Attenuation Distance not applicable for sounds played by server

[poopoodice]

Hello, after spending lots of time investigating why attenuation distance does not work, I figured out that it only works when the sound is played on client. Is this intentional?

Edited December 14, 2020 by poopoodice

[poopoodice]

I've simplified my problem into a smaller area:

https://bitbucket.org/poopoodice/ava/src/1.16.x/src/main/java/poopoodice/ava/items/miscs/TestItem.java

    @Override
    public ActionResult<ItemStack> onItemRightClick(World worldIn, PlayerEntity player, Hand handIn)
    {
        if (worldIn.isRemote())
            player.world.playSound(player, 0, 1, 0, AVASounds.GENERIC_GRENADE_EXPLODE, SoundCategory.PLAYERS, 1.0F, 1.0F);
        if (!worldIn.isRemote())
            player.world.playSound(null, 0, 0, 0, AVASounds.GENERIC_GRENADE_EXPLODE, SoundCategory.PLAYERS, 1.0F, 1.0F);
        worldIn.playSound(player, 0, 0, 0, AVASounds.GENERIC_GRENADE_EXPLODE, SoundCategory.PLAYERS, 1.0F, 1.0F);
        return super.onItemRightClick(worldIn, player, handIn);
    }

My test result:

1. The first World#playSound

-> result in the attenuation distance is applied (can be heard from 16+ blocks away)

2. The second World#playSound

-> result in the attenuation distance is not applied (cannot be heard from 16+ blocks away)

3. The third World#playSound

-> result in the attenuation distance is applied

 

It seems like playing sound on server world will only send to the players that are within the radius of max(16.0F, volume * 16.0F), and for other vanilla sounds that uses greater attenuation distance for example ravager's roar, it is played on both sides which will work.

 

If I can only play the sound on server while the attenuation effect to be applied, the only way I can think of is send packets to all players, is that necessary or is there an alternative way of doing it?

 

Edit: Sending Customs packets works.

Edited December 14, 2020 by poopoodice