Skyblock Pandora Revamp

Hey astronauts! I am excited to announce that we are releasing the brand new revamp of Skyblock Pandora on June 11th at 3 PM EDT / 12 PM PST / 8 PM BST! We've gathered a lot of community feedback and put a lot of time into making sure we execute the changes everyone wants to see for Pandora this release. Thank you all who contributed!

Skyblock Pandora releases on June 11th at 3 PM EDT / 12 PM PST / 8 PM GMT!

For any other time zone, type "3 PM EDT" into Google, and the appropriate time will be displayed based on your location. Let's jump into the reset details!

Server Details

The following information is the basic server details for our upcoming reset. To see new features, keep scrolling until you see the "Features and Changes" section.

Island Top (/istop)

We'll be offering vouchers for those players that have the most Island Value. To get island value checkout our economy quick start guide below. These payouts will be distributed every week from the start onward until the map comes to a close.

$100 Buycraft
$75 Buycraft
$50 Buycraft
$35 Buycraft
$20 Buycraft

Fishing Top (/fishingtop)

Fishing top is a voucher leaderboard for this season of Skyblock Pandora. At the end of the week, the top three people on Fishing top will receive the following voucher reward. To get higher on the fishing top you must catch fish at the fishing lake.

$30 Buycraft
$20 Buycraft
$15 Buycraft

Mob Top (/mobtop)

Mob top is a voucher leaderboard for this season of Skyblock Pandora. To get a position on Mob Top you need to kill the Blaze mob on Skyblock Pandora. The top three people on Mob Top will receive the following voucher reward.

$30 Buycraft
$20 Buycraft
$15 Buycraft

Pass Top (/passtop)

Pass Top is a leaderboard for players with the Premium Galaxy pass! Every week you will be given a voucher if you are ranked in the top three players for Pass level!

$10 Buycraft
$7.5 Buycraft
$5 Buycraft

What is being reset?

Below is a list of gameplay elements that will be cleared with the upcoming reset:

Your Skyblock Data
Your Balance
Personal Data
Enderchests
Private Vaults
Inventories
Islands
Chests
Any non-permanent perks

What is not being reset?

Unlocked Kits
Donator Ranks
Any permanent perks
If you purchased something within the two weeks please reach out via a support ticket on Discord and we will give it to you next season!

Features and Changes

The communities feedback has been invaluable and has had a huge impact during this development cycle of Skyblock Pandora. This release will spark a new beginning for Skyblock Pandora.

New Pandora Spawn

To celebrate the the revamp of Skyblock Pandora, we have a brand new spawn! Get ready to experience one of the best builds we've featured on Vortex in some time!

Economy Revamp

This season the main economy will be changed from grinding methods like fishing and blazes to something far more superior! We have all heard your plea's and have come with a more automatic grinding method/economy for everyone to enjoy!

However, grinding will be almost completely different along with the removal of Soul currency, Chest Revamps, more use of XP, and more ways to make Money and earn XP!

This season's economy will be based mostly on XP and Money with a little bit of automation upon your requests.

Spawner Revamp

All spawners will be removed from Pandora apart from the following: Skeletons, Zombie Pigmen, Witches, Villagers, Blazes, Guardians, and Iron Golems.

The following spawners will have a new base price of:

Villager spawner buy price will be 5 million
Witch spawner buy price will be 2.5 million
Zombie pigman (zombified piglin) spawner buy price will be 1.25million
Iron golem spawner buy price will be 2.5 million
Guardian spawner buy price will be 1.25 million
Skeleton spawner buy price will be 625k

Zombie Pigmen will no longer drop Netherite Ingots, but they will now go back to dropping Gold Ingots, Skeletons will go back to dropping bones.

Mob Drop prices will be revamped to the following:

Iron ingot sell price is $16
Prismarine shard sell price is $8
Bone sell price is $4
Blaze Rod sell price is $34

Collectors and Crop Hoppers

Crop hoppers are being brought back for this season of Skyblock Pandora along with the addition of collectors being re-added.

Collectors and Crop Hoppers will be a source for gathering Sugarcane from Cane farms. With the mention of Sugarcane, Cane sell price will be reduced to 0.6 per.

Island Team Size

A recent poll was held on the community Discord and the results have determined that the maximum amount of members allowed per island will now be 8.

Currency Changes

XP and Money will now be the main currency and can be obtained by the Mobs below:

Money: Iron Golems, Guardians and Skeletons.
XP: Blazes

Fishing is going to remain the same.

Wizard NPC and Experience Obtainment

The Wizard NPC will now be brought back into Pandora with a few changes.

Wizard XP spending price will be lowered to 450k
New enchants containing the following:
- Unbreaking 4-5
- Aqua affinity 2
- Blast protection 5
- Depth Strider 4
- Fire Protection 5
- Projectile Protection 5
- Protection 5-6
- Respiration 4
- Fire Aspect 3
- Sharpness 6 - 7
- Flame 2
- Power 6 - 7
- Efficiency 8 - 12

With the addition of Wizard being brought back, you will now be able to do /withdrawexp again!

With Blaze spawners being kept into Pandora, they will now be added as another source of gaining XP and will be better than fishing!

Tool Upgrades

The tool upgrades will be undergo small changes with the change of tokens to XP. The changes and new upgrades will be below.

XP-Energiser
- Hoarder renamed to XP-Energiser
- Has infinite levels
- Gives an increased amount of XP when fishing and killing Blazes.
Loose Change
- Has Infinite levels
- For Rods and Swords only
- Will boost the sell price of Blaze Rods and Fish by 1% per level.
Key generator
- Has 100 Levels
- For all Tools
- Has the change to be given a random key with Vote and Crater keys more common.
Auto sell
- For Rods and now Swords!
- Will have the ability to automatically sell Blaze Rods and Fish.

Atlas and grinder rod will have lure and luck of the sea changed from level 4 to level 3

NPC Chunk Loader

The NPC chunk loader will be a placeable item which will keep chunks loaded within a 3x3 (9 chunks total) area! This will reduce the need for alts on the server! This will be available for either direct purchase via the store as well as crates.

Island Value and Upgrades Revamp

This season of Skyblock Pandora introduces island upgrades which provide boosts to help you on your Skyblock journey!

Upgrades will cost XP, you can get XP from fishing and grinding blazes!

Overdrive
- 4 upgrades
- Increases the spawn rate of spawners
Crop Growth
- 4 upgrades
- Increases the growth rate of crops
Outpost Capture
- 3 upgrades
- Reduces the time to capture outposts.
KoTH Capture
- 3 upgrades
- Reduces time to capture KoTH
Outpost Boost
- 2 upgrades
- Increases the boost given by outposts

Value Block Changes

Value Blocks for Island level will now change to:

Emerald block will give 4 island levels
Diamond block will give 2 island levels
Gold block will give 1 island level

Crate Revamp

Crates will now receive new rewards along with the removal of some of its prizes, the following changes include:

Vote Crate
- Will only give 1 Zombie Pigman and Skeleton Spawner and will be a lower probability than Crater.
- Will only give 1 Mystery Spawner.
Crater Crate
- Will only give 1 Zombie Pigman, Skeleton, and Blaze Spawner
- Will only give 1 Mystery Spawner
- Crater Will be the only Crate to have Player Holograms
Astroid Crate
- Will only give 1 Witch, 1 Gaurdian, and 2 Blaze Spawners.
- Will only give 2 Mystery Spawners.
Comet Crate
- Will only give 1 Villager, 1 Iron Golem, and 3 Blaze Spawners.
- Will only give 3 Mystery Spawners
KoTH Crate
- Will only give 2 Villager and 2 Iron Golem Spawners
- Will only give 4 Mystery Spawners

Voting Update

The Vote Crate and additional vote rewards were not having the desired effect, so we went back to the drawing board and have some exciting updates to share! From levels, to a vote crate revamp, the perks and rewards of voting are seeing a lot of love this season!

Levels

We are very excited to introduce Levels as a new perk of voting! Using /levels in-game will bring up the menu where you can see each level's requirements and rewards! The rewards will contain a wide variety of items and perks that scale proportionately with the levels and also are worth while. We believe this will help to make voting provide good rewards throughout the whole duration of the season and bring new life to voting on Vortex!

New Galactic Perks

Galactic will be receiving multiple new perks with the upcoming release of Skyblock Pandora.

Ability to change spawners to villager
Galactic will get access to 3 /wardrobe slots
Galactic will get a pink /glow on pandora
Galactic will get a 5% reduction in price of tool upgrades
Galactic will get a 5% reduction in price of island upgrades
Galactic will be able to use /ding on a 30min global timer
Galactic will be given items from one random GKIT per map
Ability to use emojis in vortex chat when typing their text version
When Galactics kill a player in the pvp arena particles will appear above where the player died
When Galactics die in the pvp arena particles will appear above where the player died

PvP, Outpost, and KoTH Updates

There will be changes to PvP for this season.

The thorns enchants will no longer be obtainable
The knockback enchant will no longer be obtainable
Pandora outpost - Removes tax from sell wands
Farming outpost - will give a 1.2x buff to fish and cane price
Mob outpost - Gives a 1.2x buff to all mob drop sell prices
KoTH armour will give a 3% time reduction in outpost and KoTH capture when fully worn

Discord Nitro Rewards

Did you know you can get a load of perks just by boosting us on Discord? If you already have a Nitro subscription you get two free boosts included! Below are just some of the amazing perks you will receive upon boosting.

1x Nitro Lootbox (available in-game via /reclaim once per season)
In-game Nitro Title
In-game Nitro Cosmetics
Daily Nitro Delivery from the Delivery Man
Booster role in Discord, including the Booster badge, and your name will be listed under staff!
In-game Pink Tab Name
In-game Pink Diamond on your display name
Nitro Booster line in your hover over display name

Removed Items

Here you will find a list of items that are significant that have been removed from Pandora.

Everything Soul Related has been removed from Pandora as XP and Money will now be the main currency.
Aliens will no longer be in Pandora, the Alien Crate and Keys will now be removed as well.
Most pets have been removed besides Fisher, Grinder, Gladiator

Conclusion

We're looking forward to seeing everyone on this new season and good luck to everyone in contention for our prize pool!

Charles Vien

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