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

We've made various improvements to PlayHive.com, notably to its interactive features.

Profiles:

• Player search has been visually improved, and now supports partial player names (enter the start of a name to get suggestions ordered by active players)
• Added hats, backblings, pets and mounts
• Several design improvements and fixes
• Coming soon: overhauled game statistics detail improvements for mobile devices

Leaderboards:

• Better use of width to display leaderboards better on mobile
• More statistics now visible on mobile

Overall:

• Aligned footer with our other websites

Stay tuned for future website improvements, including minigame details pages and a full cosmetics catalogue.

If you have any suggestions for our website, make sure to submit them on our forums!

The development of our website(s) is separate from the game server and does not impact the development of our minigame and MMO servers.

Players joining now receive the status of their online friends, and pending incoming friend invites. You can disable this with a new toggle in the /toggles menu.

Hive-o-ween content will be leaving on Wednesday, November 6th.

If you haven't yet found all of the potion ingredients in the hub, reached the maximum level in Ghost Invasion, or collected 100 souls in Murder Mystery, now is your last chance to do so!

Once they're gone, all of this year's Hive-o-ween unlocks will never be available again!

Unleash your inner ram-page! The Ram costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!

We have removed skill-based (ELO) matchmaking from The Bridge: Solos. This game now uses (local region) platform-based matchmaking.

Whilst The Bridge gets more than enough players for regular matchmaking, SBMM was causing excessively long matchmaking times outside of peak hours in the respective regions. Outside of these hours, the gap in skill (ELO) was so high that it was practically the same as our regular matchmaking.

For clarity, we are not vaulting The Bridge, and have no plans to do so in the foreseeable future.

It's The Hive's 6th anniversary! Join The Hive today to receive your exclusive party hat and hub title!

The unlocks will automatically be granted when you join The Hive, and will only be available until October 17th, at 12pm (noon) UTC.

Cross-Region Matchmaking, part of our ongoing Region Agnostic update, is now enabled for BlockDrop and Ground Wars on the Europe and Asia regions.

Cross-Region Matchmaking activates based on the amount of player queuing for a specific game type. When this number is below a threshold, the system will try to find a lobby on a different region.

You can learn more about Cross-Region Matchmaking on our support website.

We'll update the linked support article based on frequently asked questions and feedback.

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

A huge cauldron has appeared in the hub... We're not quite sure how it got here or who put it there, but our builders reportedly heard cackling while they were putting up decorations...

Perhaps you could search for some ingredients and create your own concoction—who knows what you could brew?!

There have been reports of some peculiar items appearing around the hub and microhubs, be sure to check them out on your hunt for ingredients!

Reaping the Lost

It seems history has repeated itself! While trying to access the high-security vault where our Hive-o-ween maps are stored, our builders somehow managed to release a Reaper into Murder Mystery once again.

It’s up to you to collect the souls of fallen players and send him back to where he belongs. Who knows, your efforts might just be rewarded with something mysterious and valuable...

Start your journey by joining a Murder Mystery game!

Ghost Invasion

As is tradition, everyone's favorite fruit-colored ghosts are back! Ghost Invasion has returned once again, and with it comes an all-new collection of cosmetics for you to unlock!

Unlocks

• 6 Ghost Characters
• 5 Ghost Pop Effects
• 4 Zapper Ray Trails
• 4 NEW Halloween Hub Titles
• 5 NEW Halloween Avatars
• 1 NEW Exclusive Costume

And...

• Spookified game lobbies (coming soon) and Halloween-themed maps, including community favorite Witch School (Murder Mystery), and 5 BedWars maps
• Over 100 spooky Just Build themes

A mini update has been released for Murder Mystery. This update includes new unlocks, sound changes, and a brand new map: Nectar Lake!

New Map: Nectar Lake

Pack your bags, it's time to go camping down by Nectar Lake! Be sure to keep your wits about you though—not everything is as it seems...

Be sure to check out our blog post about the map here.

Directional Murder Sound

When a player is murdered, the sound now plays from the direction where the murder took place. The volume of the sound will also indicate how far away you were from the murder.

This feature works best when wearing headphones.

New Unlocks: Murder Weapons

You can now unlock various swords by leveling up:

• Dull Sword (Default)
• Sharpened Sword (10)
• Gilded Sword (25)
• Refined Sword (45)
• Forged Sword (60)
• Polished Mace (85)

By default, murderers now wield a wooden sword. The previous default (the iron sword) can now be unlocked at level 10.