Tried something very different with this video. Hope you enjoyed.

The main issue with the update is that there's not enough communication between the devs and the player, we don't know how close we are to the release or what can we expect from the update

The foraging update has been postponed due to certant circumstances based around reserving forests lord knows we can't lose all the oxygen in skyblock

I only saw the "foraging" Part of the title and thought it finally released... 😭

Dungeons m7 release hype does not even compare to how much hype foraging v2 has

The foraging update better be the best update ever. It will probably bring back thousands of people who have quit, and have a lot of people play the game again.

I just wanna point out that people have no idea how many bugs this game truly has and how much of a pain it is to fix what needs to be fixed. I dont work in game development but I do work in QA for very large titles and the amount of issues that we report is genuinely insane. I cant speak for the rest of what was said but people really should cut the devs more slack when it comes to fixing bugs because I promise u that the ones I have worked on had FAR more people working on it both dev wise and QA wise and the game still had many many issues.

Some insight here, boot server version will be 1.19 and playable in 1.20, just like the whole network is booted 1.7 and playable in 1.8+ The Foraging region will introduce a bunch of new features not associated with Foraging and potentially a Fishing revamp/update in quick succession depending on what the remaining team will do... Main struggles are crashes and compatibility issues since in 1.12 the game changed a lot of plugin data and in 1.16 again and in 1.19 again... Originally Foraging was intended to push the entirety of skyblock to 1.16 but as you can probably tell preparations took so long we decided to boot 1.19 instead due to the massive stabilisations and fixes... Other issues were API queues, location ports, the data transfers, backend without end and Plugin updates and creations... Than there is storage, latency, compatibility, server load and next to all that too few people working on all of it... Excavation was originally planned to release as well after 1.0 but recently the updates just took so long and a project of over 400h of work has been scrapped so yea its been a struggle... It would really help if they hired more freelancers or pushed the server to be pay to play, because everything is just too expensive... Well I quit the dev team a few weeks ago because of a lot of things and Im glad I did

Even if Hypixel released very technical, even hyper-specific/pedantic, info on a regular basis, it'd be better than what they're doing now. It just feels like they aren't working on anything.

I’m sorry you had to forage for the background of this video… You have contributed greatly to this community.

I definitely agree that they should be more transparent about what they are doing behind the scenes and the reasons why updates are getting delayed, but I don't think that you have the skills to determine how easy the update to newer versions should take.

yeah wasn’t this announced like 2 years ago lol?

Thanks, I really enjoy this longer form vid. Keep it up rail!

I hate the fact that they gaslit us into thinking the magic damage on svens was a bug

I can't say much, but I do know that Hypixel's staff team has increased over the months/past year. I am 'sort of' in contact with the Wynncraft Staff information and know that some have left for Hypixel. Now, it would be nice if they actually used their employees. I don't know if they're not getting payed, like.. standards. Salary == Amount/Quality of Work Also, I want to compare Wynncraft & Hypixel here. Salted (Main Creator of Wynncraft) spends everything he gets from the game, back into the game. He's very social with the staff members as well, which makes a connection with the team. Now, I do know that Hypixel has a lot of staff members for different gamemodes, but Skyblock generates so much revenue and the good green dollar bills, that Hypixel should be able to a) properly pay the team if that's the issue b) hire more employees, in both development, spokesperson, testers, etc. I don't know, I am quite knowladgeble in both games, and I am 2y sober from Skyblock. I just wish that they took this gamemode seriously, yeah, some might do, but it doesn't really show like it. Well, at least compared to Wynn. Anyway, done with my rant. Wanted to get that out, have been thinking about this for a while.

oh yeah I’d love to point out as well that transfer packets or eu servers aren’t gonna be an end all fix even if they come to the server as long as isps route based on cheapest connection rather than latency ping is gonna be a forever problem

I will start playing again once it drops

I quit playing skyblock half a year ago but I still enjoy watching your content :)

The Admins mentioned a while ago that they are focusing on the first island of the update, which sounds like the update will only include 1 island, and the other islands are delayed to another update, similar to the Rift. They probably haven't given us progress on the update because that would make people very disappointed

i feel like a good foraging update tip could be that they add a boss where you have to fight it with a good axe and the amount of ''blocks'' you broke you get like x100 xp (kinda)

I think people are severly underestimating the amount of work updating from 1.8 to 1.21 is going to be. Not only are they years apart in release dates, but the source code of the game and the APIs surrounding it has changed a MASSIVE amount during this time. One example of massive changes are packets, which play a MAJOR part in the entirety of not only Skyblock, but also Hypixel itself, and most likely every other Minecraft server today. On another note, one reason it could be taking so long is because comparing performance between 1.8 and 1.21, it's a massive difference. They would have to basically hyperoptimize their code if they want to acceive even a fraction of the playability they have today (which is already not very good in some instances). And there's always the possibility of bringing new game breaking bugs or reintroducing old ones with this change. Another major part is that they have to convert a lot of the frontend and backend code (as I mentioned) and Skyblock itself, contains millions, if not even tens of millions of lines of code. Basically what I'm getting at is that what they have in the blog post with all the screenshots and what not, the fact that they already have a somewhat playable version is no short of a miracle, they've done an amazing job working on other parts of the game whilst continuing to work on the foraging update at the same time. Thanks for reading! :)

as someone who was around when geometry dash 2.1 was released i'm use to this

Couldn't agree more, look at games like Tower Unite, Phasmophobia, Jackbox Games and Stardew Valley etc... All of these games at some point in time have had solid and planned out road map dividing the year into quarters and using public tools such as trello to openly show the community what is expected to release in certain timeframes and, they could just remove something from the trello if its not working or if they are too unsure. I mean they don't even release game update patch notes until an hour after most updates roll showing that pretty much every update (Unless seen on Alpha, which usually gets the update to release very soon after anyway) is a surprise to the players. Hopefully from this video they get a community manager from all the money they're making excess from firesales to talk and engage with the community.

One of the main reasons i quit sb was because of lack of updates and repeated tasks for skills , i just logged in today to see what's up and it felt the same , the admins first of all do take a lot of time for updates then secondly all the updates we received have come with various bugs and if not bugs the server reliability issues. the admins really need to improve as there is already a lot of competitions spiraling in term of other successful servers , the have to make the swap from 1.8.9 because yeah the game mode it self is dying. I am not saying we need more big updates very fast but the admins do have to cope to the player base of the game if not i don't see the game or even the server surviving for much longer. The have had more than enough time for this and the people who seek out that there might be some staff issues , if hypixel does not focus on the game that runs their server wtf are they even doing?

Foraging update will 100% outlast Hollow Knight: Silksong in the battle to never come out.

Also the last "major update" going by their version numbers (0.19) was Rift which was over 8 months ago. And its not even finished... Idk what are they doing

Derailious is the skyblock playerbase’s diplomat, trying to fight for us while staying semi neutral

I don't mind that the update is taking so long. But there are so many aspects of the game of need of an update (Fishing 60, alchemy60/perhaps a revamp, all other t5 slayer bosses, etc) that they maybe could work on that, instead of QOL stuff noone asked for.

Is it worth grinding foraging rn or should I just wait at this point for the update?

We 100% need more communication from admins .

I've had almost 200M invested in various foraging items for 2 YEARS

I think the comparison to build battle is unfair, as the foraging update will mean interactions between people with blocks/items from different versions; Which means both extra backend headache and decisions on how things get displayed to players on 1.8.9.

I edge to your videos

My dad coming back before they do this update

is it only me that get's sent to LIMBO after 1 to 2 hours of playing B2B And constant TPS DROPS after the last maintenance?

Quite good vid that raise some important points

When my Guild and I read that Early 2024 foraging is going on alpha, we al instantly said:So late April if we lucky. And i think thats sad

The foraging update is like silksong

Communication with the player base is the biggest problem with the devs in skyblock, when they release foraging either on the main server or on alpha, there will likely be features that the player base might not like and the admins will change or remove, which could have been avoided if they introduced some of the ideas before and asked for feedback on said changes.

I'm foraging 30 with skill avg 50.2 I only want to grind it when it's good

Lmao I quit after two years of playing and it's still not out?

They host smps on newer versions aswell

They might not be sharing much because they saw what happened with Mojang and Minecraft live.

at least we get more information about the foraging update than hytale.

I get really excited when rail is at least a little critical of the devs because I know minikloon is subbed to rail, one of his few subscriptions. I always hope it is a wake up call to get their shut together and keep the game from declining.

They should hire you as the person who shows off the new updates. So they can actually keep the player base alive 😅

Am i gonna be able to play with 1.8?

I just want a healer rework and the other dungeon doors be opened..

everyone is asking where is the foraging upadate and not asking how is the foraging update foraging lives matter...!

My conspiracy theory is that the admins have had multiple ideas for the foraging update that they themselves killed because they feared community backlash. Maybe it’s time to informally get a bunch of Hypixel Skyblock YTers together and create a thread/poll/whatever to get players to vote for what they want. I feel if the players directly tell admins what they’re hoping for, it’ll give them guidance and help the foraging update actually drop.

Its kinda obvious that they have no idea what they want to do. Thes said yes foraging update because everyone wanted it but they xant think of anything for this update

pack?

We got gta6 before foraging update

Me when foraging island becomes hytale

I heard you say something about Hypicek making 2 million off 1 firesale? What's the math on that? How much was the skin/skins and how many were there being sold

I feel like Skyblock would be way much better going fully 1.21

With the 100k plus a week they are currently making feom firesales (they have tome to develop those) youd have hoped they could aee fit to split the team or even add to it so that whilst some people work on the bug fixes others work soley on new content. As for a community manager, its such a no brainer except it requires the company to be honest with the manager so that they dint make pronises the developers aren't going to be able to keep... Otherwise feustration actually gets worse not least for the poor community manager who invariably gets blamed by the community for stuff beyond their control...😊

I quit skyblock after 2 years cba to wait or hope for good upodates.

Many more delays to come it seems with the current state of skyblock development. Atleast we are getting amazing fire sales though…

My skill average is 37 with level 11 foraging WHERE IS IT 😂

I still think that they'll release it in the 1.21 update. Yes they said 1.19, but that was before knowing the transfer packets were gonna be released in 1.21 . They'll surely wait for the 1.21 and then start migrating all the items and stuff to 1.21 . Why would they migrate to 1.19 just to update to 1.21 later? That seems like a really big hustle, waste of time and potential bugs, crashes, dupes and wipes. So I still think they'll wait for the 1.21 . Not saying that it is going to release when 1.21, just that they'll start with the coding stuff once it releases.

I would rather admins not say an update is coming out if they are not sure, creates large disappointment in the community (esepcially if it comes out months or years after announced)

Foraging update is real 🙏

Are you... Foraging with a wolf pet?

Updates take time… it’s as simple as that

its barely 2 months in to the year, calm bro

Cheese

give us the foraging islands back and call it the foraging update please we just need something changed 😭

Wer getting GTA 6 before the foraging update 💀

yap session

Hypixel do have community managers, they just don't talk that much. And if they give stop to give content information it's just about avoiding to overpromise.

I stopped playing the game because I was pissed at the unfinished updates like the rift

If this update doesn't live up to the hype, this game dies.

Honestly theres no point in having an update now, all your endgame players wont wanna wait forever and now they are all probably foraging 50

I think communication is the problem. The game is a broken and unbalanced mess, I think qol and balancing is more important rn, but still having no words is weird

hello

I hope the Hypixel devs don't wait for 1.21 because that update is going to be just as big of a disappointment as my existence

wait 3-5 business days

eu servers fr?

I eated the foraging update! it was yummy! :3

Not enough communication between admins and players or at least youtubers , risking youtubers because there is nothing to talk about there is no content to make videos about youtube channels gonna die, Yes maybe they don't want any leaks at all so when the update drop nobody gonna know what to do like playing smth new but they didn't think well if we don't see an update or an info by the next month people will be made, i and many friends quit skyblock after crimson update because nothing new

Beaned

how to make maximum hype, make a dog water skill and then say you can somehow make it better or somehow useful. i really doubt that the foraging update will be anygood and its very clear that the admins are just incompetent as you can tell by how long and how buggy every singe update is

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I guess im 1

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Recap - the update got covid and died

it aint coming anytime soon fam (please dont release it b4 a levels or im gonna cry)

Hypixel skyblock will officially be out of beta after 7 days to die lol. Really poor communication with the community in the past couple years. The dev cycle for them is abysmal, at best. considering the amount of money they have to work with (Stardew valley, with a way smaller team has had more consistent and imo, game-changing updates. even when the creator was doing it alone). I love the concept of hypixel skyblock, but lack of updates. as well as poor decisions starting to snowball, is really making me want to quit. On top of the really weird/broken progression, as well as most items in collections/slayers being utterly useless/obsolete. Didn't mean to go on a rant in the comments, just hard seeing something with so much potential go down this route. Where the devs/staff only seem to care about player retention and generating revenue. And not quality of product, nor really any meaningful player expression/freedom. I've started comparing hypixel devs to triple A/mobile devs in that way, really. which is sad.

Please don’t use bad language! It’s sin! Jesus is GOD! Please repent!

Only anti-QoL updates from now on baby woooooo 20 new pet skins a month, and refusal to fix any of the nerfs to farms wooooooo Everyone called this player bleed out before it happened and staff are too busy designing pets, best minecraft mmorpg weeeeeee! Nobody even wanted the update to the newest version of minecraft, but who cares about the core player base anyways? hahaha lets wipe our ass with the money from these pet skins.