Steps to reproduce
Spawn a few copper golems with their chests spaced randomly on a 20 x 20 platform.
Place several wooden chests.
Place a few stacks of items in each copper chest.
Wait and listen.
Expected result
The copper chest opening and closing sounds are a reasonable volume compared to the copper golem sounds and the wooden chest sounds.
Observed result
The copper chests sounds are noticeably louder. The copper chest closing sound is especially loud.
Analysis
I recorded chest opening and closing sounds standing up against the chest in Java and Bedrock with main volume set to 80, and measured the volumes using Audacity’s track comparison tool. Using the Java chest opening sound as a baseline, the results were as follows:
Chest sound at 1 block away | Java Wooden | Bedrock wooden | Bedrock copper |
|---|---|---|---|
Open | 0 dB | -0.28 dB | +1.89 dB |
Close | -2.18 dB | -1.31 dB | +4.02 dB |
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The fix reported for this issue in 1.21.110.24 Preview does not fix it:
Copper Chest opening and closing sounds can now only be heard up to a range of 12 blocks (MCPE-224011)
The 12 block range is an interesting new design spec, but it does not address this report, and in fact makes it worse. The values in sounds.json have still do not match wooden chests, as I pointed my previous comment. Moreover, the new 12-block max_distance in sound_definitions.json gives the copper chests linear attenuation, which makes them much louder than wooden chests from a more than a block away. The video below records opening and closing from 8 blocks away. The peaks are roughly:
Copper | Exposed | Weathered | Oxidized | Wooden | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open | -23 | -20 | -23 | -22 | -28 |
Close | -21 | -17 | -18 | -15 | -27 |
In the vanilla sounds.json, “chest.closed” and “chest.open” both have
The sounds.json in the 2025 game drop 3 experiments, however, for the copper chest open and close sounds, has
Changing the copper chest sounds to 0.5 addresses the overall loudness, but the closing sound is still louder than the opening sound, which does not fit the pattern of wooden chests, and makes it sound like you are dropping the chest lid or slamming it shut.