We're Worried For The Future Of Hypixel Skyblock... 

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All i want is an update that removes carpets from the m7 boss

i agree with your points here, I really hope they improve the situation going on.

While I do agree having a changelog for alpha changes I don't agree with having what bugs are being fixed displayed. Since these changes are well, on alpha, they are still present on the main server and could potentially get abused in whatever way (probably some not so obvious ways too). As for giving an idea of what an update is going to look like before I personally believe Minikloon did a somewhat decent job of this on his yt channel, for example: he gave a list of some of the more complicated things they've made for the rift, he gave a sneak peak on the updated stats menu and gave some form of a tutorial on gabagool minions before they ever released/hit the alpha. If they could do more like this, 1 minute to 5 minute videos on whatever changes they're working on I believe that would give people more of an idea on what they're actually working on.

I agree that they need to communicate better. The updates truly feel like the admins just dont play their own game and are completely out of the loop/uninvolved with the game outside of their "work" you could say. I really wish theyd get some sort of team or process together to interact with us more, it would really help the game be better for literally everyone

I used to agree with this, but now this is kinda untrue, hypixel has been making major revamps to a LOT of things, mining v3, berserker update (though that was 8 or so months ago), and they have been making small updates in between, also the dragon update which is confirmed to release, just it is being kept in alpha for balancing. Not only that, but they have also been making good progress on updating to 1.20 and the foraging update (according to the admins)

I think it's a little bit of everything. Recently they had opened up a spot for a Community Manager iirc, which I think would be the person dedicated to doing some of the things you talk about on the video, like giving insight on an update or talking about specific changes and the reasoning behind them. But I think they have either not found one yet, or they have them occupied with something else. I also think that the fact that they are releasing rushed updates is because there have been times where people have complained about the lack of frequent updates on skyblock. And I think they have to weight between having constant updates, or have a larger period without one, but releasing a fully finished one (which imo the latter would be the best option, as it would avoid many of the issues you comment on the video). It's also true that it seems they don't really listen to feedback. A lot of people talked about how the key-requiring frozen corpses loot was very underwhelming for both the amount of time and materials they costed (specially vanguard corpse), yet they just added a little bit more loot to the pool of items, but you can still get comically bad rewards from a corpse, even the vanguard one. Forge times were also talked about, and while in this newest patch they have reduced the time for some things, there are others that are still way too long, like mithril plates which still take half a day to forge (on top of the time it takes to forge the golden plate and the refined materials), they upped the forge time of the perfect plate to 6 hours (which makes skeleton keys take way more time to forge, as now you have to wait for the mithril plate, the tungsten/umber plate, and then the perfect plate, all to then be able to forge the key). It seems as if they change some things for the good, and some for the bad. Updates do seem rushed. Even this current alpha patch seems rushed. Like what was the purpose of adding new Dark Auction items into an already inflated economy? I don't see a point in adding such a thing, instead of adding other ways to obtain said items. Hell the Magic Ball could have been a replacement for the Umber Dice that is "COMING SOON", and make it be forged with all the gems related to the buffs it gives, but instead they make it a single buy item that will cause its price to skyrocket. I understand them wanting to change Bal as a % increase in stats could be detrimental to the addition of items in the future. And in the latest edit they talked about that, and that they plan to add newer sources that would provide the stats that are being lost from the Bal change, but my question is: why not implement said changes alongside this change at the same time? Why that need to nerf or significantly change something so suddenly and then saying "oh the things we took away from you are coming in a future update that will come who knows when". Thankfully they have backtracked and will not implement the Bal changes until they also implement those other new sources for the stats that would be removed. One thing that I'd also like to talk about is why they add insanely time-gated+rng dependant loot. From the addition of the Vanguard armor to the API we can assume that at some point they will add either an armor that competes with Divan, or a direct upgrade to it (and I say assume because, as the update was released incomplete, we don't really know if that armor will ever come out), but there's no new drill, and that is because Divan's alloy is subjected to such a low chance of dropping, that if they made an upgrade to Divan, it'd be locked for most players behind an RNG drop that doesn't even have a pity system. The addition of the shattered locket/pendant of divan means that there will also possibly never be any other type of upgrade to it, because it would force players to get an rng dependant item to obtain it. RNG Meter was added to dungeons as well as slayers specifically for this reason. So why do they still add completely random, pity-less mechanics, instead of either not making them excessively rare, or giving them a pity system from the start? (whether it be RNG Meter or something else). All in all, I hope that from the current backlash the admins will finally listen to our feedback and start making more finished updates instead of unfinished/dlc awaiting ones, and also start giving us some insight on some of the changes they want to make, so that at least we are on the same page.

i was just going to quit if bal change rolled. i am just finishing my mining setup on my ironman. i have spent like 250 hours building a money making method, with no alternative being viable, just to lose it. and no, i love ironman in its current state, but needlessly adding large chunks of time making money to compete with normal profiles that can profit from any grind in the game for necessary items... it's just too much. if anything, they need to separate ironman from the economy completely. how much cheaper would cookies be if ironman bought cookies without actually taking one out of the market? or if auctions were separate. but instead the solution is always give ironman no reasonable path forward

honestly its really dumb, my coop spent so many hours grinding mining v3 and i thought i would wait to see if they change anything and within 2 weeks it's probably twice as easy to max. it's unfair on people who want to max the update as fast as they can and poor thinking from the admins

as an ironman the update feels like more of a completion task than progression. I’ve maxed the update except for a locket, but even then the forge time, drop chance, and stats of the locket make it just not worth it. The update just seems like a huge task to keeps us busy for a while, until another update comes out.

they should add complaints box in the mayors building and hire random people to read them to see how fast they quit the job

Example of this could be the necron’s handle and the wither scrolls where the npc sells the handle at say 700 mil and the scrolls at 3 mil per scroll so as to dump a bunch of rare and valuable items into the economy to balance supply and demand

amazed that there was nothing said about the people who log onto alpha, bug test and just hoard the bugs to sell/abuse when it drops on the main server.

I haven't quit, i'm taking my 3rd break of this game the past year. (Had one between Garden - Rift, 2nd end of last year and 3rd now since February) i was hyped for the glacite tunnels, intentionally not watching spoilers to get this old "Omg its update" feeling. While i'm sure it's fun for those who really enjoy mining, i was extremly disappointed to see that it was... just mining 3 new ores and some, arguably, pretty cool pets, so i went back to my break after trying out the update for a few days. I love that game, i played it daily for over 3 years, but lately i just don't feel like the devs are respecting our time and just add tedious and grindy update after another to make a "big" update.

I cant play on aplha afor over 6 month. When i press on the sb npc it just gives an error message

I think a skyblock sandbox gamemode would be really good since its obvious that some players would go on alpha to try stuff they don't have I myself have done this granted I also tried the update content but was only on the alpha for like a hour last time I was on it I think after foraging the admins should focus on a sandbox mode

Honestly what i think we need is someone (dev or admin that can comunicate activley with the comunity or nerds in general

can you tell me what texture pack this you are using?

The bigger question is hypixel bugtester team where?

whats your texture pack?????

a skyblock sanbox would be good to test items before u buy them because even though u can do the math it will never be the same as in practice

gripes all seem small overall i think the game now is 10x better then like 2021 2022 and i can apreciate that

I feel like that Sandbox would just be an infinitely good idea. It probably wouldn't take too much coding, and I feel like it would just make the game seem a lot more friendlier? Kinda like vanilla minecraft with Creative and Survival.

Why would they tell us what dupe they patched, it’s like you’re asking “hey tell us where there’s a program bug so that we can exploit it on the main server” they’ve never told us what dupes they’ve patched anyways.

tbh if hypixel just had any PR person who was progressed in the game the qol would be 10x better

Mining update was so lame i quit, even though i was fully prepped with scatha and divans drill

I feel like making a weaker hype style weapon might not be bad, simmilar to juju and terms situtation. It would give poeple a bridge until they could fully get the hype

the consistently disconnected updates are so depressing from a lategame pov, there will be some super fun meta that isnt game breaking or anything and then out of nowhere the admins decide its too much and needs to be fixed. also the priorities of the admins seem to be so way off, like releasing pests?? taming 60 was kinda in the middle imo, it wasnt needed but it was coolish? it would be cool if it was actual game content and not just "hey give me pets and ill give you skyblock xp and some pet luck". as if alch, enchanting nor fishing didnt exist. its like they only think that farming and mining exist recently. on top of this the ideas they actually give in the updates are just... uhm... the attribute update. i dont need to say more other than the attribute update. also making a dragon set outdamage everything, be better than everything for every (combat/non rcm/lcm combat wise) purpose just doesnt sit right with me. i mean, its cool and im definitely going to be grinding for 2 sets (renowned for mf/slayers and ancient for dungeons lmfao) but i dont see why 1 set should just outclass everything when the game has so much versatility and you have so much different sets, different purposes for different sets, like the fact that you either spend a bunch of money on mf 10 crimson or you sacrifice ehp and damage to use sorrow for magic find, necron for dungeons, crimson for slayers, aurora for slayers if you're a BITCH, like it's just the way i think the game was supposed to be made, it fits skyblock so well to not have a 1 size fits all armor set. yap session finished 🙏

As a normie casual lvl -12 skyblock player. I would absolutely adore a sandbox server as it helps to know what items are worth it. Like waiting for divan drill or buying x655 instantly

The only things that need to change in Skyblock are people finishing an update in 3 days and the fucking carpets Edit: you brought up great points. WHY are they releasing updates where things are "coming soon". You already take months to make updates, spend another week. I understand they have deadlines and internal requirements, maybe they should change that shit like a normal development company would

How is the name of the mod?

I hear you on the alpha I have not been able to join since the end of 2033

hypixel admins turning into league devs fr

From my view as a level 380 player i likes the updates and bug fixex cause that makes my time easier. But from the endgame site its horrible. Also why do we have rev t5 for like 3 years now but no wolf and tara t5? Why cant i add my divans drill to the museum, so that it also counts for the tita x655. Some be i think are still stupid high. Why is phlsgeblast only 7 which is finished pretty quick and you also fish up other stuff doing that. But then there is broodmother 400 kill be. Or the crimson isle mini bosses are so high compared to flaming spiders for example. Id say be should not be that different.

and theyre not going to release patch notes of whats changed or bugs, because people will abuse that information onto the main server. so your point there doesnt really make sense

Well one of the reasons i can think about why they limit the number of players on alpha is either it costs "too much" to maintain the alpha server for like 1k or more players or they limit it on purpose so people who wanna play alpha are forced to buy the higher ranks so hypixel makes more money. The big problem i have seen with hypixel during the years I played on sb is that they lack an actual good PR/Community feedback team. The only way they get feedback from the community is either from big RU-vidrs that make a vid on a bad change or from the community spamming forum posts on how shitty a change/update was.

I 100% Argree with everything U said, I really think they gotta do something about, Also on your alpha server point thing I was trying to get on to test the update and I had too wait around 2 hours then when I got, I got insta kicked so Ya.

As a ironman player the bal pet nerf is gonna hit me extremely hard, I'm very much annoyed at it

agreed, they just working in a million things at the same time and not focusing in one, and then they release updates unfinished

we need more communication

The last major update that was complete and perfect (almost) was crimson isels

i just like testing good gear on alpha

Holy fuck. I don't agree with a lot of this, but the transparency, HELL YES. Add admin transparency. also fuck heatran for manipulating taming 60 update pets

The game just feels tiring to play now. You need to spend hundreds of hours just to get a new items, although money is easier to grind due to inflation you have to do a lot of mind numbing tasks just to makes enough. It’ve been like this for years which made me lost a lot of motivation to play and since the game is grindy as hell, new contents just feels like a waste of time to play for me. I was active a lot few years ago grinding for eman 7 in 2 days after the update goes lived, my necron’s blade is in the 100-200 first crafted, terminator is in 300-400 first crafted. Last years I even bought a full god roll set of aurora and terror to play kuudra but I quit because I need key to do kuudra. The only thing stopping me from making those god roll sets becoming inferno is that I have to grind for nether stars to open the reward chests. What I need to do to grind for nether star is extremely repetitive and boring. Skyblock devs definitely need to make the game less grindy or at least make the grinding fun. I don’t have problem grinding dungeons and slayers because it actually have a gameplay elements that makes it fun

It’s a tale as old as time, poor communication leads to issues I think ultimately there needs to be a QA team built that specifically functions as a bridge between staff and players but I mean as a mid game player 240 8b nw this isn’t a problem to me really because there’s a good few thousand hours of shit to do first

how do u use a hotkey to warp to base?

watch the admins not watch the video and have the game still stay unbalanced 😭

the alpha server has problems because its the ALPHA server.....dont know why you would expect the same performance as the MAIN server

it should just be rank limited and players with 35+h real not afk playtime within the last month or smth, limit is defo needed cos i aint gonna spend 30min waiting for small update we have 999 firesales everyday and we cand afford to pay someone to read community feedback or interact at all, sbn absolutely failed its job and no one like them, like idk how many month since heatran incident and we see no change to how the team work lol, still 0 transparency and 0 interaction with community, istg if the only feedback they take is from sbn members we might aswell use chatgpt to code update

They need to make the content get easier over time because if new players want to get the best profiles or sky block level they would have to catch up to 10,000 of hours of stuff whilst still doing the new content. The people like me who have been playing for ages don't realize for the average person how hard it would be to catch up.

Yeah they should definitely make the alpha be mvp++ now that loads of ppl have spent £30 so they can play alpha as mvp+. You are so smart.

All facts

Bro let them leave cookie prices too damn high uh Ironman

Interesting take Mr.Paterson

100% agree with everything you said but one thing the alpha que I'm not a big fan of having it locked behind ranks instead I would prefer if it was gated behind sb lvl for instance lets say glaciate part 2 for the first like 2-3 hours of alpha being open allow only 300+ players on then after 3 hours let 200+ on then a few more hours after that let lvl 100 + on. I see 0 reason on y anyone below lvl 100 should be allowed on alpha you just don't have the knowledge of the game to rly contribute to helping test stuff unless the alpha update is something like a gold mine revamp or some super super early game island even then i dont think people below lvl 100 would be tons of help. i should also mention for the sandbox idea I rly love that idea idk if ill play it but it would be sick before I get any hate I am a lvl 290 mvp+ player ign: Tsusauce1 and I realize that some people might hate this idea but its just a random thought I had after hearing him talk ab the que anyways I'm curious on other peoples ideas as well lol.

i got hacked lol and the guy sold my acc 344h lost :(

hytales just needs to come so we dont have to play this shit no more.

Texture pack?

fr devs lackin cry to riot for better devs

yadi is so toxic in guild chat lol

Fire video

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I’d say to make farming more enjoyable and interesting, they can make more like mining where your garden level is equivalent to your heart of the garden level in which you have your heart of the garden tree and you have a farming island that’s similar to crystal hollows along with being able to make farming routes.

Forarging update v1

a realy good video from you :)

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I think they should buff mining even more to increase the amount of money you make so it’s easier for Ironman players to get more money. To help with countering inflation, they should add an npc that sells rare and valuable items that players really want/need at a price that’s between expensive but reasonable.

dw sweats not gonna get a life anytime soon

quit and make a Fortnite channel

I just dont get the idea of the last balance chances. Bal chance is completely insane but the other chances are weird too. For example scatha pet not giving powder buff from chests and the new glacite golems powder buff being "MOST PLACES" is so dumb.They made drills buff the powders a year ago and now they are nerfing pets for it. There is no new drill for the new powder too. Mining up to new content is long enough. They need to buff the old stuff for some players to catch up and have fun not grind too much. Because the new content is grindy too.

If you don't like skyblock any more just don't go on f*rtnite or wynncraft every other game is fine

ye skyblock is ass play another game then you will realise how addicted you were

where can i find the bal post? or can som1 explain to me why they changed it?

candypat ur usually right but this is just just a schizo rant lmao

The reason why everything is open on alpha rather than just the updated stuff is because there are often random bugs that come with the update for no reason. Minecraft’s code is weird so changing one thing may affect something entirely different for no reason. Think about the hex update and how 3 different dungeons wipes came with it despite the update having nothing to do with dungeons. I also think having a sandbox is bad because it makes the items you get on main to be so much less satisfying. Also I think this video shows how the admins are already struggling with 2 servers so adding a whole new chaotic sandbox server would cause a whole bunch more problems. A lot of the points you made were valid, but I just take issue with the part about focusing alpha and creating a separate server. Also I think another big problem with the alpha is that it is more of a sneak peak server rather than a bug testing server. I think people should be more encouraged to try weird stuff and interactions to report bugs because at the current stage of alpha the only people doing that keep their methods to abuse when the update does come out.