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🔊 Ambients

Our ambients system is a powerful mechanic designed specifically for Unlimited Adventures. It's a fully original and custom software.
It's a system which creates a realistic sound atmosphere based on your surroundings, biome, time of the day and even weather!

⚙ How to configure ambients?​

We are providing incredibly powerful configuration settings for the ambients.
Things ambient system can take into account when deciding what sounds should the player hear at the moment:

  • Biome,
  • Levels (Height - Y position),
  • Time of the day
  • Weather

You can also adjust:

  • Volume,
  • Delay,
  • Amplitude of delay (a randomization of delay),
  • Sound overlapping (you can force sound to never play while other sounds are playing)

Here's an example sound config:

yellowstone_elk:
    sound: ambient.elk
    biomes:
    - t:yellowstone
    levels:
    - surface
    time_of_day:
    - morning
    - noon
    - evening
    weather:
    - clear
    - rain
    delay: 120
    amplitude: 50
    prevent_stacking: 5
    volume: 0.5

➕ How to add new sounds?​

Adding new sounds is very straightforward. Simply add the sound to the resource pack and update the configuration files!

🎨 [Step 1/2] Add sound to the resource pack​

✅ Ensure your sound is properly saved:​

  • Ensure your sound is in the .ogg format (Minecraft doesn't support other formats!).
  • Directional Sound: Make it MONO.
  • Non-Directional Sound ('plays in your head'): Make it STEREO.

⬆️ Now we need to upload your sound into the resource pack.​

  • Go to 📁assets/minecraft/sounds/custom/
  • Choose one of the folders, or create your own. Your final destination could be, for example:
    📁assets/minecraft/sounds/custom/effect/

⚙ Add your sound to the sounds.json file.​

  • Go to 📁assets/minecraft folder and open the sounds.json file.
  • Add your sound to the list. Let's assume your sound name is hello.ogg
"custom.hello" : {
	"sounds":[
		"custom/effect/hello"
	]
},

If you'd like to have multiple sound variants that will be chosen at random, do this:

"custom.hello" : {
	"sounds":[
	        "custom/effect/hello_1",
                "custom/effect/hello_2",
                "custom/effect/hello_3"
	]
},

Please notice how the last sound doesn't have a comma at the end. It's important!

⚙ [Step 2/2] Add sound to the ambients sounds list​

➕ Just add your sound configuration to the file​

You can find the file in unlimited_adventures/Ambients/sounds.yml

An example config:

hello:
    sound: hello
    biomes:
    - plains
    delay: 20

A more advanced example:

hello:
    sound: hello
    biomes:
    - green biomes
    - high biomes
    - !t: yellowstone
    levels:
    - surface
    - sky
    weather:
    - clear
    delay: 20
    amplitude: 5
    volume: 0.8