Nice video, I have some notes on the factual content though and some additional context that could explain some things. First off, the Aether, and its sequel Aether II, have historically been self hosted by our team via our own launchers or in the olden days via a mediafire host. So the downloads numbers on Curseforge only represent a small portion of the mod's total downloads over the years, only really reflecting the downloads in recent times when the mod's audience was mostly at its absolute smallest (that's changing now as we're getting the Aether on modern versions and getting modpack inclusion again but yeah) So that 15 million number is on the low low LOW end of the total downloads Aether 1 has had in its 12 year lifespan. Aether II also went through two distinct iterations, with the transition between them and experiments within being handled quite poorly, so it's worth noting that the versions people have played will differ depending on when they played them. The original alpha builds (titled Genesis of the Void) were more of a multiplayer remake of Aether 1, but we as a team struggled to get all the content ported and reworked with that in mind so it was eventually scrapped in favour of having Aether 1 be ported without changes and Aether II was restarted as more of a full on sequel. This rework, which is titled the Highlands Update, from 1.10-1.12 was full of design experiments and "game within a game" ideas from Brandon and the rest of the team that clashed heavily with the vibe of the original mod and vanilla game and largely drove players away. Brandon's involvement in this part of the project was quite turbulent and involved a lot of internal issues and technical problems which we as a team struggled to resolve. Unfortunately Brandon left mid-development to join Mojang which left Aether II, and Orbis (a set of technologies the mod was inherently interwoven with) in a sort of unsalvageable state that has led to the team's decision, following Brandon's departure, to restart Aether II following the successful rewrite/remaster of the original Aether mod on 1.19+ Aether II issues aside, Brandon remains one of the most inspiring and fundamentally talented designers in the Minecraft space, I consider him my mentor and a close friend. His influence on Minecraft and the modding community as a whole has been far more wide-reaching and positive than I think anyone really realises. And I'm incredibly proud of where his career has taken him even after his departure from my team. I greatly enjoyed catching up with him recently after the 1.21 announcement, and I really think people underestimate just how awesome the design concepts Mojang is working with are going forward, I think 1.21 is going to be an absolutely crazy start to a new era of Minecraft content. So yeah I hope this extra info and context around the Aether's development is useful! ~ Oz Payn - Project Lead and Creative Director at The Aether Team

Building a shrine to Brandon and chanting "All hail the Aether Mod" for 8 minutes isn't a documentary, SkyBoi

playing hermitcraft with grain must be the best thing he's ever accomplished

While Brandon was undoubtedly a great addition to the Mojang team I hope the community doesn't start to think that everything good comes from him. There's plenty of other talented people who also contribute to the updates even if they don't talk about it publicly as much as Brandon does.

I never could've guessed that the creator of the Warden _and_ the creator of the Aether mod are one and the same!! I actually somehow knew that the Mojang animators really quickly improved their animation skills, but I thought it was because they were learning more, not that they hired the freakin' _creator_ of the Aether mod!!

Petition for this guy to talk about Minecraft but videos and where they are now

from creating one of the most beautiful things to ever come from minecraft's community to creating one of the most horrifying things to ever come from minecraft crazy

I love your editing. Great job Skyboi! Amazing vid as always

Great editing on this video, man!

Im so late but Common SkyBoi W video

you made me NOTCH????? WHYYYY???? LMFAO

Mojang literally hired this man.

Still always perfect! Hope you reach 100k because you’ve put hard work on videos! ❤

Your videos are very well-put. I like the style of editing and great audio and background. Keep it up

Being crazy creative AND talented in coding is a blessing straight from the gods

really well edited, cant wait to see where your channel goes

love the way ur channel is transforming, keep it up

Holy crap, this editing and video is actually insane, especially around 6:51

He carries the entire Minecraft on his shoulders. He IS HIM. He IS The Honored one

the youtuber skyboi so good, mojang hired him

Holy shit this video is so well crafted. Story telling keeps me on the edge the whole time and the jokes land perfectly. Keep it up man one of the best minecraft essays I've seen

This is really peaking into the view of Mojang which is refreshing too see. Also LOVE THE EDITING

I adore your energy, dude. Seriously! I can hear the genuine passion in your voice when you talk about stuff, and it makes me smile. Keep being you!

insane editing skills, good humor, nice video. Definitely subscribing.

Really enjoyed the Video the Editing is insane

3:00 dawg 💀

the school i went to when i was younger was literally right next to the mojang office before, you can see it in the reflection at 5:13. i did meet Jeb one time and he gave me an autograph which is nice :)

the way you described him could make anyone feel like brandon's a demigod....of coding ofc... but i look forward to see what else interesting stuff does he bring to minecraft.

You can really see his effect on Mojang with the new uodate... the challenge areas definitely remind me of the aether dungeons.

lets not forget that 1.21 feels like Gnembon Carpet Mod and Kingbdogz Aether mod were packed in 1 package

Yet another Great video By Skyboi! Your content inspires me with my own videos. Keep up the good work man!

I suspect that the autocrafter is mostly developed by gnembon developer of the carpet mod

This guy, I don’t mean kingbdogz. I mean skyboi, you are very underrated and need to get a million subs! Your editing is amazing and I love it! I will from now on watch every. Single. One. If your video’s! You deserve it!🎉

2:51 omg I watched that video and tried to make it on my grandmothers computer when I was little... the memories

Kingbdogz and Henrik are the two most important minecraft developers in recent memory. In comparison, the rest of mojang is slacking to what they achieve, both creating some of the biggest and most prominent parts of the updates they worked on. Henrik I believe has left Mojang but was the person who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the Caves and Cliff world generation.

Great way to show one of the most important employees that makes blocks and mob behaviour interesting. BTW, I noticed that you used music from Blocksworld.

7:48 im never pronouncing grayan the same way ever again

6:28 is wild

for the first time i actually really liked this kind of video and its all because of you

Dude your pretty underrated keep it up youll be successful

7:28 ehh jeb's up there

7:30 c418:

great video i love the pacing and editing

i love the content from sky boi :) he is so underated

I love ur content so much omg w video 10/10

0:37 terraria music

bro u deserve way more subscribers for that good of a video!

This is such a cool story for this guy, and he hasn't had any random weird controversies/scandals pop up (as of writing this), so that's great! I love to see people just get to...succeed y'know? Their dreams/goals may be long shots but sometimes you DO make it. I'm also just really glad such a creative and talented person works at Mojang and has been influencing the game positively. Hey, maybe one day the Aether itself CAN be in vanilla. Probably not lol, but one day possibly.

king didnt make the crafter it was probably inspired by gnembon carpet mod back when gnembom was a huge modder before his carreer at Mojang now im sure king and gnem have both put into this but its more like a dropper block that gnem made along time ago

He also played hermitcraft with graian for a day made me laugh out loud😂

I love passionate you became at the end of the video.

This video is amazing, well done dude! 👏

Holy Moly the PvZ Remix ay the end goes HARD

wow this minecraft video is so minecraft, this minecraft minecraft is so minecraft it can almost be considered "minecrafty" (minecraft)

I legit got jump scared when Pheea appeared lmao. Great video 👍

why did shit get godly at the last 5 mins T_T im defo subbing, awesome vid

theres been a decent amount of devs at mojang who were mod devs prior

7:09 the music 💀💀

3:54 No way you used Blocksworld music as the background music!! I recognized it instantly… it caught me so off guard lmao. Man I miss that game..

Yo not gonna lie, the editing style is fire so keep it up my guy❤‍🔥

I'd like to believe the autocrafting table is Gnebmon's influence, but that's probably just the vanilla feel

1:07 BACON BLOCKSSSSS

i like how when you said subscribe the subscribe button had rainbow on it for a second, new subscriber!

Absolutely fire content my man 🔥🔥🔥

What a great modder, mojang should hire him!

Playing Hermitcraft with Grian for a day was the peak of his career

i never comment on videos bro but your so underrated keep this up man you will become huge

This guy spends so much time in intelej idea and knows so much about how the game is coded he is probobly one of the best players today im glad microsoft is hireing people with really good portfolios like lena ray for the sound design and this guy i wonder how he got so good at learning java as its not easy to learn as the information is scarce and coding is exetremely difficult. i do some coding and i made a fue mods and even with all the advancements in technology to make programming easyer like ai and more resouces and tutorials its still hard for compairason it took me an entire summer of learning to actually make one item

3:30 its FitMC

I think that sky is one of the best mc channels of 2023

This wouldn't be the only time that content that were originally from mods became part of the game. Mojang has done this quite a few times in the past, whether they were aware of it or not. Slime blocks were originally from Tinker's Construct iirc (it also only took 4 slime balls to make instead of 9). The recipe book is very similar to Too Many Items, but just with less functionality. And copper was added by so many mods that you can't even count them on both hands.

Cojomax, Gegy and gnembon were all mod developers in the past. Cojomax creating another popular mod called Tropicraft. And recent updates to the game like crafter and tick command were inspired by gnembon's Carpet mod.

3:55 blocksworld model music (Now blocksworld is shutdown)

Skyboi video is always so amazing omg

I still remember loading up minecraft and putting that 4x5 block of glowstone and trying to add water without anything happening because I was just a kid and didnt know anything about mods.

Well, maybe Gnembon was a bit more influential in developing this most recent update, considering that the tick command and the auto crafter are taken directly from his carpet mod.

2:42 did you put this clip in specifically to remind us that his Lovely World is over? If so, it worked.

“The Mod Developer So Good, He Got Hired by Mojang”… a solid chunk of Mojang’s staff…? Dinnerbone…?

subbed this is amazing.

I like that this is a minecraft themed video but the background music is from terraria. Keep up the good work.

Jeb is obviously the second most important player in minecraft history after Notch but it's shocking to me that he was rejected originally considering the influence he'd had over the games development so early on but i understand that senior sotfware engineers require different skillsets. I think they desperately need somebody who specialises in performance though. I like what they did with data packs but I also think there's a lot of room for improvement when it comes to control and ease of use. It would be nice to finally get the native mod support that has been talked about since 2011 without the need for modloaders etc.

7:18 🤨📸

This video could’ve been made by any number of channels with 1 mil +subs, great video bro

7:18 Bro TF is this? Love it. The randomness and escalation of it had me dying

The little alchemist music, i love itttt

the Warden is not a boss it’s a force of nature 💀

Many of the sound effects and music from this video is from PVZ and thats awesome. Nice video man

He's literally HIM 7:03

Get him the most subbed kid named "Sky"

nice vid, you are underrated

hes like what would happen is a genuine modder that makes top tier mods for a game is hired to work on that game

6:48 WARDEN IS NOT A BOSS You aren't supposed to fight with it. It's a mob you should AVOID using snowballs and wool.

love the pvz sound effects n songs

Obviously I don't know but I think it's more likely the crafter and possible the copper bulbs and tick command where gnembon he was a very technical player who I think would with scicraft and he has videos on his channel showing autocrafter concepts which are nearly identical and made a mod called carpet mod that had the tick command in it.

7:16 Definitely inspired by the autoCraftingDropper from gnembon's Carpet Mod... who also works at Mojang now

this is so minecraft the video. i wtached

Aether has been and will forever be my favorite adventure mod. Twilight forrest is a close second

2:40 bro just bring back memories from 10 years ago

Wow, an australian developer made it THIS far??

"gryan" 4:46