Can I "ignore" rain?

Am I able to stop or lessen the sound of rain, and only rain? I want to hear all the other interesting sounds of Minecraft, but the pitter patter of the rain is getting to me...

Solution 1:

You can mute the rain sound by replacing the rain sound in the minecraft "resources" directory. No .JAR file editing required!

Windows: - Navigate to %appdata%/.minecraft/resources/newsound/ambient/weather

Mac: - Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/resources/newsound/ambient/weather

Linux: - Navigate to ~/.minecraft/resources/newsound/ambient/weather

All:

• Download silent.ogg and save it to that directory (right click and save file as...)
• rename rain1, 2, 3, and 4.ogg to rain1, 2, 3 and 4.bak
• copy silent.ogg three times and rename them to rain1, 2, 3 and 4.ogg

All done! Play minecraft and now the rain will be silent.

(Note: If silent.ogg 404's on that link in the future, just search google for "silent ogg" or make one yourself in your favorite sound editor).

Bonus: You can do this for any sound file in the game, just browse around the resources directory for .ogg files.