So I’m trying to play with a friend atm and we can join online servers together however joining a world won’t work even with turning on online play I don’t get what problem is

I am not here to say who is right, because honestly none of us have the full picture.
There is a former coder claiming the code was stolen, and a server that had similar functioning code up fast after he was let go. Both sides have things that look bad. But this is exactly the kind of dispute the legal system exists for. Ownership, contracts, who built what and who it belongs to. That gets sorted through the proper channels, not through a Reddit pile on.

If there is a real case there, it will be handled where it should be.

And honestly, the fact that we are even having this conversation comes back to something worth appreciating. The devs made this game open, and that openness is a huge deal. Being able to read the code, learn from it, and build real things on top of it is exactly what makes this community what it is. Most studios would never give players that. Yes, openness comes with messy situations like this one, but the tradeoff is a game we actually get to shape ourselves. That is rare and it is worth protecting.
Our job as players is not to play judge. It is to support the devs who took that chance on us, and to support the creators building the experiences we actually enjoy. Let the people involved handle the legal side however they need to, and let the rest of us get back to the reason we are all here in the first place. If we have ideas to help protect people then we can give it to them but it’s not our job to take only a fraction of the information available and make a judgement.
That’s all I gotta say. Support the devs, appreciate what they built, and let moving forward beat another week of drama.

Histatu Stole My Mod and Action Needs to by Taken

Hello everyone,

I'm the developer of Endless Leveling, and I want to explain why I left Histatu and why I'm making this post.

I recently ended my partnership with Histatu after discovering that they were planning to replace me. As soon as I learned about it, I chose to leave immediately. While there were already ongoing internal issues and drama within the community, this was the final straw. I no longer wanted to be associated with a community that no longer reflected the values I originally joined for.

What makes this especially disappointing is that Endless Leveling was one of the biggest reasons Histatu experienced the level of growth and success it did. Looking back, I regret supporting the server.

After leaving, I discovered something far more serious.

The owner of Histatu appears to have decompiled Endless Leveling and used it as the foundation for their own mod. This wasn't simply inspiration or similar ideas. Their code still contains names and identifiers that are unique to Endless Leveling, including several that they forgot to rename after copying.

This includes content from Endless Leveling, along with features from its premium add-ons.

Endless Leveling is the largest public mod in this space by a significant margin. There isn't another public project with a comparable amount of content to copy from. Recreating a mod of this size from scratch in such a short period would be extremely unlikely. The remaining unique Fate names, variables, and structures make it obvious that the project originated from a decompiled version of Endless Leveling rather than being independently developed.

Below are side-by-side comparisons showing these similarities and the leftover identifiers that were never renamed.

Endless Fates vs Histatu Artifacts

https://preview.redd.it/nokoo93mf5bh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5bb25efd78fd01bcb254fe43d2a96a7c6acdd54

Endless Guilds vs Histatu Clans

https://preview.redd.it/1bqw1zmof5bh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=4482add8b22075f53f0d01419728fb6d5762840f

Endless Marriage vs Histatu Marriage

https://preview.redd.it/r5nw52uqf5bh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b190161fd93315799055ae9d6e6edaa7f4140495

Endless Class/Race vs Histatu Class

https://preview.redd.it/aby3mg0sf5bh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9509b06461cb7bbb95868566c9b945167fd7564

Endless Leveling vs Histatu Skills

https://preview.redd.it/mp7764vxf5bh1.png?width=1878&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed3ca67a5528c7a09c5b6216df3f58b6011a6454

Endless Quests vs Histatu Tasks

https://preview.redd.it/sly0ar21g5bh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=2fc14cd38b9a63fdf3047e617ab08e306292ac0d

Endless Title System vs Histatu Title System

https://preview.redd.it/sds7hn45g5bh1.png?width=1878&format=png&auto=webp&s=feefcf1c1426893934c27bd6a731f8ac1fd1e367

If nothing is done, Histatu will likely face no consequences for this. I was even willing to give them a seven-day grace period to continue using my partner key after I left, but given what I've since discovered, that is clearly no longer appropriate.

Most players are completely unaware of what has happened, and without speaking up, everything would remain hidden.

To the Hytale team: please protect your modding community. Modders invest countless hours creating original content, and that work should not be decompiled, copied, and repackaged by server owners for their own benefit.

This is especially important because Histatu is currently the #1 Hytale server. If the largest server in the community can get away with copying a creator's work without consequences, it sets a dangerous precedent for every other server and sends the wrong message to both current and future modders. That's not a good look for Hytale or for the future of its creator ecosystem.

A healthy modding community depends on creators knowing that their work will be respected and that blatant infringement will be taken seriously.

Edit: To clarify, the request for a 3× payment was not about greed. It was about fairly reflecting the impact Endless Leveling had on Histatu and the additional responsibilities I would have been taking on.

I was never in this partnership for the money. For months, I knew that other people were being paid more than I was, and I accepted that because I had multiple partnerships outside of Histatu. Compensation was never my primary motivation.

However, by that point, Histatu was dealing with significant internal issues, and I was being asked to continue supporting the server, during the fallout. A 3× payment was the only arrangement that I felt fairly compensated me for the value Endless Leveling brought to Histatu and for the increased workload I would have been taking on.

When that wasn't possible, and after learning I was being replaced, I decided it was time to move on.

Also, yes, I originally yoinked their partnership key (knowing schemes behind the scenes). I ended up giving it back the next day for a whole week. Obviously, that isn't needed anymore.

Histatu has its own problems that I don't have the right to mention, but it was one of the main deciding factors why I shouldn't stay in that environment. I've seen screenshots of what Dimotai and his few staff members have said. I already knew that I wouldn't need to post his own messages because these screenshots are enough to explain everything for themselves.

https://preview.redd.it/zhcfcgq6z9bh1.jpg?width=641&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56424970a735bd4b48580789202093c7eece18c5

What's Next for Me

My original goal was to help Histatu as much as possible by gatekeeping a lot of my content, creating a content gap between servers. Now that we're no longer partnered, I may start releasing some of those features with a few adjustments.

Instead of trying to help only a handful of servers grow, I want to help Hytale grow as a whole. It might hurt me in the short term, but I think it's the right decision for the game and the community.

This also isn't the first time this has happened to me. I've had server owners in the past try to rebrand Endless Leveling or hide that I was the original developer. That's one of the reasons I became so protective of my work. Looking back, though, that also made things harder for the good servers.

Going forward, I'd rather stay optimistic. Running a server myself has given me a better understanding of the challenges server owners face. I'll still protect my work, but I also want to trust people more and do my part to help Hytale succeed.

Playing on LAN, 2 players, every time we sleep the game keeps us sleeping on loop and advancing a day every time the screen fades to black, and every time we wake up the screen fades to black again in a loop until we close the game and open again.

Zzz... Zzz... *chime*
Zzz... Zzz... *chime*
Zzz... Zzz... *chime*
Zzz... Zzz... *chime*
... forever

I bought the game back when it released 6 months ago and for the first month after release played a lot of multiplayer with my friends, then after the four week hype we got back to playing our other standard games.

Now after a long break i decide to want to get back into it but upon starting up the launcher i have to login again, this first seemed normal until the launcher said i didn't own the game when i logged in, and that i should first purchase it from the site.

So i go to the site and login there and check my account settings which also say under "game profiles" that i do not own the game yet. i've filled in a ticket form and sent in my problem to customer support, but i wanted to check on here if anyone else has/had this problem.