Changelog/2026/July 22/Alpha

Hello again!

Today we are back once again with a second round of testing for Torrhus Canyon and the accompanying Safari Zone. If you missed the initial round of testing, please consult THIS THREAD to get yourself up to speed with what was included in the original update, as this thread will only be going over the changes made following the feedback from the initial Alpha session.

• Increased Queen Ant spawn chance from 1% -> 2.5%
• Improved Queen Ant Chapter text to convey that they are more likely to spawn from Anthills
• Added forced Lootshare to any mobs that you spawn from Tree Gifts
• Reduced Honeycomb used in Fun-Sized Pot of Honeycomb from 1x Enchanted Honeycomb -> 64x Honeycomb
• Added forced Lootshare to any mobs that you spawn from smearing Honey on Trees
• Renamed and retextured Condensed Honeycomb -> Enchanted Honeycomb Block
• Tree Protection Order holograms now say "Critter" instead of "Mob"
• Prevented abilities, such as Homing Axe, from targeting Protected Trees
• Renamed Acceleration talisman line -> Accretion
• Forager Daniel and Forager Rowan now hold Helix Choppers
• Adjusted Hivethief to use standard Lasso mechanics instead of requiring 2+ players
• Improved zone entry message for the Spring Shallows
• Reduced Drybark's backstab attack from 25% Max HP damage -> 500 damage
• Added Large Pocket Black Hole to Ruby Veilshroom Collection 8
• Adjusted the effect of the Rubber Snorkel:
  • Grants +5 Respiration, doubled while on Foraging Islands.
• Removed the Rubber Snorkel from Sprawl drop table - sole method of obtainment is through Miria now
• Removed RARE Foraging XP Boost from Tree Gifts, added to Drybarks at a 0.1% drop rate
• Increased Honeycomb NPC sell price from 20 -> 100 coins
• Added Bottled Mischief as a 0.1% drop from Pucks. Used to craft the Torrhus Belt
• Rewrote all Torrhus Canyon critter drop tables
• Reduced Solar Shard from +1-10% more Starlyn Contest points -> +0.5-5% more

• Leaving the Safari Zone now spawns you at /warp safari instead of /warp torrhus
• Increased Critter catch rates:
  • COMMON Critters: 100% -> 100% (Unchanged)
  • UNCOMMON Critters: 50% -> 75%
  • RARE Critters: 25% -> 50%
  • EPIC Critters: 10% -> 25%
  • LEGENDARY Critters: 5% -> 5% (Unchanged)
• Reduced the invisible hard pity values that guarantee a catch after a certain number of attempts (takes less attempts to hit pity now)
• Improved the Wumpa fight
• Reduced amount of Shining Coins that drop at a time from 3x -> 1x
• Increased Scrappy damage from 10 -> 25
• Adjusted mentions of the Safari Belt to be dark green
• Added indicative text in front of the biome that is selected as your Hunting Hotspot
• Added Booster slots to the Safari Belt
• Added a new Secret Achievement
• Lootshared kills now count towards Safari Milestones
• Added a Hunting 15 requirement to access the Safari Zone
• Added Hunting XP to the Safari Zone Floor Drop pool
• Added a perk to the Safari Essence Shop that gives Hunting Wisdom while in the Safari Zone
• Improved Safari Zone Reward Summary
• Added a message when throwing a Critter Capsule at an NPC
• Added varying amounts of Hunting Wisdom to the various Safari Zone tickets:
  • Basic Ticket → +10 Hunting Wisdom
  • Economy Ticket → +25 Hunting Wisdom
  • Premium Safari Ticket → +50 Hunting Wisdom
  • First-Class Safari Ticket → +100 Hunting Wisdom
    • The goal is for Safari Zone Critters to provide the most Hunting XP/hour of all methods, given that a ticket is required for entry and Hunting 50 has been added, meaning players need a lot more XP to max the skill than before. We will continue to monitor.
• Co-op Soulbound Rainbow Feathers
• Removed some levers from the Cavern Biome
• The entry cutscene now plays faster for players who have already seen it

Adjusted how Flexbones are caught:

• • Flexbones now have a 25% chance to replace a Treasure Catch when fishing in the Tomb Floodway. Amount of Flexbones received scales with catch tier:
    • GOOD: 1x
    • GREAT: 2-4x
    • OUTSTANDING: 8x
• Fixed the Throwing Axe Penalty applying incorrectly
• Added Desert Whispers, which are used for HOTF4+ and COTF4+
  • Players who currently have over 12.5m Forest Whispers will have all whispers in excess of that amount converted to Desert Whispers at a 1:1 ratio
  • Desert Whispers are gained from Torrhus Canyon, Forest Whispers are gained from the Moonglade Marsh
• Replaced Fading Green Rune in Helix Tree Gifts with Fading Blue Rune
• 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 Helia's Chapters tasks requiring you to reach x bracket to complete instantly instead of requiring contest reward claim
• Replaced 1x Helixis in Helix Chopper recipe with 8x Flexbone
• Added Stretching Sticks to the Moonglade Marsh section of the Bazaar
• Adjusted HOTF XP awarded by each Tree Gift Type:
  • Fig: 10 -> 10
  • Mangrove: 10 -> 15
  • Helix: 10 -> 20
• Ruby Veilshrooms and Sea Lumies now give Foraging XP
• Adjusted Jade Dragon Cost:
  • Figstone: 100 -> 64
  • Mangcore: 100 -> 64
  • Helixis: 0 -> 64
    • Added Common Hunting Wisdom Boosters to Rosemary's Shop for 250 Forest Essence

Adjusted Tree toughness:

• • Fig: 7 -> 10
  • Mangrove: 50 -> 50
  • Helix: 200 -> 200
• Adjusted Tree NPC Prices in accordance with Toughness:
  • ig: 7 -> 3
  • Mangrove: 8 -> 15
  • Helix: 9 -> 60
    • The goal here is, as we wish to do with Mining, to make later-game areas more profitable to NPC than early-game ones. Fig being meta dissuaded new players from exploring deeper into Galatea - we will continue to monitor how these changes affect the Foraging MMM meta.

Adjusted Foraging XP in accordance with Toughness:

• • Fig: 1,000 -> 100
  • Mangrove: 1,250 -> 500
  • Helix: 1,500 -> 2,000
• Adjusted Sweep of various items:
  • Seriously Damaged Axe: 7 -> 10
  • Fig Hew: 7 -> 15
  • Figstone Splitter: 24 -> 25
  • Fig Armor: 6 -> 10 per piece
  • Helix Armor: 10 -> 20 per piece
  • Helix Chopper: 40 -> 50
• Removed some sources of % Sweep:
  • Core of the Forest 2: +5% Sweep -> +1 Axe Ability Level (Moved from COTF1)
  • Core of the Forest 4: +10% Sweep -> +5 Tracking on Tree Gifts
  • Lottery HOTF4: +5% Sweep -> +10 Sweep
  • Agatha's Power I-V: +1-5% Sweep -> +5-25 Sweep
  • Miria's Power I-V: +1-5% Sweep -> +5-25 Sweep

• Critters no longer show their HP stat as there is no way for players to interact with it
• Critter Stamina Bars 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
• Updated "Found in Grass" shard descriptions to instead refer to the Floor Drops system directly
• Added text indicating to the Murkbat Shard indicating that it has a +1 score cap
• Added text to the Special Zealot shard indicating that recombobulated eyes increase chance of Superior Dragon
• Added the Wiki Tiki and Field Mouse Shards to the Elusive family
• Improved Pocket Black Hole itemlores

• Disabled "Talk to Susan" objective for all players not in The Hub
• 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)
• Adjusted Dragon Piper perk and increased cost from 2,500 -> 5,000 Dragon Essence:
  • Summoning Eyes you drop have a +5% chance to be recombobulated.
• Adjusted damage dealt by Vacuums:
  • SkyMart Vacuum: 100 → 100 ^[sic]
  • SkyMart Turbo Vacuum: 120 → 150
  • SkyMart Hyper Vacuum: 150 → 200
  • Infinivacuum: 200 → 300
  • Infinivacuum Hooverius: 200 → 400
• Increased damage added to Vacuums by Bookworm's Favorite Book from 10 -> 20

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. COMMON Sea Creatures decreased from various -> 1,000
5. MYTHIC Sea Creatures decreased from 100 -> 50

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

Going forward, Bestiaries will be designed to be more lenient - we will look to reach a sweet spot where players max Bestiaries at a reasonable point in an area of content so that they can feel the impact of the Bestiary rewards (the bonus Magic Find especially) as they continue to play, especially for areas of content with rarer mobs that have RNG drops, such as MYTHIC Sea Creatures.

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 (for example, all COMMON Sea Creatures now being moved into the same 1,000 kills to max bracket makes it substantially simpler next time we release a new common instead of us having to decide between 1,000, 4,000, or 10,000 kills to max).

Outside of adding textures for the vast amount of Torrhus Canyon items/mobs that were missing them, we have also adjusted the textures for the following items following community feedback:

• Aspect of the Void
• Terminator

And that's all we have for you today! We hope you have a great time testing - please remember to report any bugs you encounter HERE, being sure to select "alpha.hypixel.net".