The Modder So Good, He Got Hired by Mojang

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THUMBNAIL ART: Jingles
VOICE ACTORS:
YungWill - kingbdogz
Ratrick - God
Chiffoi - Herself
JetStarfish - Himself
CraftyMasterman - Notch
Pheabee - LadyAgnes
div_y - Jeb
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[OzPayn]

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

[reubengorlov]

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

[Star-Powder]

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.

[Game_Blox]

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!!

[vomRests]

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

[peety]

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

[lilkae]

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

[TranscorpHR]

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

[iTzzTronco]

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

[Without_me]

The funny bit is he lives in my home town perth and the picture that photo was taken was at Warwick train station at 0:10

[duckzxy]

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 :)

[PurpleBroadcast]

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

[aboveBS]

6:00 "if it's something risky for mojang, blame it on brandon" ahh clip

[FasePsitive]

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.

[ShiroCh_ID]

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

[everythingdolphins]

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

[Astro-M]

Yeah a charity is definitely relevant to how good of a developer he is lmao

[NathanielAzene]

the youtuber skyboi so good, mojang hired him

[fireyfan]

Top 5 Most Important People in Minecraft History
1. Notch
2. Jeb
3. Kingbdogz
4. Dock
5. EthosLab

[masterbaiter]

0:36 just noticed the terraria ost started loading😂