Changelog/2026/August 4

Hello! Today, for the first time since Hypixel SkyBlock's release, we are adding two new islands to the game in one of the largest updates SkyBlock has ever seen. Sound exciting? Then read on for all the details!

Torrhus Canyon is the second Foraging Island comprising the region known as Galatea. Accessible from a launch pad in the Moonglade Marsh upon reaching Heart of the Forest 4, there is much to do and see here!

Upon entering the island for the first time, look for Helia just down Torrhus Path. She will introduce you to the Torrhus Chapters, which you can use to inform your exploration of the island.

After meeting Helia, you can progress down the Spring Path towards Miria - the second Starlyn sister and host of this island's Starlyn Contests! She'll explain to you how her contests work, as well as how she's entered a business partnership with the Critter Safari, before telling you to go chop some wood.

Speaking of wood, Torrhus Canyon is home to three new collections - Helix Log, Ruby Veilshroom, and Honeycomb. Each of these collections has some upgrades to offer to the gear you first obtained on the Moonglade Marsh, so be sure to check them all out!

Helix Logs are obtained from cutting the many Helix Trees that are native to Torrhus Canyon. These trees are the toughest you've come across to this point, so be sure to have a lot of Sweep! Honeycomb, on the other hand, is primarily gathered from the various Honeyhives found around the island. Be careful, though - you never know what you might find when you stick your hand into a Honeyhive! Last but not least, Ruby Veilshrooms can be obtained from killing Torrhus Sea Creatures up in Torrhus Springs.

Torrhus Springs, one of the tallest points of the entire island, is an open spring basin that is frequented by seasoned divers. If you can withstand the pressure, dive on down and you'll find yourself surrounded by fascinating Critters of all shapes, sizes, and temperaments. Cast your rod in, and you might just catch some Torrhus Sea Creatures.

Keep an eye out for the various offshoot caves found throughout the depths - divers have reported finding one cave housing an entire ant colony, another that is home to a strange type of fishing hotspot, and more... If you can make it all the way to the bottom, perhaps you'll even find something no other diver could?

Heart of the Forest now goes up to 8 tiers! An overall revamp to the tree has been done with the goal of moving some important perks further down the tree for new players to use sooner (those changes are listed further down the thread), and whispers have been split into two types:

• Forest Whispers -> Gained from cutting Fig Trees and Mangrove Trees. Used to upgrade HOTF 1-3 perks.
• Desert Whispers-> Gained from cutting Helix Trees. Used to upgrade HOTF 4-8 perks.
  • Designer Note: Players with in excess of 12,500 Forest Whispers phave^[sic] had them converted to Desert Whispers at a 1:1 rate.

Charm Chance is now an official Hunting Stat! As is the case with most "chance" stats, such as Sea Creature Chance and Treasure Chance, the stat scales from 0% -> 100%, making you more likely to drop Attribute Shards from viable mobs as it increases.

Speaking of hunting, the Critter Safari is now open for business! Grab your ticket from Miria, travel to the Safari Entrance on the right-hand side of Torrhus Canyon, and get on the next blimp to travel to the game's first dedicated Hunting Island!

Players may redeem one of their Safari Tickets - which are obtained from placing highly in Miria's Contests - to enter the Critter Safari alone or with a group of up to three friends.

Once inside, players are free to go together or alone as they explore the Safari's four biomes (Icy, Canyon, Forest, and Haunted), armed only with a set of Critter Capsules that they can use to catch any Critters they come across. When caught, Critters will drop Attribute Shards, which are sent to your Hunting Box for you to claim once you have left the Critter Safari.

Not only do both Torrhus Canyon and the Critter Safari boast more unique mobs than any other island in the game, but every mob species on those islands also drops a unique attribute shard for you to collect!

Before entering the Critter Safari for the first time you will be given the Safari Belt. This nifty piece of equipment is the only thing you can take into the Safari and, though it doesn't look like much right now, it has the potential to be great.

As you catch more and more Critters in each biome, you will progress through the Safari Milestones. Each milestone reached will grant bonus stats to your Safari Belt, quickly turning it from a useless item into the best belt in the game for Hunting and Foraging:

• Canyon Milestones: Increases Rarity and grants Hunting Wisdom
• Haunted Milestones: Grants Hunting Fortune
• Icy Milestones: Grants Cold Resistance
• Forest Milestones: Grants Foraging Fortune

You can check your Safari Milestones progress anytime by talking to Andrea by the Safari Entrance in Torrhus Canyon.

All Critters have a base 1/4,096 chance to instead spawn as a sparkling variant - something which is indicated by a different color scheme, a "SPARKLING" prefix, and a sparkling trail that follows the critter around.

All Sparkling Critters grant 10x the rewards of a regular Critter and drop a Rainbow Feather, which can be used to increase the current level of any pet by 1 (cannot bypass the cap). Additionally, players who have already completed the base Critterdex will gain access to Tobias' Sparkling Critterdex, where they can take on the optional challenge (no SBXP attached) of trying to catch all 37 sparkling critters in exchange for some Cosmetic rewards along the way.

• Added Bestiaries for all Moonglade Marsh mobs, being retroactive wherever possible
• Adjusted "Found in the Grass" drops (e.g Mudworm Shard) into a game-wide "Floor Drops" system
• Added +50 Helix Fortune as a possible reward from the "Lottery" HOTF perk
• Removed Fish the Fish task from Chapter 7 of Torrhus Chapters
• Adjusted Swoop's name color and added a "SWOOP MILESTONES" header above him
• Reduced Fig Hew rarity from RARE -> UNCOMMON
• Reduced Figstone Splitter rarity from EPIC -> RARE
• Reduced Enchanted Fig Log rarity from RARE -> UNCOMMON
• Reduced Enchanted Mangrove Log rarity from RARE -> UNCOMMON
• Reduced Figstone rarity from EPIC -> RARE
• Reduced Mangcore rarity from EPIC -> RARE
• Adjusted "Half Empty" and "Half Full" HOTF perks to function island-wide instead of in a 16-block proximity
• Adjusted Travel Scroll to Murkwater Loch to mention island as Moonglade Marsh instead of Galatea
• Renamed Starlyn Prize -> Agatha's Prize
• Added text to Shiniest indicating it's purchased from Agatha's Shop
• Renamed the "Galatea" section of the Bestiary to "Moonglade Marsh"
• Added the "Critter" Mob Type, which is given to all mobs that cannot be killed, only hunted (e.g Mossybit)
• Added Mob Types to several Moonglade Marsh Critters that were missing them:
  • Birries: Critter
  • Spike: Critter, Aquatic, Animal
  • Shellwise: Critter, Aquatic, Animal
  • Joydive: Critter, Aquatic, Animal
  • Hideonleaf: Critter, Woodland
  • Invisibug: Critter, Airborne
  • Mossybit: Critter, Woodland, Animal
  • Dreadwing: Critter, Woodland, Airborne
  • Bambuleaf: Critter, Woodland, Animal
  • Mochibear: Critter, Woodland, Animal
  • Lumisquid: Critter, Aquatic, Animal
• Adjusted NPC sell prices of Galatea wood:
  • Fig: 7 -> 7 (Unchanged)
  • Mangrove: 8 -> 15
• Removed most sources of % Sweep and replaced them with other perks:
  • COTF Level 2: +5% Sweep -> +1 Axe Ability Level
  • COTF Level 4: +10% Sweep -> +5 Tracking on Tree Gifts
  • "Lottery" HOTF Perk: +5% Sweep -> 10 Sweep
  • Agatha's Power I-V: +1-5% Sweep -> +5-25 Sweep
• Removed Flexbones from Treasure tables. They now have a 25% chance to replace a Treasure Catch while in the Tomb Floodway:
  • GOOD -> 1x Flexbone
  • GREAT -> 2-4x Flexbone
  • OUTSTANDING -> 8x Flexbone
• Fixed the Throwing Axe Penalty being applied incorrectly, causing it to break less logs than intended
• Hid HP from all mobs with the "Critter" mob type as they cannot be damaged
• Reduced Tree Gift Milestones for all Tree types:
  • I: 10 -> 10
  • II: 50 -> 25
  • III: 250 -> 100
  • IV: 500 -> 250
  • V: 1,000 -> 500
  • VI: 2,500 -> 1,000
  • VII: 5,000 -> 2,500
• Adjusted Jade Dragon Egg cost:
  • Figstone: 100 -> 64
  • Mangcore: 100 -> 64
  • Helixis: 0 -> 64
• Added Stretching Sticks to the Bazaar
• Adjusted Sea Lumies to now give Foraging XP
• Reorganized the HOTF tree to make certain perks more accessible for newer players. From left to right, the order is:
  • HOTF 1: Sweep
  • HOTF 2: Damage Boost, Luck of the Forest, Foraging Fortune, Collector, Axe Toss
  • HOTF 3: Deep Waters, Hunter's Luck, Galatea's Might
  • HOTF 4: Lottery, Foraging Madness, Iron Lungs, 250 Gifts, Daily Wishes, Early Bird, Precision Cutting
  • HOTF 5: Tree Whisperer, Center of the Forest, Free Trial
  • HOTF 6: Homing Axe, Forest Fisher, Str. Boost, Starlyn Supreme, Spd. Boost, Efficient Forager, Maniac Slicer
  • HOTF 7: Half Empty, Ricochet, Half Full
  • HOTF 8: Monster Hunter, Forest Speed, Essence Fortune, Timber, Two-for-one, Forest Strength, Beekeeper
    • Designer Note: We will keep an eye on the impacts of this reshuffle and will make further adjustments if necessary, such as moving both the Speed and Strength Boosts further down the tree.
• Increased Fig Tree toughness from 7 -> 10
• Adjusted Swoop's dialogue to correctly mention Fig Trees now have a Toughness of 10
• Added +10 Sweep as a base stat to the Frog Pet
• Improved itemlore of HOTF Token message in /HOTF to explain how Desert Whispers are obtained
• Unsoulbound some items:
  • Frog Treats
  • Sloth Claws

• Increased Hunting Skill Cap from 25 -> 50
• Renamed Hunter Fortune -> Hunting Fortune
• Adjusted Backwater Bayou's Huntrap table:
  • Dumpster Diver Shard (NEW!): 2000 Weight
  • Bayou Sludge Shard (NEW!): 1000 Weight
  • Alligator Shard: 500 Weight -> 500 Weight (Unchanged)
  • Titanoboa Shard: 100 Weight -> 100 Weight (Unchanged)
• Reduced rarity of Thorn Shard from LEGENDARY -> EPIC
• Reduced rarity of Scarf Shard from LEGENDARY -> EPIC
• Added "Scaled" family to the Tibanoboa Shard
• Adjusted all mentions of Salts in the Hunting Guide to be pink
• Adjusted all mentions of Traps in the Hunting Guide to instead refer to Hunting Traps
• Improved the flavor message sent when catching an Invisibug
• Adjusted Drowned Shard's effect to be named "Undead Fortune", now grants +0.5-5 Magic Find on Undead mobs
• Added "Drowned" family to the Drowned Shard
• Added "Spider" family to the Voracious Spider Shard
• Added "Spider" family to the Flaming Spider Shard
• Added "Amphibian" family to the Coralot Shard
• Added "Lapis" family to the Lapis Creeper Shard
• Removed "Bug" family from the Honeymite Shard
• Adjusted Honey Badger Shard's type from Forest -> Combat
• Adjusted Howling Spirit Shard's type from Forest -> Combat
• Adjusted Thorn Shard's type from Forest -> Combat
• Adjusted Fenlord Shard's type from Water -> Forest
• Adjusted Thyst Shard's type from Combat -> Forest
• Adjusted Sprawl Shard's ID from U53 -> U71
• Adjusted Shuddersquid Shard's ID from U45 -> U53
• Adjusted Bullfrog Shard's ID from R46 -> R47
• Adjusted Wild Hog Shard's ID from R48 -> R46
• Adjusted Black Widow Shard's ID from R78 -> R87
• Adjusted Billygoat Shard's ID from R71 -> R78
• Adjusted Thorn Shard ID from E40 -> E57
• Adjusted Inferno Demonlord Shard ID from E29 -> E48
• Adjusted Rabbit Cat Shard ID from U66 -> U106
• All Pests now have their own Shard that is guaranteed to drop when hunted:
  • Fly -> Fly Shard
  • Cricket -> Cricket Shard
  • Locust -> Locust Shard
  • Rat -> Rat Shard
  • Mosquito -> Mosquito Shard
  • Earthworm -> Earthworm Shard
    • Termite Shard, renamed
    • Gains "Trash Lover" family, no longer "Bug" family
  • Mite -> Mite Shard
  • Moth -> Moth Shard
  • Slug -> Keeled Slug Shard
  • Beetle -> Cropeetle Shard
    • Gains "Trash Lover" family
    • Now a Generic fusion - no longer needs Invisibug + Pest
  • Firefly -> Firefly Shard
  • Dragonfly -> Dragonfly Shard
  • Praying Mantis -> Praying Mantis Shard
    • Renamed from "Insect Power" -> "Pest Ruler"
    • Now a Generic fusion - no longer needs Pest + Combat
    • Standardized behavior to "Grants +3-30% Damage against Pests"
      • Designer Note: One-tapping is still possible due to buffs to base Vacuum damage and Bookworm's Favorite Book
  • Field Mouse -> Field Mouse Shard
    • Pest Shard, renamed
    • Gains "Trash Lover" family, no longer "Bug" family
    • Standardized behavior to "Grants +0.5-5 Overbloom on Pests"
  • Lunar Moth -> Lunar Moth Shard
    • Some of these Shards were moved from prexisting sources, others have had their behavior standardized.
• Moved Lapis Creeper Shard from Combat -> Enchanting category
• Moved Emerald Dye source from mining Emeralds -> hunting Critters in the Critter Safari
• Adjusted Dodo Shard:
  • Old: Grants +1-10 Pet Luck
  • New: Grants +0.5-5 Tracking
  • Moved category from Taming -> Global
• Reduced Tracking granted by Private Island Beacon from +1-5 -> 0.5-2.5
• Added some pre-existing Shards to the new "Trash Lover" family:
  • Crow
  • Seagull
• Added some pre-existing Shards to the new "Poltergeist" family:
  • Mimic
• Added an ability to the Entangler Lasso:
  • Grants +2.5 Hunting Fortune on Forest Shards caught with this lasso.
• Added an ability to the Medium Fishing Net:
  • Grants +2.5 Hunting Fortune on Water Shards caught with this net.
• Added an ability to the Medium Pocket Black Hole:
  • Grants +2.5 Hunting Fortune on Combat Shards caught with this black hole!
• Adjusted ability on the Large Pocket Black Hole:
  • Grants +5 Hunting Fortune on Combat Shards caught with this black hole!
• Adjusted the Stamina Bars of Critters to now scale with Shard rarity:
  • COMMON Shard -> 1 Stamina Bar
  • UNCOMMON Shard -> 2 Stamina Bars
  • RARE Shard -> 3 Stamina Bars
  • EPIC Shard -> 4 Stamina Bars
  • LEGENDARY Shard -> 5 Stamina Bars
    • Also adjusted colors of Stamina Bars to follow the item rarity system
• Added a Hunting Wisdom Booster that can be purchased from Rosemary for 250 Forest Essence
• Players who spawn mobs from Tree Gifts will now always get Loot Share on them
• Improved itemlore of Pocket Black Holes

• Moved Fish the Fish from Moonglade Marsh -> 1/2000 Treasure drop from Torrhus Canyon
• Adjusted Crow Pet's "Quick Hands" perk:
  • Old: Lowers the cooldown of your abilties by 0.15-15%.
  • New: Lowers the cooldown of your Weapon abilities by 0.15-15%.
• Adjusted Dark Cacao Truffle from +1 Global Fortune -> +1 Cocoa Fortune
  • Designer Note: Items giving Global Fortune is not compatible with our vision for the game in the long run so we decided to make this change now, in the same update where we're adding various other chocolate sinks to the Chocolate Factory.
• Added a skin to Treasure Hoarders
• Allowed Auto Recombobulator to work on Summoning Eyes
• Reworked Bal's "Chimney" perk and renamed it to "Cannibal":
  • Old: Reduce Pickaxe Ability Cooldowns by 1-10%.
  • New: Increases damage dealt to Bal by +1-100%.
    • Designer Note: Zombie Miner now drops a Shard that reduces your Pickaxe Cooldown.
• Removed Combat XP from Trevor the Trapper mobs
• Removed the 1.5x Pet XP boost from Mining
• Adjusted itemlore on all Vacuums to specify it only stores Pests caught in The Garden in the vacuum bag
• Renamed Worm -> Stoneworm and gave them a new texture
• Adjusted stat icon of Pressure Resistance from Glass Bottle -> Water Bottle
• Removed the Slayer and Bartender discount perks from players who had them from the Community Project
  • Players who previously had the perks have been given enough Shards to max out those respective Attributes. Claim them from the Community Projects menu!
    • Designer Note: It felt like it was time to make these perks available to everyone, as many years have gone by since that Community Project concluded. We plan to take the same Attribute conversion path with other Community Project-exclusive perks in the future.
• Increased the damage dealt by Vacuums:
  • SkyMart Vacuum: 100 → 100
  • SkyMart Turbo Vacuum: 120 → 150
  • SkyMart Hyper Vacuum: 150 → 200
  • Infinivacuum: 200 → 300
  • Infinivacuum Hooverius: 200 → 400
• Increased the damage bonus granted by Bookworm's Favorite Book from +10 -> 20
• Hid "Talk to Susan" scoreboard objective from all players not in The Hub
• Added some new Secret Achievements
• Adjusted "Dragon Piper" Draconic Essence Shop perk:
  • Old: Gain a +10% chance to spawn a Superior Dragon if you placed a Summoning Eye (Unstackable).
  • New: Summoning Eyes you drop have a +5% chance to be recombobulated.
• Players placing Recombobulated Summoning Eyes now increases the chance of getting a Superior Dragon:
  • 0/8: 4% -> 4% (Unchanged)
  • 1/8: 4% → 12.5%
  • 2/8: 4% → 25.0%
  • 3/8: 4% → 37.5%
  • 4/8: 4% → 50.0%
  • 5/8: 4% → 62.5%
  • 6/8: 4% → 75.0%
  • 7/8: 100% → 87.5%
  • 8/8: 100% (Unchanged)
• Designer Note: A small amount of Attributes that were present on Alpha, as well as some changes to Farming, are not included in this release.

While exploring Torrhus Canyon you'll get to hear the gorgeous soundtrack for the island composed by Oscar Garvin (you may know him as the composer for Hytale). He has also composed other songs that have been added for the Hub, the Garden, and the Moonglade Marsh. These are not note block songs, the recently added SkyBlock Resource Pack has allowed us to add fully orchestral songs to SkyBlock!

Make sure you have SkyBlock Music enabled in your SkyBlock Settings and to turn your Jukebox/Note Blocks volume up so that you can hear the OST!

Following the conclusion of the recent SkyBlock Designer Q&A, we have had a lot of discussions about the place of the Bestiary within SkyBlock. Since its initial release as part of SkyBlock 0.11.2, the Bestiary has been through several permutations - starting off as something that was borderline impossible to max but, with the introduction of SkyBlock XP, slowly transitioned into something that was more feasible to complete.

However, there were still many problems with the Bestiary that quickly became apparent to anyone trying to max it:

1. The Bestiary is usually the last aspect of a piece of content that you will max out - it inflates how long you need to play a piece of content for.
2. Early-game Bestiaries (e.g. Lapis Zombie) were inherently unhealthy due to forcing veterans to compete with new players for kills.
3. While some Bestiaries had been modernized and weren't actually too difficult, there were many outliers that still demanded far too much player time.
4. By the time you max out a Bestiary, getting all of its rewards, you're completely done with that content, so you never get to reap the bonus Magic Find, Coins, XP Orbs, and other rewards on that mob.

As a result of the issues identified above, we have made the decision to slash Bestiaries across the game by a massive amount. Some examples of the type of changes you can expect to see include:

1. Lapis Zombie decreased from 3,000 -> 200
2. Lonely Spider decreased from 25,000 -> 4,000
3. Butterfly reduced from 1,000 -> 100
4. Dragons reduced from 1,000 -> 250
5. COMMON Sea Creatures decreased from various -> 1,000
6. MYTHIC Sea Creatures decreased from 100 -> 50

If you wish to see the entire changelog for the Bestiary changes, which affects the majority of mobs in the game, CLICK HERE.

Going forward, bestiaries will be designed to be more lenient - we will look for players to max their bestiary at a reasonable point when playing content so that they can then use the bestiary bonuses - such as the magic find and coin bonus - to improve their rates when grinding for a mob's materials or RNG drop.

What we mean is that, just because all Mythic Sea Creature bestiaries now cap at 50 kills, it doesn't mean future Mythic Sea Creatures will be designed so that you've obtained all of their materials and RNG drops by the time you reach that 50th kill. The material grind for each creature can still vary significantly - the goal is simply to make bestiaries more consistent, so they're something you'll typically complete early in the overall grind rather than as the very last milestone.

We apologize to anyone who ended up taking the time to grind out an older Bestiary just for it to be slashed - we will be more mindful when designing Bestiaries going forwards and the reduced brackets should make things significantly more reasonable by default.

Following community feedback, we have adjusted the textures for the following items:

• Terminator (pictured above)
• Aspect of the Void

Here's a little sneak peek at what we have planned to release in the near future:

The Minister Update is currently deep in the QA phase. Once ready, it will be put onto the Alpha Network for an extended period of testing and iteration.

Mob Levels are not 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.

Our improvements to mob levels aim to automatically generate coins, skill XP, XP orbs, and mob levels for every mob in the game that accurately reflect how difficult the mob is to kill.

This is done by taking into account contextual factors such as a mob's health, damage, and place within the game's progression (for example, whether it is a Boss or Miniboss, whether it is a Sea Creature and, if so, which tier it belongs to, and so on), though manual rewards can still be set.

The goal here is to ensure players are appropriately rewarded for defeating stronger enemies, which should make areas of the game such as early/mid-game fishing & combat better for Skill XP, and for the visual "mob level" above every mob's head to slowly increase linearly as you progress through the game.

We are always working on QoL changes to make the game easier for everyone. This upcoming bundle contains key changes such as making bulk-buying from Jax easier, reducing the crafting recipes for Exportable Carrots and the Blood Donor Artifact, and more!

And that's all for today! Grab your most trustworthy axe and we'll see you over on Torrhus Canyon!