Public Island - Hypixel Skyblock Patch Notes 0.21 - Rift Mountaintop Part 1 (2024)

Upon interacting with Scipio: "Woah! What are you doing up here?"
"I thought I told people to stay away from this place!"
"I guess they didn’t get the memo…"
"Who are you?"
Dialogue options: [I am the Adventurer (1)] [I am the Hero(2)] [I am the Scholar(3)] [I am the Seer(4)] [Why should I tell you who I am?(5)]

1: "Interesting. I think I was once an "Adventurer," but I seem to have become something else entirely."
"In any case, I suggest you turn back now before it is too late. Some adventures simply aren’t worth the cost."
"But you won't listen. You will continue onward like all the others I warned."
Dialogue option: [Yeah, pretty much. (1)]
2: "A Hero? That is a very demanding title, I wonder what you did to call yourself such."
"However, I should not judge, but instead warn. Even the most courageous can fall here, and death in this place is the worst kind."
"But heroes do not listen to warnings. Heroes do not care for such things.
Dialogue options: [...(1)]
3: "This, I feel, is an accurate title. Any person who comes here must be curious. Although seeming unimpressive, a scholar is often what the world needs most.
"Regrettably, I must ask you to turn away. Some knowledge is too terrible to comprehend. Following this path comes with a great cost."
Dialogue options: [I will continue regardless. (1)]
"Of course you will. People never listen."
4: "Oh, you are?"
"Ridiculous. As if anyone, especially you, could even presume to call themselves THAT."
"Why don’t you tell me what’s down there then? Why don’t you tell me of the horrible fate…"
Dialogue options: [Uh…. (1)]
"*sighs*"
"Anyway, I must help you as I would anyone else."
"I don’t suppose you would turn back?"
Dialogue options: [Onward I will go. (1)]
5: "Fair enough."
"But ignoring whatever you are, {playername}, you must turn back, retreat from this place."
"You must not continue."
Dialogue options: [I’m going to go anyway. (1)]
"What else did I even expect…"

"If you must persist, then I guess I have a gift for you."
"A way to escape when you have reached a situation you might not be able to escape."
"Here’s the recipe for the Wand of Harvesting, which will let you collect the chorus fruit that grows here. You can only carry one at a time, but even so, they have saved me more than once."
Dialogue option: [Thank you! (1)]
"Also, if you make any important discoveries, return to me. I am interested in such things."

Farms everything!
Right-click to get haste 2 for 5 seconds. (5 second cooldown.)

Once an instability is cleared, a timer starts, and in 2 minutes a new instability will spawn in one of the 3 areas in an unoccupied section of the mountain (of which there are 6, making 18 possible locations). After an instability spawns, you cannot clear it for 2 minutes. There is no timer, but every 15 seconds a block around it will become corrupted, turning into a random solid block. Every instability has exactly 8 corrupted blocks by it (one on each side and corner, with the block below the instability obstructed by it).

If all the Instabilities are cleared at the same time (in a particular server), then, after 150 seconds, they all spawn at once with every requisite corrupted block by them.

For every corrupted block, there are 10 clicks either right or left that you have to do as instructed within 4 seconds (like in Vampire Slayer), going in a loop around the void block until you eventually make it to the block itself. Progress is shown by turning blocks that you are completing to yellow concrete, and completed blocks to green concrete.

Then you open a large chest GUI, with a black concrete block moving every 10 ticks a block away. You have 5 seconds to click this block (everything is reset if you fail at any point during this process) which freezes it for 4 seconds. In these 4 seconds, you must click every space around the concrete (if it is on the side, you don’t have to click as many), and these outside spaces become barriers when you click them. Then, a red concrete block moves from the left side (if not against the left wall of the GUI) towards the barrier every 10 ticks, which you have to click when it is next to a barrier but not on top of it, turning it to blue concrete. This repeats for the top, right, and bottom sides until all four side barriers have an adjacent blue concrete block, which ends the minigame and closes the GUI.

“I’ve seen one of these before. After my friend obtained one, he left and never came back.”
“You should let me take it off your hands so you don’t run the same risk.”
Dialogue options: [Sure!(1)] [I worked hard to get this though…(2)]

1: “Thank you!”
“I didn’t expect ‘playername’ to give it up, do they know how much this is worth?”
“Here, I’ll even let you use my enigma soul in exchange!”
[Enigma soul appears to his right.]
2: “You don’t want this strange soul?”
[Enigma soul appears but it isn’t collectible and Scipio says “Hey! You haven’t purchased this yet!” when you try to right-click it.]
Dialogue options: [Actually, you can have the shard.(1)] [Still no.(2)]

1: “Oh, for free? Why, thank you very much!”
“Just kidding. Here, take the enigma soul.”
2: “Oh well. Come back when you desire the soul.”

• Every 2 seconds after being engaged, they shoot 2 beams of particles, the first of which does 1 trauma and the second of which does 2 (the attack takes 1 second, which doesn't count for the timer).
• When you bring a Glare or a Shade to a health level below 150, they float up for a second, invincible (which does not count for their attack timer), then drop down, giving you blindness for 5 seconds if it is a Shade and nausea if it is a Glare.
• From this point onward, between every attack, the mob will be invisible but have a lot of particles around it, so you can still hit it.

• When below 180 health, 80 health, and when dead, it will boost you ~7 blocks back.
• In addition to this, every 3 hits you place on it, it will reload its maximum hits. The mob can only hit you twice (it also hits pretty slowly, once every second or so when it is within range) until its hit counter is reset (as shown above).
• Each hit does 1 trauma and knocks you back after each hit.
• It has a 15% chance to disappear after being hit and summon an explosion with a blast radius of 3 where it was 3 seconds later, dealing a large knockback and 3 trauma. Reappears afterward.

• The assassin targets the player that spawned it, (if they leave the lobby to something other than losing all their rift time, it targets the closest player other than them).
• It runs very fast, and melees its victim twice every 3 seconds (if in range), doing 1 trauma and 30 seconds of rift damage each time. It also does a decently large amount of knockback.
• The boss’s melee attacks also damage anyone within 3 blocks of its victim.
• For every 200 damage it takes, it stops for 3 seconds in place and creates an explosive blast in a 5-block radius which deals 7 trauma and 5 minutes of rift time.
• At 300 HP, it spawns 3 silverfish that have 50 health each every twice in two-second intervals, which deal substantial knockback and 20 rift time per hit. These die once the boss is killed.

The minigame is simple. It expresses three important statements and asks which of three more must also be true.
It starts by showing the message “Wisdom Trial” across the player’s screen.

Then, it shows this text, and every few seconds showing the next line.
“The Rift is not a full dimension, as consistency of time is necessary for one.”
“There is some kind of gateway out of this dimension.”
“All dimensions or realms (like the Rift) also interact with some form of mana.”
“As we get further from our home dimension, things become warped.”
“Like they are between our reality and someone else’s.”

Then, as these messages fade, three statements are shown in chat, and the player either clicks the correct one or fails the minigame. (And has to restart.)

1. The gateway leads back to our home dimension.
2. The gateway leads to some other realm or dimension, even further removed in strangeness.
3. It is not a gateway, but a place where time starts to lose meaning. It leads to an era, not a location.

The second option is true, and when selected, completes the minigame.

“Hello, what are you doing out here?”
Dialogue options: [I could ask you the same thing.(1)] [Just exploring.(2)] [Why do you have a leech on your head?(3)]
1: “I was stranded here by my fellow researchers after discovering a terrible secret, one of infinite power”
Dialogue options: [Can you tell me what it was?(1)] [Do you want me to help you leave?(2)]
“Sure, but it’s a long explanation. Are you ready?”
Dialogue options: [Yes!(1)] [Nope.(2)]
1:
“I have been gathering information about a powerful radiation (which is measurable in the rift, especially in large, open spaces).”
“I first discovered it when we used Warped Pearls for the first time. As you know, their use results in a noticeable effect upon the user.”
“This is part of the reason why we started research on what eventually became the Inverted Prism.”
“The prism does not always have this effect. It is a stronger container, so it is possible to use it to hold in the radiation, sometimes even all of it, making it a LOT more powerful. This was an incredibly efficient fuel, giving it impossible abilities, importantly making it not even required to throw a pearl to use.”
“However, the problem was the ridiculous energy cost to create the initial reaction. Since mana (the overworld form of magical energy) is limited here, we are forced to use a universal substitute. Overflow, which comes from soulflow, from the end. We were incredibly lucky to have stocked some in case of emergencies.”
“Luckily, with the soulflow we had, we figured out how to make a theoretically infinite supply using a machine my dear friend Alakazam designed. My parasitic friend can tell you more.”
“So anyway, this radiation can be amplified and concentrated.”
“After I started making beams with it, I was banished here as my friends were too afraid of me using these new capabilities.”
“Channeling this beam in particular ways makes it effective only against certain creatures. Those either of pure light or pure darkness, and it doesn’t always hurt who it is used against.”
“The only ones here in the rift that it works against that I have seen so far are these Shades and Glares.”
“Alakazam thought that, in the right setting, a laser could be used to transfer attributes and abilities (primarily the power of destruction), concentrating something. A laser that could do this, however, would be way more complex than my models.”
“Due to being between dimensions, magical abilities are extremely malleable here, and so some abilities can work on any of a certain type of equipment.”
“However, this is not the case for my beams (the only type of magical weapon in this dimension), since the laser needs to be channeled. I left some prototypes in our hideout, although I can’t remember where they were.”
“I’ve been able to make lasers that make a variety of incredibly dangerous shapes, they are very fun!”
Dialogue options: [Can I ask you another question?(1)] [Okay, see you.(2)]
1: *restarts discussion to the very beginning*
2: “Goodbye!”

2:
“Oh, I see. Well, if you don’t want my knowledge, you can be on your way.”

2:
“No, I like it here.”

2:
“Ah, a true adventurer. If you continue, you will achieve many great things, I predict.”

3:
“Oh, he’s just a friend.”
“He was banished from his village due to being able to converse in common and found refuge on my leg when I was banished here.”
“Some days, he’s my only company.”

Ultimate Mode: DEACTIVATED
Produces 1 soulflow (which is instantly consumed) for each mob that you kill, and each minute of time you lose. Produces 3 soulflow from clearing an instability and defeating a Mechanical Assassin. Has a 10% chance to produce 1 soulflow when a crop is harvested.
Ultimate Mode: ACTIVATED
You lose rift time 5x faster, but gain 1 soulflow (instantly consumed) every 10 seconds of lost rift time.

You still gain soulflow from other sources and have a 50% chance to get an extra.
UNCOMMON ACCESSORY

There are some curious abilities here in the Rift. To make ability tomes, which store ability information and tiers, you craft an empty tome as shown below, then surround it with its respective shard to give it a directed power.

*You can surround an empty tome with 8 tier 1 ability shards to make a tome that contains the ability. Once you have this, you can add a tier 1 ability of that type to any equipment piece which can contain it by combining the tome with the equipment temporarily. Once you reach a requirement that the ability shows (like using it 50 times), you pay a mote cost to upgrade the ability. Some abilities have different max tiers. When you upgrade an ability, the information automatically goes into the respective tome.

Turns out that the way a laser’s beam is configured is entirely modifiable. I have created a room that should allow you to customize what the beam looks like. There is also an upgrade that could be performed that would allow you to fit two different beam types on one laser. This is, however, unnecessary for this experimental item.

The beam produces a laser that travels its entire length, dealing damage constantly if a mob is in its line. The mana cost is based on the power emitted, which can be altered and manipulated to change where the beam goes, and for how long (stronger emissions last longer).

Since mana is limited to double the natural amount, there must be some other way to get mana. This, we found, was overflow. And while obtaining soulflow is a process I will not go over here as it is obvious (and the easier part of this), that overflow is surprisingly complicated. To get a machine that could transfer between the two, we needed to converse with Sirius and send materials from here back to the overworld to be made into a machine we wanted. First, we needed to send 8 Chorus Rods to the Overworld. We instructed our inter-dimensional counterparts in our faction to apply them (with soulflow) to a book.

This created a spellbook that was useless in the Overworld but would be very helpful outside. We brought this back into the Rift and found it possessed the ability to have many offense-targeted (active) abilities, which no other item had. It could also possess our newest creation, the Soul Conversion ability shard, which we obtained by salvaging the drops of Cruxes found everywhere in the Rift. We have also left 8 of these shards with our Modifier in this room.

An upgrade to the Disinfestor Gloves.

Statistics: +60s Rift Time
+10 Intelligence
5% increased chance to drop Rift RNGs from the mountaintop or Tunnel of Time. (Anything below 3% chance to drop.)
LEGENDARY GLOVES

An even further condensed container of light. I wonder if there is a tier above this.

Emits a negative radiation so powerful you become dizzy and your palms burn while holding it.

The most powerful concentration of energy you have come across so far. While combining light and darkness is impossible usually, in the Rift it makes perfect sense since darkness is a real force instead of a concept here. Darkness has an overpowering presence, but this four-dimensional shape takes that and replaces it with the warm feeling of light you get while near it here.

A distorted version of the ender pearls of which you have in abundance in another realm. This is the same, but it teleports you back 5 seconds after landing.

Cooldown: 30s
Cost: 3 Trauma
*Is not consumed on throw
When two or more are in your inventory and you use one, the ability does not work and you gain 20 trauma.

Ability: Splash Faces
All enemies within 3 blocks do 80% less trauma for 2 seconds. Every hit they perform does 0.1(your intelligence) damage to themselves.
Cooldown: 6s
Mana Cost: 50
*Does not work on Vampires, trauma damage reduction only applies to you

Ability: Spash ALL the Faces
All enemies within 4 blocks do 80% less trauma for 2.5 seconds. Every hit they perform does 0.15(your intelligence) damage to themselves.
Cooldown: 6s
Mana Cost: 65
*Does not work on Vampires, trauma damage reduction only applies to you

Ability: Soak EVERYTHING
All enemies within 5 blocks do 80% less damage for 3 seconds. Every hit they perform does 0.25(your intelligence) damage to themselves. When the ability runs out, every enemy that hits you during the duration and is still within 5 blocks receives small knockback and is stunned for 1 second after reaching the ground.
Cooldown: 6s
Mana Cost: 80
*Does not work on Vampires, trauma damage reduction only applies to you