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Just a few notes:

• This is not a flatpak, it uses the native version provided here

• I have added this package to my mono-repo which can be found here

• useful folders:

.................... ~/.local/share/Hytale/ << Hytale Storage Location

• This is self-updating, it will initially install it into your /opt folder then when you run the launcher a script checks if a folder has been generated and then moves the binary to that folder if it has not been gen'd. afterwords it is up to the launcher to keep itself up to date.

• Uninstalling this removes almost everything except for the Hytale folder, This folder contain's game related data, such as the EULA, account data, launcher logs, licenses, and potentially game data, so delete at you're own risk

• If you are having issue's try deleting this folder:

.................... ~/.local/share/Hytale/install/

it should not contain any game data (but maybe check just in case) after deleting update/run the 'hytale-launcher' it may fix the issue.

I have decided to try adding all (2 :/) of my repo's to a single managed repository hosted on Codeberg. I have done this for two main reasons:

1. this is easier to manage my small number of repo's that I have.

2. Automation. Hytale seems to like to remove the hytale binary that this uses before I have a chance to update the package, causing it to break :( As I work a full time job and have other hobbies besides sitting at my computer, this potentially leaves the package unusable for hours/days. So Automation.

You can find the repo with all the code here

Currently this AUR is setup to check for updates every 6 hours and only update if it is broken.

my bad, was rushing the update before work and overlooked that.

Upgrading from 2026.04.20-1 to 2026.04.20-2 does not seem to work for me, though it doesn't present an error except for this message:

Hytale Launcher has been updated in '/opt/hytale-launcher-bin'
   Your local copy in '/home/root/.local/share/hytale-launcher/bin/'
   will not be touched if the 'bin' directory exists.

Running paru -Syu repeatedly just repeats the same attempted operation. Is any manual intervention required here?

pkgrel in .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD is different causing paru to always think this needs updated. please update the .SRCINFO

@Kangy1103: This should now be fixed.

context: The reason this happens is when they update the launcher, they sometimes remove the old download link pretty quickly, and in this case before I had the time to update to the newer link.

Hi, this package doesn't install for me with the following error

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://launcher.hytale.com/builds/release/linux/amd64/hytale-launcher-2026.04.16-ec7a5a4.zip

For those who want to run Hytale on the dedicated/discrete GPU on mobile environments, just update the very last line in /usr/bin/hytale-launcher with

# For NVIDIA GPUs
WAYLAND_DISPLAY= prime-run exec "./$BIN_NAME" "$@"

# For Radeon GPUs
DRI_PRIME=1 WAYLAND_DISPLAY= exec "./$BIN_NAME" "$@"

You cannot (as far as I know) run directly prime-run hytale-launcher as exec will destroy the enforced environment variables, which in turn ignores your request to launch the game with the dedicated/discrete GPU. Not sure how this can be properly fixed.

I decided to also unset WAYLAND_DISPLAY as the launcher itself has otherwise two separate titlebars, at least on KDE/Wayland. I believe the launcher could be patched to fix this.

@Knotrocket: tested and removed. thank you!

The Nautilus bug has now been fixed in the Game's release branch.

I know this has been an issue before but I'm getting a 404 on the latest release again: https://launcher.hytale.com/builds/release/linux/amd64/hytale-launcher-2026.02.06-b95ae53.zip returning 404