Tutorial:Ironman Guide

An ironman profile is the hardest and most difficult way of playing skyblock. On an ironman profile you have no access to the bazaar or auction house, you cannot trade players that aren't in your coop, and you cannot pick up dropped items that other people drop.

These challenges force ironman players to play skyblock the way it was originally intended to be played.

Advice when starting an ironman
Ironman is hard and grindy, if you don't have the time to put in many hours or get bored fast, I would highly advise that you just make a normal profile and save yourself the time and effort. Due to the grindy heavy nature of ironman, some friends can really cut time down on progression and I would highly recommend getting together one or two friends to help you. Get the mentality that it won't be easy and it won't be smooth sailing to even pass early game. I've seen many ironman players quit because they didn't progress as fast as they thought or they couldn't flex it as much as they thought. If you are wanting to play ironman to flex, you should think about doing something else.

Dungeons Approach
In the early game you start by buying a undead sword and obtaining miner armor and xp. This means grinding lapis zombies until you can get smite 5 and giant killer on your undead sword. Once you have dropped some lapis zombies and have a decently enchanted sword, try to kill miners to drop miner armor. It may take a while but it's worth the time. Mine diamonds to quickly unlock hardened diamond. After you have these items you hopefully have some coins and now you start doing rev 1s. Once you make some spare money you could get a friend to carry you in sven 3s until you get a Maddox bat phone but that really depends on you because your only doing this to get combat 15 quickly.

Once you have combat 15 start running floor 0 to drop fully heavy. This armor will carry you until you get dragon armor. Hopefully drop a dredlord sword and full heavy. If you get enough friends together this is enough to kill lost adventurers which is what you need. Do this for a while until your able to craft a full set of random dragon pieces. Once you have that your out of early game and you can start progressing to midgame by trying to get adaptive armor and an adaptive sword.