How to Mine Faster and Reduce Game Noise

Spotting Ores in Dark Caves

When caving without torches or Fullbright mods, ores can easily blend into stone and deepslate walls. SMP Utils adds bright outlines around all ore blocks while keeping the standard game style intact.

1. Enter any cave, ravine, or strip mine.

2. Scan the walls for the bright colored borders surrounding ore veins.

3. Mine the outlined blocks directly without needing to place torches on every surface just to tell coal or iron apart from regular stone.

Quieting Loud Game Sounds

Long mining sessions, thunderstorm weather, and heavy combat can produce overwhelming audio in vanilla Minecraft. SMP Utils includes sound tweaks that automatically lower the volume of the loudest in-game effects so you can stay focused and hear footsteps or voice chat.

• Weather: Heavy rain volume is lowered, so you do not need to constantly open your audio settings to turn down Weather volume when a storm starts.
• Combat and Mining Audio: Loud explosions from TNT mining or crystal PvP, along with the repetitive ticking sound of fire damage, are quieted down.

To ensure both the ore borders and quieter sounds work properly, press Esc, open Options > Resource Packs, and verify that SMP Utils is in the Selected column. If another pack is overriding the sounds or ore textures, click the up arrow on the SMP Utils icon to move it to the top of your load order.