HedgeTale - Dark Arts & Old Magic

HedgeTale

The woods remember. The moon watches. And some things are better left undisturbed.

A witchcraft mod for Hytale. Grow, brew, chant, fight, and choose who you become.

HedgeTale adds a full path of hedge witchcraft to Hytale, and a rival path for those who would rather hunt witches than become one. It is built to be discovered, not handed to you. Your Grimoire starts empty, and everything you learn comes from the people you meet, the pages you find and the things you dare to try. The further you go, the more powerful you become.

Choose your side

You begin belonging to no one. Earn a Grimoire from a witch and open it to walk the witch's path. Or seek out the Witch Hunters' Order, prove yourself and swear their oath. Each path has its own progression, tools, allies, enemies and arsenal, and the world reacts to the choice you make.

The Witch's Path

• The garden: grow magical herbs that care about light, water, warmth and even the phase of the moon.
• The kettle: brew potions by feel. Ingredients, order and stirring all matter, and the colour of the brew tells you whether it's going well.
• Chalk circles: draw circles in different chalks and perform rites at your altar, from simple charms to great multi-ring workings that call on several altars at once.
• Folk magic: poppets, curses, wards, totems and charms.
• A familiar: bind a companion that follows you and lends its gifts.
• Elemental staves: nine schools of magic, from fire and storm to shadow, light and the fae. Each staff fires bolts and casts its own powerful area spell.
• Rank: rise from humble Seeker to Elder. Every rank makes your magic stronger and unlocks greater staves.
• Darker roads, for those who want them: forbidden arts, bargains with things that should not be bargained with, and transformations that change what you are.

The Hunter's Path

• Join the Witch Hunters' Order, track your quarry in your Compendium, and rise through its ranks.
• Forge silver-chased blades, daggers and bows built for the hunt. They are as good as any steel, and far deadlier against the things that go bump in the night.
• Silver your favourite weapons, brew holy water, and work alchemy at the Crucible.
• The higher your rank, the sharper your edge.

Power that grows with you

• Five tiers of witch and hunter gear that sit alongside Hytale's own metals, upgraded with ore and gems as you progress.
• Strengthen any weapon you carry, vanilla or otherwise, through rites, brews and alchemy.
• Wear attire that grows stronger as you rise in your path.

A living world

• Covens of witches from many races, rogue witches, hags and elders, each with something to teach or something to hide.
• Witch hunters who notice when whispers about you spread.
• New structures to find across the land, from coven homes to hunter strongholds and stranger places.
• Lost Pages scattered through the world, holding cryptic riddles to rites and recipes you haven't learned yet.
• A sense of discovery: when you're close to something new, you'll get a hunch.

The Fae

• Old things stir in the deep woods. Meet the fae: tricksome, dangerous, and full of gifts for anyone who survives them.
• Bind fae relics into your weapons, armour and tools. Witches do it through rites; hunters through alchemy.
• Once the fae take notice of you, the world itself may not stay quiet.

Challenges worth the trouble

• Powerful bosses roam the world, each with their own fights and rewards for the path you walk.
• World events that test everything you've built.
• Late-game workings that demand true mastery, and grant power to match.

Built for Hytale

• Every item and creature has its own hand-made model, texture and icon, in Hytale's style.
• Menus instead of chat commands: a Grimoire, a Journal and a Compendium to track what you know.
• Presets to tune how often witches, hunters and other encounters appear in your world.

Getting started

Start a new world, explore, and talk to the people you meet. A witch may have a task for you. A hunter may have an offer. Where you go from there is up to you.

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