The Aether: Mobs, Mounts, and Dungeon Loot

The Aether's rewards come from its mythical creatures and its three dungeons. This guide covers what to seek out.

Creatures and mounts

The dimension is home to mythical mobs, several of which are useful rather than just hostile. The Aether's rideable creatures let you cross the gaps between floating islands safely — a major convenience given the fall risk — and other animals provide the dimension's unique drops. Taming and breeding them is part of establishing yourself in the skylands.

The three dungeons

The heart of the Aether is its trio of dungeons, each escalating in difficulty and guarding a boss. Clearing them yields the mod's powerful loot items — the signature rewards that make the dimension worth mastering. Each dungeon has its own theme and challenge, so prepare thoroughly before entering.

Progressing

Work through the Aether in order: gather ores and gear from the skylands, tame a mount to travel safely, then take on the dungeons for their loot. Because the dimension has a full survival progression of its own, treat it as a self-contained adventure with the dungeon bosses as its milestones.

Dungeon rarity is the difficulty curve

The four structures are placed at deliberately different densities, and that is how the mod paces itself:

• Bronze Dungeon — spacing 6, separation 5, placed by top-layer modification
• Large Aercloud — spacing 6, separation 3
• Silver Dungeon — spacing 36, separation 24
• Gold Dungeon — spacing 36, separation 24

Bronze is six times denser than silver or gold. You will clear several bronze dungeons before you find your first silver one, which is exactly the intended order.

Silver and gold share their placement

Both sit at spacing 36 with separation 24 — identical numbers — so neither is rarer than the other in generation terms. Which you find first is chance rather than progression, even though their contents are tiered.

What the mod carries

165 items against 122 blocks across 287 pages. Dungeon rewards are overwhelmingly items, which is why clearing one fully matters more than in a mod where structures are mainly building material.

Version note

1.21.1 runs 1.5.10 and 1.20.1 runs 1.5.2, both NeoForge builds.