🌸 Project Sakura

A portal away from everything. A place that remembers you.

Step through a cherry-blossom portal into a quiet, handcrafted realm where pink petals drift through the air, Slothian villagers tend their shrines, and every block you place is yours to keep. The Sakura Grove is not a temporary instance — it is a permanent world that persists across portal exits, server restarts, and save reloads.

Build a home among the blossoms. It will still be there tomorrow.

🏯 What It Feels Like

Pink hills roll under a canopy of curved cherry trees. Petals fall in lazy spirals. A Slothian monk sits outside a stone pagoda while kids chase each other between torii gates. Follow a creek into a bamboo glade where ferns brush your knees — or keep walking until the trees thin and a purple carpet of lavender stretches to the horizon.

At dusk, the ambient music shifts. The sky deepens. Nocturnal creatures stir.

The Grove feels alive because it is — six original ambient tracks, per-biome lighting, two weather cycles, and a living ecosystem of ground animals, songbirds, koi, and wandering villagers.

🌿 Five Zones, Ten Faces

Each zone splits into two variants — same palette, different ground underfoot:

Each zone has its own environment — sky, fog, lighting, weather — plus unique ground cover, tree species, and map color. Biome boundaries blend smoothly, and the sub-variants share identical terrain so they flow naturally into each other.

🧱 700+ Builder Blocks

Three families. Twelve colorways. Every shape you need.

🌸 Sakura (5 colorways) — Classic, Pale Cherry, Deep Blossom, Petal Flecked, Aged 🟤 Plum (4 colorways) — Amber, Russet, Burgundy, Walnut 💜 Wisteria (3 colorways) — Pale, Classic, Deep

Each colorway includes:

• 🪵 11 wood structural shapes — planks, slabs, stairs, beams, fences, gates, roofs (5 pitches)
• 🪨 27 marble structural shapes — brick, smooth brick, cobblestone, and plain marble across walls, slabs, stairs, beams, roofs, pillars, and decorative blocks
• 🪑 16 furniture items — doors (3 sizes), trapdoors, ladders, windows, wardrobes, stools, benches, tables, beds, shelves, chests (2 sizes), platforms, jars
• ✨ 3 special items — braziers with colored flames, paintings, lanterns with colored glow

All craftable at the Builder's Workbench with variant-cycling UI. Use /buildshowcase to place every block in an organized grid and preview the full palette.

🔮 Vanilla Teleporter Integration

Sakura Teleporters work exactly like Hytale's built-in teleporters:

1. Craft a Sakura Teleporter at the Arcanebench (1 Iron Ingot, tier 1) 2. Place it in the overworld and step on 3. You're there. The Grove loads (or creates itself on first visit)

Right-click any pad to open the rune-naming dialog, pick destinations from the shared warp registry, or let the pad remember where you came from and send you back to that exact spot. Cross-world warps work both directions — overworld pads can target locations inside the Grove and vice versa.

🔒 Persistent Realm

This is not a disposable instance. The Sakura Grove is a permanent world — a peer to your overworld, saved to disk alongside it.

Every block you place, every path you carve, every shrine you decorate — it all survives portal exits, save reloads, and full server restarts.

Your return point is saved per-player: step on an entry pad, and the exit pad brings you back to the exact position you left from.

🎵 The Living Realm (v2.5)

• 🎶 6 ambient music tracks — separate day and night playlists that crossfade at dawn and dusk
• 🌅 Per-biome environments — each biome controls its own sky, fog, lighting, and weather
• ⛩️ 9 handcrafted structures — torii gates, hokora shrines, pagodas, pavilions, teahouses, bridges, stone lanterns
• 🏘️ Slothian villages — hunting camps, merchant stalls, shrines, temples, wells, and houses populated by villagers, kids, elders, monks, scouts, and warriors
• ♨️ Hot springs — basalt rock formations and heated pools in Hanami Pond
• 🌱 Per-biome ground cover — each biome has its own vegetation tuned to its surface

🌙 v2.8 — The Living Grove

• 10 sub-biomes — each zone has two prop variants to discover
• Day/night atmosphere — per-zone DeepNight weather with heavier fog and zone-tinted particles
• Vanilla Teleporter Uplift — unified Sakura Teleporter pad with rune-naming UI and shared warp registry
• Instance discovery title — "Sakura Grove" shows when entering
• Existing player worlds safe — sub-biomes only affect new chunks

🔧 v2.6 — The Quality & Polish Update

Every block, texture, and translation audited and fixed:

• ✅ 552 blocks now render their correct Sakura/Plum/Wisteria textures (were silently showing vanilla)
• ✅ 108 fence and roof states now carry the right texture in all orientations
• ✅ 30 textures hand-corrected (roof tile variants, marble stair art, icon scaling)
• ✅ 8 blocks added to creative inventory that were previously missing
• ✅ Translation prefix fixed (display names now resolve correctly)
• ✅ Wisteria saplings now grow into 4 tree variants (was always the same tree)
• 🐛 Spawn platform bug fixed (no longer destroys player builds on repeat portal use)
• 🐛 Return point persistence fixed (no longer lost on server shutdown)
• 🤝 Fully backwards-compatible with v2.5 saves — no gameplay changes

🔗 Compatibility

• Hytale Update 4 and Update 5 — supported via ServerVersion wildcard
• Other mods — Project Sakura lives in its own realm and does not touch the overworld. Plays nicely with biome mods, structure mods, and gameplay mods
• Companion mods by LordDionysus: Turning Seasons (atmospheric overworld variety) and Structure Atlas (structure discovery)

📦 Install

1. Download the .zip and extract it anywhere (right-click → Extract All) ⚠️ Don't put the .zip itself into Mods — the mod can't run from inside the zip
2. Copy both pieces into your Hytale Mods folder %APPDATA%\Hytale\UserData\Mods\: Project Sakura/ (the whole folder) and SakuraCommands.jar (the file), side by side
3. Launch Hytale, open your save, and enable both Project Sakura and Sakura Commands in mod settings
4. Craft a Sakura Teleporter at the Arcanebench and step on it

⚠️ Commands "not found", or the portal does nothing?

The plugin isn't loaded. Usual causes: the .zip itself was placed in Mods (it can even show in the mod list, looking installed while containing no runnable code), or only the folder was copied without SakuraCommands.jar. Fix: remove any Project Sakura .zip from Mods, make sure both the Project Sakura folder and SakuraCommands.jar sit directly inside Mods, tick both on for your world, and restart the world.

Upgrading from v2.2–2.5: Delete the old .jar before installing the new one. Your builds, teleporter pads, and return points carry over.

Upgrading from v1.x: Craft a new Sakura Teleporter (old Portal Keys are no longer recognized). V1 builds in the ephemeral realm were never saved to disk — the persistent realm starts fresh on first portal use.

🥀 The Other Side

Every grove has a shadow. If you love the Sakura Grove's quiet beauty, you might want to see what happens when it all goes wrong.

The Blighted Grove is the dark twin — a corrupted realm where the petals fell, the water turned, and the land itself became the threat. Ten poisoned biomes, tar that mires your steps, miasma that rots you on contact, and a Blight Dragon nesting in the jagged highlands. Same persistent-world architecture. Opposite mood entirely.

The Grove gave. This one only takes.

🌸 From the Author

I built this mod because I wanted a quiet place in Hytale — somewhere away from the survival loop where I could just… build. The Grove started as a single pink biome and grew into a five-biome realm with villages, music, and 700 blocks to build with. Every update has been shaped by player feedback, and every version has been tested on a live server before release.

If something breaks, let me know. If something's missing, tell me what you'd build with it.

The Grove is your second home. This time, it'll be there when you come back.

— LordDionysus 🌸