Hytale’s First Major Update Released
Hypixel Studios has announced the first major update for the highly anticipated Hytale. Released shortly after the early access launch, Update 1 brings new content, numerous bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements to the game.
The development team has committed to maintaining a rapid patching schedule to address issues and improve the game as quickly as possible.
World & Environment Changes
With this update, dinosaurs and new NPCs have been added to populate the underground jungles. These creatures currently use placeholder behaviors and are still a work in progress.
⚠️ Important: These new NPCs required a change to the environment in the biome, so you will need to generate new unexplored areas to see them.
Other environmental improvements:
- Devastated Lands sewers now have proper atmospheric effects and creature spawns
- Areas beneath volcanoes now use volcanic environmental effects
- Fixed entity placements, textures, and interiors in Feran villages
- Removed an invisible filler block behind the bench in the Forgotten Temple
NPCs & Creatures
Major balance and behavior changes have been made to creatures:
| Change | Description |
|---|---|
| Knockback Resistance | Added knockback resistance to NPCs that previously did not have it |
| Fire Immunity | Fire-themed NPCs and creatures are now immune to fire damage |
| Crystal Earth Golem | Combat behavior and spin attack have been improved |
| Skeletons | No longer take drowning damage |
| Kweebecs | Now immune to environmental damage caused by cactus and brambles |
| Trork Shaman | Placeholder summon animation replaced with proper animation |
| Cautious Predators | Wildlife predators like the Fox no longer engage players unless attacked |
Additionally, proper loot tables have been added to Kweebecs and Trorks in the Whisperfrost Frontiers. Livestock will no longer climb on top of the Chicken Coop.
Crafting, Items & Farming
The crafting system, one of the game’s core mechanics, has been significantly improved:
Backpack Changes
- Base backpack now requires a Tier 1 Workbench (down from Tier 2)
- Cost reduced to 8 Medium Leather (down from 16)
- First upgrade now requires Tier 2 Workbench (down from Tier 3)
- Light, Medium, and Heavy Hide now take 10 less seconds to process into Leather
Crafting Bench Improvements
- Crafting benches can now pull materials from chests within 14 blocks horizontally (up from 7) and 6 blocks vertically (up from 4)
- Processing benches now display item tooltips in the upgrade requirements panel
Food & Farming
- All raw fruits and vegetables now only grant Health Regen I; cooking them grants additional benefits
- Corn now gives 1 Essence Of Life instead of 4 when exchanged in the Farming Bench
- Fully grown Cauliflower and Pumpkin no longer drop regular seeds when broken
- Eternal Crops no longer drop eternal seeds when fully grown and broken
Other Improvements
- Dropped items no longer get stuck on the side of blocks
- Torches and other handheld light sources can now be placed on the ground when equipped in the Utility Slot while wielding a pickaxe or hatchet
- Pickaxes and hatchets are now only swung when using the primary action
- Wood Logs now display their respective wood type in tooltips (e.g., “Hardwood”)
- Recipe requirements now correctly display “Log” instead of “Trunk”
Audio & Visual Effects
New audio and visual effects have been added to enhance the game’s atmosphere:
New Audio
- New hit and break sounds for stone
- New hit and break sounds for ores with additional layered effects
- Horses now properly play running sounds while mounted
- Torch burn loop replaced with a softer ambient sound
- Adjusted volumes for cocoon breaking, pig, piglet, and warthog sounds
- Reduced pitch variation on sword swings
New Visual Effects
- New ore breaking particles
- Fruit eating particles (more to come for other food types)
- New particle effect appears above an NPC’s head when absorbing their memory
- Updated health potion visual effects with new glitter, glow, and spiral particles
- Fixed rope offset when held in hand
- Fixed hand positioning for various plants, flowers, and foliage
UI, Performance & Quality of Life
Quality of life improvements to enhance player experience:
- You can now sleep starting at 7:30 PM
- Added an information panel explaining the Memories system when interacting with The Heart of Orbis for the first time
- Toggle Fullscreen, Switch HUD, and Take Screenshot can no longer be bound to mouse buttons
- The game now warns when launching pre-release versions or opening worlds from different versions
- Field of view while sprinting is now limited to 160° maximum
- Cancelling LAN server discovery now works correctly
- The interaction system now handles server lag spikes better
Character Customization
New cosmetic options have been added:
New Eye Types:
- Cat Eye
- Demonic Eyes
- Goat Eye
- Reptile Eye
New Mouth Options:
- Large Mouth
- Tiny Lips
New Hair Color:
- Lavender
Additionally, the Bangs hairstyle has been reworked, Dark Brown color has been brightened, and the Featherbound Hood now correctly shows for the Supporter edition.
Combat & Balance
Important changes have been made to combat mechanics:
- Weapon attacks now check for line of sight
- Regular Burn effect now generally deals less damage (Burn applied by lava remains unchanged)
- Cactus and brambles now deal the Environmental damage type
Commands & Server
Improvements for server management:
- Fixed argument order for teleport commands:
/tp <player> <targetPlayer> - Give command now supports specifying item durability
- Whitelist and ban commands now support both online usernames and offline UUIDs
- The server now uses BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time) congestion control for QUIC
- Improved authentication and session token error handling
Bug Fixes & Stability
Numerous critical bugs have been fixed with this update:
- Fixed a misconfiguration that allowed weapon Charged Attacks to not consume Stamina correctly when swapping hotbar slots
- Fixed signature ready sound playing incorrectly in adventure mode
- Fixed regular expression parsing in /replace command
- Fixed an issue where signature attacks could be used without signature energy
- Fixed some items allowing longer interaction ranges than intended
- Fixed fluid flow behavior when stacking water sources
- Fixed crash when using non-English folder names for screenshots
- Fixed crash when selecting certain hairstyles with variants
- Fixed crash caused by corrupt cached avatar previews
- Fixed crash when the memories plugin fails to load
- Fixed an issue where rewards from restoring memories were granted too early
- Fixed “waiting for chunks” taking too long at 128 view distance
- Fixed crash when updating player model
- Fixed localization loop affecting Norwegian language users
- Fixed issues with crop growth where certain crops like Tomatoes would not grow correctly
Conclusion
Hytale’s first major update is a strong indication of how actively the game will be developed during the early access period. Hypixel Studios has stated that they will continue to follow a rapid patching schedule, taking player feedback into account.