Tutorials/Skyblock

Skyblock is a popular challenge, where the player starts the game in a small island in the void, including a tree and often a chest, which contains items you couldn't get without it (for example lava buckets).

Many different variations of the skyblock map are available online. You can also make your own map suited to your play style by making a Superflat world with no blocks, and building your map from scratch.

Obtainable items

Overworld only

The most efficient way to get an item is written in bold.

Ways of getting items requiring cobblestone are written in italic.

Crafting	Trading	Killing mobs	Other
Activator Rail Anvil Armor Stand Banner Pattern (Creeper, Flower) Banners Beds Beehive Beetroot Soup Blast Furnace Block of Emerald Block of Gold Block of Iron Block of Redstone Blue Ice Boats Bone Block Bone Meal Book and Quill Bookshelf Bread Brick Slab Brick Stairs Brick Wall Bricks Bucket Buttons Cake Campfire Carrot on a Stick Carpets Cartography Table Cauldron Chain Chiseled Quartz Block Clock Cobblestone Slab Cobblestone Stairs Cobblestone Wall Colored Terracotta Compass Crossbow Dark Prismarine Dark Prismarine Slab Dark Prismarine Stairs Detector Rail Doors Dried Kelp Block Dispenser Dropper Empty Map Fermented Spider Eye Firework Rocket Firework Star Fishing Rod Flower Pot Furnace Glass Bottle Glass Pane Glistering Melon Slice Glowstone Golden Apple Golden Armor Golden Carrot Gold Ingot Gold Nugget Golden Tools Hay Bale Honey Block Honeycomb Block Hopper Iron Armor Iron Bars Iron Tools Item Frame Jack o'Lantern Ladder Lantern Lead Leather Armor Leather Lectern Lever Melon Seeds Melon Melon Slice Minecart Minecart with Chest Minecart with Furnace Minecart with Hopper Minecart with TNT Mossy Cobblestone Mossy Cobblestone Slab Mossy Cobblestone Stairs Mossy Cobblestone Wall Mossy Stone Bricks Mossy Stone Brick Slab Mossy Stone Brick Stairs Mossy Stone Brick Wall Mushroom Stew Note Block Packed Ice Painting Piston Planks Powered Rail Pumpkin Pie Pumpkin Seeds Pressure Plates Prismarine Prismarine Brick Slab Prismarine Brick Stairs Prismarine Bricks Prismarine Slab Prismarine Stairs Prismarine Wall Quartz Bricks Quartz Pillar Rabbit Stew Rail Red Sandstone Slab Red Sandstone Stairs Red Sandstone Wall Redstone Lamp Redstone Repeater Redstone Torch Scaffolding Sandstone Slab Sandstone Stairs Sandstone Wall Sea Lantern Shears Shield Slime Block Smithing Table Smooth Quartz Slab Smooth Quartz Stairs Smooth Red Sandstone Slab Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs Smooth Sandstone Slab Smooth Sandstone Stairs Smooth Stone Slab Smoker Snow Block Snow Stained Glass Stained Glass Panes Sticky Piston Stonecutter Stone Brick Slab Stone Brick Stairs Stone Brick Wall Stone Bricks Stone Slab Stone Stairs Stone Tools Stripped Wood Suspicious Stew (Except Wither) Target Torch Trapdoors Trapped Chest TNT Tripwire Hook Wool Wood Wooden Slabs Wooden Stairs Wooden Tools	From the armorer Bell Emerald Shield Chainmail Armor Diamond Armor Iron Armor From the butcher Cooked Chicken Cooked Porkchop Emerald Rabbit Stew From the cartographer Banners Emerald Empty Map Banner Pattern (Globe) From the farmer Apple Bread Cake Cookie Emerald Glistering Melon Slice Golden Carrot Pumpkin Pie Suspicious Stew From the fisherman Bucket of Cod Campfire Cooked Cod Cooked Salmon Emerald Fishing Rod From the leatherworker Emerald Leather Armor Leather Horse Armor Saddle From the librarian Bookshelf Clock Compass Emerald Enchanted Book Glass Lantern Name Tag From the mason Brick Block of Quartz Chiseled Stone Bricks Colored Terracotta Emerald Glazed Terracotta Polished Andesite Polished Diorite Polished Granite Quartz Pillar From the shepherd Banners Beds Carpets Emerald Painting Shears Wool From the toolsmith Bell Diamond Tools Emerald Iron Axe, Pickaxe and Shovel Stone Tools From the wandering trader Beetroot Seeds Blue Ice Bucket of Pufferfish Bucket of Tropical Fish Cactus Coral Blocks Dyes Fern Flowers Glowstone Gunpowder Kelp Lily Pad Melon Seeds Mushrooms Nautilus Shell Packed Ice Podzol Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Red Sand Sand Saplings Sea Pickle Slimeball Sugar Cane Vines Wheat Seeds From the weaponsmith Bell Diamond Weapons Emerald Iron Weapons	From cats String From cod Bone Meal Cooked Cod Raw Cod From cows Leather Raw Beef Steak From chickens Cooked Chicken Feather Raw Chicken From creepers Creeper Head Gunpowder Music Discs From dolphins Cooked Cod Raw Cod From drowned Fishing Rod Gold Ingot Nautilus Shell Trident Rotten Flesh From endermen Ender Pearl From evokers Emerald Totem of Undying From foxes Egg Emerald Feather Leather Rabbit Hide Rabbit's Foot Wheat From guardians Cooked Cod Cooked Salmon Prismarine Crystals Prismarine Shard Pufferfish Raw Cod Raw Salmon Tropical Fish From iron golems Iron Ingot Poppy From llamas and their variants Leather From pandas Bamboo From parrots Feather From phantoms Phantom Membrane From pigs Cooked Porkchop Raw Porkchop From pillagers Crossbow During Raids: Emerald From polar bears Raw Cod Raw Salmon From pufferfish Bone Meal Pufferfish From rabbits Cooked Rabbit Rabbit Hide Rabbit's Foot Raw Rabbit From raid captains Ominous Banner From ravagers Saddle From salmon Bone Meal Cooked Salmon Raw Salmon From sheep Cooked Mutton Raw Mutton Wool From skeletons, zombies and their variants Chainmail Armor Diamond Armor Golden Armor Iron Armor Leather Armor From skeletons and their variants Arrow Bone Bow From skeletons Skeleton Skull From skeleton horse Bone From strays Arrow of Slowness From slimes Slimeball From spiders and their variants String Spider Eye From squids Ink Sac From tropical fish Bone Meal Tropical Fish From turtles Bowl Seagrass From vindicators Emerald Iron Axe From witches Glass Bottle Glowstone Dust Gunpowder Potion of Fire Resistance Potion of Healing Potion of Swiftness Potion of Water Breathing Redstone Dust Spider Eye Sugar Stick From zombies and their variants Carrot Iron Ingot Iron Shovel Iron Sword Potato Rotten Flesh From zombies Zombie Head	Breaking Blocks From Bookshelf Book From Campfire Charcoal From Clay Clay Ball From Coral Blocks Dead Coral Block From Mushroom Blocks Mushrooms Growing trees Apple Bee Nest Leaves Logs Saplings Stick Harvesting crops Bamboo Beetroot Beetroot Seeds Cactus Carrot Cocoa Beans Kelp Melon Melon Seeds Melon Slice Poisonous Potato Potato Pumpkin Pumpkin Seeds Sea Pickle Sugar Cane Sweet Berries Wheat Wheat Seeds Smelting Baked Potato Brick Charcoal Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cracked Stone Bricks Dried Kelp Glass Glazed Terracotta Gold Nugget Green Dye Iron Nugget Lime Dye Smooth Quartz Block Smooth Red Sandstone Smooth Sandstone Smooth Stone Steak Stone Terracotta

With access to the Nether

Crafting	Bartering	Killing mobs	Other
Andesite Slab Andesite Stairs Andesite Wall Andesite Arrow Banner Pattern (Skull) Beacon Black Dye Blackstone Slab Blackstone Stairs Blackstone Wall Blast Furnace Blaze Powder Block of Coal Block of Quartz Brewing Stand Blue Dye Chiseled Nether Bricks Chiseled Polished Blackstone Coarse Dirt Concrete Powder Daylight Detector Diorite Slab Diorite Stairs Diorite Wall Diorite End Crystal Ender Chest Eye of Ender Fire Charge Fletching Table Flint and Steel Furnace Granite Slab Granite Stairs Granite Wall Granite Lapis Lazuli Block Magma Block Magma Cream Nether Brick Fence Nether Brick Slab Nether Brick Stairs Nether Brick Wall Nether Bricks Observer Polished Basalt Polished Andesite Polished Andesite Slab Polished Andesite Stairs Polished Blackstone Polished Blackstone Brick Slab Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs Polished Blackstone Brick Wall Polished Blackstone Bricks Polished Blackstone Slab Polished Blackstone Stairs Polished Blackstone Wall Polished Diorite Polished Diorite Slab Polished Diorite Stairs Polished Granite Polished Granite Slab Polished Granite Stairs Redstone Comparator Respawn Anchor Smoker Soul Campfire Soul Lantern Soul Torch Stone Tools Suspicious Stew (Wither)	Arrow‌ Blackstone Crying Obsidian Enchanted Book with Soul Speed Ender Pearl Fire Charge Gravel Iron Boots with Soul Speed Iron Nugget Leather Nether Brick Nether Quartz Obsidian Potion of Fire Resistance Soul Sand Spectral Arrow‌ Splash Potion of Fire Resistance String Water Bottle	From blazes Blaze Rod From endermen Ender Pearl From ghasts Ghast Tear Gunpowder From hoglins Cooked Porkchop Leather Raw Porkchop From magma cubes Magma Cream From piglins Crossbow Golden Armor Golden Sword From striders String From wither skeletons Coal Stone Sword Wither Skeleton Skull From the wither Nether Star From mobs killed by the wither Wither Rose From zombified piglins Gold Ingot Gold Nugget Golden Sword	From breaking Soul Campfires Soul Soil Brewing Mundane Potion Potion of Harming Potion of Slowness Potion of Weakness Thick Potion Splash Mundane Potion Splash Potion of Fire Resistance Splash Potion of Harming Splash Potion of Healing Splash Potion of Slowness Splash Potion of Swiftness Splash Potion of Water Breathing Splash Potion of Weakness Splash Thick Potion Splash Water Bottle Smelting Cracked Nether Bricks All Overworld smelting recipes Trading From the armorer Bell Emerald Shield Chainmail Armor Diamond Armor Iron Armor From the butcher Cooked Chicken Cooked Porkchop Emerald Rabbit Stew From the cleric Bottle o' Enchanting Emerald Ender Pearl Glowstone Lapis Lazuli Redstone Dust From the fletcher Arrow Bow Crossbow Emerald Flint Tipped Arrow

With access to the End

Crafting	Killing mobs	Brewing	Other
Arrow of Fire Resistance Arrow of Harming Arrow of Healing Arrow of Slowness Arrow of Swiftness Arrow of Water Breathing Arrow of Weakness End Stone Brick Slab End Stone Brick Stairs End Stone Brick Wall End Stone Bricks	From ender dragon (indirect) Dragon Egg End Stone Torch From endermen Ender Pearl	Lingering Mundane Potion Lingering Potion of Fire Resistance Lingering Potion of Harming Lingering Potion of Healing Lingering Potion of Slowness Lingering Potion of Swiftness Lingering Potion of Water Breathing Lingering Potion of Weakness Lingering Thick Potion Lingering Water Bottle	Dragon's Breath Obsidian

Global progression

Since you cannot explore the terrain, setting up farms for resources is vital to game progression.

Tree farm

Wood is crucial at the beginning of a skyblock map because it is the only renewable block available at the beginning of the game (unless you have immediate access to lava and water, in this case, you can make a cobblestone generator).

First, chop down your island's tree, and make sure to get all of the dropped saplings. Then, dig all the dirt of island, except the first layer. You will then use (almost) all of the dirt to create a tree farm and use the wood you collect to make wooden slabs and expand your terrain using them.

Note that, at this stage, your only food available is apples, which has a 0.5% chance to drop from oak leaves. Also, try not to sprint or jump, in order to be able to eat enough. If your hunger is low and you do not have food, you can put all your items in a chest and jump into the void. However, this will not work if you are playing on Hardcore.

It is quite hard to get a bed, so you should think of making a small shelter for the night to prevent being attacked by phantoms.

Cobblestone generator

To farm cobblestone, you will need a lava bucket and water, obtainable from a water bucket or normal ice. If you don't have immediate access to water, you will have to make a mob farm before, in order to get iron for a cauldron.

To make a cobblestone generator, dig a one block deep T-shaped hole. Put a block in the center, water and lava on two others slots. Break the center block, get in the last slot, and break the cobblestone that forms. Make sure that the blocks that surround the lava are not flammable, or they will burn.

Mob farm

Hostile mob farms are very important because they are a source of bones, strings, redstone dust, iron ingots, potatoes and carrots, among many other drops. Building a mob farm is mandatory to get the crops to start crop farming. It is also an abundant source of rotten flesh, which you can now eat instead of apples. Multiple mob farms designs are explained in the page Tutorials/Mob farm, however, the vast majority of efficient designs need water or redstone circuits.

This hostile mob farm design shown by ilmango uses the mob pathfinding mechanics to lure them into a drop shaft, without the need of water or redstone circuits (note that spiders can't spawn in this farm) :

Simple Pathfinding Mob Farm (view on YouTube)

You should also make a temporary passive mob farm to get animals: to do that, if you're in a biome where animals can spawn you can remove the saplings from your tree farm, get back and wait for some to spawn. Keep in mind that you won't be able to attract them or breed them, since you don't have any crops yet.

Getting water

Water is especially useful in Skyblock worlds since it allows you to pillar down easily. It is also used to irrigate farmland. To get some, you can place a cauldron below open sky and wait for rain, which will very slowly fill the cauldron with water. When the cauldron is full, you can empty it with a bucket. Once you got 2 water buckets, you can easily make an infinite water source to be able to get water more easily. If you do not have a cauldron, then head out to the swamp island and get a bucket so you can collect water. You can use this and the cobblestone generator’s water to make an infinite water source. Remember, you put water in one pair of opposite sides.

Getting villagers

Getting villagers is crucial for your progression, because it is the only way to get emeralds, diamond tools and armor, and the only way to reliably get enchanted books. To get villagers, you will need to cure the rare zombie villagers, which sometimes spawn in mob farms or such.

To cure zombie villagers, you will need to give them the Weakness status effect, and them to use a golden apple on them. There are several ways of doing this: to give a zombie villager the Weakness status effect, you can use a witch (which is more tedious) or make a splash potion of Weakness (which requires to get in the Nether).

To make a witch give Weakness to your zombie villager, you will need to get near the witch with it and have less than 8 health points. There will be then a 25% chance that the witch will throw a splash potion of Weakness. To make your own potion, you need to get a brewing stand, a fermented spider eye and some gunpowder. Note that you will need a brown mushroom to do that, which requires traveling to the mushroom island or to trade with a wandering trader, the latter of which requires an emerald, which makes this method highly impractical for the first villager conversion.

To get the golden apples, you will need gold ingots and apples. Getting the apples is easy, but getting the gold is harder. You can either go to the Nether and kill zombified piglins, smelt golden armor dropped by monsters, or kill drowned, which sometimes drop gold ingots.

It is strongly advised to build a villager breeder as soon as possible, in order to avoid doing this tedious process multiple times.

Iron farm

Iron farms are very useful in a skyblock context, because they allow way easier access to iron ingots. To make the smallest possible iron farm, you will need 3 villagers, 3 beds, and a zombie holding an item (to not despawn). Keep in mind that only a small percentage of zombies have this ability, so you will have to try several zombies.

This video by Ray features at the beginning a simple iron farm design, which uses lava in the killing zone but could use another killing system that doesn't need some. The rates are about 320 iron ingots/hour.

YouTube Video (view on YouTube)

When your needs for iron get larger, you can just make multiples copies of the farm or change for a larger design.

Nether skyblock

There are 5 biomes in the Nether, and each of them has unique properties that are interesting in a skyblock context:

• you can make zombified piglin farms in the Nether Wastes biome, which give you gold nuggets;
• you can make hoglin farms in the Crimson Forest biome, which give you porkchop;
• you can make mildly efficient enderman farms in the Warped Forest biome, which give you ender pearls;
• you can make magma cube farms in the Basalt Deltas biome, which give you magma cream;
• you can make ghast farms in the Soul Sand Valley biome, which give you ghast tears and gunpowder (even though ghast tears are pointless without nether wart).

It is also possible to make a Nether fortress farm, which gives you a variety of items, such as coal, bones, blaze rods, or wither skeleton skulls.

Gold farm

To make a gold farm, make a platform up to 23 blocks away and make a roof out of slabs and wait. A little while later, you should see some zombified piglins spawning. Kill them to obtain gold and use it to barter with piglins.

Bartering will yield many useful resources (iron, ender pearls, leather, string, obsidian) as well as some unique ones:

• Blackstone is an alternative to cobblestone used to create brewing stands, furnaces, and stone tools. While it isn't usually useful, it is extremely important if the player doesn't have a cobblestone generator.
• Crying Obsidian is used to create Respawn Anchor.
• Gravel can be used to create coarse dirt, which can be tilled into dirt allowing it to be duplicated, or to obtain Flint used to create arrows, flint and steel and fletching tables.
• Nether Quartz is used to create daylight detectors, observers and redstone comparators, useful for automation.
• Soul Sand is used to summon the Wither or to create soul torches and soul campfires, used to repel piglins and hoglins.

Fortress farm

Branch out and see if you can find a nether fortress in the surrounding areas. Kill a few blazes and make a potion brewing stand. These are the basics for nether survival!