
Sound Detector
Detects nearby sounds and displays directional arrows on the HUD showing the source direction, type, and distance.
⬇ Download on Modrinth🎧 Sound Detector
Advanced, high-performance sound radar designed for competitive and immersive gameplay.
Developed by Markesr
🔍 What is Sound Detector?
Sound Detector is a next-generation HUD mod by CoreStudio that visually maps nearby sounds on your screen. Instead of simple text spam, it features a highly optimized, dynamically rotating circular radar. Whether you're tracking hostile mobs in dark caves, pinpointing players in PvP, or just exploring, this mod gives you the ultimate situational awareness.
⚡ Technical Excellence & Performance
- BufferBuilder Chevron Rendering: Unlike older mods that use ugly text brackets (like
[!]), our arrows are natively drawn on the GPU usingBufferBuilderfor razor-sharp, modern chevron shapes. - High-FPS Camera Interpolation: The radar calculates the player's exact head yaw and
tickDelta. When you quickly flick your mouse, the radar elements spin with butter-smooth 144Hz+ fluidity—no stuttering, no 20 TPS jitter. - Smart Sound Grouping: If a horde of 10 zombies groans at the same time, the mod intelligently groups them based on proximity, preventing screen clutter and UI spam.
🛠️ Advanced Features
- ⚔️ Intelligent Combat Fade: Don't let UI block your vision. When you swing a weapon, use an item, or take damage, the radar smoothly fades out. It features a 5.5-second persistence delay before fading back in, ensuring your focus remains unbroken during intense fights.
- 🌈 Asynchronous RGB Mode: Enable the Chroma setting to apply a perfectly offset, continuous RGB phase shift to each individual sound arrow.
- 🌍 Native Engine Localization: The mod directly taps into Minecraft's
I18n(Internationalization) engine. This means entity and block names automatically translate into the exact language your game is set to—flawlessly. - 📏 Pixel-Perfect Customization: Don't like the radar in the center of the screen? Use the settings menu to adjust the Radar X/Y Offsets, change the radius, and scale the text/arrow sizes completely independently.
🌐 Global Language Support
The mod natively supports the most active Minecraft communities worldwide:
English, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese (BR), Chinese (Simplified), French, Polish.
📥 Dependencies
To use this mod, please make sure you have the following installed in your mods folder:
- Fabric API
- Cloth Config API
- ModMenu (Recommended for the in-game
Vsettings menu)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as sound-detector-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 139 KB
- Download link checked 11 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.