Changes might not be on alpha at the time of reading. Changes initially listed here might end up being cancelled for a number of reasons.
- Added Sea Lantern to Fishing Sacks.
- Increased max Chocolate Factory barn capacity to allow for the new bayou rabbits.
- Added Guardian Pet to Experimentation Table loot.
- Guardian Pet has been replaced by Squid Pet in all Treasure Loot Tables.
- Added Fishing 47 requirement to the Flaming Flay.
- Added "Ascending Rarity" and "Descending Rarity" sorts to /scg.
- Adjusted Crimson Isle Treasure Loot Table to give Glowstone Dust instead of Glowstone.
- Moved Flaming Flay from Expert to Master in SBGuide.
- Replaced Blue Jerry Talisman & Blue Gift Talisman in Bluertooth Ring recipe with Blue Goblin Eggs.
- Swapped the colors of GOOD CATCH and GREAT CATCH messages.
- Adjusted Quick Bite I to use Enchanted Paper instead of Paper.
- Added NPC sell price of 500 coins to Can of Worms
- Adjusted drop chance of Alligator Skin from 4% to 100%.
- Looks extreme but this is just a planned change that we forgot to push out prior to alpha's launch.
- Reduced NPC sell price of Alligator Skin from 50,000 -> 5,000 coins.
- Reduced NPC sell price of Scorched Crab Stick from 50,000 -> 5,000 coins.
- Looking to add a "Hotspot Bait", crafted from 1x Scorched Crab Stick and 1x Enchanted Pufferfish, that outputs 16x Hotspot Bait. Effect is +50% chance to fish up Hotspot Sea Creatures.
- This is a larger change than many others here as it requires making a new item. Might take a little while!
- Allow Sea Emperor Skulls to be lootshared.
- Reduced Burnt Texts' Fishing Speed reduction from -25% to a flat -50.
Changes might not be on alpha at the time of reading. Changes initially listed here might end up being cancelled for a number of reasons.
- Removed some of the smaller, more inconvenient Hotspot locations from the Crimson Isle.
- Looking at adding a new Sinker that applies Phantom Rod's ability to any rod. This might necessitate nerfs to Phantom Impel ability and/or to the Shredded Line as we'd like to encourage them to be used together while keeping them balanced.
- This is a larger change that requires making a new item. Might take a little while!
- Added a Ghast Cry sound effect when fishing up a Banshee.
- Increased Ragnarok Fishing XP from 20,000 to 50,000, and its XP orbs from 7500 to 12,500.
- Increased rarity of Old Leather Boot from RARE to EPIC.
- Adjusted Sea Creatures to roll before Trophy Fish.
- Increased Titanoboa's HP from 4.5M -> 45M
Changes might not be on alpha at the time of reading. Changes initially listed here might end up being cancelled for a number of reasons.
- Added new Sea Creature token drops to their relevant Fishing sacks.
- Added Severed Pincer as a 0.1% drop from the Flaming Scuttler.
- Increased Ragnarok's Silver Magmafish drops from 12 -> 32.
- Made Sea Creatures roll before Treasure (order is SC -> Trophy Fish -> Teasure).
- Reduced quantity of Flames in GOOD CATCH table from 2-4 -> 1.
- Ragnarok is eviller.
- Adjusted drop chance of Blue Ring from 2.5% to 100%.
- Looks extreme but this is just a planned change that we forgot to push out prior to alpha's launch.
- Adjusted drop chance of Burnt Texts from 0.2% -> 1%
- Adjusted drop chance of Chain of the End Times from 1% -> 2.5%
- Adjusted drop chance of Troubled Bubble from 0.1% -> 0.5%
- Adjusted drop chance of Tiki Mask from 0.2% -> 0.33%
- Adjusted drop chance of Titanoboa Shed from 0.1% -> 0.2%
- Adjusted Enderman Slayer 9's perk to work on all MYTHIC Sea Creatures.
- Wiki Tiki's laser totems can spawn every 20 -> 12 seconds.
- Wiki Tiki can no longer be damaged unless no laser totems exist.
- Reduced HP of Wiki Tiki's laser totems from 20 -> 5.
- Increased Reindrake rarity from LEGENDARY to MYTHIC.
- Added 1x Combat Gemstone slot to Soul Whip.
- Added a "Deals 2x damage to Sea Creatures" passive to Soul Whip.
- Added 2x Combat Gemstone slot to Flaming Flay.
- Added a "Deals 3x damage to Sea Creatures" passive to Flaming Flay.
Hi all!
Today we're releasing an update containing Hypixel SkyBlock's first-ever dedicated fishing island to alpha.hypixel.net.
If you don't want to be spoiled, you can hop ingame right now and head towards the Fisherman's Hut, where you can sail to the Backwater Bayou following the completion of a new early-game quest. If you're fine with spoilers, read on for more!
Backwater Bayou[]
The Backwater Bayou is a dedicated fishing island, having content for early and late-game fishers alike, though it's more heavily focused on helping new players gear up for the journey ahead. It requires fishing level 5 to enter. A non-exhaustive list of the content introduced as part of this update can be found below.
- Ship System
- Talk to Fisherman Gerald by the Fisherman's Hub to get your ship up and running!
- Treasure Revamp
- Treasure Chance is now an actual stat and treasure loot tables have been remade.
- There are now 3 tiers of treasure catches:
- GOOD (89% of catches)
- GREAT (10% of catches)
- OUTSTANDING (1% of catches)
- Junk Fishing
- Talk to Junker Joel in the Backwater Bayou to learn more.
- Rod Parts
- Talk to Roddy in the Backwater Bayou to learn more.
- Fishing Hotspots
- Talk to Hattie in the Backwater Bayou to learn more.
- 14 New Sea Creatures
- 6 exclusive to the Backwater Bayou, 4 exclusive to Water Hotspots, and 4 exclusive to Lava Hotspots.
- Sea Creature unlock levels range all the way from fishing 5-47!
- 6 exclusive to the Backwater Bayou, 4 exclusive to Water Hotspots, and 4 exclusive to Lava Hotspots.
- Removed Underground Fishing Speed Penalty
Additionally, there is an Alpha Checklist for this update, and completing it will net you an exclusive memento.
If you experience any bugs while testing, please report them at https://hypixel.net/bug-reports/create, making sure you select alpha.hypixel.net!
Thanks!