Hytale: Backpack Crafting Recipe & Guide

This guide details how to craft a backpack in Hytale to expand your character’s limited inventory space. The process involves preparing a workbench, gathering specific materials, and crafting an unlocker item that permanently adds storage slots. Subsequent upgrades further increase this capacity, allowing for extended exploration and resource gathering without constant returns to a home base. Following these steps provides a significant advantage for managing the vast quantity of items found throughout the world of Orbis.

How To Craft A Backpack

Crafting the initial Hytale backpack begins with establishing a proper crafting station. You must first build a Level 1 Workbench, which requires four wood logs and three stones. After placing the workbench, its "Crafting" tab will display the backpack recipe. Be certain of the workbench’s location, as moving it will reset its upgrade level, wasting any invested materials.

• Iron Ingots: 8
• Medium Leather: 8

With the workbench ready, the next step is to gather the necessary components. Iron Ingots are produced by smelting iron ore, which is commonly found inside desert caves or on mountain peaks. Medium Leather is obtained by processing animal hides, such as those from deer, rabbits, or wolves, on a Tanning Rack. Once you have collected eight of each material, you can use the workbench to produce the backpack unlocker item. This item appears as a piece of paper or parchment in your inventory.

Backpack Guide: Use & Upgrade

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The crafted backpack is not an equippable item that your character wears. Instead, it functions as a permanent inventory expansion. To activate it, place the unlocker item on your hotbar and right-click. The item will be consumed, and a new backpack tab will appear in your inventory interface, located to the right of your character model below the Memories icon. Clicking this tab reveals the new storage section. The initial backpack provides nine additional inventory slots.

1. Upgrade the Workbench to Tier 2.
2. Craft Backpack Upgrade I.
3. Unlock 100 Memories at the Forgotten Temple.
4. Craft Backpack Upgrade II.

To upgrade the backpack in Hytale, you must first advance your workbench to Tier 2, which costs 30 Copper Ingots, 20 Iron Ingots, and 20 Linen Scraps. This unlocks the recipe for Backpack Upgrade I in the "Tinkering" tab. Crafting this upgrade requires 40 Cindercloth Scraps, 8 Cobalt Ingots, and 24 Heavy Leather, and it expands your backpack storage to 18 slots. The final upgrade, Backpack Upgrade II, has a unique unlock requirement. You must first collect and restore 100 Memories at a Forgotten Temple. These temples are marked by vortex icons on the map. Once 100 Memories are unlocked, the recipe for Backpack Upgrade II becomes available at the workbench. It requires 1 Voidheart, 8 Adamantite Ingots, and 16 Storm Leather. This last upgrade increases the backpack’s capacity to its maximum of 27 slots. I see that Storm Leather is currently not available in adventure mode; the only way to obtain it is by using the admin console command/spawnitem ingredient_hide_storm to spawn the necessary hide for crafting.

More About Hytale

Efficiently traversing the expansive world of Orbis is managed through a network of teleporters. So, Hytale's teleport system allows for instantaneous travel between any two linked points, which is crucial for exploration and base management. Crafting teleporters requires an Arcanist's Workbench, which itself can only be built after upgrading a standard workbench to Level 2. The recipe for two teleporters calls for 10 stone, 8 Azure Logs, and 2 Azure Kelp, with the capacity for more teleporters unlocked by turning in Memories at a Forgotten Temple.

The combat system is divided into melee, ranged, and magic paths, and all Hytale weapon recipes follow a tiered material progression. I counted eight primary weapon types: swords, maces, battleaxes, daggers, shortbows, staffs, shields, and crossbows. Crafting advancement begins with basic materials and progresses through Crude, Copper, Iron, Thorium, Cobalt, Adamantite, and Mithril tiers, with each level requiring upgraded crafting stations like the Blacksmith’s Anvil or Armorer’s Workbench. Weapon durability decreases with use and can be restored with a Repair Kit, though each repair slightly lowers the weapon’s maximum durability. This system encourages strategic crafting and resource management as players face greater challenges.