EchoSight

Sounds the client plays are classified by their direction, distance and priority, and shown as an on-screen threat ring and a reworked subtitle panel. Sounds that carry meaningful direction, such as UI, music or listener-relative audio, get a bearing instead of being pinned to a misleading spot. Vanilla audio keeps playing unchanged, and nothing is shown for sounds that carry no information.

The mod is built for players who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for anyone playing with sound off. Vanilla subtitles only say that something happened, without telling where it is or how far away it is. EchoSight covers the life-or-death cues that audio usually carries, such as a creeper's hiss, a cave spider behind the player, a drawn bowstring or drowning. Rules are data-driven, so the classification can be adjusted without changing code.

EchoSight is client-side only, so a server does not need it, and players can join a server that does not run it. It is published for Fabric only, across six release versions covering 1.21.11 – 26.3. The code is licensed under the MIT License, but the mod is not open source. Installation needs Fabric API, and Mod Menu is optional; the settings screen is reachable through a Configure button when Mod Menu is installed.