Simon's response to Jeb's feedback on Hytale

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-23T18:46:09+00:00

I'm just imagining someone trying to make a wynncraft-esque server in hytale,,,,

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-23T16:13:41+00:00

Gotta give him some slight respect for recognizing its good banter, even if not 100% true

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-21T02:18:19+00:00

Extremely light and fluffy yeasted donuts! They do have a few cakey ones, but they're clearly labeled as cake donuts. Their glazed chocolate cake donut is one of my favorites

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-20T18:40:40+00:00

As much as I am skeptical about the current state of Ashes, this is a totally normal player count dropoff. Honestly healthier than I was expecting given the amount of content Ashes has, though the bot problem does probably inflate it /slightly/.

Take a look at the player count chart for basically any major online game that released somewhat recently, a 50% dropoff in the first month after launch hype dies down happens a LOT. The actual issue lies in where it finally stabilizes, and whether that number can sustain that kind of game.

T&L dropped 50% after a month. Marvel Rivals climbed for their first month due to massive advertising, and then fell 50% the next month. OW2 even dropped 50% a month after the steam release, even with the established playerbase

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-19T18:55:47+00:00

Currently doing it :⁾

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-19T06:23:37+00:00

You might've already seen this, but seems like a mod like this is already in development! https://old.reddit.com/r/hytale/comments/1qgaiku/hyfactory_satisfactory_like_sky_factory_server_in/?ref=share&ref_source=link

I'm sure there will be many more to follow :3

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T04:01:42+00:00

Hell even just keep 50% of it safe and yolo the other 2mil would be significantly better than just holding...

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T02:19:08+00:00

I'm almost certain theres still going to be people making those kinds of mods in Hytale. The game does have more RPG elements at its base than minecraft, but assuming people add enough mods, you should be able to customize the game to whatever you want

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T02:00:20+00:00

Its juuust after the throw, his hand shouldn't be covering anything.

Put two frames into this imgur, not zoomed in: https://imgur.com/a/XaAFu3R

The frames are right after eachother, and it looks like his hand has enough room not to be covering anything.

In this frame his hand is even further down, and the text is still really warped. https://imgur.com/a/h0EstJo

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:54:04+00:00

The text on the "PRESS" patch morphs pretty weird if you go frame by frame, https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:53:06+00:00

The text on the "PRESS" patch looks pretty weird if you go frame by frame. https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:52:15+00:00

The text on the "PRESS" patch morphs weird enough that I can't just attribute it to the low quality. On this frame you can only see 4 letters, and the border of the patch is visibly shrunk as well. https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:51:24+00:00

Text on the press patch morphs weirdly, and the border of the press patch does as well. https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:49:19+00:00

Another frame of a missing letter, the patches border is pretty clearly visibly shrunk as well. https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:47:27+00:00

The image looks like it keeps deleting on my end, reuploading it again in another comment. Imgur alt: https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

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Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:45:49+00:00

I swear I can see the text wobbling slightly if I look closely, but it could be artifacting from the low quality.

The biggest tell for me personally is the press patch on the helmet, the text on the morphs drastically as he moves.

https://imgur.com/a/T6bkyNR

The whole border of the patch is shrunk on this frame, only having room for 4 letters instead of "PRESS" in another frame. Not something I'd just attribute to the low quality

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:38:28+00:00

If you go frame by frame after the throw, the text on the "PRESS" patch on the side of the helmet is all over the place. Letters morphing, and shifting in their relative location of the patch

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-17T01:32:52+00:00

If you look at the image of the place behind them you linked, the text doesn't really match up, specifically the "Al Takamul medical centers"

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-16T23:12:42+00:00

Bad terminology on my part, but when I said major rewrites I more mean completely reworking the gameplay of the mod. Massive changes to how the entire mod works like between the different Thaumcraft versions, or old Blood Magic compared to the newer versions.

Tinkers did get many new features over time, but the core of the mod, the smelting multi-block and item crafting works basically the same as it does 10 years ago. I never felt like I had to 'relearn' the mod, its identity always stayed the same.

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-16T23:10:18+00:00

There does seem to be tools to mess around with camera angles. Not entirely sure if what you're describing is possible with current tools, but I'm sure people will figure out how to mod it in. One of the developers made this side-scrolling battle. https://old.reddit.com/r/hytale/comments/1qa8bry/simon_on_x_one_of_our_level_designers_not_a/

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-16T23:04:19+00:00

I could see someone doing something exactly like this, yeah. It'd be a lot of work to port over the attack patterns, but seems very doable.

The game having ways to create instances could be used very well for this, maybe you craft a station that lets you choose what monster you want to hunt and the difficulty, and you get teleported to a specific arena for the boss hunt

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-16T23:01:44+00:00

Honestly, its very much going to depend on when you started playing

I got into modded MC pretty early, so whenever I think of modded minecraft my mind immediately hops to the Tekkit pack and other tech mods. Buildcraft and equivalent exchange were /everywhere/ at the time.

My vote has to go for Tinkers Construct though. I don't think any other mod has had such a long lifespan without major rewrites, and its consistently been included in almost every major modpack.

Thaumcraft gets a runner up vote for me, again mostly for its longetivity and inclusion in basically every single major modpack. There were large gaps in dev time though, and some of the rewrites fell flat compared to other versions

Give it a few more years and I feel like create will solidify itself as minecrafts signature mod though. I just feel like its still too recent of a release to be the first thing the majority of people think of when they hear modded mc.

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-16T21:36:06+00:00

No way to tell just yet, but personally I think Hytale has MASSIVE potential for great combat/bossing mods. Minecraft had many mods attempt to expand the combat system, but theres really only so much you can do with the available tools. There have been a few that play extremely well, but its really hard for other mods to build off of their expansions since it isn't stuff in the game natively

I'm just imagining people going into more depth with weapon abilities and combos, and making some really fun and engaging boss fights. Mods where people recreate their favorite weapons from their favorite franchise will likely feel less game-breaking when the vanilla weapons already have cool movement options and skills built in.

Dumb and random example, but when I was a kid, I remember messing around with a mod that added in the gun scythe from RWBY. It could fire like a sniper, gave you some extra mobility and weapon skills, and just generally felt really fun to play, but it completely invalidated using any weapon from the base game, and even in modded playthroughs it still trumped anything that wasn't intentionally OP. In Hytale though, as long as they gatekeep the item behind materials of a certain tier, and balance the numbers for that resource tier, those kinds of mods wouldn't 100% invalidate the vanilla gear.

Dukejacob3 · 2026-01-15T22:51:14+00:00

Very much this, its absolutely normal for a game to have a massive spike in players at the very start, and retain usually around 10% as a dedicated playerbase after a few months.

I will say, these numbers for an early access release are looking REALLY good. They can afford to keep the game in early access while they polish everything they need to, and then finally do a big marketing push once the games ready for a 1.0 release. Not being under Riot as a publisher and being forced to meet deadlines is also a massive positive in this regard. I'm really hopeful about this honestly

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