Quiet Charges

A server-side Fabric mod for Minecraft 26.1 that reduces the audible distance of wind charge sounds. No client-side installation required.

The Problem

Wind charge burst sounds are loud and carry far, which can be disruptive on busy servers. The explosion packet that Minecraft sends to clients plays the burst sound at a hardcoded volume of 4.0, making it impossible to tune server-side without intervention.

How It Works

Quiet Charges uses two server-side mixins:

• SoundMixin intercepts ServerLevel.playSeededSound() and multiplies the volume of wind charge burst sounds by a configurable multiplier (default 1.0).
• ExplosionMixin intercepts Level.explode() to silence the hardcoded wind charge sound in ClientboundExplodePacket and replays it through playSeededSound so the volume multiplier applies.

An optional normalize setting halves the breeze burst volume (x0.5) before applying the multiplier, equalizing its attenuation distance with the player wind charge burst.

Target Sounds

Sound Event	Source
entity.wind_charge.wind_burst	Player wind charge impact
entity.breeze.wind_burst	Breeze wind charge impact

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader (>=0.16.0) on your Minecraft 26.1 server.
2. Place the Quiet Charges JAR in the server's mods/ folder.
3. Start the server. A config file will be created at config/quietcharges.json.

No client-side mod is needed.

Configuration

Settings are stored in config/quietcharges.json:

{
  "volumeMultiplier": 1.0,
  "normalize": false
}

Setting	Range	Default	Description
volumeMultiplier	0.0 – 1.0	1.0	Multiplier applied to wind charge burst volume. Lower = quieter.
normalize	true/false	false	Halve breeze burst volume before applying the multiplier to match player wind charge distance.

Commands

All commands require operator permissions (level 2+).

Command	Description
/quietcharges volume	Show the current volume multiplier
/quietcharges volume <0.0-1.0>	Set the volume multiplier
/quietcharges normalize	Show whether breeze normalization is enabled
/quietcharges normalize <true|false>	Enable or disable breeze burst normalization

Changes take effect immediately and persist across restarts.

Building

Requires Java 25.

./gradlew build

The output JAR is written to build/libs/.

Dependencies

• Minecraft 26.1
• Fabric Loader >=0.16.0
• Fabric API 0.144.0+26.1
• Java 25

License

MIT