Ah yes, Foraging. One of the key skills to level up in Hypixel Skyblock if you want to deal more damage. Foraging is a really boring skill to level up, but it’s also one of the quicker skills to level up, close to Farming (ignoring Alchemy, because you can max that in a few hours).
How to Get Foraging XP?
Breaking flowers gives you +1 foraging XP.
Breaking any log will give you +6 foraging XP.
Clearly, breaking logs is much better than breaking flowers.
My lv. 92 ocelot pet combined with a Foraging XP potion and the +20% skill xp bonus currently happening right now allows me to get 11 foraging XP per log.
The Park Foraging Level Requirements
Before you have access to The Park, you should level up your foraging by farming the Oak trees in the Hub.
The Park is split up into various areas. Each area is locked until you reach a specific level in your Foraging Skill.
It only takes 50 XP to level up from foraging 0 to 1, so just break 9 logs and you’re there.
| Foraging Level Requirement | Location |
| I | Birch Park |
| II | Spruce Woods |
| III | Dark Thicket |
| IV | Savanna Woodland |
| V | Jungle Island |
What Are The Best Tools?
For axes, what you really want is a Treecapitator. This golden axe breaks 15 additional logs after you break one, meaning that it breaks a total of 16 logs each time you mine a log. The cooldown starts when you break 1 log, and the cooldown lasts for 2 seconds. After 2 seconds have passed since the ability activated, the next log you break will have the ability activate. It costs about 2m coins on the Auction House. A heavy investment, yes, but you can earn that much after roughly 4 hours of efficient Foraging. If you’d rather not pay for one, you can craft one with 8 stacks of Enchanted Obsidian surrounding a Jungle Axe. It’s unlocked in Obsidian Collection VIII.
You also really need a Personal Compactor 4000/5000/6000. It makes it so that you don’t have to waste your time crafting the wood into the enchanted variant. This also makes it so that you don’t need a foraging sack. These compactors are a bit expensive, but nearly doubles your foraging rate, since you spend about half the time crafting.
The 4000 is unlocked in Redstone Collection IX.
You also should use one of the two following foraging pets:
Ocelot or Monkey Pet?
Depends. No matter which pet you choose, you should give it a Common Foraging Exp Boost (+20%) item, which you can purchase from the Zog pet shop NPC for 60,000 coins. If you want a higher rarity Exp Boost, your only option is the Epic variant, which grants +60%, but costs roughly 10m coins on the auction house. They are a super-rare drop from the Soul of the Alpha, wolves that spawn in the Howling Caves under the Dark Thicket.
Ocelot (Epic)
- Relatively Cheap (~400k on the Auction House)
- Quick to level up
- More Foraging XP per log (30% at lv 100)
Monkey (Legendary)
- Very Expensive (~20m on the Auction House, 18m from Oringo NPC)
- Slower to level up
- More log drops, so more money earned
- Treecapitator cooldown reduced (50% at lv 100)
The Ocelot is a good pet for early to mid game. Monkey is for late-game players, as 18m coins is a lot of money. The monkey pet earns a ton more money than the Ocelot pet. If you can afford a Legendary Monkey pet, I would buy it, use it for a bit, then resell it at a higher price than what you paid for it. That way, you can earn money from both foraging and selling it.
With this, I get 8.6 foraging XP per log. However, I can break logs so much quicker with this.
If both pets are at lv 100, monkey is much better than Ocelot. The Monkey pet should nearly double your foraging XP, while the Ocelot will only give you a 30% boost.
Remember that the Ocelot Pet should be Epic rarity. The reason that you want it as Epic is because Legendary pets level up slower, since they need more XP per level than Epic pets.
If you’re in a guild, I would recommend asking someone that trusts you to borrow it, with collateral, of course.
Here’s some testing I did on the two pets. The following test I did with Haste III, Foraging XP Boost III, in the Dark Thicket.
| Foraging XP | Ocelot Pet (lv 92) | Legendary Monkey (lv 50) | Legendary Monkey (lv 80) |
| 5 minutes | 36,842.3 | 35,069.8 | 45,299.5 |
| Per Hour | 442,107.6 | 420,837.6 | 543,594 |
As we can see, since my Ocelot Pet is a much higher level than the Monkey pet, it gets more XP than the lv 50 Monkey. However, when the Monkey gets to a higher level, it should start to overtake the Ocelot Pet.
Where Is The Best Place To Farm Foraging XP?
The best place to level up Foraging would be in The Park. But where in The Park, you may ask? The Dark Oak thicket is the best place to level up Foraging.
In the Jungle Island, with my Legendary Monkey pet and Foraging XP III potion, I was able to get 29705.8 Foraging XP in 5 minutes, meaning that I would get about 356469.6 Foraging XP per hour.
In the Dark Thicket, with my Legendary Monkey pet and Foraging XP III potion, I was able to get 35069.8 Foraging XP in 5 minutes, meaning that I would get about 420837.6 Foraging XP per hour.
Thus, the best place to level up Foraging would be in the Dark Thicket (the place with all of the Dark Oak trees).
I believe that the reason that the Dark Thicket is more efficient is because while the Treecapitator is on cooldown, you can break more logs than on the Jungle Island. The Jungle Island requires less mouse movements, as you can just break 1 log from each tree at a time, while with the Dark Oak trees, you should break additional logs on cooldown.
| Foraging XP (lv 50 Monkey) | Jungle Island | Dark Thicket |
| 5 Minutes | 29,705.8 | 35,069.8 |
| Per Hour | 356,469.6 | 420,837.6 |
That makes the Dark Thicket the best overall, right?
Well, not exactly. Dark Oak sells for about half the value of Jungle Wood. If you want to level up the fastest, yes Dark Oak is the best for that. However, if you want to level up and earn money, then Jungle would be better. Additionally, the Dark Thicket is usually more crowded than the Jungle Island. I recommend “lobby hopping”, where you basically keep warping home or to the hub and rejoining The Park in order to get a less-crowded lobby.
Does Haste Make A Difference?
Yes, haste does make a significant difference. Basically, while your treecapitator is on cooldown, you can break additional logs while you wait. Haste lets you break 8-10 additional logs while you’re on cooldown, while you can only break 2-3 additional logs if you don’t have it.
The Haste Potion is really cheap. You can brew it using 1 nether wart, 1 coal, and enchanted redstone and glowstone.
Here’s some tests I did to verify that Haste is actually effective. Again, all these tests happened in the Dark Thicket.
| XP in 5 minutes | No Pet | Ocelot (lv 92) | Monkey (lv 62) |
| No Haste | 24,840 | 32,244.5 | 33,162.1 |
| With Haste III | 29,239.9 | 36,842.3 | 37,006 |
From my quick tests, Haste does make a good improvement. Do note that Haste sometimes can interfere with the treecapitator ability. Basically, if you break the connected log quicker than the treecapitator ability breaks it, the ability will be “wasted” on breaking the single log. For this reason, farming in the Dark Thicket is better, as there are more logs for the ability to jump to, in case you’re breaking the logs too fast.