Beta 1.6.1.2

Changes

• Tweaked the spawn rate and sound delay for nightly birds
• Servicing updates for automated deployments

Fixes

• Fixed mega island occurrences
• Properly added a speed limit for vehicles, to avoid ludicrous quicksoil travel

Beta 1.6.1.1

Changes

• Removed unneeded log spam

Known (new) issues

• #550 => Working on an optimal solution for a vehicle acceleration cap on quicksoil
• #549 => Sodium Fixes we made didn't provide an optimal solution, looking into alternative path
• #548 => This alongside other server lag issues are being looked at for v1.6.2

Beta 1.6.1

• Fixed various crashes
• Fixed incompatibility with Sodium and Satin
• Dabbled with bird spawn rates

Beta 1.6.0

Swets:

Swets have undergone a large overhaul, and are much more fluid - in more ways than one.

• White Swets can change color
• Swets now display their correct color
• Swets now vary in size
• Added #the_aether:swets tag
• Swet revamp (jiggle physics)
• Swets now suck berries off blueberry bushes.
• Changed what swets can absorb to a whitelist
• Added World of Goo advancement for growing a swet considerably
• Changed jump height and health for swets
• Swets are content. (They won't fall off the sides of the aether anymore)
• Right clicking a swet with a spawn egg or swet ball will increase its size
• Swet balls come in various colors now
• You can now use leads on swets

Worldgen

Lots of worldgen changes have come to the aether. The aether is now a far cry from homogenous.

• Water now fades from the bottom of the world in the aether, rather than from y = 0
• Still water now properly fades in the aether
• Made aerclouds carver-based
• Added blocks for the slider dungeon
• Implemented lots of flora ❤️ (Amadrys, Halophia, Honey Nettle, Giant's lily, weeping cloudbursts, lichen, flowering grass, moss star, and more)
• Added lakes
• Boreal wisteria leaves now update dynamically in real time
• Boreal wisteria items also dynamically update
• Aerclouds are now nice and wispy
• Added frosty blocks, courtesy of 24Chrome
• Added spring water
• Fixed bug regarding tree leaves decaying
• New biomes: As stated by our resident biome-guy Azzy:

• Continental plateau, a cool plains-like biome filled with flowering grass
• Highlands shield, a wet, cold, rocky woodland bustling with mushrooms and wild flax
• Autumnal tundra, frozen wastes without much of note... and a sign of something to come

• Fixed bonemeal behavior on quicksoil and aether grass
• Added potted aether flowers
• Added coarse aether dirt
• Added swetroot crops
• Added liverwort

Floating Blocks

Behind the scenes, the code for floating blocks has been streamlined, making way for various changes.

• Floating blocks drop as if broken
• Fire is no longer floatable
• Floating TNT may now explode depending on its landing velocity
• Floating lightning rods may cast a thunderbolt based on weather and velocity upon landing
• Fast floaters, swet transformations, non-floaters, grows_swets, now tag based.
• Adds floating block pushers (Like pistons + slime blocks)
• Adds a helper class to simplify making floating blocks, for addon makers
• Floating block hitboxes are now centered
• Floating blocks look a tad nicer
• Added /gravitate command, to float blocks
• Added a FloatingBlockHelper api

Conditions

A new system to allow for complex effects.

• Added Condition System
• Added a condition API for ease of use for addon makers.
• Added venom condition
• Added /condition command

Moas

Moa genetics is finally here!

• Saddled moas now drop their saddle upon death
• Moas will now follow their parents
• Added Moa Genetics system
• Added the incubator and food trough
• Added a moa API for ease of use for addon makers.
• Added /moastat and /moaegg commands

Items

• Added remaining spawn eggs (check which these are)
• Renamed some items (Gingerbread man, Blueberries, etc.)
• Added boats for aether wood variants
• Added bloodstones
• Empty skyroot buckets can now be used as fuel.
• The aether portal item is now 3x3 instead of 1x2 when placed
• Aether spawn eggs now work in dispensers
• Added "decorations" item group
• Removed unused, unobtainable items
• Reorganized the creative inventory
• Added a placeholder Lore book screen
• Began work on the Lore book
• Oranges are now compostable
• Redid healing stone
• Much more

Blocks

• Added bark blocks for aether wood variants
• Added pressure plates, buttons, for aether wood variants
• Added signs for aether wood variants
• Villagers will now farm on aether farmland
• Rabbits will now eat carrots from aether farmland
• Aether bookshelves are now supported by enchantment tables
• Added a quicksoil speed limit
• Removed unused, unobtainable blocks
• Added skyroot chests
• Much more

Entities

• Added dart entity textures
• Dead aether mobs can no longer be saddled
• Added cockatrice textures
• Cockatrices now shoot at you
• Aerbunnies no longer block your vision
• Fixed aechor plants
• Aechor plants now spawn naturally
• Aerbunnies now fall slowly
• Aerbunnies now can float the player
• Removed unfinished entities
• Added nightly birds

Behind the scenes

• Optimized textures
• Added issue templates
• Added support for MoreTags by Gudenau
• Fixed a bug that would prevent other mods' fuels from working with our mod.
• Removed all of our accesswideners (and then added some more)
• Removed unnecessary garbage
• Added documentation to our APIs
• Updated mod metadata to account for new developers.
• Fixed incompatibility with ExpandAbility
• Improved localisation
• Added devel features
• Cleared the startup logs

More

• You can now light an aether portal with a skyroot bucket, splash potion, or dispenser
• The player now spawns 320 blocks above world height upon falling from the aether
• Added custom portal sounds
• Added a new soundtrack by Sunsette
• Fixed aether worldborder issues
• Blue aerclouds no longer spawn particles when the entity isn't bounced.
• Fix: Aercloud overlays are no longer static
• Fixed placement of doors in tall grass
• Added dense aercloud overlay
• Water now properly paths around dense aercloud.
• The game is no longer unplayable (Moved the hoe texture by one pixel)
• Phoenix armor has a beak once more
• Added zonked state
• Fixed lever and mossy holystone recipes
• Added "simmering" status effect

Beta 1.5.0

v1.5.0 (07/08/2021)

Changes (See GitHub for backend changes)

• Added initial Moa Genetic Systems, which will be expanded in a future update
• Added initial DOUBLE_DROPS logic, which will be expanded in a future update.
• Added Orange Trees.
  • These are small, fruiting trees that bear pink wood.
  • They may be found in wisteria woods biomes and, rarely, in highland plains.
• Added compostable item support:
  • Saplings, Blueberries, Gingerbread Man, and Candy Canes will increase by 0.3F
  • Bushes and Grass will increase by 0.5F
  • Flowers, White Apples, and Aechor Petals will increase by 0.65F
• Aether Leaves now contain an ocelotOrParrot check for allowsSpawning
• The Skyroot Tower and Well have been redesigned for 1.17+ in addition to the following:
  • Skyroot Towers now contain chests with various treasures (Including items previously unobtainable in the aether)
• Aerclouds have been rebased over changes contained in GG'd port, allowing better mechanic functionality
  • This also stabilizes the "Elytra Boost" trick from combining blue and yellow aercloud physics
• FloatingBlocks (and related tools) have been redesigned with the following changes:
  • Now supports lifting players, combined structures (Doors, tall grass, etc) and living entities (This is going to be tuned more in a later update)
  • FloatingBlocks by default will now begin decellerating and falling a certain distance from world height
  • Now supports specifying a custom drop state in backend (This can be used by others to tweak when a floating block falls)
  • Entity collision is now able to function with FloatingBlocks (This allows, for example, other floating blocks to interact with eachother)
• Crystal Leaves now use the amythest breaking sound instead of glass
• Quicksoil Glass (And their Glass panes) now act like quicksoil (GG Port Parity)
• Golden Oak Leave Particles have been slightly tuned for quality assurance:
  • Now last 350 ticks instead of 400 ticks
  • X and Z velocity increased by .025F
• Aechor Plants have had the following tuning adjustments:
  • Visibility Distance factor increased from 4 to 6
  • Attacking Distance factor increased from 1.5 to 5.0
• Aerwhales have been redesigned in 1.17+ to have better parity with GG'd port
  • At the moment, they just hover in the air, which will be tuned in a later update.
• Moa Eggs can now be used without Creative Mode, as intended
• Obsidian and Valkyrie Armor now uses the Netherite Equip sound and now has a 0.1F kb resistance
• Valkyrie Milk now applies 8 less hunger (Now 12 from 20) but doubles the saturation multiplier (Now 2 from 1)
• Drinking Valkyrie Milk will now actually use the item and give back an empty quicksoil vial
• The mining accelerant factor used in Zanite Tools have been rebased to work the same way as GG's port
• Quicksoil Vials are now able to pick up Dense Aerclouds
• Candy Cane Swords can now be repaired with Candy Canes (GG Port Parity)
  • Other related changes may appear in future updates
• The Dart Shooter now uses the Crossbow Shoot sound (At least until AetherSounds is re-implemented)
• Ambrosium Shards can now be used as furnace fuel (Provides 500 fuelTime)
• A custom death message from falling from the Aether has been added
• (For datapack users) Added a genType argument for several configured features
  • In the future, this will be used to have configurable generation types
  • At this time, only legacy is supported, which generates the feature the same way as GG's 1.16.x Port.
• Several textures have been adjusted to more 1.17+/Jappa standards
• Tagging systems have been redesigned in 1.17+ to have better consistency and work better with Vanilla mechanics
  • This also fixes issues related to mining speeds and other inconsistencies.
  • As there are too many changes to list here, you can view the new tags in the data folder
• Advancements have been tweaked in 1.17+ to be more consistent with Vanilla's advancement systems
• Stonecutter Recipes (In addition to multiple crafting recipies) have also been added/adjusted with 1.17+ Standards

Fixes

• Resolved every missing texture issue that was logged from the 1.16.5 port
  • There are still missing data, which will be tuned in a future update.
• Fixed crashes relating to null Rarity types
• Adjusted Swet Death event to be more consistent and fix cases of infinite duplication
• Fixed a possible concurrent exception with WhiteSwet's
• Fixed a possible NPE in FloatingBlocks with the blockState
• Fixes have been made to various generated features to prevent and avoid cascading worldgen lag
• Blueberries have been fixed so that they have the right name and only appear in one creative mode tab

Beta 1.4.1

  

( VERSION NUMBER JUMP IS TO CORRECT NUMBERING SCHEME, IT IS INTENTIONALLY 1.4.1 )

Changelog

• Fixed bug causing servers to be unable to run
• optimized textures to shrink jar size slightly

You can report bugs here: Issues

Beta 1.0.4

  

Changelog

• Fixed floating block client-server issue
• Registered flammability to all blocks that should've been flammable
• Wisteria hangers now are one block instead of 2
• Added Aerbunny loot table
• Removed hanger plant loot tables to prevent error from being thrown; they're no longer needed
• Changed color provider for grass items to be hex instead of base 10
• Reduced amount of aercloud aerbunnies drop
• Hanger blocks can now be broken by flowing liquids
• Removed aerogel non-full blocks
• Removed bad/outdated block and items models
• Changed aerbunny and aechor plant spawn eggs to be more appropriate colors
• Fixed Skyroot buckets draining lava and dense aercloud
• Implemented boreal wisteria trees
• Fixed the Phoenix bow's pull animation
• Added Swets
• Fixed structure spawning
• Updated some textures
• Updated CustomPortalAPI
• And probably more...

You can report bugs here: Issues

Beta 1.0.3

  

Changelog

• Servers should be fully functional
• Removed Geckolib in favor of normal java-based armor models
• Holystone now drops a cobbled variant that can be used to make tools and in recipes that use cobblestone, instead of regular holystone
• World gen has been completely revamped:
  • 2 new biomes, the Wisteria Woods and Highlands Thicket, as well as changes to the existing 2 biomes
  • Clouds are rounder and less uniform
  • Crystal trees generate on little islands occasionally, and can grow white apples over time
  • Ore generation has been changed
  • 5 flower types generate in several biomes
  • Golden oak trees generate with more square foliage
  • Wisteria trees are much larger
  • Holystone boulders generate in some biomes
  • Noise settings have been changed to make the islands a bit more round and shapely
• Gravitite properly levitate blocks, but perform their intended right click action first, if applicable (will strip a log before floating it)
• Moas have a basic implementation, expect bugs and unfinished features
• Item groups were merged to take up fewer creative tabs
• Some blocks that did not break at proper speeds with tools now work properly (quicksoil and aether dirt/grass notably)
• Many textures have been reworked
• Several crashes related to missing assets and server issues have been resolved
• And probably more...

You can report bugs here: Issues

Beta 1.0.2

    

Changelog

• Added outpost and well structures (they don't spawn naturally yet)
• Added new armor textures
• Added parachutes textures
• Added Light Carved Stone
• Added Ambrosium Lantern and Zanite Chain
• Added Aerbunnies and Aerwhales
• Added new trapdoors and doors
• Updated Ambrosium torch texture
• Updated recipes
• Removed useless items
• Fixed loot tables
• Fixed Golden Aerocloud killing innocent people
• Fixed crash while spinning in boat on quicksoil
• and probably more...

You can report bugs here: Issues

Beta 1.0.1

    

Changelog

• Fixed Flutegrass error
• Fixed music delay
• Updated translations
• Updated Fabric API
• Updated cloud textures
• Added parachutes logic
• Added more Gravitite features
• Added Potted Varients for Blocks
• Added Phoenix item textures
• Added missing recipes
• Added Crystal Tree
• and probably more...

You can report bugs here: Issues

P.S. The 1.16.5-1.0.1 version is not tested so it might not work completely