Tutorial:Ironman Guide

Preword
An Ironman profile is an alternative, but harder way of playing SkyBlock.

Ironman profiles have several differences compared to a normal profile:
 * Bazaar (except for booster cookies) and Auction house are disabled
 * You cannot trade with players that are not in your co-op (if you have one)
 * Drops from people that are not in your co-op can't be picked up
 * However, you may still pick up drops from mobs that other people killed, or from blocks mined by other players if they did not pick the item before you do. You still cannot pick up items that have a pick up priority for another player.

These challenges are intended to make skyblock closer to an actual MMORPG, where you have to grind everything by yourself.
 * The ♻ icon will appear next to your name while on an Ironman profile. this doesn't appear on the player list menu by pressing tab.

This guide is only a sugestion of playing the ironman Gammode feel free to play the game how you want, it´s for fun after all.

Deep Caverns
When you first start your ironman, you should get yourself an Undead Sword, which you reforge with 10 Coal and put Telekenis on it with Rusty. You can either go for Mushroom Armour, Lapis Armour or normal Diamond armour for your time in the deep caverns, but i personally would recomend Mushroom armour due to how good it is during the night. Enchant your Undead Sword with Smite and get enough materials of Coal, Redstone, Diamonds,(Emerald) and Lapis to craft their respectable minions. Put on all these minions and keep on mining the blocks the minions place to get a lot of experience in mining and in Vanilla xp to enchant your armour and your Undead Sword. After you mined all the blocks the minions placed get diffrent collections to archieve more minion slots, and repeat till you have unlocked the Dwarwen Mines.

Dwarwen Mines
Here you can get yourself the Glacite Armour, by killing Ice Walkers at the Icewall with your pickaxe. Once you have a few pieces Enchant them with Growth, protection and reforge them to Pure/Fierce ,since Glacite will be your main Combat Armour till you have actually decent armour. Keep on grinding the Ice Walkers ,till you have the full set.

With your Glacite Armour you should consider buying a Fractured Mithril Pickaxe if you have 10.000 Coins to mine Titanium. Then you should start doing your Daily Commisions, since the first 4 commisions daily give an extra 900 HOTM XP and you wanna get Heart of the Mountain 3 pretty soon, since it unlocks the Crystal Hollows.

Obtaining
You can either let the Emerald minions get the Materials, since it doesn´t overfill that fast with a compactor, or mine for it at the Minecards in the Dwarwen Mines.

Why Emerald Blade
The Emerald Blade has a Base Damage of 140, making it already comparable to a MAXED OUT Raiders axe, which can be further improved with more coins in your purse. The main disadvantage of this is that you lose half of your coins on death. To prevent to lose coins on death you should consider crafting a Piggy Bank, so that the piggy bank breaks and not your Purse. You can repair the Piggy Bank with 8 Enchanted Pork each time, making the loss mininimal.

How to get coins for a Emerald Blade
Once you got your Emerald Blade Enchant it with Sharpness, Scavenger, Vampirism and Lifesteal. Then start killing Goblins since it easily makes over 200.000 Coins per Hour, and with full Glacite these Goblins aren´t much of a threat to die to. Keep Grinding them till you have over 400.000 coins. With this you should be able to 1 shot Zealots easily.

Fairy Souls
If you still struggle to 1 shot Zealots using a 400k Emerald Blade you can get a Grappling Hook, Enderpearls or an Aspect of the End to get a few Fairy Souls. These increase your HP, Defence and your Stregth each time you give them Tia the fairy.

Talismans
You should always have a Redstone Minion running for the Collection to unlock a bigger Accesory Bag. The accesory bag holds your Talismans, while giving you the stat boosts of the Accesories inside it as well as the reforges you have on your Talismans. The Talismans should be reforged to give Strength or Critical Damage, to further increase your damage with Meele Weapons.

Easy To get Talismans

 * Farming Talisman
 * Vaccine Talisman
 * Potion Affinity Talisman
 * Talisman of Coins
 * Magnetic Talisman
 * Zombie Talisman
 * Skeleton Talisman
 * Village Affinity Talisman
 * Mine Affinity Talisman
 * Intimdation Talisman
 * Shiny Yellow Rock (Romeo and Julia Quest)

Potions
Potions temporarily increases certain stats making them very powerful if you struggle with anything, while costing almost nothing. Good potions as such are The dungeon potion 1 obtainable in the dungeon hub at ophelia for 5.000 coins. The Spirit Potions are obtainable during the spooky Festival with 1 Green Candy. If you have the collection you can go for higher Tier Potions with Enchanted Glowstone, such as The strength Potion 5, Critical Potion 3 and the Spirit Potion 3.

Combat Level
Each Combat Level increases your Total Damage by a certain % so 1 combat level usually means 4% more total damage making it incredibly powerful to level up in combat.

Dragon Armour
Dragon Armour is a must have for higher dungeon, since it can be starred without a catacombs requirement, while being better then Adaptive Armour. There are 2 ways to obtain dragon armour, dragons or through dungeons by killing Lost Adventures.

Dragons
To 1 Shot Zealots with your Emerald blade need to have the following Enchants. Enderslayer, Sharpness, Giant Killer, First Strike, Fire Aspect, Execute. You might wanna reforge The Emerald blade to Sharp or Odd to always Critically Strike, which makes your 1 Shot consistent. Good enchantments which are usefull but don´t increase your damage are Vampirism, Life Steal, Looting, Scavenger and Luck.

You can grind Summoning Eyes by killing the Zealots, in the Dragons Den, which sometimes a special Zealot who always drops a summoning eye. Once you acquired 4 Summoning Eyes you need a range weapon to hit the dragon once. It´s also HEAVLY recomended to use Magic Find Potions to reduce the chance of getting only dragon Fragments and increase the odds of getting Dragon Armour or an Aspect of the Dragons! You can acquire Magic Find Potions during the Spooky Festival for 10 Green Candy. Once you got them keep placing 4 Eyes till you have gotten an Aspect of the Dragons. This usually takes no more then 6 Dragons.

Warning this can be very frustrating, since people with 400 Speed or ranged weapons can kill Zealots right before your Eyes.

Dungeons
Before you can even start this it is highly recommendated to get around 200 Fairy Souls to get a huge Stat boost, but the more the better.

Dungeons are tuff without the right gear, good for you the mobs in dungeons drop Loot, which is powerful enough to take down Minibosses and allows you to survive the clear. Such as the Heavy armour with Shadow Googles, reforged to wise/smart with a Dreadlord Sword allows you to deal decent damage against most mobs, in the entrance,F1 and to some extend F2. If you aplied enough stars to them.

Otherwise you can use full Rotten Armour with a melee weapon of your choice, as long as it can be starred.

In some rooms there spawns a Miniboss, which can be a Lost Adventurer, who drops dragon Fragments when killed. The Amount of Dragon Fragments can be further Increased with the Looting Enchantment.

Getting coins
Coins are a important part of Hypixel Skyblock and are needed for many things such as the dark auction, Cat Upgrade costs, more damage for your Emerald Blade, Npc´s and the post Boss Loot chests in Dungeons. There is no real going around this, you will have to get coins someway or another.

Selling Minion Output to NPC
As said just put up some Clay or Snow Minions with diamond Spreading in them. They make around 1.000.000 coins per day. The main drawback is that you can´t use your Minions for Item production such as Taratula Minions and Flint Minions to sustain the later more expensive Recepies, but it can sustain you till F4.

Farming
When you have a builderswand you are able to make gigantic Farms on your island, and a few of the crops have decent npc sell prizes, such as sugarcane and Netherwart. In the beggining this might seem like a good money making method toping of at around 3.000.000 coins per hour, but this requires a lot of dedication to archieve. Since it can take hundreds of hours to even hit farming 45. Since Sugarcane has to be placed by hand it takes time and effort to even get started, and you have to get yourself a Legendary Elephant for more farming Fortune, to almost double your output. The problem the Elephant costs around 12.000.000 coins to get.

Mining
Mining takes by far the longest time to get going, taking hundreds of hours to even get enough Powder to get a decent HOTM or even HOTM 7. The main advantage is it tops of at around 30.000.000 coins per hour. That´s 10 times as much as farming does. Of course it takes almost 5 times as long to get there, but with the ever rising inflation farming isn´t enough anymore, when a Flower Minion goes for 20.000.000 coins or more. I will describe in the Mining Part how to really get going with Mining.

Starting to grind Dungeons
Now with a decent money making method, you can start buying expensive Dungeon drops such as rare Loot and recombolators, to further stregthening your Gear and Talismans.

Since dungeons is now hard to survive, because of the life steal nerf you need to build a Potato Farm or put down a Potato minion, because all the gear you wanna use has to be Hot Potato Booked, it gives you so much more survivabilty it´s  a nessacity.

If you are playing party finder there is really only one way to play f1-f4 and this is as a mage. As previosly mentioned the strenth nerf made a lot of weapons, who were relying on their high stregth Values become very bad. So only the mage Weapons stayed viable, such as the Dreadlord Sword the Bonzo Staff and the Spirit Septer. One of the few weapons you can use as a berserker is the starred Aspect of the Dragons, or a Spirit Sword. almost all other dungeons swords and Bows are COMPLETLY USELESS, with the exception of the Silent death, and Adaptiv Blade which are kinda useable. If you are playing with a group of friends or players on your level you can beat the floors with way worse Gear, but it takes more effort to beat the floors. Once you accumlated enough Dragon Essense convert your Dragon Armour into an Dunegon Item To receive Dungeon scaling and start starring it.

Now to your reforges as a berserk you wanna reforge your Unstable/Strong Dragon armour to Fierce.

As a Mage you should put Loving on any dragon armour Chestplate, necrotic on the Leggings and the boots and Necrotic on the highest Googles you can use.

If you play Tank you either want reinforced, which you can get by mining diamonds in the Deep Caverns giving you rare Diamonds, or Titanic from The blacksmith on your dragon armour.

With this kind of gear you should be able to progress to F4 or even F5.

Mithril and Gemstone Mining 3-5
You have archieved HOTM 3, with your daily commisions now it is time to enter the crystal hollows and get a few Gemstones for your Glacite armour. Jade increases your mining fortune and amber increases your mining speed, which both increases your yield. To get these Gemstones easily it is advised to do a Crystal Nucleus run.

''Tips for the Crystal nucleus run: Before going for the Topaz crystal you should have a few water Bottles in your inventory to drink to prevent overheating in the Magma field. There are servers like Ironman Sweats who frequently Ping Robotor Parts in public chests, so that you can get them.''

Daily Mining
With the the few Gemstones you got with Crystal Nucleus run you can now Unlock a few of the Fortune And Mining Speed chambers of Glacite. With this you will have to keep doing dailies till you have HOTM 6.

Crystal Hollows Commisions
For this you will need either a Gemstone Dril l or a Pickonimbus and preferably a Armadillo to make it more effecient.

Gemstone Drill
To quickly acquire the 6 fine ruby gemstones you can grind Bal, which drops flawed Ruby and Topaz as well as Yoggies for your Yog Armour, with a slight chance for a Bal Pet, which is essential for Topaz mining and later Ruby Mining for money.

Pickonimbus
The pickonimbus is respected as a good mining tool due to the insane 1.500 Mining speed, while other pickaxes in the same prize class barely come over 400 Minging Speed. The main drawback is thatit breaks after 5.000 uses, but it can be repaired with other Pickonimbuse keeping the enchantments and reforges, this might come in handy once you hit HOTM 6 and want to Ruby Mine for Gauntlet.

Armadillo Mining for Yog
If you were lucky and got a Prehistoric egg in a chest or in the nucleus, you can go for a jungle Pickaxe. The jungle pickaxe can be traded in the jungle Village for 200 Sludge Juice. Once you have it you can hold your Jungle Pickaxe, while you mine Hardstone with your armadillo in the jungle, giving you hardstone and Sludge Juice. This is incredibly effectiv, cause you have to grind the 150.000 Hardstone collection at some point, because Yog is the easiest armour to get the pristone slot, which is the most important for Gemstone Mining.

Gemstone Mining 6-7
Once you reached HOTM 6 you have unlocked very Powerful Perks such as Mole, and Treasure Hunter making it possible to Powder Grind. Which is essentially digging around till you fnd a treasure chest and opening it. This rewards incredible amounts of Mithril and Gemstone Powder, as well as the respectable regions treasure drops the most important onces are the robrotron parts in the precursor city and the Sludge Juice in the Jungle. With HOTM 6 you also got access to Gauntlet and Divan Armour, very powerful mining equipment.

Getting Gauntlet
This is your first goal after getting Hotm 6 if you do not have Yog armour yet, you most certainly need it now, with a gemstone drill or pickonimbus (or a Titanium Pickaxe). With this you drive around with your armadillo and mine the Ruby you can find, while maxing out Mining Fortune and Pristine respectably. If you don´t know any Ruby Spots here is in a community post that mentions one, or just mine the ruby you find in structures.

Once you acquired the Gauntlet try to put on the highest Pristine Enchantment you can get on it. You should deploy topaz Gemstone up to flawless till you have Pristine 5, then you can replace the flawless topaz with Perfect Topaz.

Getting Divan
Powder Mine for parts and Sludge Juice and take the gemstone you find with your Armadillo, and prepare for Multiple Crystal Hollows runs so that you can do them faster. You can have multiple pieces of the required Items for Mines of Divan, by putting the parts you find in your Enderchest making it possible to find multiple of the same parts, making it possible to get the crystal very fast repeatily.

Chambers for Divan
Try to get a Helix in the Crystal nucleus and forge a Ammonite, with that and halfly decent fishing gear and Fishing 19, with Fish Baits you can go Lava Fishing in the Precursor Remnants. There is only a single mob you can fish up there and that is the Flamming worm, which drops Membrans. The membrans drop is not affected by Magic Find, but is affected by looting.

The most important chamber is the Pristine Chamber followed by The Mining Fortune Chambers and lastly the Minging Speed chambers. They are all very important except for the speed chambers, but it´s worth getting them.

HOTM 7 Gemstone Mining
Further Upgrade your Gemstones in your Divan armour, maybe consider getting an Artifact of Power for +1 Pristine. Other then that you are now basically maxed out. With this setup you should make around 13-17m per hour in the Magma Fields, with a Legendary Level 100 bal Pet.

HOTM 7 Mithril Mining
Just don´t if you are happy with 13m per hour, and don´t wanna spend double the time to make 30m per hour.