Automating your island on Hylterium's Skyblock
On the Floating Isles, Hylterium's Skyblock, machines harvest, break, sort, craft and sell for you. They are unlocked with blueprints found in dungeons, burn fuel and only run while a player is nearby.
This guide goes with the page about Hylterium's Hytale Skyblock server, which explains how to start your island.
What to automate first
- Produce by hand first: food, wood, crops. The public farms at spawn supply your first resources.
- Set up storage with room to spare: organised chests and drawers.
- Unlock machine blueprints in the Skyblock dungeons.
- Add a single machine, generator or spawner, and check its collection before scaling up.
- Then optimise for selling prices: see the Skyblock economy.
The machines
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| Vacuum block | Collects items and sends them to your chests; its filters pick which item goes to which chest |
| Block breaker | Breaks generated blocks, adamantite included |
| Auto harvester | Harvests within 9 blocks around it |
| Autocrafter | Crafts an item as long as the resources are there; its blueprint comes from the Nature dungeon |
| Funnel | Plants the seeds placed in its inventory, sunflower seed bags included |
| Sprinkler | Waters crops; the adamantite one reaches 6 blocks |
| Fertiliser spreader | Fertilises a 3×3 area |
| Mob killer | Raises mob loot by up to 25% |
| Sell chest | Sells its contents to the shop, at price thresholds you set |
Hoes till 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5 or 6×6 depending on their material. Vacuum blocks placed before 31 August 2026 must be broken and placed again to get the filters.
Fuel and restarts
- Automation machines burn fuel.
- At every server restart they stop, and only start again when a player comes back nearby: with nobody around, they burn no fuel.
- A button in their interface also stops them by hand.
- Sell chests start again on their own after a restart, without being reopened.
Storing your output
- Drawers hold up to 50,000 items and keep their contents when moved.
- Auto-storage and auto-sorters fill the drawers; connect every output to storage that still has room.
- Hylterium ore stacks to 250 on Skyblock.
- Keep common resources apart from rare items to spot a full storage sooner.
Spawners and island limits
- The number of spawners allowed depends on your island's level.
- The Limits page in
/isshows your island's block caps. - Island extensions raise those limits.
Farming: what changed
- Sprinklers no longer rewrite soil that is already wet: your crops still never dry out between passes.
- The compost multiplier was slightly lowered on 19 September 2026, on every soil: eternal onion farms were the main cause of island lag.
- Fertiliser applies only once per block.
- Modded vegetables and fruit were rebalanced on 4 October 2026 to pay better.
- Farming on your island also raises your RPG level (
/lvl).
The rules
Macros, bots, autoclickers and unauthorised AFK setups are forbidden, even on your own island and even when the farm technically works. The details are in the Skyblock wiki.
Frequently asked questions
How do you unlock machines on Hylterium's Skyblock?
With crafting blueprints found in the Skyblock dungeons. The autocrafter's comes from the Nature dungeon.
Why did my machines stop?
They stop at every server restart and only start again when a player comes back nearby, so they don't burn fuel for nothing.
How do you sort items automatically?
With the vacuum block's filters: each item it picks up goes to the chest you chose. Vacuum blocks placed before 31 August 2026 must be placed again.
How many items can a drawer hold?
Up to 50,000 items, and it keeps its contents when moved.
How many spawners can you place on your island?
It depends on the island's level. The Limits page in /is shows the block caps.
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from an official announcement:
- Vacuum block, block breaker and auto harvester · 30 July 2026
- Fuel and machines stopping at restarts · 20 August 2026
- Automation fixes after Update 6 · 30 August 2026
- Vacuum block filters · 31 August 2026
- The /is Limits page · 3 September 2026
- Performance, sprinklers and compost · 20 September 2026
- Sell chests and drawers · 22 September 2026
- Autocrafter, hoes, spreader and mob killers · 1 October 2026
- Funnels and sunflower seeds · 2 October 2026