The State of Hytale in 2023…

The hightail trailer just hit 60 million views but the game has come a long way since 2018 so I want to update you all on where it’s at now and the current state of hightail because even though many people on Reddit and in my comment section think the game is dead or even

Fake developer Hypixel Studios have actually been much more communicative recently opening up on Twitter and even appearing in several interviews the CEO Sean McCafferty on the channel willcast being asked about a release date and budokat discussing the development and life of the team along with revealing A New Concept image during the thankless

Charity event last December this will likely just continue to happen more often now as we approach 2024 and push closer to the launch recently there was an actual leak from a hightail employee on Twitter and this is some pretty big news confirming a feature of the game

That players have long suspected we see a poster along with stickers as well as a hightail postcard that I and others received for Christmas the poster for hightail World terminology however is the big point of Interest here it seems almost impossible to read but luckily our community is incredible and user

Will chill created a less warped transcribed version which user El Nido skerrick also redesigned as a graphic I’ve gone ahead and overlaid the English translations and linked the original post below for you to see for yourselves prepare for some technical terms but I will try to simplify firstly we see that

All things within hightail exist within the universe the universe is made up of a collection of all hightail worlds known to the client and Game Server each of these worlds contains its very own playable area which is fully explorable without the need to transition through portals a world is then divided into

Chunks one chunk being a single area of 32 by 32 by 32 voxels all those chunks combine to form a kind of 3D space called the chunk grid chunks are also not just stacked sideways in the Z and x-axis of the grid but also upwards in the y-axis creating columns this is very

Unlike Minecraft’s chunks which are 16 by 16 horizontally and actually make up the entire world height on the y-axis hightails columns however can each be divided into individual chunks we know this better in the community as cubic chunks and the way that they stack allows for much better load times

Enabling World height to be increased significantly in fact based on some observations we made way back in an older video I actually theorized that this could be the case chunks are then further split up into voxels or blocks these are single cells that all form a voxel grid however the appearance of the

Voxel is not necessarily constrained to the area of the cell for example a voxel could either be a cube which fills the entire voxel for example dirt or stone stairs which are similar but with a quarter cut out a slab which is obviously half of a voxel and other is

Likely any block considered not to fall under the other categories such as fences and roof blocks for instance as mentioned all of these voxels come together on a voxel grid which assigns integers in all three coordinate directions the position of each block in the world similar to Minecraft but

Slightly different that’s massive news for us in terms of tech but speaking of how is all of that stuff going for anyone who still isn’t aware I’ll say it now hightail will be coming to console and Mobile in fact the major issue people have had with the team the big

Point of contention in the last year has been in relation to their Redevelopment efforts rebuilding in order to support these additional platforms when we last left them the team had undertaken far-reaching technical investigations as they evolved the vision for hightail this was in order to ensure that the

Game lasts for a long time and the community remains healthy in the years to come no longer are jobs listed for Java and c-sharp coding languages instead opting to redevelop the engine’s client and server in C plus plus in order to efficiently release across multiple platforms both console and

Mobile without dividing the community this also allows them to produce higher performance and make the game far easier to patch and update after release this may not seem like a big deal to some but obviously Minecraft community members and mod makers alike who are more in the

Other languages may be a bit concerned the team however ensures us that this is the right choice remember that the goal for hightail is essentially to be easy to play anywhere with anyone mods that work for all devices Etc and for those who say why bother consider this the

Original engine that they were working on was developed far earlier way before much of the hype and resources the team had come to know they realized this and took the hit now delaying the game further in order to avoid huge delays with future updates a split player base

And scaling issues once the game releases they’re trying to avoid what happened with Minecraft Bedrock Edition in a world filled with crunch Nova working we really should be thankful that the team have the time that they need and the stakeholders are patient many games that you know today for being

Disasters on launch suffered due to the exact opposite they realized their issues but had no time to do anything about them it has of course been a lot of work but necessary work to ensure that the launch is as accessible and as unified as possible now with all that

Said plenty of talented developers and creatives have been hired in the last year with new job rules appearing more and more hinting at player research and expanding on hightail Beyond launch the player Insight Position will be identifying player needs and researching player Behavior whereas the hightail online producer will leverage player

Data and market research the point is that they’re not just hiring for a small time gig to be a part of the team now is a commitment and they want people who are devoted in for the Long Haul what gives me even more hope that something is coming soon potentially significant

Reveals footage or even a new trailer is that Hypixel appeared at the global Riot conference this is an event for teams to Showcase upcoming games and projects Riot games of course acquired the studio back in 2020 and have been funding development ever since with that being the case the team were invited to

Showcase some of their plans for hightail and its future along with all the other Studios that are under the riot games umbrella at least one can assume because this was clearly a meaningful and big event for the team too as they even marked it for their

Annual company coin of 2022. I mean who knows what they would have shown but if I was presenting to a huge room of all my colleagues and peers I’d want to make sure I impressed them in that instance however they may have shown a lot like a

Lot a lot revealed things that they may want to hold back from the public until much later either way we know now that the team’s vision for the game isn’t just wishy-washy there’s no backstepping or rebuilding at this point they’ve done that a number of times now they have

Stated that it has gone well and that they’re well on their way in terms of progress now showcasing to the greater Riot ecosystem there are now three official doorways that are set in stone for how you can experience hightail number one is creative where you can create custom procedurally generated

Worlds experiencing them as an adventurer Creator or quote something in between here you can install mods or use the wide range of blocks and styles to change the look and feel of the game this is where Builders World designers coders musicians modelers and animators can truly reign supreme working and

Collaborating at entry level all the way up to Pro to create their own unique experiences the second doorway is social the game’s first party online component this is kind of like hypixel’s Minecraft server social play and mini games for you to experience with friends you can show off achievements and compete we’ve

Seen this server multiple times over the years and it will likely include many mini games made Popular by Hypixel themselves and number three the campaign or official RPG experience the orbis adventure this is where you are tasked with saving a specific World in Peril by uncovering its Secrets while creative

Allows players to generate custom worlds orbis is a specifically curated experience crafted carefully to add more Challenge and story for players to follow it still randomizes a lot of the things in the world however in order to create a diverse and interesting range of experiences for every player these

Three doorways are not going to be separate though the team have ensured that during Redevelopment that they’ve United them you will see your adventure achievement throughout social be able to bring friends from social into your Adventure World and even display creative builds in Social servers connecting to this we’ve finally

Provided some law mixed with an explainer for our character what you play and control in hightail is actually a powerful creative being known as an avatar no not that one no not that one yes these ones that you’ve seen everywhere on the website they focus raw energy in order to shape worlds that

Express themselves each of the three doorways reflect a different aspect of the Avatar’s lives in fact where they are actually dictates how strong their power is a nice narrative way of explaining how players are in most control when they create their own world power is Unbound and customization

Options are not limited they can fly around and be a God or set boundaries for themselves if they wish shared social environments like the Hypixel server will moderate player power however in an effort to help them all play new experiences equally when avatars visit each other’s worlds they

Only have the power their Grant by the host or owner who may Grant players differing levels of permissions if they choose and we’re told that for Adventures specifically orbis is a world which has mysteriously lost its Avatar the person we’ve come to know as Gaia unfortunately it seems Gaia left all her

Perms turned off so we’re basically level one powerless noobs here subject to Mortal limitations here we have to develop practical and survival skills to survive establish our presence and uncover the world’s many Secrets it’s great to look back at all our old theories of who Gaia was and what was

Happening to Orbitz at the time I’m happy that they’ve included this tidbit as a way of explaining in universe who we are and how that connects across all game modes congratulations again to the team for officially hitting 60 million views we’ve been waiting on this one a

While and that’s officially it in terms of hightails so far I’ll continue to cover news here so consider subscribing continue smiling and thanks as always for watching Quebec Corner stay safe and keep free