Change Minecraft Drowned sounds with resource pack?

Question

I'm trying to change the Drowned sound effects in Minecraft Java edition 1.18, but they don't change. What file structure and files are needed change the sounds? I tried putting the files under both

/resource_pack_folder/assets/minecraft/sounds/entity/drowned /resource_pack_folder/assets/minecraft/sounds/mob/drowned

The files I put are ambient.ogg, ambient_water.ogg, death.ogg, death_water.ogg, hurt.ogg, and hurt_water.ogg.

These are named according to the list of sound effects for the Drowned found in the wiki:

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Drowned#:~:text=a%20player%20underwater.-,Sounds,-Sound

Answer 1

I think your problem is that you have not added the "sounds.json" file under this directory:

<packname>/assets/minecraft/

The structure of this file should be like this example:

{
    "entity.drowned.ambient": {
        "subtitle": "drowning something",
        "replace": false,
        "sounds": [
            {
                "name": "custom/something",
                "volume": 1,
                "weight": 1,
                "pitch": 1,
                "attenuation_distance": 16,
                "stream": false,
                "preload": false
            }
        ]
    }
}

Basically, this example sounds.json file does the following:

"entity.drowned.ambient" 

is the original sound to replace.

"subtitle": "drowning something"

the subtitle that shows if you have them enabled

"sounds": [
    {
        "name": "custom/something"

the path to your sound; in my example I would put my sound under

soundpack.zip/assets/minecraft/sounds/custom/something.ogg

(omit .ogg in json file)

"volume": 1,
"weight": 1,
"pitch": 1,

I have not messed with these, but you can if you like

"attenuation_distance": 16,

the distance from the source that you can hear the sound, in blocks

"stream": false,
"preload": false

I haven't messed with these either

If you want to make more changes to other sounds, you just continue the json structure. You can use https://jsoneditoronline.org to easily create, edit, and export .json documents in code or tree mode.