Project Update for November! (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick update on the state of the project and the monumental response to the 1.20.1 builds so far!

For the month of November we reached 1.5 million downloads across all our projects on Curseforge, the vast vast majority of which came from The Aether mod, and the vast majority of downloads from the Aether were from 1.20.1! This is a monumental shift in the project's reach and I think safely puts The Aether back among the most popular dimension mods in this space once again. Our team is really pleased with the feedback and positive responses we've got from these final few beta releases, and we look forward to getting the mod out of beta hopefully in the very near future!

We are nearing the point where we can likely go full steam ahead on a Fabric port of the original mod as well, so hopefully Fabric players won't have to wait much longer for the full fat Aether experience on their preferred platform! 

I'd also like to post a little tease for another smaller project we've been working on slowly during The Aether rewrite's development. For those who have been paying attention to addons channel on Discord you may already know that we're working on an add-on for The Aether that reimplements and remasters much of the content from The Aether II - Genesis of the Void from 1.7.10! The working title for this project is The Aether - Genesis and we hope to have a working playable build out some time soon after the main mod leaves beta. We'll likely have more details about plans and release structure in a dedicated Aermail video, probably early next year. For now though I'm happy to show off some of the features we've already implemented, such as the new trees, aercloud colours, and orange bushes! The goal for this project is to integrate GotV's content into Aether 1 seamlessly, which may result in some of the dungeon content being reworked in a way that fits Aether 1 more than the original GotV releases, but we hope to get a lot of player input on that stuff. But yeah I'm really confident that The Aether - Genesis will be a pleasant addition to the Aether Project for players who first stepped into the Aether during Genesis of the Void!

Aether II continues to be a looming presence in my headspace as well! I think we're all itching to get to work on it once these more legacy focused projects are out of the way, but unfortunately it is going to still be a little while before we have playable builds for Aether II on new versions, I'll continue to work on concept art and design work behind the scenes, posting anything I feel noteworthy in ⁠the preview channel on Discord, as well as here on Patreon as I go. But yeah for now it is still mostly on pause while we finalise work on these legacy projects.

We're also still working on writing and conceptualising the Aether comic book! It's still early days but I'm hoping we can start showing off what we have brewing for the comic book sometime next year! Very excited to get that in your hands as soon as possible!

Thank you all for your ongoing support for the project, it's been a monumental task getting this whole project back on track these last 3-4 years or so but I feel we're truly back on course and headed in the direction of great new releases!