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Development of the Aether mods is made possible by our supporters on Patreon! Consider pledging to help future development:
www.patreon.com/TheAetherTeam
Download now for 1.21.8:
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc...
modrinth.com/mod/aether-ii
Listen to the new additions to the soundtrack here:
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Nearly two years after the project's revival, The Aether II has finally entered Public Alpha Testing!
Explore The Aether's Holy Isles, a greatly expanded and reimagined version of the classic dimension, featuring new biomes, mobs, resources, structures, and a reworked Sentry Ruins dungeon.
Still got lots to do, many bits of content to produce over public alpha testing, but already this is easily the best version of the project I've worked on in my 14 years on the project.
I hope players agree with us and I hope everyone who worked on the project in the past is proud of the end result
In other news
We're aiming to release The Aether II into public alpha testing at the end of February, after roughly 21 months of development following the project's revival in 2024
Genuinely so proud of my small team, really hope people love The Aether II as much as we do!
This year is already off to a mad start, in part because of the extra attention our collab with Origin Realms, we hit 5 million downloads per month for the first time ever in January!
Thank you everyone who has played and enjoyed our mods! Here's to hopefully a very good 2026 for the project!
It really warms my heart to see the Aether remaster so enthusiastically adopted by the community, and I'm really excited to properly debut the reboot of The Aether II to everyone very soon! We at the team really think we've crafted something special for everyone
I've been informed that roughly 50 million of those downloads were in 2025, so we've been seeing a genuinely maddening rise in download frequency in the last couple years!
This hopefully shows how healthy and strong the MC modding community is, with an ever increasing player base of awesome people!
We recently passed a monumental milestone with 100 *million* total downloads across all our projects on @curseforge.com
This time two years ago we celebrated 30 million downloads, so in the last two years alone we got a staggering 70 million downloads! Aether 1 itself has passed 60M alone!
2016 vs 2026
Project Revival is going very well! More to share very soon!
Its not a true version of the Aether without the resident Menacing Cube
The Slider returns in The Aether II in a newly reimagined Sentry Ruins structure
Uncover the secrets and history of the Sentries in the upcoming Aether II alphas which we'll be releasing very soon!
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Right now the plan is for the new and unique features to be exclusive to the Origin Realms server, but we'd be open to collaborating with them further on some kind of add-on and/or resource pack for the mod that ports their visuals and features. But currently there are no concrete plans for that.
youtu.be/jnOqC-TLhaU
The Aether comes to Origin Realms on January 4th 2026!
Check out their brand new announcement trailer for more details!
Aether II will feature a Glowstone Portal by default, same as the original mod! To use both mods together, you will need to build the Aether II portal with at least 1 block derived from Quartz. We will be adding visual variants of Quartz and Glowstone to make integrating the two mods visually easier
modrinth.com/mod/aether-b...
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc...
We've just released a new add-on mod for The Aether
Beyond Parity brings a variety of features like decorative holystone blocks, zanite building blocks, and Aether themed variants of utilities to the dimension!
Download it now on Curseforge and Modrinth
Another update to The Aether Mod has released!
This comes with a revamp of our main menu assets including a full remake of our classic logo, as well as improvements to our tags and mod compatibility.
Check out our GitHub for the full changelog and head to Curseforge and Modrinth to get the update!
Up late working on dungeon bits and bobs
Will have more to share in the near future, likely concept art first but generation systems are coming along nicely so maybe some in-game structure testing too!
Cannot wait to get a new dungeon into everyone's hands
I believe on 1.21 you can use the "disable portal activation" config to stop the water bucket from working, which I think should still let any custom activators work. On 1.20 Im not sure if this works the same way so let me know if it doesn't
A little art piece I did today of Karthuul, The Aether's Sun Spirit, from when he first entered the Aether posing as the Valkyrie God Arkenzus. Over time he dropped this act and removed pieces of his golden armour, eventually being revealed to be an alien monster made entirely of fire and light
This update is only for 1.21.1, which is a version where Forge has little to no presence really as Neoforge has functionally replaced it both for developers and players. We offer forge releases for versions where that loader is still widely used like 1.19 and 1.20
A new version of the Aether mod has been released!
This new release contains many bug fixes, compatibility improvements, and reworded Book of Lore entries.
Download it now on Neoforge and Fabric from either Curseforge or Modrinth!
modrinth.com/mod/aether
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc...
Anything to distract from the existential dread of both the UK and US making serious moves towards full blown trans genocide.
Without lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other queer folk mods like The Aether would not exist.
If you want to support my work through these awful times you can do so at our team's Patreon www.patreon.com/c/TheAetherT...
The money goes directly to our devs, who are majority LGBT (and the team is run by two trans women)
Or just like play our mods and tell me what you think of them!
Dungeon Generation Design*
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essential.gg/wiki/support...
More info on Essential's new partner program here
Take to the skies, Together! For Free!
We're honoured to announce that we've partnered with the wonderful people over at essential.gg
Play The Aether with your friends now, for free, by installing the Aether and Essential!
