Slikey

I am so proud of this community to give us the strength and motivation to post this. The team is locked in and I hope you are ready for what is to come. 🥰hytale.com/news/2025/11/h…

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Welcome to the Aeralith Plateaus | Neymeros project After the amazing feedback on the first biome, we’re excited to reveal this new environment. This one is definitely my favorite so far. With @nepertunity and @MedianiSamuel #Hytale #HytaleModding

You dare disturb the master while he attempts to perfect the circle? Shame on you Hexcode beta test is tomorrow! #hytale #hytalemodding

How To: Controlling your Noodles! 🍜 Noodle Densities, while being great for caves, need to be able to navigate to important Points Of Interest (POI) For The Underside, I needed noodles to be located at the Spawn Point and towards the Exit! Steps 🧵 #Hytale #HytaleModding

It was fun to get this working. Flying Construct with hoes attached = Flying Farming Construct @Hytale @HytaleModding @Simon_Hypixel @slikey

⚡️⚙️In Hynergy, switching between different energy systems is key to getting the most out of each one. We already have the basics for mechanical and electrical systems. More detailed video coming in the next days. Credits to @Riku_Tatsu for models and textures. #Hytale #HytaleModding @HytaleModding @Hytale

@HytaleModding @CurseForge @Hytale turning out pretty well!

@oscar_dr @indio_bns It's already built in but it is garbage.

@indio_bns @slikey Para cuando un plug-in de WhatsApp que transcriba los audios? Tanto Meta AI para chorradas pero lo importante, nada 😤

I wish I could block voice messages on all messenger apps. One more multi-minute ramble with 30 second gaps or 3 second "yeah ok" and I will spend the next decade in prison.

Also not saying we won't have automation - just don't want the expectation to spread that we are working on automation right now. Small metaphor: A good puzzle has very few rules that give the puzzle incredible depth. Think of Portal 1+2 (where 3?). This core got to be right before you can expand the puzzle. If you truly want to understand game design: Take a game like Portal, break it down into every single element there is and then draw it in an onion diagram. What is the absolute core (portal gun + first-person character). And then everything else just builds on top to enrich this core concept.

I want to be very clear that we are not currently working on anything like create in Hytale. We are still looking at community mods and giving them better capabilities to get "Create"-like results as mods. The 2 new designers are working on the core game design of Hytale with our existing designers. This is exploring questions like "how do we balance adventure and homesteading?", "what is the progression supposed to be?", "how do we make the living world more immersive?", etc. These topics are foundation to having a game that is fun even without automation. @Prowl8413 is probably already working on a video about this 😅 We have a lot of devs working on Hytale that are not anywhere close to working on the white whale they are obsessed by yet. I think rendering, physics, tools, voxel tech, worldgen, npcs, etc. We have a lot of foundational work to do before we can unleash our obession and present truly innovative block game and UGC content. We are sitting on hot coals here waiting for the right time to bring you all the crazy stuff in our vision.

@EdilanTV Especially when someone invites you in a 3 minutes voice message and now the date and time is hidden somewhere in there. The transcribe feature in @WhatsApp is a dumpster fire from 1983.. Voice Messages feel like this technological advancement that took us 5 steps backwards.

@slikey I feel that. Just write the message and let me read it 20 times if I need to. Not to repeat the whole message to understand the last word 😭

Thank you :) We are staying firmly in our lane since we announced our intent to buy back Hytale. We released Hytale - not because we think it is good yet or because it we wanted to cash in on anything - but because it was the right thing to do for a community that has been waiting. So we put no focus on current sales, CCU or any of the traditional "success metrics" that brought the games industry to the point it is now with it's players. We care about the future with Hytale and seeing people like you acknowledge that the future looks promising is exactly what fuels us. We stongly believe that if we follow our passion and vision: Players will come and success is inevitable.

Nunca una mala Noticia sobre este juego parece ser. Mientras que algunos solo estan aferrados en cuanto esta vendiendo Hytale como si fuera lo unico importante, el desarrollo del juego cada vez mas prometedor ahora que encima contraten a uno de los mejores modders de Minecraft

@Cheboxarioid Yeah, sadly the people I have on telegram are not the repeat offenders immune to me saying "no voice messages"..

@slikey God bless telegram

What have you tried and what were the results? You can make copies of the world and try to boot it up with a modern version + mods. Hytale will load old worlds just fine and we intend to keep world file compatibility for a long time. (probably only make a cut at the end of EA with a seperate save file upgrader) Generally mods are responsible for their own compatibility (e.g. names etc) If you load a save with some mods removed, you should still be able to load it but certain elements in the world will appear "unknown".

@slikey @Mazeriio @YskarZ @4tiky @mrloic23 @Buuz135mods i have a world full of mods stuck in update 2 (build 8 2026.1.28) that i'd really want to play again. i never updated the game to not lose the "previous version", but then i moved from windows to linux.. so rn i'd really love to just- decide which version to boot without limits

Update 5 will bring death to another of my mods by being implemented into the game. You will be able to have multiple huds elements without using MultipleHUD (RIP) (This change wasn't mentioned in the patch notes, Im not sure if was part 1 or 2)

I go to X to post the modder warning section and top tweet is @HytaleModding doing it first. Thanks 🥰

I have been linking all of the info including the atlas into our QA pipeline and if we can confirm that it is the Atlas scaling beyond the limits of a platform, we will first add proper failure handling. I guess I can drop some more info here.. In May we are bringing on the 3rd rendering engineer on board and finally have enough staff there to balance current features and the move to modern graphics (VK / Metal) which will allow us to stream textures and generally reduce our reliance on the mega atlas. This pivot away from OpenGL to modern graphics is something we view important before the 1.0 release of Hytale.

Have you seen my reports. Im pretty sure its an atlas optimization issue. I can prove it in most the reports Ive gotten F7 shows it. All are over 16,384 on y axis on atlas. Youre not optimizing the atlas for mods textures they all stack on 1 axis. Once over 16k AMD gpus fail and black text bug. Simple fix Optmize atlas so to stop overflowing. This has taken down countless servers and I reported it and solution directly to you in discord month plus ago and reported to bug system. Also reported on discord office channel but no one cares to listen. Future proof add an atlas just for mods. Bedrock Minecraft has this too called pink bug I solved it for Mojang. Im pinned in jira on the mojnags tickets for this. We have hordes of Directx proof on this issue over 7 years. Those not over atlas limit are Linux systems with outdated drivers. Also reported and fixed for hordes of people.

@slikey @Simon_Hypixel Hey guys, do you know when the game will je able with vulkan for AMD users ? It's boring to have this issues when i add mods in my server...

@Mcc_Cal_ You are still thinking in 2D concepts of a horizontal plane. That concept will disappear from the code. It doesn't matter anymore if the world is generated vertically or horizontally. You have to drop the concept of a horizon.

@slikey I know you are being interviewed by Prowl but do you treat vertical distance differently from horizontal distance for streaming and LOD?

Yeah. Worldgen V2 even has native support for infinite height generation. It is a major difference between V1 and V2. IMPORTANT: What the engine will be capable of and what we chose to use for adventure mode are 2 different things. When I talk I always talk about the engine perspective. We will have the ability to generate incredible deep undergrounds and like you said also Space with for example asteroids. How all of this will ladder into LODs, NPCs Spawning, Minimap, etc. etc. is a massive topic and we are going to tackle this in phases with our current push getting us to the point that we can start generating 3D Infinite worlds using WorldGen v2 even if systems like Minimap, NPC Spawning, etc. are not fully functional in these worlds. As of right now I see no indication that we would lose performance through this work and instead even allow us to have more control over sparse chunk data. Don't expect this within the next few updates. We will continue working in this direction over months. We will not delete your worlds or make them impossible to load. It will have effects on mods as we will change assumptions about our Chunk entities, but we commit to give good migration guidance.

Cubic Chunks is a technical marketing term to us and not an implementation. The community has communicated a desire for a behaviour and the underlying implementation is irrelevant to our goals right now. SVDAG vs SVO vs Array is just not relevant for public discussion and the trade-offs on non-functional requirements is subject to the implementation team.

@Prowl8413 @slikey Vertical slices and SVDAGs outperform cubic chunks in modern voxel engines. Why are you choosing cubic chunks for hytale?

I'm going to be interviewing @slikey about INFINITE WORLD HEIGHT and cubic chunks. I am getting questions from YOU to ask, so drop your questions here! Technical, gameplay related, simple, complex, it doesn't matter, ask away! I'll be picking a bunch!

@Draacoun @Prowl8413 Literally just talked to Simon about using it outside of Orbis lol. Yeah maybe but up to Design.

@Prowl8413 @slikey Maybe not on Orbis, but could we explore verticality on one of the known Alterverse planets? Take Karpak, for example, there are two celestial bodies, one could act as a sun and the other as a moon, exploring the space in between with different biomes and creatures would be nice!