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game updatemurder mystery
8 months ago

Murder Mystery: Mini Update & New Map

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.

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback! If you have any suggestions or find any bugs, please head over to our forums or Discord.

Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updatejust build
8 months ago

Just Build: Mini Update

A mini update has been released for Just Build, and is rolling out to all regions now!

New Block Toggles

Block toggles allow you to right-click (or long-press if on a mobile device) a block to change its appearance or state. You can now toggle the appearance of the following blocks:

  • Chiseled Bookshelves (to configure books)
  • Bee Nests and Beehives (to adjust honey level)
  • Candles (to toggle them lit or unlit)
  • Copper Bulbs (to toggle them on or off)
  • Turtle Eggs and Sniffer Egg (to adjust how cracked they are)
  • Sculk Sensors (to adjust the state)

Decorated Pots & Banners

You can now change the appearance of certain blocks by right-clicking (or long-pressing if on a mobile device) them with items.

  • Right-click a Decorated Pot with sherds to change its appearance
  • Right-click a Banner with a pattern or dye to change its appearance

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that prevented certain blocks from being taken out of the creative inventory

New Blocks

Over 50 new Vanilla Minecraft blocks have been added to the game:


Mud Blocks

  • Packed Mud
  • Mud Bricks
  • Mud

Sculk Blocks

  • Sculk
  • Sculk Vein
  • Sculk Catalyst
  • Sculk Shrieker
  • Sculk Sensor
  • Calibrated Sculk Sensor

Leaves

  • Mangrove Leaves
  • Cherry Leaves

Flowers

  • Pink Petals
  • Pitcher Plant
  • Torchflower

Buttons

  • Mangrove Button
  • Cherry Button
  • Bamboo Button

Wooden Planks

  • Mangrove Planks
  • Cherry Planks
  • Bamboo Planks
  • Bamboo Mosaic

Doors

  • Mangrove Door
  • Cherry Door
  • Bamboo Door
  • Copper Door (and oxidized variants)

Trapdoors

  • Mangrove Trapdoor
  • Cherry Trapdoor
  • Bamboo Trapdoor
  • Copper Trapdoor (and oxidized variants)

Copper Blocks

  • Copper Grate and (and oxidized variants)
  • Chiseled Copper (and oxidized variants)
  • Copper Bulb (and oxidized variants)
  • Cut Copper

Tuff Blocks

  • Tuff Stairs
  • Tuff Slab
  • Tuff Wall
  • Chiseled Tuff
  • Chiseled Tuff Bricks
  • Polished Tuff
  • Polished Tuff Stairs
  • Polished Tuff Slab
  • Polished Tuff Wall
  • Tuff Bricks
  • Tuff Brick Stairs
  • Tuff Brick Slab
  • Tuff Brick Wall

Miscellaneous Blocks

  • Sniffer Egg
  • Trial Spawner
  • Vault
  • Heavy Core
  • Decorated Pot
  • Froglight Blocks
  • Mangrove Roots
  • Chiseled Bookshelf
  • Crafter
  • Candles
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game updateseasonal contentcapture the flag
8 months ago

Capture The Flag: Rift + Fall Content

An update is now deploying to all regions. This update introduces a new Capture The Flag map and enables our fall seasonal content.

New Capture The Flag Map: Rift

Seasonal Content

  • The main hub has had a fall-themed reskin!
  • Fall maps are now enabled in voting menus, and summer maps are now vaulted (but still available in custom servers)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing potion effect particles to not be shown on some Minecraft versions.
  • Fixed issues related to creative inventories in preparation for the Just Build update.
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game updatedeathrun
8 months ago

DeathRun: Mini Update

A mini update to DeathRun is now rolling out across all regions. This update brings some quality of life improvements to the game.

Best Times

  • Best times (personal bests) are now stored for each map you complete.
  • Running through a portal on a map with a pre-existing best time will tell you if you are faster/slower than your current best.
  • Added a new lobby setting to enable/disable portal delta (faster/slower) time notifications.
  • Added a best time modal to the lobby to view all your times.

Changes

  • Finishing in the top 3 runners will now grant you an additional 30xp.
  • Deaths are now given an objective to stop X players from finishing the map to get a victory. This is dynamically chosen based on the game's player count.

Developer note: We hope this update will make getting victories as a death easier and more rewarding. We also know that new maps are highly requested. Although we have no news to share about new maps right now, we'll let you know when we do!

Avatar of authorThe Hive
game update
8 months ago

Gravity: Mini Map Update

A mini update to Gravity is now rolling out across all regions. This update brings new maps, and some quality of life improvements.

New Maps

  • Abstract
  • Burrow
  • Construction
  • Deepscape
  • Waterways

Changes

  • Modified game-timer shortening to occur after 3 players have finished, up from 1 player
  • Best times are now displayed in a modal that can be accessed via the lobby
  • Best times are now displayed at the start of a map
  • Individual map completion times are now displayed at the end of each map, with a positive or negative delta from your personal best
  • Fixed a bug where setting the custom amount of maps in a custom server to 10 only gave players 9 maps

Happy falling!

Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updatecapture the flag
9 months ago

Capture The Flag: Mini Update 🚩

Update (September 12, 2024): Based on feedback we have adjusted the short-range arrow nerf to always give knockback, and we have reduced the range from 6 blocks, to 5.

A mini update for Capture The Flag is rolling out now, it introduces quality-of-life changes, new unlocks, and bug fixes!

Changes

  • The inventory can now be re-arranged before the game starts
  • A visual damage radius will now appear around placed instant TNT
  • Short-range arrow damage has been nerfed—any arrows that hit a player within 6 blocks will have their damage halved
    • A custom server setting has been added that allows you to modify the range of the damage nerf, or disable it

New Unlock Category: Armor Trims

When equipped, armor trims will display your team's color. Various armor trim patterns can be unlocked at existing levels:


  • Default (Host)
  • Dune
  • Eye
  • Snout
  • Tide
  • Vex
  • Ward
  • Silence

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from using a teleporter despite not carrying a flag
Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updateSkyWars
9 months ago

SkyWars: Level Update & New Map ⚔️

It's time for another update, this time for SkyWars! This update brings 25 new levels and a brand-new Duos map!

New Map

Look out for Atomic, the newest map in the SkyWars: Duos roster!

Unlocks & Cosmetics

This update introduces 25 levels, bringing the total level 100. As always, with each level you reach, you'll unique new unlockable cosmetics.


Kill Effects

  • Soul Bringer
  • You Died!

Projectile Trails

  • Bubbles
  • Bees
  • Music Notes
  • Souls

Spawn Vehicles

  • Lily Pad
  • Runic Ritual
  • Pantheon

Death Crates

  • Ancient Vase
  • Beastly Chest
  • Bank Heist
  • Deep Dark Chest

Player Flags

  • Cherry Tree
  • Boba Cafe
  • Angelic Wings
  • Castle in the Clouds

Avatars

  • Pantheon
  • Mimic
  • Gladiator Creeper

Stat Track Hub Titles (NEW):

  • Kills
  • Victories

Costume

  • Gladiator Creeper

Developer note: After reviewing community feedback, we have decided not to enable prestige with this level update, and will instead enable it in a future update, to give players time to reach level 100.

Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updatebedwars
9 months ago

BedWars: Summer Patch

A new update is deploying for BedWars. This patch includes new challenges, new team upgrades, and other quality-of-life changes and bug fixes.

New Features

  • Added spawn protection team upgrade that increases spawn protection for 2 seconds
  • Added mining speed team upgrade that gives the entire team haste
  • Destroying a bed will mark nearby enemies to grant kill credit if they jump off the island or leave the game

New Challenges

Daily Challenges

  • Victory Lap: Win a game of BedWars
  • Quick Pick: Purchase 2 mining speed team upgrades

Season Challenge

  • Unstoppable: Win 30 games of BedWars (Note: Wins must be acquired after the challenge was added; prior victories will not count)

Changes

  • Spawn protection is now 6 seconds by default (increased from 4 seconds)
  • Spawn protection now shows an action bar message with an expiration timer
  • The 'Blaze It' daily challenge requirement has been reduced from 10 to 5 fireballs
  • Starting sword team upgrade now grants a sword to all swordless players upon purchase
  • Changed the wording on 'Generator Speed' custom server setting to be clearer

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused generators of eliminated teams to activate on game start

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback about this update! Be sure to let us know your thoughts by using our BedWars feedback form!

Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updatesurvival games
9 months ago

Survival Games: Level Update ⚔️

It's time for a Survival Games update! This update brings 20 new levels, bringing the total level to 50.

As always, new levels mean awesome new cosmetics for you to unlock and collect!

Gravestones (NEW):

  • Rusted Sword
  • Bonsai Tree
  • Magic Rune
  • Supply Crate
  • Burrowed Bunny
  • Knight Helmet
  • Garden Gnome

The default gravestone has been modernized. The 'old school' gravestone can now be unlocked at level 10.

Kill Phrases:

  • X finessed Y
  • X ten-hearted Y
  • X sent Y to the moon
  • X gave Y the L

Spawn Pedestals:

  • Enchanted Tome
  • Royal Throne

Avatars:

  • Royal Throne
  • Bonsai
  • Elite Skeleton

Stat Track Hub Titles (NEW):

  • Kills
  • Victories
  • K/D Ratio

Costume:

  • Elite Skeleton
Avatar of authorThe Hive
game updateSkyWars
a year ago

SkyWars: Weekly Items

A new update is deploying to SkyWars on all regions. This update adds weekly items and four brand new maps!

For the full information please read our official news post.

Weekly Items

  • Added weekly items
  • New items are chosen every friday
  • Currently weekly items can be viewed using the book during the game lobby
  • SkyWars: Kits does not currently have weekly items enabled, but may do in the future

Developer note: We'll keep the weekly items a secret for now! Once they have all been revealed in-game, we will update our support website with more detailed information.

New Maps

  • Solo: Lush
  • Solo: Pinecone Point
  • Duos: Boulevard
  • Mega: Obelisk

We hope you enjoy this update! If you have any feedback, feel free to let us know on our Discord.


Avatar of authorThe Hive