Aetherial Realms

## Aetherial Realms 1.2.0

### New Nether settings

Find these in the new Nether section of World Type > Customize.

- **Nether islands:** turn the floating islands off to get normal Nether terrain.

- **Nether island layout:** Natural keeps the islands you know. Custom lets you set:

- Island radius

- Island density

- Minimum gap between islands

- **Nether island Y range:** choose how high and low islands can sit.

- **Nether fog:** turn thick fog on or off. This is a per-player display setting that applies right away, including in existing worlds and on servers.

Default settings keep the same Nether as before. All of these except Nether fog only apply when you create a new world.

### Biome mod compatibility

- **Terralith:** its biomes now keep their own surfaces on sky islands.

- **Biomes O' Plenty:** its biomes now generate on Overworld islands at every build height and on Nether islands, with their own surfaces.

- Terrain shapes from biome mods, such as canyons and mountains, don't appear because the sky world builds its own islands.

- `/locate biome` can point to the empty sky between islands, since biomes exist there too.

### Fixes and improvements

- Fixed the backup grass platform appearing at spawn on snowy or heavily planted starting islands.

- Fixed a crash when saving a world with custom settings, such as a taller build height, while TerraBlender was installed (26.2).

- With the Custom layout, Nether portals now look for the nearest island when none is close by.

- Fortress and bastion islands now stay within reach of your chosen Y range.

### Known limitations

- Nether islands can't be turned off on dedicated servers yet.

## Aetherial Realms 1.1.0

### New

- **Natural Nether arrivals:** when a new Nether portal is made in a Sky Islands world, it's now built on the nearest natural Nether island (up to 128 blocks away) instead of over the void.

- **Linked portals:** a portal moved onto an island stays paired with the Overworld portal that created it. Going back takes you to your original portal instead of making a new one somewhere else, and using the same Overworld portal again reuses the island portal.

- **Biome-themed emergency islands:** if no natural island is close enough, the emergency arrival island now matches its biome: nylium, roots and fungi in crimson and warped forests, soul soil in soul sand valleys, basalt and magma in basalt deltas. It has a flat clearing around the portal, low hills, quartz and gold ore, and glowstone or shroomlight hanging underneath.

### Notes

- Portals built in existing worlds before this update keep their old placement; new portals use the new behavior.

- Fortresses and bastions are the mod's island-anchored versions. Find them with `/locate structure aetherialrealms:nether_fortress` and `aetherialrealms:nether_bastion` (`minecraft:fortress` won't find them).

What's new

1.0.0 – Initial Release

World generation

• New “Aetherial Realms” world type: an endless sky of floating island clusters above a sea of clouds
• Five island shapes: Classic, Bowl, Crescent, Terrace and Torus (ring), each with its own size and stretch settings
• Satellite islands, spires and broken-off fragments around every main island
• Big islands split into pieces with chasms between them
• Tall stone pillars topped with grass and trees
• Jagged, pointed undersides with dripstone, glow berries, vines and amethyst
• Rivers that pour off island edges as waterfalls
• A random starting island, so you no longer always spawn on a classic island
• Taller world options up to build height Y 2032, with stacked islands
• Optional ocean far below the islands, filled with water or lava
• Floating Nether islands

Lakes and wildlife

• Bowl islands can hold large lakes behind a raised rim
• Lakes have varied depths, sandy beaches, gravel and clay beds, sugar cane, lily pads and seagrass
• Cod, salmon, tropical fish, frogs and turtles spawn in and around lakes

Ores

• Every ore, from vanilla and from other mods, can be found inside the islands at any height
• Nether ores are spread through the floating Nether islands
• Settings for all ores, plus separate iron and coal amounts

Structures

• Vanilla structures get solid island ground under them
• Structures from other mods are left out if they would hang over the void
• Sky Villages are always allowed
• Settings for village size, trial chamber, fortress and bastion chances, and shipwrecks

Settings

• Full Customize screen with an Advanced section covering island shapes, island features, ocean terrain and structures
• Presets: save, load, delete, and share setups as files or by copy and paste
• Dedicated server support through a config file