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2026-02-28

☠️ Elite Drops

Additional essences now dropping from Elite mobs alongside the existing Life Essence.

✨ New Essences

The following essences have been added to the Elite mob loot pool:

  • Fire Essence
  • Ice Essence
  • Lightning Essence
  • Water Essence
  • Meat Essence

These essences drop in addition to Life Essence and do not replace it.

⚖️ Drop Behavior

  • Drops are tier-scaled on Elite mobs
  • Lower tiers act as rare teaser drops
  • Higher tiers offer more reliable access
  • Life Essence remains the core early-game essence

🎯 Design Goals

  • Reduce single-essence bottlenecks
  • Expand elemental and specialty crafting paths
  • Maintain early-game balance while enriching late-game rewards

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image Skill Updates

🪄 Magic

Added Staff entries to Magic skill, using these now give XP:

  • Copper Staff: +8 Magic XP
  • Iron Staff: +12 Magic XP
  • Thorium Staff: +25 Magic XP
  • Cobalt Staff: +30 Magic XP
  • Adamantite Staff: +35 Magic XP
  • Mithril Staff: +48 Magic XP
  • Onyxium Staff: +65 Magic XP

🐞 Bug Fix

  • Fixed an issue where Wands and Spellbooks were incorrectly granting Archery XP instead of Magic XP.

⚔️ Combat

  • Buffed Onyxium weapon XP from 55 XP > 65 XP
  • Added Prisma Dagger: +75 XP to Dagger skill
  • Added Prisma Sword: +75 XP to Sword skill

🔧 Hotfix: Thorium & Cobalt XP Balance

  • Cobalt gear and ore now grant more XP
  • Thorium gear and ore now grant less XP
  • Applies to combat skills and mining

This update better aligns XP rewards with intended material progression.


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2026-02-28

🌿 Agriculture Update

🆕 New Features 🌻

🌽 Expanded Culinary System

  • 🌱 Fresh farm-to-table cooking! Added 30+ new dishes that go beyond plain cooked meat — from hearty tavern classics to sweet desserts. Every dish restores more nutrition than before!

🔥 New Crafting Workstation — The Range

  • 🍞 A new Range workstation crafted from:

    • 1 × Chef’s Stove
    • 15 × Iron Ingots
    • 10 × Stone
    • 10 × Charcoal
  • 🧼 Includes a functioning sink to fill buckets quickly — perfect for dough and baking!

🌾 More Crops & Beekeeping 🍯

  • 🌱 New agricultural crops added — grow things like sugarcane & cocoa beans for use in many recipes.

  • 🍯 Functional Beehive workstation:

    • Place down a beehive 🎋
    • Add 5 of the same flower
    • Wait to harvest 2 jars of sweet honey — perfect for desserts, bread, and sweet feasts!

🧑‍🌾 Gameplay Enhancements 🚜

🥗 Boosted Nutrition Values

  • Many new foods give higher nutrition than vanilla-only options — more reason to diversify crops and kitchen production.

🍽️ Effects & Benefits

  • Some dishes grant additional effects while adventuring — making quality cooking a strategic choice!

2026-02-27

⚔️ End Game

🗺️ Endgame Progression Expansion

  • Introduces new progression tiers:

    • Mithril
    • Onyxium
    • Prisma

👹 Boss Encounters

  • Dragon Frost

    • Multi-phase boss encounter with frost-based attacks.
  • Hedera

    • Nature/poison-themed boss with root and area-control mechanics.
  • Void Golem

    • Final endgame boss featuring multiple aggressive phases.
  • Boss fights include phase transitions with brief invulnerability windows.


💀 Wave Survival Mode — Warden’s Trial

  • New arena-style survival challenge.
  • 5 escalating wave difficulties.
  • Final boss waves unlock high-tier rewards.

🛠️ Equipment & Weapons

  • Adds 100+ new items, including weapons, armor sets, and tools.

  • New gear progression:

    • Adamantite → Mithril → Onyxium → Prisma
  • Prisma-tier legendary weapons with unique effects:

    • Prisma Sword — summons spectral clones.
    • Prisma Daggers — execute low-health targets.
    • Prisma Pickaxe — fastest mining speed with a portable storage feature.
  • Frostbite Blade

    • Applies freeze and slow effects to enemies.

🧪 New Mobs & NPCs

  • Adds elite enemies such as Alpha Rex and Void-themed casters.
  • 9+ new NPC types with custom behaviors and abilities.

🏦 Traders & World Additions

  • Hidden and dungeon-based traders offering rare items.
  • New endgame zones, including frozen dungeons with tiered loot.

🧩 Gameplay Changes

🆙 Endgame Crafting

  • Introduces the Endgame Workbench with multiple upgrade tiers.
  • Unlocks crafting paths for Mithril, Onyxium, and Prisma equipment.
  • Adds keys and portal shards required to access endgame content.

🗝️ Progression Flow

  1. Defeat early endgame bosses to unlock Mithril gear.
  2. Progress through mid-tier bosses to access Onyxium.
  3. Defeat the final boss to unlock Prisma-tier equipment.

🛠️ Reforging

🚀 New Content

Progressive Reforging System

  • Introduced the Reforge Station, a new placeable block used to enhance gear.
  • Press F while interacting with the station to open the reforging interface.
  • Weapons and armor can be reforged through up to 10 levels of progression.
  • Each level increases item power while also increasing cost and risk.

Reforging Interface

  • Displays success chance, required materials, and currency cost before reforging.
  • Clear feedback on successful upgrades or failed attempts.

📈 Gameplay Changes

Item Enhancements

  • Weapons gain additional damage bonuses per reforge level.
  • Armor gains additional defense bonuses per reforge level.
  • Bonuses scale progressively and stack with existing item stats.

Risk vs Reward System

  • Each reforging attempt has a chance to fail.
  • Failed attempts may destroy the item, with partial material refunds depending on settings.
  • Optional protection allows reforging to reset the item’s level instead of destroying it.

Economy Integration

  • Reforging requires both materials and currency.
  • Costs scale with each level to maintain long-term progression balance.

image Skill Bonus Balancing — Global Damage Scaling

Overview

This update introduces a unified, progressive damage scaling system across all combat styles. The goal is to reduce early-game power spikes, control late-game damage stacking, and preserve long-term build progression.


Global STAT_DAMAGE Changes

Affected Combat Styles

The following now share one identical damage progression curve:

  • Melee (Swords, Daggers, Axes, Maces, Spears, etc.)
  • Ranged (Archery)
  • Magic (Staves)
  • Unarmed (if applicable)

All STAT_DAMAGE bonuses—weapon-specific and Damage (All)—have been rebalanced accordingly.


New Progressive Damage Curve (Rounded)

Tier Previous Bonus New Bonus
2 +10% +6%
3 +15% +8%
4 +20% +10%
5 +25% +10%
6 +35% +14%
7 +50% +16%
8 +65% +20%
9 +75% +20%
10 +100% +24%
  • All values are rounded to even numbers
  • The same curve applies across every combat tree
  • No per-weapon exceptions

Total Damage Impact

Build State Old System New System
Full damage investment +395% (×4.95) +128% (×2.28)

Design Intent

  • Early game: Damage progression is slower and more controlled, emphasizing gear, positioning, and player skill.

  • Mid game: Damage increases steadily without sudden spikes.

  • Late game: Full investment is still rewarding, but no longer trivializes enemies, defenses, or combat mechanics.


Additional Notes

  • Critical chance, lifesteal, parry bonuses, XP bonuses, and non-damage stats are unchanged
  • This system is future-proof: new weapons automatically inherit the same curve
  • Combat style identity is preserved through non-damage stats, not raw scaling

🔮 Enchanting Balance Update

This update significantly reworks enchanting costs and progression to better reflect power scaling and long-term progression.


⚙️ Enchantment Cost Scaling Overhaul

📈 Exponential Cost Scaling

  • Enchantment scroll recipes now scale exponentially by tier:

    • Tier 1: ×1 (unchanged)
    • Tier 2: ×4
    • Tier 3: ×9
    • Tier 4: ×16
  • Applies to all scalable ingredients (essences, bars, crystals, plants, etc.)

  • All values are rounded up to whole numbers

This makes higher-tier enchantments a meaningful investment rather than a linear upgrade.


🧵 Fabric Scrap (Cindercloth) Changes

  • Fabric_Scrap_Cindercloth now scales linearly by tier instead of remaining flat:

    • Tier 1: 5
    • Tier 2: 8
    • Tier 3: 13
    • Tier 4: 20
  • Keeps early enchanting accessible while discouraging mass high-tier crafting


💀 Tier 3 Enchantment Tax (New)

All Tier 3 enchantment scrolls now require additional rare materials:

  • +25 Void Essence

  • Plus one of the following:

    • 1 Emerald (if the recipe did not already include gems)
    • 1 Concentrated Life Essence (if the recipe already uses gems)

This change is intended to:

  • Slow Tier 3 enchantment spam
  • Force engagement with higher-end resource systems
  • Make Tier 3 a deliberate progression choice

🛠️ Enchanting Table Upgrade Scaling

Enchanting table upgrades now follow the same tier-based scaling philosophy:

Upgrade Costs

  • Upgrade 1 (Tier 1): Unchanged
  • Upgrade 2 (Tier 2): Costs ×4
  • Upgrade 3 (Tier 3): Costs ×9

Upgrade 3 Additional Cost

  • +25 Void Essence added as a Tier 3 upgrade tax

Single-count unique items (gems, Voidheart) are not multiplied.


🎯 Design Goals

  • Make enchanting progression feel earned, not spammed
  • Preserve early-game experimentation
  • Push Tier 3+ enchantments firmly into late-game territory
  • Improve long-term economy balance on servers

🧌 Elite Mobs 2.0

🆕 New Features

Elite & Tiered Mob System

  • Introduces tier-based enemies (Tier 1–5) with increasing health, damage, and difficulty.
  • Mobs now spawn with randomized stats, armor, and weapons, making encounters less predictable.

Dynamic Combat Abilities

  • Certain mobs gain special abilities, including:

    • Charge Leap – rapidly closes distance to players
    • Heal Leap – restores health during combat
    • Summon Undead – calls allied mobs to assist in battle

Enhanced Loot System

  • Adds tiered loot tables with rarity-based drops.
  • Higher-tier mobs have improved chances to drop powerful gear, consumables, and equipment.
  • Enemies may drop the items they were using when defeated.

Visual Enhancements

  • Tier indicators displayed on mob nameplates.
  • Elite mobs feature increased size and visual effects to reflect their strength.

📜 Hear Ye, Wayfarers of the Realm! 🐎

Word spreads along the trade roads and campfires burn late with rumors… Nomad Tamers have arrived.

Wandering beast-masters have crossed into our lands, bringing with them ancient knowledge of how to befriend, tame, and ride the wild creatures of the world.


🌍 New Creatures Roam the Wilds

The world now teems with new life. Keep your eyes open beyond the city walls:

Mounts of the Nomads

  • Swift Antelope of the plains
  • Armored Armadillo, rolling through the dust
  • Mighty Bison and stubborn Warthogs
  • Graceful Doe & Stag of the forests
  • Towering Bull & Cow Moose of the cold wilds
  • Sun-soaked Sand Lizards of the dunes
  • Ancient Tortoises, slow but steadfast
  • Curious Trillodons
  • And even proud Flamingos, stalking the shallows

Each beast has its own temperament… and its own favorite treat.


🍖 The Art of Taming

The Nomads teach no spells or sorcery — only patience.

  • Offer a creature the food it loves
  • Watch for signs it’s willing to trust you
  • Earn its loyalty
  • Ride beside it as a true companion, not a master

Those who carry the right food may find beasts following them willingly.

✨ Look closely — creatures will show when your offering pleases them.


🐀 A Small Companion

Travelers whisper of a clever little creature known as the Raton.

  • Fond of Cheese
  • Shy, but loyal to those who earn its trust
  • Will trail behind kind souls who treat it well

🏕️ Choose your path, traveler.
Will you cross the plains atop a bison?
Wander the forests with a stag at your side?
Or earn the trust of something rarer?

The wilds are watching.


16th of February

🐟 Fishing

Added Fishing Skill, weights, length & leaderboards

Features

  • Craft a Fishing Rod and Fish Bag at Workbench > Survival.
  • Fish in open water with a tuned bobber and bite/reel timing.
  • Catch fish based on where you are fishing (freshwater/saltwater areas).
  • Catch fish you see nearby in water, or get a fish from local catch pools.
  • Store catches in a dedicated Fish Bag so your inventory fills up less quickly.
  • Build personal bests and compete for global/server records.
  • Use /hfleaders to view fishing leaderboards in-game.

👹 Dungeons

Major Dungeons adds new custom dungeons to the game. These dungeons are instanced and accessible through the Ancient Portal, which opens after reaching 100 Memories. In the dungeons, you'll encounter completely New Enemies and Bosses. And as a reward for completing dungeons and killing the final bosses, you can receive a Unique Weapons and Armors, which drops at a certain rate, just like in Terraria. image

Dungeon of Fear is the first in the Major Dungeons series. You'll gradually descend deeper and deeper into the Kingdom of Baal. You'll visit various parts of his kingdom and encounter his deadly minions. If you fail the final boss of a level, you'll have to start over from the beginning, as the one-use crystals required for entering subsequent dungeons after the first drop only from bosses.

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This mod adds a new merchant to the game - a Nameless God. He offers unique Weapons, Armor, and various Artifacts. He only accepts Dark Coins as payment, which can only be found in dungeons. image

Changes

  • Improved Skills UI
  • Added kitchen furniture sets, tables and chairs
  • Added functional refrigerator for food storage and kitchen stove with cooking functionality
  • Added tea sets with functional teapots
  • Added Violet's Wardrobe

Fixes

  • Fixed invalid entries in the market crashing the client

4th of February

New Essentials

Improved commands & simplicity

Changes

  • Migrated all homes to new plugin
  • Less spammy join/leave messages
  • Added a first join message for new players, be nice to them yall!
  • Improved RTP checks
  • Added warmup timers for commands, no more easy escapes

Fixes

  • /back now works as intended
  • Fixed double leave messages

31th of January

🗡️ Dodging

A combat reimplementation that replaces blocking with dodging when wielding daggers or bows

  • Dodge - By pressing the right-mouse button (originally block-button) you can now dodge (with i-frames).
  • Air-Dashing - Dodging can be done while on air.
  • Attack-Cancelling - Dodging can be done to cancel all forms of attacks or actions.

☠️ Elite Mobs

Adding modifiers to hostile mobs indicated by affixes or visual effects. When a mob spawns, it has a chance to roll one or more of the below traits

Affixes

  • Berserker: Damage output ramps up as the mob's HP gets lower.
  • Bombardier: Tosses explosive projectiles at players within range.
  • Frost: Attacks apply a slowing effect; has the potential to freeze.
  • Infernal: Fire immunity and applies burn on hit.
  • Launcher: Attacks knock you back significantly.
  • Magnetic: Periodically drags nearby players toward the mob.
  • Swift: Moves 50% faster than normal.
  • Splitting: Breaks into two smaller versions of itself when killed.
  • Stoneskin: Flat 25% damage reduction from all sources.
  • Vampire: Heals itself for 50% of the damage it deals.
  • Venomous: Applies poison on attack.
  • Volatile: Explodes instantly upon death.

👹 Raids

Place a Raid Totem anywhere in the world, activate it, and defend against raids from enemies that scale with your location and party size. Defeat all enemies to claim zone-specific loot chests filled with valuable resources!

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🎣 Fishing

Get ya rods ready! The fishing minigame is here!

  • Wide variety of new fish to hytale's seas, rivers and other aquatic environments, making the waters feel more alive and diverse

💴 Trading

A secure trading system, allowing players to exchange items safely through a dedicated UI. Prevent theft and trade with confidence!

  • Sends a trade request to the specified player. /trade <playerName>

Changes

  • Added a nickname changer UI for those with permission /nick

29th of January

⭐ Achievement System

Achievements turn everyday play into a mini victory hunt! Tiny goals, big dopamine, and that yes! moment when it pops 🎉

200+ Achievements

  • Combat: Monster hunting chains, boss kills, PvP milestones, specific creature hunts
  • Progression: Mining, crafting, building chains with tiered rewards
  • Exploration: Zone discovery, distance traveled, world exploration
  • Social: Chat milestones, playtime achievements, community engagement
  • Husbandry: Animal taming, fishing, farming progression
  • Secret: Hidden achievements with funny references (Chicken Slayer, Darwin Award, Leeroy Jenkins…)

80+ Titles

  • Unlock titles by completing achievements
  • Display titles above your name or as chat prefix
  • Select your active title via the Title Selection UI (/titles)
  • Titles come in various rarities with unique colors

🔰 Skill Mastery Capes

You don’t have to explain it; the cape already does. It’s pride without noise, confidence without words, and the simple joy of knowing you finished what you started

  • 17 Capes Total - One for each of the 16 skills + a Master Cape for total level 1000
  • Reward-Only - Automatically awarded at level 100 through the Item Rewards system
  • Custom "Mastery Cape" quality - Gold text with legendary drop particles
  • Effectively Indestructible - 9999 durability
  • Capes: Mining, Woodcutting, Excavation, Harvesting, Swords, Daggers, Polearms, Staves, Axes, Blunt, Archery, Unarmed, Block, Acrobatics, Crafting, Building, Master
  • Armor Stats - Each mastery cape has unique attributes themed to its skill, making them functional gear on top of prestige cosmetics
  • Damage Resistance - All capes provide physical and projectile damage resistance (8-18%), surpassing Epic-tier chest armor
  • Health Bonuses - All capes grant bonus health (+14 to +28), scaling with the cape's combat relevance
  • Master Cape is the best cape - 18% Physical/Projectile resistance, +28 Health, +30 Mana, and +4% to all damage types (Light, Charged, Signature)

🐱 Cats – Tameable Cat Companion

Multiple cat breeds that can be tamed, named, and commanded. Cats can follow you on your adventures or stay at home as a cozy companion. Each cat supports multiple behavior states and animations, making them feel alive and responsive

Features

  • Seven cat breeds: Black Cat, Calico, Gray Tabby, Orange Tabby, Siamese, Tuxedo, Kitten
  • Taming system using fish
  • Automatic cat naming with unique names for each cat
  • Full command-based interaction via /cat
  • Custom cat names with /cat name
  • Cat ownership limits configurable via permissions
  • Multiple behavior states: sitting, following, waiting, wandering, sleeping, playing, searching
  • Matching animations for each behavior
  • Cat sounds
  • Cat Bed item for assigned sleeping spots
  • Item consumption for taming and feeding (items are consumed from the player's inventory)

General

Changes

  • Mastering a skill now rewards a global XP boost token - Reaching level 100 in any skill now awards a 1.25x All-Skill Global XP Boost (30 min) token instead of the previous personal skill-specific boost. When activated, this boost benefits every player on the server across all skills
  • Celebrating mastery is now a server-wide event - your achievement helps everyone!
  • Storm Leather & Storm Hide added to item rewards - New rare crafting materials available at levels 80 and 100 for Defense, Daggers, Archery, Acrobatics, Unarmed, Harvesting, and Crafting, plus Total Level milestones
  • Reduced Total Level 350 rewards - Material quantities rebalanced to better match the progression stage
  • Master Cape moved to Total Level 1500 - The Master Cape is now a long-term goal awarded at Total Level 1500 instead of 1000

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed reward claiming not targeting the correct reward
  • Fixed player naming issues within the market UI
  • Fixed inconsistent searching in market

26th of January

📊 XP Rates

  • Ever played OSRS? This is it!
  • Leveling formula has completely changed. XP requirements are higher at all levels, so existing players will have lower levels with the same XP.

Complete formula overhaul - Combines OSRS exponential curve with quadratic floor

  • Early/mid levels ~10% harder than previous quadratic formula
  • Endgame scales exponentially (OSRS-style)
  • Level 100 = ~10M XP (true endgame grind)

New XP requirements:

  • Level 10: ~14,270 XP
  • Level 25: ~95,573 XP
  • Level 50: ~446,222 XP
  • Level 80: ~2,274,045 XP
  • Level 100: ~10,000,000 XP

🧌 Mob Balance Changes

🧠 Intelligent:

Goblin Duke

  • Health: 226 -> 352
  • Speed: 4 -> 8

Outlander Brute

  • Health: 124 -> 390
  • Melee Attack Damage: 35 -> 40
  • Chase Speed: 0.4 -> 1

Wolf Outlander Priest

  • Health: 107 -> 118

Wolf Outlander Shaman

  • Health: 118 -> 107

Trork Chieftain

  • Health: 124 -> 302

Trork Shaman

  • Health: 61 -> 74

Trork Hunter

  • Health: 61 -> 72

Trork Mauler

  • Health: 61 -> 94
  • Melee Attack Damage: 23 -> 32

Trork Sentry

  • Health: 61 -> 83

Trork Unarmed

  • Health: 42 -> 72

Trork Warrior

  • Health: 61 -> 94
  • Melee Attack Damage: 23 -> 26

Wolf Trork Hunter

  • Health: 38 -> 72

🌑 Void

Void Crawler

  • Health: 74 -> 84

Void Eye

  • Health: 61 -> 104

Void Spawn

  • Health: 193 -> 223
  • Melee Attack Damage: 48 -> 50

Void Spectre

  • Health: 41 -> 51

🐲 Mythic

Yeti

  • Health: 226 -> 430
  • Melee Attack Damage: -> 40

🔥 Elemental

Earth Golem

  • Health: 160 -> 246
  • Melee Attack Damage: 9 -> 27
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.6 -> 1/1.6

Flame Golem

  • Health: 283 -> 404
  • Speed: 5 -> 6
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.4 -> 1/1.4
  • Melee Attack Damage: -> 54

Frost Golem

  • Health: 224 -> 382
  • Speed: 5 -> 7
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.4 -> 1/1.4
  • Melee Attack Damage: -> 51

Sand Golem

  • Health: 193-> 332
  • Speed: 5 -> 7
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.4 -> 1/1.4

Thunder Golem

  • Health: 193 -> 248
  • Speed: 5 -> 7
  • Melee Attack Damage: 10 -> 28
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.4 -> 1/1.5

Firesteel Golem

  • Health: 224 -> 304
  • Speed: 5 -> 7
  • Desired Attack Distance Range: 2/2.4 -> 1/1.4
  • Melee Attack Damage: -> 34

25th of January

🏆 Skills & Item Rewards

Item Rewards at Milestones - Receive items when reaching skill levels

  • All 16 skills have rewards at levels 10, 25, 50, 100
  • Total Level rewards at 50, 100, 200, 350, 500, 750, 1000
  • Level 100 rewards include legendary weapons (Flame, Void, Spectral)

Item Rewards UI - New page to view and claim your rewards

  • Access via "Rewards" tab on Skill Overview
  • See tier status: LOCKED, READY, CLAIMED
  • CLAIM button to receive items (no auto-claim)
  • Toggle between Skill and Total Level rewards
  • Rewards tab glows orange with * when rewards available

Changes

  • Increased levelScaleMultiplier from 1.0 to 1.2

24th of January

🪙 Economy Revamp

🏦 The Marketplace

Buying Items

  • Global Access - Open the marketplace from anywhere (/market).
  • Categorized Items - Easily find what you need (Weapons, Tools, Materials, etc.).
  • Search System - Quickly search for specific items by name.
  • Safe Transactions - If you don't have enough inventory space, the purchase will fail and you won't lose any money.

Selling Items

  • Inventory Listing - Select any valid item from your inventory and set your own price.
  • Management - View all your active listings and cancel them at any time to get your items back.
  • Sales History - Track what you've sold and how much you've earned.

💵 Payments

Transaction Fees

  • Every payment will be hit with a 0.05 per dollar fee.

New Payment GUI

  • Opened with /Pay
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⛏️ Jobs

Mining Rewards

  • Tier-based rewards - Ores classified by rarity (COMMON → LEGENDARY)
  • Auto-classification - Uses Hytale Family tags to detect ore types
  • Vein Streak System - Audio feedback and bonus coins for consecutive ore mining
  • Tool Required - Must use a pickaxe (bare hands give no reward)
  • Tool Quality Bonus (pending - waiting for Hytale API)
  • Depth Bonus - Deeper mining pays more

Mob Kill Rewards

  • Automatic NPC classification - No manual config required for any mob
  • 180+ mob patterns - Wildcard-based classification covers all NPCs
  • Third-party mod support - Works with ANY mod that adds custom NPCs
  • Threat Score algorithm - Calculates tier from HP, damage, and aggression
  • Physical coin drops - When EcotaleCoins is installed
  • Anti-Farm system - Diminishing returns to prevent abuse

Security & Economy Protection

  • Anti-Farm - Diminishing returns for repetitive farming
  • Rate Limiting - Per-player burst protection
  • Economy Cap - Server-wide hourly injection limit
  • Exclusion Lists - Block specific mobs/blocks from rewards

💱 The Reset

  • Balances and shops are being reset to ensure a future proof economy system going forward
  • New starting balance of $100
  • Voting rewards has been lowered to $150 per site

🌀 Ancient Waystones

  • Create interconnected teleport networks, manage visibility, share with friends, and travel across your world instantly!

👹 The Removal of End Game

  • You can no longer obtain Mihtril & Onyxium
  • You can no longer craft Prisma Armor
  • Removed due to immense lag
  • Will be readded once issues has been properly fixed, thanks for your understanding!

22th of January

NEW CONTENT

👹 New Boss: The Entity of the Hollow - A powerful ancient creature with unique mechanics.

Strategy: Full Mithril (Solo) or Full Adamantite (Team) required. Healing Totem & Shield highly recommended!

🗡️ Vine-Twined Daggers - New Legendary weapon with a boss signature ability!
💎 Prisma Armor (Tier 4) - The new legendary armor set, surpassing Onyxium!
Magic Overhaul - Full staff progression (Copper to Onyxium) using a new Mana-only system!
🪂 Gliders - Standard & Advanced Gliders with jump-boost technology!
⛏️ Natural Mithril - Now generates naturally in the Dragonspire Weald fragment!
⏱️ Improved Exploration - Dragonspire Weald timer increased to 20 minutes.

🦎 PETS

A new expansion that breathes new life into Hytale’s wilderness. From the smallest woodland friends to towering elemental titans, every creature can be earned, hatched, and raised as your own loyal companion.

🛠️ THE HUNT & HARVEST

The path to companionship has evolved. To bring a new friend into the world, you must now combine the thrill of the hunt with the skill of the farm.

🥚 THE BROKEN EGG SYSTEM

Peaceful wildlife no longer drop completed eggs. Instead, when defeated, they now have a rare chance to drop a Broken Egg. These fragile remnants contain the essence of the creature, but they are too damaged to hatch on their own.

🔨 THE FARMER'S WORKBENCH

To restore a companion, you must take the Broken Egg to your Farming Workbench. By "infusing" the shell with harvested goods, you can craft a functional Pet Egg.

The following companions must be restored at the Farming Workbench using a Broken Egg:

  • Mouse
  • Penguin
  • Dog
  • Fox
  • Bunny
  • Lizard
  • Pig
  • Bison
  • Camel

THE PREDATORS & MAGICAL (Loot Only)

To get these eggs, you must hunt and defeat the creature in the wild.

  • Cave Raptor – [Requires: Defeat Cave Raptor]
  • Spider – [Requires: Defeat Spider]
  • Wraith Lantern – [Requires: Defeat Wraith]
  • Trillodon – [Requires: Defeat Trillodon]

THE ELEMENTAL GOLEMS (Loot Only)

Harness the power of the elements by defeating these ancient guardians.

  • 🔥 Flame Golem – [Requires: Defeat Flame Golem]
  • ❄️ Frost Golem – [Requires: Defeat Frost Golem]
  • 🌱 Earth Golem – [Requires: Defeat Earth Golem]
  • Thunder Golem – [Requires: Defeat Thunder Golem]
  • Sand Golem – [Requires: Defeat Sand Golem]

Changes

  • Added weapons stats, see detailed damage statistics, organized by type and rarity.

22th of January

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where chopping wood & other similar interactions would kick you.

21th of January

Changes

  • Reverted the Tiered Progression System, needs more work.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where if your bed was in an unloaded chunk it would tell your that your bed is obstructed and respawn you at the world spawn.

21th of January

Revamped Progression

9-Tier Progression: From humble Wood to legendary Onyxium. • Durability scaling: Higher tier tools last exponentially longer - Onyxium has 100x the durability of Wood! • Rewarding Progression: Each tier upgrade is a meaningful power boost.

The Core RulesTiered Mining: You can only mine ores using the tool from the tier directly below it (or higher). • Specialization: Tools now have strict roles: • Pickaxes: Rocks and Ores only. • Axes: Wood only. • Shovels: Soil and Sand only. (currently only go up to Cobalt tier, later will have more) • No Unarmed Harvesting: Hand-gathering is highly inefficient or disabled for most blocks. Use the right tool for the job!

Tool and Ore Tiers Progress through the world in this specific order:

  1. Wood (Cannot mine ore; Stone only)
  2. Crude (Stone)
  3. Copper
  4. Iron
  5. Thorium
  6. Cobalt
  7. Adamantite
  8. Mithril (Coming in Hytopia 1.0)
  9. Onyxium (Coming in Hytopia 1.0)

Getting Started (Pro-Tips)Scavenge First: Since you can't punch trees effectively, start by picking up Sticks, Fiber, and Rubble (stone bits) directly off the ground. • Crafting: Wood tools can be made by hand, but they are very weak. • Goal: Build a Workbench immediately to unlock Crude (Stone) tools. This is where your real journey begins.

NEW CONTENT

Blades of Dho'zoth

The "Realm of Nothingness" vehemently leaks itself into the world of Orbis

Light Attack

Light_Attack

Heavy Attack

Heavy_Ability

Combat Gauntlets

A new way of training the Unarmed Skill!

Heavy Attack

Heavy_Attack

Ultimate Ability

Ultimate_Ability

Adventurer Bear

An elite grizzly bear variant wearing scavenged armor.

Features:

  • Significantly increased health pool
  • Higher damage output than the Battle Hardened Bear
  • Faster movement speed
  • Enhanced loot drops including valuable ingredients

Battle Hardened Bear

A rare grizzly variant wearing a helmet from past encounters.

Features:

  • Increased Max Health
  • Increased damage and movement speed
  • Collectable Bear Helmet
  • Superior loot table with ore bars and materials

Battle Scarred Wolf

A veteran alpha wolf that hunts alone rather than in packs.

Features:

  • Increased health and damage
  • Enhanced loot drops
  • Rare spawn

BALANCE CHANGES

Rhino Toads (Both Variants)

Combat:

  • Attack cooldown: 0.53s → 1.6s
  • Tongue Attack Buffer: 0.33s → 1s
  • Damage: 35 → 25
  • Knockback force: 14 → 10
  • Vertical knockback: 1 → 2

Stats:

  • Health: 124 → 160
  • Speed: 8 → 9
  • View range: 12 → 10
  • Hearing range: 8 → 7
  • Flee range: 15 → 12
  • Combat distance: 9 → 8

Magma Rhino Toad

Guaranteed Drops:

  • Raw Wildmeat: 2-4 (was 1-2)
  • Medium Hide: 2-4 (was 1-2)

Bonus Drops:

  • Bone Fragments: 50% chance for 1-2
  • Copper Ore: 20% chance for 1
  • Iron Ore: 12% chance for 1
  • Silver Ore: 4% chance for 1
  • Gold Ore: 1% chance for 1

Grizzly Bear

Stats:

  • Health: 124 → 150
  • Chase range: 11 → 8

Loot:

  • Heavy Hide: 1-3 (was 1-2)
  • Raw Wildmeat: 3-4 (was 2-3)

Black Wolf

Stats:

  • Health: 103 → 80

Spawning:

  • Pack size: 2-3 → 3-4 wolves
  • Now spawns in Mountain biomes
  • Now spawns in Forest biomes

Changes

  • Removed NoCube Bags
  • Removed NoCube Bakehouse
  • Removed NoCube Culinary
  • Removed NoCube Orchard
  • Removed NoCube Undead_Warriors
  • Removed Multi Tools
  • Loot Chests are now instanced (Each player sees unique loot that's generated especially for them!)
  • Removed the Teleporter limit and introducing private and restricted teleporters.

Fixes

  • Fixed huge lag spike every 5 second due to server reading YmmersiveMelodiesRegistry, which contains all the custom MIDI files. This does NOT work for such a large server we're running.

20th of January

Changes

  • Added skills leaderboard (use /xp, head to the leaderboard tab)
  • Added EyeSpy (See info about blocks when looking at them)
  • Added enchantments, yes you heard me.
  • Lowered max claims to 9, claims will be buyable this weekend. This is to reduce the huge claims of nothingness.
  • Added #useful-commands, its for well... Useful commands to use on the server.
  • More progress on spawn, we're getting there! Next up is portals hub.
  • Added XP support for Wan's weapons.

Fixes


18th/19th of January

Changes

  • Added Skills (Open GUI with /xp)
  • Added a custom difficulty system with 3 options (Normal, Intermediate & Hard), server is set to Intermediate. This is to go on par with the new skills system, I hope yall enjoy it.
Intermediate:
85% Player Damage
90% Player Health
125% Mob Damage
  • Improved claims colors & usability
  • Moved to new permissions system, this will allow for much better configuration going forward.
  • Added Persistent Signature Move which makes it so once you charge up a signature move (Default: Q), any "unequipping" actions doesn't make you lose that signature move charge.
  • Fixed voting rewards for (https://hytaleserverlist.me/server/hytopia.42007)
  • Improved voting lookup, now has a proper GUI (/vote)
  • Many performance improvements and fixes has been implemented to reassure a smoother playing experience.
  • Fixed chat announcements stacking up if server was lagging.
  • Added relics weapons (Wans Wonder Weapons)
  • Added more spellbooks!
  • Fixed black lines sometimes appearing in water.
  • Work has been started on spawn, check it out! (Thanks Maddmollyy)

17th of January

Changes

  • Updated to Update 1
  • Added /shops & /money

You can set up a shop with /myshop manager, you need to create a tab (which is essentially a shop) and then you can hold an item and do /myshop add ... if it doesn't show up in /shops, do /myshop open

quick distinction: the buy price is the price of someone buying the item you are listing, the sell price is the price of someone selling the item listed TO you. the price you choose is for 1 quantity.


16th of January

Fixes

Pickup Item Crash (Critical) When a player disconnects while picking up an item, the world thread crashes and kicks ALL players in that world.

Error: NullPointerException in PickupItemSystem.tick() - null targetRef Fix: Safely marks corrupted pickup items as finished before they crash the server RespawnBlock Crash (Critical) When a player breaks a bed or sleeping bag, they get kicked from the server.

Error: NullPointerException in RespawnBlock$OnRemove - null respawnPoints array Fix: Initializes the respawn points array before Hytale's buggy code runs ProcessingBench Window Crash (Critical) When a player breaks a campfire or crafting table while another player has it open, they get kicked from the server.

Error: NullPointerException in BenchWindow.onClose0 - null ref during window close Fix: Clears the windows map before the crash-causing close handlers run Instance Exit Missing Return World (Critical) When a player exits an instance (dungeon, cave, etc.) and the return world data is corrupted, they get kicked from the server.

Error: IllegalArgumentException in InstancesPlugin.exitInstance - Missing return world Fix: Tracks player position before entering instances and uses it as fallback destination Empty Archetype Entities (Monitoring) Logs entities with corrupted/empty component data for debugging. These don't crash but indicate world data issues.

Chunk Memory Bloat Hytale doesn't properly unload chunks when players move away, causing unbounded memory growth and eventual OOM crashes.

Symptoms: Server memory grows from 4GB to 14GB+ while players fly around; chunks never decrease Example: Player loads 5,735 chunks, only 317 are in view radius, 5,400+ stay in memory forever Fix: ChunkCleanupSystem runs on the main thread every 30 seconds to trigger Hytale's internal chunk cleanup Results: Observed 77% reduction in loaded chunks (942 → 211) after fix