9 Hytale tips to enjoy your blocky adventure

In Hytale, you have a whole world to explore. There are different zones, each divided into biomes where diverse lifeforms can be found. While venturing into a new zone, you may discover the remains of an old building, only to learn that it has a tunnel leading to mysterious depths, or you may stumble upon a magical temple where a portal will take you to a peaceful village.

Exploring such a vast world can be daunting for new players, who need to figure out what to do in this sandbox and how to do it. If you're new to the game, we have nine Hytale tips to give you that will definitely help as you begin creating your own adventure.

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Start with the basics

Hytale is a sandbox game, which means the idea is to do whatever you want. There's no campaign guiding your progression, so you're the one who determines the next step in your adventure. However, freedom may be a prison for those who don't know what to do with it.

The best general guideline for progressing in the game while figuring out what to do is the crafting system. First, collect materials and craft all the items in the pocket crafting menu. Then, build a base, store everything inside — especially the bedroll, which works as a respawn point — and start crafting everything you can that is available at the Workbench. This process will require you to explore, search for ores, and learn where you can find the different types of materials required by the recipes, pushing you forward.

Run faster with charge attacks

Playing Hytale involves walking — a lot. The map in Hytale is gigantic and finding the fastest way to traverse it is helpful, otherwise you will spend many minutes making your little cubic legs move as fast as they can by holding down sprint. There is, however, a method to move faster. You just need to attack. To be more specific, you use the sword or dagger's charged attack by holding the attack button. The charged attack of these two weapons pulls you toward the direction you are facing. It's not as fast as a teleporter, but it's better than regular running.

Don't underestimate a new zone

With a full copper armor set and a good weapon, you start to feel more confident. Once you've conquered the Emerald Wilds, the initial zone, and the scary undead are no longer a threat, you'll think that it's time to search for new challenges. While this is the right mindset when playing Hytale, you should never underestimate a new zone. Enemies are deadlier, and the higher-level zones also feature environmental dangers you must be careful of.

Whenever you plan on exploring a new zone, try to be overprepared. Craft the highest-tier set and weapons you can, prepare some meals, spare tools, and never carry your most precious materials with you, so you don't risk losing them by dying in a dangerous place.

Determine a farming route for certain materials

Part of the true Hytale experience involves collecting large quantities of the same material. While you can find some, like copper ore and iron ore, in the same areas, farming others, such as linen scraps, becomes more difficult if you wander aimlessly trying to find them.

When farming materials that drop from enemies or animals, the best strategy is to mark the areas where you find groups of them and establish a route that you follow while visiting all the marked locations. Although this method limits the number of materials collected, it ensures you will always find the enemies you need, making it a more effective approach.

Turn on enemy health bars in your settings

By default, you won't be able to see how much HP an enemy has, but you can toggle a setting that'll show you this! Under the "general" tab of the settings, make sure "show entity health bars" is on, which should help you gauge threats early.

While you're in there, there's a pretty good arachnophobia mode you can also turn on, which turns all spiders into crabs.

Claim a village

Why build a bedroom or a farmstead when Hytale has cute, friendly villages ready to be claimed and plundered? If you encounter a friendly village, you're free to walk in, claim a bed, adjust your new room any way you like, and empty the contents of any treasure chest in the village without angering the residents. You can also harvest any produce, such as eggplant, pumpkins, and cauliflower. Just don't harm the farm animals unless you're prepared for a fight.

Here's how you tell the difference between friendly and unfriendly villagers: The first are cute, but the latter look super evil and will attack you on sight. The two types of friendly villages you may find in early game are the Kweebec villages in the Emerald Wilds (the initial area you spawn in) and the Feran (fox) villages in the Howling Sands (the mustard-colored part of the map).

Grab valuable ores early

If you're a survival game veteran, you might assume that ore types follow a progression system where iron ore can only be mined with a copper pickaxe, thorium can only be mined with an iron pickaxe, etc. However, in Hytale, that's not the case; you can mine even the most valuable ores, such as gold, using only a crude pickaxe.

This means there's no need to stick to the Emerald Wilds any longer than you'd like; it's perfectly fine to head straight into the snowy mountains of the Whisperfront Frontiers if that's what you prefer. That said, skipping zones without gearing up is quite dangerous.

Switch to creative mode

Tired of grinding wood, stone, and ores? In Hytale, you can switch between adventure mode and creative mode whenever you want. So, if you want to build an epic castle before starting a survival adventure, nothing is stopping you.

To switch between adventure and creative mode, enter your game world, press the Enter key, and type "/op self" to give yourself permission to use commands. From now on, you can toggle creative mode on and off by pressing O on your keyboard.

Forget what you learned in other games

Hytale is its own game and functions a little differently when compared to other sandbox games. Crafting recipes you know and love like glass are different. Exploration is different as there are a lot of dungeons and points of interests to find. Movement is different as fall damage is a bit more forgiving and you have access to a sprint bar.

If you play Hytale like it's just a Minecraft clone, you'll quickly feel bored rather than taking in what Hytale has to offer. Get out there and take a trip through each zone to really enjoy your time in Orbis.