Regardless of the mode you chose to start your world in Hytale, you’ve no doubt been enjoying quite an adventure discovering or even potentially shaping the world of Orbis. This sandbox RPG has a little something for everyone looking for a cozy graphic style and sense of exploration or adventure.
Still, it doesn’t hurt to go into your new world in Hytale prepared for anything, since the goals and gameplay will be different throughout your saves. We’ve got a handful of helpful beginner tips for Hytale that’ll help you get the most out of every new world you might make!
Collect Everything
When you start a new save in Exploration mode for Hytale, you’ll have nothing but the clothing on your avatar’s back. Even before you leave your starting area, take a look around and get in the habit of grabbing every resource you see, since you’ll need everything before too long.
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Food items are lying everywhere in the world around you, and you’ll venture through areas of wood or stone or flowers to go collect them where they grow. Your inventory is bigger than the hotbar, so always feel free to carry more than you think you’re able to. It’s a good idea to keep an organized stash going once you’ve established yourself a little more, especially once you begin to learn what you’ll need the most of in Hytale, so it’s better to have it and not need it than to need to double back later on.
Not only can you make plenty of interesting things from the regular crafting menus, but you’re also able to upgrade crafting stations, tools, weapons, structures, and more as time goes on and your resources get more fruitful, so keep everything you can, even if it means making some storage chests before long.
Explore Accessibility Settings
Accessibility settings are thankfully growing much more common in gaming these days, and the same is true for Hytale, which offers a variety of ways to make the game available to more potential players.
If you’re someone who finds themselves queasy with sensitive game cameras, you can change a few settings for motion sickness control as much as needed. If you don’t do so well with first-person games, feel free to change the game to third-person mode if necessary – you can even change how much field of view you’ve got, and which shoulder the camera sits on as your avatar explores. There are options to change the camera shake intensity, as well as to toggle a bounce effect off for when you’re walking, and these changes can be made to first and third-person settings individually.
Anyone playing in Creative mode who experiences color blindness or other visual impairments may benefit from changing the laser pointer color in Creative to make it easier to see where you’re about to place your item. Those who struggle to hold down buttons for too long can find Controls options that allow you to change whether you hold or toggle a button to use it when moving around the world in a sprint, walk, or crouched position.
Finally, a considerate option for those who don’t like spiders is the Arachnophobia setting that will render the in-game spider creatures as the crab model instead, if you’re not into looking at creepy crawlies in your cozy game.
Save Your Loot When You Die
It’s bound to happen in the Exploration mode of Hytale – you’re going to die at some point, especially in the early hours of your newest save when your tools are limited and your resources are capped at what’s nearby.
When you die in this game, though, the default setting is to degrade some of your gear for a penalty, as well as costing resources or inventory stock in the process. It’s a tough loss to take sometimes, so be sure you’re routinely processing or stashing anything you don’t need immediately whenever you’re back at your base.
It’s important, though, to go reclaim your items after you respawn! They’re going to be right where you fell, and you’ll see the spot where you died marked on your compass along the top of the screen to help guide you back to the very spot. Just be mindful, since any unslain monsters that may have taken you out with almost certainly still be nearby.
If you’d like to prevent the loss of items upon your death, the degradation of tools or weapons, or anything of the sort, you can change these in the customization menu when creating a new world. There doesn’t seem to be a difficulty setting of any kind, but Hytale will be much less forgiving if you set everything to decay or be lost when you fall for a real challenge if you’re looking!
Sure, you’ve been picking up the little piles of fallen sticks or loose rubble lying around, but what about all those trees and rocks you’ve been walking past as you orient yourself in a new save in Hytale? There are tons more wood and stone resources to be gathered, but you’re not going to be able to do it with your bare hands. Have you ever tried punching a tree apart? It doesn’t work too well.
Not only that, but there are plenty of hostile animals out in the overworld, not to mention the potential enemy mobs you might come across down in caves or as you explore! While plenty of the game is cozy, not everything you see in Hytale will be friendly – danger lurks in the wild in this game, and you’ll need to be prepared for it as much as possible.
The first while you’re exploring a new save in Hytale’s Exploration mode, since everything will be randomly generated, you’ll need to do everything you can to ensure you’re going to survive into the later stages of the game. As soon as you’ve gained access to the crafting mechanic at a Workbench, you’ll need to make basic tools and weapons as soon as possible in every new save.
You enter the world of Orbis with your pockets completely empty, so give yourself the best chance to survive and thrive by equipping yourself with crude tools and weapons as early as you can. You might luck into finding one, but crafting will always be the best and fastest way to get new tools and gear in Hytale.
Check Every Structure You Find
Hytale can seem a little daunting when you first start a new save, with absolutely nothing in your pocket and only the world around you to pillage in the name of harvesting resources, finding ways to improve, and surviving in the occasionally hostile world. Some folks already seem to have given this a shot, and you’ll often find abandoned structures in the overworld as you venture in Exploration mode.
It’s never a bad idea to see what kind of free loot you can gather in structures like these – homes, temples, forts, and more – even as you get further in the game, but when you’re first starting out, buildings can be the source for invaluable items or resources, so it’s always a good idea to make time to check.
Do you need crafting gear, but haven’t found anything to make a crafting table of sorts? Find a house with a Workbench to get started, and make more crafting stations and accessories to bring back to your base. Don’t have a weapon or tools yet? Check the storage chests you find in places like these.
Monsters Come Out At Night
While there’s plenty waiting around the world in Exploration mode during the day that can kill you, between animals and potential mobs you might run into, traversing the world of each Zone is even more perilous at night since there will be an assortment of hostile monsters waiting to take you down.
If you’re not ready for a fight – you don’t have a weapon yet or you’re just not feeling it right now – there’s no shame in hanging out inside a structure until daybreak to avoid those ghouls waiting for you in the wilds. Whether you take that time to take a crafting break, stash resources, or anything else to pass the time, it’s a good idea to stay safe overnight when possible.
That said, the monsters that spawn at night have unique loot and crafting resources, so it’s worth taking on one or two when you’re able to see what you’ll collect.
Mind Your Gear Degrading
Like tons of the games in its wheelhouse, Hytale isn’t just going to hand you the tools for success (unless you’re playing in the mode where it does just that). Even once you do manage to find or create your earliest gear and weapons doesn’t mean you’re in the clear forever, though: Hytale has weapon and tool durability, which you can see on the bar below the item on your hotbar or in your inventory.
Naturally, better-quality items made of rarer materials have higher durability thresholds, but especially in the earliest hours of a new save in Hytale, it’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on the durability of your most-used tools. If you have storage at your base or the space in your inventory, it’s not a bad idea to craft extras before you need them if you’re getting low – you’ll be thankful you did.
Play Creative For A Build Break
While the Adventure mode with a story isn’t out in the early access version of Hytale, you’ll likely be playing the bulk of it in Exploration mode, which is the standard exploration-based RPG sandbox element. It’s where you go to fight monsters, conquer lands, build resource stocks, upgrade gear and crafting stations, and generally see a sense of progression in your play.
But, Creative mode allows you to build to your heart’s content, which means Hytale has a little something for everyone. With the ability to fly, an infinite number of the resources you’re clawing to find in Exploration, and plenty of more ways to help you customize a whole world, there’s a sense of zen to be found in pausing to build.
There’s no combat there, no mission, no goal – just you and your resources and an open canvas, free to create whatever you’d like, limited only by your own creativity. The possibilities are endless!
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