The Aether (The Aether)

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This article is about the dimension. For the mod, see The Aether.

The Aether

The Aether is a hostile, paradise-like dimension of floating islands high in the sky, where you can begin a new survival adventure packed with new ores, mythical creatures and perilous Dungeons.

Accessing

Aether Portal

"Economy" portal without corners (left) and a full portal (right)

To access the Aether, the player must construct an aether portal in the Overworld. To create the portal, the player must first build a rectangular glowstone frame, ranging in size from a minimum of 4 blocks × 5 blocks to a maximum of 23 blocks × 23 blocks. Once the frame is built, it can then be activated by placing water within the frame using a water bucket, melting a block of ice inside the frame, or using dispensers.

The portal functions much like a vanilla Minecraft nether portal, allowing most entities (with the exception of the wither, the ender dragon, and entities riding or being ridden by another entity) to be transported to a corresponding portal in the Aether. In Survival, the player must stand in an aether portal for 4 seconds to get to the Aether, and can step out of a portal before it completes its animation to abort the teleport. The portal plays a sound effect while the player is inside it. If there is no corresponding portal, a new 4×5 portal is created. The portal can be destroyed by breaking the glowstone frame, by a nearby explosion, or by placing lava into it with a bucket or dispenser in the overworld. Any of the blocks in the corners can be destroyed without destroying the portal.

If cheats are enabled, players can also teleport to the Aether without using an aether portal: the syntax is /execute in the_aether.

Traits

Like the Overworld, the Aether is also horizontally infinite with a build limit of y-level 255.

Until the gold boss is defeated, it is always day in the Aether and there is no weather. After the gold boss is defeated, the Aether follows a daylight cycle. Daytime lasts 30 minutes as opposed to the Overworld's 10 minutes. Light otherwise functions exactly the same as it does in the Overworld.

Flora and fauna in the Aether share some similarities to the Overworld's. Several varieties of trees and flowers grow on the islands, along with berry bushes. There are also many passive and helpful mobs to be found in the Aether, just as there are also several hostile and potentially dangerous mobs too.

Locations in the Aether correspond to Overworld coordinates. Therefore, traveling one block in the Aether means traveling one block in the Overworld. For example, in a perfect scenario, a player who enters a portal in the Overworld at x=0, z=0 and travels in the Aether to x=1000, z=1000 returns to the Overworld at x=1000, z=1000.

An image of the Aether with a Bronze Dungeon entrance.

Most items and blocks in the Aether function the same as they do in the Overworld, with a few notable exceptions:

• Certain vanilla light sources cannot be placed or be lit in the Aether. Normal torches and lanterns cannot be placed, a campfire or jack o' lantern will immediately be extinguished upon placing, and candles cannot be lit. Flint and steel and fire charges will not be able to set anything on fire except for soulsand, netherrack, and hellfire stone.
  • Extinguishable light sources will emit black particles when they fail to be placed or lit.
  • Soul torches, lanterns, and campfires work normally however.
• Unenchanted vanilla tools all mine equally fast as the player's fist, and are slower than Aether tools.
• Until the Gold Dungeon boss is defeated, beds cannot be slept in but can be used to set a new spawn point.
• Clocks are frozen to midday but the day-night cycle continues in the Overworld.
• There is no way to place lava in the Aether, except inside a cauldron.
  • Using lava buckets produces aerogel, leaving the player with an empty bucket.
• Vanilla Grass blocks and leaves take on a blueish-green color.

Environment

The Aether features floating islands suspended over a void. The skybox contains a sun and a moon, but no clouds. Islands are mainly composed of aether grass, aether dirt, holystone, and quicksoil, alongside several ore blocks. Falling off of an island or flying below y level 0 will teleport the player to the Overworld at the same x- and y-coordinates.

Biomes

The Aether is generally considered to be its own biome, although there are technically 4 with different tree distributions.

Biome Name	Description	Image
Skyroot Forest	One of the more common biomes, it contains many skyroot trees clustered together.
Skyroot Grove	One of the more common biomes, skyroot trees are found less often than in skyroot forests but more than in Skyroot Meadows.
Skyroot Meadow	Another of the common biomes, this one features much less tress than the others.
Skyroot Woodland	A fairly rare biome, virtually indistinguishable from a Skyroot Forest.

Generated structures

The Aether contains a few unique generated structures. All dungeons contain loot of differing rarity and power useful for progression.

Name	Description	Image
Bronze Dungeon	The Bronze Dungeon is a large, labyrinth-like structure composed of carved stone and sentry stone. This structure is often found inside of large islands with only the entrance being exposed to the air. It is inhabited by sentries, mimics, and the Bronze Dungeon boss, the Slider.
Silver Dungeon	The Silver Dungeon generates as a very large structure similar to a classical greek temple seated on a mass of holystone, mossy holystone, and cold aerclouds. It is composed of angelic stone, light angelic stone, pillars, and pillar tops and can usually be found suspended high up in the air. Valkyries, mimics, and the dungeon boss--the Valkyrie Queen-- inhabit the Silver Dungeon.
Gold Dungeon	The Gold Dungeon consists of a large, spherical floating island with many golden oak trees growing on it and a single entrance leading directly to the boss room inside. In addition to the blocks it shares with other island generation, it is composed of hellfire stone, light hellfire stone, and Netherrack. The Sun Spirit is the sole inhabitant of the dungeon.
Ruined Aether Portal (Ruined Portals Datapack Only)	A structure containing what appears to be a destroyed aether portal and various types of stone brick or holystone brick materials, when generating in the Overworld or the Aether, respectively. Aether Grass Blocks, purple flowers, and white flowers generate on the ground around the portal, and a chest containing loot generates with the structure. These structures can be found in many Overworld biomes and in the Aether.

Terrain features

The Aether has a lot of different terrain features that generate within the biomes of the Aether.

Name	Description	Image
Large Cold Aerclouds	Large cold aerclouds generate at and below y-level 32. Unlucky players may find that their aether portal generated on top of one of these.
Aercloud Cluster	Aercloud clusters generate in the air. Blue and white aercloud clusters can be found at lower altitudes. Golden aercloud clusters are rarer and generate significantly higher up than the other two.
Tree Island	An small island with a single Crystal Tree on it.
Quicksoil Shelf	Layers of quicksoil on the sides of an island. Particularly dangerous around zephyrs.

Mobs

The Aether is inhabited by its own share of mobs, most of which are immune to fall damage.

Other Overworld mobs do not naturally spawn in the Nether but can be teleported through portals (with the exception of withers and ender dragons).

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Aerbunny	Aerwhale	Flying Cow	Moa	Phyg	Sheepuff	Whirlwind

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Valkyrie	Aechor Plant	Blue Swet	Golden Swet	Cockatrice	Evil Whirlwind	Zephyr

Sentry	Mimic	Fire Minion	Slider	Valkyrie Queen	Sun Spirit

Blocks

Naturally generated

Naturally generated blocks includes those that are created through the world seed.

• Air
• Aether Grass Block
• Aether Dirt
• Quicksoil
• Holystone
• Icestone
• Ambrosium Ore
• Zanite Ore
• Gravitite Ore
• Skyroot Log
• Skyroot Leaves
• Golden Oak Log
• Golden Oak Leaves
• Crystal Leaves
• Crystal Fruit Leaves
• Holiday Leaves
• Decorated Holiday Leaves
• Berry Bush
• Purple Flower
• White Flower
• Cold Aercloud
• Blue Aercloud
• Golden Aercloud
• Present

Naturally created

Naturally created blocks are created through a combination of events that lead these blocks to be placed by natural causes, not by the player.

• Air
• Ice
• Berry Bush
• Holystone

Structures

These blocks are generated as part of ruined aether portals and bronze, silver, and gold dungeons, but only when the "generated structures" option is on.

• Air
• Holystone
• Aether Dirt
• Mossy Holystone
• Carved Stone
• Sentry Stone
• Cold Aercloud
• Angelic Stone
• Light Angelic Stone
• Pillar
• Pillar Top
• Smooth Stone Slab
• Chest Mimic
• Glowstone
• Water
• Blue Wool
• Skyroot Fence
• Aether Grass Block
• Golden Oak Log
• Golden Oak Leaves
• Purple Flower
• White Flower
• Hellfire Stone
• Light Hellfire Stone
• Netherrack
• Treasure Chest
• Holystone Bricks
• Holystone Brick Slab
• Holystone Brick Stairs
• Holystone Brick Wall
• Chest

Technical information

Folder

The Aether is stored in .minecraft/saves/worldname/dimensions/aether/the_aether/data. Deleting this folder resets the Aether, along with all player-made changes and buildings in that dimension.

Advancements

There Aether has a whole tab dedicated to it in the advancement system, all involving visiting the Aether in order to advance.

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	The Aether	It's not dead!	—	Enter the Aether dimension.	advancements/the_aether
	Hostile Paradise	Enter the Aether	The Aether	—	advancements/enter_aether
	To Infinity and Beyond!	Bounce on a Blue Aercloud	Hostile Paradise	—	advancements/blue_aercloud
	Exotic Hardware	Have a Zanite Gemstone in your inventory	Hostile Paradise	—	advancements/zanite
	The More You Know!	Read a Book of Lore	Hostile Paradise	Place an item in the Book of Lore item slot.	advancements/read_lore
	Don't Count Your Moas...	Obtain a Moa Egg	To Infinity and Beyond!	Have a Moa Egg in your inventory.	advancements/obtain_egg
	When Phygs Fly	Fly on a Phyg!	To Infinity and Beyond!	Mount a Phyg.	advancements/mount_phyg
	Do You Believe in Magic?	Craft an Altar.	Exotic Hardware	Have an Altar in your inventory.	advancements/craft_altar
	Lore-Ception!	Place a Book of Lore inside a Book of Lore.	Hostile Paradise	Place the Book of Lore in the item slot of the Book of Lore.	advancements/loreception
	Baby Food	Harvest an Aechor Petal from an Aechor Plant	Don't Count Your Moas...	Have an Aechor Petal in your inventory.	advancements/obtain_petal
	Until They hatch!	Incubate a Moa	Don't Count Your Moas...	—	advancements/incubate_moa
	Pink is the New Blue	Use an Altar to obtain Enchanted Gravitite	Do You Believe in Magic?	Have a block of Enchanted Gravitite in your inventory.	advancements/enchanted_gravititie
	Cold as Ice	Obtain Icestone	Do You Believe in Magic?	Have a block of Icestone in your inventory.	advancements/icestone
	Let's Fly!	Ride a Black Moa	... Until They hatch!	Mount a Black Moa.	advancements/black_moa
	Like a Bossaru!	Defeat the bronze boss	Pink is the New Blue	Kill the Slider.	advancements/bronze_dungeon
	Defying Gravity	Have a full set of gravitite armor in your inventory	Pink is the New Blue	—	advancements/gravitite_armor
	Cool Jewelry!	Use a Freezer and Icestone to freeze an accessory	Cold as Ice	Have an Ice Pendant or Ice Ring in your inventory.	advancements/ice_accessory
	The Power of the Gods	Obtain the Hammer of Kingbdogz from the Bronze Dungeon	Like a Bossaru!	Have a Hammer of Kingbdogz in your inventory.	advancements/hammer_loot
	Challenger to the Throne	Obtain the Valkyrie Lance from the Bronze Dungeon. Time to challenge the Silver Dungeon!	Like a Bossaru!	Have a Valkyrie Lance in your inventory.	advancements/lance_loot
	Ultimate Ban Hammer	Kill a Zephyr with the Hammer of Kingbdogz. Sweet Revenge!	The Power of the Gods	—	advancements/zephyr_hammer
	Dethroned	Defeat the silver boss	Challenger to the Throne	Kill the Valkyrie Queen.	advancements/silver_dungeon
	Earning your Wings	Obtain a piece of Valkyrie equipment from the Silver Dungeon	Dethroned	Have a piece of the Valkyrie Armor set in your inventory.	advancements/valkyrie_loot
	Battle Hardened	Obtain a Regeneration Stone from the Silver Dungeon. The final dungeon awaits...	Dethroned	Have a Regeneration Stone in your inventory.	advancements/regen_stone
	Plunderer's Remorse	I defeated the Silver Dungeon and all I got was this stupid Hoe	Earning your Wings	Use a Valkyrie Hoe.	advancements/valkyrie_hoe
	Extinguished	Defeat the gold boss	Battle Hardened	Defeat the Sun Spirit.	advancements/gold_dungeon
	Fireproof	Obtain a piece of Phoenix armor from the Gold Dungeon	Extinguished	Have a piece of the Phoenix Armor set in your inventory.	advancements/phoenix_armor
	A Well Earned Rest	Finally sleep in the Aether	Extinguished	—	advancements/aether_sleep
	Ice Bucket Armor	Have a full set of obsidian armor in your inventory	Fireproof	—	advancements/obsidian_armor

Trivia

• The Aether is an inverse to The Nether, with the Aether being large solid areas in empty space while The Nether is empty space in large solid areas.
• According to the original developer Brandon Pearce, fire cannot normally be created in the dimension due to the oxygen level being too low.