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🎉 Shadows of Aethro Daily Chaos Report 🎉

Today’s headlines from the realm of blocky madness:

🕒 Bossbar Toggle!
Tired of your screen yelling at you about playtime rewards? Do /rewards bossbar toggle and tell it to shut up.

📜 MOTD Shenanigans
Every time you log in now, the server will scream a Message of the Day at you. Don’t worry, it’s friendly. (Most of the time.)

📦 Box of Horrors
New horror bosses are lurking around… because Aethro wasn’t scary enough already. Who needs sleep anyway?

✈️ Immersive Aircraft
Airships, planes, and sky nonsense have arrived. Time to crash into mountains in style.

🔪 Butchery!
You can now lovingly dismantle your dinner. Please see the rules at the bottom of this post before you decide to reenact Texas Chainsaw Minecraft.

🖼️ Art Fixes
Paintings and Item Frames have been patched so they cause slightly less lag. Still ugly though.

🧍 Shrink!
Become pocket-sized. Finally, live out your ant cosplay dreams.

⚔️ Realm RPG
Quests now spawn randomly throughout the world. Expect to be sent on errands by weird strangers who don’t tip.

🛠️ Mod Updates
Everything has been dragged screaming into the latest 1.20.1 builds.

🌍 World Border Expansion
The border has been nudged outward, giving you more cursed lands to explore. Don’t blame us if you get lost.

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⚠️ Important Note on Butchery:
Don’t be a jackass with it. Keep things in good taste and respect server rules.

Dragna
Dragna

🎉 **Shadows of Aethro Update — August 23, 2025** 🎉

Hey everyone! We’ve got a shiny new update dropping today with fixes, tweaks, and… something magical you’re going to love. Let’s get into it!

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✨ **NEW ADDITION**
🪄 **BUILDING WANDS ARE HERE!** 🪄
No more block-by-block finger cramps. No more “oops I misplaced the 73rd brick in this wall.”
Now you can wave your wand and *poof* — instant construction magic!
Go forth, build castles, towers, and questionable dirt huts at lightning speed. The power is yours!

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🔧 **Updates & Fixes**
• **AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)**
- New **Memory Monitor** to track leaks with commands like `/atl force_refresh`.
- Patches for memory leaks across Forge, Journeymap, Productive Bees, and more.
- Basically: less lag, more fun.

• **MineColonies**
- Goats got some training. 🐐
- Restaurants now *actually* require staff to serve you food.
- Desert Oasis and Warped Netherlands style fixes.

• **Heralds II**
- Banners and flags got a glow-up. 🚩
- Look better when held, worn, dropped, framed, fox-napped, or sitting in your inventory.

• **Supplementaries**
- Fixed globe crash. 🌍
- Improved texture and candle holder code.

• **StyleColonies & Structurize**
- Tons of fixes across the board — smoother styles, fewer glitches.

• **Sophisticated Backpacks**
- Carry too many? Enjoy your new **slowness penalty**.
- You are not a llama.

• **Sophisticated Core/Drawers, Domum Ornamentum, Cucumber, Moonlight Lib, Mystical Agriculture** — all patched and improved!

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📚 **Extra Tweaks**
• **MineColonies Tweaks** — New **University Scroll** shows research dashboards.
• **Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone** — Endermen, sounds, spawns, and tags all got some love.

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🌟 **TL;DR Highlights**
🪄 **Building Wands = instant construction magic**
🏰 **MineColonies fixes** (restaurants, goats, styles)
🚩 **Heralds II banners/flags makeover**
🎒 **Backpack slowness nerf**
🛠️ **Major fixes in Structurize, StyleColonies, Supplementaries**

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That’s it for today’s update! Now grab a wand, go wild, and remember: with great building power comes great responsibility… or at least really big dirt cubes. 😉
Dragna
Dragna

✨ Ratlantis Has Opened! ✨🐀

Big update today: Ratlantis is now open to all players!
That’s right — the long-awaited, squeak-filled rat dimension is finally here. Expect bizarre adventures, rat civilizations smarter than you’d like to admit, and plenty of chaos. Will you conquer Ratlantis… or will the rats conquer you?


But that’s not all. We’ve been doing some serious server-side modifications to cut down on TPS lag. That means smoother gameplay, fewer stutters, and more time for you to freak out when an army of rats comes charging your way.


And because we like to keep things spicy: Colony raids are back! Sharpen your swords, polish your armor, and try not to scream too loudly when the attackers show up at your doorstep.


So go forth, adventurers. Ratlantis awaits — and it’s anything but squeaky clean. 🧀⚔️
Paul
Paul

📰 Shadows of Aethro Adds 6 Powerful New Mods – And Expands the World!

The Shadows of Aethro Forge server just got a serious upgrade with six new mods from CurseForge, unlocking new mechanics, deeper progression, and full-blown space travel. Plus — the world border has been expanded so fresh terrain can generate, giving you full access to all the new content.
Here’s what’s new:
🔮 Mystical Agriculture
Grow anything: ores, mob drops, gear materials. It’s farming on steroids.
🪙 Create: Numismatics
Mint your own money with automated coin crafting. Trade systems? Now possible.
🏰 Heralds II (Heralds: Legion)
Custom banners and heraldry to give your colony its own identity.
🎁 Mob Loot Bags
Mobs now drop random loot bags. PvE just got more chaotic and rewarding.
🪐 Ad Astra
Rocket tech, oxygen systems, and planetary exploration — the entire solar system is now in play.
📦 Lootr
Dungeon loot is now instanced per player. No more “first come, first steal.”
🌍 World Border Expansion
We’ve officially expanded the world border to open up new terrain generation. This means:
New structures can spawn
New ores and crops can generate naturally
Exploration just got way more rewarding
🧭 Update your modpack now to access everything:
🔗 https://l.aethro.net/forge-pack
Paul
Paul

🔧 Shadows of Aethro Update – June 14th

Big update today! Several core mods have been updated, and your colonists are now spreadsheet-obsessed.
🔄 Updated Mods
MineColonies → 1.1.924
BlockUI
GeckoLib
Create Mod
Structurize
🏡 Colony Behavior Changes (MineColonies 1.1.924)
Farmers realized they’ve been neglecting some fields. They’re now tracking their progress on a stolen courier spreadsheet (this won’t backfire, surely).
They also noticed they were planting crops in areas too dark to grow. They’ve stopped doing that.
Builders were redoing the same work if a new one picked up a half-finished job. They now leave notes on progress using—yep—another stolen spreadsheet.
Builder material prefetching now survives when builders switch, to avoid raising suspicion from the couriers.
Cooks were being lazy with food quality. They’re now distributing top-tier meals, also thanks to a misappropriated spreadsheet.
Make sure your client updates if it hasn’t automatically.
As always, report any issues via Discord—unless you're a courier. Then maybe don’t.
Paul
Paul

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