Aether City

Aether City
Aether City as of November 2024
About
Founder	dunechan
Contributors	sanixdrill (Mayor)
Category	Cities
Underground?	No
Fortified?	Kind of
Public access?	Yes
Public build?	No
Transport
Road link?	Yes
Nexus link?	Work in progress (gonna take a while lol)
Rail link?	Under construction
Boat link?	Aether City Route
Portal?	Yes, Nether West border hub
Location
Coordinates	X=-22610 Y=64 Z=681
Dimension	Overworld
Map Link

Second known image of the Fort Raven castle in its first few months of construction.

The completed castle in July of 2024, an insane difference between the original render and this screenshot is shown.

This is the earliest image of the Fort Raven castle, as it shows the unfinished roof above the entrance. There may be even older screenshots that have yet to be found.

“living lavish smoking some meth in aether city” - Jesev

History

The town that would become Aether City was originally started in late 2021 or early 2022, but was later renamed to New St. Petersburg in early 2024. Only recently was it called Aether City. It is now the capital city of the United Republics of Freedonia.

On August 29th, 2024,  sanixdrill built the tallest complete building in all of Aether City! Due to this monumental achievement, he has been awarded with full ownership of the Aether City harbor offices. Currently, Aether City is the most influential and active city on the west border, and will probably always be. Aether City has had it’s title of mayor shifted to  sanixdrill after  dunechan temporarily moved to be less in danger of raids.

On October 4th, 2024,  dunechan realized that the city was doomed to fail without an expansion, but that proved to be very difficult. She decided that a major portion of the Old Downtown region would have to be demolished in order to build more impressive/bigger structures, and yet, even after the demolition, there was little room for an expansion. So  dunechan came up with the brilliant idea of expanding upwards, into the sky, and below, beneath the surface of the ocean.

On October 23rd, 2024, following the partial incorporation of the United Republics of Freedonia into the Black Starwalkers, Aether City was the one city mainly affected. It is still the capital of the United Republics of Freedonia, but is also a secondary settlement under the Black Starwalkers as a group. Following it's partial acquisition,  ZJTrayGamingYT was appointed to Aether City's City council.

Rules:

1. Don’t be a jerk (not enforced but still)
2. Don’t build anything that could be considered offensive
3. No PvP outside of arenas
4. Don't place signs with slurs on them (regular curse words are fine). >We have a three strikes system. If you break the rules three times, your perms are removed.

Members

Leadership

•  dunechan (Founder, City Council)

•  sanixdrill (Mayor, City Council)

•  ZJTrayGamingYT (City Council)

•  Ervoss (Town staff)

•  J4V2 (Town staff)

Citizens / Residents

•  Acesrt

•  Cozmicdudes22

•  Breadintern

•  Elextrast

•  Jesev

•  JohnWickithy

•  Okx

•  LoudBulldog167
•  meowingcat50
•  MCTogs
•  ApeEnjoyerIRL
•  zmdudeman
•  fivechan_
•  Psychovis

Routes to Aether City

• Goosebury: If you take the nexus to Goosebury, you can walk west towards the Sea of Mare (large body of water near Goosebury), and take a boat directly to Aether City.
  • Difficulty: Hard, Safety: 8/10, Distance: Long, Time: Medium

• Nether Route: If you go to the west border of the Nether, you can go through a portal to the West Border Station and a short road will lead you here.
  • Difficulty: Hard, Safety: 4/10, Distance: Medium, Time: Short

• The Continental: If you go to the Nexus Borderlands hub - West (Blue) 1, you can take a boat to the Continental, navigate a massive ocean, then stop at Pumpkin Town / Mare City to walk to Swampton, then it's only a short walk to Skylandia, which is right next to Aether City.
  • (Note - Make sure that you use /map to know where you are going)
  • Difficulty: Medium, Safety: 7/10, Distance: Long, Time: Long.

• OG Route: This is by far the longest and hardest route, and it is also the one that  dunechan took to originally get to the region. You start by walking along the walkways above Cartwheel Tower, and Underworld. Eventually after walking for long enough, you leave the original Freedonian world generation from 2010/2011, and start entering newer world gen. Eventually after an even longer time walking, you enter the 1.12.2 expansion where you get slightly closer. Close to the end, you will enter a large mesa biome or jungle that is hard to navigate, but not impossible.
  • (Note - At some point you will have to go off road, because the highways from cartwheel tower diverge into another direction at some point.)
  • Difficulty: VERY HARD, Safety: 2/10, Distance: EXTREMELY LONG (Pack a lot of food), Time: VERY LONG.

• Ice Highway Route: Go to the Goosebury Nexus, then walk southwest until you see a little balcony hanging off of a cliff. There are stairs next to it to get up. Use the crafting table to make 2-3 boats (just in case your boat disappears), and by then just ride your boat along the highway until you get to Aether City.
  • This is the recommended route, as this is the safest and shortest out of all.

Until we get a Nexus, these 5 routes should help you get here.

Landmarks

• Fort Raven
  • The oldest standing building in the city, 99m tall (2022-2024)

• Lake Mary Reservoir
  • Man-made lake and river.

• Ravenholm Observatory

• Aether City Historical Center

• Lake Mary Bridge

• Aether City Sign

• Beacon of the West
  • (Under construction)

•  sanixdrill’s Tower
  • (Second Tallest building in all of Aether City)

• Victory Square Tower
  • (Tallest build in the city, being 130m tall)

How to join?

Just ask  sanixdrill if he’s online, or you can ask  dunechan if she’s online.