Back to Hytale: Every Update Since Launch (Update 1 to 7)

Every update at a glance

Since Update 7 there have been three hotfixes; the latest, 0.7.3, came out on October 21.

Update 1 (January 17): dinosaurs and smarter benches

Just four days after launch, Update 1 put dinosaurs into the underground jungles. You only meet them in newly generated areas, because the biome itself had to change. The backpack got cheaper: it now needs a tier 1 Workbench and 8 Medium Leather instead of 16. Crafting benches pull materials from chests up to 14 blocks away horizontally (twice the old range) and 6 blocks vertically (up from 4).

Update 2 (January 24): avatars, minions and more ores

New avatar options, a toggle to hide your armor (server hosts can switch it off), and an item that raises skeleton minions from bone piles; it can drop from the large Praetorian Skeleton. Ore placement was reworked in all zones, with more ores, especially underground in the Devastated Lands, but only in chunks you haven’t explored yet. Adamantite now needs a Thorium or Cobalt pickaxe, and Settings got an FPS counter (General, User Interface).

Update 3 (February 17): taming

Hold a friendly animal’s favorite food and it becomes yours. You can pet tamed animals, and depending on the animal you can milk, shear or ride them. Update 3 also added sickles that harvest several crops in one swing, custom map markers and better rope climbing.

Update 4 (March 26): around 500 blocks and voice chat

Update 4 added around 500 new blocks, and about half of them can be crafted. It also brought proximity voice chat, so friends sound like they’re standing next to you, and an emote wheel on the X key.

Update 5 (May 26): controllers and Trigger Volumes

Xbox, PlayStation and Switch controllers now work. Builders got the Trigger Volume tool: invisible zones that play sounds, spawn monsters or teleport players, without writing code.

Update 6 (August 27): mod browser and Hardcore Mode

Hytale now has its own mod browser in the main menu, and there are no paid mods in it. Its My Library tab lists your installed mods and lets you update or remove them. Update 6 also added Hardcore Mode with four variants: Permadeath (one life), Three Strikes (three lives), Nine Lives (a shared pool of nine for everyone) and Soulbound, where one death ends the run for everyone. You can only pick it when you create a new world, under Customize. When your run is over, you stay as a spectator: invisible, and ignored by monsters.

Update 7 (October 12): Chapter One

Chapter One: Out of the Breach starts at the Forgotten Temple. A goblin portal opens a temporary world, the Guttering Hollows, which is different every time you enter, and the Void pushes you out after a while. The goblins brought gadgets: a glider, rocket boots for a double jump, a hookshot, a drill that mines 2x2 and the Bangstick. A new ability system lets you slot up to two Ability Runestones, like Fireball or Ground Slam, and change them with Modifier Runestones.

It all leads to the Deepworks, Hytale’s first handcrafted dungeon: first the Feastmaster, and at the very end the Gobliterator, the first big multi-phase boss. Need a break? Prop Hunt and Shuffle Jam with twelve microgames are in the Minigames menu. Every runestone with its numbers and the three hotfixes are in my full breakdown: Hytale Update 7: Chapter 1 explained.

What I saw in my own world

For the video I went back through every update in my own world on October 18, 2026, in Update 7, and added my Chapter One recordings from release day.

• Dinosaurs: they live underground, so for the shot I spawned a cave Rex and two raptors on a meadow with commands.
• Blocks: I built three short walls from the chalk, slate and cooled magma sets. Each set comes with cobble, bricks, ornate bricks, smooth bricks, decorative bricks and pillars.
• Emotes: the wheel on X shows six emotes per page, and mine had three pages.
• Mod browser: Mods in the main menu opens three tabs, Discover, Browse and My Library, with a search bar on top.
• Main menu: Minigames now has its own button next to Worlds, Mods and Servers.
• The Deepworks is dark; my dungeon shots are brightened.

Coming back to an old world?

• Chapter One works on existing saves. Just head to the Forgotten Temple.
• New terrain for new content: the dinosaurs from Update 1 and the reworked ores from Update 2 only show up in areas you haven’t explored yet.
• No Hardcore for old worlds: Hardcore Mode can only be chosen when you create a world.
• Back up first: Update 7 upgrades saved worlds to a new, smaller format the first time they load, and Hypixel Studios recommends frequent backups during Early Access. Copy your save folder before you open it in the new version.
• Play on 0.7.2 or newer: hotfix 0.7.2 fixed a world crash that disconnected everyone when a cave chunk with an old goblin spawn beacon from Update 6 loaded. Those old beacons come from worlds played in Update 6, so keep the game updated before you return.

Mods for Update 7

Mods are one click away in the main menu, but only mods with an Update 7 build will load. Update 7 removed a lot of old server code that mods relied on. My tested lists: 5 Hytale mods that work in Update 7 and 5 more. How to install them and fix the usual problems is in my Hytale install guide.