FEATURES & HEADLINE UPDATES

Around 500 new blocks have been added! About 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!

How fun would this game be for a former FTB player?

I really love the nutty magic/mechanical systems of modded MC.

This is the culmination of the past 5 pre-release updates. I can't post the whole notes here because they're way too big!

Proximity voice chat is fantastic, fences and walls finally connect, and 500+ blocks were added. I really could have used the new chalk blocks when I started building for the first time.

I'd say you'll like it if you enjoy Minecraft in general. That said, the game is currently in alpha and is still lacking in a lot of areas - and there aren't any big automation/industrial mods yet compared to MC. If you're looking for a more polished Minecraft with better combat and creative tools though, this is it.

How about multiplayer?

My big issue with modded MC is that it doesn’t feel “social.” Servers are just too small, sparse, and performance bottlenecked.

Either way I will be keeping an eye on Hytale, I suppose. I don’t necessarily want something as fleshed out as MC (as I quite enjoyed it in Beta), but I will probably wait until the more “techy” mods start popping up.

My big issue with modded MC is that it doesn’t feel “social.” Servers are just too small, sparse, and performance bottlenecked.

Really? MC has huge servers and communities - it's one of the most popular games of all time. There are definitely a lot of huge social servers in MC you might like.

Hytale has a much smaller playerbase (at least so far), so you're not likely to find that many big servers.

A Create like automation system in hytale would be absolutely insane

Only vanilla client ones. Packs with client-side mods (like major tech mods) tend to be either “tiny server” feeling, or commercial/scummy.

I’ve been on exactly one modded server, many years ago (1.6.4/1.7.10 era) that felt intimate yet “big.” I’d get tons of foot traffic from new player by my base, and set up a workshop to help them. I’d chat with the server without feeling too intimate like a group of the same dozen people.

Never found anything similar since.

Gotta wait a few days so that all my mods will (hopefully) update! =)

Oh, yeah, the modding community is way too fractured for there to be bigger tech servers, especially when modpacks just run really poorly on servers. Hytale is actually avoiding this by having all mods be server-side, meaning you can easily just join modded servers without having to juggle different clients. It's one of the best things about the game.

Yup! I'm a bit scared to open my main world as I have 30-something mods and am worried something will go terribly wrong...

Oh, that’s awesome! That’s always been an huge limitation for MC.

And look at this: https://www.curseforge.com/hytale/mods/conveyor-belts

All that is server side? Okay, I’m definitely interested now.

Very nice, I was holding off of playing for a little bit while some more updates dropped! Can't wait to generate a brand new world and get re-established in the game. Thankfully, since I don't use mods in an rapidly updating early access game...I can jump in freely at any time.

I have to get Hytale, seems like fun.