Hytale devs looking to "speed up production" with weekly pre-release updates as the team aims to be "more adventurous" with patches

Simon Collins-Laflamme, CEO of Hypixel, has released a statement that outlines the studio's pre-release plans going forward, including a weekly update schedule and an approximately monthly release schedule, which is designed so that the team spends "more time building, [and] less time shipping."

Making the statement from his Twitter account, Collins-Laflamme makes a distinction between the weekly pre-release updates and larger and more sporadic release patches. "Going forward, we’ll use the pre-release patchline to be a bit more adventurous," he writes. "It will be updated weekly and may be unstable by design; this is where new features, larger changes, and iterations happen."

He also says that the team will inevitably skip updates from time-to-time for "holidays, PTO, or other reasons." When the pre-release updates are stable, then a complete package of these updates will launch. "Once we’re comfortable with the pre-release state (can be a result of one or several updates), we’ll schedule it to release and communicate to everyone," he adds.

Collins-Laflamme further outlines that there will be roughly five pre-release updates, culminating in a single larger release patch. "To clarify, if we update the pre-release with like 5 updates, the release will contain those 5 updates," he says.

He ends the message by saying that the team will update players beforehand so that people can prepare and back up their mods and servers before anything in the game is changed. It seems like the moment Hypixel got hold of Hytale, things are moving faster than anyone could have hoped.

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