MonsterSounds

Plays audio files (mp3/wav/ogg/aiff) from any monster as it walks, matched by name. Ships with sounds for the Clown, Upscream, Rugrat, Spewer, Loom, Robe, Mentalist, Gambit, Oogly, and Chef (who shuffles through a set of three), all enabled out of the box.

Add your own by dropping audio into the sounds/ folder and adding a line to sounds/monsters.txt, which documents the format at the top of the file. No rebuild needed. A monster can have one sound, or several separated by commas (chef-1.mp3, chef-2.mp3, chef-3.mp3, or just chef-*.mp3), in which case each play picks one at random.

Every monster gets an on/off switch in BepInEx/config/MonsterSounds.cfg under [Monsters], so you can silence one and let the game's own sounds play instead, from any config editor and without touching monsters.txt. Enabled under [General] turns them all off at once. Changes apply immediately, even mid-game.

Requires BepInEx.

Not host only. Anyone who wants to hear the sounds installs it. Sounds are local, so host, guests, and singleplayer all work.

Install by copying the whole MonsterSounds/ folder, DLL plus its sounds/ subfolder, into BepInEx/plugins/. General settings live in BepInEx/config/MonsterSounds.cfg, written on first run.

Made by Maxwell White, open to new projects.

Changelog

1.2.1

• Rebuild of 1.2.0 for resubmission. No functional changes.

1.2.0

• Every monster gets an on/off switch in MonsterSounds.cfg under [Monsters], plus a master Enabled switch under [General]. Off means that monster keeps the game's own sounds. Switches take effect immediately, including from an in-game config manager.

1.1.0

• A rule can list several sounds (chef-1.mp3, chef-2.mp3 or chef-*.mp3) and each play picks one at random.
• New monsters: Chef (shuffles three clips), Gambit, Loom, Mentalist, Oogly, Robe, Spewer.
• All clips leveled to the same loudness, with volumes lowered across the board. The Rugrat is quieter; the Upscream, which was near-silent, is not.
• Sound files renamed after their monster: clown.mp3, upscream.mp3, rugrat.mp3. Update monsters.txt if you edited your own copy.

1.0.1

• Fixed: no sounds played when installed through r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager. Those managers flatten the sounds/ folder on install, so the clips landed next to the DLL where the mod never looked. Sound files and monsters.txt are now found in sounds/ or next to the DLL, and the release zip nests the plugin under plugins/ so the folder is preserved.
• The clown squeaks a little more often (step distance 1.8m to 1.4m).

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Ships clown-squeak.mp3, upscream-flipflops.mp3, and crying-baby.mp3, with the Clown, Upscream, and Rugrat rules all enabled by default.
• A sound is never restarted while it's still playing, so clips longer than a single step run as loops instead of stacking overlapping copies.