Well the long-awaited farming update came out. Yay!
Let’s see what’s new.
Farming Cap Increase
We now have the ability to reach farming 60!
To reach farming 50, you need 55,172,425 total farming xp. To reach lv 60, you need 111,672,425 total farming xp. This basically means I’m only half way to reach lv 60.
In order to unlock it, you need to purchase this item from Anita, who I’ll talk more about later.
New NPCs
In the hub, there’s Jacob, the farming guy. There’s also Anita, who’s located above Jacob, on the second floor.
Jacob’s Festivals
A new event has come to Skyblock: Jacob’s Festivals. Every 3 in-game days (once per hour, starting at xx:15 real-time), there is a 20-minute event where whoever farms the most of a certain crop during a certain time period wins.
Minion collections do not count. Don’t bother switching all your minions.
Checking The Upcoming Crops You’re Allowed To Farm
Only certain crops will count during each event. Hovering over the Calendar in Jacob’s interface will allow you to check the upcoming crops.
Since these events happen every hour, it’s ok to miss some, and participate in the ones you have farms built for, rather than building one of each farm. Note that festivals only last for 20 minutes, so you don’t need to build the largest farms to make it so that you can infinitely farm without stopping, but rather, you only need to build a farm large enough that you can farm for 20 minutes without stopping.
Farming Gear
In order to score well, you need the proper equipment, and a high farming skill. Since I reached farming 50 a while ago, I stopped farming because there was no point to increasing it. Now, there’s actually a point to reaching farming lv 60.
Before this update, for pumpkins/melons, I would have recommended any axe. There are no specialized axes for these crops. Now, there are specialized axes for each crop, which you can find in Anita’s store. She also sells specialized axes for each crop, and also other items which make building the farms easier.
You can also put the blessed reforge on axes now. You can find this NPC to purchase blessed fruit behind the blacksmith NPC. Recombobulating your tool will increase the blessed reforge’s stats. However, you really don’t need this to reach the top 5%.
I also recommend the Elephant pet, as it’s the only pet that increases your crops double drop chance.
Top 5%, How Hard Is It To Get?
It depends on the crop. For instance, here’s how pumpkins scored.
Right when the festival was about to end, it said I was 11,525 score over silver. This means that the highest-ranking silver player had roughly 77,500 pumpkins.
However, here’s the score for sugarcane. Note that I purposefully stopped at silver so I can check the silver rewards.
Here, to reach gold, you need about 270,000 sugarcane harvested. The hoe I was using here is a rookie hoe. It was the only one I had at the time, and the additional seed drop does not affect sugarcane.
A slight oversight that I had was that the brackets are listed in the rewards section of Jacob.
Me with farming 50, using Elephant and the old tools, was barely able to surpass the gold requirement. You’re going to want to use the specialized tools in order to reach the top 5%.
Placement Rewards
| Placement | Rewards |
| GOLD (top 5%) | 25 Jacob’s Ticket 1 Turbo-Crop I Book 1 Gold medal |
| SILVER (top 25%) | 15 Jacob’s Ticket 1 Turbo-Crop I Book 1 Silver medal |
| BRONZE (top 60%) | 10 Jacob’s Ticket 1 Turbo-Crop I Book 1 Bronze medal |
| NONE (at least 100 collection) | 1 Jacob’s Ticket |
Turbo-Crop Books
Depending on the crop you participated in, you win a free book, tier I. These books can be combined into tier V.
Tier III books require at least BRONZE placement in that specific crop in order for the enchantment to actually work on your item.
Tier IV books require at least SILVER placement in that specific crop in order for the enchantment to actually work on your item.
The max tier (below) requires GOLD placement in that specific crop.
Each tier, the double-drop chance is increased by 5%.
You can put all of these onto a single tool.
Permanent Double Drops Increase
Every time you upgrade this, the cost increases. The first level costs 1 Gold medal. The second level now costs 1 Gold medal and 50 Jacob’s Ticket. It costs 10% less Jacob’s tickets for me because I have the 10% discount perk for contributing to the city project.
You can find the upgrade costs on the Hypixel Skyblock wiki. Note that the limit is +30% (15 upgrades). This item will disappear from Anita’s menu once it’s maxed.
New Hoes
If you purchase the Mathematical Hoe Blueprint, you can craft better hoes. Surround the hoe with most crops to turn it into a specialized hoe for that crop.
Per digit on the counter: essentially, log base 10 of the counter. 1,000 = 4 digits, 10,000 = 5 digits, 100,000 = 6 digits.
You can check all of the new hoes in the Recipe Book, in the Farming Recipes section.
Anita’s Shop Items
You can convert your medals from bronze to silver to gold, and back if you like.
2 Bronze ⇔ 1 Silver
4 Silver ⇔ 1 Gold
These you can only convert from medals to tickets. Not vice versa.
1 Bronze 🢥 1 Jacob’s Ticket
1 Silver 🢥 2 Jacob’s Ticket
1 Gold 🢥 8 Jacob’s Ticket
Here’s everything you can buy from Anita:
For the farming cap increase, you can find the upgrade cost table on the Skyblock wiki.