SkyBlock Prototype

SkyBlock Prototype is the initial development stage of Hypixel SkyBlock that's made available to beta testing by all players.

Hypixel SkyBlock is a special interpretation of the traditional SkyBlock game mode where players start on two tiny islands, with infinite resources, special skills for Collections, quests, gameplay mechanics available on public islands, and features such as Minion for automation.

Background
The game mode was first spotted by a Twitter user on March 12, 2019, through the  command which shows your Hypixel friend's status. The screenshot posted shows Minikloon, a Hypixel Admin, being online in SkyBlock. The same Twitter user also claimed that their forum post showcasing the same screenshot was removed for an unknown reason.

RobotHanzo also found out a few months later when they were typing the  command and got a different message response than how it would look if the lobby for a game mode that did not exist. It shows that the game lobby does in fact exist, but it wasn't possible for players to join.

Hypixel SkyBlock features
The first version of SkyBlock Prototype comes with 7 Skills and 55 Collections.

Custom items and blocks
Unlike normal SkyBlock, the game mode is packed with various items and blocks that come from or attribute to different Collections.

In each collection, you unlock different items the more you collect of that item. The more you collect, the better items you unlock. For example, at level I Bone Collection, you unlock the Skeleton Minion, and at Level IX you unlock the Runaan's Bow, one of the best bows in the game.

There are many custom items and blocks in the game, but they can be put into these broad categories:
 * Armor Sets and pieces (e.x. Hardened Diamond Armor, Fairy Armor, Old Dragon Armor, Fish Hat etc.)
 * Weapons (e.x. Aspect of the End, Emerald Blade, Midas' Sword, Scorpion Bow etc.)
 * Minions and related items (e.x. Oak Minion, Cow Minion, Clay Minion, Compactor etc.)
 * Cosmetics (e.x. Runes, Carpentry)
 * Accessories (e.x. Gravity Talisman, Frozen Chicken, Experience Artifact etc.)

Maintenance
Since the game is still heavily under development, there are frequent periods of time when it was completely down for maintenance, or only available to ranked players.

Trivia

 * Even though the game is technically still under development and available in the Prototype Lobby, the SkyBlock forums is not a sub-forum of the Prototype Lobby (PTL) forums.