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Simple and small update today! A brand new Resource World has been added to the game! To enter, build a portal frame from gold blocks (4x5) and light it just like a Nether portal. Step through — and good luck! Keep in mind: Resource World is a temporary world that resets multiple times a month. Do not build your home here — it’s meant purely for gathering materials. Staff will not replace any lost items from this world.

The holidays have officially invaded Shadows of Aethro! We’ve added 🎄 Christmas Trees (for all your chaotic decorating needs) and 🦃 Turkeys (for… reasons). Go ahead, chase one. See what happens. 👀 Minor updates all around — except Create, because Create is still throwing a tantrum and refusing to cooperate. ✨ What got updated while the elves weren’t looking: 🧱 All the Leaks 🏛️ Byzantine Styles 🥒 Cucumber Library (fresh pickles, now with more crunch) 🧍 Customizable Player Models 🎀 Domum Ornamentum 🧺 Inventory Sorter (your messy chests are still judging you) 📜 Jauml 🏗️ MineColonies 🌙 Moonlight Lib 🌳 Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone 🏘️ Small Colonies (MineColonies Addon) 🐝 Bumblezone 🌲 Twilight Forest 🎅 It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos… 🎮 Download the mod at https://l.aethro.net/forge-pack

After your death if you have a lot of playtime rewards, it will reset all of them acting like you can reclaim them when you can't.

The devs have been busy poking at things they probably shouldn’t, and somehow it worked. ⚔️ War N Taxes v3.26 Raid History got a glow-up — it now actually remembers who bonked who! Also patched the Tax GUI so you can see how broke you are in style, and fixed the WebAPI so it stops screaming internally. 🔧 Other Mods Got a Spa Day Too: Applied Energistics 2 (less crashy, more flashy) Byzantine Styles (ancient bling) MineColonies Compatibility Addon (because teamwork makes the lag work) Cyclops Core (blinking more efficiently) GuideME (now slightly less confusing) MineColonies (your colonists are still idiots, but shinier ones) Sophisticated Storage (Marie Kondo approved) Tweaks Addon for MineColonies (tweaked the tweaks) 💾 Client update required! Go update before your colony stages a tax revolt.

Time for another round of chaos and questionable coding decisions! 🧩 New Mods AddedCrafting Tweaks Adds buttons to rotate, clear, and balance your crafting grids. Perfect for lazy crafters who call it “efficiency.” Emojiful Chat now supports actual emojis. Yes, you can cry-laugh at your colony burning down. 😂🔥 🔧 Updated Mods Mob Loot Bags Completely recoded from the ground up. This should fix the warden issue. Should. If one still spawns, consider it an unscheduled boss fight. MineColonies More stability. Fewer colonists mining straight into the void. The Bumblezone Bee paradise got a solid tune-up. Buzz responsibly. Sophisticated Storage & Backpacks Now with fewer storage tantrums and smoother syncing. Applied Energistics 2 Minor stability fixes for your network. Gravestones Improved compatibility and cleaner death markers for your oops moments. Oh The Trees You’ll Grow Trees are slightly less cursed now. Slightly. Supplementaries A bit more supplementary than before. All The Leaks Plugged. Maybe. Moonlight Lib Updated because everything else would riot if we didn’t. ⚠️ Client Update RequiredMake sure to update your modpack before joining. If you don’t, expect spontaneous combustion and judgmental colonists. Final WordsBuzz on, build on, and for the love of bees — stop spawning wardens.

🎉 BIG UPDATE DAY on Shadows of Aethro! 🎉 Alright folks, buckle up — the update train has arrived and it’s loaded with chaos, fixes, and a few broken dreams. Here’s what’s new: 🧙‍♂️ JEI → EMI Swap! JEI has been replaced with EMI because EMI’s lighter, faster, and doesn’t scream when it loads. If you really miss JEI, fine. Go reinstall it yourself. 💧 AlltheLeaks Got its act together — fewer crashes, fewer memory leaks. Basically, it’s now less of a fire hazard. 📜 Amendments, Balm, BlockUI, Chat Heads, Connectivity All updated and shiny. No major drama, just code magic. 🪨 Every Compat (Gems, Stone, Wood) Yeeted. Gone. Banished. Why? Because they made new players wait 10–15 minutes to load in. Quark already does the same stuff but better, so goodbye lag bricks. ⚔️ War & Taxes Raids now actually steal your taxes. Yep. Welcome to government-approved robbery. 🎒 Sophisticated Backpacks (and friends) Core, Storage, and Create Integration — all updated. Time to pack smarter, not harder. 🏰 MineColonies + Supplementaries Tweaks Big colony love here: Guards actually update their banners now (fashion matters). Gatehouse lets non-officers teleport too — for a small price, of course. Teleports land in the middle of the gatehouse instead of “somewhere nearby.” Archers learned gravity is real and will stop swan-diving off towers. 🧩 And a bunch of other little tweaks You know the drill — smoother, faster, less laggy, more Aethro-y. Get those clients updated, get in game, and prepare for whatever cursed behavior comes next. #ShadowsOfAethro #UpdateDay #SendHelp

Filed by the Chaotic Conductor and the very tired Rail Mages ⏱ Stop Times UpdatedThe Westbound line (Spawn → Eldermire) now lingers 10 seconds at each station, giving players just enough time to panic about forgotten tickets. At Spawn, the train waits a full 60 seconds for sleepy heroes to crawl out of bed and still catch it. 🚧 Eldermire BarricadesThe Train Shop has closed its doors. Eldermire officials are stacking barricades of questionable design and shouting about “outsiders with too many potatoes.” If you’re holding potatoes, try not to look guilty. ⚙️ Ongoing TinkeringOur engineers are still experimenting with train type, size, and possibly a version that scolds you in twelve languages if you jump on the roof. Further adjustments are coming. 💡 Traveler’s Wisdom The train lives. The borders tighten. Chaos continues. Ride wisely, keep your tickets dry, and never trust a gremlin offering “express upgrades.”

🎃 Shadows of Aethro Update — September 30, 2025 Heads up: when you connect today, you’ll get a quick install. It’s our Halloween prep. Also: something… happened at spawn. We apologize for the chaos. Reports say Michael Myers, Chucky, and friends are roaming the world. Be careful out there. Travel with gear Keep your head on a swivel If you see them, run or be ready to fight Happy haunting, survivors. 👻

💀 Graves are back! Totems are gone. Graves are back. Smash one and rumor has it something spooky might happen… 👀 🐝 The Bee Wars have begun! You all invaded their colonies, and now the bees are officially done with you. Expect full-scale bee warfare. 🐝⚔️ Grab a sword, a shield, and maybe a jar of honey. 🎉 Rewards Bossbar Toggle RETURNS! Yes, it’s back! You can now once again choose between Bossbar or Actionbar for your reward spam. Decide what screams at you, because options matter. 🏛 Byzantine Style Fixed the missing Charioteer Residence Level 4. The Byzantines can sleep well again. 😵 Chat Heads Upside down players are now rendered… upside down. With shadows. Because logic. 🍳 Create Slice & Dice Identical fluids for recipes now merge together. Soup is soup. 🌲 Every Compact (Wood Good) Fixed missing recipes. Wood is good again. 📚 Library Corner Updates 📖 GechoLib & GuideME updated 🏗 MineColonies updated (too much to list, just trust chaos) 🪜 SmallColonies: fixed slabs next to ladders and made sandstone walls less ugly 🔦 Sophisticated Core: highlights storage slots now! Green = matching stack Blue = matching item Yellow = empty slot 📦 Sophisticated Storage updated same as above 🌍 Structurize reworked world operations & classes 🏰 Stylecolonies: Aquatica gatehouse tweaks 🚰 Supplementaries: faucet dupe patched 👹 The Horrors We keep trying to fence them in and shove them through portals… but they’re starting to slip out. If you see one, run. Or wave. Your choice.

⚔️ War and Taxes The new War and Taxes system is live! Colonies now generate Cogs from buildings, while guards and upkeep consume them. It’s up to you to balance your economy or watch it crash. ⛵ Small Ships Ships can now be built to float and travel across oceans. The seas are officially open! 🔧 Updated Mods • Create Slice & Dice • MineColonies • Moonlight Lib • Sophisticated Backpacks • Sophisticated Core • Sophisticated Storage • MineColonies Tweaks addon 🏦 The Bank of Spawn A brand new bank is available at spawn inside the black building. Deposit and manage your Cogs here. 👻 Herobrine Fired Herobrine was removed from his banker duties for “creative accounting” and has been banished back into the void.