Hey so buying an Aerwhale plush really helps support me financially, which is gonna be crucial for my work on the Aether mods going forward as HRT is extremely expensive. So consider getting yourself a lovely Aerwhale! They're very huggable and are also HUGE.
Our Jumbo Aerwhale Plush Makeship campaign is also over 90% funded! Go pick yours up before the campaign ends later this month! (And reminder we'll be doing 2.0 releases of the Aerbunny and Moa Plushes soon too for those that missed them the first time round)
www.makeship.com/products/aer...
Download now on Curseforge and Modrinth
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc...
modrinth.com/mod/aether-ii
The Aether II has been updated to 1.21.11!
Along with the port, Alpha 2 brings various new ruin structures across multiple biomes, new blocks to build with, and new loot to add to your arsenal!
Rebalanced biome distribution and tweaked world generation also enriches exploration gameplay!
On a related note the Jumbo Aerwhale Plush is already almost 2/3 funded after just over a week! So please check it out if you haven't already and help get it to its funding goal!
www.makeship.com/products/aer...
Hope everyone has a nice weekend 😄
Hey guys just a little note here, Im currently working on a video going through our short and long term plans for The Aether II and discussing how our project is funded and maintained to be more transparent about our financial situation going forward. So expect that to drop in the next few days!
Our Jumbo Aerwhale Plush is already over 1/3 funded after just one day! Make sure to check out the campaign and help get it funded 😁
www.makeship.com/products/aer...
We're so happy to announce that we've once again partnered with Makeship to bring you guys another Aether Plush! This time we've gone with the absolutely most requested design, The Aerwhale!
Purchasing this jumbo plush helps directly fund The Aether II's development, so please check it out!
youtu.be/DODoz2JMyB0
Check out Sunsette's new music made for The Aether II's Alpha 1!
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:
sunsette.bandcamp.com/album,/the-a...
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!