Auroral guide for All the Mods 10 8.0
Auroral guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v8.0 on Oct 15, 2026 · text last changed Oct 13, 2026
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Also applies to:FTB Skies 2 1.16.0 to 1.24.0
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5 sections are written for this pack; 1 is shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10 8.0's own files.
What is Auroral?
2 parts
Auroral is a winter expansion mod that turns cold biomes from barren wastes into hubs of progression. Everything revolves around the Aurora Borealis. You use its power to craft Shimmersteel tools, Shimmerweave armor, magical flora and potions, all without needing to visit the Nether.[1][2][3]
This pack includes Auroral version 1.21.1-1.1.1.[4]
How the mod works
The heart of the mod is the aurora event. Each night in a cold biome there's a 33% chance an aurora begins, filling the sky with green and pink ribbons of light. While it's active, Glacial Basins open to the sky slowly fill with Liquid Aura, Shimmersteel tools and Shimmerweave armor repair themselves while equipped, Aurora Blooms appear on snow blocks, and Auroral Nautiluses drift in near players.[5]
The core loop is simple. You gather Frozen Petals from Aurora Blooms or from Auroral Nautiluses, build a Glacial Basin and collect Liquid Aura during auroras. You then use that aura to infuse iron into Shimmersteel, which you turn into enhanced tools, weapons and armor.[2][6]
Shimmersteel and Shimmerweave gear is made by upgrading iron tools and armor at a Smithing Table. That makes Auroral a natural next step once you've got an iron kit.[1]
Who it's for
If you like building in the snow, this mod is for you. Its features are designed for cold biomes like Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Frozen Ocean, Frozen Peaks, Grove and Snowy Taiga.[2]
It's also handy if you want potions early. The Cold Brewing Stand uses snowballs as fuel instead of Blaze Powder. Frozen Petals brew an Awkward Potion from a Water Bottle, exactly like Nether Wart does, so the whole brewing tree opens up without a trip to the Nether.[1][6]
There's a cozy side too. You can create a tiny Snowlette companion by using an Aurora Shard on a Snow Golem. Wild Nautili can be tamed with Aurora Shards and ridden without a saddle. The mod also adds winter treats like Hot Cocoa.[1][7][8]
Unverified The available sources don't confirm whether this pack changes the mod's aurora chance settings, so the percentages above are the values from the mod's own guide.
How do you get started with Auroral?
6 parts
Auroral runs on one loop: wait for an aurora in a cold biome, collect Liquid Aura in a basin, and use it to turn ordinary materials into magical ones. Here's the order to tackle things in so your first aurora night isn't wasted.[2][6]
Grab the guidebook first
The Auroral Guidebook is cheap to craft and has the mod's full documentation in-game, so it's a great first item to have on hand.[1][9]
Head somewhere cold
Everything in this mod happens in cold biomes like Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Frozen Ocean, Frozen Peaks, Grove and Snowy Taiga. Each night in a cold biome has a 33% chance to start an aurora, and you'll know it when the sky fills with green and pink ribbons of light.[2][5]
Your first items, in order
- Craft a Glacial Basin. This is your main workstation, and this pack changes its recipe, so check the recipe shown below rather than an older video or wiki.[6][9]
- Place the basin under open sky in a cold biome. During an aurora it slowly fills with Liquid Aura, which powers every infusion.[1][5]
- While the aurora is up, harvest Aurora Blooms that pop up on snow and ice for Frozen Petals. Only fully grown stage 3 blooms drop petals, so breaking young ones gets you nothing.[10]
- Right-click the basin with Frozen Petals to infuse them into an Aurora Shard, which shows up in a lot of the mod's recipes.[1][9]
- Craft Unrefined Shimmersteel. This pack changes this recipe too, so use the one shown below.[9]
- Right-click the basin with Unrefined Shimmersteel during an aurora to refine it into a Shimmersteel Ingot.[1][11]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: auroral:glacial_basin
Changed by this pack
Crafting Shapeless
- any copper ingot
- any iron ingot
Coal
Recipe id: auroral:unrefined_shimmersteel
Changed by this pack
Unverified The in-game guide also describes right-clicking the basin with a plain Iron Ingot to get Shimmersteel. Other sources describe the Unrefined Shimmersteel route instead, so it's not confirmed which one works in this pack.
Upgrade your iron gear
Once you have ingots, make a Shimmersteel upgrade Smithing Template and use it at a Smithing Table to turn your iron tools into Shimmersteel ones. The pickaxe is a strong first pick, since it gets Fortune III on gem ores.[1][9][11]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: auroral:shimmersteel_upgrade_smithing_template
Make auroras happen more often
A Hearthwood Log lit with Flint and Steel within 32 blocks of you in a cold biome adds +15% aurora chance at nightfall. Up to three logs stack for +45%, which the guide says brings the nightly chance to about 78% on default settings. A fourth log adds nothing.[5][12]
Lit logs also make you immune to Frostbite within a 16-block radius and set Phantoms on fire, so a few around your base are worth it even without the aurora boost.[12]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any log that burn | any log that burn | any log that burn |
Recipe id: auroral:hearthwood_log
Nether-free brewing
The Cold Brewing Stand uses snowballs as fuel instead of Blaze Powder. Frozen Petals brew an Awkward Potion from a Water Bottle just like Nether Wart does. Together they give you potions without ever going to the Nether.[6][9]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
Recipe id: auroral:cold_brewing_stand
How does Auroral work?
6 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Auroral isn't a machine-and-pipes mod. The guide describes no power, fluid pipes or multiblocks. Everything runs on one cycle: wait for an aurora, collect Liquid Aura in a Glacial Basin, then right-click materials into their magical versions. Once you understand that loop, the rest of the mod falls into place.[1][5][13]
Aurora events
Each night in a cold biome has a 33% chance to start an aurora. The mod lists Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Frozen Ocean, Frozen Peaks, Grove and Snowy Taiga as cold biomes. While the aurora is active, Liquid Aura builds up in anything exposed to the sky, Shimmersteel tools and Shimmerweave armor repair themselves while equipped, Auroral Nautiluses drift in near players, and Aurora Blooms appear on snow.[2][5]
You can tilt the odds with a lit Hearthwood Log. Light it with Flint and Steel. If it's within 32 blocks of you in a cold biome, it adds +15% aurora chance at nightfall. Up to three logs stack for +45%, which gives about 78% a night on default settings. A fourth log does nothing extra.[5][12]
A lit log burns for 7 in-game days (168,000 ticks) of chunk-loaded time. The timer only ticks while the chunk is active. The same log gives Frostbite Immunity to players within 16 blocks and sets Phantoms on fire within 16 blocks. The guide says the burn time is configurable in the server config, but there are no config files for this mod in the pack, so I can't confirm the pack's value.[12]
The Glacial Basin
The Glacial Basin is your main workstation. Place it under open sky and wait for an aurora. It fills with Liquid Aura up to 3 levels, and you right-click it with the input item to transform it. It needs a clear view of the sky. Auroras last the whole night, and the guide suggests placing several basins to collect more aura per event.[13]
The pack changes the basin's recipe, so use this one and not the mod default.[14]
The basin has four transformations. A Shimmersteel Ingot infusion needs the basin completely full and uses all 3 levels at once. The other three each cost 1 level.[13][15]
- Unrefined Shimmersteel becomes a Shimmersteel Ingot. This uses all 3 levels.[1][13][15]
- Woven Leather becomes Shimmerweave Fabric, at 1 level.[1][13]
- Frozen Petals become an Aurora Shard, at 1 level.[1][13]
- Ice becomes Shimmering Ice, at 1 level.[1][13]
The basin is driven by right-clicking, and the sources don't mention automation.[11][13]
Unverified Whether hoppers, pipes or other automation can feed or empty the Glacial Basin isn't covered by the sources, so treat it as untested. The First Steps page also says you can right-click the basin with a plain Iron Ingot to get Shimmersteel. The in-pack recipes and the other guide pages use Unrefined Shimmersteel instead, so I'd follow that route.
Making Shimmersteel and Shimmerweave
Unrefined Shimmersteel is a crafting recipe, and the pack changes it. Craft it first, then infuse it in a full basin.[14][15]
Crafting Shapeless
- any copper ingot
- any iron ingot
Recipe id: auroral:unrefined_shimmersteel
For Shimmerweave, craft Woven Leather and infuse it in the basin to get Shimmerweave Fabric.[1][14]
Both materials then go into a Smithing Table with the Shimmersteel upgrade template. The template takes iron armor, weapons or tools in its base slot, and a Shimmersteel Ingot or Shimmerweave Fabric in its additions slot. Ingots upgrade iron tools and the bow. Fabric upgrades iron armor into goggles, tunic, leggings or skates.[11][14]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: auroral:shimmersteel_upgrade_smithing_template
Shimmering Ice and Shimmer Soil
Shimmering Ice never melts and glows at light level 8. It hydrates vanilla farmland and Shimmer Soil within 4 blocks, like water. Glow-Leeks can only be planted on it.[16]
Shimmer Soil is made by tilling snow with a Shimmersteel Hoe. Crops on it grow 3x faster at night and 5x faster during an aurora. Together with Shimmering Ice, you get a farm that needs no water.[11][16]
Cold Brewing Stand
The Cold Brewing Stand behaves like the vanilla brewing stand, except snowballs are the fuel instead of Blaze Powder. It holds up to 20 snowballs. Frozen Petals work like Nether Wart: put Water Bottles in the bottom slots and the petals in the ingredient slot to get Awkward Potions. After that, the normal potion tree is open to you.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
Recipe id: auroral:cold_brewing_stand
Creature rules
- Wild Auroral Nautili only spawn during auroras and fade away 30 seconds after one ends. Feeding one an Aurora Shard has a 33% chance to tame it, and a tamed one no longer despawns.[8]
- Shift + right-click toggles a tamed Nautilus between Follow and Stay. You can ride it without a saddle. Hold Space to charge and release for up to a 3x speed boost.[8]
- Eating a Roasted Snowball stops wild Nautili spawning near you. Eating a Sugared Roasted Snowball fixes that, and so does a S'nore.[8][18][19][20]
How do you progress through Auroral?
6 parts
Auroral's progression runs on its crafting recipes. You start with a few basic items, gather materials that only show up during auroras, turn them into Shimmersteel, and then upgrade your gear. Here's each tier in order, with the in-pack recipe for each step.[9]
Tier 0: Getting started
Craft The Auroral Guidebook first. It's cheap, and it's the in-game reference for everything below.[9]
Next, head to a cold biome. Auroras have a 33% chance to begin each night in cold biomes. While one is active, the mod's magical effects switch on and most of your progression materials appear, so your first job is catching auroras.[5]
Tier 1: Aurora materials
During an aurora, Aurora Blooms spawn on cold-biome surfaces and grow through four stages. Harvest fully grown ones for Frozen Petals, which the guide calls the gateway to most of the mod's content. Harvest them before sunrise, because any blooms left when the aurora ends wilt away.[5][10][21]
Your other key material is Aurora Shard. Auroral Nautiluses only appear during auroras, and when a player kills one it can drop 1-2 Aurora Shards. You can also feed a wild Nautilus an Aurora Shard for a 33% chance to tame it. A tamed Nautilus doesn't despawn when the aurora ends, and you can ride it.[8]
Petals give you some early crafts: Glow Leek Seeds for farming, Frosted Cookies and the decorative Aurora Bloom.[9]
Speeding things up with Hearthwood
If you want more auroras, get a Hearthwood Log. You can find them naturally in cold biomes, Snowy Taiga villages, frozen structures and sometimes igloo basements, and this pack also lets you craft them with an Aurora Shard. Light one with Flint and Steel.[9][12]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any log that burn | any log that burn | any log that burn |
Recipe id: auroral:hearthwood_log
Each lit log within 32 blocks of you in a cold biome adds +15% aurora chance at nightfall. Up to three logs stack for +45%, which pushes the nightly chance to about 78% on default settings. Lit logs also give Frostbite immunity within a 16-block radius and ward off Phantoms.[5][12]
Tier 2: Shimmersteel
Shimmersteel is the mod's metal tier, and this pack has changed two of its key recipes: Unrefined Shimmersteel and Glacial Basin. Check the recipes below rather than relying on older guides.[9]
Crafting Shapeless
- any copper ingot
- any iron ingot
Recipe id: auroral:unrefined_shimmersteel
Changed by the pack
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: auroral:glacial_basin
Changed by the pack
During an aurora, blocks exposed to the sky slowly fill with Liquid Aura, the magical substance needed for Shimmersteel infusion.[5]
Unverified Which block collects Liquid Aura and exactly how Unrefined Shimmersteel is infused into a Shimmersteel Ingot could not be confirmed. The Glacial Basin is probably involved, but this is unverified.
You'll also need the Smithing Template, which is crafted with an Aurora Shard. Every Shimmersteel and Shimmerweave upgrade uses it.[9]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: auroral:shimmersteel_upgrade_smithing_template
Tier 3: Shimmersteel tools and Shimmerweave armor
Both gear lines are smithing-table upgrades of your iron-tier gear. The tools and bow use a Shimmersteel Ingot, and the armor uses Shimmerweave Fabric.[9]
- Tools: Shimmersteel Pickaxe, Shimmersteel Axe, Shimmersteel Shovel, Shimmersteel Hoe and Shimmersteel Sword.[9]
- Ranged: Shimmersteel Bow.[9]
- Armor: Shimmerweave Goggles, Shimmerweave Tunic, Shimmerweave Leggings and Shimmerweave Skates.[9]
Shimmersteel tools and Shimmerweave armor repair themselves while equipped during an aurora, so those Hearthwood logs keep paying off.[5]
Unverified How Shimmerweave Fabric is made could not be confirmed. The craftable Woven Leather may be part of it, but this is unverified.
Tier 4: Shimmersteel utilities
Once you're making Shimmersteel Ingots, you can craft the Cold Brewing Stand and the Aurora Lantern. This pack has changed the Aurora Lantern's recipe. The lantern has light level 15, and holding it in either hand makes you immune to Darkness, which is great for Deep Dark trips.[9][22]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron nugget | any iron nugget | any iron nugget |
| any iron nugget | any iron nugget | any iron nugget |
Recipe id: auroral:aurora_lantern
Changed by the pack
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
Recipe id: auroral:cold_brewing_stand
How does Auroral work with other mods?
1 part
Unverified No recipes or quests in this pack connect Auroral with another mod, so there are no confirmed cross-mod integrations to cover here. If you find a way Auroral items work with another mod's machines or storage, treat it as untested until it shows up in the pack's recipes or quests.
Auroral's connections are mostly with vanilla Minecraft. You make Shimmersteel gear by upgrading your iron tools at a vanilla Smithing Table with Shimmersteel Ingots, and Shimmerweave armor by upgrading iron armor with Shimmerweave Fabric.[1]
Brewing is the big one. The Cold Brewing Stand runs on snowballs instead of Blaze Powder, and Frozen Petals do the job of Nether Wart for Awkward Potions. That lets you build a full potion setup without ever going to the Nether.[1]
Vanilla mobs and dangers
- Right-click a vanilla Snow Golem with the right item to turn it into an Auroral Snowlette, a tiny pet about 1/4 the size of a normal Snow Golem that heals when you throw snowballs at it.[8]
- While you hold an Aurora Lantern in your main hand or off-hand, you are immune to the Darkness effect. That makes it really handy in the Deep Dark or when you fight the Warden.[22]
- A lit Hearthwood Log repels Phantoms and improves villager trades, on top of its aurora and Frostbite effects.[5]
What changed in Auroral between versions?
Auroral joined All the Mods 10 in version 8.0, and the changelog lists it as a new addition at version 1.21.1-1.1.1. So if you're on 8.0, that's the version you're playing with.[23]
The pack's mod list for 8.0 confirms it ships Auroral 1.21.1-1.1.1 as the jar auroral-1.21.1-1.1.1.jar. The list says the mod was first included in 8.0 or earlier, so it can't settle whether an earlier pack release already had it.[4]
Unverified No changelogs from the mod itself were available, so there's no confirmed detail on what changed inside Auroral in this version. Changes from any earlier pack releases are also unconfirmed.
Sources
- Auroral project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Introduction to Auroral</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Auroral</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- All the Mods 10 8.0 mod list · pack file
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Aurora Events</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">First Steps</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Food & Drinks</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Creatures of the Aurora</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- All the Mods 10 8.0 recipe dump: recipes making Auroral items · pack recipe dump
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Aurora Blooms</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- auroral tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Hearthwood Log</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Glacial Basin</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- All the Mods 10 8.1 recipe dump: recipes making Auroral items · pack recipe dump
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Shimmersteel Ingot</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Shimmering Ice</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Cold Brewing Stand</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Roasted Snowball</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">S'nore</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Sugared Roasted Snowball</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Snow Angels</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- In-game guide: <Color id="gold">Aurora Lantern</Color> (auroral) · official docs
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 8.0) · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 15, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 8.1 to 8.3