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Sonovoid

Sonovoid transforms Minecraft into a world of complete darkness where sound is your only way to see. Use echolocation pulses to reveal your surroundings as glowing 3D particles, explore the unknown, and survive without normal vision.
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Sonovoid

File nameSonovoid-forge-1.20.1-1.0.3.jar
Uploader
W1skYW1skY
Uploaded
Oct 23, 2026
Downloads
19
Size
126.6 KB
Mod Loaders
Forge
File ID
9301774
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.20.1

Curse Maven Snippet

Forge

implementation fg.deobf("curse.maven:sonovoid-1744637:9301774")

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What's new

Simple Voice Chat integration

Requires Simple Voice Chat (version 2.5 or newer). All voice-related features only work with this mod. Other voice chat mods (e.g. Plasmo Voice) are not supported. Echolocation works fine without it; you just won’t get the voice features.

  • Speaking players light up. While a player talks, their silhouette flashes and a small echo spreads from them. Louder voices reach further, and whispering gives a small radius.
  • Your own voice is echolocation too. Talking reveals the area around you.
  • New “Voice chat” settings tab (Settings → Voice chat…), containing:
    • toggles for Other players’ voices and Own voice;
    • Voice glow slider: brightness of voice reveals;
    • Voice density slider: point density of voice reveals;
    • a status line showing whether Simple Voice Chat is detected.
  • Voice features work independently of the Passive echo setting.

Pulse sound

  • The sonar pulse now makes a sound. The default is the sculk sensor click.
  • Other choices: Amethyst, Bell, Resonate or Off, with a separate volume slider.
  • If the mod is also installed on the server, nearby players hear your pulse, and their passive echolocation reveals you.

Ore highlight

  • New Ore highlight toggle, on by default.
  • Ores show more points and a faint warm tint, so you can find them while blind without them glowing.
  • Works with all vanilla ores (including Nether gold and ancient debris) and modded ores that use the forge:ores tag.
  • Only exposed ore faces are revealed. Nothing shows through stone.

Mob visibility fixes

  • Mobs hidden behind walls now only counts solid blocks. Grass, flowers, leaves and glass no longer hide mobs, which made low mobs like spiders hard or impossible to see.
  • Mobs standing on or against blocks no longer partly sink into the terrain.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a crash when dragging settings sliders. The config file was being written on every mouse movement.

Notes

  • The network protocol changed. If you play on a server, both the server and all players need this version.
  • Some settings were reorganized. Voice echo and Own voice echo moved to a new [voice] config section and reset to their defaults (on) once.

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