
Like so much of Hytale, it's very Minecraft, but a little bit better.įinally, the team have posted four more tunes from the game's soundtrack. It's all quite lush, with lots of nice little effects bringing out the painted, Warcraft-styled look to Hytale's cubes.
HYTALE GAMEPLAY UPDATE
Meanwhile, a suite of new shadow, lighting and water effects were flaunted in a graphics update post.

Farming crops is also now possible, while the rest of the post showed off some charmingly "toothy" new monsters. While this isn't a huge jump, spells and melee attacks seem to have a nice windup and heft, skeletons breaking into tiny blocky pieces when hit.Īn overall progress update flaunts some of Hytale's new biomes, including a lovely autumnal forest and vibrant desert oases. It's very brief - about 36 seconds of spell-slinging skelly-bashing - but I reckon it looks decent enough. On that, Hytale dropped three substantial update posts this week, including our very first look at moment-to-moment gameplay. Hypixel want to start showing in-development features earlier, and they'll be "actively seeking feedback on certain features to ensure that we’re headed in the right direction." Admittedly, that's left them with a pretty small box to pull from. Hypixel have been quite strict when it comes to sharing news 'til now, only revealings parts of the game they consider "launch ready". While that's still a long ways off, you can expect to see a whole lot more of Hytale going forward. "Factoring in the scale of the project and the high bar we want to hit," the team write, "we’re planning for Hytale to be playable by everyone in 2021." In this week's November 2019 development update, however, they've finally narrowed that down somewhat.

It's hardly the first to try and pull off "Minecraft, but", but with funding support from Riot Games, there's a good chance Hypixel Studios could pull it off.įor the most part, the developers' approach to releasing Hytale has been that it'll be "ready when it's ready". Revealed last year, Hypixel is an ambitious project to turn an MMO-styled Minecraft server into a standalone indie game all of its own. To keep you filled in 'til then dropped three additional update posts showing off new sights, new sounds, and our first 36 seconds of gameplay footage. In a development update posted this week, developers Hypixel think the ambitious block 'em up will be done by 2021. Don't get your hopes up for jumping in anytime soon, mind. The devs behind Minecraft-server-turned-sandbox-RPG Hytale finally reckon they know when it'll be done.
