Changelog/2026/August 25/0

Today we have two separate updates on the Alpha Network: the 0.27.1 Release Candidate (which this thread is for) and The Minister Update (which you can find on this thread). We plan on releasing 0.27.1 to the network soon, we don't think it will need that long on the Alpha Network. We want to keep the Minister Update on the Alpha Network longer so that we can polish it to the point where all the Ministers are happy, so it will come out after 0.27.1. Now back to your regularly scheduled patch note reading.

Hello!

Today we have a smaller update on the Alpha Network with Mob Level Improvements and various QOL changes focused on smoothing out progression at various points in the game. There's also some new content for the Chocolate Factory and a handful of bug fixes.

The Mob Level Improvements mentioned in the 0.27 Release Thread have arrived, and are now ready for testing!

Mob Levels have historically not been very accurate within SkyBlock. For example, both the Zealot Bruiser and the Kalhuiki Tribe Member are currently Level 100, despite the Tribe Member having 15,384× more Health and dealing 320× more damage per hit.

Using a formula that takes into account a mob's Damage and Health, in addition with several contextual factors, such as:

• If the mob is a Boss, Slayer Boss, Miniboss, or Slayer Miniboss
• If the mob is a Sea Creature and, if so, what its rarity

We can now automatically generate not only a mob level for every mob in the game that is far more indicative of its threat to the player, but we can also automatically generate the following rewards in a manner that makes the following rewards received scale with the level of the mob you just defeated:

• Skill XP
• Coins
• XP Orbs

What this should mean for mob-centric skills, such as Combat and Fishing, is that you now gain significantly more XP from mobs that previously gave you far too little, though outliers in either direction (those that gave either too little or too much XP) will have been adjusted.

For this part of testing, simply play areas of the game where Skill XP is integral, such as:

• Fishing
  • Has early game Fishing XP gain improved?
• Combat
• Slayer
  • How are Slayer spawn times? Faster, slower, the same?

We will be keeping a close eye on feedback to these improvements, so please leave anything you notice in the replies. This content will not necessarily release as part of 0.27.1 if significant further adjustments are needed to prevent disruption to the meta.

• Reduced the number of Rusty Coins needed to purchased a Challenging Rod from 16x to 8x
• The Travel Scroll to the Backwater Bayou is now earned in Chapter II for the Backwater Bayou (it is no longer in Junker Joel's shop)
  • More scrolls can be purchased from Rusty for 25,000 Coins
  • Researcher Gilbert now asks for a Busted Belt Buckle instead of a Travel Scroll to the Backwater Bayou
• The Travel Scroll to the Lotus Atoll is now earned in Chapter II for the Lotus Atoll (it is no longer a Trophy Fishing reward)
  • More scrolls can be purchased from Rusty for 50,000 Coins
• Corruption Enchantment changes
  • No longer drops from Corrupted Sea Creatures
  • Corrupted I books are now crafted using 64x Corrupted Fragments and 3x Enchanted Paper
• Rebalanced how Sea Creatures on the Lotus Atoll drop Lotus
  • The Atoll Croaker and Lotus Guardian now only drop 1x and 2x Lotus respectively (nerf)
  • gorF now drops x8 Lotus (buff)
  • The Drowned Captain now drops 32x Lotus with a 20% chance to also drop 1x Silver Lotus (buff)
  • Increased the drop rate of Gold Lotus from Puddle Jumpers from 0.5% to 1%
  • The Frog Prince now always drops 8x Silver Lotus (buff)
  • Increased the drop rate of Gold Lotus from the Frog Prince from 2.5% to 5%
• You now only need to reach Lotus Collection VII for Chapter V in the Lotus Atoll
• Increased the drop rate of Frogcoins from Lotus Guardians from 1% to 5%

• Capped the bonus from the counter on the General's Medallion to 5 digits instead of 6
  • You'll now only need 10,000 Secrets to max it out instead of 100,000
• Reduced the requirements needed for Chili Pepper Collection V-IX
  • You'll now only need 10,000x Chili Peppers to max out this collection
• Increased the drop rate of Flaming Fists from Barbarian Duke X from 0.2% to 0.5%
• The Bingo Combat Talisman now gives +5 Global Wisdom
  • It has also been renamed to the Bingo Wisdom Talisman

• Reduced the number of Hemobombs needed to craft the Blood Donor Artifact from 128x to 32x
• Reduced the number of Nearly-Whole Carrots needed to craft Exportable Carrots from 2x to 1x
• Tripled the drop rate of Rock the Fish from Dark Monoliths
• Rescaled the number of logs needed to max out the Absorb enchantment
  • You'll now only need 25,000,000 Logs to max it out instead of 50,000,000
• Added Arachne's Calling, Arachne Fragments, and Soul String to the Combat Sack
• Reworked the Pig Brain Mixin to now just give a flat 10% chance to receive an extra item from Shiny Pigs

Starting at Chocolate Factory V you'll unlock the Faction Tower, where you're able to select one of four Factions: the City Rabbits, the Mountain Rabbits, the Country Rabbits, and the Beach Rabbits. Your can change which Faction you are aligned with for 1B Chocolate.

Being part of a Faction means you can find new Rabbits that are exclusive to that Faction. Finding these Rabbits are special, as they don't get automatically added to your collection. Instead, they'll drop as an item that you can trade with other players or buy/sell on the Bazaar. Right-clicking on them consumes the item and adds them to your collection permanently.

Each Faction has 4 levels of dedication that you can level up using Chocolate, the higher the level, the higher the rarity of Faction Rabbits you can potentially find! Each Faction has 5 COMMON, 4 UNCOMMON, 3 RARE, 2 EPIC, and 1 LEGENDARY Chocolate Rabbit to find. Note that Faction Rabbits are twice as rare as Chocolate Rabbits of the same rarity.

Starting at Chocolate Factory VI you'll unlock the Chocobit Tower, which allows you to find SPECIAL Chocobit Rabbits that no one else in SkyBlock can have at the same time! There are 33,333 Chocobits total and they drop twice as frequently as MYTHIC Rabbits, and they each add 0.2x to the multiplier of your Chocolate Factory! Note that Chocobits are not stored in your normal Chocolate Rabbit Collection and they do not take up space.

...but there's a catch! You must pay 1M Coins each SkyBlock Year per Chocobit you own, or else it'll be released back into the pool for anyone to potentially get! When a Chocobit gets released, they'll give you two SkyBlock Years worth of Chocolate production that they would've made otherwise as a thanks!

If you already have every DIVINE Chocolate Rabbit, the pity for it will be replaced with pity for Chocobits.

• Doubled the drop rates of MYTHIC and DIVINE Rabbits
  • With this change their Pity amounts have been reduced to 250 and 1,250 respectively
• Added a new Chocobun Shard that can be fused into with Bunbun and any Crime Family shard
  • Adds +1 Level Cap to Rabbit Bro, Cousin, and Sis
• You can now buy 3 Dark Cacao Truffles per SkyBlock Year instead of only 2
• Buffed the Rabbit Crew Attribute from 2 ➜ 20 to 5 ➜ 50 Chocolate per second

• Added a DPS Meter above Training Dummies
• Improved the responsiveness of F7 Terminals for players with high ping ("pingless terminals")
• Arrow cost changes
  • Reinforced Iron Arrow: 24x Iron Ingot ➜ 1x Enchanted Iron Ingot
  • Gold-Tipped Arrow: 40x Gold Ingot ➜ 1x Enchanted Gold Ingot
  • Redstone-Tipped Arrow: 24x Block of Redstone ➜ 1x Enchanted Redstone Dust
  • Emerald-Tipped Arrow: 16x Block of Emerald ➜ 1x Enchanted Emerald
  • Bouncy Arrow: 24x Slime Block ➜ 2x Enchanted Slimeball
  • Icy Arrow: 64x Packed Ice ➜ 2x Enchanted Ice
  • Explosive Arrow: 24x Block of Coal ➜ 2x Enchanted Gunpowder
  • Glue Arrow: x64 Tarantula Web ➜ 2x Enchanted String
  • Regular Arrows are now cheaper from the Weaponsmith and Ophelia, only costing 5 Coins per
  • Increased the amounts given for each Arrow in their more trading options menu by x5
• Reduced the drop rate of Ananke Feathers by 25% from Kuudra
• Added the Greenhouse to the Enchanted Clock
• The Coin cost for removing Rod Parts now scales with the Rod Part's rarity
  • COMMON: 10,000 Coins
  • UNCOMMON: 25,000 Coins
  • RARE: 50,000 Coins
  • EPIC: 100,000 Coins
  • LEGENDARY: 250,000 Coins
  • MYTHIC: 500,000 Coins
  • DIVINE: 1,000,000 Coins
  • Along with this change the rarities of many Rod Parts have been changed
  • You can also no longer Recombobulate Rod Parts as a result of this change
• Added text to the item lore of Flexbones explaining where to obtain them
• Mango Dye is now dropped from Tree Gifts
  • 1/1M from Fig Tree Gifts
  • 1/500k from Mangrove Tree Gifts
  • 1/100k from Helix Tree Gifts
• Added 10 Crit Damage to the base stat of Manticore Claws
• The Bestiary entry for Shiny Pigs now displays Year of the Pig loot
  • We also added Enchanted Cooked Porkchops as a rare drop from them (2500 weight)
• Improved shift-clicking items out of the Crafting Table
• Improved shift-clicking items out of the Brewing Stand

• Fixed Lumber Jack, Kelly, Ryan, Melody, and Molebert all accepting stacks of logs for their quest only if you had the exact amount in your inventory
• Fixed a way to bypass the Inferno Slayer boss's Magic Damage reduction
• Fixed the Tormentor ability using the damage of the original hit instead of recalculating for each chained mob
• Fixed the Brewing Stand not allowing item stacks to be dragged within the inventory
• Fixed a typo in the Burning Vengeance ability's description
• Fixed Aspect of the Dragon working on the Conjoined Brood
• Fixed Ice Spray working on the Conjoined Brood
• Fixed the Knockback enchantment working on the Conjoined Brood
• Fixed being able to damage the Conjoined Brood without first unlocking Tier 5 Spider Slayer
• Fixed Tier 5 Spider Slayer boss loot not being properly loot shared
• Fixed Duplex Arrows not correctly damaging the Spider Boss's egg sacs
• Fixed Pumpkin Minions overproducing while offline
• Fixed waterlogged blocks disappearing in the lobby when filling a bucket
• Fixed players falling through farmland when jumping on it

Feel free to leave any feedback on this update in the comments below. If you have feedback in regards to the Minister Update, please leave it on its respective thread instead.

If you encounter any bugs or unexpected behavior, please report it HERE! That's all for today! :hypixel_smile: