Nine essential tips for starting in Hytale

Polygon offers nine tips to help new players explore and enjoy Hytale's expansive, zone-based world.

Hytale is a sandbox without a guiding campaign, so the guide recommends beginning with crafting: collect materials, make items in the pocket crafting menu, build a base and store your things (the bedroll serves as a respawn point), then craft everything available at the Workbench to drive exploration and ore hunting.

Practical tips include using sword or dagger charged attacks to move faster, turning on "show entity health bars" (and an arachnophobia mode that turns spiders into crabs), marking routes to farm specific drops, claiming friendly villages to take a bed and loot chests and produce (avoiding harm to animals unless prepared to fight), and noting that even valuable ores such as gold can be mined with a crude pickaxe. The guide also shows how to toggle creative mode by typing "/op self" and pressing O.

The guide emphasizes that Hytale differs from other sandbox games—crafting recipes, exploration, and movement work differently—and warns against treating it like a Minecraft clone, urging players to visit each zone across Orbis to enjoy the game.

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Culture, Hytale, Hypixel Studios, Orbis, Emerald Wilds, Kweebec Villages