ScarVoicePhones — Functional Telephones, Mobiles & Group Calls for Hytale

Place phones. Carry mobiles. Call anyone. Talk through them in 3D. A complete in‑world telephone system for Hytale with real voice chat, 3D positional audio, ringing animations, contacts, group calls, mobile phones, and a polished ingame UI.

ScarVoicePhones 3.1.0

📱 New Features

🎒 Inventory Wheel Support

Phones can now be stored in the Z inventory wheel, making them easier to access and much harder to lose.

💬 Direct Messages

Direct messaging is finally here!

• Chats are now linked to your character, not your phone.
• Your conversations stay with you even if you change devices.
• Includes message and notification sounds.

We're also exploring moving calls to a character-based system in the future.

⚠️ Known Issues

📜 Message Order

Messages currently appear in reverse order due to a limitation in Hytale's current scrolling system.

We expect to improve this in Update 6.

🔕 More Features Coming

We're still working on:

• Better Do Not Disturb options.
• User blocking.
• Improved notification management.

🛠️ Improvements

• Fixed various bugs.
• General stability improvements.
• Continued optimization and polish.

🚀 What's Next?

Future updates may include:

• 📲 Apps.
• 📢 Notice boards.
• ❤️ Social and dating features.
• More community-requested additions.

Thanks for supporting ScarVoicePhones! ❤️

📞 What is ScarVoicePhones?

ScarVoicePhones turns Hytale's proximity voice chat into a full phone network. You can:

• 🏠 Place phone blocks ("landlines"), register them with a name like Home or Shop, and call them from anywhere on the server.
• 📱 Craft a mobile phone that lives in your inventory, with its own number, contacts and ringtones, so you can take calls on the move.
• 👥 Start group calls with up to 8 phones (mix and match blocks and mobiles) so the whole crew can talk at once.

When a call connects, the engine plays your voice in 3D from the destination phone: anyone standing nearby can hear you, join in, or eavesdrop. Your phone rings, you walk to it, you pick up, you talk. No chat commands, no fake telephony.

🎬 Video Showcase

📺 Original v2 trailer:

📺 Original v1 demo (Spanish):

✨ Features

🔊 Real voice chat through phones

• 3D positional audio — voice is emitted from the destination phone (block or mobile holder). Walk closer to hear better, walk away and it fades.
• Speakerphone by design — anyone nearby can hear the conversation, just like a real speakerphone.
• Configurable ranges — voice capture (default 8 blocks) and audio broadcast (default 16 blocks) per phone.
• Engine‑level routing — the mod hooks into Hytale's voice pipeline and rewrites the speaker position of voice packets, so the engine itself does all the 3D attenuation and panning.

🏠 Phone blocks (landlines)

• Craftable & placeable with a custom 3D model.
• Register with a unique name (your phone "number") and pick Public, Private or Contacts‑only mode.
• Phone Directory — clean, scrollable list of every phone, with search, A‑Z / Z‑A sorting, and All / Favorites ⭐ / Recents tabs.
• Status indicators — Available 🟢, In Call 🔴, Ringing 🟡, DND 🟠.
• Smart cleanup — breaking the block hangs up calls, stops ring sounds and unregisters the phone automatically.

📱 Mobile phones (NEW)

• Craftable item with its own model, in‑hand animation and ringtones.
• Per‑item identity — name, owner UUID and owner name are stored in the item's metadata, so the phone keeps its identity across deaths, trades and restarts.
• Register / rename / unregister / transfer ownership without losing your contacts.
• Personal contacts list and mute list stored on the phone (up to 50 each).
• Recent calls per player.
• Dynamic tooltip showing phone name and owner directly in the inventory (powered by DynamicTooltipsLib, optional dependency).
• Cleanup on disconnect — calls and ringing stop automatically when the holder logs off.

👥 Group calls (NEW)

• Start a multi‑phone call from the mobile phone or from a phone block.
• Each connected phone becomes a relay node — speak near one and everyone connected hears it from their own phone.
• Configurable size (default 8 participants).
• Mix and match: block‑to‑block, mobile‑to‑mobile, or any combination.
• Each participant can leave / hang up independently.

📞 Calling system

• Ring with animation — the target phone block plays a ringing animation and a 3D ring sound; the mobile plays its own ringtone.
• Calling tone — the caller hears a 3D "calling" tone at their phone while waiting.
• Answer or Reject — the receiver gets an incoming call screen with Answer / Reject buttons.
• Cancel — the caller can cancel an outgoing call at any time.
• Hang up — end active calls from the UI, or just break the block.
• Ring timeout — unanswered calls auto‑cancel after a configurable timeout (default 30s) and are recorded as missed calls.
• Call cooldown — prevents spam‑calling (default 5s between calls).

🔒 Privacy & security

• Public / Private / Contacts‑only modes.
• Contacts whitelist (up to 50) per phone.
• Mute / block players (up to 50) per phone.
• Do Not Disturb (DND) — silence all incoming calls; callers see a DND warning.
• Owner‑only settings — only the phone owner can access Settings, Contacts and History (configurable).

📋 Call history & missed calls

• Persistent call history — last 20 calls per phone with direction (IN/OUT), status, duration and timestamps.
• Missed call notifications — red banner with the count when you open your phone.
• Color‑coded statuses — Completed ✅, Missed ❌, Cancelled ⚪.

⭐ Favorites & recents

• Star any phone to add it to your Favorites tab for quick access.
• Recents automatically tracks your last called phones (up to 10).
• Both are per‑player and persist across sessions.

🔨 Crafting

• Phone block and mobile phone both have default crafting recipes at the Workbench.
• Fully customizable — server owners can override ingredients, crafting time, bench type and output quantity via RecipeConfig.json.
• Recipes can also be completely disabled if you prefer admin‑placed phones only.

🧹 Smart cleanup everywhere

• Breaking a phone block hangs up its call, stops ring sounds, and unregisters it.
• Renaming or unregistering a phone cleans up all players' favorites and recents automatically.
• Player disconnect during a call ends the call cleanly on both sides.

⚙️ Server configuration

All settings are in VoicePhones.json (auto‑generated on first run):

Crafting recipes have their own config (RecipeConfig.json).

🛠️ Admin commands

📦 Installation

1. Download the .jar file.
2. Place it in your server's mods/ folder.
3. (Optional) For richer mobile‑phone tooltips, also install DynamicTooltipsLib.
4. Start the server — VoicePhones.json is auto‑generated on first run.
5. Tweak the config if you want, restart.
6. Craft a phone block or a mobile, register it, and start calling!

Requirements

• Hytale
• Optional: DynamicTooltipsLib

🌐 Where it's being tested

ScarVoicePhones is actively developed and tested on the Hub Social server:

🔗 https://www.elhubsocial.net/  •  📡 IP: elhubsocial.net

Many of my mods are battle‑tested there before public release. Come hang out!

💡 Planned features

• Phone skins / color variants
• Caller ID display on the block
• SMS / text messages
• Smartphones with apps
• Answering machine / voicemail

Have a suggestion? Drop it in the comments!

🙏 Credits

Mod by: ScarForges Tested on: El Hub Social

Optional integration: DynamicTooltipsLib by Herolias

If you enjoy this mod, leaving a like or favorite helps a lot. ❤️

*ScarVoicePhones v2.1.0 — Built for Hytale