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''[[The Aether]]'' is the biggest ''[[Minecraft]]'' [[Game Mod]] to date. It provides an entirely new dimension, the Aether, complementing the normal world and the Nether. Whereas the Nether is pockets of sky surrounded entirely by rock, the Aether is just the opposite -- [[Floating Continent|pieces of land]] [[World in
What makes the Aether a huge mod is not just its added terrain generator (there are plenty of terrain generator mods out there). It's also an entirely different ''geology'', with its own unique rocks, its own unique soils, etc. And it has a different ''ecosystem'' as well, with original mobs (animal creatures) that spawn only in the Aether. And there are three tiers of dungeon, each with a boss battle.
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Aether mod includes three new items -- three books comprising three volumes of the Book of Lore. These are in-game guidebooks that tell you the purpose of items you find. Volume 1 pertains to the ''Minecraft'' surface world and items that already exist there. Volume 2 pertains to the Nether. And volume 3 pertains to items original to the Aether. These books need not be ''found'' -- depending on which dimension you are currently in, pressing B on the keyboard will automatically add the relevant Book of Lore volume to your inventory.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Sheepuffs, unlike surface sheep, come in a lovely variety of pastel colors. Besides the normal white and normal grey, there's also pink, lime green, cyan, light blue and purple.
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* [[Level Grinding]]: While the Aether's current incarnation does not implement experience levels, the Aether shares an element ''Minecraft'' has in general, where an accumulation of rare and precious equipment gives you an advantage that helps you succeed. But you have to go through a lot of grinding-like work to get there -- you usually need to clear more than one Bronze Dungeon to be able to clear a Silver Dungeon, and you usually need to clear more than one Silver Dungeon to be able to clear a Gold Dungeon. Bronze Dungeons are thankfully more abundant than the other too, but often hidden inside the earthy interior of the floating landmasses.
* [[Nature Spirit]]: The Sun Spirit, a neutral mob, is the boss of the Gold Dungeon. He's the reason the Aether's sun's position is frozen eternally at high noon.
* {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: After you defeat the Gold Dungeon boss, it brings an end to the Aether's eternal daylight, and ushers in normal day/night cycles. While this does not mean new dangerous mobs at night, there is a significantly greater danger of falling off land's edge because you couldn't see well enough in the dark.}}
* [[Obvious Beta|Obvious Alpha]]: As Aether 1.02 was only released for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 and development of the Aether was put on hiatus until a Minecraft 1.0.0 release, Aether 1.03 only resumed development after Minecraft 1.0.0 was released ''and'' the other mods that the Aether depended on were updated to support Minecraft 1.0.0 as well. Aether 1.03 had to fundamentally rewrite large areas of long derelict Aether code to support the many differences between Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 and Minecraft 1.0.0. The project was aiming for a Christmas 2011 release, but there was too little time, and it was released as Christmas Day was already well underway in most of the world. The result was extremely buggy and crash-prone. And some of the bugs were [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]], such as skyroot trees not dropping saplings and therefore being unfarmable in survival mode. Aether 1.04 was primarily a bugfix of the bugs introduced into Aether 1.03.
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: Both the Silver Dungeons and the Gold Dungeons fit into this trope. The Silver Dungeon is basically a giant Parthenon-like building floating in the sky shrouded by white aerclouds. The Gold Dungeon is a roughly orb-shaped piece of land crowned with golden oaks, with the fiery Sun Spirit visible inside through the entranceway. This trope is subverted in that neither of these dungeons ''or'' their bosses are necessarily ''evil'' (or good, for that matter), but they are dangerous places, and if you challenge them, there's a very real possibility you will meet a violent death.
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*** [[Word of God]]: Kingbdogz has stated that "ee-ther" is the most correct pronunciation, but that he himself tends to say "ay-ther". ...[[Shrug of God|which seems to imply both pronunciations are accepted]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: ''Minecraft'' is already known for its Scenery Porn. But special mention needs to be made of how ''good'' the Aether's textures and terrain generator have made it look.
* [[Shout
* [[Snowball Fight]]: While zephyrs are a hostile mob, their only weapon are snowballs. Snowballs themselves are harmless, but considering this is a [[World in
* [[Space Whale]]: Aerwhales fly through the sky.
* [[Technicolor Toxin]]: Poison is [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|color-coded]] purple.
* [[World in
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Silver Dungeon boss will decline to even fight you until you have defeated at least ten of her valkyries and shown her their medals as proof.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: If you're riding a flying animal mount and fall off the world down to the normal world surface, you may not be killed, but your animal mount will never be able to return to their Aether home again, because you won't be able to take them back through the Aether portal with you.
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