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Feedback is important because Hytale is indeed a work in progress. As you play the game, you’ll find signs reading “WIP” throughout. These are in areas that have yet to be updated and added fully into the game, but it continues to take shape. On January 17, 2026 — a mere four days after release, Hytale got its first update, and it’s not minor. Sure, it fixes some bugs here and there, but it also rolls out plenty of new content to keep players busy as they explore the game’s expanding zones, and there’s much to see.
Hytale Is Moving Along … With Dinosaurs!
The most significant addition to the game is dinosaurs and some NPCs, which now populate inside the underground jungles. These are large areas that you may have already found. If so, the patch only adds new content to ungenerated biomes, so you’ll need to do some more exploration to find them. Once you do, you’ll come across a variety of dinosaurs, though they only have what the devs are calling “placeholder behaviors,” so they’ll change eventually. There were other updates to existing NPCs and creatures to bring them closer to how the game should eventually be when it’s complete.
These include stopping fire-themed mobs from taking fire-based damage, skeletons no longer taking drowning damage, and more. Foxes, which are timid animals in the real world, will no longer attack the player and instead run away. They’ll fight you if you attack them, but this minor change brings these creatures closer to what you’d expect to find. In addition to new mobs, there have been several tweaks to crafting, including rebalancing the costs of several items. These include reducing the cost of the backpack and its upgrades, which previously required twice as much leather as they do now.
