Changelog/2026/April 28

Hello! Today we are releasing a new Hypixel SkyBlock update which introduces a new yearly farming event: the Harvest Feast! Along with this we've added Fossil Essence and a corresponding shop to spend it in. Keep reading for all the details!

Feast Chef Ted is cooking up a massive Communal Stew for everyone in SkyBlock, and he needs your help to season it! Harvest Feasts take place every SkyBlock Year for 3 months: Early Autumn, Autumn, and Late Autumn.

During each month, 3 crops will enter their "harvesting season". Harvesting these crops during this period has a small chance to drop Seasoning for the stew and a new crafting material unique to each crop.

Seasoning is a RARE CROP that has a 1/2,250 chance of dropping from in-season crops when harvesting them. It's not a physical item—it'll automatically be donated to the Communal Stew in The Hub.

Each Seasoning you donate to the stew will contribute towards your Donation Tiers.

There are five Donation Tiers each Harvest Feast at 5, 25, 75, 150, and 250 Seasonings cumulatively donated. Each Donation Tier reached will earn you Feast Flasks, a critical ingredient for crafting the new Celestial Mason Jar, the most powerful Mixin in Hypixel SkyBlock!

Hitting the max Donation Tier will also earn you a Commemorative Mason Jar for that event.

Many of the items in this new event reward a new stat: Overbloom! You can think of Overbloom as Farming's equivalent to Magic Find: it increases your chances of dropping RARE CROPS! Every 1 Overbloom you have adds +1% to the drop rate of all RARE CROPS, so 100 Overbloom doubles your chances!

List of RARE CROPS

Outside of just dropping Seasoning, in-season crops will also have a 1/18,000 chance of dropping a new crafting material unique to that crop. Each crafting material is also considered a RARE CROP, much like Seasoning.

Each of these materials is used to craft or obtain 1-3 new items.

Wheat Items

Carrot Items

Potato Items

Pumpkin Items

Sugar Cane Items

Melon Items

Cactus Items

Cocoa Beans Items

Mushroom Items

Nether Wart Items

Sunflower Items

Moonflower Items

Wild Rose Items

Mayor Finnegan now has a new perk: "Grand Feast"! This replaces the Harvest Feast with a version that lasts an entire SkyBlock Year, in addition to opening the Grand Bakery for its duration. Feast Baker Scott runs the Grand Bakery and will appear at the market stall next to Ted during Grand Feasts.

During a Grand Feast, whenever you drop a Seasoning from an in-season crop, it'll also give you a Kernel—a new currency you can spend at the Grand Bakery in The Hub to "bake" new rewards!

• Freshly Baked Accessories
  • Grants +1-5 Overbloom
  • Talisman: 25 Kernels
  • Ring: 100 Kernels + Talisman
  • Artifact: 250 Kernels + Ring
  • Relic: 500 Kernels + Artifact
  • Heirloom: 1,000 Kernels + Relic
• Feast I Books
  • Applied to Farming Tools
  • Grants +0.5-2.5 Overbloom
  • Costs 25 Kernels
• Finn's Focaccia
  • Consumable
  • Grants +5 Overbloom for the rest of the Grand Feast
  • Costs 50 Kernels
• Ted's Contact Baked In Bread
  • Unlocks Ted's Abiphone Contact
  • One of the three in-season crops will give 10% more Seasonings, he'll call you to let you know which one
  • Costs 500 Kernels
• Scott's Contact Baked In Bread
  • Unlocks Scott's Abiphone Contact
  • Allows you to open the Grand Bakery outside of the Grand Feast
  • Costs 500 Kernels
• Bread Bowl yummy
  • Costs 10,000 Kernels
  • Is a super cool thing to give to somebody

With the introduction of Finnegan's new Grand Feast perk we're retiring his old "Pelt-pocalypse" perk. Talbot's Shop and the Horse Trapper Animal are now permanently available. In addition to this, we've slightly reworked the Trapper's Crest accessory. It now upgrades an additional time and buffs the amount of Pelts you drop to compensate for the removal of the Mayor perk.

Fossil Dust has been turned into Fossil Essence, which can be spent in a brand-new shop! The Fossil Essence Shop is accessed through Researcher Beryl, a new NPC that can be found in the top floor of the Fossil Research Center.

Perks:

• Sleight Of Hand I: Start the Fossil Excavator with an additional charge
• Chilled to the Bone I-X: Increases your chances of fishing up Skeleton Fish in the Crimson Isle by 2-20%
• Dwarven Expertise I-X: Grants +2-20 Dwarven Metal Fortune
• Cut Loose I-V: Killing a ❆ Glacial mob while inside a Glacite Mineshaft grants +0.5-2.5 Cold Resistance (up to x10)
• Prehistorian I-X: Increases the chance of a Fossil Dye spawning in the Fossil Excavator by 1-10%
• Resourceful I-V: Grants a 1-5% chance to not consume keys when looting a Frozen Corpse

In total, you will need 66,250 Fossil Essence to max out the shop.

Additionally, you are now able to purchase a Chisel through this menu for 5 Fossil Essence. Suspicious Scrap is now purchased here for 100 Fossil Essence as well.

Meet the Fossil Muncher, a new NPC found in the Glacite Tunnels. Every 24 hours he'll ask for a random Fossil. Giving him this Fossil will reward you with 25,000 Glacite Powder and 100 Fossil Essence.

The loot table of the Fossil Excavator has been updated

Fossil Excavator Loot Table

• Added +100 Fossil Essence to Dr Stone's rewards for donating a Fossil
• You can now salvage the following items:
  • Suspicious Scrap: 5 Fossil Essence
  • Caged Wisp: 500 Fossil Essence
  • Frosted Scute: 500 Fossil Essence
  • Shattered Locket: 1,000 Fossil Essence
  • Prehistoric Egg: 25 Fossil Essence
  • Glacite Chunks: 25 Fossil Essence
  • Fossil the Fish: 25 Fossil Essence
• Buffed the amount of Fossil Essence earned from the Fossil Block from 1 → 4-8
• Citrine Gemstones now prioritize higher value treasures in the Fossil Excavator when highlighting slots
  • Fossil Dye (Highest Priority)
  • Fossil the Fish
  • Paleontologist I Enchantment
  • Glacite Powder / Essence
  • Gemstones/Glacite/Umber/Tungsten (Lowest Priority)
• Halved the Cold Resistance given by the Frozen Skin perk in the Ice Essence Shop
• Added all Fossils to the Bazaar
• Improved the zone entry message for the Glacite Tunnels and the Fossil Research Center

One of the most popular suggestions we've gotten recently is for a farming equivalent to the Hunting Toolkit. It's finally here! You can purchase one for 500 Copper from SkyMart and it'll store your Farming Tools for all crops. Consuming the item now grants access to the /farmingtoolkit menu, where you can store your Farming Tools. You can also access this menu by shift right-clicking the Farming Tool you are currently holding, just like the Hunting Toolkit.

There are now 4 new perks available in Doug's Event Shop at the Carnival to help out with your progression through the Harvest Feast: Natural Talent I-V: Grants a +1-5% chance to find Seasonings during a Harvest Feast Fortunate Feasting I-V: Grants +5-25 Farming Fortune during a Harvest Feast Feast Crashers I-III: Grants +2-6 Bonus Pest Chance during a Harvest Feast Leftovers I-II: Earn +1/+2 Feast Flasks if you reach the final Donation Tier

We've recategorized all Hoes and Axes used for farming into a new "Farming Tool" item type. They now share the same reforges and enchantments for simplicity sake. As a direct result of this, we've removed the Sunder enchantment from the game as it was redundant with the functionality of the Harvesting enchantment, but for Axes.

Items Now Classified As "Farming Tools"

We've replaced the Sunder VI drop from Locusts with a new drop: Locust Larva.

Taylor can now show up on your Garden as a MYTHIC Visitor starting at Garden Level XIV. She'll offer the player one of two cosmetics: the Fast Food Barn Skin or the Jelly Greenhouse Skin.

If she's offering the Barn Skin, she'll ask for lots of Deepfries, Salted Sunflower Seeds, and Enchanted Baked Potatoes. If she's offering the Greenhouse Skin, she'll ask for lots of Floral Gelatin, Melon Juice, and Compacted Wild Roses.

• Blessed Fruit
  • Moved stats from current Reforge Bonus to base stats (aesthetic change)
  • New Reforge Bonus now grants a chance for you to drop Enchanted Crops when farming
  • Fixed issue with Farming Fortune stat being lower than intended for RARE items with this reforge
• Golden Ball
  • Moved Farming Fortune from Reforge Bonus to base stats (aesthetic change)
• Large Walnut
  • Is now applied to "Farming Tools"
  • Buffed Farming Fortune this reforge provides significantly
  • Now has a Reforge Bonus that grants +5% Sowdust while farming
  • Removed Speed base stats

• Floating Crystals no longer have an effective radius, they apply their affect to your entire Private Island
• Adjusted the rarities for certain Floating Crystals
• All Floating Crystals now have a new and unique texture

• Nerfed Pest Farming Fortune scaling by 50% (i.e. Pests will drop 50% less crops from your Farming Fortune, but their base drop amounts are unaffected)
• Designer's Note: Pest Farming has been overwhelming good for the past few months now. Given that we are adding an exciting event with this update with even more drops and even more stats, we think this is a warranted nerf.
• Significantly increased the amount of Sack of Sacks slots given via the Clownfish Collection
  • Small: 3→8 Slots
  • Medium: 6→12 Slots
  • Large: 9→16 Slots
  • Greater: 12→20 Slots
  • Giant: 15→24 Slots
  • Massive: 18→28 Slots
• Rather than setting your Speed Cap to 500, Racing Helmets now grant +100 Speed Cap
• Renamed the "Bonus Attack Speed" stat to just "Attack Speed"
• Fixed having more than 500 Speed not actually making you any faster

What's coming next month?

Early next month we want to release a fairly large QOL patch and an early game quest to teach players about account security. Later in the month we plan on releasing the Lotus Atoll, a brand new fishing island. You can read the sneak peek for that island HERE.

Where are the Minister perks from the Aura event?

The team is still actively working on implementing all Minister perks from Mayor Aura's event. One or two perks have already been released, as you might have seen with April's Secret Bingo event, and most of the remaining perks will be released bundled together in one update.

When can we expect the second Foraging Island?

We are very deep into development of the second island of Galatea - Torrhus Canyon - and are hoping to release it later this year. You can expect a Sneak Peek for it over the next month or two.

When will we be getting the "new type of combat content"?

The "new type of combat content" is still at early stages of development so we won't share much now, but it is intended to take full advantage of the latest versions of Minecraft and be accessible to players at all stages of the game. We'll share a piece of concept art from the project for now.

What happened to the Guardian Slayer update?

The Guardian Slayer update always required Lotus Atoll to release before it, but now that we have access to latest-version tech we would like to take some time to revisit the Slayer, which was originally built using only 1.8 mechanics. We still plan on releasing it later this year.

What happened to the Great Glacite Lake update?

With the Lotus Atoll and Desecrated Shrine (Guardian Slayer) updates currently planned for fishing, we thought that yet another fishing update so soon would've grown tiresome. Because of this we ultimately split the Great Glacite Lake update into a number of parts, many of which you've already seen released (Frozen Corpse RNG Meter & Milestones, Littlefoot's Den, Fossil Essence Shop). We still plan to release the Great Glacite Lake part of the update, which contains the next TWO pieces of BiS Mining Equipment, Glacite Sea Creatures, new Mineshafts, and an Offering system for the lake that makes it easier to target certain mineshafts, in the future. We apologize for the delay.

That's all for today! :hypixel_smile:

If you notice any bugs or unexpected behavior, please report it HERE!