🌿 Druid Forms – Embrace the Wild

Become one with nature. Discover your true form. Unleash the power of Gaia.

What if shapeshifting in Hytale was more than simply becoming an animal?

Druid Forms transforms shapeshifting into an entire gameplay experience, featuring 10 unique Druid classes, 59 selectable creature skins, powerful class abilities, magical progression, native runestones, and specialized rolesfor combat, exploration, healing, and resource gathering.

Become a towering Werewolf defending your allies, a Cave Raptor hunting from the shadows, a Crocodile ruling the waterways, or a Runeweaver calling down lightning and falling stars.

And with V3.8.0, Gaia's magic doesn't end when you return to human form!

Every class has its own strengths and playstyle. Every creature offers a different appearance. And every transformation brings you closer to mastering the wild.

Your form. Your role. Your adventure.

🌟 NEW IN V3.8.0 – Human Totem Magic & Native Runestones

The power of Gaia is no longer limited to your animal forms!

Druid Forms V3.8.0 introduces an expanded Human Druid experience, allowing players to wield nature magic directly through their Druid Totem without transforming.

Harness astral energy, summon a magical companion, and command living thorns while maintaining your human appearance.

✨ Human Druid Abilities

While holding your Druid Totem in human form:

• Astral Pulse – Left Click: Fire a ranged projectile of astral energy, borrowing the power of Runeweaver's signature attack.

• Druid Forms Menu – Right Click: Open your familiar transformation menu to select your next form.

• Rootlight Spirit – Native Runestone: Summon a magical nature companion that follows you and provides light during your adventures.

• Living Thorns – Native Runestone: Unleash nature's grasping roots and thorns against hostile creatures, dealing damage while restricting their movement.

Human-form offensive magic operates at fixed base-tier strength, regardless of your unlocked Runeweaver progression.

Transforming into Runeweaver still provides the full benefits of its class abilities, upgraded magical Focus equipment, and evolution tiers.

💎 Introducing Native Druid Runestones

Rootlight Spirit and Living Thorns are now available as Druid Runestones, integrated with Hytale's native rune equipment system.

Use the Runebinder's Lattice to equip your Druid Runestones into the supported rune core slots.

Features include:

• Two equippable Druid Runestones: Rootlight Spirit and Living Thorns.

• Flexible rune placement: Equip either runestone in either supported core slot.

• Native ability HUD: Your equipped rune abilities appear within Hytale's built-in weapon ability interface.

• Customizable controls: Rune abilities use your configured Hytale ability keybinds.

• Visual cooldowns: Graphical cooldown shading and numerical countdowns show when your abilities will be ready.

• Distinct artwork: Beautiful stone-medallion runes appear in your inventory and the Runebinder's Lattice, while familiar spell icons appear on your ability HUD.

• Equipment switching: Cooldowns remain consistent when switching between weapons and returning to your Totem.

Your Druid Totem is now more than a gateway to transformation. It's a magical tool of its own.

🤝 Built for Multiplayer

The Human Totem system supports multiple Druids adventuring together, each with their own independent abilities and magical companions.

• Independent player runestone equipment and configurations.

• Separate Rootlight Spirit companions for each Druid.

• Independent ability cooldowns.

• Individual ability keybind configurations.

• Rune and equipment preservation across reconnects and server restarts.

• Compatibility with transformation, death/respawn, and world transitions.

Fight together, explore together, and let every Druid command their own connection to Gaia.

🌲 10 Unique Druid Classes – 59 Creature Skins

Druid Forms uses a class-based shapeshifting system, where each class represents a different gameplay role.

Creature skins share the core mechanics and progression of their class, meaning you can choose your favorite appearance without changing your preferred playstyle.

Some creatures also feature specialized animations and presentation adjustments to better suit their unique bodies.

🐻 Guardian – The Wild Protector

Tank • Defense • Crowd Control

Channel the strength of ancient beasts to withstand attacks, protect your allies, and command the battlefield.

Available Skins (4): Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Voidtaken Bear, Werewolf.

🐯 Prowler – The Silent Hunter

Melee Damage • Stealth • Ambush

Become a relentless predator, overwhelming your prey with rapid claws, powerful bites, bleeding attacks, and deadly pounces.

Available Skins (6): Tiger / Sabertooth, Hyena, Snow Leopard, Black Wolf, White Wolf, Cave Raptor.

🦈 Stalker – The Apex Predator

Aquatic Combat • Hunting • Burst Movement

Rule the waterways with devastating attacks, explosive underwater movement, and enhanced damage against marked enemies.

Available Skins (4): Shark, Piranha, Snapjaw, Crocodile.

🌿 Warden – Guardian of Life

Healing • Support • Restoration

Draw upon Gaia's restorative energy to heal yourself, sustain your allies, and turn the tide of battle.

Available Skins (2): Kweebec Rootling, Kweebec Elder.

✨ Runeweaver – The Astral Druid

Ranged Magic • Battlefield Control • Celestial Power

Wield ancient druidic magic, command the elements, and unleash powerful spells inspired by nature and the stars.

Available Skins (5): Feran Windwalker, Feran Burrower, Feran Civilian, Feran Longtooth, Feran Sharptooth.

🦌 Travel – The Wanderer

Land Movement • Speed • Exploration

Traverse forests, plains, and mountains using swift creatures designed for overland travel.

Available Skins (6): Antelope, Deer / Stag, Horse, Skeletal Horse, Camel, Fox.

🦅 Flight – Master of the Skies

Flight • Aerial Exploration • Scouting

Rise above the landscape, discover new locations, and explore Hytale's world from the skies.

Available Skins (9): Hawk, Crow, Bat / Snow Bat, Duck, Owl, Parrot, Pigeon, Pterodactyl, Raven.

🐰 Springer – The Bounding Spirit

Jump Mobility • Traversal • Fall Protection

Reach elevated terrain, overcome obstacles, and explore dangerous environments with enhanced jumping abilities.

Available Skins (7): Rabbit, Bunny, Green Frog, Blue Frog, Orange Frog, Spider, Cave Spider.

🐏 Forager – The Wild Harvester

Gathering • Mining • Resource Collection

Transform into powerful harvesting creatures capable of breaking individual blocks, drilling through resources, sweeping across rows, and shattering larger areas.

Available Skins (7): Ram, Goat, Moose, Warthog, Bison, Trilodon, Sand Lizard.

🐟 Aquatic – The Deep Explorer

Swimming • Underwater Exploration • Mobility

Discover the secrets beneath Hytale's waters with enhanced aquatic movement and unlimited underwater breathing.

Available Skins (9): Bluegill, Eel, Clownfish, Pike, Rainbow Trout, Tang, Frostgill, Black Piranha, Pufferfish.

⚔️ Master Your Class Abilities

Each Druid class brings a specialized collection of abilities designed around its gameplay role.

Whether you're fighting powerful enemies, healing companions, or harvesting resources, your transformation determines how you interact with the world.

🐻 Guardian – Become an Unbreakable Force

• Slash: Deliver powerful directional melee attacks with your claws.

• Ground Slam: Strike the ground, damaging and disrupting nearby enemies with impact and knockback.

• Oakenshield: Channel nature's resilience to strengthen your defenses.

• Challenging Roar: Draw enemy attention and protect your companions.

• Terrifying Roar: Unleash a fearsome roar that disrupts and controls nearby threats.

Guardian excels at surviving dangerous encounters while protecting the rest of the group.

🐯 Prowler – Strike from the Shadows

• Claw: Unleash fast, repeatable melee attacks.

• Bite: Deliver a powerful close-range attack against your prey.

• Rend: Inflict bleeding damage over time against your enemies.

• Pounce: Leap toward enemies, dealing enhanced damage when attacking from Stealth.

• Stealth: Conceal yourself while positioning for an ambush.

Prowler specializes in aggression, mobility, and choosing the perfect moment to attack.

Stealth also includes improved visual presentation, helping your predator blend into the environment while preparing an attack.

🦈 Stalker – Dominate the Depths

• Shark Tooth: Deliver devastating bite attacks that grow stronger with evolution tiers.

• Surge: Burst forward with rapid movement, especially effective underwater.

• Dive: Propel yourself downward through the water.

• Breach: Explode upward from the depths.

• Hunter's Mark: Mark an enemy to increase the damage dealt by your bite attacks.

Stalker also benefits from unlimited underwater oxygen, allowing extended aquatic combat and exploration.

🌿 Warden – Harness Gaia's Healing Power

• Life Seed: Plant a restorative seed that gradually heals nearby allies.

• Gaia's Touch: Instantly restore your own health.

• Spring of Renewal: Create a healing area that restores health over time.

• Nature's Resurgence: Release a powerful pulse of restorative energy around you.

Warden is designed for players who prefer healing, group support, and keeping their companions alive through difficult battles.

✨ Runeweaver – Unleash Nature and the Stars

Runeweaver introduces ranged spellcasting to Druid Forms, combining celestial energy, natural magic, and battlefield manipulation.

• Astral Pulse: Fire rapid astral projectiles at enemies from a distance. Your primary magical attack increases in damage through evolution tiers.

• Living Thorns: Summon an area of grasping roots and thorns that temporarily immobilizes hostile creatures while dealing damage over time.

• Lunar Bloom: Create a moonlit healing area that repeatedly restores the health of players standing within its reach.

• Constellation: Call down repeated waves of falling stars that strike hostile creatures around you.

• Nature's Wrath: Release a powerful frontal gust that pushes enemies away, allowing you to reposition or create breathing room.

• Thunderstorm: Summon a moving storm around yourself, repeatedly striking nearby enemies with lightning that deals area damage and knockback.

Astral Pulse, Living Thorns, Lunar Bloom, Constellation, Nature's Wrath, and Thunderstorm form Runeweaver's current implemented spell kit.

Runeweaver remains the dedicated magical combat class, with tier-based spell progression and specialized Focus equipment.

The new Human Totem abilities provide a smaller taste of this power without replacing the advantages of a fully transformed Runeweaver.

Additional astral and elemental abilities are planned for future development.

🐏 Forager – Harvest with the Power of Nature

Forager turns gathering resources into an entirely different gameplay experience.

Instead of relying on conventional tools, use the natural strength of your transformed creature to harvest materials.

• Strike: Your primary harvesting attack, functioning as a single-block tool for wood, stone, and supported ores.

• Drill: Break through a straight line of up to five blocks, extending inward from the targeted surface.

• Sweep: Harvest a horizontal row of up to five blocks.

• Quake: Unleash a powerful ground-breaking attack that affects a larger 4×4 area.

All four abilities share Forager's axe and pickaxe progression, meaning upgrading Strike also improves your other harvesting abilities.

Forager Evolution Tiers

• Uncommon: Basic materials and copper ore.

• Verdant: Iron, silver, and gold ore.

• Primal: Thorium and cobalt ore.

• Elder: Adamantite and mithril ore.

With animation-based activation controls, Forager can perform repeated harvesting actions without separate timed cooldowns on Drill, Sweep, and Quake.

🌬️ Enhanced Exploration Abilities

Not every Druid is built for combat.

Travel, Flight, Aquatic, and Springer offer unique ways to explore Hytale's world and overcome natural obstacles.

🦌 Wild Rush – Travel

Activate a burst of enhanced movement speed to race across the landscape.

🐟 Riptide – Aquatic

Temporarily increase movement speed to travel rapidly through aquatic environments.

🦅 Tailwind – Flight

Harness the power of the wind for a temporary boost to aerial movement.

Wild Rush, Riptide, and Tailwind each offer a 1.75× temporary speed increase for five seconds, with independent 25-second cooldowns.

🐰 Springer Mobility

Springer focuses on enhanced jumping and fall protection, allowing you to traverse elevated terrain and overcome obstacles without relying on a combat-focused ability kit.

🏛️ The Druid Shrine – Evolve Your Power

The Druid Shrine is the heart of your progression and your connection to Gaia.

Use the Shrine to craft your Druid Totem and strengthen eligible classes through increasingly powerful evolution tiers.

🌱 Uncommon → 🌿 Verdant → 🌑 Primal → 🌟 Elder

Depending on the class, progression can improve:

• Melee and magical damage.

• Healing strength and support abilities.

• Resource harvesting and mining tiers.

• Class-specific equipment and Focus items.

• Specialized abilities and effects.

• Tier-colored class indicators.

Runeweaver upgrades its magical Focus equipment, Forager advances its gathering capabilities, and combat-focused classes improve their respective abilities.

Each class has its own progression identity. Not all classes use the same upgrade mechanics.

Human Totem offensive magic intentionally remains at base-tier strength, ensuring that transforming and advancing your classes remains rewarding.

Mastering a class means more than simply unlocking its appearance.

🖥️ Druid Forms Interface & Class Selection

Druid Forms includes a custom interface designed to make managing transformations and abilities simple and intuitive.

Druid Class Menu

• View and select your available Druid classes.

• Browse creature skins within each class.

• Customize your appearance while retaining your class abilities.

• Return to human form when needed.

Quick Select Radial Menu

• Quickly access your Druid classes.

• Transform without memorizing commands.

• Open the dedicated skin selector for more customization.

• Switch between exploration, combat, healing, and gathering roles.

🌿 How to Open the Quick Select Menu

To open the Druid Quick Select Menu:

1. Select your Druid Totem (normally in hotbar Slot 1) or any supported Druid ability slot.

2. Right-click your mouse to open the radial selection menu.

3. Select the Druid class you want to transform into.

Important: The Quick Select Menu requires your Druid Totem or a supported Druid ability to be selected. Right-clicking while holding an unrelated item will not open the menu.

You can also access your classes using /shapeshift menu.

Persistent Class HUD

• Display all ten Druid classes.

• Highlight your selected class.

• Identify evolution tiers using colored borders.

• Show transformation and ability cooldowns.

• Display numerical countdowns for supported abilities.

• Toggle the Druid HUD on or off.

The interface takes advantage of Hytale's newer native UI systems, improving visibility, consistency, and cooldown feedback.

✨ NEW – Native Human Totem Ability HUD

V3.8.0 integrates Human Totem runestone abilities directly into Hytale's native weapon ability interface.

• Equipped runes appear in the bottom-right ability display.

• Rootlight Spirit and Living Thorns use their recognizable ability artwork.

• Your configured Hytale keybinds appear beside the corresponding actions.

• Cooldown shading and countdown numbers provide clear ability feedback.

• Swapping equipped runestones updates their displayed abilities.

• Ready abilities return to a clean, unobstructed icon.

No additional custom runestone HUD is required.

✨ Rootlight Spirit – Your Companion of Light

Even nature's smallest gifts can be useful.

Rootlight Spirit provides a toggleable companion-style light source, bringing illumination to dark forests, underground passages, and nighttime adventures.

With V3.8.0, Rootlight Spirit is integrated into the Human Totem's native runestone system.

Equip the Rootlight Spirit Runestone through the Runebinder's Lattice, then use its assigned ability key to summon or dismiss your companion.

Your Rootlight Spirit:

• Follows you during exploration.

• Provides a useful source of illumination.

• Can be summoned and dismissed as needed.

• Operates independently from other players' companions in multiplayer.

• Responds appropriately to relevant equipment and transformation changes.

A useful companion for Druids who enjoy exploring beyond the safety of daylight.

🌿 Getting Started

Beginning your Druid journey is easy.

1. Craft the Druid Shrine and begin your connection with Gaia.

2. Craft your Druid Totem at the Shrine.

3. Keep your Druid Totem in Slot 1 when using the standard Totem-based controls.

4. Choose your class using shapeshift commands or the in-game selection menus.

5. Customize your creature skin through the Druid Skin Menu.

6. Return to the Shrine to upgrade eligible classes and strengthen your abilities.

7. Discover Human Totem Magic: While in human form, hold your Druid Totem and use Left Click to cast Astral Pulse.

8. Equip Druid Runestones: Use the Runebinder's Lattice to equip Rootlight Spirit and Living Thorns into supported rune core slots.

9. Use your equipped magic: Activate your runestone abilities using your configured Hytale ability keybinds.

Explore different classes, experiment with your magical abilities, and discover the forms that best suit your adventures.

⚠️ Inventory & Hotbar Information

While transformed, Druid Forms manages class-specific hotbar abilities.

Class ability slots may be replaced or rebuilt when changing forms, depending on the selected class and its equipment.

Return to human form before reorganizing normal hotbar items to avoid accidentally interfering with your ability loadout.

Human Totem runestones use Hytale's native rune equipment system. Equip or remove them using the intended rune management interface rather than manually modifying transformed ability items.

📜 Commands

Player Commands

/shapeshift guardian

/shapeshift prowler

/shapeshift stalker

/shapeshift warden

/shapeshift runeweaver

/shapeshift travel

/shapeshift flight

/shapeshift springer

/shapeshift forager

/shapeshift aquatic

/shapeshift human

Menus & Interface

/shapeshift menu

/shapeshift skin

/shapeshift hud on

/shapeshift hud off

/shapeshift help

Administrator Commands

/druid allow – Grant Druid permissions.

/druid deny – Revoke Druid permissions.

🔧 Progression, Persistence & Stability

Druid Forms continues to receive improvements focused on long-term reliability, multiplayer compatibility, and preserving your progression.

Features include:

• Reliable transformation and human restoration.

• Armor and equipment state restoration.

• Persistent class evolution and Shrine upgrades.

• Saved creature skin preferences.

• Class-specific ability loadout management.

• Transformation cooldown handling.

• Native ability cooldown indicators and timers.

• Server administrator permission controls.

• Creature-specific animation improvements.

• Improved creature geometry, camera positioning, and movement preservation.

• Continued Hytale compatibility updates.

V3.8.0 – Human Totem Multiplayer & Persistence

The Human Totem expansion also includes additional safeguards for player-specific magical abilities and rune equipment.

• Independent runestone loadouts for multiple players.

• Independent ability cooldown tracking.

• Separate Rootlight Spirit companion ownership.

• Rune configuration preservation through reconnects and server restarts.

• Equipment and inventory preservation through normal gameplay transitions.

• Correct state handling during death, respawn, transformation, and valid world transfers.

• Native HUD recovery when returning to equipped rune abilities.

The Human Totem system has been tested in connected two-player multiplayer sessions, including persistence and independent ability behavior.

Druid Forms continues to prioritize stability as new Hytale systems and features are introduced.

📅 Future Development

Druid Forms is actively growing, with development focused on expanding the depth and quality of existing classes.

Planned improvements include:

• Runeweaver Spirit Wisps: Summonable elemental spirits capable of assisting in combat.

• Stealth Improvements: Continued refinement of Prowler stealth behavior and visual presentation.

• Ability Effects: Better animations, particles, sounds, and creature-specific spell effects.

• Evolution Expansion: Further progression and advanced ability improvements.

• Gameplay Balance: Refinements to combat, movement, gathering, and support classes.

• Additional Nature Magic: Continued exploration of Druid abilities and magical interactions.

• Future Hytale Compatibility: Continued maintenance as the game and its underlying systems evolve.

New features are developed and tested incrementally to keep the core shapeshifting experience stable.

🙌 Special Thanks

Special thanks to HyUI for its contributions to the earlier Druid Forms interface system.

https://www.curseforge.com/hytale/mods/hyui

💚 The Wild Is Calling

Druid Forms began with a simple idea: allowing players to become the creatures of Hytale.

It has since grown into a class-based shapeshifting system with dozens of creature appearances, magical abilities, class evolution, native runestones, and unique gameplay roles.

Whether you prefer protecting your friends, exploring distant lands, hunting dangerous enemies, casting celestial spells, gathering the world's resources, or traveling with a magical companion, there's a form waiting for you.

And now, even your human form carries the magic of Gaia.

Druid Forms is an ongoing passion project, and community feedback helps shape its future.

Embrace the wild. Find your form. Answer Gaia's call.