Welcome to our updates website! Come back regularly to find the latest Hive updates.

We have finished the infrastructure testing as mentioned in our initial announcement. As such, we will be retiring the Australia testing region this coming Monday, March 29th, near the end of the (Oceanic) day.

We appreciate the interest in the Australia region. However, we currently have no plans to permanently establish an Australia region. If this changes, we will post a future update.

Spring has arrived on The Hive!

New Hub

The hub is in full bloom! As well as the hub being covered in colorful fauna, some of the characters and models that you know and love have also been given a new lease of life, be sure to look out for them!

Rumour has it there's even a new parkour run to try out and a new hub title for those that manage to complete it!

Spring Maps

This update sees the return of many seasonal maps, as well as the addition of some new ones! Be sure to check out the newly decorated game lobbies as well.

Survival Games Map

We've released the second of two new maps as part of our Survival Games update - Blossom! This map is a permanent addition to Survival Games and will be sticking around after Spring.

Players in the Asia-Pacific region (East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania) may see some of their traffic redirected to Australia this coming week.

We do NOT have any plans to permanently establish an Australia region.

We are using this testing region to test and improve automated scaling and stability systems.

We've added 30 new levels to Hide and Seek, bringing the total level count to 50. Additionally, there are some minor game changes.

Maps

• Added new map: Hacienda
• Updated CS Office to improve visuals

Cosmetics

Block Eyes

• Anime Eyes (Level 21)
• Cow Face (Level 26)
• Visor (Level 31)
• Mailbot Face (Level 36)
• Dragon Eyes (Level 40)
• Deal With It Glasses (Level 44)
• Pinocchio Face (Level 48)

Block Hats

• Flag (Level 23)
• Mailbot Hat (Level 28)
• Dragon Hat (Level 30)
• Taxi Sign (Level 34)
• Pizza (Level 38)
• Laser (Level 43)
• Cat Heaphones (Level 47)

Block Legs

• Cat Paws (Level 22)
• Dragon Legs (Level 27)
• Mailbot Wheel (Level 33)
• Sneakers (Level 37)
• UFO (Level 42)
• Mermaid Tail (Level 49)

Hub Titles

• Peekaboo! (Level 24)
• The Chase IS ON (Level 29)
• Waldo (Level 35)
• Leaf me alone. (Level 41)
• Sneaky Beaky (Level 46)

Avatars

• Hiding Doggo (Level 25)
• Cat Detective (Level 32)
• Peekaboo (Level 39)
• Found You! (Level 45)

Costumes

• Ultimate Hider (Level 50)

Game Changes

• Added Barrel as a hideable block option
• Changed the hub NPC to the costume unlocked at Level 50

We hope you enjoy this mini content update! Let us know your favorite unlocks!

This is our third small change roundup, where we feature changes not covered in individual update posts. Our main focus recently has been large game updates, replays, and new games, but there are still a bunch of new fixes, changes and features!

Updates since January 8th, 2021

Framework (all games)

Bug Fixes

• Game unlocks are now always correctly ordered by level

Changes

• Added a reset button to the top of cosmetic categories
• Prevented players from joining if they don't have the right resource pack(s) enabled

Murder Mystery

Features

• Added a toggle AFK kicking setting for custom servers

Treasure Wars

Changes

• Players can no longer build near shops
• Players can no longer stand inside shop NPC's
• Ender Pearls will no longer kill players on teleport, instead, will leave players on at least half a heart (SkyWars-parity)

Bug Fixes

• Respawning players can no longer break blocks
• Fixed Custom Server summoners having the wrong default setting
• Fixed upgrade button message for certain non-English languages
• Boom boxes are now properly removed at the end of a game

SkyWars

These changes were previously mentioned in various update posts. There are no new changes since those posts.

Features

• Added Sword of Embers, replacing Fire Sword
• Added Crumbling Cobblestone

Changes

• Knockback Nemo now applies vertical knockback, rather than just horizontal

Survival Games

Please see:

SG Update Changelog #1

SG Update Changelog #2

DeathRun

Bug Fixes

• Trap glass is no longer consistently red when using the 0 trap cooldown option in Custom Servers

Changes

• The Strafe Cooldown option now uses seconds, rather than game ticks, so it's more clear to players

Server / Proxy

Features

• Improved locker search - colors are now ignored, making it easier to find multi-colored hub titles
• Added /rules to view (a summary of) the rules
• Aligned all Hive Team (paid staff & employees) ranks to show HIVE rather than specific tags.
• We figured out what H stands for, and as such, helpers now have the HELPER tag
• Added Micro Surveys to poll players

Changes

• Multiple Custom Server invites from the same user now appear as one
• Improved punishment messaging

Bug Fixes

• Eating food once again shows the right particles across all supported versions of Minecraft
• Various changes to prevent 'Steve Glitch'

We have identified the root cause for the "Steve Glitch", which causes all entities to appear as Steve models.

We are rolling out fixes for this today.

We've added 25 new levels to Treasure Wars, bringing the total level count to 100. Additionally, there's a brand new MEGA map: Plaza.

Treasures

• Pickaxe (Level 76)
• Championship Belt (Level 79)
• Burger (Level 82)
• Earth (Level 85)
• Pizza Stack (Level 88)
• Emerald (Level 91)
• Piñata (Level 94)
• Saturn (Level 96)
• Beehive (Level 98)
• King Villager (Level 100)

Bridge Builders

• Pigeon (Level 77)
• Strider (Level 81)
• Biplane (Level 86)
• Zoglin (Level 90)
• Rocket (Level 95)
• Mailbot Delivery Drone (Level 99)

Particles

• Spicy Sparkles (Level 80)
• Ice Blast (Level 89)
• Yin Yang (Level 97)

Hub Titles

• Ahoy me hearties! (Level 78)
• Treasure Trasher (Level 84)
• Poseidon (Level 92)

Avatars

• Pirate Bunny (Level 83)
• Pirate Pug (Level 87)
• Meowtiny (Level 93)

We hope you enjoy this mini content update! Hide and Seek will be the next game to get more levels and unlocks.

Survival Games is officially out of beta!

Over the last week, we have been previewing our new Survival Games update and tweaking the game based on community feedback.

We are now happy that the update is balanced, and have rolled out the changes to the Survival Games modes.

We have also released the first of two new maps, Mobius! We will be releasing the second new map next week.

Thank you to everybody who has given us feedback regarding the update. As always, we are still open to suggestions and will continue to tweak the game based on feedback. If you have any suggestions, please be sure to post them on our forums.

You can view the full changelog here, and the balancing changes we have already made here.

We will soon be reverting the change that removed 1.16.40 support from The Hive.

To bring you the best possible experience, we use modern features that require recent client versions. Only supporting the most recent client allows us to keep our server light and easily maintainable, which results in a better experience (less lag, so to say).

However, it is clear that updates 1.16.100 and 1.16.200 have multiple issues that prevent a portion of our players from enjoying Minecraft. We suggest that players affected by issues in these versions communicate these issues to Mojang, who are able to resolve them. Good ways of doing this is reporting and upvoting bugs on MoJira and leaving feedback on the Minecraft feedback website. The Hive always advocates for the best experience for our players, but it's important you make your voice heard to Mojang directly.

We must note that this is a temporary extension to the 1.16.40 support. Future Minecraft versions will introduce complex changes that will render 1.16.40 support unmaintainable.

The Survival Games update uses features only available in 1.16.100 and up and will not be playable by those on 1.16.40.