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Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last week. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as Hats now being supported in in-game lobbies.

Social:

• Players are now alerted if another player's friend list is full when inviting them. The invite itself will still go through.
  
• /friend denyall now outputs a single message, rather than "spamming" the chatbox for each denied invite.
  
• Friend invite toggle now fully blocks invites from being sent. Previously, the receiving player would not be alerted, but still receive the invite. The toggle now correctly prevents the invite being sent at all.
  
• Party invite will now say if you invited an invalid player.

Gifting:

• Gifts that use the 'entitlement' system (pets, mounts, hats) now correctly prevent duplicate gifting.
  

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue with using bows whilst being teleported.
  

All games and hubs:

• Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last week. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as Hats now being supported in (certain) games.

Network:

• Fixed various bugs affecting players on Minecraft 1.19.50, including maps/item frames not functioning properly

All games and hubs:

• Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!

Hub and Arcade:

• When gifting an item to your self, the system now properly checks if you already own that item before continuing
• You can now gift 1 year of replay pass to players that already have an active pass (stacks infinitely)
• Note: there is an active bug where the entitlement check for pets, mounts and hats doesn't function correctly, leading to these items being able to be gifted despite the recipient already owning them. This will be addressed in the next update.

Capture the Flag:

• Fixed TNT not replacing water blocks correctly after exploding 
• Added setting for customizing store price modifier in Custom Servers

Hide and Seek:

• Made it impossible to interact with doors to prevent annoying sounds 

Murder Mystery:

• Made it impossible to interact with fence gates and doors to prevent annoying sounds 

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!

Winter is coming... The Ugly Sweater Bee costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!

Today we've started rolling out support for Hive Hats in our games.

Initially, hats are only supported in the lobby and endgame phases. Over the coming days and weeks, we will enable hats for the entire game session in titles that do not utilize armor. For example, Murder Mystery.

Currently, hats can only be equipped/changed in our hubs, but we aim to make it a global cosmetic in the future.

Developer note: We've heard feedback that you'd love to use your hats in games. To bring this feature to you as soon as possible, we decided to hold back moving the hat menu to the proxy (global) level. We hope to update this in the future.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last 2 weeks. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as the Just Build: Theme Voting Update.

Network:

• Added initial support for Minecraft 1.19.50

All games and hubs:

• Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!
• Fixed an issue where effects like absorption would not correctly show when reapplied
• Fixed custom block break time rendering for certain newer versions of Minecraft
• Please note that it can take up to 1 week for newly added translations mentioned below to be available in all supported languages.

SkyWars (Kits):

• Added translation support for game specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram
• Fixed Shield Spell users taking environmental damage
• Fixed fire trails spell ability to be placed on transparent blocks, which made the fire invisible

Hide and Seek:

• Fixed a bug that prevented lobby skin changes from applying in the live game

Capture the Flag:

• Fixed a bug which allowed players to ignore water damage by staying in waterlogged blocks
• Fixed arrows vanishing from offhand after respawning 
• Fixed a bug that allowed respawning players to speed up flag return process 

Just Build:

• Fixed an issue where helmet cosmetics would get removed after theme voting stage
  

The Bridge:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the game from ending with only 1 player
  
• Prevented players from using special items in warmup phase

Murder Mystery:

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from interacting with a rune box once it has teleported away from its first location
  

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!

Over the past month, we've worked on new tools to bring custom blocks to The Hive. This is essential to achieve our long-term content ideas that require expansive, immersive worlds.

Read all about it in our Dev Diary: Custom Blocks!

Today, we are deploying a heavily requested feature for Just Build: Theme Voting.

When the game starts, you can vote for your favorite of 5 random themes. The theme with the most votes will be chosen for the round.

Additionally, we have added a custom server option, allowing you to enable/disable theme voting.

We hope you like this quality-of-life update to Just Build, and we can't wait to see your awesome builds!

We've been improving our workflows to release bug fixes, translation improvements, and small (quality of life) features faster and more frequently.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last week. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as the Hat Gifting Update.

All games and hubs:

• Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!
• Please note that it can take up to 1 week for newly added translations mentioned below to be available in all supported languages.

GroundWars:

• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to get up to 80 eggs by storing them in the crafting inventory
• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram

The Bridge:

• Fixed a bug that allowed players with slow connections to mine out of the spawn tube
• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Murder Mystery:

• Added translations for the innocent hot-cold detector COLD, WARM, HOT
• Added X Left translation in the UI Bar showing how many innocents are still alive
  

Just Build:

• Fixed duplicate themes appearing in the Custom Server choose-theme modal
  

Survival Games:

• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram
• Fixed player trackers working in deathmatch if held when teleported to the deathmatch arena
• Bow health notifications now correctly account for absorption hearts 

BlockDrop:

• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Capture the Flag:

• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Hide and Seek:

• Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram

Treasure Wars:

• Fixed an issue that would cause progress for quests to win x games of Treasure Wars to sometimes not be counted
  

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!