Critter Safari
SkyBlock's first island built entirely around Hunting. You enter on a ticket rather than a warp, alone or with up to three others, and work four biomes for critters rather than kills — Critters cannot be damaged, only hunted.
A note on the name
Pre-release material called this the Safari Zone. The live release calls it the Critter Safari, and the game’s own item ids follow suit. Both names refer to the same island; SkyFuse uses the live one.
Getting in
Earn a Safari Ticket by placing highly in Miria's contests, then take the blimp from the Safari Entrance on the right-hand side of Torrhus Canyon.
Entry is by ticket rather than by warp. You may go alone or bring up to three others, and the tickets themselves come from placing highly in Miria’s Starlyn Contests back on Torrhus Canyon.
The four biomes
- Four biomes: Icy, Canyon, Forest and Haunted.
- Entry is by ticket, solo or in a group of up to four.
- Each biome's Milestones grant a different stat: Icy gives Cold Resistance, Forest gives Foraging Fortune, Haunted gives Hunting Fortune, and Canyon increases Rarity and grants Hunting Wisdom.
- Andrea by the Safari Entrance tracks your Milestone progress.
- Every Critter has a 1 in 4,096 chance to spawn Sparkling: 10x rewards and a Rainbow Feather.
- Tobias' Sparkling Critterdex tracks all 37 sparkling variants for cosmetic rewards.
Sparkling Critters
Every Critter has a base 1 in 4,096 chance of spawning as a Sparkling variant, marked by a different colour scheme, a SPARKLING prefix and a trail that follows it. A Sparkling Critter grants ten times the normal rewards and drops a Rainbow Feather, which raises any pet’s level by one without exceeding its cap.
Finish the base Critterdex and Tobias opens the Sparkling Critterdex — an optional hunt for all 37 sparkling variants, rewarded with cosmetics and carrying no SkyBlock XP.
Hunting changes that matter here
- Every Pest now drops its own shardFly, Cricket, Locust, Rat, Mosquito, Mite, Moth, Firefly, Dragonfly and Field Mouse each have a guaranteed shard. Termite became Earthworm and Pest became Field Mouse; Slug became Keeled Slug and Beetle became Cropeetle.
- Critter stamina now scales with shard rarityOne stamina bar for a COMMON shard through five for a LEGENDARY, with bar colours following the item rarity system.
- Hunting gear gained shard-type bonusesEntangler Lasso grants +2.5 Hunting Fortune on Forest shards, the Medium Fishing Net +2.5 on Water shards, and the Pocket Black Holes +2.5 and +5 on Combat shards.
- Two fusions became GenericCropeetle no longer needs Invisibug + Pest, and Praying Mantis no longer needs Pest + Combat. Both are now Generic fusions.
Progression
- Hunting to 50
- The Hunting skill cap doubled from 25 to 50, confirmed by the live skills resource. Hunter Fortune was renamed Hunting Fortune.
- Charm Chance
- Now an official Hunting stat. Like Sea Creature Chance and Treasure Chance it scales 0%–100%, raising the chance that a viable mob drops an Attribute Shard.
- Critterdex and Safari Milestones
- Each biome's Milestones grant a different stat: Icy gives Cold Resistance, Forest gives Foraging Fortune, Haunted gives Hunting Fortune, and Canyon increases Rarity while granting Hunting Wisdom. The Critterdex records catches, and a separate Sparkling Critterdex tracks all 37 sparkling variants.
The shard economy after this update
Hunting critters is how Attribute Shards enter the economy, and this release added 131 new shard products to the Bazaar — taking the total from 189 to 320, plus the fusion-only Rainbug. Every one is priced live on the Shard Market in the same table as the originals, with its live name, game id, rarity, category and family.
The full fusion graph is integrated too: all 257,195 generated recipe outcomes — ID, Special and Chameleon fusions across all 321 shards — are searchable in All Fusions and drive Best Fusion, Multi-Step Routes and Fusion Depth, cross-validated against two independent post-release community datasets.
What SkyFuse does not claim yet
This release added far more than Hypixel publishes machine-readable data for. Rather than fill the difference with guesses, the gaps are listed here and marked as unverified wherever they appear on the site.
- Where shard metadata comes fromNames, game ids, rarities, categories, families and the full fusion graph are integrated from current post-release community-maintained datasets (the SkyShards fusion data, the Skyblock Things spreadsheet by Georik, and the Community Wiki), cross-validated against each other, the live Bazaar and the official release notes. All 321 shards agree across sources; one category disagreement (Starborn) is recorded and resolved by two-source majority.
- Official textures for v0.27 itemsThe official SkyBlock resource pack has not been redeployed since 22 July 2026. Shard icons render from the same community pipeline the site has always used; item textures follow when the pack ships.
- Starlyn Contest scheduleNo exact recurrence is published, so SkyFuse still shows no countdown for Miria's contests.
Use this with SkyFuse's tools
- All Fusions — every fusion recipe SkyFuse can verify, priced live. Open to everyone, no account needed.
- Shard Market — live Bazaar prices, including the 131 shards this release added.
- Best Fusion for Your Shard — what to do with a shard you already hold.
- Multi-Step Routes and Fusion Depth — longer conversion chains.