Right now I'm in the middle of development of 0.1.3 so far I added ponds detection and ponds sounds day/night (frogs and crickets will be triggering when a pond is nearby), added tree logs detection and creakying trees sounds. And now i'm tweaking some logic!

Awesome, Your mods are fantastic and Im looking forward to how this one develops. Will you be adding in additional sounds? Maybe crickets/bullfrogs at night among others?

SpacemanSpliff 🤣 I replaced it from day time in this update and will be replacing from night time in the next one!

Mod is mostly great, but  bird_7 in the night folder is -obnoxious- to the point that I manually removed that file. Playing version 0.1.2

Metalsoul212 Hey Thanks for the great feedback!! No probs thanks for helping me test it hehe ^^

Great beta so far! Seems to do exactly as advertised. I'll give a little feedback

1. Some of the ambient animal sounds sound like a predator or an animal getting attacked. It makes hunting very difficult when you think you heard a boar nearby, but it is just a sound effect coming from a tree. If you have the stone age animal mods it makes the paranoia a bit too much. Maybe stick to birds and small mammals/invertebrates and avoid noises of predatory or large animals.
2. Descending down a mineshaft in a forest causes the sounds to come out of solid stone.
3. Pine forests that spawn in gravelly biomes don't trigger the sound effects when your only checking for forest floor to determine forests
4. I feel like making dripping water sounds in a cave would be amazing. Check for depth and/or large amounts of stone. I feel it wouldn't be too difficult to implement from how you claim the current forest system works.

Ultimately I ended up disabling the mod for now mainly because some of the sounds made my paranoia skyrocket haha

Lodey I absolutely agree!! Thanks!!  

Mods like this are badly needed. Thanks so much Salty.

Nyarc It checks once every second. And it skips checks if there's still sounds to play in the queue, so it's a good balance.

I will be re implementing sounds triggering on leaf blocks now that I managed to make the sound play from the player position.

Patahto Yes intended! Since the sounds are played using the API instead of the ambient behavior. 

Im seeing in the Debuglog it checks twice a second for Forest Floors, i think performance wise that doesnt make too much sense, once every 2 seconds should be plenty even if in some cases maybe its gunna delay a second getting into forest.
Id love to see actually sounds playing from Where Log / Leaf Blocks are if thats implementable, so you have an actual sense of the Birds sitting in the Tree, it feels kinda off having the sound come from somewhere in the air where nothing is, especially in sparse forests.
Good idea of a mod though

Are the sounds of this mod meant to fall under the Effects sound slider? rather than Ambient? Ideally there'd be a way to configure it with a separate config so that a player's sound setup doesn't get disturbed

Pentasis Checking for forest floors allows me to aim for forests only for now. I do not spawn entities tho. If there's enough forest floors below the player I then proceed to a check for enough leaf blocks around, if present then the algorithm chooses a random number of sounds to play based on the time of day, and assign a queue delay for each. When the delay is over it then plays the sound in a random block +y5 to +y6 above and in a random position 10 to 30 blocks away from the player for that position fetched with the forest floor check. This block can be anything, leafs, logs, air etc..
Before that I also did played the sounds only in the leaf blocks the algorithm fetched before to proceed with the sound trigger logic, but it was capping the sounds too much. It feels much more natural and immersive letting it choose a random block in a random position above the player! At least for Bird sounds! I intend to do almost the same for insects and small animal sounds! But instead checking  for water or tall grass, leaf blocks on the player Y level for shrubs etc.. 

WickedSchnitzel Yes it is planned!

Interesting. I am working on a similar mod (mostly for myself, might publish in the (distant) future). My approach has been to spawn a few "invisible" entities in leaf-blocks based on Temp, Light, Forrest, etc. this allows me to check for tree/shrub density, "biome", daytime and season. The added bonus is I get orientation & distance variation in the sounds. Can I ask why you are checking for forestfloor? Is that less resource intensive? If so, how will you check for other situations? I am currently looking for a way (using standard entity-json) to spawn seagulls at the coastline. I fear I must have them spawn in saltwater as I fail to find a better solution. But perhaps your approach yields a better one?

Will this respect seasons? Like less or other sounds in winter.

Cruso Heyo! thanks!
Yes I do! But will come later in development since it requires lots of real life fauna research and I also haven't fully explored the extense of Vintage Story "biomes"

Love the idea, can't wait to test it later this week. Just curious are you planing to adapt the soundscape to the type of forest? A pine forest, for example, has a vastly different biodiversity than a birch grove, or would that go beyond the scope of the project?