Aether Plus

What is Aether Plus?

Aether Plus is a Forge and NeoForge modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1, published by itzdragoncze on Modrinth since 2023.

The latest release, 5 from Sep 7, 2025, declares 38 mods plus 1 other project such as resource packs or shaders. Across 11 published versions it has covered Minecraft 1.19.4 through 1.21.1.

With 36K downloads it ranks #454 of the 518 most-downloaded Modrinth modpacks we track, and its authors tag it as adventure, combat and lightweight.

• Adventure
• Combat
• Lightweight

Most widely used mods in Aether Plus

The latest version declares 39 projects, 38 of them mods. The ones below appear in the most packs we track.

• Cloth Config API
• FerriteCore
• Entity Culling
• Sodium
• Lithium
• Iris Shaders
• Architectury API
• Sodium Extra
• AppleSkin
• Reese's Sodium Options
• Mouse Tweaks
• ModernFix
• Jade 🔍
• 3D Skin Layers
• More Culling
• Xaero's World Map
• Xaero's Minimap
• BadOptimizations
• Chat Heads
• Sound Physics Remastered
• Bookshelf
• oωo (owo-lib)
• TerraBlender
• Model Gap Fix

Full Aether Plus mod list

How its mod list compares

Less common picks: 3 mods found in five or fewer tracked packs.

• Aether Addon: Treasure Reforging
• Deep Aether
• Aether Addon: Protect Your Moa

Packs with the most mods in common

• mod pack for avaritia Fabric for 1.20.1 12 mods in common
• World Edit optimized Fabric for 1.21.11 15 mods in common
• Essentials++ Fabric for 1.21.11 14 mods in common
• Tools for builders Fabric for 1.21.1 15 mods in common
• Tensura: Reincarnated Forge / NeoForge for 1.21.1 20 mods in common

What kinds of mods are in Aether Plus?

Of its 38 mods, 16 are tagged utility, 11 optimization and 9 library. Mods can carry several tags, so the counts overlap.

At 11% storage, that is a larger share than 97% of the 491 packs we track.

• utility: 16 (42%)
• optimization: 11 (29%)
• library: 9 (24%)
• adventure: 6 (16%)
• worldgen: 6 (16%)
• decoration: 5 (13%)

How big is Aether Plus?

With 38 mods, Aether Plus has fewer mods than 61% of the 491 packs we track and fewer mods than 78% of the 86 on Minecraft 1.21.1.

The pack file is 1.3 MB. 12 mods are client-only and 26 also run on a server. Alongside the mods it declares 1 shader.

How actively is Aether Plus updated?

Aether Plus was first published on May 7, 2023, and has 11 published versions in total.

The latest release, 5, is dated Sep 7, 2025, 430 days before our data was fetched on Nov 11, 2026. Releases have covered 3 Minecraft versions over 2.3 years.

Staple mods Aether Plus includes and leaves out

Across the 185 Forge packs we track, 15 mods turn up most often. Aether Plus includes 6 of them; it leaves out ImmediatelyFast, Oculus, Embeddium, Just Enough Items (JEI), Geckolib, Konkrete, [ETF] Entity Texture Features, Collective and Kotlin for Forge.

How much RAM does Aether Plus need?

Aether Plus needs 4 GB allocated (3 GB minimum). Our estimate from the 38-mod list, not measured.

How to set allocated memory

How to install Aether Plus

Search for "Aether Plus" in the Modrinth source of your launcher. Pick version 5 for Minecraft 1.21.1 (Forge and NeoForge). Modpack install guide.

How do I make an Aether Plus server?

Aether Plus is marked as needing a server-side install, so the server must run the same mods and version as the players.

• Match the version: the latest pack version is 5 for Minecraft 1.21.1.
• Loader: Forge and NeoForge.
• Memory: at least 3 GB (our estimate).

Modpack server guide.

Versions

Newest build for each of 3 Minecraft version and loader pairs.

Official links

• Aether Plus on Modrinth (downloads and changelog)
• Discord

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