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How to set up a Hytale server

A Hytale server needs one step most games don't: a one-time sign-in with your own Hytale account. Here's how to get your server ready for players.

Updated 25 October 2026

Order your server

Choose Hytale, a location close to your players and a plan. Every plan runs Hytale with at least 8 GB of memory, and your server starts as soon as payment is confirmed.

Sign your server in (once)

  1. Press Sign in. While the server is online, its Overview shows Sign your Hytale server in. Press Sign in.
  2. Approve the code. The dashboard shows a short code. Press Open Hytale's sign-in page, sign in with the Hytale account that owns the game and approve the code. A code lasts 10 minutes; Get a new code gives you another.
  3. You're done. The dashboard confirms the server is signed in. The sign-in is kept encrypted on your server, so restarts don't need it again, and we never see your Hytale password.

Players can't join until the server is signed in. If your account has more than one game profile, the console asks you to choose one with /auth select and its number.

Settings

  • Server name, Message of the day, Join password and Player slots (up to 100).
  • View distance: it uses the most memory of any setting, and Hypixel recommends 12 chunks.
  • Game mode (Adventure or Creative), PvP, Fall damage and Creatures spawn, for the main world.

Press Save configuration, then restart the server to apply them.

How players join

Players copy the Connect address from your dashboard (an address and port) and add it in Hytale. They need the same game version as the server. Hytale servers are for PC players.

Plugins and asset packs

Upload plugins (.jar files) and asset packs (.zip files) to the hytale/mods folder in Files, or over SFTP for bigger files. A plugin's own settings go in hytale/mods/<plugin name> as .json files. Every file is scanned before your server gets it, and new files load at the next start.

Updates and existing worlds

Players can only join a server on their own game version. With Automatic updates on, your server starts the newest Hytale version each time it starts, so restart it after Hytale updates.

To bring a world you already have, stop the server and upload its universe folder to hytale/universe over SFTP.

Hytale questions

Good to know.

Do players need to install the plugins?

No. Plugins and asset packs run on the server, so players join with their own copy of Hytale and download nothing extra.

Which console commands can I use?

Hytale's own commands, typed in the dashboard console, except /stop and /update: use the dashboard's buttons for those.