i'm trying to make a mod that announces a chosen player's joining to all other players with a sound. i managed to get a custom sound to play upon a player joining, but for some reason the sound can be only heard within maximum 8 blocks of the joining player's joining spot. i tried playing the sound to every single player's client, but for whatever reason the effect hasn't changed. the forge doc for sounds is barely helpful in this regard, so figuring out this issue by myself seems nigh impossible.

two versions of my code, one that plays a sound from the joining player:

    @SubscribeEvent
    public void pickupItem(PlayerLoggedInEvent event) {

        String UUID = configmaker.names.get().toString().replace("[", "").replace("]", "").replace(" ", "");
        String[] toStringArray = UUID.split(",");//get the list and split it in to different uuids

        System.out.println("Player's UUID: " + event.getEntity().getStringUUID().toString());//logs the player's uuid

        for (int i = 0; i < toStringArray.length; i++) {
            if (event.getEntity().getStringUUID().equals(toStringArray[i])) {//"893fe864-7b87-4155-b1de-82a517d0e294" is kuba26038
                    event.getEntity().playSound(ModSounds.THE_SOUND_ITSELF.get(), 1.0F, 1.0F);
        }

    }

and another one that plays a sound for all clients that are currently in-game:

    @SubscribeEvent
    public void pickupItem(PlayerLoggedInEvent event) {

        String UUID = configmaker.names.get().toString().replace("[", "").replace("]", "").replace(" ", "");
        String[] toStringArray = UUID.split(",");//get the list and split it in to different uuids
        MinecraftServer server = ServerLifecycleHooks.getCurrentServer();

        System.out.println("Player's UUID: " + event.getEntity().getStringUUID().toString());//logs the player's uuid

        for (int i = 0; i < toStringArray.length; i++) {
            if (event.getEntity().getStringUUID().equals(toStringArray[i])) {//"893fe864-7b87-4155-b1de-82a517d0e294" is kuba26038
                List<ServerPlayer> players = server.getPlayerList().getPlayers();
                for (ServerPlayer player : players)
                    player.playSound(ModSounds.THE_SOUND_ITSELF.get(), 1.0F, 1.0F);
        }

    }

please tell me what i'm missing, i'm slowly going insane over this. thanks.

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the forge doc for sounds is barely helpful in this regard

You should be grateful that people document Mojang's code at all.

The main purpose of the forge documentation is to explain what it provides in addition to Mojang's code.

The feature you are using is very much Mojang's code and quite idiosyncratic in its behaviour.

 

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so figuring out this issue by myself seems nigh impossible.

You didn't consider looking at Mojang's code to see how it actually works?

Or using a debugger to see which "if statement" stops the sound from playing?

 

https://forge.gemwire.uk/wiki/Sounds#Player

It won't send the sound from the server to the player making the sound. It assumes the client already played the sound.

You pass a null player directly to Level.playSound() to send it to the player and nearby players.

 

So your first attempt plays the sound to everybody near the joining player, but not to the joining player

The second attempt will be heard by everybody that is near another player.

But people by themselves won't hear it because there is no other player making the sound for them.

 

The example I can think of similar to what you want to do is the use of ClientBoundCustomSoundPacket in the PlaySoundCommand?