Changelog/2022/November 9

Hello,

Every now and then islands need to be improved to the new standards, today it's the Spider's Den! Oh, and there is a new Mayor in town.

The Spider's Den is now the only combat island before the End, therefore we needed to make its content more early game so new players have more content before they reach combat level 12.

The main takeaway is that Arachne, her Brood and her Keepers, are now a LOT easier to fight. Here's the list of the changes: Arachne(s), Arachne's Brood and Arachne Keepers now have:

• Much less health
• Much less damage
• Poison tics more often but deals way less damage
• Have improved basic drops (coins, combat exp, strings and eyes)
• New voicelines
• No more cobwebs spawn from the boss itself
• Beating Arachne grants 8 and 30 Spider Essence respectively
• Arachne's Keepers have 6 new spawn points (previously 3) and spawn a lot more often.
• Arachne's Keeper Fragments are now called Arachne's Calling, and have a better description.
• Dark Queen's Soul Drop is now simply called Dark Queen's Soul.

On top of that we added a new Armor Set and a new Sword, for early game:

Arachne's Armor has an 8 Set Bonus, once you wear all 8 pieces, you gain an extra 100 Health and Defense, quite decent early game! The Armor Pieces are dropped by Arachne, while the equipments are dropped by the Keepers. This armor is quite easy to obtain, therefore it is soulbound!

Arack is a new early game sword obtained from Arachne

The boss also has a chance to drop Arachne's Fang, an item needed to upgrade the Vaccine Talisman into it's ring form.

Both Arachne's Armor and Sword are now in the museum, as well as the Void Sword and Dragon Shortbow from the previous update.

This man loves spiders, but hates Arachne...

The Spider Essence shop features 4 new perks, and a Travel Scroll.

• Empowered Agility reduces the mana cost of movement abilities.
• Vermin Control reduces your damage taken by spiders.
• Bane increases your damage towards spiders.
• Spider Training increases your Combat Wisdom while in the Spider's Den.

This NPC was a little bit too mysterious before. Shaggy now gives players simple scoreboard objectives to better guide players through the island content.

This item is there to help players find all the relics on their own. And if you happen to lose your compass fear not, Rusty will find it!

Spider's Queen Stinger now has double damage (it simply doubles the damage of its ability) Venom's Touch damage is buffed from 200 to 250, and the starred version is buffed from 300 to 370 damage.

Each main point of interest of the Spider's Den now has its own official area name.

The Spider's Den has always had a weather system, but now each rain has a chance to be a Thunderstorm.

Thunderstorms show a little lightning on the scoreboard and have the particularity of spawning giant Toxic Slimes, which have a chance to drop a new item, the Poison Sample.

On top of that, Rain on the Spider's Den now grants 50 extra Fishing Speed, and Thunderstorms grant an extra 3 Sea Creature Chance.

The Vaccine Talisman now only reduces poison by 10%, however it now works on Arachne's Venom. It also has 2 new tiers: The Vaccine Ring can be crafted from the Talisman, with 8 Arachne's Fangs The Vaccine Artifact can be crafted from the Ring, with 8 Poison Samples

This item is now slightly more useful.

On top of obtaining all the way up to Efficiency X, it now has a chance to drop double flint, up to 10%.

Finnegan is a new regular Mayor, he's a close friend to Jacob as you probably noticed.

• Fixed the Builder NPC having some items twice
• Fixed the Shredder not activating some autopet rules.
• Fixed being able to update signs while muted.
• Changed the recipe of the Terminator bow so everyone can craft it (same amount of items)

As usual, we wanted to give you guys a quick glimpse on what's in the pipeline for SkyBlock. Please note that anything we talk about is subject to change (or may not even release!).

Kuudra Tier 5 is about ready to release, and should be expected in a week or two.

We are considering improving a few aspects of the Jerry Island. Details on this will come up at a later date (or with its release).

This update encountered some technical difficulties during Alpha testing (which is why we alpha tested to begin with), and we do not believe that it'll be ready for the next release, therefore it should release early 2023. We're sorry for the delay!

A follow up update to SkyBlock Levels is coming up soon, and has reached later stages of development. It should arrive on Alpha in the next few weeks.

While there is still a big chunk of work to do, we are getting confident with an early 2023 release.

There will be more to The Garden at some point after its release, but it is very much too early to say how much, or when.

We will have more to talk about with the Foraging Update when we release our final 1.0 content thread. Until then, we are not at a point where we can reveal much about the update just yet.

As always, take these previews with a grain of salt - a lot of it is subject to change. We are trying to be more transparent about what we're working on, but we also don't want to lock ourselves away from letting creativity take control. Only time will tell.

Credits:

@aPunch - Spider's Den QoL @Minikloon - New Mayor @Bloozing, @Citria and QA Team - Testing/QA @Jayavarmen - Game Design Mayor Finnegan was designed by a nerd team member @Stuffy! Remember that this list is not exhaustive. Developers on this list are often working on other projects.

Thanks for reading! And many thanks for continuing to report issues as we try and work our way through them. A special thanks to the players who helped in the testing and design of this update!