The Bug:
Sniffers' digging sounds display the "Block breaking" subtitle.
Steps to Reproduce:
Ensure that you have subtitles enabled in your accessibility settings.
Summon a sniffer, wait for it to begin digging, and look at your subtitles overlay as it does this.
Take note as to whether or not sniffers' digging sounds display the "Block breaking" subtitle.
Observed Behavior:
The "Block breaking" subtitle is displayed.
Expected Behavior:
The "Block breaking" subtitle would not be displayed as this is inaccurate. Instead, the sound of a sniffer digging should have its own unique subtitle to correctly reflect the action that's occurring.
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Avoma
I'd like to request a review of this report for the following reasons:
In the past, several examples of sounds producing misleading/incorrect subtitles were triaged and later fixed, for example, MC-256475, MC-261646, MC-166292, MC-163947, MC-177523, and MC-178130.
Following from above, MC-204050, which is a ticket that concerns the "Block breaking" subtitle being displayed when shooting amethysts, is considered to be a valid issue by Mojang themselves, therefore one would expect this report (MC-260213) to follow the same or a similar resolution.
Having the "Block Breaking" subtitle display for sniffers' digging sounds is misleading. It indicates that a block is currently breaking, and this isn't true; the said block is actually being dug by the sniffer.
slicedlime
Some background on this: subtitles are an accessibility feature - they're meant to allow someone who for any reason can not hear the sounds of the game to have the same amount of information about what is happening in the world as someone who can hear the sounds. That means subtitles are supposed to be hard tied to the sounds - as a guiding principle, you should not lose out on information by not having subtitles, but equally you should also not gain additional information by turning them on. Again, this is a guiding principle rather than a hard rule - there are always trade-offs to consider and the goal here is to make a game that is as accessible as possible, not to set up some rule set that can check boxes on a list.
In this case, since the game is playing the sound of a block breaking, the subtitle is one of a block breaking.
We might at some point look into improving this either by changing the message or finding some other form of improvement, but for now the above is why this is considered WAI.
Avoma
That's completely fair and fully understandable! You do indeed have some valid points which is perfectly fine. Thank you for the response!
Avoma