Catch, Train & Battle
Search the world for Cobblemon, build a team you care about, train your companions, and test them in battle.
A Play Aethro World

Catch and train Cobblemon, build a life through MCA Reborn, earn meaningful rewards just by playing, and return for seasonal custom realms that keep the world moving.
Find your place
Shadows of Aethro brings several layers of adventure together. Cobblemon fills the wild with creatures to discover, catch, train, and battle. MCA Reborn gives villages a human side through friendships, relationships, families, and the people who become part of your everyday story.
Around that heart is a persistent modded survival world with progression systems designed to reward time, consistency, exploration, and community trade. Build a home, train a team, chase seasonal realm events, and keep finding reasons to come back.
Inside the world
Search the world for Cobblemon, build a team you care about, train your companions, and test them in battle.
Travel beyond your home in search of creatures, resources, new terrain, and the next place worth remembering.
Meet villagers with personalities, form friendships and relationships, build a family, and watch your personal story grow.
Turn a first-night shelter into a home, a homestead, or something the whole community recognizes on sight.
Gather, craft, improve your gear, develop your base, and follow the parts of the modpack that interest you most.
Adventure together, trade knowledge, help new arrivals, and become one of the familiar names that makes a server feel alive.
Always something to chase
Custom Realms are special seasonal areas that rotate in on a regular basis. They give the server fresh places to explore without replacing the main world: new environments, event-style objectives, themed rewards, unusual encounters, and reasons for veterans and new players to adventure together.
The playtime system is built to reward being part of the world, not just rushing a checklist. As you spend time in Shadows, your account can move through playtime milestones that recognize commitment and unlock practical rewards, quality-of-life perks, and long-term progression goals.
Daily login rewards give players a steady rhythm of useful bonuses for returning. The goal is simple: make regular play feel appreciated without forcing everyone to grind the same activity every single day.
The Auction House gives Shadows players a cleaner way to list, browse, and buy from each other. It connects the in-game economy with Play Aethro so the marketplace can be easier to understand outside the heat of gameplay.
Read the Auction House guide ›No single right way to play
Ready when you are
Install the Play Aethro Launcher, then use it to get the current Shadows of Aethro setup ready for Minecraft.
Download Launcher ↓Add the server in Minecraft using the address and port below.
mc.aethro.net:25567Your journey begins here