Changelog/2020/September 8

Hello!

Welcome to the Community Center!

Remember Mayor Clerk Seraphine and her friends Worker Emma & Worker Xavier? They finished their project! And it's big!

In a Nutshell: Keep reading to learn all about it!
 * Election Event every SkyBlock year
 * Includes 9 candidates, each with 3 perks
 * 3 new special calendar events (Fishing Festival, National Mining Month & Mythological Rituals)
 * New Community Shop NPC to spend SkyBlock Gems
 * Special Community Upgrades including:
 * Upgrade your private island size up to 2.1x
 * Increase your co-op size to 8 players
 * Minion Slots
 * The Booster Cookie, the ultimate SkyBlock buff
 * City Projects for the community to work towards village upgrades
 * FIRE Sales for exclusive cosmetics!

Election Event
The Mayor Elections is a new calendar event which happens every SkyBlock year.

It's fairly simple! Each time it happens: 5 candidates are offered and you vote for your favorite!

There is a pool of 8 regular candidates + 3 special* candidates.

Regular Candidates:
 * Barry the wizard
 * Marina the fisherwoman
 * Cole the miner
 * Aatrox, Maddox's brother-in-law
 * Paul the dungeon explorer
 * Diana the mythological pet carer
 * Foxy the event girl
 * Diaz the economist
 * Special candidates only rarely choose to run for mayor.

Each candidate can offer up to 3 perks at once. All candidates start with 1 perk during their first election and have a chance to stack up to 3 perks if they are a returning candidate.

Election Booth​
The Election Room is open for about 4 real life days, then it closes for about 1 day.

During the time the booth is open, you may change your vote.

Once the election ends, the candidate with the most votes becomes Mayor for the next SkyBlock year and they grant their perk to every SkyBlock player for that time period.

Community Shop
The Community Shop is a new, special shop run by Elizabeth in the Community Center.

The shop offers many functionalities, divided into 6 tabs: They all do different things, so let's go through all of them!
 * City Projects
 * Account & Profile Upgrades
 * Booster Cookies
 * Bits Shop
 * FIRE Sales
 * Hypixel Ranks

City Projects
City Projects allow the community to work and contribute towards upgrades to the village and beyond.

We're starting off with two projects: the Blacksmith Workspace and the Builder's House​

Each project has several components which you can contribute. Once enough contributions are accumulated throughout the community, the project goes into BUILDING mode, after which we'll shortly release the associated update to the village.

Apart from helping release the upgrade to the village, contributing grants you:
 * A unique personal bonus
 * A decent amount of Fame * We'll talk about Fame later. *
 * City Project contributions count for all your profiles and you may only contribute once per component.

Account & Profile Upgrades
Community Shop upgrades are a new set of improvements exclusive to the community shop.

The upgrades are split into two categories:
 * Profile upgrades, which apply to one profile and are shared with your co-op
 * Account upgrades, which apply to all your profiles but only for you

Here are all the upgrades available on release:

Profile Upgrades

 * Island Size: Expand your private island's size to 2.1x the default size​
 * Minion Slots: Obtain up to +5 minion slots​
 * Guests Limit: Increase your island's guest limit up to +5 guests​
 * Co-op Slots: Invite up to +3 players to your co-op​
 * Coins Allowance: Each co-op member gains a daily coin bonus of up to 50k coins​

Account Upgrades

 * Ender Chest Pages: Use up to +8 ender chest pages (3 rows each)
 * Talisman Bag: Unlock up to +6 talisman bag slots
 * Sack of Sacks: Add +5 slots to your Sack of Sacks
 * Magic Find: Gain up to +5 permanent Magic Find
 * Bazaar Flipper: Run more concurrent Bazaar orders and reduce Bazaar sell taxes

Unlocking a community upgrade is done in 2 steps.

You first start an upgrade, then there's a pre-defined upgrade time, and once it's ended you claim the upgrade to activate it. All the upgrades are tiered with different amounts of tiers for each type.

For example, the first Minion Slot upgrade lasts 1 (real life) day.

You can have two upgrades running at the same time: one Profile and one Account. Remember, profile upgrades are shared with your co-op, so anyone on a co-op profile may pick and start the profile upgrade.

Most of the community upgrades can be obtained completely for free. Some of the higher tiers of certain upgrades aren't free, for example the Island Size. The Co-op Slots upgrade is the only one that costs something to unlock tier 1.

All upgrade tiers making your profile/character more powerful are available for free.

Upgrades and tiers which aren't free cost SkyBlock Gems. SkyBlock Gems are a new currency that you may purchase on the Hypixel Store.

You are also able to skip the upgrade time using SkyBlock Gems. Skipping the time of a profile upgrade on a co-op will bypass the time for every member.

Booster Cookies
The Booster Cookie is a new consumable item sold in the Community Shop. It is purchasable for SkyBlock Gems in the community shop, but may also be purchased and exchanged by players for coins in the Bazaar.

The Cookie Buff lasts 4 days per cookie. You may eat as many cookies as you want to add to your buff's duration. Elizabeth offers one free (untradable) cookie to every player, which you can use to try out the buff.

Once you eat your first cookie, you will unlock the Booster Cookie Menu in your SkyBlock menu.

Bits Shop
While the Cookie Buff is active, you gain the ability to earn and find Bits in SkyBlock.

They're not given directly: they are awarded while your cookie buff is active!

For example, you will earn bits over time by simply playing the game, but you may also earn them from completing dungeons, killing dragons, and various other tasks. Each time you consume a Booster Cookie, you gain the ability to find an extra 4,800 Bits.

Once earn, bits allow you to purchase items in Elizabeth's Bits Shop:

FIRE Sales
Fire Sales is a new mechanic for us to deliver exclusive cosmetic items.

They're simple: A countdown shows for the next FIRE sale in the shop

Once it starts, there is a limited amount of items for sale

After the item is sold out: That's it! The sale is over! The items may or may never come back on sale.

​ We implemented new types of cosmetics and stockpiled a ton of them for upcoming fire sales.

There are now Pet Skins, Armor Skins, new Minion skins and Runes.

Hypixel Ranks
Finally, since SkyBlock's release, we always had Hypixel rank features, but they've never been fully documented in one place. The rank benefits are now laid out plainly for all in the Community Shop and will be kept up to date:

Support SkyBlock's development, purchase Gems, Ranks and unlock exclusive rewards: https://store.hypixel.net

Whew! That's it for this update!

I hope to see you all in game, I'm excited to see which candidate will be elected mayor first! 업데이트/2020년/9월 8일