Dynamic Surroundings
Modby OreCruncher
Alters the fabric of Minecraft experience by weaving a tapestry of sound and visual effects
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
72,306,902
CurseForge ID
238891
Last Updated
Apr 13, 2026
Description
Dynamic Surroundings has been updated for Minecraft 1.21.1, for both Fabric and NeoForge. This release takes a dependency on Architectury, meaning that it must be installed for the mods to work. Architectury does not currently support Forge for MC 1.21.1. I plan on making a Forge release once that support is available.
If you are looking for a Fabric 1.20.x versions, please refer to the Dynamic Surroundings: Fabric Edition project.
Features
- Enhanced Sound processing - performs calculations in the background, adding a reverb effect to spacial sounds.
- Individual Sound Control - Set key bind and activate in-game. Use this feature to block, cull, and control the volume at which sounds play. And as a bonus, you can play the sound to hear it.
- Biome sounds - Atmospheric sounds that play based on biomes in the area. Seamless blending of sounds as the player moves throughout the world.
- Fog density changes driven by biome, time of day, and weather.
- Hot block effects such as flame jets over lava, and steam where water hits a hot block. Hot blocks are things Lava, Magma, campfires, and a cauldron containing lava.
- Waterfall sound and visual effect - will trigger when flowing water is detected nearby.
- Replace Minecraft's thunder sound with improved versions.
- Remap of block step sounds to "improved" versions.
- Various "DS" client side commands for dumping configuration information. (I currently use these while developing. I do plan to document at some point for general use.)
- Custom debug HUD that can be accessed by key bind. Moves the Dynamic Surroundings clutter out of the traditional F3 display.
- Compatibility with Serene Seasons - variations in seasons and temperatures can influence effects.
- Dynamic Surroundings is compatible when connecting to a Vanilla servers. Both Fabric and NeoForge loaders can do this.
For menu support in-game, install Cloth-Config. Both the Fabric and NeoForge versions can use this mod.
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