Hotfixes & Patch Notes

Latest updates and fixes for Hytale servers and clients.

January 17, 2026 - Update 1

World & Environment

Added dinosaurs and other NPCs to populate the underground jungles (placeholder behaviors for now)
New underground jungle NPCs require generating new unexplored areas to appear
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

Added knockback resistance to NPCs that previously did not have it
Fire-themed NPCs and creatures are now immune to fire damage (still catch on fire visually)
The Crystal Earth Golem’s combat behavior and spin attack have been improved
Skeletons no longer take drowning damage
Kweebecs are now immune to cactus and bramble environmental damage
Replaced Trork Shaman placeholder summon animation
Added proper loot tables to Kweebecs and Trorks in the Whisperfrost Frontiers
Livestock no longer climb on top of the Chicken Coop
Cautious wildlife predators (e.g., Fox) no longer engage players unless attacked

Crafting, Items & Farming

Base backpack now requires a Tier 1 Workbench (down from Tier 2)
Base backpack cost reduced to 8 Medium Leather (down from 16)
First backpack upgrade now requires a Tier 2 Workbench (down from Tier 3)
Light, Medium, and Heavy Hide now take 10 less seconds to process into Leather
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
Raw fruits and vegetables now only grant Health Regen I; cooking them grants additional benefits
Dropped items should no longer get stuck on the side of blocks
Utility-slot torches and other handheld light sources can now be placed on the ground while wielding a pickaxe or hatchet
Pickaxes and hatchets are now only swung when using the primary action
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 by hand or with any tool
Fully grown Eternal Crops no longer drop eternal seeds when broken by hand or with any tool
Wood logs now display their respective wood type in tooltips (e.g., Oak Log shows “Hardwood”)
Recipes that required a type of “Trunk” now display as “Log” instead
Log type tooltips now display which trees can drop that log type
Woodcutter’s Block is now a decorative furniture block, craftable in the Furniture Bench

Audio & Visual Effects

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
Added new ore breaking particles
Added fruit eating particles
A new particle effect now 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

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 degrees
Cancelling LAN server discovery now works correctly
The interaction system now handles server lag spikes better

Character Customization

New eye types: Cat Eye, Demonic Eyes, Goat Eye, Reptile Eye
New mouth options: Large Mouth, Tiny Lips
New hair color: Lavender
Reworked Bangs hairstyle and brightened Dark Brown color
Featherbound Hood is now correctly showing for the Supporter edition

Combat & Balance

Weapon attacks should now check for line of sight
The regular Burn effect now generally deals less damage (lava remains unchanged)
Cactus and brambles now deal the Environmental damage type

Commands & Server

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
Server now uses “Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time” (BBR) congestion control for QUIC
Improved authentication and session token error handling

Bug Fixes & Stability

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 race condition in instance teleport that caused entity removal and re-add issues
Fixed session refresh for singleplayer servers
Fixed crop growth issues where some crops (e.g., Tomatoes) would not grow correctly

January 15, 2026

Connectivity

General server stability and network improvements
The game will now switch to offline mode if authentication fails, instead of getting stuck
Fixed “invalid token” errors that could occur when your system clock was slightly out of sync

Stability

Improved client performance by optimizing background task scheduling
Fixed an issue where dropped items could get stuck inside blocks
Fixed a server crash that could occur in certain situations

January 13, 2026

This hotfix addresses the most critical issues reported since launch. Additional fixes for less urgent issues are in progress and will be included in upcoming patches.

Connectivity

Added message after server boot if authentication is required
Client now switches to offline mode when session becomes invalid

Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting certain hair styles followed by eyebrows in character creation
Fixed a crash when taking screenshots for people with non-English folder names
Fixed an issue preventing our Norwegian friends from launching the game
Fixed a crash when using buckets. This broke some workbenches, they will need to be destroyed and placed back down to resolve the issue
Preventing left mouse button from being bound to some actions
General stability improvements

Launcher

Added a warning to inform players if their computer time is out of date. This fixes certain authentication issues
Fixed an authentication issue that happened sporadically when logging in

Services

Patched a vulnerability that allowed players to spoof their username (purely visual)
Improved caching of game patches globally
Improved email sending service to handle larger volumes of emails