScaling, etc.
   • Environmental camouflage: enableEnvironmentalCamouflage, envColorSampleRadius, environmentalMismatchPenaltyFactor, etc.
   • Movement & stealth modifiers: movementStealthPenalty, stationaryStealthBonusFactor, invisibilityStealthFactor.
   • Lighting & weather factors: neutralLightLevel, lightLevelSensitivity, rainStealthFactor, thunderStealthFactor.

6. Integrations

   • Voice Chat: enableVoiceChatIntegration, voiceChatWhisperRange, voiceChatNormalRange, voiceChatWeight.
   • TacZ Guns: enableTaczIntegration, taczShootRange, taczShootWeight, taczReloadRange, taczReloadWeight, taczGunShootDecibels, taczAttachmentReductions.
   • Parcool: parcoolAnimatorSounds (format AnimatorClass;soundId;range;weight;volume;pitch).

7. Mob Profiles (Advanced Overrides)

   • specialMobProfilesRaw: override sound/detection per-entity (and conditional on NBT). Format:

    "profileName;mobId;nbtMatcher;soundOverrides;detectionOverrides"

   • Example:

    specialMobProfilesRaw = [
      "AlphaBear;alexsmobs:grizzly_bear;{IsAlpha:1b};minecraft:entity.player.hurt:80.0:5.0;standing:90.0,sneaking:45.0,crawling:25.0"
    ]

🔗 Download & Links

• Issues & Support: • GitHub Issues: https://github.com/Sylsatra/attract_to_sound/issues • Modrinth Discussions / CurseForge Comments

• Community: • Join our Discord for real-time support and updates.

❓ FAQ Highlights

• Does it work with other-modded mobs? Yes—just add their entity IDs to attractedEntities or define a Mob Profile.

• Can I disable voice chat or camouflage? Yes—toggle enableVoiceChatIntegration or set enableCamouflage = false in the config.

• Multiplayer compatible? Absolutely. All logic runs server-side; client cannot override mob hearing.

• Performance impact? Mod is optimized with dynamic scan cooldowns and caching. Adjust scanCooldownTicks, maxSoundsTracked, and grouping AI parameters to suit your TPS.

📸 Media & Useful Links

(Video showcasing Attract to Sound gameplay and features)

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Alt Text: Minecraft mob attraction demo - Zombie attracted to player sound - Attract to Sound Mod

Experience Minecraft like never before—your footsteps, voice, and every gunshot matter. Make some noise… and see who comes running!