Ancient Aether

Additions

• Added Grape Vines
• Added Sunset Rose
• Added Elevetia
• Added Wynd Sentry Stone
• Added Wynd Sentry Stone Dungeon Block Variants
• Added Wynd Lantern
• Added Mutated Aechor Plant Boss

• Found in Sentry Laboratories
• Has 500 HP and a unique Bossbar Design
• Shoots Needles that give the Inebriation Effect to targets aswell as removing the Remedy Effect if active
• Shoots Spore Bombs that spawn a cloud of poisonous Spores
• Grows bigger when it has less than 50% HP
• Spawn Cockatrice when it has less than 50% HP
• Frequently spawns Remedy Crystals that grant the player the Remedy Effect when they manage to hit them

• Added Laboratory Dungeon Key
• Added a Boss Doorway Carved Stone for the Mutated Aechor Plant
• Added Shield of Inebriation

• Has a 25% chance to give attackers the Inebriation Effect

• Added Shield of Remediation

• Makes the wearer immune to Inebriation

• Added Divine Toolset

• Found in Silver Dungeons
• Replaces Pickaxe of Arkenzus
• Grants the player the Divine Protection Potion Effect when a block is mined, the effect duration stack the more blocks that are mined

• Added Slammroot Plant

• Replaces Trapped Sakura Blossoms

• Added Slammberry

• Launches the player in the air when eaten
• Grants Nature's Boost Potion Effect

• Added Divine Protection Potion Effect

• Gives the player +2 Armor Toughness when active

• Added Nature's Boost Potion Effect

• "Bonemeals" the blocks, the player is standing on when activate

• Added a recipe for crafting Armor Stand with Holystone Slabs
• Readded recipe for crafting Paper out of Aechor Petals
• Added Sun Forest Biome
• Added Sky Lake Biome
• Added Holystone Caverns Biome
• Added Elevated Caverns Biome
• Added Sun Well Structure

• A decorative structure sometimes generating in Sun Forests

• Added a new Wine Yard House Variant to Valkyrie Settlements
• Added a new Ancient Aether Title Screen

Changes

• Renamed Holystone Lantern to Ambrosium Lantern
• Renamed Hellfire Lantern to Sun Lantern
• Renamed Light Aerogetic Stone to Aeronautic Stone
• Renamed Corrupted Light Aerogetic Stone to Corrupted Aeronautic Stone
• Renamed Unpowered Ancient Obelisk to Ancient Obelisk
• Renamed Ancient Obelisk to Powered Obelisk
• Renamed Cracked Slider to Slider Prototype
• Renamed Arkenium Ring/Pendant to Warrior Ring/Pendant
• Renamed Health Ring/Pendant to Ring/Pendant of Growth
• Renamed Roothyrns to Slammroots
• Renamed Legendary Loot Tier to Mythic
• Reenabled original Crystal Trees
• Aether Music now plays a lot more frequently agaon (this time without of overlapping)
• Advancements now display if they are added/modified by Ancient Aether in their description
• Grapes can now be used to place Grape Vines
• Rebalanced Grape Nutrition and Saturation
• Different lengths of Sky Grass now have different Hitboxes
• Vases are now waterloggable
• Slider Prototype no longer light up when powered, instead it will turn red/critical
• Slider Prototype now lights up for a short amount of time every once in a while
• Obelisk Activation Advancement Trigger is no longer hardcoded
• Adjusted Obelisk Activation Radius to fit the current Ancient Dungeon Placeholder Structure
• Windblower Functionality

• Windblowers will now "puff" and change their texture when activated by Redstone
• They will also now spawn a Windblow that pushes Entities when activated
• If this Windblow hits another Windblower it will also activate and cause a chain reaction of Windblows
• Windblows will dissappear after a while when they don't hit a block or entity Wind Blowers now use their Bottom Texture for Particles

• Accessories that buff the players attributes will now display their ability as a tool tip
• Valkyrum Axes can now harvest Golden Amber from Golden Oak Logs
• Windblowers can now be mined faster with Hoes
• Rebalanced Hermes Accessories

• Rings now give a 3% Total Movement Speed increase
• Pendant a 5% Total Movement Speed increase -Strength Stones now give 12% Total Attack Damage increase instead of 25%

• Changed Ambrosium Lantern Recipe to require 6 Sticks, 2 Holystone and 1 Ambrosium Torch
• Changed Sun Lantern Texture to require 1 Light Hellfire Stone and 1 Ambrosium Lantern
• Rebalanced the effects that are given by Suspicious Stews crafted from Ancient Aether Flowers
• Fluffalos can now walk on Powder Snow
• Fluffalos no longer take Freezing Damage
• Reworked Slammroot Behaviour

• Instead of running around, they now bounce towards the player
• When they touch the floor, they "bonemeal" it
• Increased their Attack Damage
• Slammroots no longer take fall damage

• Slammroots now have a chance to spawn in dark areas or at night inside of Sakura Jungles
• Slammroots now drop 1-3 Slammberries and 0-1 Aerogel instead of 2-4 Sticks and 0-1 Sakura Blossoms
• Decreased Shadow Radius of Slammrots
• Tweaked Aeronautic Leaper AI
• Aeronautic Leapers now drop 1-3 Corrupted Aeronautic Stone instead of regular Aerogetic Stone and Aerogel
• Skyroot Saplings can now grow into Fancy Skyroot Trees
• Cockatrice can no longer spawn on Aerogetic Blocks
• Trapped Dungeon Blocks will now display as a tooltip what mob they will spawn
• Boss Doorway Dungeon Blocks will now display as a tooltip what mob they require to be unlocked
• Rebalanced Valkyrie Settlement and Valkyrie Camp Loot Tables
• Rebalanced Bronze Dungeon Loot Tables
• Rebalanced Sentry Laboratory Loot Tables
• Rebalanced Ancient Holystone Vase Loot Table
• Rebalanced Ancient Sentry Vase Loot Table
• Rebalanced Ancient Frozen Sentry Vase Loot Table
• Candy Cane Swords are now in the "Rare" Loot Tier
• Music Discs no longer have Loot Tiers
• Wynd Ice is now placed after Gravity Gravel instead of Aerogel in the Creative Inventory
• Ancient Aether's lang file is automatically alphabetically ordered
• Updated some lore descriptions to be more accurate
• Improved how the Aether Tool Debuff is handled on Ancient Aether blocks, items and entities
• Updated Mod Banner
• Updated Mod Description
• Improved the Mods Tag layout
• Added Ancient Aether Items to Forge Tags
• Reworked the Mod Folder Structure
• Rewrote most of Ancient Aether's Codebase

Worldgen

• Rewrote Worldgen to be a lot more optimized
• Completely reworked Coast Gen

• Generate in a more continuous disk like generation on island edges
• Generate on multiple y-levels
• Don't cover all parts of Island Edges

• Reworked Worldgen with a lot more variation

• Islands can now have a lot more dramatic Overhangs
• There's also a lot more flat areas for a player to settle on Rebalanced Island Sizes

• Islands can now have Underground Overhangs which have Holystone on the Surface
• Sky Lakes now generate in Skyroot Biome Islands
• Improved Elevated Islands Upper Isles Generation
• Reworked Wyndcaps Mountain Gen to feel more natural
• Sakura Jungle Islands now have more "cracks" inside them to make the Islands less massive
• Wyndcap Peaks no longer have a layer of Aether Dirt below the Snow Layer
• Wyndcap Peaks Powder Snow Patches are now multiple Blocks deep
• Removed Large Icestone Veins from Wyndcaps Biomes
• Reduced Biome Scale
• Reworked Skyroot Sub-Biome Generation
• "Cavern Biomes" now generate in the Island Underground > - This allow Underground Overhangs to have Holystone on the Surface

• These biomes are also used for better Underground Structure Spawning

• Sun Forests are a replacement to the Old Golden Skyroot Biomes
• Green Skyroot Trees now have a 10% chance to spawn covered in Grape Vines
• Completely rebalanced Aether Flower Generation

• Skyroot Meadows now have simple patches of White and Purple Flowers instead of using a flower noise
• Reduced Flower Spawnrate in Skyroot Meadow to not be excessive as before
• Skyroot Meadows now also only have simple patches of White and Purple Flowers but with a slightly higher Flower Spawnrate than before
• Skyroot Forests and Skyroot Woodlands now have mixed flower patches of Purple Flowers, White Flowers and Sunset Roses with a slightly increased flower spawnrate
• Sky Blues now exclusively generate in mixed Patches with Purple and White Flowers near Sky Lakes or inside of Wyndcaps Biomes
• Sun Forests have a simple Purple and White Flower patch generation with the frequency of the Forest Biomes
• Increased Flower Spawnrate inside of Wyndcaps Biomes
• Skyroot Jungles now have a simple patch generation of Purple and White Flowers aswell as Sunset Roses
• Sakura Jungles have the same flower generation as Skyroot Jungles with the exception of Slammroot Plant patches sometimes generating instead of flowers
• Elevated Islands now have a mixed flower patch generation of Purple and White Flowers aswell as Elevetias

• Skyroot Groves now have a lot more colorful tree vegetation
• Made Golden Oaks slightly more common in Skyroot Forests
• Increased average Height of Skyroot Pine Trees
• Made Crystal Skyroot Trees slightly more common in Skyroot Woodlands
• Made Skyroot and Sakura Jungle Tree Vegetation a lot denser
• Aerogel Blobs are now in the Underground Decoration instead of the Underground Ores Generation Step for Vanilla consistency
• Aether Dirt Patches now only generates in on higher y-levels
• Blue, Violet and Golden Aerclouds now use a size of 8 instead of 16
• Rebalanced Crystal Island Spawnrate
• Crystal Island Surface Block now changes according to the Biome it generates in
• Crystal Islands now use a new, more configurable Feature Type
• Reworked Bronze Dungeon Generation again

• Bronze Dungeons now have an inner and outer part
• The Inner Part consists of rooms, libraries and the boss room in the middle
• The Outer Part is made up of Holystone Tunnels
• Removed all of the previous room variants and replaced them with new ones
• Bronze Dungeon Entrances now spawn in random locations of the Dungeon instead of always at the boss room
• A Bronze Dungeon can now have multiple or no Surface Entrance
• Bronze Dungeons now have entrances on the sides of islands again
• Bronze Dungeons generation now starts in the Underground instead of at a Surface Entrances, this allows for a much better of structure generation
• Bronze Dungeons now have a Fallback Structure that is wall of Carved Tiles that will generate when a Dungeon Piece Fails to generate instead of generating nothing

• Reworked Sentry Laboratory Generation

• Sentry Laboratories are now an underground Wyndcaps Structure
• Sentry Laboratories now consistent of tall procedurally generated corridors, that sometimes have room entrances
• In the middle of Sentry Laboratories is the Mutated Aechor Plant Boss Room
• Shafts that generated below the surface entrance before, now sometimes generate in the corridors and can lead to another floor of the dungeon

• Rebalanced Valkyrie Settlement Spawnrate
• Rebalanced Bronze Dungeon and Sentry Laboratory Spawnrate
• Bronze Dungeons now generate in Sakura Jungles and Elevated Islands again
• Sentry Laboratories now generate instead of Bronze Dungeons in Wyndcaps Biomes
• Silver and Gold Dungeons now generate more frequently
• Tweaked Cloudbed Generation
• Cloudbed Features are now more configurable via datapacks
• Renamed "advanced_jigsaw_structure" to "jigsaw_skylands"
• Renamed "min_spawn_height" field in Skylands Jigsaw Structures to "above_bottom"
• Added a "jigsaw_buried" Structure Type for Bronze Dungeons and Sentry Laboratories

• Mainly controlled by "above_bottom" and "below_top" fields
• Still has an optional Height Provider

• Renamed "ancient_aether_pine_foliage_placer" to just "pine_foliage_placer"
• Ancient Aether now makes more use of Biome Modifiers

Advancements

• Added an Advancement for finding the Sentry Laboratory called "A White Apple keeps the Cockatrice away"
• Added an Advancement for defeating the Mutated Aechor Plant called "Peace, Love and Houseplants"
• Added an Advancement for obtaining the Sentry Laboratory Shield Accessories called "In perfect Balance"
• The "Pickaxe of Gods" Advancement now uses a Divine Pickaxe instead of the Pickaxe of Arkenzus
• Reenabled the "Plunderer's Remorse" Advancement which now uses a Divine Hoe
• Tweaked Advancement Tree layout

Compatibility

These following changes only apply when the mod inside the brackets is installed

• Biome Generation of other Add-On Biomes is now handled by Ancient Aether
• Ancient Aether Features now properly generate in other Add-On Biomes
• Compatibility Recipes now give Recipe Book Pop-Ups
• Compatibility Recipes are now saved under the Ancient Aether's namespace
• [Aether Emissivity] Added compatibility Aether Emissivity
• [Deep Aether] Rebalanced Biome Generation to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Deep Aether] Rebalanced Sky Jade Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Deep Aether] Rebalanced Golden Heights Bonus Golden Aercloud Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Deep Aether] Aerlavender Fields now generate with Sky Grass instead of regular Grass
• [Deep Aether] Spooky Rings are now inside the Epic Loot Tier
• [Aether Redux] Rebalanced Biome Generation to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Redux] Added Compatibility Textures for some Redux Blocks and Items
• [Aether Redux] Updated Ancient Aether's Compatibility Pack to use Redux new Pack Config System
• [Aether Redux] Rebalanced Veredium Ore Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Redux] Rebalanced Blighted Aercloud Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Redux] Redux' Cloud Layer and Caves no longer generate
• [Lost Content] Added Ancient and regular Gale Vases
• [Lost Content] Lost Content Moa Eggs now also have Ancient Aether styled textures aswell as stat tool tips
• [Lost Content] Item Rarities are now properly applied to Lost Content Items
• [Aether Genesis] Added Blue Skyroot Pine Leaves and Blue Skyroot Pine Saplings
• [Aether Genesis] Blue Skyroot Pine Trees now use Ancient Aether's new Blue Skyroot Pine Blocks
• [Aether Genesis] Rebalanced Biome Generation to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Genesis] Rebalanced Continuum Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Genesis] Reworked Vegetation of Aether Genesis Biomes to better match the ones of Ancient Aether Biomes
• [Aether Genesis] Violet Aerclouds are now disabled when Aether Genesis is installed
• [Aether Genesis] Skyroot Chests and Mimics now generate in Structures instead of regular ones
• [Aether Genesis] Aether Genesis Bronze Dungeon Loot now spawns in Ancient Aether Bronze Dungeons
• [Aether Genesis] Valkyrie Settlement Shops can now spawn with Aether Genesis Aerclouds
• [Aether Genesis] Purple, Green and Golden Aerclouds can be used to craft Windblowers
• [Aether Genesis] Rebalanced Aether Genesis Aercloud Spawnheight to better work with Ancient Aether's Worldgen
• [Aether Genesis] Removed Pink Capes from the Creative Inventory when Aether Genesis is installed

Config

• Added a client config for the Rarity Tooltip System
• Added a client config for Moa Egg Tooltips
• Added a client config for Dungeon Block Tooltips
• Added a client config for Mutated Aechor Plant using a Custom Bossbar
• Added a client config for using the Aether Mods logo instead of Ancient Aether's in the Ancient Aether Menu
• Added a client config for Ancient Aether overriding client and common configs on start-up
• Added a common config for the duration that a Windblower Windblow lasts until it dissappears in ticks
• Added a common config for Experimental Content+
• Added a server config for Ancient Aether overriding server configs on start-up
• Configs now have proper descriptions

Experimental Content

This content will only appear in game when the "Experimental Content" Config is set to true

• Added Atmosine Crystals

• Atmosine Crystals float upwards similar to Gravitite
• They give of a dim light
• Atmosine Crystals can be used as an Altar Fuel
• Atmosine Crystals can be used as an Armor Trim
• They don't generate naturally yet

Art

Ancient Aether

• Updated Gravity Gravel Texture
• Updated Sky Blues Texture
• Updated Crystal Skyroot Leaves Texture
• Updated Crystal Skyroot Sapling Texture
• Updated Skyroot Pine Leaves Texture
• Updated Skyroot Pine Sapling Texture
• Updated Highsproot Sapling Texture
• Updated Sakura Sapling Texture
• Updated Aerogel Glass Texture
• Updated Aerogel Glass Door Texture
• Updated Aerogel Glass Trapdoor Texture
• Updated Aerogetic Stone Texture
• Updated Aeronautic Stone Texture
• Updated Corrupted Aeronautic Stone Texture
• Updated Sun Lantern Texture
• Updated Sentry Vase Texture
• Updated Angelic Vase Texture
• Updated Hellfire Vase Texture
• Updated Windblower Texture
• Updated Slider Prototype Texture
• Updated Slider Prototype Model to be less confusing to place
• Updated Ancient Obelisk Texture
• Updated Powered Obelisk Texture
• Updated Ancient Sword Texture
• Updated Grapes Texture
• Updated Ring of Growth Texture
• Updated Pendant of Growth Texture
• Updated Strength Stone Texture
• Updated Mosaic Armor Trim Smithing Template Texture
• Updated Solar Armor Trim Smithing Template Texture
• Updated Slammroot Texture
• Updated Slammroot Model
• Updated Violet Moa Texture
• Updated Royal Armor Trim Model Texture
• Updated Fluffalo Spawn Egg Colors
• Updated Slammroot Spawn Egg Colors
• Updated Aeronautic Leaper Spawn Egg Colors

Ancient Aether Tweaks Pack

• Updated Zanite Gemstone Texture
• Updated Victory Medal Texture
• Updated Lightning Knife Texture
• Updated Flaming Sword Texture
• Updated Lightning Sword Texture
• Updated Holy Sword Texture
• Updated Regeneration Stone Texture
• Reverted Vampire Sword Texture

Ancient Aether Programmer Art Pack

• Removed or reworked most of the old Programmer Art Textures
• Updated Golden Oak Log Texture to better fit Ancient Aether's Golden Oak Gen
• Ancient Aether Moa Eggs now use tinted Textures with the Programmer Art Pack active

Fixes

• Fixed Ancient Aether Accessories not stacking when you have multiple of the same one equipped
• Fixed Valkyrum Gloves having a missing texture when a Trim is applyed to them
• Fixed Slammroots not spawning properly
• Fixed Sky Grass not being compostable
• Fixed Slider Prototype having inside faces
• Fixed Ancient Obelisks playing the activation sound even when the activation wasn't sucessful
• Fixed Ambrosium Campfire spawning Lava Particles
• Fixed Valkyrum Lance not being held correctly by the player Fixed Ancient Aether Sign Recipes not being in the correct Recipe Book Group
• Fixed bonemealing Sky Grass on other types of Aether Grass spawning it in the default type
• Fixed the max lenth of Sky Grass still consuming Bonemeal when used
• Fixed Sky Grass not being flammable
• Fixed Sky Grass generating in Deep Aether's Golden Biomes
• Fixed the trapdoors found in the Bronze Dungeon Boss Room after defeating the Slider not being properly rotated
• Fixed Bronze Dungeon Rooms sometimes not aligning properly
• Fixed Bronze Dungeons sometimes having bugged chests
• Fixed Mimic Chests not keeping the rotation of the chests they replace inside of Bronze Dungeons
• Fixed some blocks inside of Ancient Aether Dungeons being waterlogged when generating in a body of water
• Fixed "Aerospace Traveller" Advancement not working properly
• Fixed Slammroots Sounds being a lot more quiet then the ones of other mobs
• Fixed Ancient Aerogetic Vases not appearing in the Creative Inventory when Lost Content is installed
• Fixed broken Tags

• This issue should no longer appear since Tags are now handled via Datagen

• Fixed some blocks and items not having a lore description
• Fixed Ancient Aether Flower Pots not having a lang entry
• Fixed Ancient Aether generating an empty Config Folder
• Fixed Disabled Advancement sending errors in the log
• Fixed Deep Aether Armor Trim Compat flooding the log with errors
• Fixed Ancient Aether Version not properly displaying in the Mod Menu
• Fixed a "missing character" at the end of the Mod Menu description

Removals

• Removed Highland Viola
• Removed Sakura Blossoms
• Removed Sentry Lantern
• Removed Angelic Lantern
• Removed Gale Lantern
• Removed Unused Ancient Guardian Mob
• Removed Crystal Skyroot Grove Biome
• Removed Crystal Skyroot Forest Biome
• Removed Golden Skyroot Grove Biome
• Removed Golden Skyroot Forest Biome
• Removed Golden Thicket Biome
• Removed Unused Crystal Grotto Biome