Skyblock Lifebound Portals

This mod lets you play Skyblock in Hytale using the portal system for progression. The world mod is no longer required: simply install this mod, open the SLP Guide book or use /slp, and choose your starting setup from the guide. The /slp generate command remains available. You can then create and test multiple starts inside the same save, from classic islands and caverns to Ocean Chamber, Lava Chamber, Moon Starter, and Asteroid Starter, and progressively connect those worlds as your run evolves. Gather Life Essence through agriculture 🌾, earn Portal Sigils on expeditions, and use the Portal Device to unlock permanent destination upgrades and choose the options for each opening.

Beyond the core Skyblock loop, the mod also adds timed dungeon expeditions, a survival arena, agriculture automation, connected full-block SLP Glass for builds, and random portal progression systems for a more flexible playstyle. A traditional Skyblock island start is not required to enjoy the mod's content.

Version 0.24.x requires Hytale Update 7 (0.7.x). Built and automatically checked against Hytale 0.7.6.

🆕 New in 0.24.x

• Goblin Burrow — explore a new timed Zone 1 dungeon in an underground goblin settlement. It joins Fallen Lord's Crypt behind Zone 1 Dungeon Keys, available for 50 Portal Sigils at the Skyblock Bench and opened at the Portal Device.
• Craftable dungeon equipment — defeat dungeon bosses to earn personal recipe scrolls, learn their crafts, and forge equipment through Sigil Exchange at the Skyblock Bench.
• Personal blueprint rewards — learned crafts and scrolls already carried or pending do not generate duplicates. If your inventory is full, your scrolls wait in pending items; collect them with /slp pending.

⭐ Features

• 📖 In-game SLP Guide — get started, follow your first steps, and browse English/French documentation with a book or /slp. Replace the book for free from Home or craft one from one stick in the Workbench’s Survival tab or through inventory crafting (Fieldcraft). The guide remembers your last tab and documentation chapter. Customize its reminder with Auto Hide, Show, or Hide, nine screen anchors, and a position preview.
• 🆕 Multiple starts in one save — create and test different SLP starts within the same save instead of locking progression to a single opening world.
• 🌌 Connected world progression — link those worlds over time and evolve from isolated starts into a connected multi-world network.
• 🪄 Two travel tiers — use Rift Shard early for no-cargo world switching, then unlock World Teleporter late to transport items between worlds.
• 🏝️ Choose your SLP starts: Sky Island, Desert Island, Stone Cavern, Ocean Chamber, Lava Chamber, Moon Starter, or Asteroid Starter.
• 🌕 Moon Starter — survive on a hostile lunar surface with breathable-air management, ancient ruins, Moon flora, Moon Spiders, and a slightly adjusted gravity and jump feel for the player.
• 🪨 Asteroid Starter — take on a harsher early-game route that mixes Moon-style air management with fragmented-asteroid parkour above the void.
• 🫧 Air Field Machine — fuel it with Life Essence to create a breathable zone around itself, extend Moon bases, and breathe underwater in other starts while you remain inside its field. Available from the Moon Workbench and Skyblock Bench tier 2.
• 🪟 SLP Glass — build with connected full-block glass that visually joins neighboring SLP Glass blocks for cleaner walls, windows, and domes.
• ⚗️ Essence Materializer — analyze configured common blocks to unlock them universe-wide, then produce them locally with Life Essence. Recipes have local machine-tier requirements, timed analysis, an internal output inventory, and continuous production support.
• Progression driven by portals 🌀 instead of a cobblestone generator.
• Craft portal keys 🔑 at the Skyblock Bench, then unlock permanent destination upgrades and configure openings at the Portal Device.
• Each portal focuses on specific resources and exploration. 🧭
• Permanent portal upgrades — invest in each destination to unlock +25% or +50% duration and up to three total entries per player, where available. Survival keeps its fixed duration; each participant has their own entry counter.
• 💧 Auto-Watering Machine — place it above water, fuel it with Life Essence, and automate crop watering.
• 🌾 Auto-Harvest Machine — automate mature crop harvesting, store outputs, and replant with loaded seeds.
• 🔀 Router — assign nearby storage blocks to fuel, seed, and output roles to support your automation machines across a local farm zone.
• 🎲 Random Portal Keys — draw a mystery destination when opening the portal, or select a destination you have unlocked. Choose which duration and entry upgrades to use for this expedition; permanent purchases and opening fees are separate.
• 🎯 Portal Opportunities — random portals in Zones 1 and 2 replace fixed-target bonus objectives with optional Gathering, Observation, or Hunting tracks. Several eligible targets count toward reward tiers. In each zone, tier 2 unlocks excluding that activity type and tier 3 unlocks choosing it. Spend the Portal Sigils you earn at the Skyblock Bench on rewards, decorations, a Rift Arena Key, a Dungeon Key, or a Goblin Breach Key. Opportunities in Zones 3 and 4 are still being prepared.
• 📦 Pending items — items that cannot be delivered because your inventory is full wait for you. Free some space and use /slp pending to collect them; the guide reminder shows a pending-item badge.
• ⚔️ Zone 1 Rift Arena [Beta] — prepare for 30 seconds, then survive a 180-second Rift invasion for Rift Catalysts, Rift Kunai, and other loot.
• 🏰 Zone 1 dungeons — explore Fallen Lord's Crypt [Beta] or Goblin Burrow [Prototype] on timed expeditions with changing layouts. Buy a Zone 1 Dungeon Key at the Skyblock Bench and open it at the Portal Device.
• 📜 Dungeon equipment recipes — dungeon bosses award personal recipe scrolls for crafts you have not learned, unless you already carry the scroll or have one pending. Read them after your own victory over the corresponding final boss, then craft equipment through Sigil Exchange at the Skyblock Bench.
• 🌀 Goblin expeditions — buy a Goblin Breach Key for 200 Portal Sigils in the Skyblock Bench's Sigil Exchange, or follow the native Goblin Lab recipe. Newly created Forgotten Temple portals lead to the new temple and its Goblin Lab.
• 🛡️ Riftforged Iron armor — use Rift Catalysts and iron armor at an Armor Bench to forge the set.
• Early access release, with more portals and content planned. 🚧

🪟 Connected Glass

If you're here for the glass, SLP Glass is a connected full-block building block with border textures that visually connects to adjacent SLP Glass blocks. Craft it by smelting Rock Crystal Blocks in a Furnace. Recipes are available for blue, cyan, green, pink, purple, red, white, and yellow rock crystal blocks, giving you a clean material for windows, domes, greenhouses, and larger glass structures.

🎮 How It Plays

Open the guide book or use /slp to choose your start or join the existing SLP world. The Journal outlines your first steps, and Documentation explains the mod’s systems. You begin in your chosen starter setup, whether that's a classic island, a cavern, a chamber start, the hostile Moon Starter, or the tougher Asteroid Starter. Craft the custom skyblock bench. Gather Life Essence 🌾, craft the portal device, unlock a portal, and explore the new instances behind those portals for resources. Each portal sends you to a temporary instance 🧭, and when time runs out or you die, you return to your home world. As your base grows, invest in automation and permanent upgrades for the destinations you discover. At the Portal Device, review the options and cost for each opening, extend expedition time, unlock more entries, and steer runs toward the resources you need. On the Moon and the Asteroid, breathable air becomes part of the survival loop, and expanding safe space becomes part of your progression. Outside Moon starts, the Air Field Machine also adds a new underwater utility path once you unlock it. Repeat to expand your options and progression.

📥 Installation

Install the mod using either method below.

a) Automatic install via the CurseForge App

• Open the CurseForge App and use the install button for the mod. This will automatically place the file in the correct location and remove the previous version.

b) Manual install

• Download the mod .jar file.
• Copy the file into %AppData%\Hytale\UserData\Mods (PC).
• If you have older versions of the mod, remove them before installing the new one.

⚠️ First time setup:

• Launch Hytale.
• Click the "create world" button.
• Select "Exploration"
• Click the Gear icon button (settings) ⚙️
• Enable the "SkyblockLifeboundPortals" mod.
• Save your changes.
• Start playing
• Once in-game, open the SLP Guide book or use /slp, then choose your start from Home to create your Skyblock world and teleport inside. You can also use /slp generate.
• If you need a guide book, the Home page provides one for free. You can also craft it from one stick in the Hytale Workbench’s Survival tab or through Fieldcraft (inventory crafting).

📝 Notes

• ⚠️ Early access release: expect bugs and breaking changes as Hytale updates.
• Mystery expedition durations: the opening interface shows duration bonuses as percentages without revealing an unknown base duration.
• Stone Cavern: a loading delay of around 30 seconds on entry or reconnection has been reported to Hytale. A fix for this specific symptom has not been confirmed.
• Night opportunities: some Void-focused opportunities still need balancing after Update 7 removed natural nighttime Void spawns; eligible targets may be unavailable.
• Expedition balance: opening fees, upgrade recipes, durations and rewards remain provisional and may change with playtest feedback.
• Deprecated Portal Upgrade Bench: this old bench will be removed in a future update. Place and break it to recover its base crafting materials on the ground. Old bench tiers are not refunded; use the Portal Device for upgrades.
• Additional portals and content will be added over time.
• If players enjoy the Moon Starter, it may later grow into a deeper branch with more Moon portals, creatures, and dedicated progression content.
• Dropped items despawn after 5 minutes. 🧹
• Birds are also removed after 5 minutes. 🐦
• NPCs that fall below height 1 are removed; otherwise they remain indefinitely in the sky.

💡 Suggestions and feedback are welcome! Feel free to share your ideas or report issues.