What happened to Hytale’s own Model Maker?

Hytale’s post “Take a closer look at Hytale Model Maker” (18 January 2019) introduced it as a browser and app-based toolkit for modelling, texturing and animation that would come with the game. It was shown years before Hytale’s early access, which began on 13 January 2026.

Hytale’s modding strategy post of 20 November 2025 lists a Blockbench plugin among its tools and says it “Replaces our own modelling and animation tools used in the past to better support established creative workflows in the community.”

The plugin arrived with Hytale’s introduction to making models on 22 December 2025. In the Blockbench plugin list it is called Hytale Models; version 0.11.0 is the latest as of 17 October 2026. It runs in desktop Blockbench and in the web app, and it reads and writes the two Hytale model formats: .blockymodel for models and .blockyanim for animations.

Some wiki and fan pages still describe the 2019 tool, or say it is coming. They were written before Hytale switched to Blockbench.

The Hytale Asset Editor runs inside the game. The modding post calls it an “Editor for data assets”: the definitions of items, blocks and other content. Models, textures and animations are art assets, made in Blockbench and referenced from those definitions. The post also notes “notable limitations around NPCs, world generation, and interactions”.

Asset packs you create in the Asset Editor are stored in the world you made them in, according to Hytale’s asset pack docs; copy them to the Mods folder to use them elsewhere.

The closest thing to an online Hytale model maker is the Blockbench web app with the Hytale Models plugin installed from File → Plugins. Community tools help too: the Hytale Garage BlockyModel editor imports, edits and exports .blockymodel files, and the MyHytale model viewer shows one with its texture.

Myrlin Studio builds Hytale models with AI. Describe the model or show a picture, review the credit price, and Studio delivers the editable .blockymodel with a painted PNG texture atlas, plus saved .blockyanim clips when the model has animations. You open and change them in Blockbench like any other model, and you still write the item, block or NPC definition that puts them in the game.

Myrlin Studio is its own product; it is not the Hytale Model Maker. Start a Hytale model, see what Studio makes for Hytale, or inspect the painted teapot, a real Studio model published with its files.

• .blockymodel: the model, a JSON tree of cubes and quads. See the format explained.
• PNG texture: one image painted for the model, in multiples of 32 pixels. See the model limits.
• .blockyanim: animation clips that move the model’s named nodes.