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 and use /slp generate to create your first world and start playing. 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. Earn and spend Life Essence with agriculture 🌾 to unlock new portals, and invest in the Portal Upgrade Bench to improve random keys with longer expedition time and more focused destination control.

Beyond the core Skyblock loop, the mod also adds 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.

🆕 New in 0.18.0

• ⚗️ Essence Materializer — analyze common explored blocks, unlock them for the universe, then produce them over time with Life Essence.
• 🧪 Material analysis jobs — reserve configured materials during multi-minute analysis, with safe cancellation refunds and duplicate-unlock protection.
• 🏭 Material production browser — browse all recipes or filter unlocked and unanalysed materials, with tier requirements, output, and job status shown in one place.

⭐ Features

• 🆕 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.
• Custom benches to unlock portal keys 🔑 and upgrade random keys with materials.
• Each portal focuses on specific resources and exploration. 🧭
• Portal Upgrade Bench — extend expedition time, reduce portal risk, and specialize random keys toward the destinations you need most.
• 💧 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 — open a mystery destination, with optional targeting, timer, and risk mitigation upgrades applied beforehand at the Portal Upgrade Bench.
• 🎯 Work in Progress objective runs — some random portals can add bonus Extraction, Kill, or Observe goals for extra rewards, with availability depending on the zone, portal type, and time of day. Zone 1 portals are fully authored with balanced daytime objectives and a Void-hunt bias on night runs.
• 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

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, you can invest in automation tools and in the Portal Upgrade Bench to improve random keys, extend expedition time, and steer your runs toward the resources you want most. 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, use the command /slp generate to create your Skyblock world and teleport inside.

📝 Notes

• ⚠️ Early access release: expect bugs and breaking changes as Hytale updates.
• 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.