How to Repair Items in Hytale

Exploring the fantastical world of Orbis in Hytale is an absolute blast—until your favorite sword starts falling apart mid-adventure. Like most survival games, your gear degrades with use, and eventually, everything breaks down to the point of being totally useless. You can fix your stuff using Repair Kits. The not-so-good news? These kits require some effort to craft, and there’s a catch to using them.

Let me walk you through everything you need to know about repairing items in Hytale.

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How to Craft Repair Kits in Hytale

Repair Kits are consumable items you’ll craft at a Workbench. They’re not complicated to make, but gathering the materials takes some legwork. Here’s what you need for one Repair Kit:

• 2 Linen Scraps
• 1 Iron Ingot
• 1 Light Leather

Getting the Materials

Iron Ingots are straightforward smelt Iron Ore in a Furnace, and you’re good to go. Nothing fancy here.

Light Leather requires you to process Light Hide at a Tannery. Again, pretty simple once you have the raw materials.

Linen Scraps are the real bottleneck. As far as anyone knows, you can’t craft these—you have to loot them from humanoid enemies. Your best bet is hunting down Skeletons and Trorks at camps scattered across the map. The upside? These camps are easy to locate by opening your map and looking for the camp markers. Even better, the monsters respawn after a while, so you can farm the same locations repeatedly when you need more scraps.

Pro tip: Make farming runs a regular habit. Stock up on Linen Scraps whenever you’re passing by a camp so you’re not scrambling for materials when your gear is on its last legs.

How to Use Repair Kits in Hytale

Using a Repair Kit is pretty intuitive once you know the steps:

1. Head to a Workbench and open the crafting menu
2. Navigate to the Tools tab you’ll see the Repair Kit icon in the first slot
3. Craft your Repair Kits and add one to your hotbar
4. Press the Right Mouse Button while the Repair Kit is equipped
5. A window will pop up showing all repairable items in your inventory
6. Select the item you want to fix, and the Repair Kit will be consumed

Simple enough, right? But here’s where things get interesting (and slightly frustrating).

The Durability Penalty: What You Need to Know

Here’s the catch that might sting a bit: every time you use a Repair Kit on an item, its maximum durability decreases by 10%.

Let that sink in for a second. If you keep repairing the same pickaxe or sword over and over, eventually it’ll reach a point where it can’t be repaired anymore it’s permanently broken. There’s currently no known way to restore that lost maximum durability (unless you’re using mods), so each repair brings your gear one step closer to retirement.

Smart Repair Strategies

Given this penalty system, you’ll want to be strategic about what you repair:

• Save Repair Kits for valuable gear: Armor and weapons that take a long time to craft or require rare materials (like Cindercloth Scraps) are worth repairing.
• Craft multiple copies of tools: Pickaxes, axes, and other tools you use constantly should have backups. It’s often cheaper to craft a fresh tool than to keep repairing the same one.
• Track your durability: Pay attention to how degraded an item is. Sometimes it’s better to let it break completely and craft a new one rather than waste a Repair Kit on something that’s nearly done anyway.
• Stockpile materials: Always have the components for Repair Kits on hand. Running out of Linen Scraps at a critical moment is no fun.

Think of Repair Kits as a temporary solution for your best gear, not a permanent fix. Eventually, everything breaks for good—that’s just part of the survival experience.

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