Better Muffling

A Minecraft mod that adds configurable sound-muffling blocks. Place one down, open its GUI, and dial per-category volume multipliers for everything within range.

Minecraft: 26.1.x | Loader: NeoForge 26.1.2.x | License: MIT

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Blocks

Muffling Block

Crafted from wool, leather, and a note block:

W L W
L N L
W L W

W = any wool, L = leather, N = note block

Opens a GUI with per-category volume sliders (Master, Music, Records, Weather, Blocks, Hostile Mobs, Friendly Mobs, Players, Ambient, Voice). Optionally enable Private Mode so only the placer can adjust settings or break the block.

Advanced Muffling Block

Surround a Muffling Block with gold ingots:

G G G
G M G
G G G

G = gold ingot, M = Muffling Block

Adds include/exclude filtering by sound name and a Listening Mode that passively captures the names of sounds playing nearby — useful for building precise filters.

Advanced Upgrade (item)

Surround a wool block with gold ingots:

G G G
G W G
G G G

G = gold ingot, W = any wool

Shift + right-click on a placed Muffling Block to upgrade it to an Advanced Muffling Block in-place, preserving all existing settings.

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Configuration

Edit config/bettermuffling-common.toml (server-side) and config/bettermuffling-client.toml (client-side).

Option	Scope	Default	Range	Description
maxRange	Common	16	2–64	Maximum radius (blocks) that the GUI range slider can reach
minVolume	Common	0.0	0.0–0.99	Minimum volume multiplier the sliders can be set to
maxVolume	Common	1.0	0.01–1.0	Maximum volume multiplier the sliders can be set to
tooltipEnable	Client	true	—	Show block stats in the item tooltip

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Building from Source

Requires Java 21.

# Build the mod JAR (output: build/libs/)
./gradlew build

# Full clean build
./gradlew clean build

# Launch Minecraft client for testing
./gradlew client

# Launch Minecraft server for testing
./gradlew server

# Regenerate data-driven resources (recipes, blockstates, etc.)
./gradlew data