Audio Radar

On the client, Audio Radar reads the direction, distance and category of each sound the game plays and passes that information to a companion Windows desktop app. The app drives LED light bars mounted around the monitor, so a creeper hissing behind the player lights the bars behind, while a sound from the west lights the bars on that side. It does not add, change or reveal any sound, and it cannot tell about a sound the client was not going to play anyway.

Sounds are grouped into categories such as hostile, passive, player, environment, mechanical and boss, and each category can be given its own colour in the desktop app. Colours can also be set per individual sound, including sounds added by other mods. Installation needs the Audio Radar hardware and desktop app, which is separate from Minecraft. The mod is aimed at deaf and hard-of-hearing players and at anyone who wants positional audio in a noisy setting or without wearing headphones.

Audio Radar is a client-side only Fabric mod for 1.21.1, published by AirdropGaming in the Technology category with Equipment as a secondary category. The mod is not open source, and it is released under All rights reserved.