Aetherhaven

NOTE: Aetherhaven >=0.6.0 requires DynamicTooltipLib!!

NOTE: Aetherhaven >=1.8.0 no longer requires any dependencies!

Work in progress: more buildings, villagers, and features are planned beyond what you see today. The mods roadmap can be viewed here: Road Map

Found a place you want to call home? Aetherhaven is a town-building add-on built around laying out plots, growing a settlement with named locals, and following quests that push your town forward. Talk with villagers, earn their trust over time, and pick up extra gear and utilities along the way, from cracked-open rewards to field helpers that keep your builds feeling alive.

This project is a submission for the New Worlds Modding contest.

What you will be doing

• Build a town by planning plots and putting structures where they belong.
• Meet a cast of villagers with their own roles, schedules, and story beats.
• Take on quests that tie your progress to the town instead of a generic checklist.
• Invest in relationships so how people feel about you matters.
• Discover side items and systems that support the loop without replacing it.

Quick start

1. At a workbench, craft the Town Planning Desk (look for it with your other bench recipes).
2. Place the Town Planning Desk in the world and use it like a crafting station. It opens the town planning recipes.
3. From that desk, craft a Town Charter.
4. Place the charter where you want your settlement to begin, then follow the prompts and your first visitors to get moving.

Current Features

Buildings

Inn

This is where visitors will show up that you can recruit to your town. Two visitors show up at a time and are rerolled daily at dawn.

Town Hall

This is where you can access and manage the taxes you receive from your citizens.

Blacksmith's Shop

At the blacksmith you can repair your tools and crack open geodes.

Farm

The farm produces crops and life essence for the town.

Merchant Stall

Here you can buy a rotating stock of items as well as identify jewelry.

Gaia's Altar

Using the statue found here will allow you to bring back fallen citizens.

Barn

The barn produces animal products for the town.

House

The house provides a place to rest at night for a single villager.

Lumbermill

The lumbermill produces all types of wood logs.

Miner's Hut

The Miner's Hut procudes ores and cobblestones.

Park

The park provides a place for villagers to get some much needed fun.

Villagers

Elder Lyren

Lyren helps walk you through constructing your first buildings.

Reputation Rewards

Charter Amendments Table: Allows you to pass new amendments that grant special buffs to the town. (Specializations are WIP)

Founder Monument: A statue of the town's founder. Grants a permanent increase to gold from taxes. (Does not stack)

Corin Mosscup - Innkeeper

Corin runs the Inn and takes care of visitors.

Reputation Rewards

Banquet Table: Allows you to craft feasts for the town. Feasts provide week long status effects for the town.

The Steward's Ledger Supper: Increases taxes generated for a week.

Hearthglass Vigil: Slows how fast villagers needs decrease for a week.

Berrycircle Concord: Increases your reputation with all villagers.

Garren Vale - Blacksmith

Garren tends the forge. He will repair your tools and crack open geodes for a cost.

Reputation Rewards

Geode Anvil: Unlocks the recipe for the Geode Anvil which will crack open geodes for free.

More Rewards Coming...

Vex Sunderlane - Merchant

Vex run a merchant stall where he sells gems and crystals. He also provides an jewelry identification service.

Reputation Rewards

Jewelry Appraisal Bench: Unlocks the recipe for the Jewelry Appraisal Bench which will appraise jewelry for free.

Jewelry Crafting Bench: Unlocks the recipe for the Jewelry Crafting Bench where you can craft your own jewelry.

Serah Thornwell - Priestess

Serah holds rites at Gaia's Altar to help resurrect fallen villagers.

Reputation Rewards

Purification Powder: Unlocks the recipe for Purification Powder which allows the player to see and purify monster spawns in structures.

More Rewards Coming...

Irienne Mossmark - Farmer

Irienne tends the farm, producing crops and life essence for the village.

Reputation Rewards

Sprinklers: Unlocks the recipe for several tiers of sprinklers that water crops automatically once a day.

Gorruk Stonevein - Miner

Gorruks a hardy orc that mines ores and cobblestones for the village.

Reputation Rewards

More Rewards Coming...

Seren Fairhollow - Logger

Seren works at the lumbermill to produce wood for the town.

Reputation Rewards

More Rewards Coming...

Thalen Meadowrun - Rancher

Thalen raises animals in the barn to produce animal products for the village.

Reputation Rewards

More Rewards Coming...

Support and feedback

For help, suggestions, and troubleshooting, join the Discord linked on this project page.

AI use disclosure

Parts of this mod were developed with AI-assisted autocomplete and partial code generation in the programming workflow. Game design, integration, testing, and tuning were still done by the author; the tools sped up typing and boilerplate, not the whole project.