On November 25, 2025, Hypixel Studios revealed a deep look at Hytale’s Creative Mode, led by engineer Ktar, the dev in charge of the creative tools. In this mode, players can swap from adventure to a full creator toolkit: flying around the world, sculpting terrain, spawning models, editing prefabs, recording cinematic shots and a lot more. hytale.com
This article breaks down every feature shown in the official post and video so you know exactly what to expect when early access arrives.
What Is Hytale Creative Mode?
Creative Mode is Hytale’s sandbox environment focused on building, editing and content creation. Instead of just giving you infinite blocks, it provides an entire toolbox of advanced editors and brushes designed for builders, modders, map-makers and machinima creators.
You can:
- Fly freely through your world
- Generate and sculpt terrain in seconds
- Place and edit prefabs (like ruins or buildings)
- Change your player model or spawn NPCs
- Record cinematic camera shots for videos
- Collaborate with friends using pointers and measurements hytale.com
All of this is wrapped in a UI that tries to feel “uniquely Hytale” rather than just a generic level editor.
Scripted Brushes: Instant Mountains, Paths and Ruins
One of the first tools shown are Scripted Brushes. These are pre-built brushes defined as assets that any creator can make more of.
With them, you can quickly:
- Raise mountains or cliffs
- Lay down grassy paths
- Drop in pre-generated ruins and structures
- Customize behavior in the Hytale Node Editor hytale.com
You simply drag a brush into your inventory and paint the world with complex shapes instead of placing blocks one by one.
Quick Settings Panel: Full Control Over Your Tools
Creative Mode includes a Quick Settings Panel where you can instantly adjust things like:
- Flight speed and inertia
- Behavior of the current tool
- Extra options that change depending on what you’re holding hytale.com
This panel adapts to your active item, so each tool can expose extra sliders and toggles without cluttering the main UI.
Player Model Changer & NPC Browser
Hytale’s Creative Mode also ships with a browser of over 100 models that you can spawn or use as your own character. In the demo, Ktar literally turns into a corgi—because, of course, dogs are the best. hytale.com
You can:
- Browse available models
- Spawn them as NPCs in your world
- Swap your own player model to test animations or just have fun
Prefab Browser & Prefab Editor
Prefabs are pre-built structures or pieces of environment. Creative Mode gives you two big tools here:
- Prefab Browser – a way to quickly look through existing prefabs
- Prefab Editor – a separate, empty editing space where you can load, tweak and organize many prefabs visually hytale.com
In the video, the dev uses this to grab a ruined structure, then brings it back to the main world to place it into a scene.
Paste Tool: Precision Placement for Multiblock Structures
Once you’ve selected a prefab, the Paste Tool lets you place it exactly where you want it. You can:
- Move the prefab around before committing
- Use the arrow keys for highly precise adjustments
- Treat a prefab almost like a brush for repeated placement hytale.com
This is ideal for castle walls, towers, bridges and any repeating structure.
Machinima Tools: Built-In Camera for Cinematic Shots
Hytale includes a dedicated Machinima Tool that looks like a camera in your inventory. With it you can:
- Create a Camera actor in the world
- Place and edit keyframes for camera movement
- Adjust speed and other parameters for smooth shots hytale.com
The team notes that this is just the start: the machinima system is planned to receive a major upgrade in both features and UX in the months after launch. hytale.com
If you want to create trailers, cinematic roleplay, or build timelapse videos, this toolset is built exactly for that.
Customizable Flight Modes
Creative flight in Hytale is highly configurable. You’ll be able to tweak:
- Speed
- Control style
- Flight mode (hover vs directional)
- Inertia and stopping behavior hytale.com
Whether you prefer snappy, instant stops or drifting at high speed like a creative “jet,” the system is designed to adapt to your style.
Shape Brush (Paintbrush): Sculpt with Pyramids, Cones and More
The Paintbrush is a shape-based brush that can create all kinds of volumes in the world:
- Pyramids, cones, cubes and more
- Adjustable size, material and density
- Options for wall thickness, axis locking and masks hytale.com
It’s a powerful way to block out large structures or terrain shapes in seconds before going in for details.
Selection Tool: The Swiss Army Knife of Editing
The Selection Tool is another core pillar of Creative Mode. It lets you select 3D areas of your world and then perform many operations:
- Save selections as prefabs
- Copy, paste and move big regions
- Define regions or regenerate chunks
- Extrude or reshape sections of terrain hytale.com
The team also plans to expand this with arbitrary shapes and a kind of “magic wand” selection, which will let you click on a material and automatically select connected blocks of the same type. hytale.com
Ruler & Laser Pointer: Tools for Collaboration
For builders working together, Creative Mode adds small but super useful tools:
- Ruler – place lines in the world to measure distances or outline future builds
- Laser Pointer – point at spots in the world so friends instantly know where to look hytale.com
These are especially handy for team projects and live build sessions.
Help Menu: Commands and Features at Your Fingertips
Hytale’s Help Menu has been evolving quickly. The version in the blog post is already outdated compared to internal dev builds, but the goal is clear:
- Make creative commands easier to discover
- Let you search for tools and features
- Continuously update as new functionality is added hytale.com
Expect this to be a living reference as Creative Mode grows over time.
Timelapse Castle: A Glimpse of What Pros Can Do
To showcase the potential of these tools, Hypixel Studios shared a timelapse of expert builders creating a castle using the new Creative Mode workflow. In that build, you can see:
- Terrain blocked out using sphere brushes and then smoothed
- Layers of materials applied with different brushes and techniques
- The Selection Tool used for copying, cutting, pasting and rotating parts of the castle
- Masked brushes used to replace materials without adding extra blocks
- Final details added manually to bring the build to life hytale.com
The entire session is condensed from about an hour of building into a few minutes of footage.
Beyond Editors: A More Casual Creative Experience
Right now, Creative Mode leans heavily toward content creation tools—perfect for map-makers, modders and builders who like editor-style workflows.
However, the team also mentions that they’re designing an additional creative experience aimed at players who want something more casual and playful, distinct from both Adventure Mode and the current editor-like toolkit. hytale.com
That mode is expected to focus less on heavy tools and more on fun interactions.
Community Support and Future Plans
Hypixel Studios emphasizes that Creative Mode is not a one-and-done feature. They plan to:
- Keep expanding the creative tools team
- Iterate based on community feedback
- Work with builders, modders and creators over many years to refine the toolkit hytale.com
The dev behind the post, Ktar, even invites players to join the official Hytale Discord’s creative-focused channel to share ideas and suggestions.
Final Thoughts
Hytale’s Creative Mode is shaping up to be far more than just “infinite blocks + flight.” With brushes, prefabs, camera tools, detailed selection systems and strong community involvement, it looks like a full creation platform inside the game.
If you’re a builder, modder, or aspiring machinima creator, this mode might be where you’ll spend most of your time once Hytale’s early access arrives.