- What to know
- How to reach the Forgotten Temple and unlock Memories
- How Memories recording actually works
- How to unlock more crafting recipes through progression
- Using Memories milestones for buildables and systems
- Key Memories milestone rewards
- Upgrading workbenches to reveal hidden recipes
- How to use the Forgotten Temple for buildables and teleporters
- Rewards table tied to Memories and crafting
What to know
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Find the Forgotten Temple early to activate Memories, which is a major progression system for recipes and upgrades.
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Recording and restoring Memories from creatures and NPCs unlocks rewards, including new buildables and crafting-related upgrades.
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Workbenches and other stations gain more recipes as you upgrade them and as you unlock global rewards through Memories milestones.
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Forgotten Temple/Heart of Orbis also grants decorative chests, eternal seeds, and extra teleporters as you turn in Memories.
In Hytale, one of the key ways to unlock more crafting recipes and buildables is by exploring the overworld and documenting your encounters with its diverse inhabitants. By recording your “Memories” at the Forgotten Temple station, you can continuously expand your repertoire of items, allowing you to build and customize your experience even further.
How to reach the Forgotten Temple and unlock Memories
This is the foundation for unlocking extra recipes.
Finding and entering the Forgotten Temple
The Forgotten Temple (or its gateway) appears on your map with a distinct portal-style icon near your starting area.
The icon shows on your compass, so it’s easier to navigate straight to it.
Step 1: Locate the gateway icon
Step 1
Open your map after leaving the spawn area and reach the Forgotten Temple by following the icon.
Step 2
Before entering, craft a simple weapon (such as the crude sword) so you can handle the mini-boss guarding the portal inside.
Step 2: Beat the mini-boss and access the “Forgotten Temple”
Step 3
Head down the stairs in the temple until you reach the stone golem guarding the portal; kite it around the room and attack while retreating to avoid big hits.
Step 4
Once the golem is defeated, step into the portal to be transported to the inner Forgotten Temple space.
Step 5
Move toward the central shrine or statue (Heart of Orbis) and interact with it to unlock the Memories system for your save.
How Memories recording actually works
After activation, getting close to any new creature, NPC, or unique entity in the overworld logs a Memory; a small on-screen prompt confirms the discovery.
These discoveries are not retroactive, so the list starts empty even if you have already seen some mobs before turning the system on.
Step 6
Explore the overworld normally—villages, forests, caves—and deliberately move close enough to new mobs to trigger the “discovered” notification so each one is logged as a Memory.
Step 7
Return to the Forgotten Temple and interact with the statue again to Record your Memories, which fills a progression bar and unlocks rewards at certain milestones.
How to unlock more crafting recipes through progression
Once Memories are active, more recipes become available both indirectly (through better tools and mobility) and directly (via reward unlocks and upgraded stations).
Using Memories milestones for buildables and systems
Submitting Memories gives you milestone rewards that tie into buildables, teleporters, farming, and late-game structures.
Key Memories milestone rewards
| Memories total | Rewards that affect crafting or buildables |
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| 10 | 3 decorative chests and 2 eternal seeds, adding storage and looping crop options. |
| 25 | 3 decorative chests, 4 eternal seeds, and +1 max teleporter, boosting both storage and resource-gathering mobility. |
| 50 | Morph potions, 4 eternal seeds, and +1 max teleporter, which help with exploration and sustained farming. |
| 100 | Ancient Gateway, portal fragments, backpack upgrade, decorative chests, eternal seeds, and +2 max teleporters—major boosts to travel, inventory, and base building. |
| 200 | Harvest trophy, more decorative chests and eternal seeds, and +2 max teleporters, further cementing long-term farming and travel networks |
These rewards often unlock or support new crafting options at different workbenches, particularly for farming, teleportation, and special structures.
On top of Memories, you need to upgrade your crafting stations to see higher-tier recipes. Typical pattern you will see:
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Basic workbench gives early tools and building blocks; as soon as you upgrade it, more advanced tools, storage, and building pieces appear.
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Specialized stations (Furniture Workbench, Farmer’s Workbench, Chef’s Stove, Alchemist’s Workbench, etc.) unlock further recipes as they are built and upgraded.
Step 1
Place a basic Workbench as early as possible and craft fundamental tools, chests, and simple building blocks; this also helps you gather the materials needed for station upgrades.
Step 2
Check each workbench’s upgrade tab or requirement list; gather the listed resources (wood types, stone, metals, special drops) and complete the upgrade to the next tier.
Step 3
After each upgrade, scroll through all categories and pages in that station, because new recipes—sometimes not obviously highlighted—will now be available.
Step 4
Build specialized stations as soon as you unlock their recipes (for example, Farmer’s Workbench for seeds and farming tools, Chef’s Stove for dishes, Alchemist’s Workbench for potions) so their recipe pools can start expanding.
Ingredient discovery and context-based unlocking
Many crafting recipes only appear once you have interacted with or collected key ingredients.
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New plant types, animal drops, and hostile mob drops can quietly add recipes to farming, cooking, or alchemy stations once you bring them home.
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Eternal seeds from Memories rewards create infinite versions of certain crops, letting you farm ingredients at scale and indirectly unlocking entire recipe lines at the Chef’s Stove.
Step 5
When you pick up a new plant, food item, or monster drop, revisit relevant stations (Farmer’s Workbench, Chef’s Stove, Alchemist’s Workbench) to see if any new recipes have appeared.
Step 6
Use eternal seeds to establish permanent crop plots for in-demand ingredients like staple foods, then craft higher-tier dishes that offer combat and exploration buffs.
How to use the Forgotten Temple for buildables and teleporters
In the Temple area, interact with the central structure to record Memories and receive decorative chests, eternal seeds, and extra teleporters.
Turning in Memories at the temple
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In the temple interior, interacting with the statue opens an interface where you can restore any collected Memories and claim milestone rewards.
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These rewards include decorative chest recipes (via the Furniture Workbench), eternal seed options (via the Farmer’s Workbench), and new teleporter capacity.
Step 1
Return to the Forgotten Temple periodically and interact with the Heart of Orbis to deposit your accumulated Memories.
Step 2
Claim any milestone rewards, noting which workbench they correspond to (e.g., decorative chests at Furniture Workbench, eternal seeds at Farmer’s Workbench) so you know where to look once you leave.
Step 3
After leaving the temple, go to the relevant crafting stations in your base and check for newly unlocked recipes tied to those rewards.
Teleporter recipes and capacity
You can craft teleporters early using materials like logs, kelp, and stone, but your initial limit on placed teleporters is low.
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Memories milestones and temple rewards directly increase your maximum number of active teleporters, which is extremely useful for gathering distant resources needed for advanced recipes.
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That is why you should prioritize the temple: faster travel leads to faster crafting progression overall.
Step 4
Craft your first teleporters once you unlock the recipe, then place them between your main base and high-value resource areas like mines, forests, and farms.
Step 5
Keep pushing Memories milestones to raise your teleporter cap, and redeploy teleporters strategically as your crafting needs change over time.
Rewards table tied to Memories and crafting
This focuses on rewards that either directly unlock recipes or strongly support crafting progression.
| Memories milestone | Reward | How it helps crafting and recipes |
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| 10 Memories | 3 decorative chests | Adds more storage for ingredients and materials; decorative chest recipes appear at the Furniture Workbench. |
| 10 Memories | 2 eternal seeds | Enables repeatable farming of specific crops, feeding into cooking and crafting that require plant materials. |
| 25 Memories | 3 decorative chests | Additional storage and building options for organizing crafting spaces. |
| 25 Memories | 4 eternal seeds | Larger sustainable farms, opening more advanced dishes and farming-related recipes. |
| 25 Memories | +1 max teleporter | Makes resource routes more efficient, speeding up crafting workflows. |
| 50 Memories | Morph potions | New alchemy recipes at the Alchemist’s Workbench, expanding potion options. |
| 50 Memories | 4 eternal seeds | Greater crop diversity, which unlocks more cooking and possibly other crafting recipes. |
| 50 Memories | +1 max teleporter | Even more flexible fast travel for high-tier resource runs. |
| 100 Memories | Ancient Gateway & portal fragments | Unlocks advanced portal structures, opening new zones and materials for late-game recipes. |
| 100 Memories | Backpack upgrade 2 | Larger inventory supports longer gathering trips and complex crafting chains. |
| 100 Memories | Decorative chests & eternal seeds | Further storage and farming options to support large-scale crafting bases. |
| 100 Memories | +2 max teleporters | Major fast-travel expansion to cover multiple biomes and outposts. |
| 200 Memories | Harvest trophy | Prestige reward that marks your farming and crafting progression. |
| 200 Memories | Decorative chests & eternal seeds | Final boosts to storage and sustainable farming for endgame crafting loops. |
| 200 Memories | +2 max teleporters | Near-max teleport network supporting every key resource area you maintain. |
If you want more crafting recipes in Hytale, your best move is to treat the Forgotten Temple and Memories system as an early priority and then pair it with consistent workstation upgrades. By exploring widely for new creatures, restoring Memories at the temple, expanding your teleporter network, and building out specialized stations supported by eternal-seed farms, you steadily uncover the full breadth of recipes the game has to offer.
