Unraveling the Epic History of Minecraft’s First Mod

Did you know that the recently remastered aether mod a mod which is stood in history as one of the game’s most influential also happens to be a hot bed of controversy the aether mod released all the way back in Christmas of 2011 has just received a massive rewrite updating it into Minecraft’s

Most current version in this video we’ll look at the Historical impact of the mod the changes they’ve recently implemented into the new update as well as the massive controversy surrounding the pack first an overview of the original aether mod the ather mod launched their first release on December 25th 2011 just over

2 years after Minecraft development started and just barely 1 month after Minecraft’s official release date The Mod was incredibly impactful to the community and highly popular at the time it was pretty much unmatched in terms of the content added with an entire new dimension to explore loads of new Mobs

To encounter a handful of new ores to mine dungeons to delve into and bosses to battle the overall gameplay design of the mod mod was highly polished with wellth thought out progression the new ores allowed you to make brand new tools and armors but similar to Minecraft’s ore progression they were locked behind

The previous tier of tool to mine them the dungeons similarly came with a specific progression in mind getting more difficult as you found later and later dungeons however likely due to the massive overall scope of the mod updates to it were fairly few and far between with many Minecraft versions being

Completely skipped and unable to be played with the aether mod install this trend continued throughout most of the life of the mod until Minecraft 1.12 which appeared to potentially be the final version of the Aether but then seemingly out of nowhere a Minecraft Marketplace version of The Mod appeared

On sale for $10 currently known as The Ether Dimension this map added floating islands new Mobs dungeons ores and more all similar rather reminiscent of the aether mod while still being fairly unique little did anyone suspect this map would become the center of the massive controversy surrounding the

Aether as the community response to it was unhappy at best but before we dive into the public reception Behind The Ether Marketplace map we should first get a better understanding of what was actually in the aether mod the core of the mod’s concept was the addition of a

Floating Sky Island Dimension to explore the player after exploring the nether to grab glowstone could use it to construct a glowstone portal frame when water is placed in this Frame it would ignite turning into a blue portal and whereas the nether portal takes you down to the

Nether this Aether Portal would take you up to the Aether up in the Aether you would find everything is new green grass was replaced with grasses of much more unique colors generally either a bluish color a bright yellow or various other blue Greens in general this Dimension

Ended up being highly colorful due to the unique color design the mod makers employed much like how the blocks here are familiar but still different from the Overworld the mobs here are also somewhat reminiscent of various Overworld creatures found in vanilla Minecraft for example you can encounter

Swine with wings When Pigs Fly indeed or sheep that can launch themselves into the sky or air whales that are basically well actually they’re not anything like vanilla mobs then there are the Moa these iconic large birds come in various colors and patterns and Can Be Tamed by

Stealing and hatching an egg of one then raising it as your own tamed MOA can be saddled and ridden allowing you to fly through the skies once the player had their hands on one of these it made finding and conquering the rare dungeons far easier of a task to accomplish

Speaking of the dungeons there were three that could be found in the worlds bronze dungeons silver Dungeons and The elusive gold dungeons each dungeon structure was uniquely generated with puzzles to solve minions to battle and a boss at the end to defeat and upon defeating that boss you are rewarded

With a treasure chest containing loot based on the difficulty of that dungeon interestingly enough the Aether had some development versions made before the end Dimension was originally added to Minecraft in fact before the end was added then developer Notch had been working on his own Sky Island World Generation type which was possibly

Inspired by the aether mod however while this Sky Island generation did stay in the game as sort of an Easter egg it does seem to have been at least somewhat implemented as well the end Island World Generation is rather similar to how Sky Islands generate likely having been code

That started as sky islands and then morphed into end Islands while a bit of a stretch it is possible to make the argument that the aether mod indirectly inspired the end Dimension so now that we have a pretty solid understanding of what the aether mod is let’s move on to

The ether Marketplace map to see what similarities and differences exist between the two in terms of the actual substance of this Marketplace project there seems to be a mixed bag between things directly borrowed from the original ather as well as with a lot of Concepts that range from either tipping

Their hat to the the aether mod to those that are completely entirely original this may not have caused any controversy at all if not for the fact that the creators of this Marketplace map had absolutely nothing to do with the original development team of the aether mod because of this some in the

Community felt that they were stealing from the free Aether Mod to make a paid map the original Mod makers even weighed in at one point to express their disapproval of the map stating that they weren’t asked permission before it was made insinuating that it was stolen but we should probably understand what’s in

This map to be able to form our own conclusion on that so what exactly is in this ether map well according to the map’s description on the marketplace it adds an ether Dimension five floating biomes with sub biomes 42 fully custom mobs four bosses and 186 new blocks the

Map also features a handful of new ores loads of new items and tools and numerous large structures to find and explore so clearly the map adds plenty of new content the game but how much of it is original versus lifted from the atheron well in terms of unique content

There is a plethora of features to discuss found across the world are unique custom villages with various houses Pathways and of course villagers these villagers come in multiple variants and can be traded with to get items there are also Pirates found on ships across the world often with lots

Of loot nearby looking back the aether mod has nothing similar to this with the closest thing being the dwelling buildings that rarely generate in the world however these don’t have any inhabitants and aren’t particularly similar going back to the ether Marketplace map it has loads of custom mobs most sharing minimal to no

Similarities to any ather mod mobs The Ether map even has a riable dragon mount that while is similar to the Aether MOA is definitely unique in and of itself The Ether map also features completely unique ores when compared to the atherm they’re somewhat similar in nature to

The Modz ores but that isn’t too surprising given the fact that the Aether mods ores aren’t exactly groundbreaking in terms of the way they were designed but in terms of what the items do for the most part each ore gives a set of tools that are just statistically better than the previous

Ones they mine faster do more damage and so on however a couple of unique items do exist such as a flaming weapon a hang glider and a throwable axe these don’t particularly have any direct counterparts inside the Aether and interestingly unlike the aether mod you can find both custom ores and vanilla

Ores in the floating island but how about bosses there are four bosses included in the ether map one more than in the ather each fight is completely unique with the only similarity being that both of them have a boss called the slider but more on that later The Ether

Bosses themselves are found inside boss zones located near the edges of the map which is similar to the mod but also the same as most any video game ever made it is worth mentioning that while the map was marketed as adding an ether Dimension it does in fact not do so as

Minecraft Bedrock doesn’t currently allow for custom World Generation let alone custom Dimensions because of this what you actually get is a handcrafted world it’s basically one giant build about 1,000 blocks by 1,000 blocks in size this of course is different than the aether mod which actually does

Infinitely generate at random so if you were to explore too far in any direction on The Ether map you’ll eventually reach the end of the floating worlds and be left with nothing but clouds but hey why stop there keep flying out for a bit and you’ll reach the Overworld so

Essentially the entire map is contained in a large void area placed in the middle of a normal Overworld so those are pretty unique but let’s dig a Little Deeper when it comes to content added that is aod or tip of the hat to features found inside the aether mod

There are a handful of them to talk about when it comes to The Ether map even though the bosses found inside each dungeon of The Ether map are totally unique three of the dungeons themselves seem to be very much so inspired heavily by the aether mod both the color palette

And overall look of the builds are remarkably similar to that of the mod not the exact same build but quite clearly inspired by dungeons found in the Aether additionally a couple of the mobs added in The Ether map draw a lot from Concepts found within the Aether

Mob for example both of them have flying whales and while the model is fairly different functionally and artistically they’re fairly similar MOA aren’t directly added either but they have quite a similar bird mob that takes on a similar role twinklers are a butterfly like creature added in The Ether map as

A decorative MTH they kind of just fly around and do nothing but come in various colors and look cool pretty much exactly like the glitter Wing from the Aether mob which is also a butterfly mob and finally in terms of mobs the other similar one is in the gold dungeon there

Are these angel-like mobs that look awfully similar to the angels found within the aether’s silver dungeon and then there is the slider boss in the aether mod the slider boss is a stone Cube that slides around the room and damages the player upon Collision though

The Ether map has a boss of the same name it isn’t anything similar to the slider in the E it’s more of a snake likee creature that slides all over the place funny enough though while this isn’t similar to any Aether creature this is incredibly similar to the naga

Mob from the Twilight Forest mob interestingly enough people notice that it is not just the boss itself that is similar to the naga of Twilight Forest Fame the location where you find this creature is also surprisingly similar to the build that the Twilight Forest Saga resides in the courtyard both are stone

Brick walled mazes with an interior of leaf blocks and the build even features the exact same stone brick floor pattern which is quite a distinct feature of the original Twilight Forest build so while it is quite likely that some of the concepts and ideas from the aether mod

Were recreated in The Ether map what parts of the map really got the community all up in arms over what they viewed as stolen content surely just having similar ideas and Concepts in the map wouldn’t have led to such an UPR right well the trailer got off to a very

Rough start by immediately introducing the idea that you get to The Ether Dimension using the extremely iconic glowstone portal this by itself would have likely made people angry as that was one of the most well-known features of the aether mod due to it being a core

Feature of the content and in terms of the overall color palette being used for blocks especially grass dirt leaves and stone the similarities between the two are impossible to miss the iconic bluish green grass can be found throughout a good chunk of the world but even other

Biome colors you could normally find in the aether mod such as the bright yellows or Bluer grasses are both featured in The Ether map as well and the biomes shared so many similarities to the original Mod that some questioned if they had ported Landscapes from the actual mod into the Minecraft Bedrock

Map the biomes are set up to nearly exactly resemble how it would generate in the mod except for the central Mountain location that has no equivalent found inside the aether mod but this means that at a quick glance it’s quite hard to tell the aether mod and ether

Marketplace map apart from one another and to people with no intention of buying the map but who did see the trailer this level of similarity was not appreciated there are a few other examples of features that appear to have been directly lifted from the atherm mod

Into The Ether map such as Speedy sand which does exactly the same thing as in the mod and the lightning sword and flaming swords which are also identical across both mods but now for the big reveal by far the biggest most impactful similarity between these two projects

Was Far simpler than content featured in the two it was just that the marketplace project with absolutely no affiliation to the extremely popular and historically significant Aether Mod had taken on at launch the exact same name originally calling itself the ather Dimension huh yes indeed The Ether was

Originally released as the ather and so after having their trailer bombed with dislikes with loads of outrage and social media on display and with an overall massive amount of negative of attention towards their map the map makers caved by changing the name of the map to be The Ether by removing a single

Letter from the name of the map it was clearly now a completely different idea and thus not a copy of the a funny enough they didn’t change the name of their trailer linked on the marketplace which still has the old name of aan and this seems to have quelled the

Controversy the project has a high amount of purchases as indicated by the high number of ratings featured on the map and it must have done well enough as recently the team behind the ether map published The Ether 2 map that said checking the like to dislike ratio on

The new trailer still shows as rather bad so clearly changing the name didn’t completely fix their public perception I’ll leave it to you to explore more of the drawing for now we need to get back to what was happening with the original ather while all of this was unfolding on

The public stage while the aether mod was seemingly dormant the team behind it still had plans a full 8 months before the remastered mod was released a beta announcement trailer was published on the aether’s YouTube channel to pretty minimal public reception they had taken a couple year break but were now

Returning to accomplish a remastering of the mod which likely meant that this had been in the works as The Ether Marketplace map was being published and the drama was unfolding but once the team got going they made what seemed like incredibly quick progress releasing one to two beta versions every single

Month slowly but surely features were added back until they were finally ready to launch them with a shiny new trailer to boot the trailer absolutely blew quickly gaining hundreds of thousands of views and as of the time of this writing is currently sitting at 1 and A2 million

Hits the community was estatic about one of the most well-known historically significant mods returning to be playable in the current versions of Minecraft and due to the age of the mod there is now a whole new generation of Minecraft players that have never played the mod let alone maybe even heard of it

So what content has returned in this remastering of the Aether and what is still to be added starting with what’s the same the Aether team managed to add all of the core content of the mop the world generation blocks and color palette biomes it’s all here all of the

Dungeons as well as the three bosses inside have all made a return including all features related to them such as the minions traps and puzzles and nearly all the items and ores have also made a return with only a couple minor ones missing plus a good chunk of the mobs

Are present such as the air bunnies and whales the flying pigs cows and sheep as well as some creatures Reed that hadn’t been a part of the mod in more Rec recent releases in terms of content that was updated from older versions to be a bit more polished or modernized there

Are at least a handful a good chunk of the textures had some changes made to them notably the buckets Keys boats ambrosian and parachutes a lot of the other items seem to have had some color changes or small texture adjustments they also changed the name of the hammer

Of Notch weapon to now be the hammer of King bogs a tribute to one of their prominent developers who now works at mojing on the official game as a game game designer but while a good chunk of the core content is present in this 1.0 remastering of the aether mod some

Features are still missing likely planned for future updates a good amount of the cloud types are missing as currently three exist out of the six plus that the previous mod had present but most notably a good amount of mobs are also not currently part of the mob those being the carryon Sprouts CID

Glitter wi Tempest and various NPCs understandably the glitter wings were the decorative butterflies that didn’t serve any real purpose so their lack of inclusion isn’t particularly impactful and the Tempest is basically a stronger version of The Zephyr enemies so they could be viewed as somewhat redundant

But with this being a 1.0 version people are rightfully excited to see where they end up with this updated ather already having nearly all the previous content in a highly polished State gives everyone so much to look forward to where will the aether mod go from here

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