The Secret I've Kept Since The Great Potato War

you already know the story of The Great Potato War where years ago I went head-to-head against technoblade competing to become the first ever player to reach 500 million potatoes collected and I'm sure you know how it ended Watch Me dance squid kid you lose you lose the war but what if I told you there's actually a backup plan that I never got to finish an ending where even if I couldn't become the potato King I could become the king of something else this story starts off back in April of 2020 I and a bunch of other Sky Block YouTubers at the time gathered around for a game of white elephant if you don't know what white elephant is it's a gift exchange where everyone brings a gift of similar value and the first person opens up a gift to see what's inside then anyone after them gets to pick between opening up a new gift or stealing a gift that was already revealed there were a ton of different gifts with a bunch of random items and by pure chance out of all the different gifts I could have ended up with I got one full of pork it was already known I hadn't had the best experience with a pork in the past it has the wrong number so everyone had a laugh oh God and at the end of the day when I was figuring out what to do with the equivalent of 361,000 pork chop an idea came to me pig minions I decided I wanted to not only keep fighting for rank one in potato I also wanted to go for rank one in pork very ambitious but it wasn't impossible and I was kind of behind in the potato War at the time so I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a backup plan now I couldn't really just pick up my potato minions and put down Pig minions because I was kind of actively participating in The Great Potato War so that meant the only way I could place more minions down was to place them on a different Sky Block profile unlocking all of the minion slots and buying all of the minions and their upgrades was really expensive but I still wanted to keep it a secret so during the potato War when I would collect coins I would list something on the auction house for people to bid on what I wasn't telling people is some of the auctions were being listed from A Different Sky Block profile meaning the coins were going to my secret project instead of The Great Potato War so with having unlocked all 24 minion slots each with a tier 11 pig minion a fly catcher a super compactor and an enchanted lava bucket all I had to do was grind my Spider Slayer to level six to actually be able to equip the fly catchers which would make get a Max pig minion setup for the time well aside for the fuel at least Catalyst would have been the best fuel but they were just too expensive to run and with everything going on I was already pushing it I didn't really give it much thought after that I had plans to eventually hit Spider Slayer level six but it wasn't anywhere close to the top of my priorities list since I had a bigger battle to worry about so I figured I would just let the minions work and maybe check up on them once in a while 2 months later the potato work came to an end way sooner than I had had originally expected so it was time to check up on the pig minion I was nowhere near number one pork I don't remember how much I had exactly but I wasn't even in the top 10 now one loss was enough for that day so I never ended up telling anybody about what I had going on behind the scenes the minions sat around collecting dust for ages only receiving a few easy upgrades as Sky Block got updates more notably September of 2020 when the community center update got released I upgraded the enchanted lava buckets to plasma buckets which granted a thir 35% boost instead of a 25% boost I also unlocked five extra minion slots with gems which I saved 5% off by using Code squid on the Hypixel store everything I make off my Creator code code squid for the next 30 days I'll be donating to the saroma foundation which is the charity I attached to this video I also reached out to Simon Hypixel and he agreed to donate a part of what Hypixel makes through my credit code as well so make sure you use code squid at checkout enjoy the rest of the video January 2021 the Dwarven mines were added to the game adding a beacon that when fueled increases minion production by 10% but unfortunately I couldn't use it there's a progression tree that comes with the mining skill now called heart of the mountain and you need to be heart of the mountain level five to use a Max Level Beacon to level it up you have to do a bunch of different mining commissions like mining a certain amount of mithril or titanium so after a month of getting on every day and mining for an hour I was finally able to place my tier five 5 Beacon then I kind of forgot about it and the minions sat unbothered for years until May of 2023 I decided I finally wanted to make my last attempt at a rank one position I had a few years of updates to catch up on and there are two more minion slots that I had to unlock and all the pig minions needed to be upgraded to level 12 simple enough right not even close how unlocking minion slots in Sky Block works is you need a certain amount of unique minion craft naturally you'll unlock the easier and cheaper ones first making the last ones really expensive or difficult to do the 30th and the 31st minion slot require 50 unique minion crafts each to unlock although I could just buy the materials I needed most of the minions were locked behind things you couldn't just buy with coins so I'll go over some of them Revenant tarantula and voidling minions all three of these Slayer minions have a Slayer level requirement to craft luckily it doesn't take long if you have someone helping you out I would just on my boss and have someone kill it for me I also took the opportunity to go all the way to Spider Slayer level six to be able to use my fly catchers that I bought Magma Cube Blaze gas quartz and glowstone minions all purchased from an NPC on the Crimson aisle Sky Block's biggest island released back in April of 2022 which had a combat level requirement of 24 at the time this was kind of an issue because I didn't really play on the profile other than maintaining the minions I was only combat 19 with with no good gear and no accessories meaning I couldn't do a ton of damage on my own and I would die really easily I didn't want to spend ages grinding my combat level so after asking around people generally agreed the best way to hit combat 24 quickly was to grind Beast Theory so that's what I did Beast Theory basically rewards you for killing a certain amount of each mob in the game 2 hours later I had barely gained any combat XP at all and I stopped because the next beastiary Milestone was only going to reward Ward me with 10,000 combat XP which was nothing compared to the roughly 2 million combat XP I needed to hit combat level 24 so I had to get creative I had to think of a new method that nobody's ever really talked about before and I thought back to when tilted honey was boosting me to unlock the voidling minion at Enderman Slayer level four even though I wasn't able to kill all the bosses myself which meant I didn't get in combat XP I was still gaining combat XP from the mini bosses I was spawning even if I wasn't doing damage to them the void glue mini bosses would reward a decent amount of combat XP even while only doing a tier three Slayer contract the tier four void glue mini bosses would give even more so that was my method I would start a tier four contract spawn mini bosses let tilted honey kill them for me and once a main Slayer boss spawns I would let it kill me so I could start a new Slayer contract and keep spawning mini bosses right away this method got me around a million combat XP an hour so after only a few hours I fin finally hit combat 24 granting me access to the Crimson aisle red sand and melium these minions were probably the biggest headaches to get out of all of them they're also on the Crimson aisle but here's the catch to craft each tier of these minions you need a higher and higher amount of reputation here's a quick rundown of how the Crimson Isles reputation system works when you enter the nether you can choose one of two factions Mage for the melum men or Barbarian for the Red Sand minion you head to your factions Mission board and accept your five daily missions each rewarding you anywhere between 30 and 125 reputation with your faction there are six different types of missions Dojo various mechanically skill-based challenges that put you to the test probably one of the cooler things to do on the whole island I would do my Dojo Mission every time it was offered because they were pretty easy fetch hand in a random material from the Crimson aisle sometimes I wouldn't be able to do this Mission because most of the materials they asked for are untradeable rescue go look for and save a captured faction inpc from enemy territory without getting caught by sneaking past the guards this one was a bit annoying but it was very doable boss Quest you have to go kill the magma boss or the cudra boss these took too much time so I decided to just skip it if it ever came up fishing catch a specific trophy fish nothing too bad just a bit tedious and the last type of mission are mini boss missions they require you to kill one of the four mini bosses around the Crimson aisle most of these I could do which brings me to the other main way of gaining reputation mini bosses on top of the reputation reward for doing a mini boss Mission killing each mini boss grants a small amount of reputation once a day so every day I would go to the Crimson aisle and accept all my daily missions then kill all the mini bosses except for ash bang and by kill all the mini bosses I mean I would do the minimum one million damage required to each one and beg someone to kill it while working on my other missions like doing the Dojo or rescue mission after doing all I could every day I'd maybe gain 200 reputation with my faction and that might seem okay until you learn that I needed 12,000 reputation with each faction meaning once I had reached 12,000 reputation in one faction I had to swap factions and start again but from negative - 2,000 reputation and go back up to 12,000 again so yeah that took literal months but eventually I crafted the minions I needed from that Island moving on to the tier 12 farming minions to upgrade any farming minion to tier 12 not only do you need the millions of coins worth of whatever crop it is on top of that you need 75 pelts how do you get pelts you ask well to get pelts you go to Trevor the Trapper you then track down and kill any mob he wants you to anywhere on the island and that giv gives you a few pelts I needed a total of 3500 of them anyways I upgraded all my unique farming minions as well as 31 of my pig minions bringing their base minion speed from 13 seconds down to 10 seconds moving on to the vampire minion to get this minion we had to go to the rift Dimension probably the most interesting minion to obtain in the entire game to get it you have to do hours of unique Quest that involve you going into a mirror Dimension fighting a giant slime that has tentacles this time calculating what somebody owes on their tax return hacking into the main frame and hand feeding Sky Block's biggest Gizzy gobbler until you eventually get to the still Gore chatau where you collect blood off a few vampires to unlock the minion it's some of my favorite content added to Sky Block to date so I definitely recommend you check it out for yourself and At Last I unlocked my 31st minion slot there were only a few upgrades I had left to do I upgraded each of my minions using Mythril infusions I bought granting a 10% speed buff something else I'm doing that probably doesn't even matter is I started buying a new Beacon fuel that is way more expensive because it grants all minions and 11% speed increase rather than 10% from the cheaper alternative but that's not even the most expensive part now that I had a Max minion setup I started fueling the minions with Hyper Catalyst an upgrade to Catalyst that makes them quadruple the output instead of only tripling it and they last twice as long with the best minions powered by the best fuel with the best Beacon it was time to bring my amp back but of course it wasn't that easy in Sky Block if you're in an AFK pool for too long you'll get kicked to limbo to avoid that I needed to eat a booster cookie but to even buy booster cookies you needed to be Sky Block Level s and I didn't really want to grind Sky Block levels on my alt account so instead I just traded over a bunch of pets that give Sky Block XP to be extra cautious I even had my roommate trade over the level 100 Pigman pet because I didn't want anyone to be suspicious of my auction history having a level 100 Pigman pet active on the island increase the speed of pig minions by 30% now I had to keep him on my Island 24/7 otherwise they wouldn't be getting Max rats it was a waiting game now I had already looked into the pig collection leaderboard and there were two main people the guy in first Ken Sparrow he had first place since before December of 2020 and he was ahead of me by a ton but he only had 30 minion slots unlocked while I had the max of 31 MP4 he was pretty far behind k Sparrow but he had 31 minion slots unlocked and was gaining on him this was pretty concerning because if he was using the same minion setup as me and we were collecting pork at the same rate that would mean I would never catch him luckily running hyper Catalyst and your minions cost around 20 to 25 million coins every single day making it very unlikely that anyone else would be using them August came around and with Derpy being an office I decided I would collect my minions to see where I stand on the leaderboard I was in fourth place with with 204 million pork collected which was promising since I've been tracking everyone else's rate of increase and I was able to confirm they weren't using hyper Catalyst as much as I was I just had to keep waiting as there's actually no way to grind a meaningful amount of pork by hand it's all minions October 23rd MP4 actually ended up taking first place from Ken Sparrow so he got his sweet taste of Victory but it was shortlived because it wasn't even two weeks later on November 4th I would finally collect my minions and take the throne for the most poor collected in Hypixel Sky Block exactly four years after I lost my spot as the potato King a week later MP4 reached out to my business email confused hey squid this is MP4 the current second placeholder in pork chop collection I was also first place a few weeks ago until you overtook me with a 28 million pork chop lead also having never seen you on the pork chop leaderboard I assume you had your API off in order to surprise people with your play placement your sudden reveal in both placement and collection was definitely quite surprising especially considering your past experiences in collection Wars that surpris aside I am now just thoroughly confused about you know why I have been grinding this collection for the better part of 4 years and have not seen your presence in it once until this week I assume the current situation I'm experiencing is kind of like what you felt when techno overtook your place 3 years ago so hopefully you can relate to my plea of asking why I don't even want to know how you did it I would just like a reason to why you did it and then he attached some screenshots proving it's him so MP4 this is why I did it because it started as a backup plan 4 years ago in case I lost the Great Potato war and more recently I decided it was about time that I finished what I started now that I had the number one spot I figured I should probably make a proper build so instead of hosing my minions in wooden boxes I would hose them in pink glass boxes surrounding a statue of technoblade who I'm actually going to be talking about for the rest of this video I was just an average college student when Hypixel Sky Block came out in June of 2019 I worked a summer job on a concrete crew for 60 hours a week and when the potato wor started I was in my second year of University and now I stream and make YouTube videos for a living although me and techno were Rivals for the potato War we didn't actually hate each other and throughout the potato War he was actually incredibly nice to me starting all the way back to when he first uploaded the Great Potato War he sent me a message in game telling me to comment on his video so he could pin it helping Drive traffic to my YouTube channel that only had 67 subscribers at the time it helped me out a ton and at the end of the month I had over 30,000 subscribers I always had this idea of maybe one day meeting him in person at a convention or something so I could say thank you face to face but unfortunately I never got the chance to do so it's been around a year and a half since we lost him and truly it's weird it stuff just hasn't felt the same since and I don't even know how to explain it and it sucks we really were so so so so lucky to have someone like techno as a leader in our community again all the money I make from this video is going to the saroma foundation which I've attached to this video and I encourage you guys to donate to it as well if that's something you're interested in so thank you technoblade thanks for everything you did for me and thank you for everything you did for the community technoblade Never Dies

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Length: 17min 1sec (1021 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2024