Important
BWA is now on the latest modding infrastructure, so please update to fabric loader. Please use the updated Babric Mod instance, if you haven't switched yet.
Special thanks to Yallendallis with helping us with the color maps, please check out his amazing texture pack Dokucraft.
Major changes:
- Requires Dragonfly now.
- Aether ores now work with Veinminer from Commandly.
- Zephyr now spawn on clouds, they should be less common overall.
- Zephyr can now path through cloud blocks.
- Sentry, Mimic & Fire minion can now less strict with spawning from Mob Spawner.
- Slider now takes half a second to wake up, giving player chance to dodge his first attack
- Sunspirit dialog can be skipped on the second fight when the player holds a sword and talks to the boss.
- Illegal block now spawn particles when they cannot be placed in Aether
- After Sunspirit dies some Blocks become placeable in the Aether that were not before:
- Soul Sand, Soul Schist, Jack 'o' Lantern, Netherrack, Cobbled Netherrack, Cobbled Netherrack, Slab, Cobbled Netherrack Stairs, Mossy Netherrack, Carved Netherrack, Polished Netherrack, Netherrack Bricks, Netherrack Brick Slab, Netherrack Brick Stairs, Polished Netherrack Slab, Nether Coal Ore and Block of Nether Coal
- Aether now has color correction similar to the nether, has a bright green hue to it.
- Increased the poison duration per stack from 3 to 6.
- Aechor plants now takes double damage from fire.
- Dungeon door produce particle when breaking to give more visual indication of them opening.
- Dungeon door block item now has a texture again.
- Increased the lightning resistance on armor such as chainmail, iron, gold and steel.
- Chain pendant texture has been adjusted to stand out from chainmail.
- Gravitite armor takes less damage when using the jump boost.
- More Block are available in the creative menu.
- Trapped block spawn now on cool down instead of random.
- Mob spawned by trapped block should be less likely to spawn in the wall.
- More room variants for Maze.
- Simplified settings.
- Skyroot and Golden Oak saplings turn into Aether Dead Bush instead of normal Dead Bush.
- Reduced gummy sweets healing amount, healing speed, and stack size.
- Adjust special dev drops to be less problematic.
- Added missing tags, for example ladder can now be broken with Aether axes.
- Added missing trap and locked-trapped blocks for parity reason.
- Added missing scrap recipes for chainmail gloves and pendant.
- Added missing map colors.
- Added missing langs.
- Added colorize for leaves, grass, moss and tallgrass
Bug Fixes:
- Punching boat or similar with just gloves equipped no longer crashes the game
- Sunspirit, Slider and Valkyries now talk again in single player.
- Sunspirit no longer gets stuck at the edges
- Sunspirit dialog now correct resets when restarting the fight.
- Sunspirit now can no longer be talked to in creative after the fight starts.
- Slider now no longer get stuck at the plinth.
- Slider now does the correct damage with slam and push attack.
- Dungeon can now spawn again.
- Hitting swets with gravitite sword no longer crashes the game.
- Gloves now render correctly when holding the map.
- Pendant now also spawns damaged in Labyrinth.
- Sheepuff can now be sheared by Activator.
- Tools now take damage when used by the activator
- Phow can now be milked.
- Cow can now be milked with Skyroot Bucket.
- Ambrosium ore can no longer be duped with Skyroot Pickaxe.
- Pendant can no longer be worn on feet.
- Chest in the Valkyrie Temple are no longer populated multiple time anymore. It will only be filled once.
- Zanite and Leather pendant now spawned damaged in Mazes.
- Pendants now takes damage from harvesting blocks again.
- Skyroot chest and its painted variant can no longer be placed into the minecart.
- Damage now renders correctly on the fire minion, slight adjustment of model
- Fixed world corruption glitch when changing worlds.
- Players now get a free parachute on their first time going to the Aether.
- Block Blacklist now works correctly after defeating the sunspirit.
- Knockback my gravitite tool and zephyr now respects the obsidian armor knockback protection.
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.3
- Catalyst = 2.10.3
- UselessNumerical >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
- DragonFly Model Library >= 1.7.0-alpha.7
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all version contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.13.0-beta...0.14.0-beta
Important
Last version the catalyst broke and made lifeshard unusable. Unfortunately this mean that the hearts acquired were not tracked and new hearts can only be tracked once the extra health is reset. To reset the extra health type /extraHealth set @a 0. Should any issues arise from that please contact us.
BWA is now on the latest modding infrastructure, so please update to fabric loader 0.17.3-bta.8
Major changes:
- Zephyr use custom knockback instead of fling to push player around.
- Gravitite Tool and Weapons now use knockback instead of fling to push enemies around.
- Gravitite Tools knockback on hit enemies up high.
- Gravitite Tools knockback on hit while sneaking enemies far.
- Readded repair recipes, can be toggles via config file and are set by default to not be included
- Gloves now do damage and also apply effects:
- Gravitite knockbacks enemies the same way the tools do. Does fall damage.
- Phoenix can lit enemies on fire. Does fire damage
- Obsidian does explosive damage, creates particles
- Neptune does drowning damage, creates particles underwater.
- Vampire sword now heal 1 hearts overtime and the remaining 1 hearts instantly.
- The Regeneration Stone now takes 10 seconds to heal instead of 7.5 seconds
- Valkyrie Queen will now teleport when in midair
- Invisibility Cloak now makes worn armor, accessories and held item transparent
Bug Fixes:
- Summoned mimic now drop the correct colored chest on death.
- Armor tooltip renders in the correct order
- Lantern can now hang off skyroot fences
- Lifeshard applies the extra health at 9 hearts correctly
- Sign Model in inventory fixed
- Sign entity textures now all match
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.10.2
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all version contains the correct version of both of these:
New Contributors
- @SmushyTaco made their first contribution in https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/pull/712
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.12.1-beta...0.13.0-beta
Major changes:
- BWA uses new version of UselessNumericals.
- Negative protection values have new colors, magenta through blue
- Gloves buffed from 1/3 boots protection to 1/2
- Iron pendants are brighter to stand out from chainmail pendants
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed quiver not working rendering arrow with the pheonix bow.
- Aechor plant die now again when the block is mined underneath.
- Aechor plant die when spawned not on Aether Grass block.
- Negative defenses no longer render outside the box.#
- Extra hearts cannot exceed the limit anymore.
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.9.0
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all version contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.12-beta...0.12.1-beta
Major changes:
- Introduced new Damage Types: Lightning and Holy damage. Check out the cool particles.
- Valkyrie do holy damage and take less damage.
- Valkyrie tools, Remedy Dart and Holy Sword do holy damage.
- Gravitite tools do fall damage.
- Flaming Sword does now pure fire damage.
- Lightning Knife and Lightning Sword do lightning.
- Wooden/Skyroot Mimic take extra damage from fire.
- Renamed the trapped chest block to mimic.
- Dart shooter renamed to blowgun.
- Blowgun now displays the equipped darts.
- Buffed the Valkyrie Queen health.
- Default tool for mining the clouds is now shovel.
- Changed how the golden feather are displaying on the player.
- Adjusted the textures
- Hand will still render while invisible now
- Hammer head projectile is now bigger
Bug Fixes:
- Swet will no longer cause the player to disconnect if they die within
- Swet will no longer grab the player when the player is dead
- Whirly can no longer see the player that have invisibility cape equipped
- Creative armor bar overlay no longer overlaps the creative inventory
- Flaming arrow now do fire damage
- Fixed special drops.
- Made the treasure room in Maze, Temple and Sanctuary breakable
- Fixed missing or incorrect lang names.
- Holystone display correct texture on retro worlds.
- Tall grass no longer generates on retro worlds.
- Remedy particles now correctly start at the head in multiplayer.
- Skyroot trapdoor now drop with correct metadata.
- Boss health bars should appear more consistently
- Gravitite tools will work with tile entities now
- Bonus blocks will no longer crash with aether
- Floating blocks should no longer have any issues
- All aether swords now work correctly when hitting mobs
- Invisibility cape texture now loads and works on server
- Extra hearts will now remain no matter what and fully heal you on respawn
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.9.0
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the modrinth catalyst contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.11-beta...0.12-beta
Major changes:
- Special tools have a durability and damage buff
- Windballs push you without using fling
- Lightning knives are more common in loot now
- Hellfire blocks can burn forever now
- Sunspirit has been made harder
- Moas can be fed aechor plants to heal them
- You can no longer hit a moa while riding it
- Skyroot saplings now have a consistent drop rate
Bug Fixes:
- Aether music will now download properly
- Valkyrie tool reach now works on server
- Black moas now lay black moa eggs
- Dungeons no longer generate split in half
- Music discs no longer have a broken lang in the toast
- Mimic contents no longer vanish when you relog on server
- Swets now respect the invisibility cloak
- Aechor plants have been improved in backend
- Fix dimension id incompact with signal industries
- Accessories now render on other players
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.8.0
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all version contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.10-beta...0.11-beta
Major changes:
- Added blast furnace and trommel to mineable by aether pick list
- Aether flowers can now grow on aether moss blocks
- Aether trees no longer abide to season growth rules
- Cockatrices can now spawn in light levels of 7 and below
- All aether worlds use perlin flat clouds now
- Swets and aechor plants can now be restricted from spawning by lighting an area up
BugFixes:
- Fixed aether music not playing (hopefully)
- Fixed entities falling from the aether... into the aether..
- Bunnies have been cleaned up and no longer fail when its raining
- Skyroot buckets can now be crafted again
- Phoenix bow model now works correctly
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.8.0
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all version contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.9-beta...0.10-beta
Major changes:
Updated from alpha to beta!
- Aechor plants shoot twice as slow now.
- Added skyroot planks as option for planks to recipes for boat, bed, bookshelf, jukebox, noteblock, workbench, piston, rotary, paperwall, bowl and seat.
- Added skyroot sticks as option for sticks to recipes for flag, paperwall fence, painting, paintbrush, power rail, rail, redstone recipe and restone recipe.
- Added skyroot pressure plates as option for pressure plate for detector rail.
- Cake and Pie can now be crafted with moa eggs, and cake can be crafted with skyroot milk buckets.
- Added gravitite block as option for diamond to recipe jukebox.
- Renamed enchanted dart to remedy dart and dart shooter to blowpipe.
- BWA dev drop extra items on death.
- Healing stone stack to 4, and take 10x longer to heal.
- Mobs are now sent to overworld in single player.
- Invisibity cape and Repulsion shield are rarer rewards now.
- Default, Retro, Classic and Indev terrain matches the OG Aether.
- Bosses and their minions, are now immune to drowning and poison
- Added missing effect for neptune armor for dogs.
- Obsidian extra damage from falling has been removed.
- Flowers, tall grass and clouds use noise to generate (for performance reason).
- Added missing recipes for holystone bricks and their variants.
- Added shield vignette.
- Texture changes.
- Wearing two leather pendants now stops the player from slipping on ice.
- Incubator can spawn slimes of different sizes.
- Swets can now be incubated.
- Added setting to disable cycling of accessories icons, and change speed of icon cycling.
- Added missing blocks their map colors.
- Added skyroot stick as option for sticks in recipe lever.
- Gravitite now drops a raw ore item.
- Added custom Item Model for Valkyrie lance and Phoenix bow
BugFixes:
- Game does not crash when trying to load default icon for accessory slots
- Inventory gui always renders at least the default icon for accessories
- Trap block no longer spawn ghost mobs when triggered on a server
- Hitting a ice projectile with a bow/dart no longer perma crashes the world
- Swet and Aechorplant cannot attack anymore while dead
- Whirly were not synching on the server
- Holystone tool no loner produce ghost items on the server
- When 2 shield were equipped when nether would work.
- Whales now move correctly.
- Fixed Dungeon door so the debug world no longer crashes.
- Valkyrie Queen no longer wanders off the room.
- Fixed issue where having sex with a parachute would crash the server.
- Valkyrie Queen no longer heals 400 HP when a player dies.
- Valkyrie Queen is smarter about picking a target.
- Valkyrie Queen actually sets it's targets to the boss list
Dependencies:
- Halplibe >= HalpLibe 5.3.1
- Catalyst = 2.8.0
- UselessNumericals >= 1.1.0-7.3_04
More precisely the following version are required. Note that the catalyst-all jar contains the correct version of both of these:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/bta-team-port/better-with-aether/compare/0.8-alpha...0.9-beta





