Hypixel Skyblock's Fundamental Flaw 

Idk what this guy is on about occasionally moving my mouse to avoid afks enhances the movie watching experience.

Finally a skyblock youtuber showing off wynncraft without skyblock being down, thank you

To me, skyblock slowing turned from an MMORPG to a clicking simulator. Farming, Mining, Alchemy etc. Combat even has some boring parts (Kuudra Key grinding, Bestiary)

I stopped playing Skyblock because I got bored and frustrated by Dungeons. I grinded Dungeons for a few months, but it felt like Hyperion prices were increasing at the same rate as my bank balance and most teams kicked from the party if I didn't have Hyperion for floor 7, so I ended up in a death loop playing f5 and f6 eternally.

The reason why skyblock hasn't been fun for me isn't because of boredom more so the ungodly amount of features the game has like this video tackles about. When the new crimson isle update released, i just didn't bother. It was so tedious to do and so far into the level scale for majority of the players at that time. Even now, I can buy myself a overly overpowered gear but I can't be bothered to do it since, I'd have to go grind out Enderman Slayers for term to be useful, I'd have to minmax its stats and my gear and so much other bullshit. I just go online to build on my island and claim minions. It's become too much for me. Some people might like that system but shit, the first time I played this game It was amazing but now its just the same repetitive bullshit.

"all I know now is that SKyblock is got a Serious SKILL ISSUE" best line of the video

They gotta update fishing with an underwater area which isn’t as grindy and boring but more fun for the same rewards or even better. It could be like a scuba island with better gear letting you go down farther

7:27 they could have added the farming animals to the garden. like pig stys, chicken coops, add more items to farming collections, etc.

This is what has been plaguing skyblock for me...Feature Creep. The admins constantly add useless, detached things especially in the point you brought up about the Hex. To be honest its hard to replay the game on a new profile as the game has become and still is always beginner unfriendly. This is why skyblock is losing veterans and not gaining new players. It's overwhelming. I stopped playing after Crimson Isles released and came back to way too much. Skyblock right now is just "make number bigger". The gameplay loop is terrible right now and I don't know how they will fix this.

So I will say this, making a new dungeon wouldn't necessarily be trivial to implement. Atleast with my knowledge of the system (which admittedly is almost 2y outdated at this point) I could forsee several roadblocks which would result in it being a 12+ month project to release. One key thing to note is that while many bosses may look simple to implement they actually can take multiple weeks to make and optimize for performance.

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I know its not related to the video but remember skyblock isles? A new team took up the project and have been working on entirely revising it. They're soon releasing a boss rush minigame while they work on the main server. Your first video is what got me into it and it'd be cool to see you guys cover it again

for me, i only enjoy the start to a skyblock profile ... it's fun, you move everywhere, there's thousands of things to do and SEE yourself getting better but then there's a wall. A wall where every skill needs 100+ hours to get one level or one uprgade just to level up 1% faster the same skill... you don't mine to get good armor for fighting, you mine to mine more. You don't farm to get magical weapons or fun gimmicks, you farm to keep farming. And enchanting OMG enchanting. You are right,they gave up for this one... why make it so boring and take so little place in the gameplay ? Why not make fighting certain ennemies or having some quests like on crimson isle make you learn new spells and gain enchanting xp? It seems so obvious but no ... There's so much potential but i feel it is wasted to make a simple progression line where most items or completly useless and the few useful ones are overpowering all the others. For many passive skills like farming, foraging, enchanting, taming, dungeoneering ... i feel like a system where you can find certain plants/mobs/books/pets/trees rewarding you with special items and/or significant xp could be very engaging and rewarding. For dungeon for example, you don't get any xp if you don't complete a dungeon ... it's the ONLY way to get xp. Why not make some plants,some mobs and some inside quests while in the dungeon reward xp? When you begin in a dungeon you don't expect of defeating it right away so having things to do still rewarding you with ways to progress could be nice.

Wynncraft my beloved! Anyways, yeah this is all true. There’s a reason why I stopped playing SB, and this is one of the reasons (the other is adjacent; how repetitive the game is). I love Skyblock, I do. I put over 1000 hours on this game and I don’t regret it. Playing the Rift update has been a ton of fun, and honestly the Rift is a glaring example of how to actually do what you’re saying.

23:34 Pro tip: mine the gifts in the ice with a pickaxe instead of a drill, you insta mine it. Mining speed doesn't work properly on ice for some reason, or smth.

i like this kind of video that creates criticism towards the game that can be GREAT feedback for the admins. I would love to see not just you, but many other youtubers to make videos like this.

I agree with everything you said, and I feel like the problem specifically with all the tiny buff items (hot potato books and such) stems from the lack of choices in the game. Skyblock has a very active community where everyone learns metas and discusses ways to optimize, and that removes a lot of choice from the game. Take for instance the gem power scrolls - they have different purposes and can be used differently for different parts of the game. However, there are certain ones that are better than others, and the bad ones get neglected by the players partially because of the aforementioned optimization. As such, the only way to make content that players are guaranteed to engage with is to add little buffs that are widely applicable (your +5 healths, +2 strengths, etc.) Even when admins do add linked skill items (like armor or weapons) they’re outclassed by superior options. Thus, they keep adding little buffs to make updates relevant, with the unfortunate side effect of forcing players to jump through tons of hoops to get new items for progression. At a certain point, it might become so much effort to max a new item that you stick with the old one, because while the new item is better alone it’s worse without the million modifiers.

I find it interesting how Slayers are some of the most well implemented features in Skyblock in terms of connecting content, considering that back before dungeons were out, slayers were considered the absolute worst part of the game.

This video made me think. How do I have 700 hours in this games and only be considered midgame?

I think the concept of accessories was implemented well because you need a bunch of different items from different islands that can all stack up to improve your stats by a lot. I agree with skills being isolated and i really liked your recommendations that you made. Good video as always

in skyblocks defence, no one was ever meant to max out a skill. unfortunately the playerbase made it a requirement to max out every skill once too much content drought gave us nothing else to do

I think the main issue with skyblock is that everything is time-locked, and the only way to get ahead of that time-lock is with coins. You stop getting significant hotm xp after your dailies, there are resources that you can't really get your hands on except if you wait for minions, you're forced to wait a long time for stuff to forge, events only happen every so often, and more. It sucks, theres so much potential in skyblock's content, but ultimately the game steps all over your ability to do whatever you want and tries to pidgeonhole you into a specific progression. The only way to get around this is with coins, and nobody wants to mindlessly bazaar flip or farm all day for an achievement that ends up being pointless

12:12 I had no idea there was a new gemstone on the crimson island because I've always thought it's the combat island, not a mining one lol

I think the best way to improve enchanting would be to add little rooms that are placed on each island that you can go to once a day for xp were you fight wizards and magical creatures.

One fine-ish Alchemy rework is that you casually open potion effecs in godpot for every level you go.

For me the best update they ever realesed was the rift, they should continue the same ideas in the next update

I think the current dungeons are combat based and can then make new mixed dungeon path for every other skill. it could make grinding every skill more interesting if you had dungeon based rooms where you need to take out some mobs then mine some ore or chop a tree before continuing. then level it up like the other dungeons to make them scaling

this channel continues to be the best skyblock channel on youtube by a long shot, great watch and puts into words a lot of my frustrations with the game

Maybe each island could have a mining area where instead of gemstones you mine to make something which can be put into a weapon to change its utility or ability entirely, like applying a stone to hype which freezes or something more interesting than that

6:53 I feel like simply adding custom crops, crops with updates, more pests, a skill tree, more visitors, etc. is a very simple way of adding more into it. I feel as from every point to use for this garden is the worst one

I have been playing sb since release and have had many friends quit and seen new people join. The way I see it players have an amount of time they will give per day and a max amount of time per grind they will do. The farther into the game you get the longer the grinds get and people just leave. I felt I’ve finnaly reached this point recently and it makes me sad. I hope to see more updates and am glad to see people with influence speaking out on this issue :D

The connections you made to whole other MMORPG's or even in Minecraft such as Wynncraft was made close to perfect. I agree with about 90% said in this video but i think making powder for EVERY mining ressource might be cool but restarting a whole new powder everytime (about 5 times( might be a bit annoying, but making sth really complex which is hard to get good at and therefore making it really fun to repeat trying or even making it would be really great. Dungeon used to be like this and even think before master mode it even is still. One of my favorite content types to make sth really hard and then having to try, try and try it again and ending up becoming good at its is REALLY GOOD.

I think the funniest thing is how you need at most 6 items and like 3 armor sets to complete everything in combat, the most "fleshed and main focus" skill. Every other item for combat is outright useless. Maybe some items can speed up dungeons/slayers by a couple seconds but outside of that stuff, there's no need for any other item

I remember thinking about playing this game and coming back to seeing the Dwarven mines. I played an ironman style, and found the whole crystal bit to be completely unintelligible, as well as the garden being such a massive project that wouldn't seem fun to tackle.

it wouldnt be a popular decision, but i feel like skyblock needs to remove like 10% of its current content in order to bring the game together. it feels like the game has fifty people each working on their own, separate projects without any communication for a larger plan with where they want the updates to go

I think they could still do the mining thing and farming with seeds ect. It can’t be too hard for them to enhance collections and place some minerals to break as well as making seeds in the way they work in 90% OF EVERY MMORPG EVER. Pogers video btw ❤

tbh i agree with everything, except godpots, while yes i do think godpots are just a placeholder item. but i personally disliked the old splash system since it felt like a chore u had todo. (and yes godpots also dont fixed the chore issue its still a semi daily chore...) my biggest hope for an alch rework is, to not make it feel like a chore and a actual feature in the game.

Just a thought I wanted to share: I really hope the foraging island isn't just a foraging island. I hope we get to fight a cool tree boss to unlock part of the island, or that you can fish up certain sea creatures. And halfway through writing this comment I realized something. What if the foraging island has the forest dungeon in the right of the dh? like we know it says not coming soon but so is the foraging island

When you used chirp as the background song of the intro, I was put in like a wave of nostalgia. I would like to thank you for that.

while playing as an ironman, anything besides farming is related to other parts of the game(foraging wil get a new update soon which will do exactly this) want an armor set only acquirable through dungeons? do some slayers and then mine to craft the slayer drop that you can then use to level up your combat skill which will help with doing dungeons faster to get that armor set you want want a better mining set? start foraging and doing slayers or do Kuudra runs after leveling up your combat level, mine a bunch of glowstone, do dungeons and/or to farm nucleus items faster

Finally you spoke on this matter, it’s getting wild now specially for old players who left. I lest Skyblock over a year ago and now get back on cause too much has changed😅

When you were talking about the posiblilities of mining areas in every island with their own hotm levels and powders made me realize what we could have had.. hopefully this changes

Idea: add foraging items to the forest dungeon, and make it so you have to forage for secrets, and maybe plant based mobs which also gives foraging exp, and do something like crystal hollows where you can damage ice walkers more with pickaxes, make the mobs take like 1.5x bonus from axe weapons, then add like a axe which you swing circularly, like a Hyperion, but without the teleportation ability for clearing, and another skill that sends a shockwave in the direction you’re facing.

Wynncraft isn't a good example for this kind of design philosophy tho. Professions are not recommended for the general playerbase, and even those done with the actual game almost never level more than 1 or 2 professions. Also they aren't interconnected at all, you get tools for a profession by leveling up that same profession and by progressing outside of professions.

My favourite part of fishing is when it goes from u needing enough dmg to not get kill stolen to requiring to have a hype. Reindrake is epic tho, 1st time i dont wish that 3 goobers end their lives after fishing up a rare sea creature, more of reindrake pls

I think it would be cool if they expanded the dungeon hub, and had maybe 5 floors, and their master mode variants, for each seperate dungeon. e.g. youd have the catacombs as it is now, then you could have the desert temple f1-5, and the woodland mansion f1-5, and maybe other variants as well. there would be different specialist gear for each different type of armor. for example, players couldnt use their necron armor in a desert temple dungeon, just as now you cant use crimson armor in the catacombs (viably). Obvs this would take a while to implement, but it would be cool and infinitely expandable, maybe with a new floor every 2-3 weeks, and opens up a lot of options for players to choose from.

Hi Hellcastle and tylerrrr, I was wondering if you could unlist some floor 7 streams from december 2020. I have a memory that I believe is in one of those floor 7 streams and I would like to see if I can find it again thanks

This video really encapsulates why I can't get back into skyblock tbh. The progression is so.. annoying and grindy. Skyblock was fun to grind--but not when you HAD to grind it constantly. Also why fishing was my favorite skill to grind, it was just geneuinely casual fun and I never felt like I'd either have to pay a ton of money (which you have to grind anyways) or grind gear to get a decent fishing set up. Plus, it's much more communal than even PVE like dungeons imo. For context, I took a break from skyblock around the time (aka a little before) dungeons was released. I was late midgame at that time, and the meta changed so vastly that I really had no real clue how to progress. Hell, I don't even understand how reforges work anymore. The answer was basically "buy gear do dungeons buy better gear" and I really lost interest tbh. This video made me realize why grinding in early sb was so fun, sure I was grinding money for my strong drag armor but I had a ton of fun doing a bunch of different skills whilst grinding for things like the treecapitator. Now when I try to play skyblock I'm blasted with a bunch of new stuff that is so overwhelming because the meta is really just to buy stuff or be carried imo. + the need to have like 10 different mods for optimized playing. This might be controversial but imo this is also an issue with dungeons. It just feels very beginner unfriendly with such an established meta and no proper divide between skill levels. There's going to be at least 1 person in your party blasting through dungeons, solving puzzles with mods, while you're just trying to figure out what's going on, and that's not fun (although I know some form of dungeon solo mode exists now, I haven't tried it out). tldr: game too overwhelming for new and returning players, content is not beginner friendly and (imo) in the push for late/end-game content, beginner and midgame players are being left in the dust.

Didn't know you were a GD Colon mod, I was pretty suprised when I saw you in chat during the first 2.2 livestream lol.

Aomething that could be good is for most skills having multiple ways to grind them all requiring different amounts of attention from the player like rs, for example you could have a farming thieved dungeon(that would hopefully be easyish to implement) that would give some special rewards and more xp per hour that normal farming. but require more attention from the player. after playing lots of both osrs and sky block I feel that it is one of the biggest features that I would like to see implemented.

I don’t think god pots are bad… what they could do is add some extra potions that aren’t in the god pot.

I haven't played skyblock in a while because I'm stuck in a weird place. My mining level is super high because I like doing that, my combat level is okay, and my dungeons level is barely anything. I have tier 12 perfect armor, which can tank a bunch, but in dungeons it doesn't even work. I don't know if it was a glitch, but I was using it just fine until the pest update. I have no idea what armor to use because my progression is all messed up and I don't wanna grind wvery set to see which one would be best. So now I'm stuck in this limbo state which sucked out all the fun

i agree greatly with the mining section of the video, the dwarven mines was my favorite expansion ever in the game because it made mining fun and I was able to remove the snow minions from my island, if they just kept adding mining like that I would have loved that I hate the crystal hollows

So true I have 800-900 hours of playtime, with 3b NW which over 2/3 of it is my mining gear, and I did not ever need to go off of my way to touch an other skill in order to make progress in mining. A few days ago when my divan's drill was forging, I tried some farming in the garden and it was in no way connected to any other part of the game, just farm, get better tools, farm more, win silver in contest, farm more to win more contest and that's it, just farm to farm more. It would be so awesome of if there was a new mining area in the crimson isles, where you would need netherwart boots to protect you from dying, and crimson Isle mining gear which you would get from kudra with new mining attributes, and you could upgrade it's speed, fortune and pristine further than gemstones with trophy fishes to mine glowstone powder, which farmers can spray on their plots to gain some more fortune, or quarts/obsidian/netherack something that would buff your strength in the catacombs or speed up fishing. It would be so great if skyblock was like that. I hope it gets there some day

admins listen to this!!

"unless you wanted to build an extra dedicated cave system island" aged well

I strongly agree with your point on dungeons being in its own bubble, it's always seemed just so pointless to have it disconnected from kuudra and also having giant stat increases in dungeons instead of balancing around normal stats

I have 450m obsidian collection and can confirm end is not just a combat island

Hypixel does have a common system which is used in most skills to tie them together, talismen. You unlock some from most content in the game and they are useful for most skills, to get max strength for farming, you have to fish for all the talis, its not the best system to tie them together but to say that theres nothing from a skill like fishing that affects rest of the skills isnt quite right

A point brought up during mining that suggests an upgrade of the treecap made from neatherite wouldn’t work has the vast majority of skyblocks players are playing on a version from before the addition of neatherite.

I think the main problem with Skyblock progression is that the curve for maxing out an attribute with its intended path is absurd. It would be extremely inefficient to do anything other than use your primary moneymaking method to skip the early grind of other sections of the game

The thing that stopped me from getting back into skyblock is that somehow it's become so complex that beginners that know nothing about the game dont really have a chance in competing anymore. I watched a video on how a youtuber got an item and like half of the video he talked about stuff that i have never even heard of or even seen. This just feels like a prison gamemode now

The upload schedule is bad but every time its always a banger video

I noticed on some of your videos you use APEC, in mine it makes a grey outline around the upper left corner of my selection in an inventory along with a rarity icon, anyway to turn it off?

Now with the glaciate caves it just feels natural to have a hot cave perhaps in a island that's associated with heat

What texture pack do you use it looks really nice

Great vid! Can you please give me the recourse pack link at 3:48, the deepslate one, thanks! Quick edit: I have watched ur texture pack video and has seen it is furfsky with neu, but does it also work with neu from lunar client with the furfsky pack? Because for me it doesn’t, or do I just need to update the furfsky pack (I’m using furfsky reborn btw)

Oh BTW your next video is your 500th, got any special plans?

what mod was used at the end with the present highlighter? is there a way to get that on blc?

A big L for me was the garden pest. Farming is already boring as shit just holding some buttons having to sit at your computer to make sure you don't get kicked or macro checked. Now you have to actually pay attention to the screen because pest slowly get you worse and worse farming fortune. They took something that was boring and made it into boring and annoying to do. Aswell as basically every big update they add is locked by a shit ton of requirements or a billion coins worth of gear just to be viable.

With the Alchemy all positive potion effects, they should have made it to where once a day you can upgrade one of your potions to aforementioned potion. But I don't play this and have no idea how I got here.

I think a way to revamp enchanting is to make it where enchants are not powerful at enchanting level 1 and once you hit enchanting 50 you get the full power of the enchant. This would solve the issue with enchanting being its own mini game because it would be required for the early game and one you hit late game you can get small stat buffs (level 50-60 or higher give 1-2% better enchant effects) an example could be sharpbesss not doing anything at enchanting 25 it would be 50% as strong and at enchanting 50 it would be like it is now level 60 would be 10-15% more dmg

13:00 this is genuinely one of the best update suggestions I've ever heard.

I'd say only about 1/3 of this I agree with. 1/3 I'm aware of, but think it's a good thing. And 1/3 I haven't experienced or have seen the opposite of. I'd have to make a reaction video to cover each detal though. I love Hypixel Skyblock. Though I only play it once a week on stream. There's deffinately parts where grinding would be more effective, but the only part I'm really having trouble with is the Vanillite fish in particular.

As a leader of an mmorpg, i agree with you completely. we try to add many things to do for all kinds of players in each island. we strive for diversity, something i wish skyblock would do. my problem with skyblock is that everyone plays everything, and there is no reason to be unique.

legit quit the game after being ratted on a 1.3k hour save, not because of money or anything but bcuz of every little thing i had to now progress. Ended a week off with decent combat and farming prog then realized i needed foraging and mining. another week spent doing that then remembered dungeons existed. atp was when i stopped playing cuz i most likely would need to spend another week optimising my build for a class then prog both class and cata level. this is some special type of repetitiveness that outmatches even the worst punishment in hell

hey hellcastle, whats texture pack do u use to change mithril's texture? its dope.

I've been thinking a similar thing to this (kinda) Skill Bestiary (basically every skill should have a bestiary) Combat Skill Bestiary (the current one): Kill Mobs (Milestones) Farming Skill Bestiary: Break Crops (Milestones) Mining Skill Bestiary: Break Ores & Gemstones (Milestones) Foraging Skill Bestiary: Break Logs (Milestones) Fishing Skill Bestiary: Fish Up items from the Fish Collection (Milestones) Alchemy Skill Bestiary: Brew every potion that has a Recipe (Milestones) I've excluded Enchanting since it's really easy to level up with Experimentation table

The fact the last major mining update was on my birthday in 2021 is wild (I loved mining back then)

I agree with many of your points, but I think they have been trying to scrape or tune most player bases when x, y, and z are within "meta" of done the most for a, b, and c reason. Like, they are more or less planning but also reacting in a manner that the axe is at their admin career each update once it needs getting fixed or things needed rushing. I think there needs to be flexibility to admins like one hour a day/week to work in groups and/or each admin to build some of the items nerds suggest if they cannot do it themselves to see how much worth or mechanic would end up being that wow factor within skyblock. Kind of like a spirit of life in the office during these times within the world.

Dungeon Crawler Mode (I wish) - Give everyone a chance to *use* but not *keep* tools and armor you randomly find. Start from 0 every time and allow for different playstyles, wether it be speed/health/damage/mage idk

I think things with recent dungeon updates are good. Making classes other than mage, archer, and tank playable, new rooms, etc. was a step in the right direction. Too bad those new rooms are exclusively for pre-existing dungeons, being catacombs e-m7

Where you got that exture pack for blocks? Sky reborn only changed items for me but not blocks and idk whats wrong.

I think a problem with new content can also be that they are still using 1.8.9 instead of updating to get new items that Mojang themselves have released.

And again you saving my night with the best skyblock Videos ❤

I think the runescape comparison had a REALLY good thing to bring up. And could've been a good comparison. All of runescapes skills feed into each other in one way or another. You level farming to make herbs and potions. You make potions for combats then you need gear from mining and smithing. Then you need food from fishing or combat. Cooking needs logs which need firemaking. And then you spend that combat to make gold that spend to help increase OTHER stats. Every skill feeds into each other and requires other skills.

This video does make a good point but what i feel is that a lot of people wouldnt want to go level mining to get better combat gear

24:53 literally lol also I never really thought about this but now that you mention it I agree , and that kind of skyblock honestly seems so much more fun

once, i got banned off of hypixel for accidentally turning on a macro for a different game, walking into a wall, and not being able to even play because I didnt know how to turn it off. I got shot off and watchdog banned me, even though i was asking for help in chat and not even hitting people.

Okay I agree with everything in this video and the great points, but for some reason when I started playing this game I loved it even it’s grinding and when I got bored and left, I leave for like a few months and then come back. For some reason skyblock just keeps me coming back even with its many flaws and made me play it for thousands of hours.

Skyblock a biggest issue is it’s vast amount of things people need to know to get started and the vast amount of grinding you need to do for anything.

skyblock has slowly transitioned from a great example of what is possible in a minecraft server to a bunch of disconnected minigames that feel both rushed and excessive, I always wonder if the reason for this is that a large portion of the hypixel team is dedicated to making hytale and that if they just dedicated everyone to one thing they would be able to have more than one part of the game be worked on at a time, like we could have a new dungeons every 4-6 months, new crops, fishing enemies and mining progression and i really hope when hytale does release (in 2040 or whenever) they manage to make a game that can get updates at the rate where it feels like im not doing 400 hours of left clicking just to get a minor increase in that very stat all the way at the very end, with nothing to show for the journey

He only made this to make the pun at the end

I kind of like the way the content is spread out into independent bubbles, makes it so I don't ever need to touch parts of the game I enjoy less.

I completely agree with the fact that skills should be linked to each other and be fun. An example of this for me is only reason farming is above foraging is because it makes money

8:40 *Well... farming goes hand-in-hand with alchemy, which is the easiest and stupidest skill of them all. *Also Dwarven Mines commissions are terrible without a decent mining speed, plus takes a very long time to do by mining alone if starting from level 1 *Slayers are kinda bs, specially wolf since it just doesn't take ranged damage for some reason? It lists it nowhere, and keeps being changed to take or not take ranged damage, making a mage become dog food.

Hypixel needs to hire you, like the mining ideas are so good. The hotm is too short other than maxing the perls with powder.

Man I’m trying to sleep, it’s 3am, but I gotta watch this now, oh and also it’s Christmas Eve btw

Finally a new video. I dont play skyblock anymore but I still love watching your guy's vids keep it up.

for crystal hollow you need jasper gemstones to progress in combat