Dynamic Surroundings alters the player’s visual and audible experience in Minecraft, and does not alter game mechanics. The player has a high degree of control over their experience, and modpack authors can customize biome and block effects based on their need.
Discussion thread can be found on the Feed the Beast forums.
NOTE: The JARs I build are published only to CurseForge. I cannot vouch for the JARs found on other sites because I do not know their origin.
Starting with v3.5.4.0, the HUDs have been moved into a separate mod called Dynamic Surroundings: HUDs. The HUDs mod will not run with earlier versions of Dynamic Surroundings so make sure you update your mods appropriately.
Credits
- Better Rain mod by Wirsbo
- Aurora Rubealis by MrRube
- Presence Footsteps by Hurricaaane
- Complete list of attributions for sounds, textures, and shaders can be found in CREDITS
Suggested Companions
- Serene Seasons
- Stellar Sky
- Biomes O’Plenty
- Open Terrain Generator/Biome Bundle
- Sound Filters
- TrueType Font Replacement
- Fancy Block Particles
- FoamFix
- Better Foliage
- OpenEye
- Dynamic Surroundings: HUDs
Installation
Installing the mod is pretty easy! Just drop the JAR into the "mods" folder in your Minecraft Forge instance and startup your client.
The mod is not needed on the server so you can drop into an existing modpack and play on public servers without problem.
Videos
Interview with Amaxter!
A very good overview of the features (in French):
Features
When precipitation occurs Dynamic Surroundings will generate a random storm intensity. This intensity will affect a variety of different things:
- The “density” of the downfall
- Volume of sound
- Background thunder
- Desert/Nether dust storms
Auroras
Auroras trigger at night when a player is standing in a “polar” biome such as Taiga or Ice Field. The size, shape, and coloration can change per Aurora spawned.
Biomes can have specific sounds that play while standing in them. The sound played can be different night or day, rain or shine. Forests have birds chirping, beaches have waves, swamps have crickets…
Blocks can have a variety of effects, sound as well as visual. Examples:
- Lava can form lava jets on the surface which spout fire or sparks.
- Bubbles can rise from the bottom of lakes, oceans, and ponds.
- Soul Sand can trigger demonic laughter.
- Wooden planks can squeak when walked upon.
- Dust motes can fall from various blocks.
- Steam will rise from water because of nearby lava.
- Fireflies will spawn at night around various plants in temperate biomes.
- Waterfall splash effects/sounds for flowing water.
Footstep Acoustics
Presence Footsteps is integrated directly within Dynamic Surroundings. This feature generates different footstep sounds as the player walks and jumps. The sounds played are based upon the material that the player is standing on or moving through as well as the armor they are wearing.
Various effects, both sound and visual, can be triggered or suppressed:
- Damage/Heal pop offs. Whenever a mob gets hurt or is healed a pop-off particle will fly off around the mob indicating the amount of change.
- Weapon/tool swoosh. A sound gets played when swinging around a weapon or tool.
- Jump. A “huh” sound will play when jumping.
- Bow pull. A sound gets played when a player pulls back on a bow.
- Crafting sound. Plays when an item is crafted by the player.
- Heartbeat. When a players health drops to 40% or less Steve’s heart begins to beat loudly.
- Hunger. When a players food bar drops to 40% or less the stomach beings to rumble.
- Potion particle swirls. Can be turned off so they don’t interfere with the players field of view.
Miscellaneous
Dynamic Surroundings also adds in other miscellaneous features to assist the player:
- Ability to block any sound from the modpack from playing
- Ability to customize the sound volume of any sound in the modpack when played
- Configuration/resource pack system modpack authors can use to add/change biome, block, item, and dimension effects
- Client side command for doing calculations
- Speech bubbles that appear over a player's head when they type in chat (needs to be enabled)
- Random entity chat for entertainment (needs to be enabled)
Screen Captures
Screenshots can be found in the Image tab!
Modpacks
Dynamic Surroundings is licensed MIT. This means that you are free to include in modpacks and there are no requirements about giving credit or linking pack to any page. However, if you feel compelled to give credit I won't mind. :)
I guess I was one of the brave few who actually used these features, and I am disappointed to see them go. Anyone know of a mod currently with the same features? Or at the very least one that disables sleep resetting the rain counter?
I'd gladly donate $20 for a mod that does exactly what this one did pre-3.5 for MC 1.12.2, call me weird if you must. I like realistic weather patterns dammit!
i have a problem it says "you must include the right dependencies for dynamic surroundings: require orelib 3.5.2.1 or above (missing) help!!!!
Is there anyway to turn off the ambient background sounds in specific dimensions/biomes? While using Advanced Rocketry I keep hearing eagles in the empty vacuum of space and then questioning whether or not eagles do live in the cold void of space that surrounds our earth and are on the way to becoming a dominate spacefaring species intent on wiping out all sapient life, any solution to this problem would be greatly appreciated, if it is a blatantly obvious solution in the config I am sorry, because I am unable to check, and will be unable to for the next few days, thank you
in an older version, i also used the mlp mod and the footsteps had worked with it, but with 1.12.2, it doesnt do the same. Is it not compatible with the mlp mod anymore?
Hi, is this mod compatible with sound Physics mod?
In reply to RedCarlos26:
Yes
In reply to KoteMyrok1:
Nice! Thanks for the info!
Update it for 1.14.2 and 1.13.2 pls.
Wind and Savannah (day) have high-pitched ringing noises in the background that hurt to listen to.
there seems to be a compatibility issue with Neat? It's not too big a deal, but sometimes health bars are greyed out. This is the only mod I've added that could've caused the issue unless it's something really crazy. I've included a screenshot obviously.
obligatory screenshot
Is it possible to make this compatible with Streams? For some reason the flowing streams don't make noise.
Necesito el OreLib!
Ayuda Plz!
Que Alguien me lo de Porfavor!!!
In reply to xizaack7u7YT:
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/orelib/files
Hi! when I loaded up the mod it said I required orelib to run it. It doesn't seem to be listed here so i'm asking
im attempting to add in my own sounds.json in my resource pack to replace the concrete step sounds with vanilla stone sounds, except i just cant seem to get it to work. i think i have the file in the right place (assets/dsurround/sounds.json)
heres a pastebin of the section i modified
https://pastebin.com/KWeDsE6Y
i also cant seem to add in custom sounds either, i can play them fine with /playsound, but dynamic surroundings is saying "Cannot find sound that should be registered [dsurround:environmental.leaves_rustle]"
i am on 1.10.2, latest version of ds available.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm having a bit of trouble with the mod, I'm using the latest version. On servers the rain texture properly changed but it doesn't have any sounds. On single player the sounds work but its the normal rain texture. Although I only experienced one rainfall on multiplayer, after sitting through multiple in single player it doesn't seem to have any change in intensity either. For some reason though, the aurora doesn't work or appear in either. Is it rare? If so is there a way to get it to load? A friend with the mod told me she could see it just fine, and that she's on an older version. Is there any suggested version I should be using?
Sorry for the barrage of questions- I just really want to get this mod working.
EDIT: After fighting mobs for a while I noticed that the battle music isn't working either. What exactly is causing all this? Is it my optifine settings?..
EDIT 2: I fixed this by doubling the "Number Normal Channels" and "Number Streaming Channels" option in the config. Haven't tested out battle music much though I did beat up a couple mobs without hearing it so..
EDIT 3:
This is an issue due to having dynamic surroundings and abyssalcraft together. There is constantly an eerie background noise. How might I go about disabling this? I love dynamic surroundings but as it is I can't stand this eerie sound playing in the background all the time.
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There's an extremely strange sound that I can't seem to identify in the config options.
It's technically a "Biome" sound, but it is heard at every biome
It's a quieter sound that I have a really hard time describing in letters without seeming like an idiot
It's a long trilling sound at a medium pitch, it's kind of creepy and its omnipresent.
Is this a glitch, or is it some intended sound to be heard across all biomes?
Edit: intermittently it becomes smooth and goes lower in pitch before returning.
It is present at all times of day as well.
It's definitely associated with biome sounds as shutting that off in the mod options stops it (along with all other biome sounds)
Edit 2:
The sound isn't there when dynamic surroundings is by itself. Mod integration issue?
In reply to daPoseidonGuy:
I have the same problem. At first I thought this was normal, as I started in a tundra biome and I assumed it was the sound of wolves howling or something.
Then I went to other nearby biomes, and it was still playing. "A bit weird that it extends this far out, but it's fine I suppose." Upon venturing ~1000 blocks away from any tundra, I knew something was wrong.
After messing around with config files and settings, I found out that the sound "dsurround:dimensions.nether" is being played in every non-vanilla biome.
This results in that horrendously creepy howling noise everywhere you go, including all biomes from Biomes O'Plenty and all additional dimensions you visit.
I've submitted a bug report to GitHub. Let's hope someone is able to find a fix.
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