Hytale isn’t just about building, exploring, and fighting in your home world. If you’ve ever wondered what lies beyond Orbis, the normal overworld, you’re in luck. In early access, you can already peek into a few of the other dimensions and even take on some bosses. While not every dimension is accessible yet, it’s a fantastic way to get a taste of what’s coming in future updates.
Unlocking the Ancient Gateway
The first step to hopping between dimensions is unlocking the ancient gateway. You’ll need 100 or more memories, which unlocks both the gateway and portal fragments you can craft at the Arcanist’s workbench. Don’t worry, 100 memories is pretty easy to collect.
If you’re in creative mode and just want to test things out, run the command /memories unlock all to instantly unlock everything. On a normal survival world, you can type /slop self to make yourself an operator and then /memories unlock all to do the same. Once that’s done, place your Arcanist’s workbench and craft an ancient gateway using cobblestone, thorium, essence of life, and essence of void.
The gateway will require a fragment key, and there are three you can craft immediately: one with cobalt ingots, one with adamant ingots, and one with thorium ingots. Each key lets you access a different dimension, giving you a small but exciting preview of Hytale’s multiverse.
First Stop: Windrider Valley
Windrider Valley is the earliest dimension you’ll likely explore. It comes with a six-minute time limit and occasionally features a mage tower. Once you summon the portal, step through and enjoy a procedurally generated world full of villages, loot, and enemies. This is an early-game dimension, so most foes aren’t too tough, and the loot mostly includes iron tools, silver ingots, and early resources.
Adventuring here is fun because many creatures are friendly unless you mess with their belongings. Underground, you’ll find very little, only about 12 blocks deep, but the high peaks with buildings contain the best loot. I’ve found chests with thorium ingots, iron armor, silver ore, and leather. Outer islands with bedrock and water that lets you float to the bottom of the world add some extra exploration fun.
When the portal closes, you’re teleported back, using one fragment. If you craft a new gateway, the world regenerates procedurally, giving you new layouts, mage towers, enemies, and even better loot. This makes Windrider Valley perfect for a solo grind or a fun co-op loot run with friends.
Next Up: Dragonspire Weald
Dragonspire Weald is a little more dangerous and exciting. It comes with a seven-minute timer and is home to a sleeping mythical beast, the Frost Dragon. This dimension features fur logs, redwood trees, foxes, and massive mountains. Enemies are scattered everywhere, even during the day, and there are caves full of iron, snakes, and occasional foxes.
The frost dragon resides in a marked ice circle. While it’s currently just a sleeping spectacle with no way to interact, it’s easy to imagine future updates letting you ride or battle it. The mix of massive mountains, forests, and scattered enemies makes Dragonspire Weald one of the more atmospheric early dimensions to explore.
Finally: The Dread Wade
Dread Wade is a darker, swampy dimension with a seven-minute exploration window and three minutes of void breach. A “ravenous menace” lurks here, with dangerous fauna in the murky shallows. Tentacles, poison trees, and a massive tree stump dominate the early landscape. So far, enemies are scarce, but staying until the portal closes will spawn void enemies, giving you three minutes to farm for void essence and Voidhearts.
There are no caves, leaving the giant tree stump as the main focal point. I can only imagine future updates will populate it with dangerous enemies. Even in its early state, Dread Wade offers a unique, eerie vibe that sets it apart from the other dimensions and makes it an ideal spot for Voidheart farming if you’re prepared.
Exploring Beyond Early Access
Hytale’s normal world uses the V1 world generation, while the dimensions are a sneak peek at the V2 generation, which will be used for future world terrain. In the future, Orbis and at least four other dimensions will exist fully.
For creative mode explorers, you can use the instances command to access these worlds and even older versions of Orbis, including a 2019 version that’s just one continent surrounded by oceans. Using this method gives you unlimited time to explore, perfect for scouting or just marveling at Hytale’s world-building. There’s also a yellow portal in the creative hub that leads straight to the V2 Tundra region for Zone 3, which honestly gave me serious Whiterun-from-Skyrim vibes.
Wrap-Up
Even in early access, Hytale’s dimensions are full of surprises. From friendly villages in Windrider Valley to the sleeping frost dragon of Dragon Spire Weald, and the eerie void-infested swamp of Dread Wade, there’s a lot to explore. Unlocking these worlds is simple, fun, and opens the door to the multiverse that’s coming in later updates. So grab your memories, craft your gateway, and start hopping through portals, who knows what you’ll find next?
And if your main goal is farming materials like Voidhearts while you explore, check out my guide How to Find Voidhearts in Hytale. It covers exactly where and how to hunt them efficiently so you can start crafting some of the strongest weapons in the game without tearing your hair out.
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