Voices in my head are making me crazy

[Veronica Hohenheim]

I do not like the sound work of this game.I like some of the music but sometimes it just randomly tunes into action ones where nothing realy happens.There are animal noises comes around to set the mood but those animals no where near where I am.I have been hearing a cat noise ingame for weeks and couldnt spot it (this maybe a mod idk,later started to hear a big predator cat growl and still nowhere near I could spot) but worse of it all is breathing noise.I do not get it.Why thats a thing but it makes me scared shitless.Especially at night,and especially both ingame and irl at night.I do not have any living thing inside my house.Closest animal is 60 block (?) something away chickens.The breathing noise I am hearing is not contunuious but its a big exhale from the nose,almost like a horses.I keep hearing it at the back of my neck and  genuienly makes me paranoid.And no there is no drifters roaming around.I have a mod that doesnt let them spawn on the surface without rifts even in no light and my house is pretty small so I would find one if there was one. Is there a way to solve this,mute this etc cuz I cant play it like this.

[LadyWYT]

25 minutes ago, Veronica Hohenheim said:

I have been hearing a cat noise ingame for weeks and couldnt spot it (this maybe a mod idk,later started to hear a big predator cat growl and still nowhere near I could spot)

Fauna of the Stone Age is the most likely culprit here, assuming you are using a module that adds cats. They can be fairly noisy and the sound carries quite a distance, but once you get used to the noises it gets a little less spooky. 

 

27 minutes ago, Veronica Hohenheim said:

but worse of it all is breathing noise.I do not get it.Why thats a thing but it makes me scared shitless.Especially at night,and especially both ingame and irl at night.I do not have any living thing inside my house.Closest animal is 60 block (?) something away chickens.The breathing noise I am hearing is not contunuious but its a big exhale from the nose,almost like a horses.

Just to make sure all the bases are covered--is there a lot of high winds when this happens, and is your temporal stability gauge full? High wind conditions can be quite noisy, but shouldn't be noticeable inside unless you have some opening to the outside(open door, holes in the wall, etc).

If your temporal stability is low, then you could be starting to hear the ambience of the Rust World as your foothold on reality starts to slip. I believe this ambience starts to occur when the gauge(that's the teal gear in the center of your hotbar, if you have the mechanic enabled) drops to around 70%. To make the ambience go away, simply return to a more stable area for a while to recover your stability.

Also, if you are using creature mods, it could be a modded creature that you are hearing, as modded creatures tend to make more noise than vanilla creatures.

[Veronica Hohenheim]

7 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Fauna of the Stone Age is the most likely culprit here, assuming you are using a module that adds cats. They can be fairly noisy and the sound carries quite a distance, but once you get used to the noises it gets a little less spooky. 

 

Just to make sure all the bases are covered--is there a lot of high winds when this happens, and is your temporal stability gauge full? High wind conditions can be quite noisy, but shouldn't be noticeable inside unless you have some opening to the outside(open door, holes in the wall, etc).

If your temporal stability is low, then you could be starting to hear the ambience of the Rust World as your foothold on reality starts to slip. I believe this ambience starts to occur when the gauge(that's the teal gear in the center of your hotbar, if you have the mechanic enabled) drops to around 70%. To make the ambience go away, simply return to a more stable area for a while to recover your stability.

Also, if you are using creature mods, it could be a modded creature that you are hearing, as modded creatures tend to make more noise than vanilla creatures.

I have two animal mods,one is saber other is manatee.One is a sea creature so I assume its not even exist in my save yet.Other one,that maybe the cat but I only saw a predator cat once and never before.I dont get why it has to meow where nothing exist.

For the stability stuff,its off.It never looked appealing to me so I just disabled it before starting my save.Those exhaling nosies are not normal.Maybe its the side effect of the saber mod idk.I do not know why would that be the case but I do not have any other mod that has a creature that will make that noise.I mean there is a villager mod but they r nowhere near my house and that noise isnt sounds entirely human.If I disable saber mod  I assume it will be fine,as in my save would stay intact since it doesnt change anything but add a mob to the game right ?

[Echo Weaver]

My first thought about the breathing noise is shivers. They have a sort of high exhale hiss that creeps me out. 

[LadyWYT]

40 minutes ago, Veronica Hohenheim said:

If I disable saber mod  I assume it will be fine,as in my save would stay intact since it doesnt change anything but add a mob to the game right ?

It should be fine to disable the mod, yeah. Doesn't hurt to make a backup of the world beforehand, but the worst I would expect to happen is perhaps an odd ? item or two that needs to be deleted(easiest way to do this is via creative mode). The sabercats are what's likely making the noise, as many big cats make grunts or chuffing sounds. While it might not be realistic for them to be that noisy without a proper cause, the sound serves to telegraph their general presence in the nearby area so that the player isn't caught completely off guard.

[Veronica Hohenheim]

45 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

It should be fine to disable the mod, yeah. Doesn't hurt to make a backup of the world beforehand, but the worst I would expect to happen is perhaps an odd ? item or two that needs to be deleted(easiest way to do this is via creative mode). The sabercats are what's likely making the noise, as many big cats make grunts or chuffing sounds. While it might not be realistic for them to be that noisy without a proper cause, the sound serves to telegraph their general presence in the nearby area so that the player isn't caught completely off guard.

just disabled the mod and it didnt worked.That noise is still there.I am in a better mood so I am not as much scared but I do not get why its a thing.Maybe its my own characters voice as echo said and which I wish I could disable it.

[LadyWYT]

2 minutes ago, Veronica Hohenheim said:

just disabled the mod and it didnt worked.That noise is still there.I am in a better mood so I am not as much scared but I do not get why its a thing.Maybe its my own characters voice as echo said and which I wish I could disable it.

Weird. It could be a drifter or shiver, as @Echo Weaver noted. Shivers are high pitched and raspy, but drifters have deep moans that can sound like a heavy breath, especially if it's the idle sound and not the aggressive noise. Bowtorn have some harsh idle sounds as well. If it's a monster making the noise, chances are that you have a cave system somewhere nearby, that's close enough to the surface for you to hear the monsters.

As for it being the character's voice, that's not likely, outside of a mod affecting such(to my knowledge, no mods add idle noise to the player). The player character only makes noise if hurt, starving, or emoting, and those scenarios don't fit what you're describing.

[Veronica Hohenheim]

6 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

Weird. It could be a drifter or shiver, as @Echo Weaver noted. Shivers are high pitched and raspy, but drifters have deep moans that can sound like a heavy breath, especially if it's the idle sound and not the aggressive noise. Bowtorn have some harsh idle sounds as well. If it's a monster making the noise, chances are that you have a cave system somewhere nearby, that's close enough to the surface for you to hear the monsters.

As for it being the character's voice, that's not likely, outside of a mod affecting such(to my knowledge, no mods add idle noise to the player). The player character only makes noise if hurt, starving, or emoting, and those scenarios don't fit what you're describing.

so what u r saying is I gotta dig and fill or light it up the cave beneath me otherwise I will not know peace..

[Michael Gates]

Oh, wait. Is this the "whuff!" noise than randomly goes off, at random times, for no reason? I know that noise very well, and I know enough not to bother looking for an in-game cause but every time I hear it I still try to figure out if it's my hair moving across my shoulders, or the cable for my headphones rubbing something, or... whatever. It never is. And then three or four days later it goes off again in a completely different situation.

Anyway, yeah, a thing. And not the fault of any mod-- I play vanilla.

[LadyWYT]

9 hours ago, Veronica Hohenheim said:

so what u r saying is I gotta dig and fill or light it up the cave beneath me otherwise I will not know peace..

That's only if the cause is a monster in a nearby cave, and only if you want to stop the monsters from spawning there. 

[Veronica Hohenheim]

8 hours ago, Michael Gates said:

Oh, wait. Is this the "whuff!" noise than randomly goes off, at random times, for no reason? I know that noise very well, and I know enough not to bother looking for an in-game cause but every time I hear it I still try to figure out if it's my hair moving across my shoulders, or the cable for my headphones rubbing something, or... whatever. It never is. And then three or four days later it goes off again in a completely different situation.

Anyway, yeah, a thing. And not the fault of any mod-- I play vanilla.

What I hear is like once every minute or something so its not the same

[Veronica Hohenheim]

1 hour ago, LadyWYT said:

That's only if the cause is a monster in a nearby cave, and only if you want to stop the monsters from spawning there. 

I doubt its a monster noise,since I watched some gameplay before playing myself and do not remember this noise from any monsters.I dont know whats the deal.Maybe my player character is just cursed idk.I dont remember every instane of this noise happening but I write it when I was at the basement blacksmitthing.So idk maybe its indeed monsters under my house.

[Fawkesian]

On 9/27/2025 at 3:39 PM, Veronica Hohenheim said:

The breathing noise I am hearing is not contunuious but its a big exhale from the nose,almost like a horses.

That'll be the deer, I believe! They make a short, sharp huff - and they're very stealthy given their size.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

bois and gurls I think we solved it. It definitely sounds like OP is hearing wild deer around their place.