Skyblock Progression Guide

The Skyblock Progression Guide walks through Skyblock in four stages. Each stage lists what to do, the money you will need and where to read the details. If you are brand new, start with Getting Started on Skyblock, then come back here.

Stage 1: the first hour#

Goal: a working generator, a small farm and your first sales.

1. Create your island with /island create (Creating an Island).
2. Build a cobblestone generator (water and lava) and mine it. At tier 1 it gives cobblestone and coal ore (Island Generators). Water costs $250 and lava $500 in /shop (Buying From the Shop).
3. Plant wheat, carrots and potatoes and harvest them when fully grown (Crop Mastery).
4. Sell with /sell hand or in /shop (Selling Items). Wheat sells for $18.60, a pumpkin for $25.60.
5. Open /quests. Every tier 1 quest pays $500 and progress is automatic (Quests).
6. Open /masteries to see how mining, farming, killing, chopping and fishing level up (Island Mastery).

Spend first: generator tier 2 costs $8,000 and needs Cobblestone Ore Mastery at level 2; tier 3 costs $20,000 and needs Coal Ore level 4 (Generator Tiers).

Stage 2: the first day#

Goal: Mastery level 5 in a track, your first robot, and a steady income.

1. Level your masteries. Level 5 in any element of a track unlocks its robot (Robots); level 8 in Sheep Mastery unlocks Pig spawners (Mob Mastery).
2. Buy your first robot. Unlock the type ($15,000) and buy a robot ($60,000) from /robots. A Standard robot needs no battery. A Mining robot beside your generator is the easiest start (Mining Robot); a Fishing robot pays about $17,000 per hour at base speed (Fishing Robot).
3. Raise the generator to tier 4 to 6 ($45,000 to $175,000) as your Ore Mastery allows.
4. Use the free boosts: island upgrades start the Sell Boost at 2.5% for $250,000 (Island Upgrades, Sell Multipliers).
5. Hand-farm quests and races while automation earns money: farming, mining and woodcutting quests give a rune at tier 5, and every quest line gives a Vote Key at tier 8 (Quests, Challenge Races).
6. Post and fill orders. Fill orders above the shop price and post your own for bulk materials.
7. Spend Vote Keys at /warp crates (Skyblock Crates) and vote daily with /vote.

Stage 3: the first week#

Goal: spawners, the Nether and strong automation.

1. Buy spawners in the shop (Obtaining Spawners): Sheep $200,000, Pig $270,000, Chicken $550,000, Cow $600,000, Zombie $1,050,000, Skeleton $1,500,000. Each extra unit costs 5% more (Placing and Stacking Spawners). Reap them by hand or let a Mob robot or collector do it.
2. Upgrade spawners with Level, Tank and Automation yield (Spawner Upgrades).
3. Use an Island Booster Beacon if you have one (Island Booster Beacon).
4. Unlock the Nether for $50,000,000 plus any one mastery path: Wheat level 15, Zombie level 10 or Cobblestone level 10 (Island Dimensions (Nether and End)). It gives a x1.05 sell boost, nether wart, and a Nether generator (Generator Tiers): at tier 3 a Nether block is already worth as much as Overworld tier 9 ($5.57).
5. Climb the mastery ladders: Zombie, Skeleton, Spider and Creeper unlock Iron Golem, Villager and Vindicator spawners; the Blaze chain unlocks Nether mobs (Mob Mastery).
6. Visit the Mine and the Hell Dungeon for Ancient items and pouches (The Mine and Dungeons).

Stage 4: the late game#

Goal: the End, high-value spawners and fully automatic income.

1. Save for the End: $1,000,000,000, the Nether first, and one path (Nether Wart level 15, Blaze level 10 or Ancient Debris level 8). It gives a x1.10 sell boost, chorus fruit ($433 each), and Enderman and Shulker spawners.
2. Buy the machines ($25M to $60M): Void Chest, Farming Collector, Crop Hopper, Legendary Collector and the Chunk Loader, with batteries (Batteries).
3. Go for Legendary and Mythic robots (rolled when you buy; they need batteries) and finish the robot upgrades (robot upgrades).
4. Stack spawners: Shulker spawners are worth about $500 per hand-reaped mob; Wither Skeleton skulls sell for $7,500 (Earning Money).
5. Maximize multipliers: island Sell Boost up to +50%, mastery up to +30% per item, dimension boosts x1.155, beacon sell boost for Void Chests (Sell Multipliers).
6. Compete: KOTH, envoys and the arena (PvP Arena), team challenge races (Challenge Races), island top (Island Top).

Quick milestone table#

See also#

• Earning Money
• Skyblock Commands
• Automation