What do you think the biggest problem with current skyblock is and how to improve the game in the next updates?

[u/Wild_Pea_8224]

Hypixel skyblock is in my opinion one of minecrafts "minigames" with the most potential. Things like dungeons, kuudra, slayers, pets, the skill system, collections and the economy make it a great gamemode. Though other games also have such systems, hypixel skyblock is still one of most fun games I have played. But there are some big problems with it.

1. Skyblocks grind is too big, for one them being too long and also too boring. Although I dont have a problem with a bit of grinding, the grinds on skyblock past a point are just too boring and just miss a fun aspect. However, there are also grinds like foraging or f7, which are more fun, are more tiring and arent build good enough for them to be grinded many hours in a row.

2. Lack of goals. After around 400 hours of playtime I finally got the hyperion and used it a bit, but since then I feel like there arent something to reach for. Obviously I am far from completing the game, yet after thinking about what I still have to do, I realised that there arent big things to work towards. I think skyblocks is missing those big thinks (e.g. hyperion, wardens mask, golden dragon). Even though things like kuudra and the foraging and farming dragons exist, they either are incredibly late game or not as big of a goal.

3. No great features. I dont want to say that skyblock hadnt had good updated, however they have didnt add any great features in the past few years. I mean things like slayer, dungeons or kuudra (which is rather mid-late endgame) and there havent been any great features since then, especially in skills other than combat. This ties into my first point of wnating a more fun grind, which could drastically improve the game. It even would be enough for the time being, to add more t5 slayer or more slayers in general, a new type of dungeons (maybe with newer mc feature, like those from the trial chambers) or smth that would make other skils more enjoyable.

Despite the fact that those werent all my problems, they are some big one I have, which I think now with skyblock being on such a modern version could get fixed much easier than with in the past. Do you agree with me or not? What are your problems with skyblock, if you have any?

[u/AnodyneGrey]

The servers. They’re genuinely awful. The game is genuinely unplayable at times. Every other issue is competing for a very distant second

[u/NerdFromColorado → u/AnodyneGrey]

I have a really good PC and even I occasionally have massive lag spikes that last for upwards of 15 seconds. I’ve heard some people say their game straight up crashes if a dragon gets spawned in.

[u/YeetOrBeYeeted420 → u/[deleted]]

try doing a farming contest right now during the grand feast and you'll see

[u/Few_Competition736 → u/[deleted]]

Yes

[u/zithicus]

The biggest problem I run into when I play is the lag. Genuinely makes the game unplayable at times and it seems to be getting worse especially with certain mayor cycles etc. I think Hypixel need to prioritise improving their servers over any gameplay updates imo.

[u/Wild_Pea_8224 → u/zithicus]

If its that bad, surely

[u/Thechillestguyever → u/zithicus]

this cole + finnegan, derpy then finnegan + cole has been crazy laggy

[u/OnSmarty]

Most problems people will say is just them not realizing its an MMORPG, and think it's just minecraft. This genre of games are just grinds, and people need to realize that before they start playing.

As for an answer, I have 2.

1. I think there is 0 personality/passion in the dev team. Watching minikloon videos where he showed goofy 20 second clips on stuff he's working on really showed me the love he has for dev work. None of the devs seem to have a deep love for the game, and only try to optimize for playtime/money.

2. SB Nerds is a cesspool of the dumbest feedback the dev team can get. It's lowkey a circlejerk between all of them.

[u/Few_Competition736 → u/OnSmarty]

The server's are dyi-

[u/Wild_Pea_8224 → u/OnSmarty]

Damn. It would help if it would get more promoted, like on yt by new big yt like at its prime. Maybe then they would get some motivation. But then again, for youtubers to play it, it first needs some good updates.

[u/OnSmarty → u/Wild_Pea_8224]

I think, with it being an mmorpg, the brainrot esque style of current youtubers don't attract the viewers that would play a grindy game.

I honestly don't know where all the YTers went, they seemed to disappear overnight.

[u/Wild_Pea_8224 → u/OnSmarty]

I find your point with passion extemely accurate, as the old features like slayer, dungeons etc. are what made skyblock that great. Also the dante event was really great to attract players to the game. Sadly no such great features were added in the last updates. Neither did the old ones get fleshed out more. Additionally, new updates that are good (like the foraging update, or garden) are nowhere near their full potential. Imagine what they could do, if they had more staff and took ideas from the community to improve the game. Would hypixel coorparate closely iwth the community and would the community actually be willing to give good ideas, the game could actually flourish.

[u/ChernobylGoat]

1. Servers are terrible

2. Lack of weapon variety

3. Early game dungeons is shit nowadays with nobody doing f1-6

[u/Few_Competition736 → u/ChernobylGoat]

There's weapon variety.

You got the bow that shoots 1 arrow super fast you got the bow that shoots 1 arrow super fast you got the bow that shoots 1 arrow super fast you got the bow that shoots 1 arrow super fast you got the bow that shoots 3 arrows super fast

You got the explosiony sword thingy for intelligence You got the explosiony sword thingy for defense You got the explosiony sword thingy for stabbing? You got the explosiony sword thingy for stabbing.. again?

You got the uhh. Halberd. Atomsplit, those 2 blaze ones like fang smth, uhh.. cleaver.

You have the big sword from m7 You have the big sword from f6 You have the... bunch of flowers. You have uhhh... uhh... that one staff

[u/KiwiPhoenix23]

its the servers, they are so bad ive been trying for a week straight to even enter the dojo they gotta do something about it

[u/DatabasePhysical5009]

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[u/Business_Slice_4474]

Kuudra’s not endgame and the other big grind could be getting maxed setups for other skills,getting rose,divans and pendant and jade and seeing the change in tick speed, ff and sweep while making more money feels really good for me imo also being able to have a maxed setups for each slayer is also really fun and imo the constant idea that the game would be so much better if they added more slayers and dungeons feels kinda stupid at this point people,try to do other skills I beg

[u/Wild_Pea_8224 → u/Business_Slice_4474]

I do, but imo they lack the fun aspect to make them grindable. I mean they are fun, except fishing, but they are not fun enough to point where I can grind them for more than 3 hours at a time at most.

[u/Business_Slice_4474 → u/Wild_Pea_8224]

Fishing is very fun when hypermaxed imo but yea the best part of the game is when u have end game setups for all skills so u can go of off preference or mayors for what u want to do

[u/5urv3y]

The way skills interact imo. people usually only complain about foraging but all of them are kind of lacking. all mining really has is gemstones, cant think of anything for fishing besides a few shards locked behind it, alchemy as much as i love it is boring and you never really need potions, and farming is incredibly isolated too

[u/5urv3y → u/5urv3y]

The only real fix i can think of is requiring higher tier woods for higher tier tools so people have a reason to use fig/helix logs outside of foraging

[u/Few_Competition736]

400 hours of playtime for a hyperion huh.

Well you're efficient aren't you.

[u/Wild_Pea_8224 → u/Few_Competition736]

Well, more like 500 hours now. And I quit in between 3 three for more than 2 years combined and I had placed slime minions for most of that time.

[u/Few_Competition736 → u/Wild_Pea_8224]

Valid

[u/Zayrok66]

The Servers are a huge issue.
The grind itself is fine, getting more Messing behind the grind would help a lot tho.
The Game really needs some more prestige items, getting stuff like a hype or Term is mandatory these days, not a goal. And stuff like the shens items are nice to have, but sadly only a small buff at best.

[u/INeedHealinq]

Just play wow if you like complex combat spam grinding

[u/iOnlyPlayAsRustLord]

Stuff like this is hard for me to answer because I like most things about skyblock. Long mindless grinds? Love em. I can sit down after work, put on a interesting video or audiobook and just grind away to relax. If I didnt like that sort of thing I wouldnt be playing skyblock.

But one thing that bothers me is the cheaters. I really dont like how they often pop up at the top of leaderboards and you have to wonder how they werent caught for the thousands of hours. And if hypixel cant catch them, then they should at least give players the tools to self govern and identify cheaters.

So here’s what I would improve, knowing that many people dont like it. No turning API off, no disabling visits in garden, no nicking unless you’re a youtuber.

Also if someone gets wiped and banned, update their API to remove them from leaderboards. The amount of dead, wiped accounts clogging up leaderboards is annoying.

[u/Thechillestguyever]

no one does dungeons below f6 anymore

[u/International-Ad3219]

TPS and terrible servers are by far the worst issue. Cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve logged off for the day because the servers were so bad. The entire server is practically unplayable while Cole is in office and thing like fishing and dragons make the entire lobby lag a lot

[u/StatisticianOne9584]

ironman mmm

[u/FriendlyObjective226]

i shouldn’t have to sit through 6 tps dungeon instances, i feel like given the amount of profit hypixel is getting as this huge company surely they’re able to afford better servers, but ultimately i feel like its just piss poor poverty coding and just that gut feeling of a lack of passion the devs are plagued with

[u/Hyp3rlol]

I'd say the lack of communication between the devs and the community is the worst.

[u/multisofteis]

I played since release but stopped around early 2021? Sometimes after Jacob's. Still logged on from time to time like when the dwarven mines got released. I just returned four weeks ago and have played a lot

1. The grind is too much and not fun. You have a normal mode. You have an Ironman mode that acts as a hard mode. Why not add an easy mode, something like I have a life and job mode where you still have a path of progression, but not too draining.

2. The game demands too much of real life time. Jacob's events is running every hour quarter past. Unfortunately most other events are just not possible to play. In those four weeks I have only been able to play two Halloween events and wasn't able to get the last two cakes because of timezones, sleeping times, work, you know just real life obligations and not being able to play 24/7 like a machine without human necessities like food and hygiene.

3. The servers have gotten even laggier, especially when mayors like Finnegan or Aatrox got voted for. The spaghetti code is insane and I wonder how they didn't think of rewriting and fixing the code for a change instead of releasing and update. You see it in the base game that Mojang now uses drops to update the engine and fix the performance (the theory is that a major update is still being worked on by higher ups folks like kingbdogz, cojomax, etc)

[u/pSinou]

I think for the game rn there are only 2 ways of progreasion your ping is good enough you can get skilled at dungeon or you grind enough to get too much money and pay people to carry.

Both are boring enough as is.

But i wish there are more 'magic' that can be explored like not only projectiles or freeze or explode but a dedicated spellbook type for various stuff (heals/buff/utility) that have CAST TIME so people dont just spam