QuestLines Denizens

Bring your Hytale world to life with fully customizable, native NPCs — no third-party NPC plugins required.

Denizens is a complete NPC management suite built entirely on Hytale's native engine. Create, customize and control living NPCs that wander your towns, guard your settlements, work your farms and interact with your players.

Whether you need a simple town resident, a patrolling guard, a hardworking lumberjack or a fully featured quest-giver, Denizens provides everything through an intuitive in-game editor and a single command system.

Features

Native NPC System

Over 340 built-in NPC models, with full control over:

• Equipment and armor, main-hand and off-hand items
• Scale and appearance
• Nameplates and display settings
• Any player's skin — just enter their username
• Animations and emotes, played, looped or cleared at any time

A powerful in-game editor gives you dedicated tabs for Information, Appearance, Behavior, Interactions, Jobs and Schedules, plus a placement wand for quick creation and world map markers with custom icons and colors (Pro).

Appearance Designer

Let your community design your NPCs. /npcdesign gives players with the designer permission a skin and appearance builder without any access to NPCs themselves — they build and submit looks, and staff browse the submissions with /denizen designs, preview one on themselves, and apply it to any Denizen. Designs can also be loaded straight into the Edit Skin or Create screens.

Dynamic NPC Behaviors

Denizens are more than static decorations.

Look-At

Have NPCs watch nearby players or hold a fixed gaze, turning the whole body or just swiveling the head. Optional greet and farewell animations fire when a player arrives and leaves, with configurable durations so a looping wave doesn't play forever.

Wander

Allow NPCs to roam naturally within a configurable area.

Patrol

Create waypoint routes with custom wait times and animations. Per-Denizen walk and run speed multipliers, plus run/walk overrides at waypoint, patrol and schedule level, control exactly how they move.

Guard

Assign NPCs to protect locations, players or other NPCs, with faction-aware targeting and configurable aggression.

Schedules (Pro)

Time-of-day routines that switch NPCs between idle, wander, patrol, travel and work.

Travel (Pro)

Wandering visitors that journey across your world to meet players, even through unloaded chunks.

Interactions

Denizens can run server or player commands when clicked — one per line, with {player} tokens — with no other plugins required. Add QuestLines Core and the same NPC can become a full quest-giver instead.

NPC Jobs & Professions (Pro)

Turn your NPCs into a functioning workforce. Workers can chop trees, mine stone and ores, harvest crops, and plant saplings and seeds.

• Real block breaking and loot collection
• Auto-replanting support
• Multi-job workers and tool requirements
• Chest deposit runs and storage management
• Claim-aware protection support
• Optional simulation mode for safe testing

Your workers respect land protections and can be configured to avoid modifying protected builds.

QuestLines Integration

Denizens works perfectly as a standalone plugin. Paired with QuestLines, every NPC can instantly become a quest giver, a quest board, an interaction hub or a progression checkpoint — quest assignment, requirements and click-to-action workflows all work automatically. Player kills of a Denizen credit quest kill trackers too.

Developer API

DenizensAPI lets other plugins query and drive Denizens at runtime — spawn, inspect and control NPCs from your own code.

Free vs Pro

Included Free

• NPC spawning and 340+ models
• Equipment and appearance customization
• Player skins, animations and emotes
• Look-At, Wander, Patrol and Guard behaviors
• Click-to-run commands
• Appearance Designer
• In-game editor
• QuestLines integration

Pro Features

• NPC Jobs & Professions
• Time-of-Day Schedules
• Storage & Deposit Runs
• Travel Visitors
• World Map Markers

Unlock Pro features through Patreon. Your support funds ongoing development across the entire QuestLines suite.

Migrating from HyCitizens

Moving from HyCitizens is simple. /denizen import-hc recreates existing citizens as native Denizens, including position data, player skins, equipment, attitudes, patrol routes and quest integrations. A dry-run mode previews the changes before importing.

Getting Started

1. Place the mod jar inside your server's mods/ folder.
2. Run /denizen create to spawn an NPC.
3. Use /denizen wand for quick placement.
4. Run /denizen edit to open the editor.

Commands & Permissions

• /denizen (alias /den) — everything above; needs qldenizen.admin
• /npcdesign — appearance designer for players; needs qldenizen.designer

The QuestLines Suite

Every plugin works standalone; together they share one ecosystem.

• QuestLines Core — dialogue, quests, requirements, actions
• Icons — floating quest-state icons above NPCs
• Dialog — in-game linear dialogue builder
• Titles — player title and rank rewards
• GUI — custom in-game interfaces, no code required
• Claims — land protection, regions, rent and buy plots
• Denizens — native NPC manager (this plugin)
• Arcade — arcade, board and puzzle games
• Hooks — early plugin unlocking extra quest tracking
• MMO — parties, guilds, dungeons, duels and item sets
• Mimics — chests that stand up and fight
• Nations — cities and nations built on Claims (via Discord)