
Trees Make Sound (Presence Not Required)
Not a chunk-loader! Simulates the result of certain things when players return to them (e.g. furnaces smelting, crops growing, campfires cooking, etc.)…
⬇ Download on ModrinthTrees Make Sound
Not a chunk-loader! Simulates the result of certain things when players return to them (e.g. furnaces smelting, crops growing, campfires cooking, etc.).
Heavily Inspired by Presence Not Required Mod
What Does It Do?
This mod is aiming to solve the problem that chunk-loaders introduce, which is lag (given enough of them). Regardless of lag, it also makes sense that things like crops growing, furnaces cooking, and other things still happen even when nobody is there. It helps make the world feel more lively and full. Well, that's what this mod does. Except it does so without requiring chunks be loaded, instead this mod marks down the time a chunk is unloaded and use that to calculate what should have happened between then and the time a player returns.
Simulates
The following checked off items are things that get simulated in the latest version of the mod:
- ✅ Bamboo
- ✅ Cactus
- ✅ Campfire Food Cooking
- ✅ Chicken Eggs
- ✅ Farm Crops (only tested for vanilla)
- ✅ Furnaces (all types)
- ✅ Mob Age
- ✅ Nether Wart
- ✅ Sugarcane
- ⬜ Brewing Stands
⬜ It's planned for a later version.
Planned Features
- ✅ Configuration of Individual Simulations
- ⬜ More Advanced Simulation
List excludes unchecked boxes in simulates list.
Known Issues
These are known problems in the latest version of the mod.
- ⬜ Furnaces may stay visibly lit even when done
- ⬜ Simulations don't happen in spawn chunks since spawn chunks do not unload
✅ Fixed in latest version
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.4
- 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 treesmakesound-1.2.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 247 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.