Changelog/2023/October 24

Hello!
Welcome to SkyBlock Patch 0.19.6. This update contains permanent Spooky content in the form of The Great Spook, several additions and changes to Essence Shops, and much more!
== ► Great Spook 2023 ==
This year, the arcane master known as the Tyashoi Alchemist re-emerges from the veil of mystery to aid players in banishing The Great Spook!
Will you succeed or completely fail? Time will tell!
Like the previous year, you have access to the 2021 and 2022 hunts and their items.
However the 6 new hunts will be revealed day by day, starting from today.
Click on the items in his shop to reveal the clues to find them, good luck!
In a shocking twist, The Great Spook will unleash its terror on the 6th day, once all new hunts are completed. Turns out, the Tyashoi Alchemist is actually terrible at his job; he may have actually accelerated the arrival of The Great Spook!
New Mechanics: Primal Fears and Dark Candies
During the Great Spook Event, players will occasionally encounter Primal Fears while defeating mobs. These entities are simple to defeat but beware—they can manifest as YOUR primal fear. From Math Teachers to Commitment Phobia, each Primal Fear has a unique trick for defeating it.
Milestones and Rewards
Defeating Primal Fears will drop Dark Candies, and you'll also find the Tombstone of Vargul the Unearthed at the back of Hub Island. Donating enough Dark Candies to Vargul will unlock various new items.
Extra Spooky Events Scheduled
Like the previous years, we added 6 extra Spooky Events in the SkyBlock Calendar, between the 28th and the 31st of October.
Look inside the SkyBlock Calendar in your SkyBlock Menu if you don’t want to miss them!
Good luck, and don't get spooked!
== ► Essence Shops ==
As part of this update, the final two essence shops will be making their long-awaited appearance. In addition, several changes have been made that will make other essences easier to get and also add a few new perks to existing shops. Read on to learn more!
=== Gold Essence Shop ===
A direct descendant of King Midas himself, Marigold has finally arrived at the Royal Mines. Players who help her catch a pesky thief will be rewarded with access to the Gold Essence shop. Here, players may trade gold essence for a variety of perks that will help them in a number of ways, such as by granting bonus mining speed or increasing the chances of worms and scatha spawning when mining.
=== Diamond Essence Shop ===
Additionally, Gemma has set up shop in the Crystal Nucleus! Players who prove their worth by completing a Crystal Nucleus run will be rewarded with access to the Diamond Essence Shop. Here, players may trade in diamond essence to gain useful perks, such as bonus breaking power on diamond pickaxes, increased chances of fishing up diamond trophy fish, and a higher chance of spawning diamond goblins. Players may also purchase an item that can be applied in an anvil to upgrade any piece of Tier XII Perfect Armor to Tier XIII.
=== Diamond Goblins ===
Diamond Goblins are an exceedingly rare type of Goblin that have a chance to spawn in place of Golden Goblins. When killed, they will always drop diamond essence, mithril powder, and gemstone powder. Some lucky players may find themselves dropping an item that can be used to upgrade a particular pet to mythic.
=== Other Changes to Essence Shops ===
We have also made several changes related to essence shops that give players new ways to gain essence and new perks to spend essence on.
* New Perk: Unbridled Rage added to Dragon Essence shop. Increases Berserk class XP gain.
* New Perk: Toxophilite added to Spider Essence shop. Increases Archer class XP gain.
** When taking into account the perks of the two new essence shops, every dungeons class now has access to a perk that allows them to gain class XP faster.
* Gold & Diamond Essence can now drop from Treasure Chests in the Crystal Hollows.
* Golden Goblins may now spawn in the Crystal Hollows.
* Goblin Eggs of all kinds can now be thrown and have varying chances of spawning a Golden Goblin:
** 2% chance from Goblin Egg
** 2.5% chance from Green Goblin Egg
** 3.33% chance from Yellow Goblin Egg
** 5% chance from Red Goblin Egg
** 10% chance from Blue Goblin Egg
* Golden Goblins now have a 0.1% chance of spawning when mining Gemstones, Mithril, or Titanium in the Crystal Hollows.
* Golden Goblins now have a 0.01% chance of spawning when mining Hard Stone.
* Golden Goblins no longer can spawn from cobblestone and vanilla ores.
* Gold & Diamond Dungeon Heads are no longer salvageable.
* A salvage function has now been added to the Spider Tamer NPC.
* Dungeon secret loot now includes Ice Essence, Spider Essence, Diamond Essence, and Gold Essence.
* A guide menu has been added to the Crystal Nucleus that tells players where to find each Gemstone Crystal.
== ► Other Changes ==
=== New Equipment Reforges ===
We are introducing basic reforges for equipment!. Simply bring your equipment pieces to a Blacksmith or anvil near you and pay some coins to roll a random basic reforge for your equipment.
New Equipment Reforge Stats (in order of rarity)
=== General Changes ===
* Increased Sack capacities for Small and Medium tier sacks.
** Small Sacks 640 → 2,240
** Medium Sacks 2,240 → 6,720
* Whale Bait is now a lot more effective in fishing up rare Lava Sea Creatures, now only boosting the chances of fishing up Lava Flame, Fire Eel, Taurus, Thunder, and Lord Jawbus.
** Lava Sea Creature weights have all been quadrupled to reach this effect.
* Using at least 7x Recombobulated Summoning Eyes will now guarantee a Superior Dragon.
* Your Crimson Essence is now shown in the scoreboard in the Forgotten Skull zone.
* Flower Minions are now categorized as Foraging minions as they grant Foraging experience.
* Maddox will now open his menu directly when called with the abiphone/batphone instead of having to click in chat.
* Slayer bosses now show their tier in their nametag.
* Changed Ender Monocle Combat Requirement from 20 to 15.
* Added “Sort by Pet Exp” as a sorting parameter within the pets menu.
* Added /warp winter, /warp jerry and /warp workshop commands to warp to Jerry’s Workshop (alias of /savethejerrys).
* Clicking on a minion in your inventory while looking at the Crafted Generators menu will now open its recipes page.
* Gulliver's Red Gift can now be earned once per profile rather than once per account.
* Added COMMON Kuudra pet to Rusty after unlocking Kuudra Boss Collection I (removed the confusing way to re-obtain from doing Kuudra).
=== Item Changes and Fixes ===
* Upgraded the Fire Veil Wand's particle effect, while making it support /pq and having 5x less particles.
* Fixed Jinxed and regular Voodoo Dolls not sharing their ability cooldown.
* Piggy Bank now no longer breaks if you have at least two pieces of armor enchanted with Bank V.
* InfinityBoom TNT’s rarity has been changed from RARE to EPIC, making it easier to distinguish from regular superboom.
* Updated Lava Talisman lore to reflect the fact that it doesn't work on heat damage caused by standing in Lava in the Magma Fields of the Crystal Hollows.
* Updated the "Present Stack" furniture item texture.
* Added Concentrated Stone to the Enchanted Mining Sack.
* Added a sell price of 1,000 coins to the Prehistoric Egg.
* Added a 1s internal cooldown to using the Wishing Compass to avoid double-clicking.
* Added a 5s cooldown to the Rogue Sword.
* Duplicate Rift Timecharms may now be sold for 99 motes IF they've been secured in the Gallery.
** This allows players to get rid of extra Rift Timecharms they might have accidentally crafted.
* Fixed Fel Sword and Raider Axe kills incrementing on bow kills.
* Purchase confirmation check of 1,000,000 coins will now use the base amount instead of the value modified by the Seal of the Family talisman line.
=== Lore, Description and Visual Improvements ===
* Improved the message when fishing Essence on Jerry's Workshop.
* Improved the Luck of the Cave HOTM perk description to list the "rare occurrences" it impacts.
* Moved McGrubber's Burger tasks in the leveling guide.
* Moved Garden armor sets to a nicer spot in the Museum.
* Changed the date formatting shown on captured Cake Souls.
* Fixed inaccurate Crimson Essence description claiming that Crimson Essence can dungeonize armor.
* Fixed the Rift Necklace item name color when reforged.
* Added stained glass to Jerry's updates and deliveries menus.
* Added an indication that Dwarven Mines can be accessed at Mining level 12 in the level up message.
== ► Bug Fixes ==
==== Combat Fixes ====
* Fixed Zealot Bruiser Hideout being unlocked from a random location in the End Island Caves.
* Fixed hits from extended Swing Range sometimes not applying damage correctly.
** This caused unintended behavior, e.g. against Typhoeus and Quazii where hits “don’t deal damage”.
==== Mining Fixes ====
* Fixed being able to reset your Sky Mall perk when resetting your Heart of the Mountain.
* Fixed being able to give Rhys the same item multiple times by switching instances during the dwarven mines quest.
* Fixed a Mithril Block in the Dwarven Mines which couldn’t be mined.
Dungeon Fixes
* Fixed Ragnarok's damage boost (Berserker class ability) working on all damage instead of melee only.
* Fixed a way to drop multiple Spirit Bows at the same time during Thorn's boss fight.
** It's a common strategy to abuse this bug to get Spirit Bows faster. While it is not intended for players to get bows in such quick succession, we have taken this opportunity to tweak the boss fight to make it playable without the bug. M4 now has the same spawning mechanics of 1 bear per spawn as F4, requiring slightly more mob kills to spawn each bear. This change is open to further adjustments to spawn the bears faster overall.
==== Misc. Fixes ====
* Fixed being able to gain additional pet score from having more than 1 Wisp Pet.
* Fixed being able to upgrade Arthur's wheat minion in the hub.
* Fixed the Hub Portal Trade not showing up in the Trades Menu until switching servers.
* Fixed dying in the Void Sepulture giving the Remnant of the Eye message when you don't have the item in your inventory.
* Fixed some locations being marked as "None" on the scoreboard.
* Fixed Shadow Assassin and Adaptive Armor bonus requiring the equipment to be worn.
* Fixed Magical Power not being calculated correctly in specific cases.
* Fixed being able to do damage to Stranded villagers using Flaming Fist while visiting an island.
* Fixed players being unable to use their private islands due to their spawn points being out of bounds.
* Fixed the unobtainable item "Aspect of the Draconic" showing up in the Essence and Gemstone guides.
* Fixed donating the Bone Reaver not crediting the Spirit Sword in the museum.
* Fixed accessing the Hex through the Booster Cookie menu on Stranded.
* Fixed the armor set count display when mixing upgraded and non-upgraded pieces of a an armor set.
* Fixed Jotraeline Greatforge not being aware of the Abiphone Flip being the latest released Abiphone in her contact quest.
* Fixed an inconsistency with viewing details in the slayer menu.
* Fixed clicking Montezuma in The Rift's SkyBlock Menu.
* Fixed the stats breakdown menu sometimes completely rewriting the lore of your items/accessories.
* Fixed Creepers exploding breaking blocks on private islands.
* Fixed Melon Minions not giving the correct amount of collection from melon blocks.