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