[Bug] Sound effects are really quiet

[HunterBoy344]

Bug description

Certain sounds, such as a chest opening, are now extremely quiet.

To Reproduce

1. Open a chest
2. Observe that the sound is much quieter than it should be

Expected behavior

Sounds should play at the correct volume.

Screenshots

No response

Videos

2026-03-06.20-40-24.mp4

Version

13960a9

Build Type

• Release
• Debug

Additional context

This was not an issue with a nightly build from this morning. I am suspicious of 55be644...

[loinmin]

ya I notice this too, it drives me kinda nuts cause the music be blasting but everything so damp in world like I got wax build up

[loinmin]

I have a build I haven't deleted from my pc yet and its when sounds were in stored in Minecraft.msscmp (LCEWindows64/Windows64Media/Sound) and all the audio was loud and perfect, now it's extracted and it's all .ogg files on latest builds and something has REALLY dampened the sounds

[loinmin]

https://streamable.com/d09xtt (no matter the size comments wouldn't let me upload mp4 video)
left side is a random build from 3 days ago
right side is build from less than an hour ago, even latest from 12 mins ago is the same

this reminds me of how quiet JAVA is lol
just tested BEDROCK edition, much louder than JAVA and LCE (this build)

[loinmin]

testing concluded on my end, I don't like the change it sounds like I got wax build up in my ears.

[HunterBoy344]

Just tested it again myself. Despite sounds supposedly being reverted, sound effects are still extremely quiet. The cow hurt sound is barely audible!

[MasterBroNetwork]

The UI opening sound overpowers the chest sound because of this, which isn't great :/

[loinmin]

Just tested it again myself. Despite sounds supposedly being reverted, sound effects are still extremely quiet. The cow hurt sound is barely audible!

I was just gonna edit my comment with this!
theres so many sounds that seem to have gotten messed up
the UI sound effects are LOUDER than the game itself, I have to turn the music to 10% to even hear sounds in game.

testing some sounds and fire seems strange, has some sounds or all, and FLINT AND STEEL (sorry) has no sound efffects.

[Rubix925]

I'm having this same issue it sounds terrible, I reverted back to using an old build

[Criseda]

Can confirm this is happening to me too

[adbr3]

this is happening to me too

[adbr3]

i found a fix!

download and extract the whole zip file, to save your worlds back up \LCEWindows64\Windows64\GameHDD

edit: maybe not? it fixed some audio issues but not all of them

[ModMaker101]

Fixed with #1171 and duplicate of #897.