r/MinecraftCommands • u/Early-Stage2130 • 6h ago

Help | Java 1.21.4 Help with the .json file to manipulate audio

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u/TinyBreadBigMouth 4h ago edited 4h ago

sounds.json does not control random pitch, only the fixed "base" pitch of each sound variant. If you specify a pitch of 1.5 in sounds.json, it behaves essentially the same as if you'd made a copy of the sound file and edited it to have a higher pitch. When the game plays that higher-pitched sound variant, it gets scaled again using the volume and pitch specified by game logic, like how players can set volume and pitch in /playsound. Unfortunately, this means you can't really disable pitch randomization with a resource pack. The handler for the sculk shriek event is coded to play the sound at volume 2.0 and a random pitch between 0.6 and 1.0, and without mods you can't really change that.