Writing Suggestions

This is a guide regarding how to write suggestions for SkyBlock Nerds. The goal of this guide is so that community members can create good and complete suggestions that can move down the greenlit pipeline faster.

While this guide is intended for members of SkyBlock Nerds, this guide is totally applicable towards writing suggestions on the Hypixel Forums and giving ideas and feedback for other projects.

What makes a good suggestion?#

A good suggestion will meet the following parameters:

• The suggestion is clearly written.
• The design of the suggestion is fully complete.
• The suggestion solves a significant issue in Hypixel SkyBlock.
• The suggestion design is considerate of it’s potential issues and limitations and attempts to solve them.

Suggestion Clarity#

There are times where submitted suggestions in SkyBlock Nerds are hard to read, if not outright unreadable. The following things should be easily inferred when reading a suggestion:

• What the suggestion is about.
• What the suggestion is looking to change.
• What are the details of the suggestion.
• Why are the suggested changes the best way to tackle that issue.

Item tooltips generated with the /gen bot command are appreciated, but I’d much rather have a mockup of the item tooltip written in text form. This is because designers will often make minor changes to items, resulting in the tooltip being outdated. Item tooltip information written in text form is much appreciated as it will allow designers to easily edit the tooltip information and create an updated version of the item.

While designers are familiar with Hypixel SkyBlock, developers may not be familiar with parts of content in the game. Features mentioned in a suggestion should be very clearly defined for developer viewing. If the suggestion is a feature modification, make sure all the required information about the feature is given to make the review and development processes easier.

The current menu only allows players to salvage items one at a time. With players getting dozens of items per Dungeon run, it is hugely inconvenient to have to individually salvage these items.

A clear suggestion does not necessarily have to be lengthy. The following is a perfectly fine suggestion:

Add Refined Mineral to Mining Sack

For the above suggestion, the issue is easily inferrable as Refined Mineral being missing from the Mining Sack. Even so, it can benefit from slightly more explanation as follows:

Refined Mineral should be added to the Mining Sack as it’s an item that often clogs the player’s inventory during Mining Fiestas.

Complete Suggestion Design#

There are plenty of good suggestion submissions that are hindered by incomplete design, mostly occuring with new item submissions. When submitting a new item suggestion, make sure all of the following information is given:

• Stats, Abilities and Effects
  • Stats and Abilities of your suggested item are hard to miss (unless it’s a forums suggestion, in that case anything is possible!!). Make sure the stats, abilities and effects of your suggested item/feature are clearly defined.
• Obtainment Method
  • Items need a method of obtainment and features need a point of access. It’s easy to come up with good feature suggestions but forget to add where that feature can be accessed.
• Required Assets (Item Textures)
  • Skull items like accessories and equipment need textures. You can try your hand at creating your own skin textures, or write down design concepts for the texture of your new item so that our artist can make it.

Significance of Suggestion#

From now on, features and feature changes will only be approved if the suggested change solves a significant issue in the game. There’s likely plenty of minor changes we can make to GUIs and random pieces of content, but it’s honestly a waste of time for me to finalize and approve insignificant changes to some GUI. If a change has very little significance to the game, don’t suggest them.

Item suggestions will only be approved if they slot in perfectly with existing content, if the design is fully complete, and if the item has a good purpose in the game.

Impact and Feasibility Assessment#