Evertrail — Hytale Survival RPG

A server that feels like one world

Evertrail is a live Hytale Survival RPG network. I lead the server and web development, turning a fast-moving early-access API into a persistent experience with its own progression, economy, social layer, protected building, quests, minigames, and player-facing interfaces.

1,000+unique players

10+custom gameplay systems

LIVEpublic production server

A major content update in motion: quest progression, paid jobs, permanent plots, and the lobby banker are introduced as parts of the same economy.

Designing one journey across three servers

Evertrail is split into spaces with different promises, but players should never feel as if they are starting over. I designed the network around a central lobby and two persistent play styles, then built the routing and shared systems that hold them together.

Tabern Lobby

The social hub: traders, NPC services, server selection, and a reliable route back from every world.

Survival PvE

Exploration, building, jobs, quests, coins, levels, claims, and a progression loop that rewards regular play.

Parcels

A long-term building world designed to preserve important creations even when Survival needs to change.

LobbyManager, the custom door menu, referrals, and server-aware presence make movement between those spaces feel like navigation inside one product rather than a collection of unrelated servers.

One player identity, everywhere

The technical core is a custom Java player-management plugin backed by Supabase. It talks to the database asynchronously through a REST layer, keeps local caches for gameplay-sensitive paths, and gives every server access to the same source of truth.

That shared profile carries coins, level and EXP, job state, quest progress, backpack contents, friends, presence, and server location. The system also records sessions and gameplay events, giving the team a foundation for understanding how the network is actually used.

The social menu combines requests, online state, current server, last seen, and private messages in one native Hytale UI.

NPCs turn backend systems into understandable interactions: take a job, deposit coins, and withdraw them from another server.

Building systems players can trust

Land ownership is more than drawing a rectangle. The claim system protects block placement, breaking, and container use; supports invitations and granular preferences; maintains the claim chest; visualizes boundaries; and tells players when they enter or leave protected space.

Parcels reuse the same product thinking for permanent building: purchasing, ownership, navigation, vendor UI, protection rules, and transfers back to the lobby are handled as one flow.

The claim flow gives immediate spatial feedback and keeps the protection model visible instead of hiding it behind commands.

From infrastructure to playful mechanics

The same plugin surface supports smaller mechanics that give the server personality. I prototyped and shipped movement tools, custom interactions, NPC actions, UI pages, protected zones, random teleportation, and complete match loops.

A craftable paraglider turns exploration into a smoother traversal loop with a simple in-world interaction.

Hide & Seek with chickens grew from an API experiment into a playable server minigame with its own waiting area.

A web platform around the game

I also built Evertrail’s public web surface with Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind, and server-rendered routes. The English and Spanish experience connects a branded landing page, live server address, Discord, store, and a dedicated wiki with onboarding, rules, and system-specific guides.

The wider web architecture includes sitemap and subdomain routing, rate-limited endpoints, Supabase integration, a store catalog and basket flow, Tebex checkout/webhook handling, webhook auditing and replay tooling, and Docker/Nginx deployment configuration. It gives the game team a real operating surface, not just a marketing page.

Cliffside Hytale landscape used in Evertrail's visual identity — The web direction pairs a restrained interface with the scale and warmth of the world players are joining.

Hytale landscape artwork used across the Evertrail website — English and Spanish content, wiki guides, store flows, and community links share one recognizable visual system.

Custom plugin surface

Player ManagementClaimZoneLobby ManagerDoor MenuParcelsJob SystemQuest SystemSocial MenuSkyWarsRandom TeleportZone LimitsSpawn ProtectionPlayer Count

The modules are built with Gradle against the Hytale Server API and make direct use of its event-driven ECS, commands, custom UI pages and HUDs, interactions, NPC actions, asset packs, world state, and player-referral primitives. Keeping those concerns modular has been essential while the underlying game and API continue to evolve.

My role

Lead Developer · Server & Web

Designed the cross-server product architecture and persistent player model.
Developed the custom Java gameplay plugins, UI flows, commands, protections, and server routing.
Built shared progression, economy, banking, inventory, quests, jobs, friends, presence, and telemetry on Supabase.
Built the bilingual Astro website, wiki, store integration, webhooks, and deployment setup.
Prototyped in public, turned community-facing experiments into shipped features, and documented the experience for players.

Stack

Java, Gradle, Hytale Server API, ECS, events, custom UI/HUD, and asset packs
Supabase/PostgREST, OkHttp, Gson, asynchronous persistence, and local caches
Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Supabase JS, Zod, and Tebex
Docker, Nginx, server-side rendering, bilingual routing, and technical documentation

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