Knowledge Base

Guides and references for game modding.

hytale·2026-03-31

Hytale Entity Effects: Buffs, Debuffs, and Damage-Over-Time

A deep dive into Hytale's entity effect system covering data-driven effect definitions, overlap and removal behaviors, periodic damage with cooldowns, stat modifiers, model changes, invulnerability, and the ECS EffectController pipeline.

hytale·2026-03-31

Hytale Flock System: Group AI Coordination and Pack Behavior

A deep dive into Hytale's flock system covering group formation, leader election, flocking steering behaviors, shared damage tracking, and data-driven flock configuration.

hytale·2026-03-31

Hytale Inventory System: Containers, Slot Filters, and Transactions

A deep dive into Hytale's inventory architecture covering ItemContainers, slot filters, transactional item operations, the six inventory sections, and the ECS-driven change event pipeline.

hytale·2026-03-30

Hytale Mob Spawning System: Beacons, Markers, and Spawn Suppression

A deep dive into Hytale's data-driven mob spawning architecture covering world spawns, spawn beacons, spawn markers, spawn suppression, and the SpawningContext validation pipeline.

hytale·2026-03-26

Hytale NPC and AI System: Roles, Sensors, and Actions

How Hytale's NPC behavior system works — roles define archetypes, sensors detect conditions, actions execute behavior, and blackboards provide shared memory.

hytale·2026-03-26

Hytale Server Plugin API: Events, Commands, and Permissions

A technical reference for the Hytale server plugin API covering the plugin lifecycle, EventBus system, command registration, and permission management.

hytale·2026-03-26

Hytale World Generation: WorldGenModifier Hooks and Data-Driven Content

A guide to Hytale's data-driven world generation system — 10 WorldGenModifier hooks for biomes and caves, plus JSON codec-based content definitions for blocks, items, and recipes.

minecraft·2025-03-01

How to Add a New Item to Minecraft Without Coding

Design weapons, tools, and utility items with Creator Hub, then generate server and client builds with AI.

minecraft·2025-03-01

How to Create a Minecraft Mod with AI

Go from idea to a working mod by describing what you want in plain English, generating a build, testing it, then iterating until it plays exactly right.

minecraft·2025-03-01

How to Troubleshoot and Fix a Minecraft Mod

A step-by-step checklist for diagnosing and fixing common Minecraft mod and plugin issues.

minecraft·2025-03-01

Good Prompts vs Bad Prompts

Learn how to write effective AI prompts for Minecraft mods. See real examples of vague prompts transformed into specific, actionable ones that get better results.