Why Hypixel Skyblock Isn't Getting New Players

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0:00 - Is Hypixel Skyblock Dying?
1:17 - Beginner Confusion
4:01 - The Grind
6:10 - Hypixel Skyblock's Limitations
9:00 - Separation of Playerbase
12:37 - Impressive Content
13:20 - Why Hypixel MUST Fix First-Impressions
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Why Hypixel Skyblock Isn't Getting New Players Early Game
#hypixelskyblock #skyblock #minecraft

[@DemiTF2]

My friends have tried skyblock once or twice, and a common situation is they feel extremely overwhelmed and don't know what's going on or what to even do

[@ahmetdiamond7617]

Watching beginners guide videos or just following in game guide book will help understanding the game

[@LootlessNoob]

That is exactly why I won't quit skyblock as my iq is so low and I won't quit until I realize what is going on😂

[@yocto7082]

this

[@lirich0]

What hypixel skyblock needs is a long, starter quest line

[@vencedor1774]

I've introduced 4 friends into skyblock. Out of the 4 only one of them really stayed in. 1/4 are bad rates, and on those rates we have to include the fact that I was there as a helping hand for them, something that other new players may not have

[@lightningbolt9155]

To me, it isn’t the _new players_ that are annoying, it’s the old ones. When I was still new, I was _very_ frustrated whenever I tried to break some trees in the park and some 2K HP, 500% Speed, Young Dragon-Clad player comes bursting toward me and uses their Treecapitator to take the entire tree, despite the fact that I was already there and had only managed to get a single log.

[@penguinminecraft]

thus the need for separation/more island or trees *cough cough foraging update*

[@electrical3604]

And when a ironman player places 4 eyes and some terminator level 400 gets tops damage when they clearly dont need the 400k they will get from the armor or aotd

[@SwordMaster3000]

See it is days like these that make me wish we could have private lobbied

[@hello-jn2cy]

@@SwordMaster3000*private lobbies?

[@user-gj3mi5gj7o]

I think it’s good to separate players into each servers based on their sb level

[@TheOriginalAce]

cannot disagree

[@gamingcow7796]

when is "new bedwars achievement 2" droping ?

[@whenthebingo]

upload bruh

[@renesanchez6273]

@@whenthebingo he can't upload anything. what video are you watching right now

[@insertusernamehere4549]

The man the myth the one who forgot his password

[@EraOfKingsMMORPG]

as someone who runs an mmorpg for a living, i see both sides. tutorial are very annoying to make, boring to do and normally gets skipped by most people. BUT HOLY MOLY it really helps in the long run. i do think the early game should be a lot better, you are making great opinions

[@simonesisis164]

what game you got?

[@zyrux4097]

what game

[@that_guy1211]

and then you stop playing for a couple of weeks and you can't do the tutorial more than once ,.,

[@mentina]

​@@simonesisis164 Something tells me it's era of kings, idk tho

[@supies3420]

@@mentina lmfao

[@HellCastleYT]

HYPIXEL! UPDATE SKYBLOCK INTO THE LATEST VERSION OF MINECRAFT (OR ANYTHING AFTER 1.8.9), AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!

[@delightment5687]

Next upload in 2 months again?

[@pinked2824]

Why is every youtuber uploading... its almost like admins are saying something

[@ControversialOpinionGuy]

Foraging update is coming out soon fr fr

[@jkhjkhjkhjkhjkhjk231]

naah bro if they make skyblock fully into new versions im quittin 😭

[@AlexxOffi]

True

[@Goose_Woosie]

Another problem ive noticed is that fact that when playing skyblock without mods is awful, you literally need mods to see stats of stuff, crafting recipes, and how to actually get stuff and no new player is gonna instantly start looking for mods and what not

[@Faoburger]

tbh the only thing you need mods for are f7/m7 terminals

[@brianliu4200]

@@FaoburgerCouldn’t be further from the truth. Having mods literally improve QOL in all aspects of the game 10 fold, i.e mining, fishing, enchanting, farming, bazaar, AH just to name a few.

[@thomasrad5202]

true but there is no solution to this, the type of changes added by mods are only possible through mods, and if they were required to play on the server that would make it even harder to get new players

[@xMarco1]

@@thomasrad5202 yeah, they shouldn't make it required, but they should recommend getting mods (for example in a hub npc)

[@Faoburger]

@@brianliu4200 mining you only need for waypoints for routes and nuc runs, fishing you already have something telling you if theres sc cap if you have 100% chance, enchanting requires you to pay slightly more attention without mods, farming is just holding down 2 keys, and you really only need mods for ah and bz if you are a lowballer/flipper

[@halfxhalfx8282]

My main issue is just beginner dungeon experience. "Oh wow cool dungeons" > get oneshotted, deal like 400 damage to 20k hp enemies, have no idea what these people are talking about when saying get all secrets, s+ and stuff, have the strongest player leave your party cause he thought he wont have to carry when joining a party of 4 level 2 berserkers, sigh. Your options are literally just get carried or getting carried, then spend a few dozen million on some functional gear that will last you 2 floors. (while as a beginner player you have 0 idea how to make money, and even with a guide it takes some time to get into flipping stuff)..

[@thedutchgamelife6264]

its even worse for ironman players like myself. we cant buy ourselves into super OP gear, we NEED to be carried to reach the decent gear to begin with. there's no ironman dungeons guide to be found on youtube, all of it is just "buy this armor set and this weapon, even if its unrealistic for your point of progression!"

[@Mattis35]

​@@thedutchgamelife6264idk what's your level but I did dungeon grind as ironman easily. Here is what I did : 1. Get some levels like in combat or other skills to not be a noob (=dont start dungeon as skyblock level 5) 2. Get a first armor (end or glacite) 3. Get a weapon, what you can have 4. Get a pet, there was diana so I took uncommon griffin 5. Have 100 critic chance with reforges on your sword or armor 6.get fast carry first floors untill you unlock solo dungeon 7. Play solo entrance and kill adventurer untill you have full young dragon armor (it's not that hard fr) 8. Play as berserker and buy cleavers from dungeon shop (hyper cleaver and then giant cleaver are kinda op) 9. Star your gear and play dungeons :)

[@RERE-iz2dy]

What i think could be cool is if summoning eyes werent -4.3m per dragons Also i see a lot of early game players using the dragon armor but sometimes they dont know you need to dungeonize the armor and there really is nothing to tell them Croesus and dungeonized armor exists So a quest to explain all these things before entering dungeons would be good Edit : Also its more of a lategame issue but i still think its a big problem is the lack of diversity in the lategame and endgame In master mode your stuck to using term no matter your class I find it REALLY annoying that no matter what i do i cant play true bers in M7

[@halfxhalfx8282]

@@RERE-iz2dy "In master mode your stuck to using term no matter your class" Classes is just illusion of choice. Its just 4 archers and 1 strong archer

[@RERE-iz2dy]

@@halfxhalfx8282 YEP This is why regular dungeons is better than master mode since all classes are good and while some are harder to play they are all viable (until F7/ master mode )

[@seal1207]

I recommended skyblock to my friends,and when I told them about all the cool stuff (like kuudra, floor 7, enderman slayer) they're very excited to try it, but when I tell them about the grind it takes to get there, they look so disappointed. For older people, its not that its overwhelming, its that its such a big time investment. Making skyblock a not so grindy game would also make macroing stop.

[@GFBunnyHopER]

Yeah, that's why the worst thing about Skyblock is that you need to grind hours on hours of the same content to progress through it. Grind is not fun if your reward is to be able to grind more effectively... same with RNG drops. When you look at some drop rates at that point, it becomes lottery than reward through effort. There is a reason that Skyblock best content is Rift, it doesn't have that much grind, you can play it for like 30 minutes and be happy what you managed to accomplish in that time frame, lastly you are not gated behind broken gear (Hypereon).

[@Super-qr7wm]

Yeah but on the opposite, its half the rea son why i play the fact its such a big time investment. I feel like theres always something to do.

[@penguinminecraft]

the whole reason skyblock is popular is some people like to waste hours of their life grinding

[@thomasrad5202]

the grind is necessary unfortunately. because the grind IS the game. people seem to forget this. If there was no grind, then people would have nothing to do and the old players would start to leave the game faster than the new ones join. This is an MMO after all

[@diegoemanuel8641]

One good way they could've done to maybe make the grind less overwhelming is something like the mining/HOTM/Powder to all skills, so that instead of having to waste 30 hours to level that thing, you gained bonus in efficiency by doing a bit of everything

[@Litten-sb7eg]

Ive tried this game, first question was "wtf do I do?". Stopped playing sky block shortly after.

[@rheokalyke367]

Honestly my problem with Hypixel Skyblock is that it has practically nothing to do anymore with "Skyblock" the map

[@Litten-sb7eg]

@@rheokalyke367 You mean the floating island? Yeah it's honestly what appealed to me the most about the server.

[@user-vx5tk1tn3z]

my irl friends have tried skyblock and the conclusion is they usually feel really overwhelmed and dont know what to do or just dont feel like putting in the hours and get extremely bored quickly

[@diamondboi2085]

SAMEE

[@krysmun]

The Sooner you realise that Hypixel Skyblock is just a Minecraft MMO on an Outdated MC version, the sooner you realise why you don't want to get into it unless you're already predisposed to play MMOs.

[@rheokalyke367]

This. And like most F2P MMOs, it is catered towards no-lifers who do nothing but grind 24/7 in terms of balance.

[@blubo2592]

These are some really good ideas for the admin team, a tutorial would surely help the newer players. One small thing though, the new GUI stuff and version change WILL be comming along the foraging update, which is a big reason so many people want to see it - alongside the new content of course.

[@pvz_games]

@@Teivy I think the GUI changes might only come with 1.0 and also whatever the players say the entire gamemode will be pushed to 1.20/1.21 as it is the only way for the game to survive. I know change is scary and not always optimal in the short term but in the long term it will be worth it, also the newer version are way more stable than the 1.7.10 (which the server is based on and coded in, most people just use 1.8.9 since it is so popular), and all the new features that come with the new versions, including transfer packets that will improve lag/ping for players outside The US.

[@pvz_games]

@@Teivy Your first point is kinda false according to what i found "Hypixels servers are internally based on 1.7.10 which has been modified to allow 1.8 blocks, etc., and then further modified to of course allow 1.8+ clients to join." by spigotmc them selves. Your second point is also kinda false as nowadays it is often recognized that the best would be 1.16+ but 1.20/1.21 aren't that far behind. Also if the performance was THAT bad on newer version why would they have plans to update the game mode and possibly the entire server. I am certain that there are a lot of improvements that we just don't know. Your third point is in general true, what they could do is just have the main hubs always connect to the us servers and have other islands just transfer the packets over to the closest physical server to the client (for example in the eu, asia, south america etx.). Your fourth point is just not true, because they are already doing it, as you can play on any modern version if you so choose, like Toadstar0 did in his latest video (as of writing this). Also i don't doubt that it might be a bit hard for the admins but i don't think it is causing too much problems. About your final point, the newer versions allows the admins to just chance the combat system however they want, they can just remove the cooldown completely and remove the swipe mechanic, if they want, so that shouldn't be a problem. There are already a mod that dose exactly that, called Classic Combat. So in conclusion. With all due respect ofc, you are wrong about a few things, and i wanted to try to correct as much as i can, i hope you don't take this as an attack as it was not my intention. I would love to continue this conversation if you have any other worries or thoughts about the subject.

[@maxe624]

I stopped playing after the dwarven mines update. I realized that I can do a lot more with ten hours than gain a single mining level. It seems to me that the only players who want to spend the hundreds of required hours are the old ones who already have thousands sunk into the game.

[@wilmer4421]

You forget an important part of why you should not seperate early and endgame players. Its because skyblock islands have different content for players in different stages of the game. for example the end island: you have the basic enderman for people who just started out, then zealots, then bruisers, the voidgloom endermen. If a lobby hosts 20 people you would ideally want them to spread out, like 5 in the early game area, 5 in the farther early game area, 5 in the midgame are and then 5 in the lategame/endgame area. This makes sure places are not crowded and gives a natural progression to the islands.

[@havefun8882]

If anyone has played GW2 (one of the largest mmorpgs) then you might recognize the factor this doesn't take into account: there doesn't need to be a competition for everything. In GW2 you can't steal kills, if you both damage the mob a small amount you both get the same amount of drops. Resources are per-player, so even if one person mines a tree, any other player can at the same time mine that tree themselves. In GW2 friends, and the general community can party you and help walk you through your story or other things, no matter where you go. While there is little incentive for them to go to lower level zones on their own, if they are a friend or they just want to help you out then they can help you through whatever you want without ruining the experience, because higher levels are nerfed down to make their stats more similar to newer players in low level zones. That said they are still usually quite OP compared to lower level players, but not so much they 1 tap everything and go at mock 10 killing everything before you.

[@jacobhojdar]

im happy you posted this, i completely agree on most points. I still remember when i started i was going to drop the game unless I found someone in the hub that was willing to show me the ropes, there is just no direction that the game gives you; it makes you figure out what to do yourself which is nice but as a new player its just too much

[@dumby2175]

2:00 W search history

[@GeoguyYT-sx5jm]

lol

[@catmaksimus]

"boys" "cute one" i swear neco arc would search up something like this 😭

[@gabelanhd9856]

with each video being more popular than the last my chances of being noticed get smaller and smaller

[@DPGAMINGBRUH]

U got ur wish

[@OpexRL]

I started playing 2 weeks ago and have been enjoying it so far. But I wont lie it is quite demotivating that Hypixel is losing players, everyone has been playing for 5 years and I only started now when the mode is slowly becoming irrelevant

[@pvz_games]

Yeah though now there are like 20k people due to the 5th anniversary event but i get your point. The only way to save the game is to push it to 1.20/.121, and start to implement the new changes.

[@pierce9104]

people have been saying skyblock will die soon since 2022 (if not even sooner than that), I wouldn't really worry about the gamemode becoming irrelevant anytime soon when its still by far the most popular thing on any java Minecraft server. edit: looking at the player count compared to 2015 to early 2019 hypixel is doing completely fine, it's not surprising that the insane player count spike in 2019-2021 didn't last forever

[@pvz_games]

@@pierce9104 true, only worrying thing is them not updating to 1.20/1.21 they need to focus on that asap instead of things like mining v3 and better mayors (both of which are definitly good updates but should have come out after the push to 1.20/1.21 or at least after the foraging update

[@pierce9104]

@@pvz_games I think people overestimate how much of a positive impact updating to 1.20/1.21 will be but we'll see, and yeah I still have no clue why they thought mining v3 was a necessary update

[@pvz_games]

@@pierce9104 no i think you and others are underestimating the impact of going to a newer version. Improvements like: Better server stability (going from v. 1.7.10 to 1.20/1.21) Much easier to code with, leading to more updates and faster once too Less bugs and exploits New blocks, mobs and the ability to make fully custom GUIs among other qol chances The implementation of transfer packets decreasing ping/lag for players outside the us And there is certantly a lot other things i am forgetting.

[@Sebzam333]

Congrats for 5k!!! Really enjoy the dry comedy 😁

[@oAbzi]

Yeah i remember playing skyblock for the first time like 3-4 years ago when it was simple and i was still overwhelmed, its hard to even find out collections are essential to unlock items

[@TheFrogWizard710]

I took a break from skyblock a week or so after dungeons came out (I wanted to play other games and had fallen far behind my friends) and decided to come back a few weeks ago, there has just been so much saturation in the amount of content, while that is great for dedicated players, it is overwhelming for anyone who doesnt constantly keep track of it. The only reason I havent just deleted my island is that I've got 4 beacons active from when beacons worked like in vanilla

[@braythesmall4131]

this is one of the reasons me and my friend failed doing a coop on skyblock, i played quite a bit before we made the coop (roughly mid game ) and it was almost impossible for him to learn what to do in the game independently. He didnt like watching the youtube tutorials so i had to paraphrase everything about the game which after about a month just didnt wok out. There needs to be beginner friendly elements to it cause theres nothing to say what to do.

[@MahoganyCrafter]

I stopped playing around when dungeons was first released because the learning curve was so steep (which is to be expected for a game in beta). My biggest problem with it was the fact that there was no guide or anything showing me how to do anything. So I just kept farming summoning eyes because that's all I knew how to do.

[@trolls6837]

They should have an interactive npc that once you get in the hub its just you and the npc showing you the map and what things do and explain levels and drops and where you want to go and give actual tips.

[@agoatwithnonamd]

True all of it. I started about a month ago and i was overwhelmed and thats as a VERY experienced Minecraft and MMO player. I watched yt guides about skyblock for a week straight whilst playing to know what to kinda do.

[@xjaiva]

i think the best way to go about things in this situation is just greater separation between new players and end game players, have spots that only benefit either side so that they can grind in peace. as for the overwhelming start, i think hypixel should take a page out of any rpg ever's book. make the first area an apt, good tutorial that actually shows the player the main parts of the game (farming, grinding in areas, trading, what have you). if the player is interested, then ease them into areas with other starter players. being level one and seeing someone thats level 100 can be very demotivating, but seeing someone whose level 10 can give you a tangible goal for your time.

[@jkengland832]

I think Elle in the Crimson Isle introduces the part in the game she's in perfectly and making the same thing for the hub would benefit the player-base greatly. Instead of every single island when you start up, start with a hub portal, it should be a different one that would bring you to a new hub where it's just you and an NPC, that actually MOVES around and takes you to places and explains them, and once you finish the Tutorial you may go to the actual hub and begin playing

[@nathanramage1275]

This is a great idea and deserves more likes. I wanted to try it after the technoblade videos, thought I'd take a look (I wasn't dumb enough to think I'd get that high up shortly) couldn't figure anything out from the game itself, and never rejoined skyblock. Giving new players the ability to figure out at least where stuff is is CRUCIAL. Because where's the auction house? Where's the dungeons at? What the fuck is that? What is this? Having something explain that to me would've made me actually consider playing, and if I was stuck I would've eventually started to "just watch tutorials online" like one "super helpful" player told me when I was asking questions

[@aaaaflfl4498]

it took me 2 months and countless guide videos to even begin to understand "BASIC" things in the game. Admins HAVE TO do something.

[@GuimauvePowa]

i recently made a new profile after not playing for literal years with a friend it did not take long for some lvl 400+ guy to come over to me and try to empty their inventory's worthless trash into my inventory through a trade request, it felt surprisingly degrading for a block game i also have to say that everything is very unclear, ive put in a handful of hours in my newer profile, and ive played the game a decent amount i'd say, having reached a net worth of about 750m on a single profile but i still have no idea what im meant to do in this game like bro whats a garden and a catacombs or crimson island

[@Anonymous-ws3wv]

I haven’t really noticed the player count fluctuating much but I do try to give out any excess equipment that I don’t need or would generally cost nothing to help start the new players such as tarantula pets, shovels, axes

[@danielbrower3895]

I have been playing the game for about 5 years, but only started grinding recently. Back before it was so complicated ated it was just fun hanging out and chatting with people. My favorite thing to do was literally going to the mushroom desert and would just fish for a few hours and chat with people it was so much fun

[@MadisonMadi]

which pack and or shader are you using here specifically? (the background texturepack with the glass and stuff)

[@CobblestoneYT]

I used to grind skyblock a lot, and I stopped playing for a couple of months as there was nothing new to do, I came back after that break, and I was so far behind in everything I still havent caught up.

[@anobject9622]

I remember when I first started playing, I watched so many videos that were old and outdated and that wasted hundreds of hours of my time doing nothing. When my friends started playing, they had no idea what to do and i just told them to watch videos because I actually had no idea how to explain the game to them. Some of them caught on and actually learned about the game, but others just quit after a few weeks because they just had no idea what to do or the grind ahead seemed too unfeasible. Whatever it is, skyblock has a very big problem when it comes to enticing new players to actually play the game and teaching them what to do.

[@seagoer4696]

I’m here to make a list of additional demands 1*trapdoors are able to be placed in builders wand inventory’s 2* no more builders wand build limit for grand architect 3* no more juju shortboes in zealot bruiser go to the next area 4* increase drop rate around the game to counter inflation 5* monitor private chat and ban scaling discords

[@voidpumpkin8981]

I think on some islands make servers based on levels and maybe on some like the hub you keep it together. That allows for all the pros without many of the cons.

[@HelloThere42041]

Been a while since I've seen such high quality content! Keep up the good work man

[@probablyanon]

I think another big issue is that 2019like earlygame lasts only for 10 minutes nowdays. THERE ARE FRICKING LVL 15S WITH NECRON ARMOR

[@jeffrey9100]

6:30 dont worry... hang in there! just 3 more weeks (5-7 bussiness days) till the foraging update

[@omiboos4740]

what texture pack gives you the cool gui and text font

[@keeganjohns2703]

Well thought out video. I appreciate this kind of content. There’s some good humor, it seems like you have a good personality, and I understood and learned from almost every thing you said. It appealed to me as a Skyblock player in many ways.

[@ethanwho_]

the issue is that they took a really simple game and added a bunch of shit that makes the game so messy. it's especially difficult for not only new players, but also old players like me because we come back to the game realizing there's so much more we have to grind just to get back where we were before.

[@whatupcuz3688]

Most underrated youtuber frfr I just saw you foraging absolute chad

[@beastbomber2316]

A few years back I tried skyblock on hypixel and it was extremely overwhelming and I never knew what to do. I still have not returned.

[@grecus4449]

I don't know how it is for others but in games like this I enjoy sense of progress. That's why I stopped playing when doing a single step required insane amount of grind. So I had and achieved everything except things that are intentionally meant to take ages and don't really give that much. I stopped playing a bit after dungeons or however was it called was added. I had some top tier weapons and basically the only thing to do was either maxing farming levels or just staying on top of the news not to miss new thing to farm for, which for me is more exhausting than the actual grind. With how much time passed maybe it would be nice to play again...

[@elisfindy]

i would love to see an hour long version of this type of video please if you can do that that would be amazing

[@koaven9560]

Also adding some type of sandbox version to the game would make it much more fun/easier to get into the game

[@TheDarios123]

The seperation of old and new players would also limit the "carry problem" atleast its a problem in my opinion. It's so much easier getting your hands on the coins you need for a enderslayer or dungeon carry to skip a substantial amount of work. So preventing this to some point would be a good thing i believe.

[@survsss]

ill never play skyblock because i was very overwhelmed when i was in the main hub and felt left out because i didnt start earlier

[@nexo4ella]

The problem with not understanding the path of progress is incredibly terrible. I'm at level 153 and I still don't know how to replace my AOTD and wise dragon armor (other aspects, be it mining or farming, although more linear, are enjoyable). Why I love the rift update is because they lead you by the hand for a short time and give you pleasant gameplay gradually. Returning to combat, there are no hints about what armor you should buy now (let alone ironman mode)

[@LeonLuc]

like you said all the players are meeting as same places. An example is that the crimson ile is connected to spiders den, why? idk it will make much more sence to make the portal from end and on the hub island theres so many NPC that does nothing you are just reading usseless lore you will never need for early game ik some players like the lore but do you realy want to read 2minutes some usseless text to realize you didnt even get anything?

[@kobshin1711]

mod as well are hard to understand sometimes and some location which are very important are hard to find

[@andymar13]

What shaders do you use?

[@EggwonREAL]

Great video! I have 1800 hours in this god forsaken game and even I get confused sometimes. Can't wait for the admins to see this and chuckle, then go back to working on another update that'll drop in 2 or 3 years.

[@juhatuomainen9833]

When i started sb 2 years 5 months ago i just farmed lapiz zombies and dropped xp share core but i didnt have any idea of anything

[@Shubzero08]

Right as you went into the hub portal at the start an ad started

[@Calum79]

I played skyblock a few months after release, and that incredibly grindy aspect of the game, coupled with the toxicity is what prevents me from going back. It was bad before, so I dread to know what it's become like. Cool video though. Keep up the great work! (also hearing that the dragon armour is "early game" made me feel so incredibly old lmao)

[@nakano8412]

I played Skyblock a bit when it released, then didn't touch it until the end update, did some Endermen killing then logged off. Later came back when the dungeon update was out. I wanted to participate in the content, but I needed better gear, and I've geniunely no clue what is good gear, and the old stuff I did have now was reworked/needed x combat level to work. I could just go and look at a forum to try to find a guide for a few hours, but it's extremly overwhelming. As you pointed out, I'm someone who have watched a fair bit of Thirrtyvirus's content, but have no intention to play. It looks like a cool, but it's too complicated, it's like throwing someone into a JRPG, but you get no tutorials, works for some, but for me it's a big skip.

[@TheStarMachine2000]

I didn't even make it past finding all the villagers, I spent hours running around looking for them and the tutorials and maps were out of date. I had "fun" but I haven't gone back since

[@corbsshas2811]

A big issue i ran into was the money cap as a solo player. I dont have friends or a spare account for a coop nor do i want to fully reatart in order to make one if i did. This meant that any money i had past 50m I would instantly lose if i died for any reason. My solution was to just spend money on minions but it still makes me sad when i see people who live on the billions scale on the auction and the bazaar while im literally capped. Not to mention the dungons wich are completely unplayable as a "beginner"

[@loonitick]

skyblock's real tutorial is watching episode 1 of someone's SkyBlock playthrough or hellcastle's beginner guide lol you kinda provided your own counter argument in regards to tutorials. Wynncraft's tutorial is a bit long-winded and could be shrunk down a little bit, and it's also low dopamine--definitely not the best example. neither is there a good example out of any of the available MC MMORPG servers... What SkyBlock did for their tutorial, or lack thereof, is actually the best option. An improved SkyBlock guide feature would definitely go very far. The Rift did the guide pretty well! There isn't really a goal for this game other than already knowing that there's cool stuff in the game. How are they even supposed to do a tutorial? Freedom of choice, but at what cost? As a content creator, I'm honestly glad because it means more players are coming our way when looking for information, or our videos *are* the reason they are able to play without being overwhelmed. also old players are the annoying ones. the new guys can do their thing, but old hats can be pretty damn elitist and are much more likely to use macros, which is damaging to the player community

[@nct121]

Oh u still alive Still waiting for monumenta region 3 video :)))))))

[@loonitick]

@@nct121 wont happen for a little while, unfortunately. waiting for them to revamp their region 1 before i give them more attention. unless it takes too long for them to do that... they'll eventually get a video after i get all the other ones i have planned done i guess

[@Samstercraft77]

common looni w

[@theonejackal89]

Wynncraft's tutorial is actually pretty decent at teaching players everything they need to know up to that point. Though I won't lie, it is a tad bit boring. It could be a bit more thrilling, or maybe some higher stakes at the beginning, but it's fine as it is.

[@maximo6759]

i had a 30b nw ironman with skill avg 56 and cata 50 and 3500hr play time, i deleted the profile 6 moths ago and honestly dont regret it

[@carljanzen2050]

You’re spot on, tried to get my girlfriend on but she was automatically overwhelemd. She was excited by all the things I told her about but, she can’t spend 7 hours a day grinding this game.

[@waifu_png_pl6854]

i tried getting into it twice and just couldnt, too confusing and overwhelming. it looks cool and i like watching vids about it every so often, wish i could play

[@Ducksaregreat]

I love your silly content, but this is on another level! I think the game would seriously benefit from reducing the grind (even if it’s a slight reduction). Like the old Skyblock where the grindiest thing was the AOTD or Runaans bow. The reason I play the game is because of the sense of accomplishment and progression. I had so much fun getting a floor 5 completion. The completion and grind was annoying, but I felt good after unlocking it. I’m currently powder grinding and I felt great when I finally maxed great explorer today. There should be more mini accomplishments and small upgrades in between the mid and late game. I agreed with pretty much all your points, and I genuinely believe that Skyblock, and all of Hypixel for that matter, could benefit from improving the early and mid game and making it more enjoyable.

[@youtuby7656]

11:00 Its time for cons "Its raining somewhere else starts playing" 😂

[@AfterODDs]

its like you have to be there on first day its released to enjoy it or something

[@KermGD]

my friend wanted to try skyblock, first thing i told him to do is watch a metric ton of skyblock videos so he kinda knows what's going on and doesn't get overwhelmed. Also kinda same with my brother but i just told him what to do and where to go lmao

[@bluereel1246]

I had a friend who was interested in joining skyblock, and i had no idea how to help them play. He told me that the guide he looked at said to go mine sand, and he was happy to do that. but beyond that he didn't know what to do. I gave him some glacite armor so he didn't' have to grind it himself, and the starter dwarven pickaxe with basic enchants to help a bit. But i have no idea how to get a new player into the fun interesting parts of the game. I don't just want to carry him, because he doesn't want to be carried, he wants to play skyblock and experience all the cool stuff it has, but the 'cool stuff' is so barred from new players. I had to tell him just grind glacite guys until combat 12, then go grind endermen, and thats just kinda boring. I want to be able to show off all the fun parts of the game to new players and be able to set them up for success, but the game is too directionless. And that directionlessness hurts new players. You join skyblock for the first time and what the hell are you supposed to do? The first section of the game needs to be better constructed. There needs to be a questline that shows off how to do slayers. I think there needs to be a 1 time fightable even easier rev boss. I want rev 0, to show off what the possibilities of this aspect of skyblock is. I think it needs a cool attack that does nearly 0 damage so a new player gets to witness the hype that this game is without just dying all teh time. And past that slayer intro, it should demonstrate what Dungeons is right away. combat 15 is too much to lock that major aspect of skyblock behind. Have a like 1 time use, solo dungeon, partied with an npc or something with the worlds easiest mobs in. Make the player feel powerful in it, have them open a chest and get a mega blessing that lets them sweep the whole baby floor. Give them an awesome introduction to this side of the game. I think dwarven mines needs lower requirements, or have some hotm 0 stuff exist in the deep caverns. They need to be introduced to the menus to know what the goal is. Maybe you get like 5 hotm exp for discovering each floor, and a bit by talking to some of the npcs down there, and that's all you need to unlock hotm1 and the dwarven mines. You get to learn about the main mechanic down there, and you can understand the goal of progression, (get more hotm lvls). have the dwarven kings mention Divan's gear and set that as a goal for the players, have him say that it causes him SORROW to not have it. I hope beyond hope that the foraging update is going to have a decent tutorial, and i think that it's probably not going to have the same directoinlessness issue that other areas do, because with the Garden, it has a decent introduction and i think hypixel is getting better with that. I also think that fishing needs a bit more of a guide, and i can only hope that after foraging, fishing is the next skill overhaul. Like the current 'intro' to fishing is asking someone, and they tell you to place minions down until lvl 27. Which i did, and thats not introducing a desire to fish.

[@acenovaYT]

idk mmos if they have too much content become stuffed in one end and empty in the other. I feel that the best way would be to go easy on the item level req that way if people have a hard time to get sales the better gear could just sell for less allowing newer players a quicker way up (increasing the new to mid player base) with more newer players wanting the item the endgame ones could squeeze as much out of it as they can (not to mention more trading between them as some might hold on to those items till the majority of the new players can buy them for more). Pretty sure durabillity is not a thing, but it should be making some gear more efficient to use since having that break would be easier to replace one more thing skyblock should try is multiple armour layers that way with durabillity added you could use multiple armours to collect stuff faster, beat enemies easier, but for the cost of breaking multiple armours at the same time plus they could be specific to either slot so long time players might only have the inner layer armors while new players could collect both getting an advantage by grinding from the beggining. Last thing could be starting over creating endgame gear you could start with via some mechanic of grinding down your items then upgrading a single piece that is persistant (i dont think durabillity would eat up that many items as you would most likely have a repairing system in place too, but this idea could, as players starting over would be inclined to grind down all thier items, money getting sent to the newly started acc dosent matter as not spending all of it would mean the gear you make would not be that good anyways and you would have to buy everything, and some better items might still have level req after restarting). Having to start over as a tehnically new player making the new players not feel left out would be the intended effect. The gear made could be persistant (as in could not be sold lost, or broken aka could be repaired after it reaches 0 durability), but not endgame so later you could get better stuff than it, and only doing multiple resets could you make one piece that would be better than what you can get easily during endgame

[@adamsharon]

Even when I started playing a while ( and I mean A WHILE ) back it took me so incredibly long to understand how I get foraging experience. I'm not sure if I missed a line in the dialog or something but I swear I just ignored foraging for so incredibly long until I saw someone chop one of the logs in the beginning area and was like " OH SO THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT OOOOOOOOHHHH I GET IT ". Don't get me started about dungeons. Edit: There's a skyblock guide?

[@crockoss215]

as a 5skyblock level with 16 hours (started 5 days ago) myself i agree with you.I havent even found all the villagers just cant find them they are a lot and i need specific ones.i used a fricking guide for this carpenter villager (in order to find him)everythning needs a guide in this game.

[@Ursea_Erika]

I play a lot of Singleplayer if Minecraft and decided to try Hypixel Skyblock for a change. I know exactly that overwhelmed feeling when going to the hub. Haven't gone back

[@borthYT]

i used to play this game so much, but i stopped when they added dungeons, feel like it got weird after that and all my gear became obsolete.

[@corbsshas2811]

Same

[@Samstercraft77]

later this summer wynncrafts gonna make custom models for almost every single one of their hundreds of custom mobs and much more its insane

[@Petercraft_]

When i started playing skyblock i joined, briged to the portal, went to the hub, left. I didn't join back for like a year till a friend of mine told me too. Getting to the hub for the first time is really overwhelming

[@couldbeahuman8079]

really good video, I think it would be great, as someone who frequently starts new profiles and likes bingo I think nerfing the early game would also make the game quite a bit more fun. Give us access to the end game or at least middle game a bit quicker, that’s when the game really opens up and becomes a lot more fun edit: I also prefer ironman so being able to progress through the early game a bit quicker would be nice since you can’t buy your way through some annoying grinds

[@noly2383]

WHAT ARE YOUR SHADERS I NEED THEM

[@NicholasLevin-gf6so]

the fact that bro is so honest, keep going

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

Maybe having items behind collection requirments and catacombs levels should be not so strict. Maybe

[@KurzhaarBard]

I started playing Skyblock a few months ago. I played for like 150 hours and now I am stuck. The enemies are too strong, I can't find any guide on how people with the same gear do 50x my damage. I am confused how to get certain items and there is not really any main objective. I got into Skyblock after watching Dragoon videos and thought it was gonna be very fun unlocking cool and op gear. The reality is you grind endlessly to even be able to get in the area and when you finally reach that area you gotta grind for 2000 more hours and then there's 20 side quests and way too much stuff. Then I am underpowered (my pickaxe is too weak), so I look for a new one, but the drill's and such are either 5% price or 100% price (this means after you get a mid tool, there's not another one to bridge the gap between good and bad ones)

[@m4nta_703]

1:15 Okay, that was good.

[@jordanchadee9518]

I think modern soldier really helps you with actual early game especially from someone who he's helped.

[@444habiko]

I just started out that game like 5 days ago. I'm surely dumb, but once I got End Armor and all of that I'm lost and have no idea of what to do except trying to one shot zealots..

[@spaceturtle8889]

The rift progression is so much better than the main game its kind of crazy (also the rift isnt really locked behind hours of grinding).

[@deadfishbob1]

I've been playing for like a month, avg skill lvl right now 20~, and this is the first I'm hearing of a guide

[@browniemeister1208]

Hi, I just started playing a Co-op world with a friend of mine and a couple others. I find Skyblock to be very fun, very, grindy but that's fine and I enjoy the grind. I completely agree about the guides not being new-player friendly for people like me. But holy shit, I have no clue what 90% of the stuff does, I just play to figure out things. I personally enjoy the idea of trying and figuring out, but there is SO MUCH STUFF BEING THROWN AT ME for no reason. I just focus on step at a time to pace myself, if I don't I will just get overwhelmed. But, I enjoy the freedom and it being just do whatever you want whenever you want. I personally think, after just getting Mithril and me being level 14 (Which is not too experienced in the grand scheme of things), that I just want to access the more fun things with a smaller grind. There's no place that I can really see with Skyblock itself, no tutorial and no nada. I appreciate the help of Skyblock itself though, I've received some basic items and money to get me a little past the grind and it's helped massively.

[@iKalazar]

perfect example right here

[@RiderProduction-rm8lb]

where can i get this resource pack? and which mc version it supports?

[@Quietbut_Deadly]

I’ve been playing MC since 2012, don’t really play a whole lot of any game these days, but watching this video captured what you wanted to. I had no idea wtf was going on. Didn’t look like “Skyblock” to me.

[@electrical3604]

The first time i logged on, i spent 2 hours trying to figure out what to do or how to get to the coal mines. My playership was lucky i was dedicated

[@focusprx]

the jetsons is a cool old school cartoon

[@bobi9928]

Im a new player and i didnt even know the game has cool stuff (im lvl 10) or even that sky block guide jn the levelling menu, this with thr fact that i feel VERY lost, like i just unlocked the end island and im getting two shotted dealing 100 damage to 4,5k hp endermans, i actually dont know how to proceed. Ive played othrr grindy games like terraria and bee swarm simulator so im kinda experienced with grind, being possibly the only reason im playing as i still have no idea what my goal is or just overall how to proceed

[@malcolmwilcox4897]

another point is playing without mods is just a terrible experience i once told a f6 party i didnt have my mods installed and as i kept topping secret count they thought i was such an insane player they couldnt even imagine not using mods

[@PJutch]

12:40 forget for a moment about techincal limitations, instancing and etc. and imagine there was an interesting for beginiers location where you can see some party fighting with Kuudra.

[@sfSONIC2510]

i just started skyblocks today. its a bit overwhelming and playing alone is decent.

[@higuys9789]

Ima get my graphics card (which is the only pc part I still need) in the end of July so ima hopefully be able to build a pc and join hypixel sky block

[@Lapex69]

what’s the texture pack for that gui?

[@pianoman5259]

I have been playing skyblock on and off since it came out and I am just now finding out how to access the skyblock guide

[@enveied]

There is also this thing with mmo’s, if you start late you have to put in wayyyy more hours than other ppl to get to “end game”, or even just if you quit the game, I played tof on release and hit leaderboards for my server, I had to take a break for a week cuz of personal reasons, it took me 4 all nighters (not back to back) to reach leaderboards again, that’s when I decided to quit the game. New players WILL be left out because of how far back they are from “end game”. Also mmo’s need to have a set endgame, like lvl cap or stat caps and just add more quests like wow or ffxiv are doing, just have endgame and add more story and a new dungeon every once in a while. If you are reading this and are a new mmo player pls go play ffxiv instead it’s so much more beginner friendly and has a great community.