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Shards

Explore Hytale through a network of shard worlds connected by rift portals that continuously spawn and collapse over time.

File Details

Shards-0.4.1.jar

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  • Apr 7, 2026
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  • Early Access

File Name

Shards-0.4.1.jar

Supported Versions

  • Early Access

This patch release focused on improving the feedback for when shard worlds and rifts are going to collapse.

  • Added support for ShardType to have forced weather and ambience for the world at different lifetime stages.
  • Configured all base shards to apply a modified void weather effect and ambience when reaching the critical lifetime stage.
  • Removed the zone discovery attached to the empty void outside of the island land masses.
  • Use the modified void weather effect mentioned above as the weather effect for when you exit the confines of the world's landmass.
  • Reduced the amount of time it takes to enter a rift in adventure mode from 5 seconds to 3.
  • Disabled the ability to enter a rift while it's in it's collapsing stage.
  • Added a grace period for shard worlds and rifts to linger a bit before collapsing.
    • For rifts, this grace period is 5 seconds. This gives you time to start your 3 second interaction right before it enters the collapsing stage and be able to still enter.
    • For shard worlds, the grace period is 10 seconds. This doesn't do anything just yet, but in the future it will act as a buffer if you enter a shard world about to collapse. It's still a work in progress however.
  • Added custom interaction hints to the rift block.
    • Each lifetime stage has a custom message that indicates it's lifetime stage.