Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-178.191.197.62-20190106202318/@comment-29620769-20190106212849

I don't believe hytale will ever really become as popular as minecraft. - A major reason there will be that minecraft is significantly older, and hytale will be seen as a copy of it. - Then also there won't be enough content in Hytale to attract players from the start, and players will eventually return to minecraft. Then they will have hard time changing their minds about Hytale anymore, when it gets lots of content. - Then, from what I have seen, it won't be as blocky as minecraft, which will also make it more confusing to people who are only expecting improved minecraft.

Then also it would require completely rewriting the mod, and hytale uses significantly more detailed textures, which would either mean using textures that are completely out of place, or recreating every single texture in the mod. And also some minecraft features might not exist in Hytale, or might work very differently. I mean things like poison, wither, strength effect, fall damage, burning, AoE effects, armor and weapons (I think moving the combat system might be rather big job)

Obviously it could be nice if it was done, but would it be worth the time, when the time could also be spent adding new features to the mod? I doubt it.