Better Trades deeply expands Hytale’s trading system through NPCs, introducing new exchange mechanics and meaningful progression.
This mod turns trading into a core gameplay pillar, offering valuable rewards, long-term progression, and strong incentives to explore and develop your world.
🏛️ New Merchants in the Main Temple
In the Main Temple, the same place where the bestiary is unlocked, you will find several specialized merchant NPCs, each focused on a specific type of trade:
🧱 Special and Decorative Blocks Includes a new merchant dedicated exclusively to all wood log types in the game, as well as another merchant offering a wide variety of decorative blocks.
🧪 Potion Shop The alchemy merchant offers potions designed to be more relevant for combat, exploration, and survival, adapted to different stages of the game.
🗿 Unique Statues and Building Elements Exclusive decorative objects created for advanced builds and world customization.
📜 Exclusive Crafting Recipes Unlock special recipes that cannot be obtained through traditional means, reinforcing the sense of progression through trading.
🏺 Decoration Blocks (Chests & Jars) A dedicated decoration merchant offering now have custom chests and decorative jars, perfect for storage builds and adding extra detail and atmosphere to your creations.
💚 Currency System: Life Essences
All trades use Life Essences, a new currency designed to integrate naturally into the gameplay loop.
Life Essences can be obtained in two ways:
🌾 Farming: through a revamped cultivation system that makes farming more rewarding and relevant.
🌍 Exploration: by finding fully grown essences scattered across different world biomes.
This system allows players to choose between a relaxed farming-focused playstyle or a more adventurous exploration-based approach.
🚶♂️ Wandering Trader
A wandering trader has been added and appears periodically in the world.
🛒 This merchant offers more powerful trades, including:
Ingots
High-tier and potion-related seeds
Common and rare ingredients
⚖️ While these trades may seem overpowered, they are carefully balanced through high costs, limited availability, and reliance on Life Essences, ensuring the game’s progression is not broken.
Its appearance encourages constant exploration and adds an element of surprise to the trading system.
🔄 Compatible and Future-Proof
The mod is designed to update without breaking existing saves or causing incompatibilities, ensuring long-term stability and easy maintenance across future versions.
💬 Community and Expansion
Suggestions for new merchants, shops, NPCs, or types of trades are always welcome. The goal is for Better Trades to grow alongside the Hytale community and evolve with every update.
Bone Meal allows you to instantly accelerate crop growth by applying bone powder to cultivated soil. Ideal for efficient farms, it saves time and enables fast production of food and agricultural resources.
Bone Meal allows you to instantly accelerate crop growth by applying bone powder to cultivated soil. Ideal for efficient farms, it saves time and enables fast production of food and agricultural resources.
