Mayors are NPCs that give global buffs and perks when elected by players. Mayor Elections were added in Hypixel SkyBlock's 0.9 Update, with the first election taking place in SkyBlock Year 88.
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Mechanic
Elections
An election is held every SkyBlock year (124 real-life hours) with five candidates. Players vote by entering the Election Room via the teleport pad in the Community Center while the voting period is open. A player can only vote once per account, not per profile. The amount of votes players can cast is determined by their Fame Rank and can be doubled by owning Artifact of Control.
Perks Distribution, followed by Candidate Selection, will happen before an election opens (see sections below).
Five candidates are revealed when the election starts on Late Summer 27th 00:00. The election will end on Late Spring 27th 00:00 the following year, at which point the mayor with the most votes will become the mayor.
Mayors and Ministers
Out of the five candidates, the one with highest amount of votes will have all of their shown perks active until the end of the next election. The runner-up will become a Minister, activating their minister perk alongside the Mayor's perks. Neither the Mayor or Minister will be able to participate in the following election, except when the Mayor is Diaz with "Long Term Investment" perk, which will make the Minister appear as a candidate with all of their perks. After Mayor's reign ends, their perks are removed and one is randomly selected next time they appear.
If the elected Mayor is a Special Mayor, there will be no Minister at all and Nancy will appear in Minister's place in the Community Center as a placeholder.
What happens in case of a tie is currently unknown.
Perks Distribution
All candidates have multiple possible perks - the majority of the regular candidates have 4 possible perks.
Before an election, for all Regular Candidates (whether or not they are randomly chosen for the next election), perks are distributed in the following way:
- If a candidate was elected and is running as mayor, they will have no chance to participate or gain a perk on the election. On the election following their mayor term, they will reset to 1 random perk with no possibility to gain a perk.
- If a candidate was not elected, all previous perks gained by that candidate are persistent (not wiped nor randomized in the future). Before the next election, whether or not they will participate the next election, at 1 and 2 perks they have a 50% chance to gain 1 more random perk. If a mayor has 4 possible perks and currently have 3 perks they have an 8% chance to gain the 4th perk.
One random perk of each candidate, except Special ones, is selected as Minister perk. This perk will be active even if the candidate ends up second. Minister perks are determined randomly and next time a candidate appears in an election, it may differ.
A Regular Candidate can participate in an election with 1 perk up to all possible perks. A Special and One-time Candidate participates with all possible perks.
Candidate Selection
The Regular Candidates are chosen randomly, while the running mayor cannot participate in the election that starts during their term. When no Special Candidate runs, five Regular Candidates are chosen.
Special candidates participate in an election not by random chance, but every 8 SkyBlock years (when the SkyBlock year is divisible by 8). When a special candidate participates the election, they come with all possible perks and appears on the rightmost in the Election Interface. Four other Regular Candidates are chosen.
Special Candidate Election Cycle
One Special Candidate joins the election in sequence every 8 SkyBlock years. It is somewhat predictable which special candidate will participate next. The sequence was once abrupted by Dante, who replaced/skipped Derpy when joining as a special and one-time mayor in the Year 128 Election.
Candidate | Previous and Next Participation |
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Derpy | Year 368 ➜ 392 |
Jerry | Year 376 ➜ 400 |
Scorpius | Year 360 ➜ 384 |
Candidates
The colors of the candidates' names seem to be dynamic and change based on placement position in the election room.
These Mayor Candidates may join current and upcoming mayor elections.
Regular Candidates
- Aatrox Maddox's Brother-in-Law
- Cole the Miner
- Prospection: Mining minions work 25% faster.
- Mining XP Buff: Get +60 ☯ Mining Wisdom on public islands.
- Mining Fiesta: Schedules 5 Mining Fiesta events that last for 7 Skyblock Days each. Earn 2x drops and extra unique loot, including Refined Minerals and Glossy Gemstones.
Grants +75 ☯ Mining Wisdom during the event which is only active on Public Islands. - Molten Forge: Decrease the time it takes to forge items by 25%.
- Diana the Mythological Pet Caretaker
- Lucky!: Gain +25 ♣ Pet Luck
- Mythological Ritual: Mayor Diana will sell the Griffin Pet, which lets you find Mythological Creatures and tons of unique items.
- Pet XP Buff: Gain +35% more pet XP.
- Sharing is Caring: You can have up to 3 EXP Shared Pets active at once. Your EXP Share rate is increased by 10%.
- Diaz the Economist
- Long Term Investment: The elected Minister will appear in the next Election with all of their available perks.
- Volume Trading: Double the item quantity from Shen's Auction, Shen's Special, and Rift Shen's on the year Diaz is elected. Two additional Shen's Special auctions will be available for the duration of Diaz being elected as Mayor.
- Stock Exchange: Participate in the Stonks Auction for a chance to win Stock of Stonks! Trade them for extravagant items at the ⏣ Trade Center.
- Shopping Spree: Increase daily NPC buy limits by 10x.
- Finnegan
- Pelt-pocalypse: Obtain 1.5x more Pelts from Trevor the Trapper in the ⏣ Mushroom Desert, hunt a new trapper mob and purchase items from Talbot.
- GOATed: Jacob's Farming Contest brackets include up to 10% more players each.
- Blooming Business: Garden Visitors will give out Fine Flour and appear more often. Additional visitors may visit your Garden. Higher rarity Visitors are more likely to show up & will provide 10% more Copper.
- Pest Eradicator: The duration of Pesthunter Phillip's ☘ Farming Fortune bonus is now 60 minutes. Pests are now 4x more likely to spawn in sprayed plots.
- Foxy the Event Girl
- Sweet Benevolence: Earn +30% more Candy, Gifts and Chocolate from duplicate Rabbits during their respective events.
- Extra Event: Schedules an extra event during the year, out of: Spooky Festival, Mining Fiesta, and Fishing Festival.
- A Time for Giving: Party Chests and Party Gifts can be obtained while this event is active.
- Chivalrous Carnival: Schedules a Carnival in the Hub that is active throughout the entire year.
- Marina the Fisherwoman
- Fishing XP Buff: Gain 50 ☯ Fishing Wisdom on public islands.
- Luck of the Sea 2.0: Gain 15 α Sea Creature Chance.
- Fishing Festival: Start a special fishing event during the first 3 days of each month! Fish and fight dangerous Sharks and earn unique Shark loot.
- Double Trouble: For every 1 α Sea Creature Chance, gain +0.1 ⚓ Double Hook Chance.
- Paul the Dungeon Explorer
- Marauder: Dungeon reward chests are 20% cheaper.
- EZPZ: Gain 10 extra bonus score in Dungeons.
- Benediction: Blessings are 25% stronger.
Special Candidates
- Derpy
- QUAD TAXES!!!: Pay 4x the normal amount of taxes!
- TURBO MINIONS!!!: Minions have double the output!
- DOUBLE MOBS HP!!!: ALL monsters have double health!
- MOAR SKILLZ!!!: Gain +50% more skill experience!
- Jerry
- Candidate Jerry/Perkpocalypse: Activates all perks of another mayor every 18 SkyBlock days (6 hours).
- Statspocalypse: Increases most stats by 10%.
- Jerrypocalypse: Reveal hidden Jerries from logging, farming, mining, and killing mobs.
- Scorpius
- Bribe: If Scorpius wins and you voted for him, Mayor Scorpius will offer you 50,000 coins - 1,000,000 coins as a token of gratitude.
- Darker Auctions: Scorpius will intrude in Dark Auctions, increasing the number of rounds to 7 and offering special items.
These Mayor Candidates participated elections in the past, but will not participate in future elections.
Retired Regular Candidates
- Barry the Wizard
- Listed Perks:
- Arcane Catalyst: Spells deal 15% increased damage.
- Astral Negotiator: Enchanting and anvils costs -15% less experience.
- Magic XP Boost: Gain +15 ☯ Alchemy Wisdom and ☯ Enchanting Wisdom
- Actual Perks: (hidden until Barry is elected)
- Arcane Catalyst: Spells deal 15% increased damage.
Secret Bonus: All abilities cost 15% less Mana - Astral Negotiator: Enchanting and anvils costs -15% less experience.
Secret Bonus: Gain +1 ✯ Magic Find for every year that Barry has not been elected (max 20) - Magic XP Boost: Gain +15 ☯ Alchemy Wisdom and ☯ Enchanting Wisdom.
Secret Bonus: Gain +2 Clicks in Superpairs Experiments
- Arcane Catalyst: Spells deal 15% increased damage.
- Listed Perks:
One-Time Candidates
- Dante
- Listed Perks:
- Order: Establish order
- Security: Strengthen security
- Freedom: Freedom from fear
- Actual Perks: (hidden until Dante is elected)
- Economy Restoration:
- Double AH and Bazaar taxes
- 10% coin tax on shops
- 5 coins per minute for chatting
- 2 coin toll on travelling between islands
- Increase Security:
- Hired goons to protect official buildings
- Cancelled hazardous events
- Decreased sunlight, prevent sunburn
- Economy Restoration:
- Listed Perks:
- Technoblade
- Blood God's Blessing: +50% Skill XP
- Shrine Of The Blood God: Summons the Blood God Shrine and its Shiny Pigs (This perk continued after Technoblade's term as the shiny relics were not all found)
- Unlimited Speed: Gives +50 Speed and removes the speed cap (This perk was bugged and did not seem to work, thus being removed halfway through Technoblade’s mayor term)
- Potato Crown's Radiance: Farming Minions have double output (This perk was bugged and seemed to work on all minions, rather than only farming minions)
- Anarchy: There are no taxes in the Auction House and Bazaar (This perk was shortly removed after Technoblade was elected, likely that the admins thought no taxes would cause excessive inflation)
Past and Present Elections
Interface
Dante's Reign
When Dante was running as mayor, all of the election events scheduled in the Calendar and Events menu are canceled.
Regular mayor elections were replaced with Dante Elections. All of the 5 candidates were replaced by Dante's clones - voting for any of them results in the vote being applied to all candidates. That means that the vote cannot be changed and the election result is always 100% for Dante.
There used to be a bug where Seraphine is the clerk present in the Election Room instead of Clerk Goon, however, it was fixed.
Game Message
Condition | Message |
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Casting/Changing a Vote | ----------------------------------------------------- You voted for/changed your vote to <mayor> in the Year [#] Elections! As a <Fame Rank>, your vote counts for [#]. <Mayor> now has [#]% of votes with [#] votes! ----------------------------------------------------- When hovering over the second line: Increase your Fame Rank by spending Bits & Gems in the Community Shop! |
Casting/Changing a Vote with Artifact of Control | ----------------------------------------------------- You voted for/changed your vote to <mayor> in the Year [#] Elections! As a <Fame Rank>, your vote counts for [#]. (doubled by Artifact of Control). <Mayor> now has [#]% of votes with [#] votes! ----------------------------------------------------- When hovering over the second line: Increase your Fame Rank by spending Bits & Gems in the Community Shop! |
Election Ends | A Event: Mayor Elections <year>! A The election room is now closed. Clerk Seraphine is doing a final count of the votes... A Event: Mayor Elections <year>! A <Mayor> is elected Mayor for the year, gg! <Minister> came in 2nd and is the Minister, lesser gg! Seraphine counted votes from <#> different players. Everybody unlocks exclusive perks! |
On the Alpha Hypixel Network
Normally, when Alpha Hypixel Network is open, Mayor Elections are fully-functional and are held separately from the Main Server.
Mechanic
- Mayor Elections on AHN run with the same mechanic but separate from those on the main server: The results are counted separately, the candidates and their perks are picked separately.
- The time that an Election starts and ends is in sync with the main server.
- When the Alpha Hypixel Network is open, players can vote on its Mayor Election once per account (not per profile), regardless of whether they voted on the main server.
On an Alpha Network Reset
- At the time of a Network Reset, Mayor Nancy is the placeholder mayor for Alpha Hypixel Network until the next election.
- If an election is supposed to be happening after a reset, the election feature will be disabled until the next election[Confirm]. See #Election Feature Disabled.
On a Session Opening
- When the Alpha Network closes and reopens without a Network Reset, all aspects of the Mayor Election will not be affected.
- If an election is skipped during the downtime of the Alpha Network, it is unknown whether a random Regular candidate will be selected as mayor, or the previously elected mayor, no matter how many years have passed, will still be the mayor[Confirm].
Previous Elections
Due to the difficulty presented in recording Mayor Elections on the Alpha Hypixel Network which occationally shuts down and reopens, it will be done separately on Mayor Election/Alpha Hypixel Network, and not integrated to our main table.
Features Disabled
Mayor Disabled
There are some occassions that a Mayor is disabled. This may happen when:
- The previous mayor is not replaced after an election on a Hub server
- The election feature is disabled on the Alpha Hypixel Network
The following is the observed behaviour:
- On interact, the "mayor" NPC will only give [NPC] Mayor <Name>: Hello!!
Election Feature Disabled
On some occasions, the mayor election feature can be disabled on the Alpha Network. This is the observed behaviour:
- The Election Room is still present when votings happens in the main server. However, it will almost instantly teleport the player out when they attempt to get in. If there is enough ping, a player can interact with the NPCs and Ballot Box inside before it teleports you out.
- Election is "closed". However, the timer outside the Election Room will still run in sync with the Main Server.
- Ballot Box and Seraphine dialogue follows the version when election is closed.
- Attempting to click on the box in the middle of the Election Room when the election is closed will show the message The election booth is closed!
- Seraphine's Dialogue changes.
Mechanics
- Each regular candidate can offer up to 4 perks at once. All candidates start with 1 perk during their first election, and have a chance to stack up to 4 perks if they are a returning candidate.
- During the time the booth is open, players may change their vote. Players may cast only a single vote, but the weight of that vote is increased by the player's Fame Rank.
- Once the election ends, the candidate with the most votes becomes Mayor for the next SkyBlock year, granting their perks to every SkyBlock player for that time period.
- Each time the Election room is open, players can vote for 5 candidates out of the total 13. There are 9 normal candidates and 4 special candidates.
- Every 8 elections, or every 41.333 real life days, a special candidate will be part of the 5 candidates for election.
- Since an election that starts at a year (Year X) will end in the next year (Year X+1), as shown in the election interface (image proof):
- The election is always called "Election Year X".
- In each candidate, the sequence of a candidate's perks can change when a year passes. However, the perks will not change.
- In each candidate, the number of years shown in "last elected" will increment when a year passes.
Trivia
- Derpy was the first candidate to have 4 perks.
- Technoblade is the only mayor to have 5 perks and technically 11 perks.
- Jerry becoming a mayor was leaked by Minikloon on his Twitter. Additionally, Dctr leaked the first perk, "Perkpocalypse" on his Twitter a day later.
- Jerry's Perkpocalypse does not include special mayors, candidates no longer participating or Diaz.
- Before 0.20.3 Diaz had only 2 perks, one of which got removed and was replaced by 3 new ones.
- Diaz's perk, "Shopping Spree" also applies to trades.
- Dante is the only candidate to swap perks after the election.
- Although, when elected, Barry had a secret bonus to all of his perks.
- Barry was first elected in Year 188, 100 Skyblock Years after the first election, making him the mayor who went the longest time without being elected.
- Diaz was another regular candidate that had never been elected before. She was elected for the first time on June 30 2021, during the Year 146 Election, making her and Barry the two mayors who went the longest without being elected.
- Barry and Jerry are the only candidates that buff damage.
- If no Mayor is elected for any reason, Mayor Nancy will appear as a placeholder.
- Dante and Barry are the only candidates that had unlisted perks that were revealed when elected.
- No special mayor has ever lost an election.
- In year 241 an extra mayor was added to the mayor results with 0 votes. This was the new Mayor Finnegan who was added in the 0.16.1 Update (image)
Gallery
History
SkyBlock Prototype | ||
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June 11, 2019 | 0.1 | Added Mayor Seraphine. |
Aug 13, 2020 | 0.8.1 | Renamed Mayor Seraphine to Clerk Seraphine and changed dialogue. |
Sep 8, 2020 | 0.9 | Added Aatrox, Barry, Cole, Diaz, Diana, Foxy, Marina and Paul. |
Added Faith as a placeholder mayor. | ||
Sep 9, 2020 | Removed Faith. | |
Oct 17, 2020 | Added Scorpius. | |
Dec 1, 2020 | Added Derpy. | |
Jan 7, 2021 | Added Jerry. | |
Mar 31, 2021 | Added Dante. | |
Apr 16, 2021 | The Resistance Leader becomes Mayor, alongside the Resistance Generals. | |
Feb 8, 2022 | Secret Bonuses were added in Barry's perks. | |
Aug 13, 2022 | Barry the Wizard is no longer a mayor candidate. | |
Nov 9, 2022 | 0.16.1 | Added Finnegan. |
Mayoral Candidates | |
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Special Candidates | |
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