User blog:MonkeysHK/2023 Anniversary Update





Four years ago, the Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki was created. Four years later today, we see a project expanding with a bigger momentum than ever.

This is a tale written by all people in this wiki, and the Hypixel SkyBlock community.

Following last year, the wiki team decided to release its second anniversary blog post, which includes key features and milestones in that year. It is a combination of work of many wiki contributors that we are eager to share.

Before the rundown of features made this year, we want to invite you to take a few minutes to fill out a user survey about the wiki. Follow this link for the survey.



An idea that stemmed from a team discussion, an idea that flourished to today's scale. Modernized Dialogues was one of the first projects to bring the in-article Minecraft text flow feature, MCTXT, into its full potential. In May 2022, contributors replacing lists on dialogue sections with a modern design of tables with Minecraft texts, representing the in-game dialogue logic in a better way. Almost all dialogue sections were converted by October 2022.

Adding to last year's Font Update, the quality for Minecraft text flow has greatly improved, not only adapting to light theme more suitably, but also extended to a family of templates for building different Minecraft texts and dialogue blocks.

This year seen the creation of a multitude of new page components, a collection of scattered features that are standardized and reworked. The Text & Container Suite includes TextMessageBox, DarkMessageBox, TextSection (& Collapsibles), WidgetBox, and TextButton. When applying these elements, the common semantics in their respective templates makes the task much easier.

Besides, from big pages to small articles, many components and structures were given better designs for a better user experience. Many data representations have seen changes and rewrites to best fit preferences of our readers. Combining with new article fonts (Merriweather and Noto Sans) and better module caching and error handling on our end, these changes can make the viewing experience smoother and more well-adapted to a modern era.

Contributors have made notable changes to certain page structures. Started by a discussion concerning ease of viewing information for readers, we noticed the problem with some pages containing many items, each with over-condensed information and does not have its own page. We also noticed a problem with top level pages including whole other pages (not subsections, pages!).

This clearly came from a lack of standardization in the past. A clearer rule was made by maintainers to make future page structures more reader-friendly. From now on, readers are able to see top level pages that introduce contents at a wider view, leading to details in other pages. According to the useful contents available and feasibility, pages with a list of many items may be split into multiple pages containing more details, making contents more clear and accessible to users.



One amazing feature that we've added to our wiki over the course of this year is the Resource Pack Selector. This feature allows users to select a texture pack, and all non-vanilla items on the wiki will show up with textures from the selected pack. Users can choose their own experience on the wiki and use a resource pack they like.

We have the default 1.8.9 Minecraft texture pack, as well as the textures from the latest version of the game. More, some well-known resource packs from the player community have been featured. With permission from their authors, we added a total of 6 SkyBlock texture packs for you to choose from, including FurfSky Reborn, RNBW+, Hypixel+, and Worlds and Beyond.

Available on the desktop skin for everyone, this feature can be found on the top-right hand corner as a Minecraft grass icon.

In addition to the texture packs added to our wiki this past year, we also significantly improved the styling of our wiki with our wiki themes. In September last year, we created and unveiled the first of these amazing themes, that of the Crimson Isles. Each of the themes we released was stylized to match with recent updates or with the season, and came with their own color scheme and banner. A total of four were created, with the latest three being the Winter, Garden, and Easter themes.

Recently we released a new way to customize your browsing experience. The Theme Selector is a collection of our previous themes that applies to the wiki, allowing readers to time travel back to any theme that they enjoy using.

Available on the desktop skin for everyone, this feature can be found on the top-right hand corner as a fill bucket icon.



The most important aspect of a wiki is article content. Contributors created over 4,000 articles on Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki in the past four years, putting together valuable resources for SkyBlock players, experienced and fresh. As content evolves on the server, contributors put much effort into keeping information accurate and up-to-date.

Through our effort to enable tight collaboration between new and experienced editors and between editors and readers, we have invited a great deal of community participation to make contents that benefit SkyBlock players the most.

Following the 2022 Font Update, we were not able to bring the feature to mobile skin users due to restrictions of the Fandom platform. However, Fandom finally made Mobile CSS, custom web styling on the mobile skin, possible across their platform this year. This wiki was one of the earliest to adapt this change and bring a ton of features and fixes to the mobile skin, including colors, the Minecraft font, and some UI elements. Some parts of the mobile experience is still subpar to the desktop version, but we will continue to make improvements to it.

We are still unable to deliver features powered by scripts (like countdowns and Minecraft tooltips) on this platform, but it is a thing we are advocating for.

The Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki has multiple project spaces that were built by contributors over the years. These projects are great evolving spaces for a diversity of contents. Some projects are in their infancy, to be grown to a better shape by renewed community effort. At the same time, we continue to improve aspects of these projects to inspire newcomers to participate.
 * Wiki Project allows editors to make fast-paced and focused development by forming project groups.
 * Community Tutorials are guide pieces written by players for players.
 * Language Project allows new translation projects to start from infancy to mature without discontinuation.
 * International Wikis are translated contents of this wiki.

We introduced two new Specialist Teams to the wiki: the Artwork Team and the Developer Team. We highly value new ideas from fresh team members, and are looking for graphic designers for artwork team, and contributors for all teams. The Staff Team, responsible for running the wiki, is also open for application all-year round.



Starting this year, we have regular updates posted on Project:Changelog. There is a long way to go to make this wiki and its project spaces a better place. In the years coming, we will make it even better for readers, editors, and translators to use this wiki, a wiki for Hypixel SkyBlock players.

Through continual efforts to bring new innovations, we hope to inspire more readers to be a part of this community project. The wiki is looking to undertake even greater challenges in pursuit of excellence.

Last but not least, your input is valuable to the wiki for its efforts to improve the quality of content it offers. If you feel that you can help the wiki in its endeavor, please kindly fill out our term survey.


 * Survey Link
 * Google Forms Survey


 * Artwork Featured
 * Banner artworks by Duowithng


 * Resource Packs Featured
 * Furfsky Reborn by FurfSky Reborn Team
 * RNBW+ by Rainbowcraft2
 * PacksHQ SkyBlock Pack by PacksHQ Team
 * Vanilla+ by TBlazeWarriorT
 * Worlds and Beyond by Skeletony
 * Hypixel+ by ic22487


 * External Resources Used
 * Image "Stone black texture" by kues1 on Freepik
 * Image "Cartoon cave background" by upklyak on Freepik


 * Look Back A Year
 * User blog:MonkeysHK/2022 Anniversary Update


 * Special Thanks To
 * All of our amazing team members, editors, and readers