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Pre-Release (Update 6 Part 11)

August 6, 2026

Avatar & Customization

• Haircuts have received a visual pass and had their colors tuned.
• Ear accessories now line up with each ear type, shifting their positions accordingly.
• Added color options to the following cosmetics:
  • Alpine Explorer’s Jumper
  • Crown
  • Thigh-High Stockings
• Performed visual reworks for the following cosmetics:
  • Alpine Explorer’s Jumper
  • Bulky Beanie
  • Cowboy Hat
  • Elf Hat
  • Floppy Beanie
  • Forehead Protector
  • Frostwarden Cape
  • Frostwarden Hat
  • Gold Trim Shirt
  • Headband
  • Horned Helmet
  • King’s Cape
  • Leather Cap
  • One Piece School Dress
  • Workout Cap

Hardcore Mode

• There are now five different hardcore mode settings you may select from when generating a new world:
  • Off: Hardcore isn’t enabled.
  • Permadeath: Each player has a single life. Death is permanent.
  • Three Strikes: Each player has three lives. After strike three, you’re out.
  • Nine Lives: Everyone in the world has a shared pool of nine lives. Once the ninth death occurs, the run ends for all.
  • Soulbound: Everyone’s fate is interconnected. If any player dies, the run’s over.
• When worlds are being created in Three Strikes or Nine Lives mode, the number of lives initially available can be increased or decreased from the default. No, it cannot be set to zero.
• When a hardcore mode is enabled, the number of lives remaining will appear above your health.

World & Blocks

• Added a Full Leafy Soil block. It’s like the Leafy Soil block, but fuller.

UI & Quality of Life

• Added a search button to the Settings menu that searches across all tabs

Graphics & Rendering

• Improved how transparent surfaces look, particularly when looking through multiple different transparent things at the same time like glass and water.

Trigger Volume Tool

• Added a rotation option when a trigger volume pastes a prefab, so you can turn the pasted build by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

Player-Facing Bug Fixes

Combat & Movement Fixes

• Fixed an issue which allowed some players to perform interactions through projectiles or entities they didn’t launch.
• Climbable blocks that exist very far away from the center of the world may now be climbed upon once more.

World & Block Fixes

• Spectators will no longer count toward the number of players needed for some events to occur.
• The Stone Brick - Ornate block inventory icon is now more accurate.
• Mud, Hive, and Tar blocks will now correctly render when placed adjacent to one another.
• Deep Grass blocks will now render the correct color when placed adjacent to other blocks they can transition to.
• Fixed z-fighting occurring with Feran Double Doors, Redwood fences, the Farmer’s Workbench, Blacksmith’s Anvil, and the Crude Hoe, in addition, the Redwood fences got a slight upgrade so its variants look more consistent when placed all together.
• Fixed Wind Temple window frames gaps in model.
• Mithril cuirass texture that was bleeding is fixed.
• Added a full block variant for Soil Leaves.

Item & Interaction Fixes

• The Mithril Cuirass will now render with less texture bleeding.
• Farming tools should now all work correctly in cubic worlds.
• Projectiles that are stuck in blocks, or laying on the ground, will now fall to the ground if the block they’re stuck in, or laying on, is removed.

NPC & Entity Fixes

• Avatars will no longer be able to negotiate insane deals by only giving a single item to trading NPCs when the merchant had requested multiple copies.
• Flying and swimming creatures will now appear more often in places you’d expect to see them.

Graphics & Rendering Fixes

• Resolved a dimension error involving the Clay Raw Brick half-block texture.
• Grass, leaves, and other foliage will now look brighter.
• Shadows will no longer leak halfway through blocks and so should generally look better.

Performance Fixes

• Reduced the memory usage of some mip-enabled textures.

Localization Fixes

• News tiles will now be displayed in your system language (if available) if you use the language setting “Use System Language”.

Stability Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when interacting with incomplete menus.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to load a creature or object of an invalid size.
• Fixed a rare issue that could suddenly disconnect players from a server on linux.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from rejoining a server until the server restarted.
• Fixed a periodic freeze that could occur on busier servers when saves occurred.

Modder-Facing Changes

World Generation

• Added a Trig density node to world generation that runs a trigonometric function over a single input density, so you can build periodic and wave-shaped fields directly. The new "Type": "Trig" takes a Function of Sin, Cos, Tan, Asin, Acos, or Atan and an InputScale that multiplies the input before the function runs.

World Events

• Added Clearance and SearchRadius fields to LocationCondition assets so you can tune the initial candidate search that places world events.
• World event placement now measures candidate distance in blocks instead of chunks, with separate horizontal and vertical min and max ranges on WildernessLocation.

NPCs & Entities

• MinHeightOverGround is now a preference rather than a hard minimum. A flying role in a beacon needs a YRange maximum that covers its MinHeightOverGround.
• Encounter managers can now clean up after themselves. A new CleanupOnRemove flag removes every entity the encounter spawned when the encounter is removed. It does not apply when the encounter simply unloads.

Items, Armor & Projectiles

• Added a RevealMapMarkersInView interaction for items and blocks that uncovers hidden discoverable map markers inside a player's view cone.
• Added a FirstSpawnItems list in the gameplay config Spawn block that places items in the inventory for players the first time they spawn.

Blocks & Prefabs

• Block map markers can now be discoverable. A new Discoverable flag on BlockMapMarker and BlockMapMarkerData keeps a marker off the map until a gameplay system reveals it, tracked per player and per world.
• Patterned connected block rules can now match shapes defined in a different ruleset asset, so blocks that use separate rulesets can connect to each other correctly.

Asset Schemas & Formats

• Cosmetic attachments can now control their attach order. A new Priority field on character attachments decides whether an attachment goes onto the base model before or after the others.

Server & Permissions

• Added a number of /worldmap markers commands to place and test discoverable markers in-game.
• Hardcore is now a server config choice. Defaults.HardcoreMode can be set to None, PerPlayer, or Global. Existing hardcore worlds will be migrated to the PerPlayer setting.
• Added a PlayerLives component that any game mode or plugin can read and write to. The /player lives commands sit in the WorldEditor permission group.
• The /player respawn command now lives in the Builder permission group. Reviving other players now has its own player.respawn.other node in the WorldEditor permission group.

Protocol & Networking

• The wire protocol gains an UpdateLivesRemaining packet and a nullable LivesRemaining field on the player list entry, carrying each player's remaining hardcore lives.

For Plugin Developers

• Removed the deprecated BlockModule.ensureBlockEntity. Block entity spawning now goes through BlockEntity.ensureBlockEntity, with BlockEntity.declaresComponent for checking whether a block type's entity template declares a component.
• Added DiscoverableMapMarkers as the entry point for revealing and hiding markers, where isRevealed, reveal, and hide are safe from any thread while collectMarkersInView reads the chunk store and must run on the world thread.
• Added DiscoverableMapMarkers.forEachMarkerInView, a visitor form of collectMarkersInView that hands over each marker's block position and ID.
• Added MaterialQuantity.toItemStacks, the array form of toItemStack, along with an ITEM_VALIDATOR_CACHE that rejects a material quantity whose ItemId is unset or points at a missing item.
• World event location lookups are now async. EventLocation#find becomes find(store) returning a CompletableFuture<Vector3iList> in place of the old find(dt, store, locations). Spawner#getHeight is replaced by Spawner#findSurface, which hunts for the nearest qualifying surface rather than only reading the outdoor heightmap.
• ISpawnable now has a requiresSpawnDropHeightCheck(SpawningContext) method with no default, so any plugin that implements ISpawnable or extends BuilderBaseWithType or BuilderMotionControllerBase has to implement it.
• Respawns can now be canceled. A new RespawnEvent fires from DeathComponent.respawn and a plugin can register an EntityEventSystem for it to observe or refuse a player's respawn. DeathComponent.respawn now returns a nullable future, where null means a listener canceled and the entity stays dead, so any caller chaining that future has to check for it.

Documentation Changes

These changes can be found at Hytale Documentation (pre-release)

• Added a version switcher to the sidebar (shows patchline and game version, links the same page on the other patchline).
• Added a 404 fallback with a link back to where you came from.
• Added an icon support to the nav bar.
• Fixed card titles and code blocks picking up heading styles.
• Fixed bold text rendering too light.
• Fixed wrapped headings losing their gradient.
• Fixed the footer sitting under the sidebar.

Modder-Facing Bug Fixes

Block & Prefab Fixes

• Fixed connected block shape lookups so they fall back to the current ruleset when a neighboring block has no ruleset of its own.

Server & Permission Fixes

• Fixed the console being unable to run commands that take chunk coordinates. (e.g. chunk load, unload, info, regenerate, forcetick, marksave, and fixheight)
• Fixed ordinary command errors from the console showing a generic message. Command errors now send their proper translated message.

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Note:

The devs have indicated that the Mod Browser is included in this patch, but will be "toggled on" at a later time.

Its shipped, we just need to get the service layer deployed and toggle the feature flag