diff --git a/settings.js b/settings.js
index 215ee77..b260f69 100644
--- a/settings.js
+++ b/settings.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const settings = {
     // the mindserver manages all agents and hosts the UI
     "host_mindserver": true, // if true, the mindserver will be hosted on this machine. otherwise, specify a public IP address
     "mindserver_host": "localhost",
-    "mindserver_port": 8080,
+    "mindserver_port": 8081,
     
     // the base profile is shared by all bots for default prompts/examples/modes
     "base_profile": "./profiles/defaults/survival.json", // also see creative.json, god_mode.json
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ const settings = {
         // using more than 1 profile requires you to /msg each bot indivually
         // individual profiles override values from the base profile
     ],
-    "load_memory": false, // load memory from previous session
+    "load_memory": true, // load memory from previous session
     "init_message": "Respond with hello world and your name", // sends to all on spawn
     "only_chat_with": [], // users that the bots listen to and send general messages to. if empty it will chat publicly
     "language": "en", // translate to/from this language. Supports these language names: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages
     "show_bot_views": false, // show bot's view in browser at localhost:3000, 3001...
 
-    "allow_insecure_coding": false, // allows newAction command and model can write/run code on your computer. enable at own risk
-    "allow_vision": false, // allows vision model to interpret screenshots as inputs
-    "vision_mode": "prompted", // "off", "prompted", or "always"
+    "allow_insecure_coding": true, // allows newAction command and model can write/run code on your computer. enable at own risk
+    "allow_vision": true, // allows vision model to interpret screenshots as inputs
+    "vision_mode": "always", // "off", "prompted", or "always"
     "blocked_actions" : ["!checkBlueprint", "!checkBlueprintLevel", "!getBlueprint", "!getBlueprintLevel"] , // commands to disable and remove from docs. Ex: ["!setMode"]
     "code_timeout_mins": -1, // minutes code is allowed to run. -1 for no timeout
     "relevant_docs_count": 5, // number of relevant code function docs to select for prompting. -1 for all
@@ -46,15 +46,25 @@ const settings = {
     "narrate_behavior": true, // chat simple automatic actions ('Picking up item!')
     "chat_bot_messages": true, // publicly chat messages to other bots
 
-    "stt_transcription": false, // change this to "true" or "false" depending on if you want STT in Mindcraft, STT needs a GroqCloud API key, can be found here: https://console.groq.com/keys
-    "stt_username": "SYSTEM", // Change this to the username the model will respond to.
-    "stt_agent_name": "", // Change the name here to whatever your agent is named, if left empty, will send message to all agents.
-    "speak": false, // allows all bots to speak through system text-to-speech. works on windows, mac, on linux you need to `apt install espeak`
-    
-    "log_normal_data": false, // Logs all inputs / outputs without reasoning or vision data
-    "log_reasoning_data": false, // Logs only reasoning inputs / outputs
-    "log_vision_data": false, // Logs only vision inputs / outputs
+    "speak": true, // enable text-to-speech
+    "stt_transcription": true, // enable speech-to-text transcription
+    "stt_username": "SERVER", // username for STT messages
+    "stt_agent_name": "", // agent name for STT messages, if empty it will send the STT to all bots
     
+    // STT Audio Detection Settings
+    "stt_rms_threshold": 8000,       // Higher = less sensitive to background noise
+    "stt_silence_duration": 2000,   // 2 seconds of silence before stopping
+    "stt_min_audio_duration": 0.5,  // Minimum audio duration in seconds
+    "stt_max_audio_duration": 15,   // Maximum audio duration in seconds
+    "stt_debug_audio": false,       // Enable to see audio levels and tune threshold
+    "stt_cooldown_ms": 2000,        // Minimum time between recordings (increased)
+    "stt_speech_threshold_ratio": 0.15, // Percentage of samples that must be above threshold to consider it speech
+    "stt_consecutive_speech_samples": 5, // Consecutive samples above threshold before considering it speech
+
+    "log_normal_data": true, // Logs all inputs / outputs without reasoning or vision data
+    "log_reasoning_data": true, // Logs only reasoning inputs / outputs
+    "log_vision_data": true, // Logs only vision inputs / outputs
+
 }
 
 // these environment variables override certain settings