Changelog/2019/October 11

Hey Everyone!

While we wait for more bigger content to be completed, here's a fun little update to keep you guys occupied. Read on to see what's new!

If you want to tip your toes into some really challenging content, or if you enjoy incremental progression and theorycrafting, Slayer is where to go.

Find Maddox in the basement of the Tavern in the SkyBlock Hub to do Slayer Quests.

Maddox is a new NPC who lives under the tavern. His quests are fairly simple: Kill X number of monsters, then slay the boss.

Each of the 3 bosses available today are split into 4 increasingly difficult tiers. The highest tier will challenge even the most hardened veterans out there. We recommend obtaining the highest possible skills, best equipment, top potions and some aiming skills before attempting Tier IV.

Plenty of rewards await for those with the discpline to reach the top, including new armor sets fine-tuned against each bosses, new epic accessories, brand new minion types, upgrades, arrow poison, permanent stats, unique perks, tons of items... for a cost!

Some Minions are strong, some are weak, some don't work correctly. Thanks to community involvement in the minion balance thread, we have the first Minion Balancing update.
Keep in mind balancing is an ongoing process, give us your feedback!

• Added better explanation that Mushroom Minions can be upgraded with both red and brown mushroom.
• Buffed back Clay Price from 2 to 3, but nerfed the time between action by approx 20% each level, down to 16s at lvl 11.
• Buffed time between action of Sugarcane / Melon / Pumpkin by approx 20% each level
• Fixed Cocoa Bean minions not collecting vanilla amount of cocoa beans
• Fixed Nether Wart minions not collecting vanilla amount of Nether Warts
• Added enchanted clownfish craft recipe
• Made sure minions always collect mob drops (extend their pick-up range)
• Green Dye now counts for Cactus Collection
• Nerfed Blaze Minion time per action by approx 10% per level and nerfed price of Blaze rod from 10 to 9
• Nerfed Price of Ghast Tears from 20 to 16
• Buffed Quartz Minion time per action by approx 10% per level
• Buffed Flower Minion time per action by approx 50% per level
• Added Enchanted Raw Rabbit recipe
• Buffed drop chances of Rabbit Feet and Rabbit Hide by 40%
• Nerfed the price of Wool from 3 to 2
• Enchanted items should now give the right amount of skill exp when collected
• Added enchanted seed recipes
• Apply Farm Crystal buff to Sugar Canes and Cocoa Bean minions
• Slimes and Magma Cubes stop growing and instead, spawn at random sizes
• Buffed fishing minion speed by about 15% per level
• Chicken minions now collect eggs from chickens, if the minion has an enchanted egg
• Made Minion Expander work with foraging minions
• Minion Expanders now buff minions speed by 5%
• Added efficient crafting recipe for enchanted slime balls, from slime blocks
• Added enchanted poisonous potato recipe
• Fixed compacted items not always giving collection from minions (melon blocks, mushroom blocks etc)
• Minions now get a 10% debuff on the next action if they "spawn" twice in a row, unless you did the harvesting action yourself.
• Fixed Enchanted Potatoes not correctly turning into Baked Enchanted Potatoes with Super Compactor 3000.

Players will soon have interesting things to buy, but in the meantime, banks are growing and it is time to introduce Bank Upgrades!

Bank interests can now only stack up to 2 times, in case profiles are offline for a very long time.

Bank interests now work based on the total amount of coins currently in the bank.
From 0 coins to 10 million coins: 2% interest
From 10 million coins to 20 million coins: 1% interest
From 20 million coins to 30 million coins: 0.5% interest
From 30 million coins to 50 million coins: 0.2% interest
From 50 million coins to 160 million coins: 0.1% interest

Bank interests are now capped based on Bank Upgrades: Click to view all upgrades

On top of that, we added a 1% tax on auctions collected above 1 million coins.
Note that this tax can't go below 1 million coins, so if you collect an auction at 1,005,000, you'll get 1 million exactly)
Let us know what you think!

We recently released the SkyBlock API, which will allow content creators to make very useful websites.
By default some of your stats are turned ON or OFF by default, you can now find those options and toggle them in your SkyBlock Settings.

A note on future content:
As most of you already know, we are currently working on Dungeons.
Dungeons require new technologies and features we never used before, and while we are making good progress, it should not come as a surprise that the very first Dungeon will take a lot longer to create than the next ones.
The closer we get to release, the more infos we will give you.
The next SkyBlock patch will be 0.7.3 and will feature more content, unrelated to Dungeons, and is expected to release within 2 to 3 weeks.

As always, thank you for playing SkyBlock on Hypixel!

@Relenter - Minion Balancing
@Minikloon - The Slayer content + Bank Upgrades
@ConnorLinfoot - API
@Sylent, HPC and Bugs Team - Testing/QA
Also a huge welcome to @sfarnham who is a new Game Designer. He will be working with @Jayavarmen on SkyBlock (and the rest of the network).
Reminder that this list is not exhaustive. Developers on this list are often working on other projects.