Jorbtar you guys underestimate the power of music

[HarryDresden]

Need a creepy music for cave.

Allow me to introduce the Great Stalacpipe Organ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsKUUn29tSs

[vatas]

To be sure, it's not so much that we underestimate it, and I too love Kaka's music, it's just that the game being kind of an ambient and often passive affair leaves me unsure how to fit music into it. Using it as actively as we did in Legacy often felt a bit too invasive to me. I think our current system of having small clips play as part of the background sound is the best we've had so far, and some of them obviously already are Kaka's music.

I can agree with that. Cave/cottage/fishing themes were all neat but definitely overbearing.

One thing to really improve the soundscape would be to have more audio sliders than just "in-game event volume" and "Ambient volume" so you could do stuff like reduce/mute cauldron bubbling and quern screech. These glaring SFX cause many people to nuke sound entirely. Some custom clients have a setting specifically to reduce quern volume.

Of course every single SFX shouldn't have its own slider, but there could be ones like:
1: "Mechanical" (loom/spinningwheel/quern.)
2. "Fire related" (crackling, bubbling.)
3. "Animals" (primarily horse hooves cause that gets annoying really easily.)

[Dawidio123]

Ngl, to this day i remember the music of going into a cabin or fishing back in legacy. I don't think any sound in the new haven is nearly as memorable. But ye they were kinda intrusive