Minecraft - Remove annoying chicken step sounds

MINECRAFT - Silence chicken walking sounds - any version
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I really hate the horrible ticking/clicking sound effect that chickens make when walking. It is extremely discomforting! Maybe you do too?

Until the day when Mojang give us volume control for individual sound effects, here's how to remove them:

1. Add the following lines to sounds.json in the assets\minecraft\ folder of your Minecraft resource pack of choice (creating a blank file if it doesn't exist). If sounds.json already exists, you won't need the outer braces, just insert it anywhere between those.


{
	"entity.chicken.step":
	{
		"replace":true
	}
}

2. Save and Quit your game and reload.

This just tells the game to replace each event of chickens footsteps with... well, nothing, because there's no sounds listed!

You could alternatively add your own sounds (see: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Creating_a_resource_pack#Changing_existing_sounds_or_music) or adjust the volume/pitch, but hey - I spent hours trying to find the proper syntax to solve this, so let's just nuke it from orbit!


If you don't have a resource pack...
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Creating one of your own to do just this is really as simple as putting the following:

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 8,
    "description": "Chickens walk quietly pls"
  }
}

inside a text file called 'pack.mcmeta', and then creating folders below that called 'assets' and (inside that one) 'minecraft' (then doing the first part above with 'sounds.json').
Then you can zip the pack.mcmeta file and subfolders up and copy it to %APPDATA%\.minecraft\resourcepacks, and it will show up in-game.
Important:
- the pack.mcmeta file and 'assets' folder should be at the top level of your chickens_walk_quietly.zip file, not a folder named after your pack etc
- add it to the resource packs list above Minecraft vanilla so it overrides these game sounds.


If you want to disable/adjust/replace other sounds
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You can search in this file for the specific sound files ('minecraft/sounds/mob/chicken/step[n].ogg' in this case):
%APPDATA%\.minecraft\assets\indexes\1.18.json [where this is the current version you're playing]

Again, see this tutorial for more info on that: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Creating_a_resource_pack#Changing_existing_sounds_or_music


Hope this helps!

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PS - for me these sounds give an unpleasant physical sensation and fear apprehension like when when you're watching a horror movie, so it actually feels like a creeper is behind me every time I hear it (and we already have enough of this feeling!).

These sounds got removed a few times in the past (thank you to the hero dev whoever you are) but someone 'fixed' it each time, and closed the issue, despite it being talked about continually for a decade.

If you're making videogames, try to talk to (or ideally hire!) people who have audio sensitivity, synaesthesia etc (likewise photosensitivity and/or colour blindness - the latter is something Mojang *are* inherently aware of and design around, but still haven't added specific options for, much like sound effects). These things might seem trivial to some but they can be a frustrating barrier to playing a game.