The History of the Foraging Update (and some silksong talk :3) [EFFORT]

which will come first: Silksong or Foraging update?

  • Silksong First !!!

    Votes: 51 48.1%

  • Foraging First !!!

    Votes: 36 34.0%

  • Gta 6 lol

    Votes: 19 17.9%
  • Total voters
    106
This post was originally going to be about which will be released first, silksong or the foraging update, but I ended up putting so much effort documenting the foraging update im somewhat swapping it (i still want yalls opinions)

For context, Silksong had its second confirmed release date just a few days ago with the Switch 2 announcement (The first one being in 2023(?) where silksong was confirmed to release by xbox)
I find it funny that both of these are probably not releasing before I die of old age, but they both have had multiple 'release dates' (silksongs a bit more confirmed), as well as both announced to release in 2025 for sure this time (trust)

So here is the History of the Foraging update!​

Foraging Update:
  • Has been a meme since practically the launch of the game (June 2019)

  • First subtly talked about in 2021, with the '1.0 design threads'
  • June 30th, 2021, 'Alpha Net - A new way to test SkyBlock Updates' had released alongside the first original 1.0 design threads. While they talked about many updates here such as the crystal hollows, a combat island revamp, and skyblock 1.0, the big fish in a lot of peoples eyes was the foraging update releasing 'later in 2021'
  • May 2nd, 2023, the final '1.0 design thread' was posted titled '1.0 Design Thread 9 - Foraging Island...'. This is where we got our big first glance at the foraging update
    • At this time they were "still in the early stages of the Foraging Island's development" and that "[Hypxiel] cannot provide and ETA or more details at this time"
  • Dec 30, 2023, Jayavarmen posted the "Skyblock 2023 - Recap...", along with some big news about the foraging update
    • They had made some major progress toward the update, but "[did] not have a release date yet" BUT that "[They're] hoping to get on Alpha for some preliminary testing HOPEFULLY early this year"

    • We can extrapolate that they thought they might have an alpha test in Q1 or Q2 of 2024 (basically Jan-June)
  • April 9th, 2024, the Hypixel Team posted the "Quick Design Thread: Foraging Island"
    • (I believe this was our first introduction to the Galatea Archipelago, a set of three islands that are coming with the foraging update. What follows is information in regards to the foraging update, mainly on the first island)

    • this was a big post that gave everyone some massive hope on what was to come, introducing many features of the new island(s), a lot of which has been seen in previous skills
      these include:
      • Tree gifts - a feature that "encourag[es] group play" in the decimation of the forest

      • Sweep, Toughness, and Axe Throwing - all mechanics for destroying trees (similar to mining, as well as axe throwing from the AOTS)

      • The Heart of the Forest - taken off of the success of the Heart of the Mountain

      • The Starlyn Sisters - Three sisters who "don't put you against other players", but instead encourage you to increase your own performance

      • Mystic Damage - A new damage type specified for the Galatea region (which imo is only there bcuz they dont know how to balance the hype / dont want the update to be powercrept on release)

      • Pressure - a new underwater mechanic which was taken from a scrapped idea (the abyss)

      • God Temples - Three new gods that grant global stats, all of which can increase in strength with the increase in their worshippers

        And Last but most certainly not least

      • Hunting - A new skill, something we havent gotten since the Social update (or the Dungeoneering update, both of which happened in mid-late 2020 respectively)
    • With this quite massive leak in April 2024, we had a good feeling the update was coming soon. The admins already said that "[The foraging] update has already took too long," which lead a lot of people to believe that the alpha was coming in soon.
  • Dec 18, 2024 - The 2024 Recap post
    • Along with talking about what had been achieved in 2024, plans for more chocolate factory (yay :hypixel_this_fine:), and some other upcoming updates, they talked about why yet another year went by with no foraging update

    • The admins say that "the first island of Galatea has almost finished development along with the new Hunting Skill," but that these "still have polishing and QA to undergo." They follow this up talking about moving over to the latest version and implementing some of its features

    • Along with some pretty sick Resource pack leaks, they top off the end of the post saying that they plan on releasing the second island of Galatea, and another "very special place in time that should not come as a surprise to lore enthusiasts" (Side Note: I've always found that line confusing. A place in time, not a place. Does that mean we are time travelling in 2025?)

    • This, for yet another time, puts a rough date on the first island of Galatea, as they say the also want to release the Second island of Galatea within this year.
      • this should put the First island of Galatea to release within the first half of the year, at least if there is an alpha release for it. There is at least two other confirmed major updates at that point in time, in which Galatea was expected to release first. There are also many other updates in the works at this point in time
  • Feb 27th, 2025 - Fishing Outpost project started
    • A city project had appeared, and everyone's mind first ran to one place: The Foraging Update.
      • Once people saw that it was called the Fishing Outpost, most left the theory of the foraging update behind, but some had other plans
    • People had started trying to connect dots, that in reality, just weren't there.
      • One infamous theory that went around was that since we saw a lot of lakes and water in the previous foraging posts, and that you fish in water, that meant that it was confirmed to be the foraging update
        (The theory was aptly named "Fishing = water = foraging" by none other than yours truly, but yes, this was an active theory some took seriously)
    • There were many posts on whether this was going to be the foraging update or a fishing update, some even betting hundreds of millions of coins, showing how confident they were that it was going to be a foraging update
      • Surprise surprise, the fishing outpost ended up being a fishing update :O (Okay I tried to be neutral for the large majority of this post but this is just kinda crazy to me that this was a theory that happened)
  • March 18th 2025, the Backwater Bayou released, along with a cliffnote on the foraging update. it was said that if "all goes well," then the foraging update may "enter the Alpha phase within the next few months!" So that is some exciting news to hear... if that wasnt the third time that it was said to be coming to alpha soon... but this time has yet to be proven false, so lets be optimistic of what the future can hold!


  • And That leads us to where we are today! With the Backwater Bayou launched a few weeks ago, and in the midst of an april fools event, we most likely wont hear much news for probably the rest of April. Will we get any news in May? How about in June? Only the future knows
Man I should have made this into like a youtube video for all the Zoomers with an attention span shorter than the lifespan of the TikTok ban who cant be bothered to read. (I've always been interested in making yt content, lmk if yall would be interested in big posts i make like these being voiced over so yall dont have to read as much)

If there is any posts i missed abt the foraging update, please let me know! The forums is so awful to find old posts, so I only cited the ones I knew existed that mentioned it!


I also wanted to make one final note, but Hypixel has said multiple times the amount of stress this update is causing, as well as the massive weight of the expectations it is causing. If anyone at hypixel sees this, In my opinion if the update is to release with only the bare minimum of what has been leaked, I still think it will be One of, if not the best update Hypixel has seen (doubtful they will see it, but ya never kn0w)

EDIT: It got pointed out to me that the backwater bayou update had talked about the foraging update. It completely slipped my mind when i was writing this, but oh well. I added it in, but it really doesnt change much for my prediction of possible news within may or june. Honestly if anything it further adds to the point of getting news/an alpha in mid-late june
 
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so not soon
Zedroid said:
  • And That leads us to where we are today! With the Backwater Bayou launched a few weeks ago, and in the midst of an april fools event, we most likely wont hear much news for probably the rest of April. Will we get any news in May? How about in June? Only the future knows
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Gladnii said:
so not soon
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Which post is that from? I must've missed it

if you go to the 2024 recap from december it talks abt the plans for 2025, in which it includes two Galatea islands and one other major update (+all the other updates planned that may or may not come)

I'm assuming this is after that, but i cant find it anywhere
 
Zedroid said:
Which post is that from? I must've missed it

if you go to the 2024 recap from december it talks abt the plans for 2025, in which it includes two Galatea islands and one other major update (+all the other updates planned that may or may not come)

I'm assuming this is after that, but i cant find it anywhere
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backwater bayou update post
 
Zedroid said:
    • People had started trying to connect dots, that in reality, just weren't there.
      • One infamous theory that went around was that since we saw a lot of lakes and water in the previous foraging posts, and that you fish in water, that meant that it was confirmed to be the foraging update
        (The theory was aptly named "Fishing = water = foraging" by none other than yours truly, but yes, this was an active theory some took seriously)
    • There were many posts on whether this was going to be the foraging update or a fishing update, some even betting hundreds of millions of coins, showing how confident they were that it was going to be a foraging update
      • Surprise surprise, the fishing outpost ended up being a fishing update :O (Okay I tried to be neutral for the large majority of this post but this is just kinda crazy to me that this was a theory that happened
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is this some ragebait for a specific famous skyblock forumer I see
 
The fishing outpost is galatea was a very good theory from fr trust. It was actually going to be galatea but when the admits saw that we figured it out they quickly made the backwater bayou update and released that instead. That why the island is so small!!!!! You gotta belive me
 
Zedroid said:
This post was originally going to be about which will be released first, silksong or the foraging update, but I ended up putting so much effort documenting the foraging update im somewhat swapping it (i still want yalls opinions)

For context, Silksong had its second confirmed release date just a few days ago with the Switch 2 announcement (The first one being in 2023(?) where silksong was confirmed to release by xbox)
I find it funny that both of these are probably not releasing before I die of old age, but they both have had multiple 'release dates' (silksongs a bit more confirmed), as well as both announced to release in 2025 for sure this time (trust)

So here is the History of the Foraging update!​

Foraging Update:
  • Has been a meme since practically the launch of the game (June 2019)

  • First subtly talked about in 2021, with the '1.0 design threads'

  • May 2nd, 2023, the final '1.0 design thread' was posted titled '1.0 Design Thread 9 - Foraging Island...'. This is where we got our big first glance at the foraging update
    • At this time they were "still in the early stages of the Foraging Island's development" and that "[Hypxiel] cannot provide and ETA or more details at this time"
  • Dec 30, 2023, Jayavarmen posted the "Skyblock 2023 - Recap...", along with some big news about the foraging update
    • They had made some major progress toward the update, but "[did] not have a release date yet" BUT that "[They're] hoping to get on Alpha for some preliminary testing HOPEFULLY early this year"

    • We can extrapolate that they thought they might have an alpha test in Q1 or Q2 of 2024 (basically Jan-June)
  • April 9th, 2024, the Hypixel Team posted the "Quick Design Thread: Foraging Island"
    • (I believe this was our first introduction to the Galatea Archipelago, a set of three islands that are coming with the foraging update. What follows is information in regards to the foraging update, mainly on the first island)

    • this was a big post that gave everyone some massive hope on what was to come, introducing many features of the new island(s), a lot of which has been seen in previous skills
      these include:
      • Tree gifts - a feature that "encourag[es] group play" in the decimation of the forest

      • Sweep, Toughness, and Axe Throwing - all mechanics for destroying trees (similar to mining, as well as axe throwing from the AOTS)

      • The Heart of the Forest - taken off of the success of the Heart of the Mountain

      • The Starlyn Sisters - Three sisters who "don't put you against other players", but instead encourage you to increase your own performance

      • Mystic Damage - A new damage type specified for the Galatea region (which imo is only there bcuz they dont know how to balance the hype / dont want the update to be powercrept on release)

      • Pressure - a new underwater mechanic which was taken from a scrapped idea (the abyss)

      • God Temples - Three new gods that grant global stats, all of which can increase in strength with the increase in their worshippers

        And Last but most certainly not least

      • Hunting - A new skill, something we havent gotten since the Social update (or the Dungeoneering update, both of which happened in mid-late 2020 respectively)
    • With this quite massive leak in April 2024, we had a good feeling the update was coming soon. The admins already said that "[The foraging] update has already took too long," which lead a lot of people to believe that the alpha was coming in soon.
  • Dec 18, 2024 - The 2024 Recap post
    • Along with talking about what had been achieved in 2024, plans for more chocolate factory (yay :hypixel_this_fine:), and some other upcoming updates, they talked about why yet another year went by with no foraging update

    • The admins say that "the first island of Galatea has almost finished development along with the new Hunting Skill," but that these "still have polishing and QA to undergo." They follow this up talking about moving over to the latest version and implementing some of its features

    • Along with some pretty sick Resource pack leaks, they top off the end of the post saying that they plan on releasing the second island of Galatea, and another "very special place in time that should not come as a surprise to lore enthusiasts" (Side Note: I've always found that line confusing. A place in time, not a place. Does that mean we are time travelling in 2025?)

    • This, for yet another time, puts a rough date on the first island of Galatea, as they say the also want to release the Second island of Galatea within this year.
      • this should put the First island of Galatea to release within the first half of the year, at least if there is an alpha release for it. There is at least two other confirmed major updates at that point in time, in which Galatea was expected to release first. There are also many other updates in the works at this point in time
  • Feb 27th, 2025 - Fishing Outpost project started
    • A city project had appeared, and everyone's mind first ran to one place: The Foraging Update.
      • Once people saw that it was called the Fishing Outpost, most left the theory of the foraging update behind, but some had other plans
    • People had started trying to connect dots, that in reality, just weren't there.
      • One infamous theory that went around was that since we saw a lot of lakes and water in the previous foraging posts, and that you fish in water, that meant that it was confirmed to be the foraging update
        (The theory was aptly named "Fishing = water = foraging" by none other than yours truly, but yes, this was an active theory some took seriously)
    • There were many posts on whether this was going to be the foraging update or a fishing update, some even betting hundreds of millions of coins, showing how confident they were that it was going to be a foraging update
      • Surprise surprise, the fishing outpost ended up being a fishing update :O (Okay I tried to be neutral for the large majority of this post but this is just kinda crazy to me that this was a theory that happened)
  • March 18th 2025, the Backwater Bayou released, along with a cliffnote on the foraging update. it was said that if "all goes well," then the foraging update may "enter the Alpha phase within the next few months!" So that is some exciting news to hear... if that wasnt the third time that it was said to be coming to alpha soon... but this time has yet to be proven false, so lets be optimistic of what the future can hold!


  • And That leads us to where we are today! With the Backwater Bayou launched a few weeks ago, and in the midst of an april fools event, we most likely wont hear much news for probably the rest of April. Will we get any news in May? How about in June? Only the future knows
Man I should have made this into like a youtube video for all the Zoomers with an attention span shorter than the lifespan of the TikTok ban who cant be bothered to read. (I've always been interested in making yt content, lmk if yall would be interested in big posts i make like these being voiced over so yall dont have to read as much)

If there is any posts i missed abt the foraging update, please let me know! The forums is so awful to find old posts, so I only cited the ones I knew existed that mentioned it!


I also wanted to make one final note, but Hypixel has said multiple times the amount of stress this update is causing, as well as the massive weight of the expectations it is causing. If anyone at hypixel sees this, In my opinion if the update is to release with only the bare minimum of what has been leaked, I still think it will be One of, if not the best update Hypixel has seen (doubtful they will see it, but ya never kn0w)

EDIT: It got pointed out to me that the backwater bayou update had talked about the foraging update. It completely slipped my mind when i was writing this, but oh well. I added it in, but it really doesnt change much for my prediction of possible news within may or june. Honestly if anything it further adds to the point of getting news/an alpha in mid-late june
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Foraging isn't real
 
WynnicWither said:
Foraging isn't real
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neither is silksong, hence the poll (the post was originally gonna be just that lol)

the real answer is both will be delayed until much after the audience of players who want it end up dying of old age

bluetack said:
The fishing outpost is galatea was a very good theory from fr trust. It was actually going to be galatea but when the admits saw that we figured it out they quickly made the backwater bayou update and released that instead. That why the island is so small!!!!! You gotta belive me
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oml ur so righttttt, of course thats specifically the only reason!
 
Nightytime said:
Weird formatting (the spaces between bullet points are getting on my nerves)
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ah mb, ngl i first had it without spacing, but it felt really claustrophobic and cluttered.
I do have a problem with spacing text out too much in general, i can try and fix it for next time tho !!! (not gonna do it for this post)
(I also wrote it on about 1h of sleep at 5am so thats why some of the formatting is a bit inconsistent)
 
Zedroid said:
ah mb, ngl i first had it without spacing, but it felt really claustrophobic and cluttered.
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It does look relatively cluttered, especially on mobile. I think one way you could alleviate that is by moving all of the bullets one level up (i.e., what is currently first-level bulleted becomes unbulleted, what is currently second-level bulleted becomes first-level bulleted, etc.). Alternatively, you could just use less bullets.

This thread is quite wordy so it's hard to imagine perfect solutions, but the formatting issues aren't anything too major.
 
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