# Choose Your Client Edition

## CLIENT EDITION — Recommended for most players

The standard and lighter client for joining Nimbusborne servers.

Recommended for:
- Most computers
- Better performance
- Players who do not need shaders
- Stable multiplayer gameplay

## CLIENT PRO EDITION — Enhanced graphics and audio

The advanced client for more powerful computers.

Includes:
- Iris and shaders
- Distant Horizons
- AmbientSounds
- Presence Footsteps
- Sounds
- Subtle Effects
- Wavify

Both editions connect to the same compatible Nimbusborne server.
Choose only one client edition.

Nimbusborne: Ascent to the Aether — Client Edition

Nimbusborne: Ascent to the Aether — Client Edition is the standard player package required to join servers running the matching Nimbusborne Server Edition.

This edition includes the gameplay mods, libraries, interfaces, quality-of-life tools, and client-side optimizations needed to experience the complete multiplayer adventure.

It is designed for players who want to explore the Aether with friends, complete quests, build protected bases, discover new structures, and progress through the modpack on a dedicated server.

Explore an expanded Aether

Nimbusborne keeps The Aether at the center of the experience while expanding its world with content that feels like a natural continuation of the original dimension.

Players can discover:

• The classic Aether progression, equipment, accessories, creatures, dungeons, and bosses.
• Additional biomes, resources, enemies, equipment, and challenges from Deep Aether.
• Villages, ruins, shrines, Moa nests, Valkyrie structures, and other points of interest.
• Improved Moas with armor and additional storage.
• More building blocks and decorative options.
• Expanded food and survival mechanics.
• Upgradeable backpacks for longer expeditions.
• Better uses for duplicate dungeon rewards.

The modpack focuses on exploration, progression, cooperation, and building among the clouds without overwhelming the experience with unrelated dimensions or technology systems.

Multiplayer features

The Client Edition provides access to Nimbusborne’s multiplayer systems, including:

• Teams.
• Chunk claiming and base protection.
• Shared exploration.
• Server quests and progression.
• Cooperative objectives.
• Maps and minimaps.
• Persistent rewards and advancement.

Quest content, balance, and progression may continue to evolve as the modpack receives future updates.

Quality-of-life features

The Client Edition includes useful tools for learning and navigating the modpack:

• Recipe and item usage information.
• Block and entity identification.
• Improved food and saturation information.
• Better keybind searching.
• Inventory mouse controls.
• Zoom functionality.
• Performance and memory optimizations.

These features help make a large adventure modpack easier to understand without removing the need to explore and discover its systems.

Client performance

Nimbusborne includes several optimization mods intended to improve:

• Frame rate.
• Memory usage.
• Loading times.
• Interface rendering.
• General game responsiveness.
• Stability during long exploration sessions.

Visual settings can be adjusted depending on the player’s computer.

Important installation information

This package is intended for players connecting to a dedicated Nimbusborne server.

Use:

Minecraft: 1.21.1
Mod Loader: NeoForge

The server and client must use the same Nimbusborne release version.

To join a server, players should install:

Nimbusborne: Ascent to the Aether — Client Edition

Server owners should install:

Nimbusborne: Ascent to the Aether — Server Edition

For creating and playing in your own singleplayer world, use:

Nimbusborne: Ascent to the Aether — Single Modpack Edition

Install the correct edition, gather your team, and begin your ascent into the Aether.