BeastBound
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BeastBound lets you become the wild. Twenty anthropomorphic forms, each one built from the real Hytale creature: its head, its fur or feathers, its claws and its moves. Your clothes and your eyes stay on the beast, so the beast is still you.
1. Hunt
Every wild species can drop its trophy when it falls: a wolf fang, a hawk talon, a bear claw. One trophy is all it takes.
2. Offer
Bring it to the Altar of Beasts. One waits in the room where you first wake up, and you can build your own at a Workbench. Drop the trophy into the offering cup and the beast's spirit orb lights up in the ritual circle.
3. Become
Pick your active form in the circle, then press H to transform. Press H again to walk back on two human legs.
Fight like a beast
The Werewolf, Hawk, Crocodile, Bear, Rabbit and both Spiders fight with their own moves. Left click for a three-hit combo, hold it for a charged attack. Right click to guard, and block at the right moment to parry. Land hits to fill your gauge, then press Q for the form's finisher. E and R are its two abilities.
Predators, small critters and a whole flock of birds. Each form has its own body, its own size and its own way to move.
Werewolf
Sprint and jump to lunge forward. Howl to scatter nearby creatures and call the pack. Low on health, frenzy makes your claws hit harder. Crouch still to sense every creature around you.
Bear
Heavy paw strikes knock enemies away. Roar to pull hostile creatures onto you. Wild bears see you as one of their own. Call on your survival instinct to heal over a few seconds.
Crocodile
Steer through water. Lie still to set an ambush. Bite in the water to drag your prey into a death roll. Harden your scale skin, or stun your enemy with a tail strike.
Hawk
Take to the sky, then dive onto your target for a shockwave on impact. Clap your wings to hurl enemies into the air.
Spider & Cave Spider
Climb walls, walk on ceilings and pull yourself anywhere with a silk thread. Your web wraps enemies in a cocoon. Throw balls of web, or unleash a silk storm.
Rabbit
Fast kicks, a flying kick from the air and a rising moon flash kick that stuns. Dig a burrow to vanish underground and burst out behind your target.
Frog
Snatch small animals with your tongue and swallow them whole to heal. Crouch to charge a long, high leap.
Fox
Quicker on your feet, with a sprinting leap that carries you further.
Birds
Raven, Woodpecker, Sparrow, Bluebird and Finch fly.
Rat & Squirrel
Small enough to slip through gaps no human fits into.
The Altar of Beasts keeps every spirit you have bound. Each beast has its own place in the ritual circle, and the one in the centre is the form H gives you. Change it whenever you stand before an altar.
Bound beasts leave you alone while you're bound.
Build your own altar. Workbench: 20 rock and 10 bone fragments.
Multiplayer & servers
- Every player builds their own collection of spirits.
- Server owners can tune each world: how long a form lasts, its mana cost, the trophy drop chance, and which forms are allowed.
- Admin command:
/form unlock <form|all> [player],/form active <form|none> [player],/form reset [player].
Early access
BeastBound is in active development and more forms are on the way. Right now we're eager for player feedback: it will shape the next improvements and the balancing of every form. Tell us what you want to become in the comments, and report any bug there too.
Collaboration
The ability icons are placeholders for now, made with AI image tools. If you're an artist and would like to create the mod's icons, I'd love to hear from you: send me a message here on CurseForge or on Discord. You'll be credited on this page and in the mod.
BeastBound Team
