I Spent ONE YEAR Hunting for this SkyBlock Item
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2023
- This is the story of the hunt for the Kuudra Mandible, an extremely elaborate scavenger hunt that took me and thousands of other players 363 days to solve.
- Use code "Pig" in the Hypixel Store for 5% off - store.hypixel.net
This video took an entire year to make, so I hope you enjoy it!
Special thanks to:
- @Dragoon45 for initially publicizing the hunt and piquing my interest
- Dueces, JacobRuby, and Landon for developing various parts of the hunt
- The Hunters Discord and everyone who participated: / discord
Also, credits to @orangedontstarve and his video on the History of Bloons for the heavy thumbnail inspiration
Discord: / discord
Twitter: / pigicial
Music Used (In Order):
- Gabriel Lewis - Rise of the Velcro
- From Now On - Clearer Views
- Dream Cave - The Key
- Dream Cave - Mystical Tension
- Dream Cave - The Key
- Van Sandano - Formations
- Martin Moses - In the Mystery
- Max Anson - Night Thoughts
- Ava Low - Chaos Theory
- Philip Ayers - What We Discovered
- David Celeste - Glitch in Reality
- Bach - Cello Suite ( • Cello Suite - Bach [CO... )
- Michael Rothery - My Turn (Drums Removed)
- Michael Rothery - Turncoat
- David Celeste - Organic Textures
- Year of the Deer - Kepler's Hope
- Yi Nantiro - Blue Lantern (Melody Removed)
- Pulsed - Living in a Fantasy
- Van Sandano - Formations
- Ebb & Flod - Orbit
- Piper Ezz - Sector B
- Brendon Moeller - Mars Adventure
- Max Anson - Melted Mind
- Ava Low - Chaos Theory
- Max Anson - Pretend to Wake Up
- Max Anson - Rethinker
- Sonum - Nocturnal Soul
- Max Anson - Decisions Through Vision (Bass Removed)
- Sonum - Nocturnal Soul
- David Celeste - Organic Textures
- Max Anson - Decisions Through Vision (Bass Removed)
- Marten Moses - In the Mystery
- Max Anson - Melted Mind
- Gabriel Lewis - Rise of the Velcro
- Yi Nantiro - Blue Lantern (Melody Removed)
- LEMMiNO - Melancholy ( • LEMMiNO - Melancholy (... ) - เกม
this video is by far the biggest project I’ve ever worked on, so I hope you enjoy it!
let’s just hope the next upload after this doesn’t also take, uhh, 615 days to upload as well (oops lol)
mandible
WELCOME BACK
mandible
LESGO WE'VE BEEN WAITING
hello, im as early as this video. also cool and nice and cool and....(/srs)
I cannot wait for the next hunt to take 10 whole years to complete
I Hope it's a pice of paper that is called "Braging Rights"
Ready player one type of hunt
along with the fact that they are planning to update sb to the newest minecraft version, it would have so much content that its unsolvable.
@@neutralaim so true also hi neutral
@@wiktorious1627It’d be even better with the spelling mistake
Do you guys ever think that skyblock is an elaborate practical joke by the admins to see what ridiculous things they can convince people to do for marginally better stats?
-Technoblade, flying in skybock
real.
dude, so true
god bless him
NO! Technoblade fought god and he won so MAY TECHNOBLADE BLESS US!@@_wheat856
id do that
Dang, the admins suck at setting up logical hunts and giving hints. But wow these are some incredibly committed players.
Good content tho
to be fair it's really difficult to set up an elaborate puzzle without making it too easy or too hard
@@Manlover702but to be more fair, it shouldn’t take a year and dozens of hints for people to get your puzzle.
@@Manlover702thats not "too hard" tho, it's unnecessarily impossible, would've been much better if they just made it too easy in that case
@@batata4427yeah, easier but no hints unless there's no progress in weeks would've been better
Bro imagine how far humanity would be if skyblock players were inventors
You didn't have to cut me off!
We'd Already Have Warp Engines and Dyson Spheres
we have really good programmers and irl traders make thousands a minth
all we need is gods to create cool little puzzles for us every now and then
@alphachiu that’s what covid was we had to make a vaccine
Wow, I just watched an hour long documentary of a man and his group's descent to madness.
I am a big fan of online ARG's and puzzles and i've seen tons of documentaries on them, and i can safely say that this entire kuudra mandible hunt puzzle was one of the most brutal out there, mostly due to how vague it got towards the later parts of it, and how much you had to sacrifice to get to it.
GG's to you and the entire team.
Was worth the 600 day wait in my opinion lmao
:D
Hi HellCastle!
4Ourth
W Hellcastle gotta make this the top comment
Since the last video, I've become a great-grandfather, my house has been eroded by the elements and aliens have invaded the planet, but upon receiving this notification I had no choice but to dig my old laptop out of the ruins and have a watch. Thanks Pigicial.
Mandible really brings out the best in people
Who was paying for your wifi?
Yeah, same here. I just came out of my grave to check this out.
@@danflash8639 I asked the aliens if they’d let me not be a slave for an hour and they said yes!
@@ReshirexOnYT yea they fished me right out, haha im so funny, damn this is cringe
So you basically got scammed by the Admins out of your money and time. I would be murderous.
14:11 "Why do we have to donate coins to show our belief".
Oh boy, the catholic church sure has some history lessons for you
Yeah why do we have to donate could you please explaing.
@@minuzbecomez he's making a reference to when people had to be wealthy, or be a priest to learn the language of the Bible at the time, so priests were very corrupt and would tell people that the Bible says to give money to them or else something bad will happen to you. that is no longer the case though because the Bible has been translated into nearly every language in the world and nobody would fall for that in this day and age.
@@xxsmallmanxx7858to add onto this some priests back then would allow you to literally buy forgiveness rather than go to the confessional, the practice’s name escapes me. But there’s a reason it isn’t done anymore. Though while I don’t believe every priest back then was corrupt.
@@minuzbecomez he is making reference to tithing
This was hands down the greatest Skyblock video I've ever seen. Huge props to everyone involved, from the brilliant hunters to the devs who made this possible in the first place.
For real, i watched through the entire thing, as if I dont have 4 exams next week lol 🍭
This was so exciting.
Hi colon
it’s good but nothing tops the potato war videos
Wassup colon
this video reminds me of the hunt from ready player one (the book not the movie) like difficult puzzles and random things to do. beautiful story and the best part about it was the community you made along the way not just the item itself.
searched for this just to like :)
The book is so much better than the movie
Pigical is an irl gunter
I thougt exactly the same
@@JamesGraham-br8iofr
Spending 1 year to get a 1 bonus fishing speed is such a Skyblock player move
This hunt was easily my favorite experience in all my years of SkyBlock, and I honestly doubt anything's every going to surpass it. I got to meet a lot of very cool people and had an amazing time. All in all, I'm happy that I joined the hunt, even if it did drain my sanity at times. The memories I've made are worth more than any armor edition could ever possibly be.
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No way is that the guy from Pigicials mandible video?
Omg super druggy
@@Goat_Girl_Gwen 117
Wtfrick, I know your from Cowshed!!
No way is this duggy???
Have we tried bringing a Sea Emperor to Jake?
real and incredible
Ayo the man's here
If I hear that sentence again I may go fully mad and sacrifice myself to the kuudra in real life.
It’s Sea Empin’ time.
Hi
What an inventive way to fight hyperinflation! Just make the players all sink money into an expensive search.
I’m really glad they acknowledged the fact that the second half of this hunt was so poorly designed. Even when you have the solution it’s still not entirely clear how you were supposed to reach it. The fact that dozens of hints had to be given makes it glaringly obvious that the information required to solve the mystery was not readily accessible to even the most hardcore of players and that the puzzle itself just was not designed well.
For 81, it's probably the nine layers of hell, and you need 2 people in each location, so 9 to the power of 2 is 81. Also, the to the power of symbol "^" looks like an arch.
dueces actually confirmed that he literally just made the number up lmao
there was no logic to it
@@SuperDuggy117 so wheres the puzzle in that, need phd to guess numbers?
@@raivis923 I mean, actually needing a PhD was a bit of an exaggeration, since we could just use specialized calculators. But the Archeologist's equation (∫ 2x - 2x^5 + 7x^3 dx) was literally calculus soooooo
@@SuperDuggy117 yeah high school level calculus
@@raivis923 yeah this whole arg or whatever seemed very annoying I don't think I've seen someone give that many hints and then say it was meant to be done without them is crazy lol
Bro just WOW, I've never been so drawn into a video like this before. Not just the insane puzzles yall managed to figure out and put yourselves through but the editing aswell, amazing dude. I remember a while ago wondering when your next video would be, and man this was well worth the wait
gometry dash
gometry dash
gometry dash
skyblock
Mr Samellot!
this proves the admins will do literally anything before updating foraging
It's so incredibly impressive that you guys beat such an insane and poorly designed hunt.
There were points in this video I was getting so frustrated on your behalf! You have some insane dedication for toughing it out all the way to the end and getting the mandible! Congrats to the whole team!
Vaugue clues, huge amounts of RNG, instructions from the devs that were contradictory or misleading!!!
A well designed riddle is challenging but does NOT have multiple possible, equally defensible, answers. Having to grind and collectively scour the map for elusive clues is expected in these sort of MMO games, but those equations are just indefensible.
The fact that the devs had to resort to giving daily hints, and some of the admins even helping the team with answers on discord, speaks volumes to how well put together this hunt was. Some of these requirements, like forcing the players to wear a freaking CLOWN mask to get a "hang in there" cat photo on a soggy napkin...
Mocking all your most invested and dedicated players... real classy move. That must have been so frustrating for people.
This was not a brilliant and challenging hunt. This was a thrown-together goose chase, with clues that weren't so much "intellectually challenging" as they were technically true about as often as a broken clock. I can't imagine people had a lot of fun with this after the first few months, but I can imagine the relief at finally beating it after a year.
Yes!! I was baffled throughout the video, my frustration and shock growing at the crazy shit the admins threw together as a "hunt" or "puzzles"..no hunt should EVER be nearly impossible without hints, that's just a bad hunt. It really was just a wild goose chase, and the "hang in there" cat was the shit icing on the moldy cake..it wasn't for anything just a mockery (and later got in the way of the hunt as people attempted to use it in some way to solve VAGUE MATH).
It felt like the hunt was at first a joke, the item didn't exist, but as more got invested they got scared of saying "lol trolled, there is no item" they added more things to it and eventually the item..at one point they did say the mandibles didn't exist! It's obvious they plan the entire hunt from the beginning, just went along adding more slowly, and if it was planned from the beginning it really doesn't look like it for how horrible it was. The only good thing most doing the hunt liked was the friends they met along the way, they never really enjoyed the hunt (as it was so frustrating, grinding, and like throwing eggs at a wall hoping they stick) they just enjoyed the community aspect and all the cool people they met.
oh these are exactly my thoughts, really well put together comment.
honestly
@@8illy smooth moves billy
@@8illybro wut u doing here
I dont think a single person skipped any part of this video. It was worth the year and the global skyblock economy.
I did
@@pagenie6124 noone asked u
@@pagenie6124 You don't count
@@pagenie6124 me too
@@horribleperson9531 Your name explains it all
This video is an actual masterpiece. Congrats to the whole team.
I made a 46 minute documentary that only got 263 views…
@@LavaCreeperPeople probably because text to speech doesn't really keep people watching.
@@Lerre true, sadly...thank you for taking your time to watch it though.
ngl this doesnt sound like a puzzle but more of a hey guys waste time and money brute forcing vague at best clues
True
Yeah this has to be the worst puzzle / ARG (?) I’ve seen.
It’s hipixel skyblock, I don’t know what you expect from it
??? There are real puzzles kinda like this out in the real world. Like the golden owl.
@@MMoo222 I feel like an actual treasure hunt gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes to that.
The Kuudra mandible overriding frail 6 on launch is the single most hypixel thing I've ever seen.
I feel like techno would be proud of this storytelling
Rest In Peace Alex but Technoblade never dies
It is a musical genre. It cannot feel.
He would.
@@SoyAntonioGaming 👎
RIP 🙏
The hunt was really hard and brutal. But sometimes it was unfairly brutal, for example what item to click the block that got you kuudra relic. Divan drill had bp 10 which had no other use, but nothing hinted at drilling the block or something, and the bp 10 existed before nether. It was by far the most expensive part of doing the kuudra quest if you knew what you were doing, but they nerfed it to any drill.
Anyway donating coins must have been so unfairly brutal. Especially figuring out what the total (blank) means. You had to use 3rd party tools/mods to figure that out (while allowed, kinda goes against hypixel's policy of not endorsing these).
I could talk about other examples too but you get the point. At times the amount of information given was not enough and random testing had to be made, which when it's the only option, is kinda bad design. Though I have to applaud some hints like what the weird sailor talked about. The hints were very vague but they told what you needed, unlike many other parts of the hunt.
hypixel devs when they implement a puzzle into the game: (its literally unsolvable and will take 8 months to complete with outside help)
This is absolutely insane. I'm so glad that this brought so many people together, but for a quest to be filled with so many dead ends that it takes A YEAR to solve only with outside help... Imagine if the admins didn't give a hoot and just left y'all on your lonesome. Doesn't sound fun to me but definitely an interesting video!
I'll have to check out your channel
skyblock players after spending literally one year to get 13% health reduction on a specific group of mobs
Was a pleasure hunting with you and all the other Hunters!
real and
imcredible
Hey, I know you from- wait, no it’s OHD, not cowshed
OH MY GOD IT'S THE BOAR GUY
CAN I PLEASE GET YOUR BOARTOGRAPH
@@SuperDuggy117 :o fr???
While I didn't necessarily find anything that was part of a solution, I had a ton of fun giving and hearing ideas and participating in the hunt, met a lot of new people and made a lot of new friends, and I have no regrets. Thank you everyone so much.
Average Skyblock players spending one year to get 1% better
Imagine clicking a block for 2 hours to get a single item lmfao
I absolutely love hunts/ARG esque events like this in games. Something so cool about the community getting together and hunting for a single item/location.
Imagine going on the street and u see a guy saying: “Do you love god? Prove it by giving me 3 million dollars”
television evangelists 😭
bro how did it take you 1 year i just watched a 5 minute guide
💀
So true
So true
So true
@@pogoduck6949 NO WAY ITS POGO DUCK
This is so beautiful "its not about the destination its about the journey" i'm glad yall enjoyed the hunt and strengthen your bonds :)
this is the best video on a topic I have zero knowledge in I have ever seen
its the redstone guy!
who you
watched the whole video from start to finish, and holy this was very well made and it's extremely cool to see a community of people looking for some pixels in a children's game be as difficult as this! hope to see more of your content in the future!
omg shdwoa
@@chemiluminescent1306 h
AYYYYY welcome back my dude
mandible
mandible
The insane amount of time, effort, brain juice, cooperation, and money spent on this hunt is just... incomprehensible. I haven't gotten to Minecraft much anymore, but even if I was still a tryhard, I would almost never be able to do this kind of thing. Skyblock players will always be amazing to me from how much patience and the amount of grind they do. This gave me a little boost of motivation to try playing MC again. All of you are amazing :D
Bro even im a sb player and even tho im addicted im still constantly in awe of the incredibly stupid determination these sb players have
Amazing video, your story telling and the way you edited the video was so good. I have rewatched this video like 4 times because it was so fun to watch. Keep it up! :D
this is the most dedication i've seen in skyblock since the potato war
pigs are dedicated to skyblock lol
@@savai9429 TRUE
True Rest In Peace Technoblade
So I was probably one of the few people who loved fishing enough to where I tried to participate in the hunt specifically so I can help unlock the mandible. I reached 5 mil magma cream, 3 mil netherrack and got the other two pieces and the wet napkin when the helmet was found. I tried to help but was constantly met with hate towards my ideas and it felt like I was not wanted. Then to top it off, I heard that the follower artifact was found and the hunt was over. Despite everything, for 4 months the mandible was just not in the game and the hunt was pointless for me as I just wanted the mandible. Then add the change to all of the tasks making it easier and my friend just free riding all of the pieces before me and that just left a REALLY sour taste in my mouth that I just stopped playing after...
This is probably the first video of yours that I’ve seen but your content is genuinely so fantastic. I haven’t been this invested in a video, much less about Hypixel Skyblock in ages and your content is genuinely so mesmerizing and keeps me on the edge waiting for more. ❤
Underrated video, I don't play Hypixel, but the history behind figuring it out was a good story.
Damn, a video that left me speechless in the end, what a pleasant surprise. GG Pig and everyone who have worked for this. An amazing hunt and a video.
I guess the real Kuudra Mandible truly was the friends we made along the way... and a couple billion coins
I have never been so invested in skyblock. I remember playing when it had just started out and I was doing little hunts for enchanted items that were kinda rare and it’s cool to see how like 3 years later it’s evolved into this crazy mind game with the hardest riddles in a block game.
This entire hunt gave me major Ready Player One vibes. You know it's gonna be a good year when Pigicial uploads.
Seriously amazing video. The amount of dedication and passion for your craft bleeds through this. Waiting for its release was absolutely worth it. All the small details and dedication to the story just show how amazing it is.
I'm so thankful to have been a part of this from the start. I met a lot of amazing people through it who I still talk to even now. It was hands down one of my best experiences in skyblock, even if sometimes it was sheer insanity.
11/10, would mandible again.
It's nice to see how crazy the Skyblock community can be.
This is INSANE, mad respect for you guys and your incredible dedication. Love seeing u upload again pigical, lets hope we dont need to wait another 700 days for another one, even though id like to say this one was really worth the wait.
I'm at minute 44 of the video so far and I must say it's incredibly well edited and surprisingly fun all the way throughout, great pacing and storytelling !
Although I must say from an outside perspective this event seems a bit bullshit hahah, lots of unfairness going on and a few things that are impossible to figure out besides brute forcing it (such as elbuod having to be 4 different values constantly taken onto account, only being confirmed it was -2 through an admin saying so in a discord server)
The scavenger hunt events seem incredibly fun if well executed, so I hope developers keep adding them to unite a dedicated community. I hope that with time oversights that were eventually added later (Type of volcano eruption or adding extra dialogues to the weird sailor whenever you met a requirement) are fixed for future projects :)
I also hope that if they make new scavenger hunts with different steps (Like the 5 npc's here signifying the steps) they make it so each step takes a similar amount of time, to give a better sense of progression and not destroy motivation due to feeling stuck.
Anyways, my opinion might be very skewed giving that I wasn't a hunter during the event, but what I do know is that it's genuinely so neat that Hypixel is still updating Skyblock and adding events that keep people intrigued, the creative minds of hypixel have been going at it for 10 years now and they are still going strong, even developing Hytale ! Props to them.
I mean yeah, some parts were definitely... something.
But the hunt was overall a cool experience and stuff.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be seeing any more of the Kuudra Follower Hunt.
As the admins said in the server, this saga has finally come to an end.
But that doesn't mean more hunts in the future won't create new memories!
Hearing Turncoat playing at ~22:02 sent me straight back to Unus Annus
Memento Mori
this is like my 3rd to 5th time rewatching this and it still is really enjoyable
This video was beautiful. Not only its editing but its storytelling. This video definitely deserves more likes than it has
man gotta appreciate the effort made into the hunts
congrats on finally finding it!
btw the video is on FIRE i felt like watching a whole movie (in a good way ) epic editing
Awesome to finally see the full breakdown come out! I was in the chestplate group when we found it (edition 15 wooo haha), and all around the hunt was just an awesome experience, especially the community formed around it!
Beautiful editing and storytelling. A classic.
Amazing video!!🎉 a thrilling story and great storytelling from your part
Really cool video, I was hooked from the start till the end. The commentary was top-notch!
Love your video! It really shows the perspective of how much you can put dedication into a game and how fun it could be(sort of). I think the admins did a great job with the hunt.
dude this is quite possibly the best video i have ever laid my eyes upon
I hope you upload more. This was entertaining as hell. I've watched it several times now.
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This is one of the coolest skyblock videos I’ve ever seen. Incredible job, man.
This video was one of the longest videos I've ever watched without taking a break, skiping 10 seconds etc. One of the perfect Skyblock videos I've ever watched. Keep up the great work, you just earned a sub. It isn't much, but it's the least I can do
I have played skyblock for maybe an hour total ever, I'm not gonna start playing it now, but this definitely kept me engaged through the whole journey. Fantastic video.
I really enjoyed this video. It had good story writing, suspense, and flow especially for 58 minutes. I watched all of it, thank you for making it.
Insane video - I enjoyed every minute of it, and I had no clue how much you went through to get magical power for everyone else.
Best hypixel skyblock video ever, I watched it 4 times lol, thanks a lot
Truly a "its about the journey not the destination" moment
Congrats for everyone who participated, i'm very impressed to how much work this as to do for a single item.
This was such a great watch awesome job to all of the hunters.
Damn, this looked straight like cicada 3301 minecraft edition
Great video! Thanks for working on it and posting 😊
The video is super well edited and very entertaining. Congrats!
This felt like a documentary movie. Props to the hunters and the excellent editing throughout this rollercoaster!
never played Hypixel sky block in my life but i watched the whole video and loved every bit of it ! well done !
Holy crap this was so fun to watch, i hope they do more of these hunts in the future
Such a cool puzzle the admins put on for the community. Excellent video, Pigicial!
Holy fuck Pigicial video. See you guys again next year
how did i find bro??
@@CorPlayz yoo sup cor hows it going man
This is peak content, wathced it like 10 times already. It was entrataining every single time. Good job Pigicial!
This video was insane! This is the kind of video that gives me so much mc motivation after watching because of the insane level of editing, storytelling, and engagement. You’ve earned a sub from this one vid, keep it up
One of the best Skyblock videos I've ever seen. Great work Pigical!
Insane work! GGs all around
This guy has so much dedication to the game man I appreciate it so much.
this was a perfect video for me. I was looking for something long to watch while I grind commisions and then your video pops up, and its nearly an hour.
“now, time travel is typically a tremendously difficult task” is such a banger quote
You know it's gonna be a good year when Pigicial uploads
this was a good watch, i quit about 3 months after the crystal hollows update, not kept up since but this was a nice story to see some of the updates:)
Bro Ive never played 1 second of Skyblock, but this video? It gave me chills. AMAZING JOB BRO
Man you uploading gave me so many memories. I remember when me and two other friends would join a discord call during our zooms and just grind out skyblock. We would be so hyped if we were able to leech off of a god splash and tped each other there every time. Man so much changed in just 3 years.
One of the best if not the best Skyblock video ever released. Good stuff man
omg japi!
all of this, just for pixels that do not change life at all, and just endless fun for us. keep up the good work pigicial
33:05 is just an amazing description of how insane you gotta be to be able to pull this off
One of the best videos I've ever watched regardless of subject, I loved the editing and the gameplay and the general information. I want you to know that you have a talent!
Spent almost an hour of my life watching it and enjoyed every second of it. Props to the incredible amount of time and effort spent on it.
i have never even heard of skyblock but this video got me so invested man
good job
I love stuff like this, it’s something I always love seeing in always online games. It’s an advantage they have over singleplayer games, community secrets. If Hypixel Skyblock was a singleplayer game they’d never be able to do something this mysterious and hard, people would know all the requirements by the next day thanks to dataminers.
I have been waiting for this since Dragoons videos almost a year ago. Insane achievement! Huge congrats for all of you! I would never have this level of dedication!