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Megal @megal.dev · 14/05/2025

#AskHytale What role will the elements play within Hytale? And how will they shape the world and its inhabitants?

Hytale concept art titled "Iconography Research". On the left symbols for various entities within Hytale can be seen. On the right a stone circle depicting all of the elements (excluding light) can be seen, where void is placed in the middle.

Megal @megal.dev · 14/05/2025

#AskHytale Will we see or otherwise be able to use the light element within Hytale? We know it exists and that it has something to do with Gaia, but not anything more past that

Hytale concept art titled "Gaia and the Elemental Essences". The text "light - the primary element of Gaia." has been underlined

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Megal @megal.dev · 13/05/2025

No zip file containing clips used in the blog was provided for the most recent blog (spring 2025), do you think we could get these as having the clips in file form is super nice ;) @buddhacat.bsky.social

Screenshot of the bottom of a blogpost on the hytale website, where no link to a zip file containing clips can be found

Screenshot of the bottom of a blogpost on the hytale website, where the text "To download a .zip containing the clips featured in this blogpost, click here!" can be found, the words "click here" are a yellowy orange color indicating that they are a link

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Megal @megal.dev · 15/04/2025

Trails are pretty cool I guess

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Megal @megal.dev · 11/04/2025

Yes; anything from 2022 and prior is old engine, and we hadn't had any screenshots in the new engine until summer 2024. Are you sure you've read through the blogs?

A screenshot of the blogpost page on the Hytale website, with the labels "First new engine screenshots" and "Last old engine screenshots" placed onto two blogs. In between the two labels theres a smaller label which says "2 year gap".

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Megal @megal.dev · 29/03/2025

Would be a celebration of the community, for the community

Kweebec seedling taken from some concept art.

Megal @megal.dev · 28/03/2025

Skybox details and clouds are back, and I love them both

A small field at night with a pond and trees in the background, in the foreground we see a campfire providing light.

In the sky we can see stars and some clouds that are partially hidden behind the trees.

Taken from https://hytale.com/news/2025/3/spring-2025-development-update

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Megal @megal.dev · 28/03/2025

I absolutely love these, they have so much character; both in design and animation

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Megal @megal.dev · 16/03/2025

Quick time stop mechanic I've spent the last week or so on; Affects all blocks and entities within a specified radius, and works with other players in multiplayer.

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Megal @megal.dev · 25/02/2025

The eyes remind me heavily of the vintage story character

Megal @megal.dev · 10/02/2025

I feel like there could be a really cool cutscene based off of this concept art; would be played when first entering the online/creative portion of #Hytale and would have you fly past small snippets of creations and worlds, almost like a preview of all the cool stuff that you can find there.

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Megal @megal.dev · 04/02/2025

Goddamn is takoyaki good, gotta be one of my favorite foods

Takoyaki ball being held with chopsticks

Another clip relevant to this

Would love to be able to view world generation in stages/step to help with debugging it, or even just have the ability to regenerate a world with a single button. Imagine if the clip below was done by just pressing a "next" button or something. #Hytale

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Nothing to say about this one I just like it a lot #Hytale

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Portal dungeons/Dungeons being in different dimensions is an idea that i'm super into. I really hope they've kept this concept as it has so much potential, and also solves the problems that having massive dungeons spawning in your world create.

Concept art for challenge dungeon entrances for the upcoming game Hytale.

The concept is of a door that contains, or leads to, a portal that would take you into the dungeon. The image also shows a concept of how this would look in game.

Concept art for the temple of gaia dungeon for the upcoming game Hytale.

The concept is of an island floating in space with a temple on it. The left of the image has what appears to be a portal that would lead you here.

Concept art for dungeon entrances for the upcoming game Hytale.

The image shows 6 different concepts which all seem to have a different element as their theme.

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Megal @megal.dev · 30/01/2025

Will we be able to add our own weapon/attack types into #Hytale? And if so, will we be able to customize the ones included with the game?

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I wonder how deep the oceans in #Hytale will go? We know there were plans for a deep ocean at some point, and I'm really hoping they've kept those ideas and expanded upon them

Kraken concept art for the upcoming game Hytale.

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Megal @megal.dev · 28/01/2025

Do you think we can make spices from their bark?

A treesinger kweebec from the upcoming game Hytale.
Sourced from - https://hytale.com/news/2023/12/winter-2023-development-update

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Megal @megal.dev · 14/01/2025

NOOOOO, I MISSED IT :((

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Megal @megal.dev · 09/01/2025

Really interested in what purposes food will serve in Hytale, back in 2020 (clip below) we saw that it was able to heal the player, but I wonder if it'll have any purpose beyond that?

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Megal @megal.dev · 09/01/2025

I have really mixed feelings on an energy/stamina system within Hytale; I think its got a lot of potential for things like combat and exploration. I would hope that simple things like running, mining, and just swinging weapons regularly either use no, or at least very little stamina;

stamina (or energy) and health bars within the upcoming game Hytale; taken from the build tools clip in https://hytale.com/news/2024/12/winter-2024-development-update

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Megal @megal.dev · 02/01/2025

Got a new profile picture for 2025, liking this one a whole lot more :3

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Megal @megal.dev · 25/12/2024

for approximately 7 more minutes; yeah :)

The time on a windows 10 computer showing the time as 11:53:20 PM, Wednesday, 25 December 2024

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Megal @megal.dev · 17/12/2024

With the most recent clip shown, we can see a bunch of tree prefabs that were assumedly created by hand. Can we assume that all the trees that generate in world are premade prefabs as well, or will they be procedurally generated? #AskHytale #Hytale

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Megal @megal.dev · 15/12/2024

Hytale Thankmas raised $15k this year!!! Astounded by everyone who helped or dontated; had an absolute blast :DD

Tiltify page for Hytale Thankmas 2024, showing that $15,065.35 has been raised

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Megal @megal.dev · 15/12/2024

Summoning blog post

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Megal @megal.dev · 14/12/2024

New #Hytale footage shown during Thankmas! Watch at >> www.youtube.com/@kweebec/live

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Megal @megal.dev · 14/12/2024

Most intimidating vc I've ever laid eyes on 👀

Buddha Cat and John Hendricks from the Hytale team in a locked voice call.

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Megal @megal.dev · 05/12/2024

Block based cables are bulky, look ugly, and take up too much space; as such, I'd have cables connect via powerlines, they look way nicer, and are much more space efficient. Seeing powerlines like the image below spanning between bases is also super cool! (Once again ref img from satisfactory ↓)

Two armed pylon from the game satisfactory.

Megal @megal.dev · 05/12/2024

Resource nodes would be found all over the world, and would spawn exclusively exposed to air, with similar generation conditions to their ore counterpart. To encourage the player to keep using quarries, they'd be really inefficient for a large portion of the game. (Similar thing from satisfactory ↓)

Resource node from the game satisfactory.
A grassy field with three iron ore deposits within it, each on top of an iron node which are each surrounded by dirt.

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Megal @megal.dev · 02/12/2024

Pretty accurate seeing as Hytale and modding are all I talk about. Reading what it's saying, the pixel art stuff is definitely coming from me reposting @slamma.kweebec.dev's pokemon pixel art learning process

Overall stat stuff, "Hytale Hypeman of Bluesky", Key topics: 95% hytale modding, 85% pixel art

My top topics; 95% Hytale modding, talks about the few modding ideas I've posted here; 85% Pixel art, gives me credit for pixel art that I've reposted that isn't mine :P ; 80% Community engagement, talks about my hytale questions, most likely referring to my #AskHytale's.
Says I have the writing style of a developer diary, crossed with a whimsical fairytale

My vibe is 'The Modding Maestro', and I have the main trait of being obsessed with Hytale

My red flags are "Talks too much about hytale" (this one is definitely true), and "Can get lost in pixel art for hours", which is once again in reference to pixel art I've reposted, not made 😭

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Megal @megal.dev · 13/11/2024

I wonder what movement options will be explored in #Hytale? We already know there are mounts and minecarts, but will those minecarts have booster rails we can use to speed them up? And what about vertical movement?

Hytale player landing a jump within a minecart

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Megal @megal.dev · 11/11/2024

Here's a photo of my dog sitting on a chair

Megal @megal.dev · 26/10/2024

Do you mean two different blocks, or two of the same block? Because we've seen some blocks spilling over onto others :>

2 stone houses with brick roofs next to a large wheat field, built within hytale.

Two kweebecs photosynthesizing on some dirt and grass.