Earning money on Skyblock comes from many routes; this guide ranks them and gives the numbers behind them. Everything is a base price before the multipliers in Sell Multipliers; boosts make every route better.
1. Sell what your island makes#
Almost every route ends at the shop (Selling Items). The prices that matter most:
| Item | Sell price |
|---|---|
| Wither Skeleton Skull | $7,500 |
| Shulker Shell | $1,000 |
| Chorus Fruit | $433 |
| Tropical Fish | $250 |
| Ender Pearl | $240 |
| Pufferfish | $185 |
| Salmon | $130 (cooked $143) |
| Blaze Rod | $90 |
| Ancient Debris | $77.70 |
| Nether Quartz | $31.10 |
| Pumpkin | $25.60 |
| Wheat | $18.60 |
| Nether Wart | $15.20 |
| Sugar Cane | $14.10 |
| Diamond | $10.80 |
2. Generators and mining#
A generator block is worth the average of its tier (Generator Tiers): Overworld tier 1 about $0.82, tier 5 about $2.87 and tier 9 about $5.57 per block; Nether tier 3 about $5.57, tier 5 about $13.63 and tier 7 about $21.73. A Mining robot mining one block every 2 seconds earns about $10,000 per hour at Overworld tier 9 or Nether tier 3, and about $39,000 per hour at Nether tier 7. Upgrading your generator ($8,000 for tier 2 up to $650,000 for tier 9) is the cheapest raise in the game.
3. Farming#
Crops sell at fixed prices (Crop Mastery raises them by up to 30% with levels). Nether wart and chorus need the Nether and End. A Farming robot or Farming Collector harvests for you; sell the output with a Void Chest.
4. Fishing#
The Fishing robot catches one fish every 20 seconds at base speed: 60% cod, 25% salmon, 13% pufferfish and 2% tropical fish. The expected value is $94.55 per fish, which is about $17,019 per hour at base speed before boosts. Fishing by hand pays the same per fish and counts for quests and races.
5. Mobs and spawners#
Managed spawners produce 240 mobs per unit per hour at level I, whatever the mob. Value per mob depends on drops. Using normal vanilla drop rates without Looting, typical values per mob reaped by hand are:
| Mob | Main valuable drop | Value per kill |
|---|---|---|
| Shulker | Shulker Shell (50% chance, $1,000) | about $500 |
| Wither Skeleton | Skull (2.5%, $7,500) plus bones and coal | about $198 |
| Enderman | Ender Pearl (0 to 1, $240) | about $120 |
| Blaze | Blaze Rod (0 to 1, $90) | about $45 |
| Villager | 3 to 5 Diamonds (spawner reaps only, $10.80 each) | about $43 |
At level I one unit therefore makes about $120,000 per hour for Shulkers, $48,000 for Wither Skeletons, $29,000 for Endermen and $11,000 for Blazes before boosts, for hand reaps. Collectors and robots reap without a player killer, so drops that vanilla only gives for player kills (blaze rods, wither skeleton skulls) do not drop for them, and they keep only 60% to 85% of the rest. Spawners cost $200,000 to $20,000,000 per unit and each extra unit costs 5% more than the last (Placing and Stacking Spawners).
6. Bonuses that pay without selling#
| Source | Reward |
|---|---|
| Quests | $100,999 per quest line ($132,163 for the 5 fishing lines; 70 lines, about $7.2 million in total), plus runes and Vote Keys |
| Challenge Races | $100,000 to $1,500,000 and up to 500 gems per race, first to finish |
| Envoys (hourly at spawn) | Money pouches from $5,000 up to $250,000, runes, keys (PvP Arena) |
| Ore mines | Ancient items and pouches up to $50,000 |
| Hell Dungeon | $5,000 to $20,000 pouches, plus mob loot and sell-boost shards for the top damagers |
| Orders | Fill orders above the shop's sell price |
| Crates | Money, pouches and boosters from Vote Keys |
| Island marketplace | Sell a whole island |
A path by stage#
- First hour: sell cobblestone and coal, upgrade the generator to tier 3 ($20,000 and Coal Ore level 4), plant wheat and pumpkins, finish the tier 1 quests (each pays $500).
- First day: unlock a robot type ($15,000), buy your first robot ($60,000), level your masteries, post or fill Orders.
- First week: buy sheep, pig and cow spawners, raise the island sell boost, upgrade robots, reach the Nether ($50,000,000).
- Late game: Nether generators, Shulker and Wither Skeleton spawners, the $25M to $60M machines, a Void Chest for passive income.