Changelog/2020/November 12

Hi everyone,

Today we are releasing a new SkyBlock update, specifically a guesting update! There are some new features that will make it easier to create and explore popular islands.

A new skill has been added to the game! This skill is tied to your profile and shared between co-op members. You can gain social experience through having unique guests visit your island, guests spending time on your island, and by visiting other people's islands yourself.

There are several rewards that are unlocked as you level up this skill. There are currently 10 rewards, with the potential for more in the future. A few examples of features you can unlock...

One reward allows you to create ranks for your island (similar to Housing) with a custom name and color that you can give to guests.

These tags give a nice chat prefix too! Each player can have one rank at a time.

Another reward is the ability to create parkour courses on your island. Players can take part in them, passing through checkpoints, and receiving their time, like lobby parkour! You may create multiple parkour courses. There is also a purchasable item to display a hologram with guests' top times.

You can now unlock the ability to create island NPCs! Create unique lore around your island - add dialogue to your NPCs to guide players around.

For many NPC mob types, you are able to edit individual settings such as a villager's profession as shown above or a player's skin.

A final reward example is egg hunt! This is similar to finding fairy souls but for your island. Guests can find them and gain points!

These are only a few of the rewards - level up and check out the others!

Although some of the skill's rewards are unlocked by default, many must be purchased from a new shop NPC in the hub - Amelia!

Find her near the mountain on the way to the hot air balloon.

There is a new menu accessed through Christopher in the hub, who you can find standing in the hot air balloon past Amelia. You are now able to browse the most popular islands in SkyBlock, sorting by various categories such as medieval build and dropper games.

Note: only islands that are able to be visited by all players are displayed in the island browser.

Each island in the browser is sorted by popularity level. An island's popularity is calculated from a combination of unique visitor count and the amount of time a player stays on the island. This level resets weekly.

Although popularity resets, your social skill doesn't - to a certain extent you can think of it as your all-time island popularity!

There are some new features available to manage how your island is viewed in the island browser, as well as creating island ranks.

At a high social skill level, you can set a custom name for your island! These can include color codes too. Please be aware that we will remove and punish inappropriate names.

You can also select which category tags you would like assigned to your island (with a maximum of 3 at a time). These will be shown in the island browser, and used by players to find islands in your same category.

Find the island management menu in your SkyBlock settings.

As a final note, we will likely adjust experience gain rates for the social skill - as well as the qualifications for popularity levels - over the next few weeks!

We hope you enjoy this new update and are very excited to see what great things you add to your islands! Make sure to post in the Island Showcase sub-forum once you've created something cool.