Changelog/2026/February 18

Hello!

Today on the Alpha Network we have a large update containing the following:

• Hub Revamp & Museum Restructure
• The Year of the Witch
• Frozen Corpse RNG Meter & Frozen Corpse Milestones
• Various QOL Changes
• Stranded EOL
• Bugfixes

Since this is a pretty large update, we've sectioned the Alpha Thread into various sections for your viewing pleasure.

Please note that the minimum version for joining this Alpha is Minecraft 1.21.9.

Also part of this release candidate are the Hub Revamp and Museum Restructure from the January 30th Alpha Session. For more information on those, take a look at the linked thread.

The Year of the Witch is the third event of its type, following on from the Year of the Pig and Year of the Seal. During this year, talk to Alcina in The Hub to view the Witch's Stew. During this year, mobs throughout SkyBlock will drop various ingredients, the type of which depends upon their Mob Type.

Mobs of multiple types are eligible to drop multiple ingredients, with the tasty list including, but not being limited to...

• Waterborne Lice
• Dirty Fingernails
• Void Ooze
• Festering Flies
• Funny Bones
• Frogs Legs

You can use these delightful ingredients to craft various stews that will reward you with permanent Magic Find buffs when consumed, or to purchase useful items - and even a pet - from the Year of the Witch Shop.

As you may notice, two items that can be purchased from the Year of the Witch Shop are mixins to help you out during the Year of the Pig and Year of the Witch. The long-term goal for this year is for it to be something that helps improve your performance in other "Year of the" events in a manner not all too dissimilar from how Alchemy as a whole is used to improve your stats/efficiency in other areas of the game, so expect more mixins to be added to the YOTW Shop as more "Year of the" events are added.

92,80,-85 bread bowl??

The Frozen Corpse RNG Meter has been added to the game, making it easier for particularly unlucky looters to get their hands on particularly desirable items, such as the Shattered Locket. Not only this, but Grandpa Wolf has also been spotted loitering around the upper levels of the Glacite Tunnels, plotting some shady scheme.

A Frozen Corpse RNG Meter has been added to the game, accessible through /rng or by talking to Grandpa Wolf in the Glacite Tunnels. The meter is 10% retroactive and can be progressed by opening Frozen Corpses (higher tiers grant more Meter XP) or through the use of Ananke Feathers.

As part of these changes, the Frozen Corpse tables have been rewritten with the intent of making higher-tier corpses more profitable overall (though variance is still intended). Open the spoiler below to take a look!

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Grandpa Wolf can be found in the top-left section of the Glacite Tunnels. If you can loot enough Frozen Corpses, he will reward you for your time in the form of several useful perks and a new talisman line. All Frozen Corpses Milestones are retroactive, meaning you won't have to get frostbite once again if you've already put the work in.

• Added the ability to salvage the Frosted Scute for 100 Ice Essence
• Added a 5,000,000 NPC sell price to the Frosted Scute and Shattered Locket
• Added a Worm/Scatha Tablist Widget to the Crystal Hollows.
• Added +2.5 Gemstone Spread to the Pendant of Divan's "Legacy" Tiered Bonus.
• Adjusted Mining Fiestas start times, spreading them more evenly throughout the SkyBlock Year.
  • Fiestas now occur throughout the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th months of the year.
    • [!] Designer Note: This is not a Minister Perk - those are still to come.
• Adjusted Mort to now ask for a Spirit Bone instead of a Spirit Mask as part of his Abiphone Contact quest.
• Improved clarity of the Gifts from the Departed HOTM Perk's itemlore.
• Adjusted Dead Man's Chest HOTM Perk from +1-50% to +0.5-25%.
• Added a line of "Dwarven Lantern" mining deployables:
  • The Dwarven Lantern can be purchased from Lumina.
  • The Dwarven Lantern can be upgraded to the Mithril Lantern in The Forge at HOTM 2.
  • The Mithril Lantern can be upgraded to the Titanium Lantern in The Forge at HOTM 5.
  • The Titanium Lantern can be upgraded to the Glacite Lantern in The Forge at HOTM 8.
  • The Glacite Lantern can be upgraded to the Will-o-wisp in The Forge at HOTM 10.
    • Crafting the Will-o-wisp requires a Caged Wisp, which is a new drop from Tungsten/Umber and Vanguard Frozen Corpses.

Today we have a number of high-impact quality-of-life changes to several areas of the game.

• Adjusted the unlock order of the Kuudra Pet's perks. The new order can be found below:
  • COMMON -> Wither Bait
  • UNCOMMON -> Trophy Bait
  • RARE -> Crimson
  • EPIC -> Kuudra Fortune
  • LEGENDARY -> Kuudra Specialist
    • [!] Designer Note: WA key goal here is for the "Trophy Bait" perk to be more accessible, since +20 Trophy Chance is a massive amount to be locked behind the Epic tier of the pet.
• Adjusted the rarity of the Wolf Talisman from COMMON -> UNCOMMON.
• Adjusted the purchase requirements for the Blood God Crest:
  • Can now be purchased infinitely instead of once per profile.
  • Now capped at +7 Strength.

• Added the Spirit Mask to the Master Mode Floor 4 drop table and removed it from the Dark Auction.
  • Can only drop from the Obsidian Chest, costs 15m to open.
  • Has 4x less weight than a Spirit Sword.
• Added a chat message that displays whenever you level up a Boss Collection.
• Adjusted Golden Heads and Diamond Heads to now be purchased from Ophelia upon being unlocked.
  • [!] Designer Note: With this change, Diamond Heads now carry over upgrades from Golden Heads.
• Added 250 Gold Essence to Boss Collection tiers where Golden Heads were previously awarded.
• Added 1,000 Diamond Essence to Boss Collection tiers where Diamond Heads were previously awarded
• Adjusted the default dungeons class from Berserk -> Archer.
• Removed the ability to activate Berserk's Throwing Axe by sneaking while in The Catacombs.
• Adjusted the Shadow Assassin Cloak's speed stat:
  • Base: 3 -> 10
  • Fragged: 5 -> 15
• Removed the ability to activate Berserk's "Throwing Axe" via sneaking.

• Added a Golden Fish Tablist Widget to the Crimson Isle.
• Adjusted the speed of earlier-tier Fishing Minions to ensure the speed increase was more gradual between tiers.
• Adjusted Fishing Baits to only be consumed upon successful catch.
• Adjusted Sea Creatures to no longer attack players aside from the spawner unless provoked.
• Removed the mechanic that would cause you to catch nothing if you didn't move for a while when fishing.

• Added the ability for players to retrieve perishable minion fuels (e.g Hyper Catalysts) from minions.
• Added reminder text to all Accessories to inform the player that they still function while in the Accessory Bag.
• Added the ability for Hoppity to take coins from Bank if you have insufficient funds in your Purse.
• Adjusted items within the 20s can't-buy period on the Auction House to be hidden until the 20s has elapsed.
• Removed the ability to Recombobulate several types of items:
  • Wisp Upgrade Stones
  • Enchanted Bookshelves
  • Bejewelled Handles
  • Soul String
  • Griffin Feathers
• Removed NPC sell prices from several special items:
  • Creative Mind
  • Quality Map
  • Dead Bush of Love
  • Game Breaker
  • Game Fixer
  • French Bread
  • The Cake

Back in August, we started work on an end-of-life update to the Stranded mode, working with the community to gather feedback and address some of its most pressing issues. Today we're presenting you with our final set of proposed changes to Stranded:

• Added the following NPCs to Stranded, they have no requirements unless otherwise stated:
  • Alchemist
  • Fishing Merchant
  • Einary
    • Einary only appears during the Winter.
  • Terry
  • Malik/Blacksmith
  • Roddy
  • Rusty
• Removed the Builder's collection requirement.
• Halved the HP and damage of Mobs on Stranded profiles.
• Added Legacy Treecapitator to Stranded.
  • You can convert your existing Treecapitator to Stranded version by placing it in the middle slot of the crafting GUI in the Workbench.
• The Weaponsmith now sells Arrows.
• All Fortunes now work on your Stranded island.
• Fixed Melody's Harp not working on Stranded.
• Enabled access to /mobtypes without visiting Ike while on Stranded.
• The Hex can be accessed on Stranded with the /hex command while a Booster Cookie is active.
• Added the following items to Villager trades:
  • Small Pocket Black Hole: 16 Emeralds, T1 Villager Trade
  • Medium Pocket Black Hole: 2 Enchanted Emeralds, T3 Villager Trade
  • Soul String: 32 Emeralds, T2 Villager Trade
  • Ancient Claw: 64 Emeralds for 16x, T3 Villager Trade
  • Enchanted Ancient Claw: 2 Enchanted Emeralds, T5 Villager Trade
  • Recomboulator 3000: 10 Enchanted Emeralds, T5 Villager Trade
  • Living Metal Heart: 5 Enchanted Emeralds, T5 Villager Trade
  • Titanium: 64 Emeralds, T3 Villager Trade
  • Challenging Rod: 32 Emeralds, T1 Villager Trade
  • Legend Rod: 4 Enchanted Emeralds, T3 Villager Trade
  • Rod of the Sea: 16 Enchanted Emeralds, T5 Villager Trade
  • Magma Rod: 32 Emeralds, T1 Villager Trade
  • Inferno Rod: 4 Enchanted Emeralds, T3 Villager Trade
  • Hellfire Rod: 16 Enchanted Emeralds, T5 Villager Trade
• Added a /trade for Oak Saplings for 250 coins per.
• Resync'd the Stranded Treasure Fishing loot pool with the regular loot pool.
  • Name Tags are still obtainable as a Good Catch, but will not be nearly as common as before.
• Significantly increased the obtainability of Golden/Diamond Goblins and Mithril/Gemstone Powder.
  • Increased the spawn chance of Golden/Diamond Goblins by 10x.
  • Increased the drop chance of Goblin Eggs dropped from eligible mobs by 2x.
  • Increased the powder drops of Golden/Diamond Goblins as follows:
    • Golden Goblin: 10,000 Mithril Powder
    • Diamond Goblin: 40,000 Mithril and Gemstone Powder
• Adjusted the following Villager item to emerald trades: (trade values may vary in practice as there's 11% variance implemented with villager trades)
  • Raw Mutton: 214 → 18 per emerald
  • Wool: 36 → 18 per emerald
  • Raw Rabbit: 33 → 9 per emerald
  • Wood (all types): 70 → 40 per emerald
  • Lapis Lazuli: 173 → 153 per emerald
  • Flint: 33 → 23 per emerald
  • Ghast Tear: 16 → 5 per emerald
  • Iron Ingot: 51 → 30 per emerald
  • Blaze Rod: 25 → 15 per emerald
  • Magma Cream: 46 → 25 per emerald
  • Slimeball: 59 → 25 per emerald
  • Glowstone Dust: 103 → 40 per emerald
  • Clay: 105 → 35 per emerald
  • Spider Eye: 118 → 27 per emerald
  • Coal: 60 → 30 per emerald
  • Gold Ingot: 40 → 25 per emerald
  • Gunpowder: 31 → 20 per emerald
  • Diamond: 29 → 20 per emerald
  • Nether Quartz: 38 → 15 per emerald
  • Ender Pearl: 26 → 15 per emerald
  • End Stone: 33 → 20 per emerald
  • Redstone: 120 → 88 per emerald
  • Bone: 33 → 22 per emerald
• Fixed being unable to obtain the Mosquito Pet and Mushroom Armor on Stranded.
• Removed the HoTM requirement for Beacons on Stranded.
• The HoTM task in the SkyBlock guide now displays Powder SBXP progress.
• There is now an End of Life indicator/warning when creating a new Stranded profile and hovering over your Stranded profile in the profile selector.

• Added some collections that were missing from the SkyBlock Guide.
• Fixed being unable to use Lesser Orb Of Healing on The Farming Islands.
• Fixed being able to apply pet skins to hidden pets.
• Fixed enemy health sometimes being formatted incorrectly.
• Fixed Market Info in the /viewitem menu not showing the correct auction prices.
• Adjusted Pet entities to display properly in latest versions
• Fixed Museum displays floating too high above their pedestals in latest versions

As usual, you should report any bugs at https://hypixel.net/bug-reports/create, making sure you select alpha.hypixel.net!

We look forward to hearing your feedback about the Hub changes - hop on now and take a look around!