This Week in Hypixel Skyblock – November 23

Welcome to this week’s Hypixel Skyblock news! This week saw pretty big changes to Hypixel Skyblock. This edition of This Week in Hypixel Skyblock covers important events that happened from November 23 – December 7!

Events That Occurred This Week

Bug Fixes and Nerfs (November 23)

The admin team changed many things within this patch, such as:

The legion ultimate enchant no longer giving a buff from AFK players; this doesn’t really affect many people.
Slayer mobs giving up to 50% combat experience required to spawn slayer bosses. This nerf was added because of slayer chains. Slayer chains are where two players infinitely spawn slayer bosses by killing each others boss because the slayer boss gave enough combat experience to spawn another slayer boss. Admins saw this as exploiting the system. Many players including myself do not like this change, as rev factories were very effective at grinding slayer exp. I can see why admins would nerf it as it ruined the slayer market with the huge amount of people doing revs.
Thunderlord/Thunderbolt re-enabled after months (finally admins are very slow).

You can view the patch notes for November 23 here.

Winter Island Preparations Update (November 30)

Some zone messages were changed.
Snow Blaster rate of fire changed (slightly slower).
Gift loot tables changed, made to reward more coins, new items and bottle of Jyrre was removed.
The Hypixel Advent Calendar released on December 1st.
New sea creatures added to the sea creature guide.
New items in the ice collection.

You can view the patch notes for November 30 here.

Ice Collection Changes:

The glacial Ring is unlocked at ice collection 6, giving 10 mining wisdom only on the Jerry Workshop Island. This currently costs 2 million coins on the auction house.
Next we have the glacial artifact, the upgraded version of the glacial ring. It unlocks at ice collection 8 giving 15 mining wisdom on the Jerry Workshop Island. This costs 7 million coins on the auction house.
The final ice collection change was the addition of the glacial scythe is an upgraded version of the frozen scythe. Doesn’t replace any items just a buffed version of the Frozen Scythe. This currently costs 92 million coins on the auction house.

First Extreme Bingo Started (December 1)

Following the preperation update, the monthly bingo has started. December’s Extreme Bingo is harder than usual, because of this, it will take longer and more effort. As a result, the admins decided that the Extreme Bingo should last for 14 days. Why would you do the Extreme Bingo? Well, you get double the amount of Bingo Points!

Bingo board link
Bingo Guide 1
Bingo Guide 2

The admins added new items to help with bingo because it was harder. The new items are coop soul bound, which means that it can only be used on the bingo profile. To get the new items you have to complete bingo goals then talk to Bingo in the hub to claim them.

4 goals: Bingonimbus 2000, this will help doing the mining quests.

8 goals: Bingolibur, this will allow you to get rng drops quicker.

12 goals: Bingo Combat Talisman, helps you level up combat faster.

16 goals: Bingo Lava Rod, used in the Crimson Isle to help with your trophy fishing.

Winter Island Revamp (December 1)

New Sea Creatures can be caught in the lakes on Jerry’s Workshop
Ice Essence Shop(huge profits if you sold on release almost doubling the money you earned. Although it did drop later in the day to lower than it originally was).
New Glacial Cave mining location
A new shop owned by Einary is located close to spawn on the Winter Island.

Einary’s Shop

Einary’s shop uses north star currency, which you get from giving people gifts. The shop includes:

The first items in the shop are gift talismans, which increase coin and expereience gain up to 25%. The talisman has 5 tiers: white, green, blue, purple, and gold. Costs a total of 420 north stars.
Moving on from talismans, Einary sells a new Reindeer(fishing pet) pet. The most notable perks are: 20% more chance of Ice Essence and fishing speed while on Jerry’s Workshop.
Next we have snow equipments: cloak, belt, gloves, and necklace cost 10 north stars each. Each equipment alone give 5% more gifts and double stats (on the equipment) while on the Jerry Workshop. While together they give a full set bonus which gives the player infinite snowballs while using Frosty the Snow Cannon.
Ice Minion 12
Snow Minion 12

New Sea Creatures

The first new sea creature that was added was the Nutcracker, it drops an item called Walnut. Which is then used to upgrade snow armor into Nutcracker armor.

The other new sea creature that was added was the Reindrake, it drops a book called Prosperity, which can be applied to equipment giving health. Prosperity can be upgraded 5 tiers.

One bug to notice is that if you use a auger rod, it doesn’t break ice in the reflective pond nor the sunken jerry pond.

Ice Essence shop

First in the shop we have cold efficiency, which allows you to get more mage experience in dungeon runs, we can get mage 50 quicker now! This can be upgraded 5 times giving 10% more mage experience at max level.

Another dungeon related perk is cooled forges, which gives the chance to get double the essence when salvaging. This is bonus stuff, I’ll take it! This will very useful after your lava fishing and dungeon runs for some extra money. This perk has 5 levels giving 20% chance to get double essence at level 5.

Moving onto some Jerry Workshop perks, the frozen skin makes your survivability higher as it gives you more defense on Jerry Workshop, not really useful outside of the Jerry Workshop. This is the last perk has 5 levels and at the max level gives 10 more defense on Jerry’s Workshop.

Here’s another Jerry workshop perk, the gift of joy gives you more gifts during the gift attack, but only gives a small number of extra gifts; because of the amount of ice essence needed to upgrade it is really large, is not reallty worth it if you don’t do enough of gift attacks. You can get 10% more gifts if you upgrade it to its max, level 10.

Lastly we have experience 5, giving a higher chance to get double experience. This costs 25 million coins in the bazaar.

Glacial Cave

The admins replaced Operation Mayhem with the glacial cave. In this cave, it contains ice as well as treasure stored within the ice. To obtain the treasure all you have to do is mine the ice. Treasures include glacial fragments and gifts. The glacial ring, artifact, and scythe all use glacial fragments in their recipes.

Conclusion

That’s it for this week’s Hypixel Skyblock updates and happenings! This new content is interesting and fun. As a result of these changes, many players are both happy and sad. Make sure to be ready to grind because Derpy will be mayor on December 15. Be sure to tune into next weeks news!

This Week in Hypixel Skyblock – November 23 – December 7