This is a small client-only mod which lets users change various settings, intended to improve the game's accessibility. I'm autistic and mainly got input from other autistic friends about what features would be helpful, but I am very open to suggestions for future additions! Currently there are four modules:
- Particles - individually define which particles are or aren't shown
- Nether portals - the option to turn off the visual effects of standing inside a nether portal
- Max brightness - option to force each dimension to display at full brightness
- Sounds and subtitles - individual settings for different categories of sound (like hostile mobs, passive mobs, sounds created by your own player, and more):
- Specify whether the sound plays out loud, displays a subtitle, both, or neither
- Set a custom hex colour of the subtitle if it's displayed
All of the modules are optional and configurable - the default settings leave everything as vanilla.
I have ASD, but it's one of the lower ones, specifically Asperger's Syndrome. I haven't downloaded the mod yet, so I have a question; do you have the ability to disable loud and panic inducing noises (by panic inducing i mean maybe just to me), like the voices of the Endermen, the Nether Portal enter/exit noise, etc?
I'm in the Autism spectrum myself, and while it's not as severe and/or I learnt with a lot of hard work to "adapt" to "unpleasant" situations, I very much appreciate that there are people out there like you who keep the good of others in mind :) <3
So, thanks a lot for making this mod on behalf of others!
Take care :)
Bravo! We don't all sense the world the same way and I love to see things that empower users like this. Thank you for sharing.
If you're feeling really ambitious, the colorblind helper never got ported to newer versions. I know Vaygrim could use it, and I used it to reduce the mental clutter from all the different ore/ingot versions.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
I haven't heard of the colourblind helper - what did it do that you think might be a useful addition?
I'm not sure what else it did, but it added the chemical symbol for ingots and ores to the image, so copper had a Cu overlaying the lower right. Colorblind people use it because the items tend to look the same.
@scribbler957 has it right. "ColorblindHelper" allowed for short lettering overlays ontop of items in inventory. It actually used JSON files so technically you could do more than just ingots. (Tho I primarily used it for putting say.. "Fe" over my iron ingots, "Cu" over copper, etc. Made life a lot easier for we colorblind fools.
(I am 100% colorblind, incase you're wondering. It's like an old episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" over here.)
Oh my god this is amazing. I love it. This will help so much with my sensory disorder.
This is VERY awesome, and I believe it will help substantially with some of the issues I have playing.
I'm curious, how hard would this be to also release on 1.10? A bunch of mods I play with haven't updated yet.
... I mean, okay, a bunch of other mods I play with haven't released on 1.9+ at all, but 1.9's when subtitles happened, and that's basically 1.10 for all practical purposes.
I'm really glad you find it helpful!
Turns out, changing for 1.10 was incredibly easy - I only had to change one line of code! So I'm uploading a build for 1.10 now (might be a little while before it's approved and visible).
Thank you so much! I'm hoping to start a new 1.10 world in the near future, and this might actually make it tolerable for me to go to the nether.
I have huge issues with both the nether portal effect and some of the sounds in the nether, so I have for years actively avoided going there, ever. It's resulted in some interesting tech tree objectives, but it makes a LOT of mods extremely difficult to play because basic things are gated behind "endgame" (for me) materials like nether quartz or ghast tears (which I historically have been reliant on bees to get)