Dynamic Surroundings Mod FAQ

It enhances Minecraft's atmosphere with ambient sounds, visual effects, and biome-specific environmental details. This includes biome background sounds, fog that changes with biome, time of day and weather, and effects like fire jets over lava and bubble columns in lakes.

Dynamic Surroundings is a client-side Minecraft mod that weaves sound and visual effects into the game to make the world feel more alive. It adds things like storm intensity, desert dust storms, auroras in cold biomes, and unique sounds for different biomes and blocks.

Yes, it is purely client side. If installed on a server no errors will occur, and Forge will ignore loading the mod, which makes it safe to put into universal mod packs.

The mod supports Minecraft 1.21.1+ with NeoForge. A separate Remastered Fabric version exists for Minecraft 1.19, 1.19.1, and 1.19.2.

Yes, it works with the Serene Seasons mod so effects can change with the seasons.

No, the mod is made for Java Edition, with NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1+ and a Fabric version for 1.19.x. There is no Bedrock or Pocket Edition version.

Yes, you can set a key bind and activate Individual Sound Control in-game to block, cull, or change the volume of specific sounds. As a bonus you can play the sound to hear it.

It is a mod that contains the HUD features from Dynamic Surroundings. Because it duplicates features of earlier versions of Dynamic Surroundings, it is only compatible with Dynamic Surroundings, and with an earlier version the client will not start with a dependency error.

Yes, it replaces the default thunder sounds with more realistic versions.

The mod config file has 16 options, including blockEffectRange, blockEffects, bubbleColumnEnabled, compassAndClockOptions, enhancedSounds, entityEffects, firefliesEnabled, fogOptions, footstepAccents, logging, musicManagerOptions, otherOptions, particleTweaks, soundOptions, soundSystem, and tooltip.