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:
- Head to a Workbench and open the crafting menu
- Navigate to the Tools tab you’ll see the Repair Kit icon in the first slot
- Craft your Repair Kits and add one to your hotbar
- Press the Right Mouse Button while the Repair Kit is equipped
- A window will pop up showing all repairable items in your inventory
- 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.
FAQ
Can I repair items without using Repair Kits?
Not currently. Repair Kits are the only known method for fixing damaged gear in Hytale. There’s no anvil system or alternative repair method available right now.
What happens when an item reaches 0% maximum durability?
Once you’ve repaired an item enough times that its maximum durability drops to zero (or close to it), the item is permanently broken and can’t be repaired anymore. You’ll need to craft a replacement.
Where’s the best place to farm Linen Scraps?
Look for humanoid enemy camps on your map these are marked and easy to find. Skeletons and Trorks both drop Linen Scraps. Since these camps respawn, you can return to the same locations repeatedly for farming runs.
Should I repair rare armor made with materials like Cindercloth Scraps?
Absolutely. High-tier gear that requires hard-to-farm materials (like the Adamantite equipment you craft with Cindercloth Scraps) is definitely worth repairing. Save your Repair Kits for this kind of valuable equipment rather than basic tools you can easily replace.
