🌿 Druid Forms – Embrace the Wild

Unlock the ancient secrets of the Druids and shapeshift into the wild beasts of Hytale! Whether you want to soar through the skies, dive into the depths, or outrun danger, nature answers your call.

Harness the power of Gaia and become one with nature through a growing progression system designed for exploration, survival, and mastery of the wild.

🏛️ The Druid Shrine

The Druid Shrine is the center of all druid progression.

At the Shrine you can:

✨ Craft the Druid Totem
✨ Upgrade eligible forms through evolution tiers
✨ Progress through Verdant, Primal, and Elder energies

The Shrine is your link to Gaia’s wild children and the foundation of every transformation path.

🌲 Class-Based Shapeshifting

Druid Forms now uses a class-based form system instead of a simple animal list.

Each class represents a role, and each role can contain multiple skins / creature variants.

🐻 Guardian
Durable frontline druid forms
Skins: Grizzly, Polar Bear

🌿 Warden (NEW)
Nature guardian and healing-focused form
Skins: Kweebec (More variants coming soon)

🐯 Prowler
Fast predator melee forms
Skins: Tiger, Sabertooth, Hyena, Snow Leopard, Wolf

🦈 Stalker
Aquatic predator forms
Skins: Shark, Piranha, Snapjaw

🦌 Travel
Fast land-travel forms
Skins: Antelope, Deer (Stag), Horse, Skeletal Horse, Camel

🦅 Flight
Airborne scouting and movement
Skins: Hawk, Crow, Bat, Duck, Owl, Parrot, Pigeon, Pterodactyl

🐰 Springer
High-mobility jumping form
Current: Rabbit
(More skins planned)

🐏 Forager
Utility and gathering-focused forms
Skins: Ram, Goat, Moose, Warthog, Bison, Trilodon

🐟 Aquatic
Swimming and underwater exploration
Skins: Bluegill, Clownfish, Pike, Rainbow Trout, Tang, Frostgill, Eel

⚙️ Abilities & Roles

Each class is built around a gameplay role:

🌿 Warden – healing and nature-based support
🦅 Flight – aerial movement and scouting
🦈 Stalker – underwater dominance
🐟 Aquatic – underwater movement and scouting
🦌 Travel – fast ground traversal
🐻 Guardian – durability and survivability
🐯 Prowler – aggressive predator combat
🐰 Springer – jump mobility and fall safety
🐏 Forager – wood, ore and material gathering

🔥 Evolution Tier System

Select forms evolve through powerful tiers:

🌿 Verdant
🌑 Primal
🌟 Elder

Upgrade your forms at the Shrine and deepen your bond with Gaia.

🖥️ Druid Form Menu + HUD

Druid Forms includes a full UI-based form system:

✔ In-game Druid Form Menu
✔ Browse by class instead of memorizing animals
✔ Select skins within each class
✔ Persistent HUD icons showing your active class
✔ Improved selection highlighting and usability

🎯 Quick Select Radial Menu (NEW)

Quickly access your forms without needing to type /shapeshift commands.

✔ Radial quick-select wheel for all classes
✔ Fast, intuitive selection during gameplay
✔ Seamless transition into the Class Skin Menu
✔ Designed for smooth mid-action shapeshifting

The radial menu allows you to instantly choose a class, then refine your selection through the full UI when needed.

🛠️ How to Play

1️⃣ Craft the Druid Shrine
2️⃣ Craft the Druid Totem
3️⃣ Keep the Totem in Slot 1
4️⃣ Use /shapeshift commands or right-click while holding your Druid Totem (or class item like the Life Seed) to open the Quick Forms menu and select a class

⚠️ Druid Warning:
The Druid Totem binds to Slot 1 while channeling forms.

Placing other items in that slot while transformed may cause them to be lost.

📜 Commands
Player Commands

/shapeshift guardian
/shapeshift warden
/shapeshift prowler
/shapeshift stalker
/shapeshift travel
/shapeshift flight
/shapeshift springer
/shapeshift forager
/shapeshift aquatic
/shapeshift human

HUD Commands

/shapeshift hud on
/shapeshift hud off

Admin Commands

/druid allow <player>
/druid deny <player>

🔒 Stability Improvements

✔ Reliable transform → restore system
✔ Stable relog/login handling
✔ Correct armor restoration
✔ Improved totem recovery behavior
✔ Clean state handling across all forms
✔ Stable standalone release build

🙌 Special Thanks

Special thanks to HyUI for powering parts of the UI system used in Druid Forms.

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

📅 Roadmap

• Additional Warden skins (Elder / Treesinger variants)
• Additional Springer skins
• More class variants
• Expanded evolution system
• Active abilities for advanced tiers
• Visual effects and polish
• Expanded mod compatibility

📖 Latest Update – V2.4.2

✔ Added Warden class
✔ Introduced Life Seed system with full tier progression
✔ Integrated Warden into Shrine upgrade system
✔ Fixed class item detection and radial menu compatibility
✔ Added hidden models for class items (no more missing model warnings)
✔ Improved armor handling for Warden
✔ Marked upcoming Warden skins as Coming Soon
✔ Continued stability and polish improvements