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SoundSight

See the danger you can't hear. A creeper behind you doesn't care why your sound is off. SoundSight turns survival-critical audio into visual threat warnings, designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players, useful for anyone who plays muted, mid-podcast, or

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July 10, 2026Jul 10
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At a glance

Runs on Fabric
For Minecraft 26.2
Client only — no need to install it on the server
Latest version — 0.1.0 from July 10, 2026
License MIT — free
Where it's needed
In gamerequiredOn servernot needed

Install in the game only; not needed on the server

Game versions26.2
# SoundSight

See the danger you can't hear. A creeper behind you doesn't care why your sound is off. SoundSight turns survival-critical audio into visual threat warnings — designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players, useful for anyone who plays muted, mid-podcast, or headphones-in-music-up.

What it adds

  • Directional threat indicators — two styles. Ring (default): a 360° ring of marks around your crosshair, each at the threat's bearing. Edge: a glow hugging the screen edge nearest the threat. Severity is encoded three ways at once — color, shape, and pulse — so it never relies on color alone (colorblind-safe by construction). Indicators fade in fast, out gently, and a very close danger above or below you gets a small up/down arrow.
  • Beyond-hearing warnings (opt-in, on by default) — a proximity scanner flags nearby hostile mobs, even a silent creeper behind you, before they make a sound. One click for a strict "only what you'd have heard" experience.
  • Enhanced subtitles — recolors vanilla subtitles by threat, filters spam, pins the critical ones longer, tags dangers with a ⚠ icon.
  • Destructive-hazard marker — creepers, TNT, ghast fireballs get a distinct "hazard tape" strip, so you can tell a creeper from a skeleton at a glance.

Accessibility

  • Photosensitivity-safe: all flashing capped at ≤3 Hz (WCAG 2.3.1), with Reduced (≤1 Hz) and fully static modes.
  • Colorblind palettes: Default, Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia, High-contrast, Monochrome — and because severity is also shape/pulse-encoded, palettes are cosmetic, never load-bearing.
  • One-click presets: Deaf/Hard-of-hearing, Muted, Minimal.

Fair play & compatibility

  • 100% client-side. No packets, no server component — works on any server, undetectably.
  • Mobs and world hazards only — never other players. A permanent policy, not a setting: it sidesteps ESP/radar fairness concerns entirely.
  • GUI-layer only — coexists with Sodium/Iris (world rendering is never touched) and minimaps like Xaero's. If a conflicting subtitle mod is installed, SoundSight's subtitle module auto-disables.

Before you install

  • Requires Minecraft 26.2, Fabric Loader, Fabric API, Java 25.
  • Client-side only — install it on your own client; nothing to add to the server.
  • Optional: Cloth Config + Mod Menu for the in-game settings screen. Without them SoundSight still runs, configured via config/soundsight.json (or bind the "Open SoundSight config" key, default J).

MIT licensed.

FAQ

How to install SoundSight?

Install Fabric for your Minecraft version, download SoundSight for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.

Which Minecraft versions does SoundSight support?

SoundSight has builds for Minecraft 26.2.

Is SoundSight needed on the server?

Client only — no need to install it on the server

License and source
MIT Licensefree to use and share with credit to the author
Original — Modrinth↗Files unchanged, verified with SHA-512Is this your mod? For rights holders

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