SkyBlock 1.0

SkyBlock 1.0 is an upcoming major update to SkyBlock. It is set to fully release in 2022, however it may be delayed to 2023. Certain parts of 1.0 will be released along the way to the full release. SkyBlock will leave the Prototype Lobby once 1.0 is fully released.

The update will contain a large amount of content, such as new islands and features. In addition, many existing areas of the game will receive a revamp and rebalance using the experience with those areas so far.

The development of 1.0 is assisted by design threads posted on the Hypixel Forums. In each design thread, an early design draft for changes to a certain area is shown, and the community can give feedback through a linked survey or in the thread itself. Nothing within the design threads is final; all mentioned additions and changes are subject to large changes.

• Main thread
  • Admin response 1
• Thread 1 - Skills
  • Admin response 1
  • Admin response 2
• Thread 2 - Private Islands and SkyBlock Levels
  • Admin response 1
• Thread 3 - Minions and Collections
  • Admin response 1
• Thread 4 - Playing alone and together
  • Admin response 1
  • Admin response 2
• Thread 5 - Few smaller ideas
  • Admin response 1
  • Admin response 2
• Thread 6 - Gear and Modifiers
  • Admin response 1
• Thread 7 - Economy
• Threads 8-9 TBD
  • Future thread on  Alchemy
  • Future thread on Enchantments
  • Future thread on magic builds

Additions

Locations

Museum

• Items can be donated to the Curator to be put on display
• The player's can be appraised by Madame Eleanor Q. Goldsworth III
• Donated items become Co-op Soulbound and cannot be traded with player's outside of your Co-op afterwards
• Players receive rewards according to the number of unique items they have donated

Items

Armor

• 4 new Armor types: Cloaks, Gauntlets (gloves), Belts, and Necklaces
• The best versions of each new piece will be dropped from specific content
  • Example: The Colosseum will drop Belts

Dyes

• Can be applied to any armor which is Leather in order to change their colour
  • All dyed armor will have an icon in their descriptions, signifying that they are dyed
    • This will not affect existing dyed "Exotic" armor pieces
• Drop extremely rarely from certain mobs
  • Example: Wolves in the Ruins will extremely rarely drop  #B2FFFF Celeste Dye

Group buff items

• More items which benefit all nearby players will be added

Changes

Dungeons

• The total % of secrets and speed required to max their scores depends on the floor

Floor	% of secrets required	Maximum time
F1	30%	10:00
F2	40%	10:00
F3	50%	10:00
F4	60%	12:00
F5	70%	10:00
F6	85%	12:00
F7	100%	12:00
M1-M6	100%	8:00

• Every 1% of secrets found above the cap will grant +0.5% Catacombs EXP
• The first completion XP bonus will instead be given on the first 5 completions
• The first 5 successful dungeon runs of a day will give 40% extra Catacombs EXP

Accessory Bag

• Applying a reforge to the Accessory Bag permanently unlocks it for freely swapping reforges
• Reforges will only be able to be applied directly to the Bag
• New system for Accessory reforges:
  • All accessories' rarities will be summed up as Reforge Points
  • The power of the reforge scales with the number of Reforge Points
• Accessory Bag grants some stats free to spend based on the number of owned Accessories

Armor sets

• Most full set bonuses will be changed to scale with the number of worn pieces
  • Example:  Wise Dragon Armor
    • 2 pieces - 8%  Mana cost reduction
    • 3 pieces - 18%  Mana cost reduction
    • 4 pieces - 33%  Mana cost reduction

Quest items

• Items such as the  Campfire Badge will become Co-op Soulbound

Loot sharing

• Will be expanded to other areas of the game

Essence

• New types will be added
• Essence can be used to upgrade almost all gear
• The effects of stars will take effect globally
  • Effects of stars will be visible in item tooltips

Rusty

• Rusty will become a 'Lost and Found' NPC where players can buy back quest/npc items
  • This is so that players can gain back items that has been lost and cannot be obtained again, such as the Campfire Badge

Planned additions

This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.

All features are not final and are subject to large changes.

Locations

Garden

• Location accessible from private islands starting at  Farming 10
• Will contain new types of crops and farming mechanics, methods, and patterns

Gameplay

Island matchmaking

• Island system will try to put players of similar strength together
  • Only 2 different lobbies - one for early-mid game players, and another for late-end game players
  • Will not stop players from being warped into the other lobby types

Modifier system

• Streamlines the item upgrading process
• Allows players to apply all owned modifiers to an item, from anywhere in their storage
• Can instantly craft and purchase missing modifiers

Party Finder

• Matchmaking similar to modern multiplayer game matchmaking
  • Automatically matches queued players according to their level, class and floor

Quests

• Addition of a global quest line with side quests, unlocked with SkyBlock levels

Skill trees

• May be added to skills apart from  Mining
• Levelling up Skills such as  Combat could reward points to spend within the skill trees

General

Lore

• Will be expanded upon in the quest line

Player Info

• Hovering your mouse on a player name in chat will display information about them, such as their SkyBlock Level, Guild and other trophies.

Planned changes

This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.

All features are not final and are subject to large changes.

Items

Collection items

• Unused items within Collections, such as  Cactus Armor, will be tweaked to be integrated into their relevant Skill's progression

Conversion into Dungeon Items

• Will be removed for all non-dungeon items
  • This change may not take effect

Keystone Accessories

• Will be more powerful and have more impactful effects
• Only a few can be used at a time
• May not release until a while after 1.0

Rarity

• Many items will have their rarity reduced by 1
  • In order to "better represent the spread of items in the current state of the game"

Requirements

• Will be added to most Skill-related items

Training Dummy

• Will be able to show total DPS
• Will be able to simulate any mob from the Bestiary
• May be able to simulate dungeon stats
• Additional enhancements

Mobs

All mobs

• Will "have its own uniqueness, both in what they do and in what they drop"

Mob levels

• Will be assigned using an algorithm rather than arbitrarily

Sea Creatures

• Will drop important and rare  Alchemy ingredients

Locations

Colosseum

• Will receive a revamp with PvE content
• Will reward Belts

Private Island

• Adding rare events and special spawns to the Private Island
• SkyBlock level progress rewards options for customising private island gameplay
  • New mobs spawning on the island as SkyBlock levels increase, which will have useful drops
  • Certain levels unlock automation options such as sorting systems
  • SkyBlock level 15: Rare NPC can spawn on the island
  • SkyBlock level 20: Rare dragons fly across the island, can be shot for a reward
• All potentially dangerous content will be toggleable

Gameplay

Co-op system

• Will be changed such that co-op members will have less opportunity to ruin other members
• Parity with solo profiles such that there are no advantages to either system

Collection/Recipe

• Collection have relevant recipes that sink a large amount of that resource
• Recipes unlocked from collections will be slowly earned (slower learning curve)
• Late game items' recipe includes late game drops and have a high requirement
• Unused items from early game will have a purpose so late game players will still use these items
• Balance Collections and making them fair will reward players
• Collecting resources by hand will not be in competition with minions (WIP IDEA)
  • For example, Collecting resources by hand might drop a special item that can be used in specific crafts that minions cannot get

Dungeons

• Fix Party Warping after a dungeon has finished
• Boss collection milestones will be implemented to the rest of the game

Fairy Souls

• Fairy Souls will not reward stats anymore, but instead reward other things such as Storage Space and Skyblock EXP
  • Losing the stats will not make the game harder as the players can get these stats back somewhere else

Quests

• System similar to Commissions for  Mining may be added for other skills
• Commissions could be introduced earlier in  Mining progression
• Global system will receive improvements in order to implement better quest content
• The global quest line will finally unveil the story of the world of Skyblock and will lead players to a familiar place.

Skills

• Will have improved integration with global progression
• Will have improved progression within the Skill itself
  • Progression within a skill will involve item progression and changes to the gameplay style
  • Prevents monotonous progression in skills such as  Farming, where it is only effective to do a single farming task from level 0 to 60
  • Prevents skills from adversely affecting other skills' progression
• Tweaks to Skill levelling bonuses to make them more rewarding
  • Coin rewards are currently "mediocre"
• Cap most Skill rewards at Skill level 50. Any progress past 50 would be mostly cosmetic

Slayer ramp-up

• Each Slayer boss kill makes the subsequent boss stronger, but increases the rewards
• Resets every SkyBlock year
• High score will be saved each year

General

Economy

• Balancing rewards and money making capabilities of all skills with each other
• NPC selling system like a market. Depending on the influx of money, items sold to NPC will either drop or rise, hitting a cap at some point

Elite 500

• Group of 500 players with the highest SkyBlock level
• Will have custom Tab menu tag

Enchantments

• Many more enchantments will be added
  • More defensive, support and "technical" enchantments
  • More offensive enchantment options
• Each item will have a set amount of enchantments it can hold
  • Each item may be able to hold different amounts of offensive and defensive enchantments etc.
  • Allows adding an indefinite amount of enchantments without increasing players' power levels
• Balancing to enchantments, especially buffs to weaker ones
• One For All will receive "changes, including nerfs"

Healing

• May be buffed to fit the increased  Health of players if necessary

Minions

• Additional options around Minions, such as Minion placement and new Minion types
• Special Minion type at SkyBlock level 22, which performs a different task than generating resources
• Make Minions generate less Skill EXP
• Minions will be constantly balanced so every minion will have some kind of use
• Automatic Shipping slots might be reworked to a third minion upgrade slot that only unlocks after the minion hits tier 10
• Fuels and Minion speed can be nerfed as they are generating resources too fast
• Minion upgrades, especially fuel-type minion upgrades and diamond spreading, are wrong and these upgrades make players choose minion speed over minion resource
• Minions will have 3 different perks:
  • Minion Personalities (provide small strategic decisions to maximise the minion's usefulness)
  • Special Minions (Unlocked through Skyblock Levels and don't generate resources but can facilitate gameplay or to optimize your setup)
  • Minion Levels (Every time a player collects the minion, the minion will level up and gain some perks, including speed and storage)

Progression

• Make goals clearer to players for each stage of the game
• Make mobs have their own personality (what they do) and drop different items
• Balance gear and PvE

Salvage

• Non-dungeon gear will be salvageable for essence
• New confirmation menu when salvaging important or expensive items

SkyBlock Levels

• Gauge of a player's progress through the game compared to others
• An enhancement of the already existing Skill Average and Weight systems, making it inclusive of all areas of SkyBlock and giving it its own learning curve and progression
• Leveled up by completing certain tasks
  • Example values:
    • Levelling up a Skill: 25 EXP
    • Finishing a Quest: 5 to 25 EXP
    • Bestiary Milestone: 3 EXP
    • Beating a specific Slayer boss for the first time: 5 to 10 EXP
    • Slayer Levels: 10/15 EXP
    • Museum milestones: 2-15 EXP
    • Every other instance of a significant milestone in the game would give an amount of EXP
    • Infinite sources of EXP will be avoided in order to prevent balancing issues for top players
• Rewards perks such as Private Island gameplay elements
• Unlocks parts of a global quest line

Stats

• Armor and reforges will grant more  Health and less  Defense

Telekinesis

• Will be changed from an enchantment to a global perk unlocked at SkyBlock level 5

Wardrobe

• Will be changed to function with the 4 new armor pieces

History

SkyBlock Prototype
Sep 22, 2021		SkyBlock 1.0 was first discussed.