QuietLoop

QuietLoop

An adaptive muffler for repetitive sounds.

You know the problem. You build a nice automatic farm next to your base, and now your world sounds like a machine shop. Turning down the Blocks slider kills every block sound in the game — including the ones you actually want to hear.

QuietLoop fixes it the narrow way: it finds the *specific* sound that keeps looping in one *specific* place, and quietly turns that one down. Everything else stays exactly as loud as it was.

What it does

• Detects sounds repeating near you: piston clocks, dispensers, droppers, portals, automatic farms.
• Fades them down gradually — never to silence, never below **25%**.
• Restores full volume when the sound stops, or when you walk away.
• **Never touches your volume sliders.** Only the individual playback is scaled.

How it decides

Sounds are grouped by **identifier + world zone** (an 8-block grid cell). That pairing matters: a piston farm 40 blocks away and a piston you just placed at your feet are *different groups*, so silencing the farm never silences the piston in your hand.

A group becomes repetitive after **5 plays within 5 seconds**. From there the volume drops gradually:

Plays in 5s	Volume
4 or fewer	100%
5	85%
6	70%
7	55%
8	40%
9 or more	**25%** (floor)

It goes back to 100% after **10 seconds** without repeating, or once you are more than **16 blocks** from the zone.

What it will never touch

Only **Blocks**, **Neutral** and **Ambient** sounds are analysed. Music, records, UI, voice, player sounds, hostile mobs and weather are excluded outright.

Categories alone aren't enough for a few important warnings, so there is a small, documented denylist:

• Primed TNT
• Village bells (block.bell.use, block.bell.resonate)
• Respawn anchor depletion
• Wither spawn, ender dragon growl
• Any sound whose id contains hurt, death or explode — this covers damage and death sounds of neutral mobs, which are in the Neutral category

If a horde is coming, the bell still rings at full volume.

Usage

Enabled by default. Press **N** to toggle it (rebindable under *Options → Controls → Miscellaneous*).

You get a brief message above your hotbar when you toggle it, and a one-time QuietLoop: attenuating <sound id> the first time a given sound is dimmed — so you always know what it decided to quiet down. It won't nag you about the same sound again for a minute.

The on/off state persists between sessions.

Configuration

No config menu, no dependencies on config libraries. Just config/quietloop.properties:

enabled=true  
repetitions=5  
window\_seconds=5.0  
group\_radius=8.0  
min\_volume=0.25  
restore\_seconds=10.0  
restore\_distance=16.0  
show\_notices=true