The Aether has three crafting stations of its own, all built from Holystone. They need materials from your first hours in the dimension: Zanite for the Altar, Icestone for the Freezer and Ambrosium Torches for the Incubator. After them come the dungeons; the mod's own tip says they range in difficulty “from Bronze, Silver, to Gold”.
The Altar
Eight Holystone around a Zanite Gemstone. The 
Altar burns Ambrosium: an 
Ambrosium Shard lasts 250 ticks, a 
Block of Ambrosium 2,500. It does two jobs, enchanting and repairing.
8 × Holystone + any Zanite Gemstone → Altar
Any #aether:accepted_music_discs
any Music Disc (#aether:accepted_music_discs) → Blue Music Disc
Music Disc → Sepia Music Disc
Blue Berry → Enchanted Berry
Golden Dart → Enchanted Dart
Golden Dart Shooter → Enchanted Dart Shooter
Gravitite Ore → Enchanted Gravitite
All 10 Altar enchanting recipes in the Altar
Any damaged tool, weapon or armor piece from the list below comes out of the Altar repaired. The time depends on the material:
| Repair time (value in the recipe data) | Repaired in the Altar |
|---|---|
| 250 | Leather armor and Leather Gloves, wooden and Skyroot tools |
| 300 | Golden armor, tools and Golden Gloves, Fishing Rod, Flint and Steel |
| 500 | Stone and Holystone tools, Zanite Ring and Zanite Pendant |
| 600 | Bow, Crossbow and Shield |
| 700 | Chainmail armor and Chainmail Gloves |
| 750 | Iron and Zanite armor, tools and gloves |
| 1,500 | Diamond and Gravitite armor, tools and gloves |
| 2,000 | Netherite armor, tools and gloves |
The Freezer
Five Holystone, an 
Icestone and three Skyroot Planks. The 
Freezer burns Icestone: a block, Icestone Stairs or an Icestone Wall last 400 ticks, an Icestone Slab 200. Icestone is mined with a stone-tier pickaxe.
5 × Holystone + Icestone + 3 × Skyroot Planks → Freezer
Cold Aercloud → Blue Aercloud
Packed Ice → Blue Ice
Skyroot Leaves → Crystal Leaves
Sepia Music Disc → Super Music Disc
any Skyroot Water Bucket (#c:buckets/water) → Ice
any Iron Pendant (#aether:freezable_pendants) → Ice Pendant
All 9 Freezer recipes in the Freezer
The most useful results are the Blue Aercloud for bouncing, Crystal Leaves from Skyroot Leaves, and the 
Ice Ring and 
Ice Pendant from iron or golden ones. While an Ice Ring or Ice Pendant is worn, water you walk over turns into ice and lava into obsidian; placed Icestone does the same to liquids next to it.
The Incubator and Moas
Eight Holystone around an Ambrosium Torch. The 
Incubator runs on 
Ambrosium Torches (500 ticks each) and hatches a Moa Egg into a baby Moa of the same color. The mod notes that this can take quite some time.
| Egg | Mid-air jumps of the Moa | The mod says |
|---|---|---|
 Blue Moa Egg | 3 | The most common Moa |
 White Moa Egg | 4 | Decently rare |
 Black Moa Egg | 8 | The best and rarest one |
Aechor Petals, harvested from Aechor Plants, are a Moa's favorite food and are used to feed baby Moas.- The
Nature Staff (a Zanite Gemstone on a Skyroot Stick) commands tamed Moas and makes them sit down. - Blue and White Moa Eggs can also be found in Silver Dungeon chests.
8 × Holystone + Ambrosium Torch → Incubator
Blue Moa Egg
Zanite Gemstone#aether:gems/zanite
Skyroot Stick#aether:skyroot_stickany Zanite Gemstone + any Skyroot Stick → Nature Staff
The order of progress
The Aether's advancements follow this path:
- Enter the Aether (“Hostile Paradise”) and get a Zanite Gemstone (“Exotic Hardware”).
- Craft an Altar (“Do You Believe in Magic?”) and use it to get Enchanted Gravitite (“Pink is the New Blue”).
- Defeat the Slider, the boss of the Bronze Dungeon (“Like a Bossaru!”), and get the Valkyrie Lance from the Bronze Dungeon (“Challenger to the Throne”).
- Defeat the Valkyrie Queen in the Silver Dungeon (“Dethroned”) and get a Regeneration Stone there (“Battle Hardened”).
- Defeat the Sun Spirit in the Gold Dungeon (“Extinguished”). After that come Phoenix armor (“Fireproof”), a full set of Obsidian armor (“Ice Bucket Armor”) and a night's sleep in the Aether (“A Well Earned Rest”).
The three dungeons and their bosses
| Dungeon | Built from | Boss | What the mod tells you | The boss drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze Dungeon |  Carved Stone and  Sentry Stone | Slider | Attacking it with the wrong item shows: “Hmm. Perhaps I need to attack it with a Pickaxe?” |  Bronze Key and 7 to 9 Carved Stone |
| Silver Dungeon |  Angelic Stone,  Light Angelic Stone and  Pillars | Valkyrie Queen | She asks for ten medals from her Valkyries before she fights; the mod's tip says defeated Valkyries drop a  Victory Medal. |  Silver Key and a Golden Sword |
| Gold Dungeon |  Hellfire Stone and  Light Hellfire Stone | Sun Spirit | “I should try attacking the Sun Spirit while it's frozen!” |  Gold Key and the  Sun Altar |
- The stone of the Silver and Gold Dungeons cannot be broken until their boss is defeated, and some dungeon blocks are traps.
- Some chests in the Bronze and Silver Dungeons are
Chest Mimics: a Mimic jumps out as soon as you open one. - After the fight, the boss's key opens the dungeon's
Treasure Chest.
What each dungeon holds
| Dungeon | Notable loot in the mod's loot tables |
|---|---|
| Bronze | Neptune armor,  Valkyrie Lance,  Hammer of Kingbdogz,  Sentry Boots,  Cloud Staff,  Phoenix Bow,  Flaming Sword,  Shield of Repulsion,  Agility Cape,  Swet Cape, Zanite tools and armor, Lightning Knives, darts, Gummy Swets and the Carved and Blue Music Discs |
| Silver | Valkyrie armor and tools,  Valkyrie Cape,  Regeneration Stone,  Lightning Sword,  Holy Sword,  Invisibility Cloak, Gravitite tools and armor, Dart Shooters, Blue and White Moa Eggs, Healing Stones, Gummy Swets and the Valkyrie Music Disc |
| Gold | Phoenix armor,  Life Shards, Gravitite armor, sword and axe,  Vampire Blade,  Pig Slayer,  Iron Bubble, Ice Rings and Ice Pendants, Chainmail armor and gloves, Healing Stones, Enchanted Berries and Golden Gummy Swets |
Phoenix armor gives fire resistance and lets you swim in lava when the full set is worn. Standing in water while wearing it turns the pieces into Obsidian armor, which the mod describes as stronger than diamond.
After the Sun Spirit
In his dialogue the Sun Spirit calls himself the embodiment of the Aether's eternal daylight: as long as he is alive, the sun will never set. The mod's settings describe a normal daylight cycle after he is defeated, and a 
Skyroot Bed lets you sleep through the night. He drops the Sun Altar, which controls the time of day. In the default settings the Sun Altar works in the Aether only, and server owners can limit it to whitelisted players.