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+authors:
+  - name: Oliver Schlüter
+    email: oliver@fancyinnovations.com
+    link: https://github.com/OliverSchlueter
+    avatar: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/79666085?v=4
+
+date: 2025-11-24
+title: "Introducing Hytale Plugins"
+description: "The first Hytale plugin by FancyInnovations will be: FancyCore, a powerful plugin that provides a wide range of features and tools for Hytale server owners."
+---
+
+![](../static/blogs/introducing-hytale-plugins/hytale-plugins.png)
+
+[Hytale](https://hytale.com/) is finally heading into early access, and I couldn’t be more excited. With that, I’m thrilled to announce that **FancyInnovations will be creating server-side plugins for the Hytale ecosystem**.
+
+The moment I read the [“Hytale is saved!”](https://hytale.com/news/2025/11/hytale-is-saved) announcement, my brain immediately jumped into brainstorming mode.
+After digging through the currently available information about Hytale modding, one thing became very clear:
+
+**Hytale needs a plugin that provides a strong set of essential features — a foundation others can build on.**
+
+And that’s exactly what I’m creating.
+
+## Introducing FancyCore
+
+With FancyCore I want to create a platform where gamemode specific plugins can be built on. It will cover many features you probably would expect from a core plugin.
+
+Let’s look at some features:
+
+- Teleportation (teleport, teleport request, teleport all, spawn, warps, player homes, …)
+- World (create, teleport, change day time, weather, spawn protection, …)
+- Inventory (kits, virtual backpacks, …)
+- Economy (balance, pay, sell items, shops, …)
+- Chat (chat format, player-to-player messages, nicknames, help, rules, broadcast, mute chat, clear chat, chat rooms, …)
+- Moderation (report, warn, kick, mute, ban, chat / command history, vanish, sudo, …)
+- Permissions (groups, permissions, …)
+- Server (list online players, uptime, tps, mspt, cpu usage, ram usage, disk usage, …)
+- Player (gamemode, playtime, fly, heal, feed, god, ping, …)
+- Easy to use API
+
+Notable API features:
+
+- Permissions API
+- Economy API
+- Placeholder API
+
+Other features for the future:
+
+- Discord integration
+- Built-in WebUI
+
+This is a long list of features and not all will be available on day 1.
+As I am writing this blog post, there is no public Hytale API documentation, so all I can do at the moment is write all the business logic and implement the actual commands and other Hytale specific features as soon as the API documentation is available.
+
+For now, it will be a big all-in-one plugin, in the future I might create separate plugins for each category, but that's not final yet.
+
+**FancyCore will be a Hytale only plugin**, I don’t plan to create a Minecraft plugin out of this at the moment. 
+For now the plan is to get FancyCore working for Hytale as soon as possible while, but while keeping a good quality.
+
+The plugin will be free and open-source, just like all Minecraft plugins. You can already take a look at the new mono-repo for Hytale plugins [here](https://github.com/FancyInnovations/HytalePlugins). 
+Some parts that don’t require the Hytale server dependency are already being worked on.
+Feel free to take a look and contribute to it if you want.
+
+Parts of the documentation is also already written (mostly the commands). You can take a look at it here.
+
+From what I’ve seen, you won’t be able to upload Hytale plugins to Modrinth (just speculations). 
+The only popular platform that supports distribution of Hytale plugins is Curseforge. 
+I'm currently not sure if I want to distribute FancyCore there.
+In the meanwhile I’ve been programming a little download service myself to distribute Hytale plugins, so they will for sure be available on the fancyinnovations.com website.
+I know the community is currently working on alternative platforms as well, so we will see how that develops.
+
+## FancyAnalytics
+
+Alongside FancyCore, I’ll also be releasing FancyAnalytics for Hytale — a toolset for gathering analytics from your Hytale server or plugins.
+
+It will include:
+* A Hytale plugin for collecting metrics such as online players, TPS, entity counts, CPU usage, and more
+* An SDK for plugin developers to track usage metrics, including support for custom data points
+
+This gives developers powerful insight into how their plugins are used — and helps server owners better understand performance.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+If you’re as excited as I am about Hytale — and FancyCore — then join our Discord community!
+Assign yourself the “FancyCore” role to get all the latest updates.
+I'm currently working on it daily and will share progress updates there.
+
+If you have any suggestions or feature requests for FancyCore, feel free to share them in the `#core-discussion` channel or DM me directly (`real_oliver`).
+
+There’s also a dedicated channel for general Hytale news.
+(The release date for early access will be announced this week!)
+
+*Oliver*