Sound Muter

Mute or turn down single sounds instead of a whole volume category.

Got a trading hall full of villagers going "hmm" all day? A chicken farm under your base? Mute just those and keep every other sound the way it was.

It's client-side only, so it works on any server, vanilla ones included. It only changes what you hear and doesn't add or reveal anything the server didn't send you.

How it works

Open the menu with a keybind (or from Mod Menu on Fabric, or the Mods list on NeoForge). You get:

• Recently heard: the last 20 sounds that played. Easiest way to find "that noise".
• Muted / changed: everything you've already touched.
• All sounds: every sound in the game, including ones from other mods and resource packs, grouped by type (ambient, block, entity, music...).

Each sound has a Mute button, a volume slider (0-100%) and a ▶ button to hear it. The search box matches both the subtitle text ("Villager mumbles") and the sound id (entity.villager.ambient).

Mute last sound

There's also a "Mute last sound" key. Hear something annoying, press it, done. A small popup tells you what got muted, and pressing the key again within 5 seconds undoes it.

Both keys are unbound by default. Set them in Options > Controls > Key Binds under "Sound Muter".

Good to know

• Settings are saved in config/soundmuter.json.
• A muted sound also loses its subtitle, so think twice before muting something like creeper hissing.
• Menu clicks and other UI sounds don't show up in "Recently heard", otherwise they'd fill the list every time you open it. You can still find them under "All sounds".

Requirements

• Fabric: Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional.
• NeoForge: nothing extra.

Works on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 (no NeoForge build for 1.20.1).

Bugs or ideas? Open an issue.

Building

Want to build it yourself? Visit the GitHub page.