Within Soundscapes

Within Soundscapes is a location-aware presentation and ambient music resource pack created for the Within Modpack.

Instead of treating every part of the world the same, Within Soundscapes gives dimensions, biomes, structures, and your Home their own identity. Entering a supported location can display custom pixel-art title artwork, play a soft themed entrance sound, and begin an ambient soundtrack selected specifically for that location.

Features

• Custom, name-only pixel-art titles with transparent backgrounds
• Unique visual styling for dimensions, biomes, structures, and Home
• Soft entrance sounds using strings, woodwinds, bells, and other location-appropriate instruments
• Full-length, non-procedural ambient music
• Multiple music tracks for supported locations
• Separate daytime and nighttime playlists
• Ethereal and spacey music for End locations
• Darker or more mysterious music for ruins, caves, ancient cities, and hostile structures
• Warm, peaceful music for cottages, villages, and Home
• Smooth fades, pauses between tracks, and reduced repetition
• Carefully selected vanilla Minecraft music where it fits the location
• Support for hundreds of vanilla and modded location IDs

Vanilla music is referenced from Minecraft itself and is not redistributed inside this resource pack.

Required Mod

This resource pack does not function by itself.

Within Soundscapes requires Presence Not Position, version 1.2.0 or newer.

Presence Not Position detects when players enter structures, biomes, dimensions, or their Home. It then loads the titles, artwork, entrance sounds, and adaptive music supplied by this resource pack.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.244 or newer
• Java 21
• Presence Not Position 1.2.0+

Presence Not Position should be installed on both the client and server. For singleplayer, installing it normally through your launcher is sufficient.

Installation

1. Install Presence Not Position.
2. Place the Within Soundscapes ZIP in your Minecraft resourcepacks folder.
3. Enable Within Soundscapes from the Resource Packs menu.
4. Keep it above older location-presentation packs if they modify the same locations.
5. Enter a supported biome, structure, dimension, or Home area to hear and see its presentation.

Compatibility

Within Soundscapes was designed for the Within Modpack, but it can also be used in other Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge modpacks that include Presence Not Position.

The pack does not add structures, biomes, dimensions, or world generation. It only provides presentation for supported locations that already exist in the installed mods. Entries belonging to mods you do not have installed simply remain unused.

Music automatically changes according to the highest-priority location:

Home → Structure → Biome → Dimension

Jukebox music, boss music, and other higher-priority audio can still take control when appropriate.

Credits

Full attribution for the bundled ambient music is included with the resource pack.

Within Soundscapes contains a mixture of original or licensed full-length ambient tracks and references to music already included with Minecraft. No vanilla Minecraft audio files are bundled or redistributed.