What to know

  • Look for bushes, including berry bushes, and mine them to receive plant fiber as a drop.
  • Find small stones on the ground or mine gravel-like blocks to collect rubble.
  • These materials, combined with wood from trees, allow you to craft a crude pickaxe and crude hatchet through the pocket crafting menu.
  • Most of these early-game resources can be gathered using your bare hands.

Gathering resources is the first step toward survival and progress in Hytale. Two of the most common but essential materials you'll need early on are rubble and plant fiber. These materials are found throughout the starting biomes and serve as the foundation for your first set of tools.

How to Get Rubble and Fiber in Hytale

Collecting plant fiber is a straightforward process: simply locate any nearby bushes, such as the common green shrubs or berry bushes, and mine them. The fiber will drop directly onto the ground for you to pick up.

Fiber. Image credit: Hypixel Studios / YouTube: The Gaming Snowman

To find rubble, keep an eye out for small individual stones scattered on the terrain. You can also look for larger blocks that have a gravel-like texture; mining these blocks will yield several pieces of rubble.

Rubble. Image credit: Hypixel Studios / YouTube: The Gaming Snowman

Once you have gathered enough of these materials, along with some wood harvested from trees, you can open your inventory with the Tab key to craft your first crude tools, such as the pickaxe and hatchet, which will significantly improve your harvesting efficiency.

Finding rubble and plant fiber is as easy as mining the bushes and stones around you. These basic steps will quickly give you the materials needed to craft your first set of tools and begin your Hytale adventure.