The moment has arrived, Hytale is releasing into Early Access today!
When we reacquired Hytale last November and became an independent studio, we promised to launch without any delays, and we are keeping that promise. The game is currently in Early Access in its truest form: unpolished and incomplete, but within those rough edges lies the foundation for something extraordinary. For the first time, Hytale is in the hands of the community, to help us shape it into the forever game you all deserve.
Before you dive in, please keep in mind:
- Early Access – many features are still missing, and bugs are expected
- It’s only been two months since we reacquired Hytale – and that’s how long we’ve had to prepare the game and rebuild the team from the ground up
- Demand has exceeded our expectations, which means launch week will be bumpy, but we’ll get everyone in
Don’t have an edition of Hytale yet, but want to join us in Early Access?
Get the Starter Edition right here for only $19.99 USD.
If you’re not comfortable with an unfinished Early Access experience, that’s okay. We’ll still be here whenever you’re ready!
How did we get here?
In the last few months, Hytale went from being stuck in development, to cancelled, to revived, and now… an Early Access release! This happened because the community remained strong and worked together to create the #savehytale movement, which ultimately convinced the original founders to return and revive Hytale.
Since announcing the Early Access, a fire was lit under the team to work harder than ever, and now, we can finally say the words that have been burning inside of us for years:
Hytale is released!
In just eight weeks, we worked on a 4+ year-old build of the game, merged hundreds of branches, fixed core systems such as camera, movement, combat, crafting, building, audio, and rendering, squashed thousands of bugs, and added numerous new features. Now, we are finally able to share with you a playable version of Hytale.
It’s a rough and unfinished Early Access build, but it clearly demonstrates the game’s potential. We are having a great time working on the game, and we hope you share the same joy playing.
What does the Early Access of Hytale contain today?
What’s IN Early Access:
- Exploration Mode
- Creative Mode – in-game and standalone tools
- Modding Support
- Multiplayer Support – for all modes
What’s NOT in Early Access (yet)
- Adventure Mode – Will include rich story and narrative elements, deeper progression systems, dungeons with boss fights, and more.
- Official Minigames – fun social games and competitive multiplayer modes
- Default Spawn: World Gen V2 – the complete, restored world of Orbis
- Social features – friends lists and guilds
These are coming. For now, let’s dive into what you CAN play today.
Exploration Mode
This game mode is an exploration-focused experience built with the content and systems we have right now. Discover an infinite, procedurally generated world filled with beautiful biomes, ancient structures, friendly creatures, and dangerous monsters.
You can explore, build a home, grow crops, craft items and equipment, and play with your friends. Game balance won’t always feel right, configurations are still rough, and some systems are simply unfinished. But the foundation is there, and even in the game’s current state, sometimes everything comes together to create truly magical moments.
And while you discover the Echoes of Orbis, we’ll be doing some exploration of our own. We’ll be testing ideas, iterating on features, and using your feedback to help shape the Adventure Mode to come.
Here are some of the things waiting for you!
Find the Forgotten Temple and uncover the first elements of the Cursebreaker story arc, which will unfold further in future updates.
The mantling feature lets you navigate the world with a greater feeling of freedom and control.
Expect a unified progression and crafting system that encourages you to explore the world.
Inventories are expandable, workbenches are upgradable and can interact with nearby storage, and, for those of you who enjoy building, we offer specialized crafting stations that give you easy access to hundreds of different types of blocks, furniture, and decorations!
We are also introducing the Ancient Gateway: A device that you can craft and place down at your home, allowing you to venture into unstable, temporary worlds called Fragments of Orbis. Eventually, these will offer exciting timed adventures, featuring multiple types of experiences, from low-intensity exploration to difficult combat challenges and loot extraction gameplay. This system will allow you to have a sneak peek at what World Gen 2 is capable of and is currently under development.
The Memories system will reward you for exploring and interacting with the different creatures and factions of the game, allowing you to collect memories that must be returned to The Heart of Orbis, unlocking permanent rewards and upgrades for everyone in your world.
Experience fun high mobility combat with a selection of diverse weapons, each with their own unique abilities.
Engage with a farming system featuring a wide variety of crops and plants, which you can turn into consumables like food and potions to help you with your adventures.
Creative Mode
When it comes to building and creativity, Early Access includes unique tools to help creators with making models, creating builds, making custom maps, and much more! With in-game features like block rotation, previews, and connected block textures, Creative Mode is there to bring ideas to life.
Creators, feel free to go wild with the new entity tools!
Modding Tools
Hytale has extensive modding capabilities, asset pack management, assets editor, worldgen editors, and other tools that will help support big projects and long-term content creation. This goes along with our partnerships from Blockbench and CurseForge that helped us allow support for modding on Day 1!
We can’t wait to see your creations!
Services
Behind the scenes, the team over the past few weeks has worked hard to build a stronger technical foundation for Hytale, including performance improvements, robust server systems, and UI and audio frameworks. The platform infrastructure also evolved into a full ecosystem, including a new launcher, patching system, account management services, store integration, telemetry, and backend systems designed to support scale and live operations. All of this, in just two months!
What’s next?
In the first few months, we intend to deliver updates quickly and frequently, as there is still a large backlog of obvious construction sites we need to tackle before we can move into larger, more bespoke updates and patch cadences.
The work on the official minigames will begin in the coming months, enabling us to create new systems and features that expand gameplay and provide wider access to 3rd-party servers.
As a side note, we already have prototypes of social features, such as friend lists and proximity voice chat, in development.
Our roadmap isn’t completely pre-planned, as we are expecting feedback within the next weeks and months from actual Hytale players, experiencing the game for the first time! You can even do bug report and send your feedback directly from in-game!
Thank you
Everyone here at Hypixel Studios is excited to finally release Hytale to a community that has weathered many ups and downs over the years. Your constant excitement for Hytale made this happen – it drove and inspired this team and will continue to do so. There aren’t enough words in the English language to express how thankful we are for your continued support. So we’ll try it in all the languages we speak:
Thank you from all of us at Hypixel Studios!
Vielen Dank von uns allen im Hypixel Studio Team!
Merci de la part de toute l’équipe d’Hypixel Studios !
Gracias de parte de todos nosotros en Hypixel Studios!
Muito obrigado em nome de todos nós da Hypixel Studios!
Hartelijk dank van het volledige Hypixel Studios Team!
Hvala v imenu celotne ekipe Hypixel Studios!
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Stort tack från oss alla på Hypixel Studios!
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