Astral Reach
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Astral Reach 0.3.0 — Hytale 0.7
Hytale support: >=0.7.3 <0.8.0. Channel: Alpha.
Experimental alpha
Early development: features may be incomplete, rough or broken. Back up the complete world and player data before upgrading. This Alpha is intended for experimentation and feedback.
New in this update
- Five-rocket catalogue: Odyssey Heavy, Kestrel Stack, Saturn V, Soyuz and Space Shuttle. Compare thumbnails, dimensions and component requirements, choose a blueprint, then resume its saved construction screen. Changing a blueprint refunds supplied parts first. Historical craft are gameplay adaptations; range-based progression is deferred.
- Personal Orbis orbital stations with a protected linear concourse, nine external docking airlocks and small starter platforms beside open building space. Invite up to eight visitors; each ship receives a docking berth.
- Station equipment: solar arrays, batteries, finite oxygen life support, station tracking, sky flyovers, sunlight glints and a telescope.
- Rescue Beacons and Field Receivers with finite Beacon Cell power, invited signals, oxygen information and directional tracking.
- Lunar survey expeditions with recoverable records, salvage and permanent personal rewards: 5% reduced rocket fuel use, a craftable 40-minute oxygen tank and a craftable two-seat electric lunar rover. Equipment recipes still require their materials; the rover consumes Beacon Cell charge while moving.
- More varied new Lune terrain, lava-tube survey routes and mineable small rock decorations. New outposts and terrain require unexplored chunks; existing explored terrain and builds are preserved.
Getting started
Use the launch console to choose a rocket. Craft a Station Core or Field Receiver at Astral Assembly to try the new orbital and expedition content. The player guide covers recipes, oxygen, docking and reward unlocks. Complete both records at one matching expedition site to learn its equipment recipe.
The rover owner uses F to board or exit; park and empty both seats, then crouch-F to pack it. A Beacon Cell supplies 15 minutes of moving power; parking does not drain it. Bring your own suit and oxygen.
Known alpha limitations
- Rocket and rover camera/body presentation can be rough. Rover Space braking has not been positively verified; allow space to coast to a stop.
- Real multiplayer passenger, station-visitor and rescue flows are not yet fully verified. Try these with backups rather than relying on them for a survival server.
- Full ordinary survival progression and complete flights with every new historical rocket remain unverified. Lune is the playable landing destination; later worlds remain locked.
- Telescope zoom/identification, all placement/collision cases and some docking interruption cases need further testing.
- Human sound, visual and comfort acceptance remains pending. Some equipment shares an existing original sound family.
- Spacecraft do not have walkable cabins or aerodynamic freeflight. The rover cabin and lunar shelters are unpressurised.
Hytale support: >=0.7.3 <0.8.0. Built against pinned 0.7.3 APIs; representative native gameplay checks used 0.7.4 and 0.7.5. The declared range does not certify every patch. Dedicated servers require Java 25.
With Hytale stopped, replace older Astral Reach JARs in UserData/Mods with this file and enable AstralReach in the world's Mods settings. No separate resource ZIP is needed. Alpha files may require enabling alpha versions in your launcher.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/jkswoods/astral-reach/compare/hytale0.7-v0.2.4...hytale0.7-v0.3.0
Hytale support: >=0.7.3 <0.8.0. CurseForge minor tag: 0.7.
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