Official Player Guide and Server Handbook

AetherHarvest Guide

AetherHarvest is Aetherra’s custom farming, food, recipe, and cooking system. It adds custom ingredients, discoverable recipes, cooking stations, cookbooks, and special foods with effects.

This plugin is designed to give farmers, chefs, tavern owners, restaurants, explorers, and traders more meaningful gameplay.

How AetherHarvest Works

AetherHarvest has four main parts:

Ingredients
Recipes
Cooking Stations
Custom Foods

Players discover ingredients and recipes by playing normally. Some ingredients come from farming, fishing, mobs, blocks, or kingdom-specific sources. Recipes can be learned from recipe pages or cookbooks.

Once you know a recipe and have the ingredients, you can prepare the food at the correct cooking station.

Custom Ingredients

AetherHarvest ingredients are special items used in custom recipes.

Examples include:

Garlic
Tea Leaves
Frost Sugar

Some ingredients are common. Others are rare, kingdom-specific, or tied to certain activities.

You can discover ingredients by:

Fishing
Harvesting crops
Breaking certain plants
Defeating mobs
Trading with other players
Receiving ingredients from events or shops

Once you discover an ingredient, it will appear in your AetherHarvest Cookbook.

Ingredient Discovery

When you pick up or receive a custom AetherHarvest ingredient, it becomes discovered for you.

Discovered ingredients show:

Ingredient name
Ingredient ID
How to find more
Notes about the ingredient

Undiscovered ingredients remain hidden as:

Unknown Ingredient

This means players can track their progress without spoiling every ingredient immediately.

Recipes

AetherHarvest recipes are not automatically known.

You must learn recipes before cooking them.

Recipes can be learned from:

Recipe Pages
Cookbooks
Special rewards
Events
Shops
Secret sources

Known recipes show their full details. Unknown recipes stay hidden.

Known recipes show:

Recipe name
Tier
Category
Required station
Result
Ingredients

Unknown recipes only appear as:

Unknown Recipe

Recipe Pages

A recipe page teaches one exact recipe.

Example:

Garlic Bread Recipe Page
→ Teaches Garlic Bread

Recipe pages are best for specific rewards, rare drops, kingdom specialties, quests, events, and player trading.

Cookbooks

Cookbooks teach one random unknown recipe from a specific tier.

Cookbook tiers:

Beginner
Intermediate
Expert
Professional

Example:

Beginner Cookbook
→ Teaches one random unknown Beginner recipe

If you already know every recipe in that tier, the cookbook will not be consumed.

Cookbook Progression Gates

Higher-tier cookbooks require progress in lower tiers.

Default progression:

Beginner Cookbooks:
Always usable

Intermediate Cookbooks:
Require Beginner recipe progress

Expert Cookbooks:
Require Intermediate recipe progress

Professional Cookbooks:
Require Expert recipe progress

This means advanced cooking is earned over time. Professional cooks, tavern owners, and restaurant owners will need to build real recipe knowledge.

AetherHarvest Cookbook Lectern

Players can create an AetherHarvest information book using a lectern.

To create one:

1. Rename a Book and Quill or Written Book to: AH Cookbook using an anvil
2. Place it on a Lectern
3. Right-click the Lectern with an empty hand

This opens your personal AetherHarvest Cookbook GUI.

The AH Cookbook shows:

Recipe progress
Ingredient discovery progress
Known recipes
Unknown recipes
Discovered ingredients
Unknown ingredients

Sneak-right-click allows normal lectern behavior.

Cooking Stations

AetherHarvest uses special cooking stations. These are not automatic. Normal barrels, smokers, lecterns, and other blocks still work normally.

To create a cooking station:

1. Rename the correct block in an anvil
2. Place it
3. The station will register automatically
4. Right-click it with an empty hand to open the station GUI

If you break the station, it drops back as the named station item so you can move it.

Station List

Cooking Pot
Block: Cauldron
Used for: Soups, stews, curries, hot meals

Oven
Block: Smoker
Used for: Breads, roasts, baked foods

Cutting Board
Block: Any wooden pressure plate
Used for: Sushi, sandwiches, fresh prep, platters

Butcher’s Block
Block: Smithing Table
Used for: Meat prep, jerky, monster meat

Tea Kettle
Block: Campfire or Soul Campfire
Used for: Teas, elixirs, brewed drinks

Mixing Bowl
Block: Barrel
Used for: Desserts, salads, ice creams

Station Names

Rename the block exactly like one of these:

Cooking Pot
Oven
Cutting Board
Butcher's Block
Tea Kettle
Mixing Bowl

Example:

Rename a Barrel to Mixing Bowl
Place it
Right-click with empty hand

That barrel is now an AetherHarvest Mixing Bowl.

A normal barrel is still a normal barrel.

Cooking Food

To cook a recipe:

1. Learn the recipe
2. Gather the required ingredients
3. Go to the correct station
4. Open the station GUI
5. Click the recipe

If you do not know the recipe, it will stay hidden.

If you do not have the ingredients, the GUI will tell you.

Recipe Tiers

AetherHarvest recipes are divided into tiers.

Beginner:
Simple recipes with easy ingredients.

Intermediate:
More involved recipes with stronger effects or less common ingredients.

Expert:
Advanced recipes, kingdom specialties, and risky foods.

Professional:
High-value restaurant, tavern, royal, and specialty meals.

Drawback Recipes

Some foods give both a benefit and a drawback.

Example:

Monster Meat
Benefit: Strength
Drawback: Hunger

These recipes are useful but risky. Eat responsibly. Or irresponsibly, but do not blame the chef.

Secret Recipes

Some recipes are secret and do not appear in normal recipe lists, cookbooks, station GUIs, or progress counts until learned.

Secret recipes may come from:

Events
Lore rewards
Special shops
Royal rewards

One known secret recipe is:

Deeproot Elixir
A secret Druid wine connected to Mystik’s enchantment shop, Deeproot Enchantments.

Secret recipes must be discovered through special means.

Kingdom Specialties

Some ingredients and recipes are more common in certain kingdoms.

Examples:

Firefly Cove:
Fish, citrus, sushi, coastal foods

Norivia:
End-touched ingredients, mooncap mushrooms, void flavors

Underlend:
Deeproot, hearty foods, underground ingredients

Lilac Tower:
Royal teas, herbs, refined meals

Kingdom-specific drops encourage travel, trade, and regional restaurants.

AetherHarvest Pantry Guide

The AetherHarvest pantry system lets you store cooking ingredients near your kitchen so you do not have to carry everything in your inventory while cooking.

What Is a Pantry?

A pantry is a specially named barrel that belongs to the player who placed it. Your cooking stations can use ingredients from your nearby pantries when you prepare AetherHarvest recipes.

Cooking checks ingredients in this order:

  1. Your inventory
  2. Your nearby owned pantries

This means if you have some ingredients in your inventory and the rest in a pantry, the recipe can still be prepared.

How to Create a Pantry

To create a pantry:

  1. Place a barrel in an anvil.
  2. Rename the barrel to:Pantry
  3. Place the renamed barrel near your kitchen.
  4. The pantry will automatically register to you.

You should see a confirmation message when the pantry is placed.

Pantry Range

Pantries must be near the cooking station to be used.

Current range:

20 blocks

The pantry must be within range of the cooking station you are using. If the pantry is too far away, the cooking station will not pull ingredients from it.

Pantry Ownership

Only your own pantries count for your cooking.

Other players’ pantries will not be used, even if they are nearby. This prevents players from accidentally using someone else’s ingredients.

Pantry Limit

Each player may currently own up to:

10 pantries

If you reach the limit, you will need to remove one of your existing pantries before placing another.

What Can Go in a Pantry?

You can place normal items and AetherHarvest items inside a pantry.

Cooking stations can use:

  • Vanilla recipe ingredients
  • AetherHarvest ingredients
  • AetherHarvest prepared foods and prep items

Examples include rice, garlic, royal herbs, savory dough, chopped vegetable mix, bowls, bread, honey bottles, cooked meats, and other recipe ingredients.

Using a Pantry While Cooking

To cook with pantry ingredients:

  1. Place your pantry near your cooking station.
  2. Put the needed ingredients inside the pantry.
  3. Open the cooking station.
  4. Click the recipe you want to prepare.

If the recipe has enough ingredients between your inventory and your nearby pantries, it will craft successfully.

Your inventory is always used first. The pantry is only used for ingredients you are missing.

Viewing Pantry Stock

There are two ways to check pantry stock.

AH Cookbook

If you have an AH Cookbook on a lectern, open it and click:

View Pantry Stock

This shows AetherHarvest ingredients and prepared foods in your nearby owned pantries.

The AH Cookbook checks pantries near the lectern, not just near where you are standing.

Command Backup

You can also use:

/ah pantry

This shows nearby pantry stock based on where you are standing.

Removing a Pantry

To remove a pantry, break the pantry barrel.

When broken, it will unregister as your pantry.

Troubleshooting

If your pantry is not being used, check the following:

  • Is the barrel named exactly Pantry?
  • Did you place the renamed barrel yourself?
  • Is the pantry within 20 blocks of the cooking station?
  • Are the correct ingredients inside?
  • Are you using your own pantry, not someone else’s?
  • Is the recipe already learned, if the recipe requires discovery?

If everything looks correct but it still does not work, use /ah pantry to confirm whether the plugin can see your nearby pantry stock.

Tips for Players

Farmers:
Gather and sell rare ingredients.

Fishers:
Look for seafood ingredients, recipe pages, and cookbooks.

Hunters:
Certain mobs can drop monster ingredients, recipe pages, or cookbooks.

Tavern Owners:
Learn recipes, buy ingredients, and sell finished foods.

Explorers:
Travel between kingdoms to discover regional ingredients.

Collectors:
Use the AH Cookbook lectern to track your progress.

AetherHarvest is built around player trade. Farmers, cooks, tavern owners, and explorers all benefit from working together.