Changelog/2023/November 8

Hi all,

Alpha is open this week with some new Garden content. To help test, login to the Alpha network and test your Garden and farming content to ensure Pests and Jacob's Contests are working properly.

There are too many additions and changes to list here. The only requirement you need to know is that Pests start appearing on your Garden at Garden Level 5.

UPDATE 11/12: We have made a number of changes to the Pests system since initial Alpha release, a list of which can be found below. If a change is not currently live on Alpha, please be a little patient!


 * Pest drops rely on a new system that utilizes Farming Fortune in place of Magic Find.
 * For drops more common than 5% (which are exclusively crops), drops are multiplied by your farming fortune + your crop-specific fortune for that crop.
 * For drops rarer than 5%, drop chances are increased by your farming fortune in a manner similar to magic find.
 * Following the aforementioned change, drop tables for pests have been changed, with two notable things happening:
 * Most rare drops have been made more common following feedback.
 * Instead of dropping a random number of its respective vanilla crop, each pest now drops 1 enchanted version of its base crop. This is affected by farming fortune + crop-specific fortune as mentioned previously, so a player with 1900 total fortune will drop 20 enchanted crops per pest.
 * Pest Repellant and Pest Repellant Max can now be purchased from SkyMart for Copper. Each last 1 hour and can be consumed to reduce your chances of pests spawning by 2x and 4x respectively.
 * Sprayonator now reduces the internal pest cooldown timer by 2x, meaning you are theoretically able to spawn pests 2x as often.
 * Players can now deselect vinyls in the Chirping Stereo.
 * Players can no longer damage regular mobs by hitting them with a vacuum.
 * Bonus Pest Chance was removed from all vacuums and redistributed among the Pesthunter Accessory line.
 * Bonus Pest Chance can now be toggled on/off using a feature on the Pesthunter Accessory line.
 * Added Jacob's Tickets to Garden Sack.
 * Diamond and Platinum medals now award 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 gold, 1 bronze in addition to some extra bonus tickets.
 * Getting platinum in all contests awards a grey emblem.
 * Getting diamond in all contests awards a gold emblem.
 * Crop Milestones have been reduced across the board.
 * Added a prompt when a pest spawns that allows you to instantly TP to the target plot.
 * Plot holograms and /desk now show how many pests are in a plot.
 * Farming Fortune now decreases at 4-8 pests instead of 3-7.
 * Harvest Harbringer potion effect buffed from 25 to 50 Farming Fortune.
 * Beds have been disabled in The Garden.
 * Bestiary max for each pest has been reduced from 400 to 250. Same amount of tiers (15) per pest
 * Instead of awarding MF + Strength, each pest bestiary tier awards 0.4 farming fortune.
 * Cooldown of Pest Tracker reduced from 5s to 1s.
 * The Chirping Stereo is now required to obtain the Infinivacuum Hooverius at SkyMart, and its vinyl ability has been incorporated into the vacuum.
 * The Atmospheric Filter has been turned into an accessory.
 * Renamed Worm to Earthworm.

Further changes are in the works and should be on Alpha soon. We will continue to monitor feedback and make changes as needed. Thanks!

If you encounter any issues - small, major, or critical; please report them here and make sure you select alpha.hypixel.net!