Mufflers

Mute selected block and mob sounds around a placed Muffler.

About

Mufflers is a Paper plugin for muting specific sounds in an area.

Place a Muffler, sneak + right-click it and choose which blocks or mobs you don't want to hear.

Each Muffler has an owner, upgrades and its own filters.

Features

• Block sound filtering
• Mob sound filtering
• Configurable radius
• Three upgrade tiers
• Owner-only breaking
• Trusted players at Tier 3
• Trusted players can access the Muffler and bypass its muted sounds
• English and Portuguese (Brazil)
• Configurable crafting recipe
• Admin GUI
• Global enable/disable option
• Muffler data saved between restarts
• Mufflers are protected from explosions
• No client mod required

How to Use

1. Craft a Muffler.
2. Place it.
3. You become its owner.
4. Sneak + right-click the Muffler to open its menu.
5. Upgrade it to Tier 1 to start using sound filters.
6. Select the blocks and mobs you want to mute.

Only the owner can break the Muffler.

At Tier 3, the owner can add Trusted players.

Tiers

Tier 3 also unlocks Trusted players.

The radius for each tier can be changed in config.yml.

Default Recipe

The recipe can be changed from the admin GUI or config.yml.

Commands

Alias:

/muffler

Permissions

Admin Menu

Open the admin menu with:

/mufflers admin

From there you can:

• Enable or disable Mufflers globally
• Edit the 3x3 crafting recipe
• View placed Mufflers
• Enable or disable placed Mufflers
• Switch the admin GUI language

Configuration

Default config.yml:

default-language: en_US
mufflers-enabled: true
entity-cache-refresh-ticks: 5

recipe:
  slots:
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - IRON_BLOCK
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL
    - BLACK_WOOL

tiers:
  tier-1-radius: 32
  tier-2-radius: 64
  tier-3-radius: 64

Storage

Mufflers uses YAML files.

• mufflers.yml stores placed Mufflers and their settings.
• players.yml stores player language preferences.

No database is required.

Requirements

• Paper 1.21.8+
• Java 21+
• PacketEvents

PacketEvents must be installed on the server.

Installation

1. Install PacketEvents.
2. Place the Mufflers .jar inside your plugins folder.
3. Restart the server.
4. Craft a Muffler or use /mufflers give <player> as an administrator.

License

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All Rights Reserved.