v1.3.1 — Into the Dark

The tunnels were always there. Now the ground opens to let you in — and the dark rewards the descent.

🕳️ Caves you can actually find

The cave layer was sealed deep underground with no entrance. Now sinkhole shafts open through the ground in every land zone, and the low gorges and hollows expose caves at their floors — you stumble into the dark instead of mining blindly. Tunnels and caverns are wider, too.

🟢 The caves, brought to life

v1.2.0 carved depth-gated tunnels but left them empty and black. This fills them:

• Blight ore nodes — glowing green Blight Nodes now seam the dry cave floors of every land zone, a far richer Void Essence source than the rare surface nodes. The real economy is now underground.
• Blight crystals — glowing crystal clusters light and decorate the tunnels, so caving is navigable and atmospheric instead of pitch-black and barren.
• Cave ambience — a deep underground drone fades in below the light line, layered beneath each zone's surface soundscape.

💀 Respawn fixed

Dying inside the realm now returns you to the safe arrival pad — not a fixed point that could drop you for fall damage or, in the tall zones, leave you stuck in stone. The respawn point follows the adaptive pad wherever your entry opened.

📦 Install corrected — please re-download

The Blighted Grove is two pieces: a Blighted Grove asset folder and a Blighted Grove Travel plugin jar. This download is now laid out so both land in your Mods folder correctly. The previous package bundled them into one jar, which could make the realm generate as an empty flat world. If you ever saw an empty/flat realm, this release fixes it.

Install: extract the zip, then copy BOTH the BlightedGrove folder AND BlightedGroveTravel.jar into %APPDATA%\Hytale\UserData\Mods\, and tick both on for your world. Full steps are in the included INSTALL - READ ME FIRST.txt. Do not drop the .zip itself into Mods.

⚠️ Breaking changes

• World wipe required — the worldgen changes regenerate the Blighted Grove from scratch. Anything built inside the old realm is lost on first entry after updating.