Tutorial:Ironman Guide

Preword
An Ironman profile is an alternative, but harder way of playing SkyBlock.

Ironman profiles have several differences compared to a normal profile:
 * Bazaar (except for booster cookies) and Auction house are disabled
 * You cannot trade with players that are not in your co-op (if you have one)
 * Drops from people that are not in your co-op can't be picked up
 * However, you may still pick up drops from mobs that other people killed, or from blocks mined by other players if they did not pick the item before you do. You still cannot pick up items that have a pick up priority for another player.

These challenges are intended to make skyblock closer to an actual MMORPG, where you have to grind everything by yourself.
 * The ♻ icon will appear next to your name while on an Ironman profile. This also appears on the player list menu when pressing tab.

This guide is only a sugestion of playing the ironman Gammode feel free to play the game how you want, it´s for fun after all.

Deep Caverns
When you first start your ironman, you should get yourself an Undead Sword, which you reforge with 10 Coal. You can either go for Mushroom Armor, Lapis Armor or normal Diamond armour for your time in the deep caverns, but i personally would recomend Mushroom armor due to how good it is during the night. Enchant your Undead Sword with Smite and get enough materials of Coal, Redstone, Diamonds,(Emerald) and Lapis to craft their respectable minions. Put on all these minions and keep on mining the blocks the minions place to get a lot of experience in mining and in Vanilla xp to enchant your armour and your Undead Sword. After you mined all the blocks the minions placed get diffrent collections to archieve more minion slots, and repeat till you have unlocked the Dwarwen Mines. You can give the same Material multiple times to unlock the Heart of the Mountain you only need to switch servers

Dwarwen Mines
Here you can get yourself the Glacite Armor, by killing Ice Walkers at the Icewall with your pickaxe. Once you have a few pieces Enchant them with Growth, protection and reforge them to Pure/Fierce ,since Glacite will be your main Combat Armour till you have actually decent armour. Keep on grinding the Ice Walkers ,till you have the full set.

With your Glacite Armor you should consider buying a Fractured Mithril Pickaxe if you have 10.000 Coins to mine Titanium. Then you should start doing your Daily Commisions, since the first 4 commisions daily give an extra 900 HOTM XP and you wanna get Heart of the Mountain 3 pretty soon, since it unlocks the Crystal Hollows.

Early Game Weapons
There are a selection of Weapons, which may be useful for you in the Early Stages of the Game This is the best weapon to start killing Zealots, having great Stats and being fairly easy to acquire for 200k coins. This should be your first real weapon. Combine this with Ender Armour and the Ender Equipment ,then you should be able to 1 shot Zealots fairly Easy
 * -|Void Sword=


 * -|Tactician Sword=This sword is SEVERELY UNDERRATED if you are not rushing the End content. Costing only 35.000 coins it´s almost free for how good it is.

When you have 6 Combat Collection over Level 7 it is better then the Endstone Sword.

Once you reach Combat Level 24 this sword is comparable to an Aspect of The Dragons.
 * -|Endstone Sword=One of the easier weapons to 1 shot Zealots with having Decent stats and a abilty which may save you in a pitch as well as being VERY USEFUL FOR ALL SLAYERS, since Zombie and Wolf Slayer have a frenzy phase which does a lot of Damage in a short time.

(You need 17.500 Kills to max out this weapon as well as 50k Wook Collection) The only positive of this weapon are the additional coins you gain from kills.
 * -|Raiders Axe=A beloved Weapon of the Community for good reason, but it requires a lot of time to get the maxed stats so generally not worth to max out.


 * -|Emerald Blade=One of the best swords for all stages of the game got nerfed to almost being unusable, but it can have some uses.

This weapon is still one of the better options to 1 shot zealots and to kill Slayer Bosses, due to it´s decent Base Damage. Grinding Summoning Eyes in the End is completely save if you have a Remnance of the Eye in your Inventory saving you, and your coins.


 * -|Aspect of the End=The BEST ABILTY IN THE ENTIRE GAME, it also has decent base Damage and strength, so it can be used to kill Zealots but generally not recomended.

'''Get this purely for the utility of Teleportation. '''

Once you acquired your Weapon of Choice you need to Enchant it.
 * -|Dreadlord Sword=A very good weapon for starting Mages in Dunegons, it has comparable Damage to Bonzo Staff in Lower Floors, due to the lower Mana cost of Dreadlord.

If you want to grind Summoning Eyes you need the Following to 1 shot: Sharpness, Giantkiller, Prosecute, Enderslayer, First Strike, Critical, Venemous and Fire Aspect. Once done you need to reforge the weapon of Choice to Sharp or Odd to always Critically Strike, which makes your 1 Shot consistent. Good enchantments which are usefull but don´t increase your damage are Vampirism, Life Steal, Looting, Scavenger and Luck.

For your Dungeons Weapon you want to Enchant your Weapon with: Smite, Giantkiller, Execute, First Strike, Critical, Venemous, Lifesteal/Syphon and Vampirism for survibilty, as well as Looting And Luck for more Dragon Fragments and Random Dungeon Armour.

Fairy Souls
Since the Skyblock Level Update it is not mandatory to get all Fairy souls, so you can delay searching them.

Talismans
You should always have a Redstone Minion running for the Collection to unlock a bigger Accesory Bag. The accesory bag holds your Talismans, while giving you the stat boosts of the Accesories inside it as well as the reforges you have on your Talismans. The Talismans should be reforged to give Strength or Critical Damage, to further increase your damage with Meele Weapons.

Easy To get Talismans

 * Farming Talisman
 * Vaccine Talisman
 * Potion Affinity Talisman
 * Talisman of Coins
 * Magnetic Talisman
 * Zombie Talisman
 * Skeleton Talisman
 * Village Affinity Talisman
 * Mine Affinity Talisman
 * Intimdation Talisman
 * Shiny Yellow Rock (Romeo and Julia Quest)

Potions
Potions temporarily increases certain stats making them very powerful if you struggle with anything, while costing almost nothing. Good potions as such are The dungeon potion 1 obtainable in the dungeon hub at ophelia for 5.000 coins. The Spirit Potions are obtainable during the spooky Festival with 1 Green Candy. If you have the collection you can go for higher Tier Potions with Enchanted Glowstone, such as The strength Potion 5, Critical Potion 3 and the Spirit Potion 3.

Combat Level
Each Combat Level increases your Total Damage by a certain % so 1 combat level usually means 4% more total damage making it incredibly powerful to level up in combat.

Getting coins
Coins are a important part of Hypixel Skyblock and are needed for many things such as the dark auction, Cat Upgrade costs, more damage for your Emerald Blade, Npc´s and the post Boss Loot chests in Dungeons. There is no real going around this, you will have to get coins someway or another.

Selling Minion Output to NPC
As said just put up some Clay or Snow Minions with diamond Spreading in them. They make around 1.000.000 coins per day. The main drawback is that you can´t use your Minions for Item production such as Tarantula Minions and Flint Minions to sustain the later more expensive Recepies, but it can sustain you till F4.

Farming
When you have a builder's wand you are able to make gigantic Farms on your island, and a few of the crops have decent npc sell prizes, such as sugarcane and Netherwart. In the beginning this might seem like a good money making method toping of at around 3.000.000 coins per hour, but this requires a lot of dedication to achieve. Since it can take hundreds of hours to even hit farming 45. Since Sugarcane has to be placed by hand it takes time and effort to even get started, and you have to get yourself a Legendary Elephant for more farming Fortune, to almost double your output. The problem the Elephant costs around 12.000.000 coins to get.

Mining
Mining takes by far the longest time to get going, taking hundreds of hours to even get enough Powder to get a decent HOTM or even HOTM 7. The main advantage is it tops of at around 30.000.000 coins per hour. That´s 10 times as much as farming does. Of course it takes almost 5 times as long to get there, but with the ever rising inflation farming isn´t enough anymore, when a Flower Minion goes for 20.000.000 coins or more. I will describe in the Mining Part how to really get going with Mining.

Starting to grind Dungeons
''' IF YOU WANT TO RUSH THIS GAME SKIP TO MIDAS STAFF. '''

Now with a decent money making method, you can start buying expensive Dungeon drops such as rare Loot and recombolators, to further stregthening your Gear and Talismans.

Since dungeons is now hard to survive, because of the life steal nerf you need to build a Potato Farm or put down a Potato minion, because all the gear you wanna use has to be Hot Potato Booked, it gives you so much more survivability it´s  a nessecity.

In the following i will rate the classes for lower Dungeons

Mage By far the best class for lower Dunegeons.

Berserker: Not as good as Mage by a long shot, but is 100% viabile.

Tank: You can play tank in a Party of Friends, but in Partyfinder it is usually not worth it to play this class in the lower floors.

Healer:You can play Healer in the Entrance to gain more Survibility, or in parties where your team is missing Survivabilty.

Archer: Don't bother with it, if you don'´t have a Juju Shortbow.

Now for the gear for each class

 * -|Mage=You start out with Heavy Armour or Skeleton Armour Starred and Reforged to Wise/Smart with Dark Googles and a Necromancer Sword, to a Bonzo Mask Reforged to Necrotic(for clear and as a saving grace)

Now you can either grind The Bonzo Staff or you could try getting your Hands on a Fire Veil Wand.

The Fire Veil Wand is a Wand so it can´t be enchanted(other then Ultimate Wise) but you can switch to another weapon to get the effects of the Enchantments. The fire Veil wand can even replace the need for a spirit Septer for F5. I will explain later how to get the Fire Veil. You can grind a Spirit Septer In F4 with a Bonzo Staff/Fire Veil Wand. Once you reach Catacombs Level 15 you should replace your Armour with Starred Dragon Armour reforged to Necrotic and the Chestplate Reforged to Loving, as well as upgrading your Googles to Shadow Googles. Get a Bonzo Mask for surviabilty once you reach Catacomms Level 16 get a Hyper Cleaver and upgrade your Armour to Unstable Starred Dragon Armour Reforged to fierce. You will need to skip Floor 4 since it is not balanced for Berserkers. (Reinforced comes from Rare Diamonds obtainable from Mining Diamonds in the Deep caverns)
 * -|Berserker=Heavy Armour/ Rotten Armour Starred reforged to fierce/Pure. Your starter Weapon is a Supercleaver.
 * -|Tank=If you want to play as a full Tank you want to use a Zombie Heart or Revived Heart Starred as a Helmet. Reforge it to Titanic/Reinforced

Tanky pieces Like Heavy armour or Skeleton Soldier Armour Starred can be used as  the rest of your Armour. So reforge them to Titanic/reinforced.

Once you reach Catacomb Level 15 you can replace your Armour Pieces with Starred Dragonarmour (except the Helmet). With this setup you should even be able to get into higher dungeons like f5/f6 it´s only a question of your catacombs level, and other healing items you get on the way.

If you want to play as a good tank though you need 2 armour sets one for clearing and the other for the boss, but since that requires a lot of essense and Tanks aren´t appreciated in any normal Dungeons you are better of playing directly as Mage/Berserker. (The Mender Helmet is absolutely Garbage and should be avoided)
 * -|Healer=You want a setup from either Mage or Berserker once you unlock the Mender Fedora you can replace your current Helmet with it.
 * -|Archer= Juju Shortbow and Dragon Armour reforged to Fierce, with a pet of choice.

Notable items you should acquire for every Class Aspect of the End, Florid Zombie Sword and a Dunegon orb(Duh).

Mithril and Gemstone Mining 3-5
You have archieved HOTM 3, with your daily commisions now it is time to enter the crystal hollows and get a few Gemstones for your Glacite armour. Jade increases your mining fortune and amber increases your mining speed, which both increases your yield. To get these Gemstones easily it is advised to do a Crystal Nucleus run.

''Tips for the Crystal nucleus run: Before going for the Topaz crystal you should have a few water Bottles in your inventory to drink to prevent overheating in the Magma field. There are servers like Ironman Sweats who frequently Ping Robotor Parts in public chests, so that you can get them.''

Daily Mining
With the the few Gemstones you got with Crystal Nucleus run you can now Unlock a few of the Fortune And Mining Speed chambers of Glacite. With this you will have to keep doing dailies till you have HOTM 6.

Crystal Hollows Commissions
For this you will need either a Gemstone Dril l or a Pickonimbus and preferably a Armadillo to make it more efficient.

Gemstone Drill
To quickly acquire the 6 fine ruby gemstones you can grind the boss Bal, which drops flawed Ruby and Topaz as well as an item called Yoggies for your Yog Armour, with a slight chance for a Bal Pet, which is essential for Topaz mining and later Ruby Mining.

Pickonimbus
The pickonimbus is respected as a good mining tool due to the insane 1.500 Mining speed, while other pickaxes in the same prize class barely come over 400 Mining Speed. The main drawback is that it breaks after 5.000 uses, but it can be repaired with other Pickonimbuses keeping the enchantments and reforges, this might come in handy once you hit Heart of the mountain 6 and want to Ruby Mine for a gemstone Gauntlet.

Armadillo Mining for Yog
If you get lucky and get a Prehistoric egg in a chest or in the nucleus, you can go for a jungle Pickaxe. The jungle pickaxe can be traded in the jungle Village for 200 Sludge Juice. Once you have it you can hold your Jungle Pickaxe, while you mine Hardstone with your armadillo in the jungle, giving you hardstone and Sludge Juice. This is incredibly effective for grinding the 150.000 Hardstone collection at some point, because Yog is the easiest armor to get the pristine slot, which is the most important for Gemstone Mining.

Gemstone Mining 6-7
Once you reached Heart of the mountain 6 you unlock very Powerful Perks such as Mole and Treasure Hunter making it possible to Powder Grind much more effectively than before. this strategy is essentially digging around till you find a treasure chest and opening it, This rewards incredible amounts of Mithril and Gemstone Powder, as well as the useful regions treasure drops the most important ones are the robotron parts in the precursor city and the Sludge Juice in the Jungle. With Heart of the mountain 6 you also got access to Gauntlet and Divan Armor,which are very good mining equipment.

Getting a Gemstone Gauntlet
This is your first goal after getting Heart of the mountain 6 if you do not have Yog armor yet, you most certainly need it now, with a gemstone drill or pickonimbus (or a Titanium Pickaxe). With this you drive around with your armadillo and mine the Ruby you can find, while maxing out Mining Fortune and Pristine respectably. If you don´t know any Ruby Spots here is in a community post that mentions one, or just mine the ruby you find in structures.

Once you acquired a gemstone Gauntlet try to put on the highest Pristine Enchantment you can get on it. You should deposit topaz Gemstone up to flawless till you have Pristine 5, then you can replace the flawless topaz with Perfect Topaz.

Getting Divan armor
Powder Mine for parts and Sludge Juice and take the gemstone you find with your Armadillo, and prepare for Multiple Crystal nucleus runs so that you can do them faster. You can have multiple pieces of the required Items for Mines of Divan, by putting the parts you find in your Enderchest making it possible to find multiple of the same parts, making it possible to get the crystal very fast.

Chambers for Divan armor
Try to get a Helix in the Crystal nucleus and forge a Ammonite, with that, decent fishing gear, Fishing 19 and with Fish Baits you can go Lava Fishing in the Precursor Remnants. There is only a single mob you can fish up there and that is the Flaming worm, which drops worm membrane. The worm membrane drop chance is not affected by Magic Find, but is affected by looting.

The most important chamber is the Pristine Chamber followed by The Mining Fortune Chambers and lastly the Mining Speed chambers. They are all very important except for the speed chambers, but it´s worth getting them.

HOTM 7 Gemstone Mining
Further Upgrade your Gemstones in your Divan armor and try getting a Artifact of Power for +1 Pristine. now you are mostly maxed out, With this setup you should make around 13-17m per hour in the Magma Fields, with a Legendary Level 100 bal Pet.

HOTM 7 Mithril Mining
Just don´t if you are happy with 13m per hour, and don´t wanna spend double the time to make 30m per hour.

Midas Staff - The mid game skip
This weapon is not designed to be balanced around Ironman, you can completly skip every part of the Mid game once acquired.

Usually you needed to go grind dunegeons to acquire good Midgame Gear, well you can skip that with the Midas Staff.

Nether Update
With the help of your trusty Midas Staff and some cheap Mage Gear, you are able to kill nearly everything in the Nether as an EARLY GAME PLAYER, even though this is supposed to be for late/endgame players. Most notably for you is that you can kill the Fishing Mobs, without huge effort. These Sea Creatures drop Armour pieces which can be Salvaged for a lot of Crimson Essence . Crimson Essence can be used to Star Equipment and Armour obtained from the Nether, this includes the Crimson Armour, which is obtainded from Kuudra.

Kuudra shouldn´t be a big problem since you own a midas staff, get a halfly decent team and this shouldn´t bring you any problems.

Once you acquired your Kuudra Armour, you can start to Star it and Prestigeing it to Hot Crimson armour for example. This armour Set is already better then Full Shadow Assasin outside of dungeons.

Optional You can do all Slayer Bosses from Zombie, Wolf and Spider for additional combat xp gain, as well as opening all the important Slayer receipits for you.

Diana
You might need to go for Aurora Armour or any Dragon Armour to kill all Legendary Diana monsters, as well as Shadow googles for the increased Abilty Damage. If you are unsure, what reforge to apply. Look at the Mage part for Gears for Starting Dunegons. (it is heavily recommended to Star your Shadowgoogles/ Wither googles due to the Stars increasing the abilty Damage even outside of dunegons)

If you skipped the dungeons part of this guide, you will need to Hotpotato book every Single Armour Set/Weapon from now on, so build a Potato Farm.

You can mine the 2 Stacks Enchanted Gold blocks, with your Gauntlet and 2/3 pieces Mineral armour in the Mines of Divan in around 3 Hours.

Once you have your Legendary Griffin, you should start to winmax your Magicfind. So acquire at LEAST the following: God potion, Booster Cookie, Level 80+ Legendary Griffin, Lucky Clover as a pet Item for the Griffin. This should bring you to around 130ish magic find. Grind this event till you acquired a Daedaleus axe or how long you like.

The Daedaleus axe, aka Slime Minions are broken
I did not talk about, this method in the getting Coins part, since i feel like it is very cheesy and broken and not intentional from the admins.

The Daedaleus Axe, grants 35 Coins per Monster Kills even, when you are AFK as well as applying all the Enchants like all other weapons as well. This can be abused with Slime Minions with Corrupt Soil and either a Witch mask/ Blaze armour/Frozen Blaze/Bal Pet or a Full Wither Set, killing the mobs for you, while you are doing nothing. This method makes over 5m Coins per hour to Npc with a good setup.

Making Mining for Coins absolete. With the money you gain you can buy a Golden Dragon, combined with the Daedaleus axe granting you over 90 Magic Find. This puts you in Midgame and almost Lategame, since with your Setup you can easily do dungeons with your Midas staff. All you need to do is all the the mid game stuff, aka Levelling all Slayers recoming your Armour, puting perfects in them. Getting around 700 Magic Power in Accessories, and further leveling all Skills. Boom you are now Lategame.