Hello Aethro gremlins,

A new Shadows of Aethro update is here, and this one is a mix of new toys, quality-of-life improvements, worldgen updates, and one very important grave-related replacement because apparently “your items are safe” was making promises it could not keep. Rude.

Added

Sign Plates
More decorative sign options for builds, shops, towns, and “please stop touching my stuff” warnings.

You’re in Grave Danger
A new grave system has been added to help protect your items after death. This replaces the old death-item protection mod.

Updated

The following mods have been updated:

• Dungeons and Villages

• WorldWeaverRemastered

• Waystones

• RCTAPI

• Easy Mob Farm

• Mega Showdown

• CobbleFurnies

• Better Nether

• Better End

• BCLib / related Better Nether & Better End library files

These updates should bring better stability, fixes, compatibility improvements, and updated content across world generation, structures, travel, farming, furniture, and adventure systems.

Removed

Your Items Are Safe
Removed because, well… they were not. We have replaced it with You’re in Grave Danger, which should be a more reliable death/grave system going forward.

Important Note

As always, please report any weirdness, crashes, missing items, broken graves, or suspiciously haunted nonsense so we can look into it.

Thank you for playing on Shadows of Aethro. Try not to die immediately.

Greetings, Travelers! The shadows are shifting and the world of Aethro is evolving. We’ve been hard at work under the hood to ensure your journey through the dimensions is smoother, fairer, and a bit more stylish.

🛡️ Gear & Dimensions

The cosmic energies of the BetterEnd and BetterNether have stabilized.

• Armor Overhaul: We’ve applied essential fixes to Terminate and Thallium sets.

• Stats & Style: Both the armor values and the visuals have been corrected. You’ll now look as tough as you actually are!

🏛️ Cobblebase & Pokémon Fixes

The heart of our world is getting some much-needed maintenance:

• Deep Sea Cleaning: We’ve refined the Diving Job list. 25 non-diving Pokémon that had no business being at the bottom of the ocean have been removed. 168 species remain for your aquatic expeditions!

• Pasture Tether 2.0: Water-type Pokémon are finally free! The pasture system will no longer teleport them out of their natural habitat. They can now swim freely, and if they happen to end up on land, they’ll be placed directly back into nearby water.

• Admin/Producer Tools: Internal updates for producers to help keep the server running like a well-oiled machine.

🤝 The Recruiter’s Guild

• Friend Recruiter: Prof 5 has undergone a balance change. It will no longer summon Legendaries (we're currently cooking up a more balanced alternative for this).

• The Upside: To compensate, the rarity odds for other encounters have been significantly boosted!

🐛 Bug Squashing

• Producer Exploit: Fixed a cheeky exploit involving instant drops. Keep it fair, folks!

• Resource World: We’ve pushed a major update to the Resource World to address the recurring errors. It should be much more stable for your mining trips.

• MCA Reborn: Fixed translation errors—your neighbors should actually make sense now!

📦 New Additions to the Realm

We’ve added a few quality-of-life mods to help you navigate and organize your life in Aethro:

• ✨ Style Chat: Prepping the world for our upcoming Tags System. Get ready to flex those titles!

• 🧭 Explorer’s Compass: Tired of wandering aimlessly? This will help you find specific biomes with ease.

• 📦 Simple Storage: A cleaner, more efficient way to manage your hoard of loot.

• 🤖 Easy NPC Update: Our NPC tools got a massive upgrade, making it much easier for us to build out the world's lore and quest-givers very soon.

Safe travels, and may your catches always be critical!

We have done some updates to the Shadows of Aethro server today -

• Pokeballs have had a small price decrease in the Cobble Shop

• Mobs have had their strength reduced.

• Added Quick Paths! You can now crouch and right click on a grass block to start, and right click on the last grass block to finish it.

• A rotating daily shop has been added to the system. We will be adding this to the world shop soon.

• Cobblebase has had some updates - When you have a Prof level 5 there is a chance every 30 minutes a legendary pokemon will spawn!

We will be continuing to update the server as we go forward!

Hey folks—sorry for the silence lately. I had to go "dark" to handle some family matters and finish out my day job. Now that things have stabilized, I’m back in action.

I've been busy moving the website over to support my 24-year passion project (the online game), but don't worry—the SoA modpack isn't being changed to "fit" the new game. However, it is getting a massive face-lift this weekend.

What’s happening Sunday: This is a major update. We’re looking at updates to almost 26 different mods.

• Resource World: The "holy grail" fix is finally here. It’ll finally work the way I intended.

• Engine Room: I'm implementing a multi-core system to keep memory usage low and exploration smooth.

• The List: With ~26 mods changing, the update list is going to be a long one.

I’ll see you all Sunday with the full notes. Thanks for sticking by me!

Here comes today’s magnificently unhinged patch notes, now with extra sparkle courtesy of our freshly updated Drops Mod:

Easy Mob Farm

Cleaned up some memory leaks and resource trickles. It now behaves less like a toddler with a juice box.

Hearlds

Recipes fixed and colors refreshed. Heraldic glow-up complete.

Create: The Factory Must Grow

A renegade tag ignored the Factory Growth Mandate. It has been reassigned to mandatory labor.

Structurize

A handful of tiny, crunchy bugs squashed. Buildings are 4% sassier and 12% less broken.

MineColonies – the villagers filed a novella-length complaint list, so here’s the summary:

• Builders continue their architectural rampage: more blueprints, more improvements, fewer crimes against geometry.

• Town Scribes simplified permissions. Mark someone “hostile” to have guards whack them; mark someone “manager” to let them hear colony gossip and load chunks.

• Guards now pay more attention to enemies, even when they’re “not looking.”

• Raiders realized attacking dead things is pointless. Enlightenment achieved.

• Massive food rebalance—citizens eat less like ravenous void demons.

• Colony signs now require a level 1+ gatehouse. Bureaucracy thrives.

• MineColonies crops can be right-click harvested with a hoe. Farming efficiency unlocked.

• Citizens now sit on actual chairs instead of hover-meditating above them.

• Smelting workers no longer get spiritually trapped by leftover furnace goo.

• Restaurant waiters will still work even while hungry. Late-stage capitalism speedrun.

• Builders accept farmland as solid ground again. Physics restored.

Byzantine Style

A few historically inaccurate bugs were exiled.

Create: Framed

Cardboard blocks received therapy and now behave properly.

Better Combat

Fixed weapon attributes that mysteriously had zero attack power. Turns out “no damage” is not a combat strategy.

Aethro Events

A brand-new event arrives to disrupt your day, and Santa has returned from the multiverse to resume his reign of festive mayhem.

NMPC

Removed because we actually use CurseForge like civilized modders.

Drops Mod

The shiny new Aethro Drops patch is LIVE! Fresh code, cleaner behavior, better loot logic, and far fewer existential crises inside your item tables. Yes, this is the same one we just rebuilt—flexing it proudly.

The universe expands, the mods update, and somewhere out there a colonist is thrilled to finally sit on a chair like a normal person.