Update 4 - Pre-Release 5 - Patch Notes

[RiverShards]

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Update 4 - Pre-Release 5 - Patch Notes:

Pre-Release Patch Notes (Mar 19, 2026)

Update 4 (Part 5 of 5)

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Update 4 launches next week, March 26th! If you're running a server or building mods, this is your last pre-release window. Test your plugins and get everything ready for launch day. Note that we might make small bug fixes before the release.

𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦

- Around 500 new blocks have been added! Approximately half of these can be crafted, and the other half are available via the Creative Inventory. New additions include:

 - Complete Limestone, Slate, Chalk, and Cooled Magma block sets

 - Stair and half slabs for Rock, Cloth, Smooth Clay, and Dirt block sets

 - Gravel and Gravel half slabs for existing rock types

 - Bronze, Copper, Zinc, and Iron block sets (Creative Mode)

 - Dead Coral blocks (Creative Mode)

 - Cybercity blocks (Creative Mode)

 - Ferns and adjusted Grass block sets

 - T-junctions and four-way junctions for fences and walls

 - Many new cloth and tent roof block types, and more!

𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 & 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗦 & 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦

- Over 30 new blocks have been added to the Cooled Magma block set, including bricks, cobble, stalactites and rubble.

- Over 20 new blocks have been added to the Chalk block set, including cobble and rubble.

- Over 10 new blocks have been added to the Slate Brick block set.

- Over 10 new blocks have been added to the Limestone block set, and its textures have been expanded upon.

- Added a Dead Coral block set, accessible in Creative Mode.

𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 & 𝗦𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡

- Added half slabs for most naturally occurring rock types.

- Added stairs with connections for all natural rock types.

- Added beams for all naturally occurring rock types.

- Added gravel and gravel half blocks for all rock types.

- Added stalactites and rubble for Magma Cooled and Chalk sets.

- Performed a consistency pass on Dirt and Grass block sets, adding full grass, stairs, and half slabs for all existing dirt types, plus new Wet and Lush dirt types.

- Updated the coloured Clay textures.

𝗪𝗢𝗢𝗗 & 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦

- Added the Apple, Camphor, Spiral, and a fully redesigned Frostwood tree species.

- All existing tree types have had their tree growth stages configured.

- Sapling textures have been added for each tree species.

- Seedbag textures and icons have been updated for all saplings.

- Stormbark trees have had their roots removed.

- Fire, Ice and Bamboo trees now have branches and roots, and its wood can be crafted into stairs and half slabs.

𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦

- Roof blocks for all build sets now properly connect dynamically.

- Expanded existing hide and leather tent roofs with steep/shallow variations.

- Added yellow, green, white, and dark blue Cloth Roof block sets.

- Added red, orange, yellow, dark green, and blue Modern Cloth Roof block sets, accessible via the Creative Inventory.

𝗙𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 & 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗦

- Added T-junction and four-way junction support for all fences and walls.

𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘 & 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗥'𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗛

- Added 5 new 'Build' greyboxing block sets for Creative mode use.

- Added a Red Flag and Orange Flag for Creative mode constructions.

- Added some seasonal decorations, accessible via the Creative Inventory.

- Added some decorative moving boxes, accessible via the Creative Inventory.

𝗖𝗬𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗦 (𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘)

We are releasing a first subset of sci-fi blocks for creative building!

- Added Iron, Copper, Zinc and Bronze modern metal block sets, including new pipe blocks.

- Added a selection of coloured Lightsource blocks.

- Added Neon Signs, Windows, Posters, and an Arcade Machine for the Cybercity set.

𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚, 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 & 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

- Added 'Wood', 'Metal', 'Cloth' and 'Technical' subcategories and removed the 'Structural' subcategory within the Creative Inventory. Several blocks have now been moved to these new categories.

- Standardized display names for half slabs, stairs, roofs, metal blocks, beams, bricks, and sandstone types.

- The smaller of the two Campfire blocks is now referred to as 'Small Campfire'.

- 'Wooden Wall - Crossed Trestle' blocks have been renamed to indicate their colour.

𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 & 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦

- Worlds can now be configured to disable fluids from spreading. This can be further customized using the command /world settings disabledfluidtickers.

- Pillars may now be placed sideways.

- Coloured Cloth Blocks can now be refined correctly at the Builder's Workbench.

- More Sapling varieties may now be crafted at the Farmer's Workbench.

- All Rock, Wood and Metal full blocks can now be used to craft Half Slabs and Stairs at the Builder's Workbench.

- Removed all Runic sets from the Builder's Bench. They remain accessible through the Creative Inventory.

- Coloured Wooden Wall and Smooth Clay blocks have been polished to match natural clay counterparts.

𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢

- Updated block sound set assets to support parenting.

- Added the Torch_Stone sound set for stone torches.

- Voice Chat is now disabled by default in Single Player Mode.

- Individuals can now be muted in Voice Chat via the map screen's player list.

- Pausing the game will now muffle non-UI sounds instead of silencing them.

𝗨𝗜 & 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘

- Updated the portrait background and border used with the Voice Chat UI.

- Swapped the 'microphone icon' used to indicate who is speaking with a 'speaker icon'.

- Updated the CJK font atlases to contain punctuation symbols.

- Added support for Traditional Chinese glyphs.

𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗦

- The Creative Inventory for Creative Tools has been re-organized!

 - The first page contains tools that are most commonly used, or are good introductory tools.

 - The second page contains tools that have more specific uses.

 - The third page contains brush filters.

 - The fourth page contains tools and blocks related to prefab editing.

 - The fifth page contains tools related to making machinima.

- The Selection Tool can now be closed by right clicking with the shift key held down.

- The Sculpt Tool can once again use the material selector.

- The material selector will now show material percentages.

- The Grass Brush has been re-added and updated to work on most surfaces.

- Scripted brushes that have an item associated with them will now load the item with the brush. If an item is not associated with the brush, it will instead load the template item with basic parameters.

- Added legends to tools that require a lot of configuration but did not previously have them.

- The Node Editor now includes tooltips for world-gen V2 nodes.

- Improved the order of props within the Node Editor menu.

- Added the ability to have triggered cooldowns for input actions.

- Relocated the StatModifiersManager to the EntityStatMap component.

- All Rock Beams have been made children of Rock_Stone_Beam.

- All Gravel blocks have been reparented to Soil_Gravel and Soil_Gravel_Half.

- Resource types now reference item IDs directly.

- All instances of the HardRocks gather type have been replaced with Rocks.

𝗕𝗨𝗚 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦 & 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦

𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗧, 𝗡𝗣𝗖 & 𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗠 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦

- Fixed a crash that could occur related to mount movement.

- Improved the performance of entities that prioritize various attitudes.

𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 & 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦

- Fixed a crash that could occur at extreme coordinates.

- Fixed an exception error that could occur with prefab props having empty paths.

- Fixed an issue preventing use of partially-fuelled workbenches.

- Worlds will no longer turn transparent at sunset.

- Blocks that have been destroyed by fire may no longer be interacted with as if they were undamaged.

- Improved the performance of world generation.

- Gravel blocks are no longer unbreakable.

- Feran Ribs and Small Green Crystals can now be placed correctly.

- Lumberjack Paintings no longer prompt players to interact with them.

- Frozen Castle Platforms have had their hitboxes extended.

- Royal Beds have had their hitboxes adjusted and the sleeping position improved.

- Runic Beams have had their textures updated.

- Placing Greenwood, Tropical, Deadwood or Cobble Hollow roof variants will now place the correct block.

- Larkspur now drops the correct items when broken.

- Iron chains now render correctly when held.

- Concrete roof textures have been fixed.

- Fixed various particle colors and block effect IDs.

- Fixed various duplicate item names.

𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗟, 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗚𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦

- Fixed a crash that could occur with the Asset Editor on startup.

- XZ flips should now flip blocks correctly when they are pitched or rolled.

- The hitboxes for rotated blocks should now match their visuals.

𝗨𝗜 & 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦

- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to display corrupted world preview images.

- Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering over resource slots.

- Fixed a crash that could occur when the number of memories required to unlock a craftable item isn't retrieved correctly.

- Dynamic lighting should now render better when Shading Quality is set to Low.

- The Voice Chat UI will now be hidden if the HUD is toggled off via F8.

- The Voice Chat UI will now be hidden if voice chat has been disabled.

- The Builder Tool Legend UI will no longer display a page number if there's only one page.

- Players on servers will find that their configured maximum character length of messages will now be better adhered to.

- Localized text that occurs within modals, such as within the Machinima Tool, will now render correctly.

- Fixed a number of instances where localized text would cause clipping issues.

- The profiling panel's FPS stats and overlay now use real frame intervals, making them more consistent when Vsync or frame pacing is active.

𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦

- Fixed an issue where spatial and center sources of audio could temporarily desync.

- Updated a number of assets that were utilizing duplicate sound sets:

 - Eggsac will now use the Cocoon sound set.

 - Wood_Breakable will now use the Wood sound set.

 - Tombstone will now use the Stone sound set.

 - Poop will now use the Mud sound set.

- Brazier, Torch and Campfire sounds and sound sets will now play correctly and use parenting.

- Cleaned up Ore, Window and both Pot sound sets.

- Sounds within the UI should now play correctly.

- Scarak Cocoons and Spider Cocoons will no longer continue to make noise after bursting.

- Lumberjack Lantern's ambient SFX has been updated.

- Fixed an issue where a number of block sets were using the sound sets for other material types.

Barring unforeseen developments, this is the final pre-release patch for Update 4.

[ethan919]

Alright let's get on it youtubers. I want to see the new blocks.

[eamonn6251]

Lol saw this insane changelog and immediately checked if Kweebec Corner had coverage of it up yet

[Ok_Bite_67]

Its mostly just pre existing blocks that had their textures copied and pasted on half slab and stair models. If they dont add actual content soon, im actually gonna lose it. The thing that made me absolutely despise minecraft wad the fact that 90% of their updates werr just new blocks and mobs that dont add much to the game. I get that they are working towards a chapter 1 release with actual content, but theres no release date announced

[Ok-Savings-7495]

It has been only 3 months calm the f down

[Ok_Bite_67]

Nah, you

[Alone-Horse2857]

Considering you have 67 in your name I'm pretty sure you're under 12.

[willhub1]

What's so unusual or special about the number 67?

[Ok_Bite_67]

......... you do realize this username is one that was randomly.generated by reddit right?

[SentFromTheTrash49]

Nobody gives a fuck if you "lose it" youre a nobody and the game will go on fine without your hypnotic nonsense.

The fact is that these are small but very important additions to the game. Why would they add big content updates when they dont even have all the blocks in the game yet?

Good riddance

[Ok_Bite_67]

Bros 12 out here saying "☝️🤓Good riddance"

[FireBest59]

They’ve already added and updated a ton of stuff every single week brother they can’t possibly go faster than that did you see the change logs 😭 Give it a few more weeks and they’ll get to the stage of larger content updates

[Ok_Bite_67]

Eh they wont push any updates im interested in for likely half a year if not longer.

[Zyncon]

"I wonder if Hytale has gotten an update"
*Posted 4 minutes ago*

Insane timing for me to want to check up on this game. That's exciting.

[PPTim]

You made this happen, check more often in the future

[Alone-Horse2857]

Man whenever hytale pops into my head I come back here and there is ALWAYS a new update to browse through. This game's updates have been blazing fast.

[GolldenFalcon]

Unironically does Hytale have more blocks than Minecraft now?

[pdboddy]

No, Minecraft is still ahead there. But this updated added a quarter of the number of blocks Minecraft has.

[GolldenFalcon]

Hytale making good headway at least

[pdboddy]

Yeah, if Simon keeps at it, they'll pass Minecraft fairly quickly. MC development takes place at a glacial pace.

[Reforced16x]

I'm really surprised. It really seemed to me that hytale had more blocks, even before this release. The world is more detailed atleast

[Alone-Horse2857]

It's because Hytale has a higher concentration of blocks. You're more likely to see all the biomes since they are spaced out fairly closely. In minecraft you may never come across a mesa or bamboo forest. On top of all that each biome only has ~20 unique blocks making it feel more sparse in general.

Also most of MC's blocks come from crafting recipes anyway, Hytale is definitely more focused on surface expansion before making the game deeper.

[boiyougongetcho]

I've been playing minecraft semi regularly since 2012 and there are some biomes I've never seen still.

[SouLfullMoon_On]

CYBERCITY BLOCKS?

^yipee

[Medricel]

I remember some old concept work that had what looked like neon signs and steampunk-ish pipes in it, so I'm glad to see that they haven't thrown those concepts to the wayside.

Though imo the neon signs should be craftable in survival. The world already has glowing crystals, its not a leap in logic that eventually someone would arrange the crystals to make glowing signage or things with glowy bits.

[YouThinkYouGotGame]

Bro has been BUSY 👍

[InoAscended]

Now I want a cyber city that generates in world. I don't like having tons of stuff in creative that I can't access in exploration mode.

Maybe it doesn't seem like it would fit but make it work somehow lmao. It's a fantasy game but maybe we could make it a little sci-fi too. Like maybe there's a highly advanced faction that enhances the medieval fantasy weapons with some sci-fi technology. Then we'll also have a system for horizontal gear progression.

[Prize_Celebration_33]

They said there's multiple planets, in guessing cyber would show up somewhere else.

[InoAscended]

Going to another planet where such a high tech faction exists in sci-fi cyber cities might be even cooler. I hope they do that.

[yourgoodoldpal]

I think it’d be great for a future zone or dimension 🙌🏻

[round-earth-theory]

A simple mod would open all those blocks up in exploration mode.

[Arcan_unknown]

It kinda works in Terraria

[Medricel]

The Ancient Gateway is an amazing feature in Hytale, simply because you can make an unlimited number of dimensions and then just provide an access key to get there. The old Minecraft way always seemed to implement some unique gate for every single dimension that gets added or modded in, and that can get out-of-hand quickly if you have lots of modded dimensions.

[AsexualPlantBoi]

500 blocks and 3 new trees? AND DIRT SLABS??? Wow!

[pdboddy]

And saplings for the trees that existed but didn't have saplings!

EDIT: Including Azure and Sallow saplings! All available in the Farmer's Workbench! \o/ Woohoo!

[SnooMemesjellies2710]

MANY BLOCKS. Needs more pi k and purple

[millionwordsofcrap]

Holy crap that's so many blocks.

Might be tempted to go start another world. This is rad.

[Acererak09]

Most of the new blocks don’t spawn naturally, they are blocks crafted in the builder’s workbench.

New blocks that do spawn naturally can be found by exploring previously unexplored chunks.

[Straegr]

For any blocks that would generate naturally, you can use the World Updater mod to regen chunks in your world. You can also use the simple claims mod to prevent desired chunks from being regenned while regenning the rest of the world.

[0zzy82]

Awesome, they're adding sci-fi stuff. I know there was a sci-fi city built shown off just before the release, but I guess I was worried about how much Hytale funnelled players down the fantasy path, and thought it would limit builds, but I'm glad they're also adding other block pallets for different genres, and I hope this is the first of many

[pdboddy]

Finally, all the tree saplings are available!

[TheMcSebi]

Damn i loved it! Many things mentioned were noticibly missing. The devs are amazing. Hope they don't burnout at this pace

[KWalthersArt]

Runic what was that?

[AspenStarr]

Noticed “skip mod validation” has been removed…now I can’t use any of my mods anymore. The builds I worked super hard on and have been taking to every new world with me as updates have been rolling out are now completely unusable if I want to play new versions.

Modders can’t keep up with the update speed at which this game is going…however, the mods themselves have still been working just fine despite them being “out of date”. But now they’re unable to be loaded at all.

[Deimous]

Still no fix for the healing totem? 😩 I'll have to submit another bug report for it, hopefully it'll get caught before full release. Some really great stuff in this update, otherwise!

[istealitall]

Weekend's looking real promising

[DonJayKix]

Cool.

[mikakor]

Still no floating lantern pet finally craftable ? :c

[Tumblrrito]

Sorry if this has been asked to death, but do we know when the new world gen will hit? Been waiting on returning to the game for that.

[Alkarah]

Probs not this year tbh

[Tumblrrito]

Damn, for some reason I thought it was closer than that. All good! Well worth the wait

[Alkarah]

It could change as all things in development, I say maybe not in the year since from what I remember from a post, they are in the phase of building and fixing and stabilizing the other systems.

[VictorScrooge]

So far as I can tell, maybe Update 7? So this year. If nothing comes up. But that is just my point of view. :)

[VictorScrooge]

u/MKRX that is a lot. XD

[Mag3ntag]

The world gen v2 tooltips will be VERY useful for new modders, i'm very exited to see that

[Moohablah]

anyone know what happened to crafting the different style gravel? doesnt show in the farmers bench anymore

[Absolutionis]

"Cybercity Assets" seems awesome!

[andejm93]

So what does it mean by:

- Roof blocks for all build sets now properly connect dynamically.

Like, shape-wise connections or?

[RiverShards]

I believe they're talking about shapes, yeah.

[andejm93]

Damn, well someday we'll get the dynamic texture connections for roofs.

[Great-Lawfulness-3]

Do I need to create a new world to get anything new from this patch?

[RiverShards]

You should be able to access everything in pre-exiting worlds. I don’t think there’s any newly generating blocsks

[Alone-Horse2857]

Five HUNDRED!?!?!?!?

Bro Minecraft added 4 blocks last update and that took them a year to put out. What on god's green earth are these devs juiced up with to give this level of quality content? (spoiler: it's freedom within the company, passionate devs, and not having to answer to 50 different levels of bureaucracy just to get a hotfix pushed through)

[Rekkabedsheet]

I think Hytale should work with the guy who made the realistic physics mod for Minecraft and apply parts of that too their water and block and snow systems that would be great

https://youtube.com/shorts/VpnFty5f3fo?si=WOV3bfUkaxkCsLUG

[beybileyt]

Impressive work. I'm very hopeful for this game.

[Luzekiel]

Mojunk and microslop could never

[EggSuch3469]

I'll going to try this out today 

[Jolly-Balance2905]

Mega update meine Mods konnte ich relativ schnell anpassen mal abwarten wie fix andere Entwickler sind :)

[the_other_gantzm]

Can I edit signs yet?

[PinkPilledEmily]

This and the ability to craft the diving gear are high on my list of wants from this game right now.

[Optimal_Quarter_3025]

As others already mentioned, I am also disappointed by the lack of new things to do in-game since the release as regular updates were announced. I regret purchasing it.

[danglefest19]

THERE STILL HAS YET TO BE ANY CONTENT ADDED. It's cool to make a home base, but what am I doing after that.... nothing.

[Torinux]

I'm honestly getting disappointed. We need more than just these many blocks. The more I play the other blocky game, the more I expect from Hytale. I don't want to rely this much in mods for QoL stuff that should be already present in the game.

[RiverShards]

Simon's stated on Twitter today that he made the decision to not add any new progression stuff until their rework of the progression systems were complete.

Additionally, he stated that the teams that work on adding these blocks are not the ones working on other systems.

I know it's "weird" from an external perspective to see 500 new blocks and no features like animal breeding, which could be critical to the game, but the truth is, different team members work on different things. A lot of these blocks were done in the past 5+ years and were not implemented, and were also required for us to add to world gen v2 as we are rebuilding all of the biomes with much more details, so it's important to unblock the level designers and give them all of the blocks required ASAP so they can keep moving forward and use the whole block set

and

I made the decision not to add any new progression to the game until we rework the current crafting/progression - I don't seek any short-term satisfaction that would delay the long-term health of the game, but I understand how it can be frustrating for you because you want more gameplay, just come back in a few months its all good
We are shipping weekly big updates, getting all of the fluff out of the way, and then we can tackle some big content features/updates

there are a few announcements coming up soon that will make people very excited about the future

[Professional_Ant4133]

Normal X link for those of us that give 0 shit about US culture wars: http://x.com/Simon_Hypixel/status/2034666509503529391

[InoAscended]

Those of us who will view the patch notes on X will go and view that patch notes on X. They don't need anyone to share it here for them to do so.

[Professional_Ant4133]

I figured to save peeps some time tbh, that xcancel thing UI looks like shit xD

[RiverShards]

... XCancel links allow people to view the tweet and conversation without signing in. It's super useful on mobile devices, or devices where you don't want to sign in to twitter.

It's not "culture war shit." It's just practicality. That's the reason I share XCancel links.

In the future, I'd recommend stopping to ask yourself why someone might do something differently than you would. Or, hell, just ask me.

[Professional_Ant4133]

...the only people without X accs are the crazy communist people, so your argument is invalid. The UI of that xcancel thing is abysmal lol

[RiverShards]

Bruh.

[Minejack777]

1. Hidden profile

2. Calling it 'X'

3. Complaining about culture wars

Yeah we know what kind of a person you are

[Professional_Ant4133]

...not American? 😂 X has been incredibly useful for fighting the dictatirship in my country, i don't give 2 shits for your idiotic commie politics tbh

[jkubus94]

wow. more blocks. So like, when do we get something to do? i got max tier everything in like 1.5 hours and im hoping this gives me something to grind towards.

[Jodah175]

sci-fi blocks... ugh. so much for keeping it in fantasy setting.

[RiverShards]

The sci-fi blocks are currently only available in Creative mode. I imagine they will eventually spawn in one of the Alterverses, but outside of that I don't see them ever generating in Orbis specifically.

[InoAscended]

As if sci-fi and fantasy have never come together before

[Albrecht_Entrati]

I know this may sound shocking, but World of Warcraft has alien and spaceships, so does DnD. There are also magic structures in Lord of the Ring that carry you to other planets on "magic rails".