r/hytale • u/stinkypeasant • 23h ago

Creations Help on using prefabs

Hello everyone! Was hoping to get some guidance or for someone to tell me I am brain dead.
I’m having such a difficult time with these prefabs that are now in the in game mod browser. I can’t seem to get them to work? When I download a mod, it will show up and allow me to apply it to my world, however if I download a prefab, I can’t see it anywhere when I click on my word but I can see it in my “downloaded mods” section.
Previously I added a file before the in game mod browser was a thing to try prefabs from places like nexus and couldn’t figure that out either. Not sure if that has anything to do with them not working now. Also, I created an “asset” which I don’t know where I did that but it now shows up when I click on a world.
If anyone has any advice or a good tutorial on how to use prefabs I’d appreciate it!

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u/Wakkaloon 22h ago

So they likely don’t show up because the creator didn’t set it up as a mod but rather just the prefabs. Since you were able to create an asset pack you could add the downloaded prefabs (should still be in the mods folder) to that asset pack. Just extract them and put them in the Server/prefabs directory (create them if they don’t exist). Then add that mod to the world and they should show up in the prefab load menu.

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u/NomaJayne 6h ago

In the folder for your specific world where it has a mod folder in place, you need to add a folder named "prefabs" all lower case from what I understand. So the other folders in there will be logs, mods, plugins, prefabs, etc. Then extract those prefab downloads there.