Introduction

An ♲ Ironman profile is a unique way to play SkyBlock. It makes the game harder in three distinct ways:

• The Bazaar is closed, with the exception of  Booster Cookies.
• The ⏣ Auction House is closed.
• You cannot trade between players, unless it is between players on your Co-op.

These elements are key parts of progression on a normal profile, and the way you play the game changes drastically when these restrictions are imposed. The purpose of this guide is to help you with your Ironman journey, and make sure that you progress in the game.

Foreword

Playing on an Ironman profile requires a lot of time, determination and knowledge about the game. Without these three things, you can be stuck at the same point in the game for tens of hours. It is also not advised for an Ironman to be your first profile. You should have a normal profile before attempting an Ironman.

Getting Started

First Steps

When you spawn in on your ⏣ Private Island, complete the quest line that takes you to the Hub Island. From here, complete the quests in the Hub - ensuring to talk with Kat and George. Make sure to purchase the  Rogue Sword from the Weaponsmith for 100 coins , since this will be a useful item for movement speed. Once you reach the quest to talk to the Carpenter, he will ask for  64x White Wool. This can be purchased from the Wool Weaver for 2,048 coins.

To acquire this money, Farm  Wheat in the ⏣ Farm zone until your inventory fills up. This will also level up your  Farming skill. From there, sell it and buy a  Rookie Hoe, along with the wool. Purchase the  Rogue Sword and then give the Carpenter the wool. This will unlock the  Carpentry skill. If you have a Rank, once you reach  Carpentry III, you will gain access to Quick Crafting. From here, continue to farm  Wheat. Complete the Farmer's quest. You can stop farming Wheat once you have around 20,000 coins. Craft a set of  Farm Suit and a  Farming Talisman, then you can sell the rest to NPCs, although you can craft the  Wheat Minion.

Go to the Lumber Merchant and buy  4x Sticks. Then go to the Mine Merchant and buy  22x Gold Ingot,  18x Coal and any of the Pickaxes he sells. Using the purchased materials, craft a  Golden Axe, a  Golden Shovel,  Block of Gold and  Block of Coal and head over to Bea. Buy the  COMMON Bee Pet for 5,000 coins and the crafted blocks. This will be your first Pet, which will allow you to level up  Taming once equipped through the /pets menu.

Talk to Maxwell in the ⏣ Village, to learn about Accessories. Simply put, by collecting items that are classified as Accessories (seen on the bottom of their description) you earn Magical Power. Using Magical Power at Maxwell let's you earn stats, improving your damage, survivability and more. This is very important and frequently forgotten by players.

Next to the Mine Merchant is the Weaponsmith. Buy an  Undead Sword from him. Complete the Blacksmith's quest, which will teach you how Reforging works, keep this system in mind as it is useful in all aspects and all stages of the game.

Head over to the Bartender, and complete his quest. This involves you killing Graveyard Zombies in the ⏣ Graveyard. Use your Undead Sword for them and all Undead mobs, such as Zombies or Skeletons. Doing this will give you some coins and the access to ⏣ Spider's Den.

Before you progress any further however, you should learn about Minions. Minions are a feature unlock through most of SkyBlock's Collections, which can be crafted and once placed on ones's ⏣ Private Island, they will periodically generate resources until they are full. Their efficiency can be increased by getting more of them, up to the base limit of 5, which can be increased by crafting Unique Minions (ie. Minions and their Tiers you, or your Co-op Members, haven't crafted before). Another way to increase their efficiency is through Minion Modifiers, which can increase their Storage space, their Speed, make them generate more resources and/or make them Compact their resources, so that they can fit more in the same storage.

Second Steps

Upon entering the Spider's Den, you will see a house on a hill to your left. Head over there by following the path leading to it, and you shall see a section which requires parkour. Once at the top, talk to Bramass Beastslayer to unlock the Bestiary, to Shaggy to learn of the local bossfight and to Grandma Wolf to receive a Pet useful in Combat, the  COMMON Grandma Wolf Pet.

Return to the Hub Island. You should be at least  Mining I from completing the Blacksmith's quest earlier, so you can now head to the first Mining Island, the ⏣ Gold Mine. Follow and Complete the questline here, unlocking the Lazy Miner's Pickaxe, which comes pre-enchanted with Smelting Touch I, allowing you to not have to smelt mined ores, although this is only a factor when mining  Iron Ore or  Gold Ore.

Return to the Hub again. Continue to grind coins until you have enough to buy enough  Experience Bottles from the Librarian to enchant your  Golden Axe and  Shovel with Efficiency V.

Behind the ⏣ Farm lies a set of Farming Islands, and head to the second of them, the ⏣ Mushroom Desert, talk to any NPCs you see and complete their quests. Then, mine  Sand at least until you reach  Mining V, but ideally until  Mining XII. The former of the two unlocks the ⏣ Deep Caverns, be sure to Lift Operator and then get to the bottom of the island, however be careful, as the mobs located there can deal surprisingly high amounts of Damage, and dying will result in the loss of 50% of your coins, so store them in the ⏣ Bank first. You can also stay to slay Lapis Zombies in the ⏣ Lapis Quarry, since they have 1% chance to drop the first mining armor,  Lapis Armor. If you choose to grind for it, enchant your sword with Looting III and Luck V, if you need more damage, you can also get enchantments such as Smite V or Fire Aspect II.

At the ⏣ Obsidian Sanctuary, you will find Rhys. He will ask you for 15 enchanted ores. The best ores to get is  15x Enchanted Redstone, since it drops in large quantities, and the collection is useful in expanding Accessory slots, allowing the power of more Accessories.

Using your  Golden Axe you can also level  Foraging by cutting down Trees in the ⏣ Forest, since this will unlock an island featuring a couple of quests and many easy to get Accessories, such as  Wolf Paw,  Campfire Adept Badge and  Mediocre Ring of Love.  Foraging levels also grant ❁ Strength, increasing your Damage.

The Dwarven Mines - Mining Progression

After giving Rhys the materials, you will unlock Heart of the Mountain and be warped to ⏣ Dwarven Mines, the best island for most of the Mining Resources. Be sure to talk to Rhys inside Dwarven Mines, to understand more about the island. Following Rhys' advice, head over to Bubu and purchase a  Fractured Mithril Pickaxe, which you will need for its Ⓟ Breaking Power, although a regular  Diamond Pickaxe is slightly faster for mining, so be sure to have both.

Find the locations of Fetchur and Puzzler and be ready to complete their quests once a 2x Powder Event happens, as that will award you 4000 ᠅ Mithril Powder instead of 2000 ᠅ Mithril Powder. Our wiki will tell you what item Fetchur is looking for on his page every day.

Since most enchantments are not available through ⏣ Library's Enchanting Table, be sure to setup your own on your island and place  15x Bookshelves around it, in a way so there is 1 block between them and the Table. Via the table, Enchant your Pickaxes with Efficiency V, Fortune III and Experience III. Sooner or later you will reach  Enchanting X, which unlocks the recipe for  Experimentation Table, craft it as soon as possible, and do all of the minigames every day, as it will level your  Enchanting incredibly fast, which will grant you more Experience from all source, including Experience Bottles, and unlock stronger Enchantments, making it the most useful Skill to level.

After you are done upgrading your gear talk to the Dwarven King, who will give you quests to do on ⏣ Dwarven Mines, awarding HotM XP,  Mining XP and some ᠅ Mithril Powder. The first 4 Commissions done every day grant additional 900 HotM XP.

After doing 3 Commissions, you will reach Heart of the Mountain level 2, which grants 2 Tokens of the Mountain, allowing you to pick 2 additional perks in the HotM menu. Pick Mining Fortune, which will grant more coins and Titanium Insanium, which will make Titanium Commissions easier.

After finishing 5 Commissions, you will unlock Emissaries and  Royal Compass as well as a ton of  Mining XP. Emissaries can also be used to claim the rewards from Commissions, saving you some time. Royal Compass will point to the direction of the nearest Emissary, or the King if he is closer.

Within ⏣ Royal Mines you will find Pure Ore deposits, which, while not useful for the Commissions, are the best source of Ore Collections, useful for the aformentioned Accessory Bag.

The End Island - Combat Progression

Reaching ⏣ The End requires  Combat XII, which can be achieved through multiple ways, one of the most popular ones is slaying Glacite Walkers located at the ⏣ Great Ice Wall, which is directly to the South of ⏣ The Forge, as they give combat xp, and also have a chance of dropping Glacite Armor. They deal a lot of damage, but can be managed with well enchanted armor.

Another way to level  Combat is through the Spiders in the ⏣ Arachne's Burrow.

When levelling Combat, one thing to keep in mind are Slayers, unlocked through Maddox the Slayer. Slayers are a way to unlock many strong items, whether its the  Wand of Healing and the  Radiant Power Orb or the  Terminator and the  SOS Flare. Slaying unique Slayer Bosses also grants ☯ Combat Wisdom, which makes levelling Combat permanently faster.

After reaching  Combat XII, head back to the Weaponsmith and buy an End Sword. There is no need to enchant it, as it will be replaced very soon, then head straight over to ⏣ The End. Talk to the Lone Adventurer, who tells you everything you need to know about the Island, and offers you a massive upgrade to your weapon arsenal, the  Void Sword.

You might have already learned that there is a buy limit to most NPC commodities of 640 items every real-life day. And while this can be annoying for some resources, Experience Bottles are not one of them, since by reaching the Island, you have unlocked a new way to get Experience. Note that the NPC commodities limit becomes 6400 when Mayor Diaz is active. On ⏣ The End island, there are few Obsidian or End Stone blocks emitting purple particles. These are Ender Nodes, and they award special loot when mined. The three important ones for now are  Grand Experience Bottles,  Titanic Experience Bottles and the  Ender Gauntlet, which is one of the pieces of Ender Armor that you need to get, if you have been listening to the Lone Adventurer. Be careful however, that mining Ender Nodes can spawn Nest Endermites, which deal 1000 ❁ Damage, which is difficult to survive.

However, once you are able to survive them, made possible by getting the full set of Ender Armor you can slay them for money, since  Mite Gel, a guaranteed drop, has an NPC sell price of 2,000 coins per piece, which adds up pretty quickly.

Ender Armor and the Dragon Shortbow

All Endermen (not Zealots) have a 1/100 chance to drop a piece of Ender Armor and 1/200 to drop  Ender Necklace. Considering it's all the same, be sure to slay the ones on the bottom, as they award more  Combat XP,  Ender Pearls for Collection, coins and drop higher rarity pets. There is in fact no reason to kill the weaker mobs once you are able to One-Shot the stronger ones. However, unless you have dropped the incredibly rare  LEGENDARY Enderman Pet, be sure to use a  COMMON one, since it levels up much faster and gives the same stats.

As mentioned,  Ender Gauntlet is obtained from mining Ender Nodes, the remaining 2 pieces of the set are located in ⏣ Dragon's Nest. The  Ender Cloak has a 1/100 chance to be obtained from Watchers and the  Ender Belt has a 1/100 chance to be obtained from Obsidian Defenders. Once you have all 8 pieces, talk to Lone Adventurer once again (you might need to leave and re-enter the island). If you have reached  Combat XV, you can now unlock a new part of the quest, which unlocks a great early-game Shortbow. After being granted the quest, it will rarely drop from Watchers. After receiving it, you are tasked to give it back to the Lone Adventurer, if you do so, Pearl Dealer will give you your own for free.

Next Steps

At this point, Skill Progression separates out a lot. Therefore, for convenience, this guide shall talk about skills individually, but do note that it is important to keep a skill balance although not required.

Slayers

We have not mentioned Slayers, but they are important for your progression. The main early-game slayers are Zombie Slayer, Spider Slayer and Wolf Slayer. You should aim for 3/3/3 (Zombie/Spider/Wolf) in your slayers, and there are many items to get from them, including the Radiant Power Orb and Wand of Mending. With your current Ender Armor and other gear, you should be able to comfortably complete Tier II in all of these Slayers.

Foraging

Foraging is an important skill, and is worth progressing. You should complete the Foraging Tutorial, and with it, you will obtain four armor pieces that serve as your early Foraging Armor. Additionally, you should upgrade out of your Golden Axe into a Treecapitator, which is incredibly easy to do. Once you reach Foraging Level 12, you will unlock Galatea, which is the main area where you will be Foraging. After completing the tutorial, try going for a Figstone Splitter while doing Agatha's Contests. It is the best foraging axe outside of The Park.

First Impression is the a very effective ultimate enchantment for your axe. It is a rare drop from Tree Gifts. Try to put at least First Impression 2 on both your Treecapitator and your Figstone Splitter.

Combat

For combat other than slayers, it is advised that you attempt to make some progress in the dungeons up to Dungeons The Catacombs - Floor III, where solo runs are unlocked. At this stage, you can repeatedly enter and exit the dungeon whilst killing Lost Adventurer for dragon armour fragments.

Mining

Reaching Heart of the Mountain level 4 will grant you access to the Crystal Hollows. Talk to Gwendolyn to obtain a Crystal Hollows Pass, after which you can enter via the minecart or through a portal on someone else's private island.

In the hollows, try finding the Jungle where you need to kill Sludges to obtain Sludge Juice. After obtaining 200 sludge juice, look for Odawa to buy a Jungle Pickaxe. It will be your best pickaxe for a long time.

Now, you should have full glacite armor and a jungle pickaxe. Forge a full set of Mithril Equipment and reforge it to Royal using the Dwarven Treasure reforge stone. With these items and a decent amount of mithril powder, you should be able to instantly mine Hard Stone. Mine hard stone until you have enough to craft a full set of Flamebreaker Armor. Do not use it just yet.

Kill Bal to obtain Yoggies, then craft your Flamebreaker Armor set into Yog Armor. The upgrade brings about a universal gemstone slot, which you will need later.During the boss fight with Bal, hits grant a small chance to drop an epic or legendary rarity Bal Pet, both of which are good for the Pristine stat.

Do 4 Crystal Nucleus runs to obtain 4 fine Topaz gemstones and apply them to each piece of your Yog set, through Geo.