The Best Hytale Mods for Playing with Friends (Update 7)

Before adding anything

Check the version. Hytale is in early access and every big update breaks mods. On each mod's CurseForge page, the file has to say 0.7 (Update 7); if it only says 0.6 or older, don't put it on an up-to-date server (why it fails).

Server only. In Hytale every mod runs on the server: players who join use them without downloading anything (how it works). There are no “client” mods to pass to your friends.

A few at a time, and with a backup. If you upload eight at once and the server won't start, you won't know which one it was. And removing a mod mid-game can make whatever depended on it disappear: items, pets, progress.

One map for everyone: BetterMap

BetterMap (by Paralaxe, file 1.3.10 from 20 October). It improves the world map: it remembers what you've explored between sessions and has a cave mode and waypoints. For playing as a group it brings what people appreciate most: shared exploration, where you all fill in a single map and see what your friends have discovered; shared waypoints, and a radar with nearby players on the compass.

It's configured with /bm (or /bettermap); the server settings, with /bm config, need the bettermap.command.config permission, and shared exploration is an option the admin turns on (how to give permissions). Its page warns that it counts servers and players (hstats); you can turn that off from its admin panel.

Parties with friends: PartyPro

PartyPro (by tsumori, file 1.0.36 from 12 October). Parties of up to 16 players, public or password-protected, that persist through server restarts. Everyone sees the others' health and stamina, the distance and whether they're online; you teleport to each other with /p tp, have party chat and place markers in the world with the middle mouse button.

Friendly fire is blocked by default and the party leader can turn it on. It works on its own; if you also have RPG Leveling or MMO Skill Tree, it shares party experience without anything else. Everything starts with /p (or /party).

Levels and classes: RPG Leveling And Stats/Skills

RPG Leveling And Stats/Skills (by Zuxaw_dev, file 0.4.2 from 12 October). Experience for killing, mining, chopping, harvesting and taming; levels, points you spend on damage, defence, health, mana and more, six classes with their passives, and zones with higher-level creatures. The stats screen (/lvl gui) has a leaderboard with the top 100 on the server, offline players included: perfect for a bit of rivalry between friends.

For the admin: PvP experience can be on or off, the death penalty is optional and there are four difficulties. Everything is tweaked in its JSON files and with /lvl commands, with rpgleveling.command.* permissions.

Bosses and dungeons for the group

Endgame & QoL (by Lewaii, file 6.0.4 from 18 October). Content for when you already have everything: multi-phase bosses, elites, reworked dungeons, the Luminia dimension, quests, pets and runes. It's designed for groups: boss health goes up 50 % for each extra player and dungeon chests give loot to each player, not just the first to arrive. It's configured in-game with /eg config. It doesn't need other mods; for Update 6 its author points to 5.4.x.

MAJOR DUNGEONS (by MAJOR76, file 0.4.15 from 18 October). Instanced dungeons you enter through an ancient portal, with bosses that drop unique weapons and armour, a merchant who takes dungeon coins, mounts and companions. Combat revolves around blocking and stunning. Its page says nothing about groups: it plays the same, but there are no settings for the number of players.

Taming and breeding animals: Alec's Animal Husbandry

Alec's Animal Husbandry! (by alechilles, file 4.1.1 from 22 October). Taming, breeding and mounts with the game's animals: they get hungry, thirsty and happy, offspring inherit traits, they level up and follow orders (follow, stay, go home). Predators are tamed with tranquillisers and fight by your side.

It needs two other mods by the same author, which you also have to upload: Alec's Tamework! (the base: every animal has an owner and there are per-owner animal limits, handy on a shared server) and Alec's Coops!.

To progress faster: enchantments and vein mining

Simple Enchantments (by Herolias, file 1.2.1 from 12 October). A craftable enchanting table and over 30 enchantments for weapons, tools and armour, applied with scrolls. It plays without commands; only /enchant and /enchantconfig are for admins. Two enchantments need Perfect Parries.

Vein Mining (by EineNT, file 2.5.0 from 12 October). Hold Alt, mine one block and the whole vein comes down; the tool takes wear for each block. Each player sets it up with /vm (ores only, everything, tunnels…); the advanced settings are in VeinMining.json.

How to add them to the server

You download them from CurseForge (the .jar or .zip file for version 0.7) and drop them in the server's mods folder; they load at startup. What you install with the in-game mod browser stays on your PC: for a dedicated server you have to upload it (the full guide). Each mod adds some memory; with a long list, check how much RAM your server needs.

With NapNodes: “Files” and “Restart”

1. Download the files

   From each mod's CurseForge page, the one for version 0.7. If the mod needs others (like Alec's Animal Husbandry), download them too.

2. Upload them to the mods folder

   In “Files” → Server → mods (if it doesn't exist, create it). Upload them as they are, without unzipping. Hytale has no one-click mod installer: this is how you add them.

3. Restart and check the console

   With “Restart”. In “Console” you'll see which mods load and whether any fail. If the server won't start, remove the last one you uploaded.

4. Configure them

   Many create their settings folder inside mods (BetterMap, for example, mods/bettermap/config.json). Admin commands are typed in “Console” or in chat as an operator.

Frequently asked questions