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.

Dragons/Monster Hunter Approach
Although this is slower than the dungeons approach and possibly less grindy, it requires a lot of good rng. Start by first trying to unlock miner armor and grind enough combat to enter the end. Once your in the end hopefully you have enough coins to buy a raiders axe from the Viking. Start by just hitting the endermen on the top levels until you get yourself a full set of ender armor.

From here, unlock a spider minion, creeper minion, skeleton minion, and fishing minion. You will be trying to get monster hunter armor. After you get these minions placed, you probably should be able to grind ender pearls to try and unlock the crafting recipe for an aspect of the end. Once your able to craft it, collect the materials needed and do your fairy souls. Be sure to kill all the mobs with your raiders axe to increase it's damage.

From here, the next goal is to be able to one tap zealots. This is pretty easy to do if you follow many of the other guides out there. It's recommended to either increase your combat level or increase your wood collection to get more strength on your raiders axe. While you slowly get monster hunter from minions, grind summoning eyes to prepare to do dragons.

If you have enough eyes for a few dragons you may want to start grinding for a magma bow. This is the best bow for an early game player to use to do dragons. If you don't want to go through the magma cube grind but still need a decent bow, get a savanna bow. Keep in mind that if you grind for a magma bow, you will also get combat exp pet items to help you later on in the game.

Once you have full monster hunter and a magma/savanna bow. Start doing dragons and grinding zealots. Your main goal is to get a combination of superior or strong dragon armor. This method also allows you to have a chance at getting an aspect of the dragon which is a very powerful weapon that can propel you forward into dungeons.