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The audio update

While Minecraft doesn't sound bad, it could sound even better. So here are some features that would make the game sound much better.

Surround sound support would be very nice to have, and it would really fit into the game well.

Most of the sounds would benefit from changing depending on what surface they are hitting/on/around.
A good example of this would be rain. Changing the sound of the rain hitting things depending on what it is hitting would be a massive change. So, rain hitting a snowy peak of a mountain, or a grassy field, a stone hill or the leaves of a massive jungle tree would sound diffrent.

Another thing is echo, it would really benefit the game. Imagine being under a stone overhang on a mountain with rain hitting rock and dirt, and in the distance thunder echoing throughout the landscape. It would certainly be amazing to hear. Now echo shouln't sound the same for everything, thunder should obviously echo a lot, but a zombie in a cave should not echo as much. This wouln't be hard to implement because "minecraft:cave_air" already exists, making the diffrence in echo easier to implement.
Instruments would be interesting, the goat horn is already added (which also needs some more bass (and a lot of echo)), but it would be interesting to see more similar instruments, maybe a drum made with leather and wood,...
Overall Minecraft definetly needs a massive audio upgrade, with echo and sounds changing depending on the blocks they are hitting being the biggest change.

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• November 03, 2021 13:29
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  • February 21, 2022 20:55
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  Indeed! The audio system is functional, but really lacking compared to what it could be.

  A missing aspect from your post is that Headphones are not stereo. Speakers used to be the way of getting sound out of computers, but that has moved over to favorite headphones, especially for gaming, just not in the studio space as much, ergo why it can get overlooked.
  From my limited understanding of audio, minecraft is missing some binaural processing. There is a bit bleedover from one channel to another, but it's nothing like anything you can get with games such as Portal 2 who has a setting for headphones vs speaker. I've found that the Dynamic Surroundings mod does a good job at adding some of features necessary for making a good auditory experience in minecraft, but still feel it to be silly that a mod needs to "fix" this.

  It's not much you notice when using speakers, as the audio from either speaker goes into both your ears, but you don't have that with headphones. It's a really important part to simulate properly for audio sensitive people that use headphones.