Surfboards - Craftable Water Rides & Surfbench Mod

Surfboards is a progression-based vehicle mod that lets players craft and ride surfboards to travel across rivers, lakes, and oceans with style and speed. Built for fun exploration and immersive gameplay, it introduces new materials, a custom Surfbench, and tiered boards with distinct stats.

Designed to feel natural within Hytale’s systems while pushing creative boundaries.

Core Features

Rideable Surfboards

Craft and place surfboards to ride across water using the mount system, offering a fresh and dynamic way to explore aquatic areas.

Custom Surfbench

All surfboards are crafted at a dedicated Surfbench, with unique visuals and progression-focused recipes.

New Rare Materials

Includes Babogita and Hargelita, two translucent crystal resources used in advanced surfboard tiers.

Clean Visual Identity

Surfboards feature distinct colors and designs that match their in-world appearance, ensuring visual consistency and clarity.

Tiered Progression System - Surfboards

Each surfboard tier improves:

Water speed
Acceleration and handling
Durability
Crafting cost and rarity

Higher tiers reward exploration and late-game resource gathering.

Technical Note - Water Movement Limitations

⚙ About Water-Only Movement in Hytale

In the current Hytale build, creating entities that move exclusively on water without also interacting with land physics is technically challenging.
Because of this, surfboards rely on adapted mount and movement systems to simulate water-based travel as closely as possible while remaining stable and playable.

This mod embraces those constraints to deliver the best possible experience within the engine’s current capabilities.

Gameplay Philosophy

Surfboards is designed to:

Add fun and stylish water traversal
Respect balance and progression
Avoid overpowered movement
Integrate cleanly with vanilla systems
Showcase what’s possible within current Hytale modding limits

Mod Identity & Credits

Developed by Rargela
Built for the Rargytale mod ecosystem
Focused on quality assets, experimentation, and immersive gameplay

Planned / Possible Future Expansions

Additional surfboard tiers
Special movement perks
New water-focused content
Visual variants
Improved water physics as the engine evolves

RG Surf like Boats