Minecraft-inspired RPG Hytale hires creator of some of its first mods as a dev — "Keeping our promise to hire from within the community!"

Hypixel Studios' Hytale — an open-world, block-based sandbox RPG that's inspired significantly by Minecraft and being developed by a team of prolific Minecraft modders best known for running the famous Hypixel server — has been enjoying a tremendous launch period ever since its Early Access release a week and a half ago.

Though we have no official metrics to look at, it's clear from the ongoing buzz about Hytale and its Twitch viewership numbers that the game has gotten off to an explosively strong start. And as a result of that launch, the title's modding scene has taken off as well, with 2.6K mods posted and 7.8 million mod downloads on CurseForge at the time of writing.

One of Hytale's first mod authors is Violet of VioletsWorkshop, who released several sizable mods for the RPG on its launch day; these include Violet's Furnishings for house furniture, Violet's Plushies for placeable plushies, Violet's Music Players for in-game music players, and Violet's Wardrobe for extra clothes and cosmetic items.

That last one in particular must have gotten Hypixel Studios' attention, because a week and a half later on Thursday, Violet announced that she's now working with the developer to make official Hytale cosmetics. "Very happy to announce I'm going to be helping out the @Hytale team with new cosmetics," she wrote in a post.

Hypixel founder and Hytale lead Simon Collins-Laflamme then made an announcement of his own about the news. "Pleased to announce that we are now working with Violet to create official cosmetics for Hytale! She was one of the first Hytale modders and is now the first to join us," he said. "Keeping our promise to hire from within the community!"

It's awesome to see Collins-Laflamme and the Hypixel team embrace Hytale's modding community for its hiring process, though it's not terribly surprising; after all, the studio was formed by veteran Minecraft mod-makers that understand the value and potential of talented and passionate community members firsthand. Modders are often hired elsewhere in the industry as well, especially by developers known for games with huge modding communities like Bethesda.

Still, it's cool to see that Hypixel is vowing to accrue talent from within Hytale's community moving forward — a community that's already quite large, and rapidly growing by the day. One of the developer's big directives is to grow and build Hytale together with its players, and hiring skilled modders from its fanbase is a very neat way to accomplish that.

As for what this means for Violet and her mods, she says that her Violet's Wardrobe project will no longer be updated. However, all of her other ones will be, so you can expect new content to come in them in future updates.

"Since I'm working on cosmetics for the base game, I will no longer be updating my cosmetics mod past what is in it at the moment," she explained. "For my other mods however, I am able to work on those as normal & you can expect continued updates!"

"I'd like to clarify, this does not mean any of the cosmetics in my mod are going to be added to the base game, just that I'm switching priorities to work on cosmetics officially with the team," she added. "Thank you for understanding!"

If you'd like to play the Early Access version of Hytale as it develops, you can buy it for $19.99 on its official website. Violet herself has a Ko-fi where you can support her, also.

What do you think about Hypixel Studios' plan to hire new talent from within Hytale's community? Have you played Hytale yourself yet? Let me know in the comments.

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