Factory Not Sandbox

BlockFactory turns Hytale into a factory game in the style of Factorio. Many things you know from vanilla Hytale work differently or are switched off. Read this page before your first world, so nothing surprises you.

At a glance

	Vanilla Hytale	BlockFactory
Breaking blocks	Everything	Only trees and rocks, as a whole, without a tool item
Placing blocks	Everything	Only factory parts
Ore	Mined by hand with a pickaxe	From ore fields, mainly with drills; slow by hand
Ore deposits	Run out	Ore fields are infinite
Crafting	Vanilla recipes and workbenches	Only BlockFactory recipes, by hand and in machines
Mobs and critters	Spawn naturally	Off; only BlockFactory creatures and NPCs
Fall damage	Yes	No
Stamina	Sprinting costs stamina	Sprint as long as you like; no stamina bar
Health	Does not regenerate by itself	Regenerates after 5 s without damage
Death	Items drop	Your whole inventory goes into a Death Chest
Music	Vanilla soundtrack	BlockFactory's own music

The world is not yours to dig

You cannot break or place world blocks: no soil, stone, sand or water. The steppe is flat and only a few blocks thick. What you can change:

• Trees and rocks: hold left click to remove the whole object. See Gathering by Hand.
• Factory parts: everything from BlockFactory recipes that you can place (machines, belts, pipes, rails, walls, floors, and more). You place them and pick them back up into your inventory. See Controls and Building.
• Floors replace the top soil under your factory, and Landfill turns water into ground. See Floors and Landfill.
• Mountain walls block your way until you can blast them with TNT.

Resources come from fields

Iron, Copper, Coal, Stone, Sand, Clay, Gold and Uranium lie in ore fields on the surface. A field never runs out. You can hit a field block by hand and get an ore every few seconds, but the block stays; real mining is done by drills. Fields farther from the spawn are bigger and richer. Oil comes from oil wells. See Mining and The World.

Wild trees do not grow back. Neither do rocks. Once your factory needs a steady supply of wood, research the Tree Farm. See Hunting and Farming.

Only BlockFactory recipes

All vanilla recipes and workbenches are removed. You craft from the Factory tab of the handcrafting in your inventory, and machines craft the rest. Many recipes are locked until you research them. The Field Manual shows every recipe and use. See Crafting, Field Manual and Research.

No vanilla creatures

Vanilla mobs and critters do not spawn. What lives in the steppe belongs to BlockFactory:

• alien animal herds that you can trap for meat and hides (Hunting and Farming),
• enemy nests that wake up from the noise of your factory (Enemies, Noise and Unrest),
• War Golems guarding ruins (Enemies),
• Goblins, Golems and Outlanders that you summon to work for you (Goblins, Golems, Outlanders).

Your body

• Health is your only bar. After 5 seconds without damage it refills by 2 % per second, so you are back to full in under a minute.
• No stamina, no hunger. Sprint whenever you like. Meat is a raw material, not food.
• No fall damage.
• Dying puts your whole inventory into a Death Chest where you died; nothing is lost. You wake up in the bunker, or in a powered Cryo Capsule you built. See Death and Respawn.

Progress is research, not exploration

There are no dungeons or loot. You advance by building production and researching new technology at the Portal of the Ancient, through five epochs, until you open the Great Portal. See Epochs and Great Portal.

See also

• Your First Hour
• Controls and Building
• FAQ