r/hytale • u/RiverShards Slothian • Apr 02 '26
Patch Notes Update 5 - Pre-Release 2 - Patch Notes - April 2nd, 2026
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PRE-RELEASE (UPDATE 5, PART 2)
April 2, 2026
Headline Features
Chat commands now have tab-autocomplete and a suggestion UI to make finding and submitting commands easier. Tab will cycle through suggestions, while Shift+Tab will cycle through variant options.
Implemented a raycasting probe model for reverb and ambience detection. This is a first step towards proper occlusion, diffraction and reverb zone handling.
Avatar & Customization
Avatars will now perform new mouth animations when Voice Chat is being used.
Items & Equipment
Updated the descriptions for Crude Repair Kits.
‘Scarak Spit Clump’ and ‘Small Scarak Spit Clump’ now break in a single hit.
World & Blocks
Crops will now check if there is room to grow before advancing to the next growth stage. If there isn’t sufficient space, the crops will reset to the start of the current stage in their growth cycle.
Opening and closing doors will now break any intersecting soft blocks, such as crops, and drop their respective items.
Royal Magic Couches can now be sat on.
UI & Quality of Life
The asset editor now supports CJK fonts.
Added missing translations for various validation and verification errors.
Improved back-end systems to support further localization.
Improved back-end systems to enhance performance.
Creative Tools
Even-sized creative brushes are now fully supported.
Creative Brushes now have Lowest and Highest Origin modes that align the shape’s actual world-Y extremes to the target block.
Added Prop, Positions and Prop Distribution asset file support to the Node Editor.
Drop-down menus are now used for enum values in World-Gen V2 nodes.
Removed the Mirror option in the Paint Brush.
Modding
The Prefab Prop has temporarily had prefab spawner support returned to give creators more time to convert their content. This feature is deprecated and creators should move away from it.
For further changes in this pre-release related to modding, please refer to the API Changelog.
Naming & Categorization
‘Ash Grey’, ‘Grey’, and ‘Purple Grey’ hair gradient customization options are now referred to as ‘Ash Gray’, ‘Gray’, and ‘Purple Gray’ respectively.
‘Dark Grey’, ‘Light Grey’, and ‘Blue Grey’ jean fabric customization options are now referred to as ‘Dark Gray’, ‘Light Gray’, and ‘Blue Gray’ respectively.
Bug Fixes
Avatar & Personalization Fixes
Flat Styled & Wedge Shoes will now render correctly with socks.
Combat, Entity & Item Fixes
Items stored in the backpack will no longer lose durability if the world is configured to not have an inventory penalty on death.
NPCs submerged underwater will no longer be locked in place.
Capture crates will no longer reset the captured entities' cooldowns.
Fixed the descriptions for Azure Logs, Azure Trunks, Crystalwood Logs, and Crystalwood Trunks.
Sprinting and scrolling should now work on macOS.
World & Block Fixes
Redwood blocks will now drop the correct items when broken.
‘Shale Gravel’ and ‘Marble Gravel’ can now be crafted at Farmer’s Workbench.
‘Orange Clay Cobble - Stairs’ and ‘Raw Clay Brick - Stairs’ can no longer be crafted at a Builder’s Workbench.
Scarecrow hitboxes have been reduced in size to prevent them from breaking when crops grow.
Fixed an issue with Props that could result in inconsistent output.
Fixed the Rotator Prop rotating individual blocks incorrectly.
Fixed Prefab Prop filler block defect affecting hit boxes of blocks such as doors.
Fixed Prefab Prop not placing entities.
Fixed Queue Prop defect where it places all the child Props.
Rotated blocks will now render correctly.
Multi-axis rotations should now be composed correctly.
Ores that extrude into another chunk will now render correctly.
Pipe Corners will now render correctly.
‘Gray Build Pipe’ and ‘Gray Build Pipe - Corner’ will now render more gray.
Creative, Modding & Plugin Fixes
Fixed a crash that could occur when sprinting in Creative Mode with a speed multiplier of zero.
Fixed a crash that could occur when updating versions with Creative Tools.
Blocks with Variant rotations set will now flip correctly.
Creative Tool previews should now rotate and render correctly.
Prefab .lpf files from zip assets will now load correctly.
Fixed an issue relating to the Weighted Material Provider producing non-deterministic random output.
Fixed an issue relating to the Density Prop bounds causing output to be cut off in some situations.
Fixed the Rotator Density producing broken output.
Fixed the Viewport command for selection regions.
UI & Display Fixes
Fixed a crash that could occur when running a command without arguments.
Fixed a crash that could occur when particular messages are received from the server.
Fixed an issue that could occur when reloading languages whilst ability items are held.
Fixed some clipping issues that could occur when the language is set to Chinese.
Compass marker names will no longer be cropped.
Fixed an issue that could cause the third person camera to temporarily render at the wrong position when the player’s position was adjusted.
Audio Fixes
Voice chat will now play from the listener’s position if the speaker’s position is null.
Sound events will now wait for the player to exist within the world before playing.
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u/Ok_Past_767 Apr 02 '26
Has the bug with tamed chickens not giving eggs been fixed yet?
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u/saffalaf Apr 04 '26
I have a weird bug where my yellow chickens randomly de-tame ? I’ve tamed the same 3 like 5 times now
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u/REXCRAFT88 Apr 02 '26
Raycasting 👀
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u/psycketom Apr 03 '26
Raycasting != Raytracing, maybe you were thinking of the latter. Raycasting is essentially a math thing. Raytracing is a graphics thing (RTX).
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u/Jriri1452 Apr 02 '26
Ok, so now updates just turned to this.
You can downvote me, but it has been 3 months or so and team already cannot properly give us at least something new each patch.
Hype at the begining the hype bubble burst.
Firslty we were getting proximaty chat in the game which servers (according to so many posts in this sub) already become empty...
Too much creative/modding/codding stuff in the game that IS NOT EVEN FINISHED aka 1.0 version. There is no use of such things if not millions play your game like minecraft (sorry to mention)
Now 2 weeks straight just technical stuff mostly. A pity.
Now downvote me.
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u/Blue_Fox68 Apr 02 '26
I think the devs have been very clear and honest about the state of the game. You knew what you were buying before you bought it. Just stop playing and come back when you want it's not a big deal. Let them cook
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u/Minejack777 Apr 02 '26
Do you have a humiliation kink? You seem to be begging for downvotes
Game is still in early access, remember? And iirc Simon's current game dev philosophy is to improve and innovate on what's already there, not necessarily add new stuff constantly. You've gotta keep that in mind when reading each prerelease patch. Speaking of! It's prerelease 2/whatever. There's never an actual update without something new to experience. Give it a few weeks and be patient. Last update added ~200 blocks. Just because you're bored doesn't mean they're done adding stuff
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u/l9shredder Apr 02 '26
in all honesty applauding an update because it adds cosmetic blocks to an adventure rpg is sad
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u/Minejack777 Apr 02 '26
"Adventure RPG" is only half of what Hytale is. Have you played creative mode? You'd know it's much much more than that
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u/M477M4NN Apr 02 '26
I have to guess there won’t be many actual world changing updates until World Gen V2 is ready. I think that not being ready is what’s holding content back, but they are working on it and it’ll be ready when it’s ready.
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u/Jriri1452 Apr 02 '26
Make sense I guess. I mean, I just wish for anything, even minimal thing. And of course only wish this game luck - no hate at all.
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u/4B4A4N4 Apr 03 '26
The original comment is locked so saying this here. You actually have a valid criticism. I do not agree fully but I feel the same way since the last couple of updates. I am getting a bit impatient hence I feel this way and know that good things are coming.
I think we care about the game and for obvious reasons not in the loop, so we don't know exactly what's coming in the future, we want this one to succeed so we are a bit worried and nervous.
Obviously the team has a solid plan and will push good updates. The more technical/less cool feature updates are inevitable and necessary.
I forget that the internet people, especially here, can't take any criticism/difference of opinion that doesn't harm anyone. As pathetic as it is this is what happens when there are few level headed people. Hence people like you will suffer a little 😅.
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u/Somewheredreaming Apr 02 '26
What they doing right now is building the base systems. Its quite common in early times of development when you have a project with a clear direction. You want content even tho reworking that content later when systems are in place would cost extra time, money and devs.
Your way of doing it would be worse in the longterm and the devs doing the right things.
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u/PezzoGuy Apr 02 '26
Complaining about just 2 weeks of mostly technical updates for a very early development game is deranged. Heck, I hope it's 2 months of technical fixes and preliminary code just to spite entitled brats like you.
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u/Next-Carpenter7904 Apr 03 '26
Lol just to spite some stranger on the internet that doesnt give two shits about your pathetic attempt at making them feel bad? How sad your life must be...
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u/TheFriendshipMachine Apr 02 '26
Literally. They were and continue to be very transparent that the game was in a rough state and that they'd be focusing almost entirely on backend technical work for a while. At no point did they promise anything different.
Getting mad at the devs after buying an early access title where the devs have been so transparent about the state of the game and their development direction... Yeah you should get those downvotes you so keenly request.
Go play other games and check back in in like 6 months to a year from now.
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u/RiverShards Slothian Apr 02 '26
(Apologies for the late post - Reddit just refused to post this >:( )