Hytale Patch Notes - Update 4 (over 500 blocks added, proximity voice chat)!
Official News
Game Update
(hytale.com)
Oh, yeah, the modding community is way too fractured for there to be bigger tech servers, especially when modpacks just run really poorly on servers. Hytale is actually avoiding this by having all mods be server-side, meaning you can easily just join modded servers without having to juggle different clients. It's one of the best things about the game.