Voice chat
Talking out loud with the people near you, and how to set it up.
Voice chat lets you talk to the people around you out loud, the same as if you were standing together in the woods. You can hear other people's voices from the start, so you might be out chopping and hear someone coming through the trees before you see them. Nobody hears you, though, until you turn your own mic on.
You only hear people when they're close by. Someone right beside you is at full volume, and they get quieter as they walk off, until past about 32 m you can't hear them at all. Their voice comes from their side of you too, so with headphones on you can tell which way someone is calling from. Nobody on another level hears you, so whoever is down a mine won't hear the people at the top of the shaft.
Your mic#
There's a microphone button beside the chat button. Tap it, or press V on a computer, and the first time your browser will ask whether the game can use your microphone. Say yes and the people near you can hear you. Tap it again to turn it off. In Settings, under Voice, you can choose how it works.
| Setting | How it works |
|---|---|
| Off | Nobody hears you. This is how everyone starts. |
| Always on | Everyone near you hears you whenever you talk. Tap the mic button, or press V, to turn it off for a while and on again. |
| Hold to talk | They only hear you while you hold the mic button down, or V on a computer. It's handy if there's a lot of noise where you are. |
While someone is talking, the name over their head gets a gold edge, so you can tell who it is. Yours does too, so you can see that your mic is picking you up.
Echo and headphones#
If you play with the sound coming out of your speakers, your microphone can pick up other people's voices and send them back, so they hear themselves a moment later. The browser tries to cancel that out, but it doesn't always manage, especially on a computer. Headphones or earbuds fix it altogether.
If the browser won't let the game use your microphone, you can still hear everyone, they just can't hear you. Allow the microphone for this site in your browser's settings, then turn your mic on again.
Turning it off#
If you'd rather not hear anyone, open Settings and switch off Hear voices. The slider beside it sets how loud voices are. Your mic and your hearing are separate, so you can listen without talking, or talk without listening.
If someone's bothering you#
Hold on them, or right-click them on a computer, and choose Mute their voice. You won't hear them again, even after you log off and come back, until you do the same and choose Hear their voice. Only you stop hearing them, and they aren't told.
Voices go straight from your browser to theirs, so the game never hears or keeps what anyone says. Anyone who's been muted in the chat can still listen, but nobody can hear them.