The Professor
I’m the Professor. This one’s another update packed with passion. The biggest news: you can now properly tame animals. The ranching era has officially begun!
📌 Key points
- Tame even large animals and bring them home to your base
- New sickles that harvest multiple crops in one swing
- Climbing now lets you move sideways and wrap around ropes
- First languages besides English (Portuguese and Russian)
- Anchor UI lets servers build their own screens
Taming animals
You could sort of keep chickens before, but now you can tame large animals too and take them back to your base.
- Walk up to an animal and it tells you its favorite food
- Feed it that food and it will start following you
- Some animals can be ridden, and they no longer run off when you dismount
Sadly, breeding isn’t available yet, but you’ll be able to get a steady supply of milk, wool and more. Check the Mob Encyclopedia to see which animals are out there.
Sickles boost harvesting
You can now craft sickles at the Farmer’s Workbench. They harvest multiple crops in one swing, so your farming efficiency goes through the roof. Options include the 
Crude Sickle and the 
Copper Sickle.
Climbing gets an upgrade
While climbing a wall you can now move sideways and wrap around ropes, making movement a lot more action-packed. A new frog color (green) was added as well.
The first wave of language support
Hytale finally supports languages other than English… though unfortunately not Japanese yet. The first two are Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. Still, this is only the first round of localization, so here’s hoping Japanese is coming.
Anchor UI: endless possibilities for servers
This isn’t something regular players touch directly, but KeniPoyo says it’s “quietly the craziest feature of all.” Servers can now insert their own screens (UI) into places like the world map.
That means servers can build entirely different genres of play inside Hytale’s world: card games, custom battle screens, casino-style minigames, and more. We may be heading into an era of polished minigames that have nothing to do with the main RPG.
The Machinima tools for making videos were also improved.
I’m delighted that taming will liven up our bases. As for Anchor UI, I can’t wait to see what kinds of games servers come up with.
More update news
🎮 When you buy or upgrade Hytale, entering KeniPoyo (capital K and P) in the creator code field on the left side of the purchase screen helps support KeniPoyo’s work!
Information is based on the pre-release and release versions as of the video’s publication (February 11, 2026). Things may have changed in later updates.
