The Salt Flats for Hytale
A new salt flats biome you travel to through the Ancient Gateway with a fragment from the Arcanist's Bench. Includes a canyon variant, three cave types, mines and new blocks. Version 1.4 for 0.6.
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What this mod does
The Salt Flats adds a salt flats biome to Hytale inspired by the one Hypixel showed in its summer 2022 development update. It doesn’t appear in your normal world: you reach it through the Ancient Gateway using the biome’s own fragment, which is crafted at the Arcanist’s Bench.
What you’ll find
- The salt flats: an endless plain of salt, sandstone and clay, with red sandstone pillars, fossils and white sandstorms.
- The fractured salt flats: the same area cut through by huge canyons and rivers.
- Caves (since 1.4, for now only under the main salt flats): regular caves; glowing caves with white crystals, dead coral and ruins with chests guarded by skeletons; and infested caves, full of mushrooms and white moss.
- Mines generated on the surface, with a large shaft and tunnels leading to ores and caves.
Blocks and creatures
You can get salted bone blocks, white moss and white shelf mushrooms, plus peach stone and dead corals, which in the base game were only available in Creative mode. Underground there’s iron and silver ore, and skeletons, rats, goblins, fish and ghouls spawn; on the surface, hawks.
Version
1.3.2 (September 8, 2026) updated it for Update 6 and 1.4 (September 13) is the mod’s biggest update, with the caves and mines. It’s a small mod with few downloads, but very focused on exploration: ideal if you’re in the mood for a different biome without changing the rest of the game.
Checked on October 20, 2026: the author hasn’t published a file marked for Hytale 0.7 (Update 7) on CurseForge yet. We’ll check again and update this page as soon as it’s out.
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Highlights and things to keep in mind
- A biome with its own identity, based on one Hypixel showed
- Caves, ruins with loot and mines since 1.4
- Very lightweight and dependency-free
- Still few downloads: it's a small project
- The mines don't have loot chests yet and the caves don't reach the fractured variant
- With Update 7 (released October 12, 2026), you'll need to wait for a compatible version
Requirements
- Hytale (Early Access) on PC, version 0.6 (file TheSaltFlatsV1.4.zip)
- No dependencies: doesn't need any other mods
- Access to the Arcanist's Bench to craft the fragment
How to install it
- Open the The Salt Flats page on CurseForge and click Install to install it with the CurseForge app, or download TheSaltFlatsV1.4.zip from the Files tab.
- If you download it manually, copy the .zip as is, without unzipping it, into the mods folder: on Windows, %APPDATA%\Hytale\UserData\Mods.
- Open Hytale, right-click the world, check The Salt Flats in the mod list and save the world settings.
- On a dedicated server, place the file in the server's mods folder and restart it.
- In your game, craft the salt flats fragment at the Arcanist's Bench and use it on the Ancient Gateway to travel to the biome.
Version history
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1.413 Sep 2026Current
Cave generation (regular, glowing and infested), mines, iron and silver, white sandstorms and hawks
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1.3.28 Sep 2026
Compatibility with Update 6 (0.6.4), reworked sandstone pillars and generation fixes
Common problems
I don't see the salt flats when exploring my world
They don't generate in the normal world: you have to travel there through the Ancient Gateway with the fragment crafted at the Arcanist's Bench.
There are no caves in the fractured salt flats
That's normal: in 1.4 caves only generate under the main salt flats. The author says they'll come to the fractured variant later.
I was getting version errors in chat
1.3.2 updated the mod to Hytale 0.6.4 and, according to the author, removed those warnings. Use 1.3.2 or later on 0.6.
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