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Due to the Asia region being unavailable, we are temporary bringing back the Oceania region, which is hosted in Sydney, Australia. Once our Asia region is fully recovered, this temporary region will close.

Players in the Oceanic countries will automatically connect to the Oceania region. Players from the Asia continent can use the Region Switcher or the command /region oce to switch if they wish.

Due to an issue with our provider, our Asia region is currently unavailable. Until this is resolved, players in Asia and Oceania will connect to our North America region.

We expect this issue may be present until Monday, October 25th. We thank you for your understanding.

It's time for the second of our four Friday updates... Welcome to the Hive Replay Cinema!

This article is just the key details - be sure to check out our blog post for everything you need to know about the Hive Replay Cinema!

What is the Hive Replay Cinema?

In the Hive Replay Cinema, you can watch back all of your SkyWars, Survival Games, and Treasure Wars matches as soon as they've ended.

Controls & Settings

In the Hive Replay Cinema, you have access to a range of controls and settings, allowing you to pause, rewind, speed up or slow down, and even view gameplay in reverse!

By using the menu, you can also jump to a given timestamp, or view certain events within the game (such as kills, or treasure destroys).

Replay Pass

To access the Replay Cinema, you'll need to purchase a Replay Pass from the Hive Store, for 830 Minecoins.

The Replay Pass gives you access to the Replay Cinema for 365 days.

Purchasing the Replay Pass will also give you access to the following exclusive cosmetics:

• Director Raccoon Costume
• It's rewind time! (hub title)
• Lights, Camera, ACTION! (hub title)
• Action (avatar)

Feedback & Future Updates

As always, this feature is still subject to change, and we'll be looking for feedback and suggestions from the community - be sure to let us know your thoughts!

It's time to get spooky! Hive-o-ween is back, and better than ever! 

The Ancient Vault

Whilst our builders were getting the hub ready for this year's Hive-o-ween festivities, they stumbled upon what appeared to be the entrance to a mysterious Ancient Vault, hidden underground...

Do you think you have what it takes to unlock the mysteries of the Ancient Vault? Click here to find out more!

Ghost Invasion Returns

The ghosts are back! Ghost Invasion has returned once again, bringing with it a brand new set of cosmetics for you to unlock!

Unlocks

• 6 Ghost Characters
• 5 Ghost Pop Designs
• 4 Zapper Rays
• 4 BRAND NEW Halloween Hub Titles
• 4 BRAND NEW Halloween Avatars

And...

• Over 30 seasonal maps and lobbies, including the return of Haunted (TreasureWars:Solo) and two BRAND NEW SkyWars:Solo maps: Crypt and Village
• Over 100 spooktacular Just Build themes (coming later on this evening)

Happy sp00ping! 👻

Reporting replay IDs can be... difficult at best. To help you share them easier, and to make it easier for our staff to handle them, we're introducing improved Replay IDs.

Magic!

Improved Replay IDs are available today on our Europe and North America regions, with Asia coming next. Stay tuned for more replay updates!

The Hive has a large number of non-English players - especially in our ever-growing Asia region. Over the last few months, we've been working on making it easier to manage our translations, to ensure players worldwide have the best possible experience.

As of today's update, we have near 100% translation coverage across all games and social features in:

• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish (Spain and Latin America)

We'll continue improving our translations, as well as adding languages based on geographic player statistics. In the future, we plan to make it easier for community members to report wrong translations as well as suggest potential improvements.

Last weekend, we were informed about an exploit affecting us and some other (featured and non-featured) servers, which allowed users to log in with an arbitrary identity. As this posed a possible security risk, we went into maintenance mode and resolved this issue ASAP.

As of this announcement, we believe the issue has been resolved. We have reached out to other affected servers in the community, as well as affected software maintainers, to aid them in resolving this issue.

We have no evidence that this exploit was used maliciously. The Hive stores no personal data, so there is no risk to players in any form. 

As there was no impact to player accounts, we are under no obligation to post this notice, however we're sharing this to promote transparency and to assist affected networks.

We have rewarded the people that informed us about this exploit with a generous bug bounty.

This incident was limited to server logins, due to the way Minecraft client issues and validates logins, and not any backend service or web services such as Discord or our forums.

FAQ:

Is my account at risk? Should I change my password?

No. This incident has no relation to passwords, and as it’s been resolved, there is no risks for any accounts. Absolutely NO action is required by any user at this time.

Was my account affected?

From our current evidence, this affected less than 10 accounts, mainly vanity and known influencer accounts. There was no substantial abuse of the affected accounts. No player account was banned, kicked, or modified because of this incident.

Did this affect all servers?

This affected a small number of featured servers as well as several non-featured servers, as well as popular Bedrock to Java translation servers. Most affected servers have since resolved this issue.

Was the Hive “hacked”?

No. The scope of this incident was purely related to in-game access, and the number of privileges that in-game accounts have is incredibly limited as well as audited. No personal, account, or other privileged data was accessed or modified.

It's hub update time!

This hub polishing update converts most of our NPCs and other models to resource pack NPCs; improving performance, reducing Steve & Pink glitch as well as allowing us to add animations! Stay tuned for similar updates coming to all of our games in the future.

Furthermore, this update adds our first overhaul of menus: we're introducing our brand new Game Selector menu. Not only is it prettier, it also explains the game and adds easy access to Custom Servers! You'll see more updates like this in the future, as well as a fully overhauled Social Menu.

All Game NPCs have overhauled holograms, exciting stances and a clarified player-counter. Make sure to also check out the brand new particles, and the very cool Pirate's Fortune in-hub advert!

Head over to the Hub to check out these (and more!) changes. Enjoy your stay on The Hive!

Custom Servers are loved by many of our dedicated players, but have historically been a bit tricky to use and configure. With this full overhaul and update we're making them better and easier!

To get started with Custom Servers, run the following command in-game: /cs

Full overhaul of all menus to make settings easier to find and quicker to change:

• One top-level modal now serves as the starting point for all customization as well as access- and other features
• Related settings are now shown in one modal instead of multiple, making it easier to configure 'deeper' settings
• Improved wording and general look and feel to make modals and settings more clear

Presets:

• Presets (featured, custom and recent) are now functional
• Custom presets can be shared with other players using a preset code
• Recent presets allow you to go back to a recent game's settings
• Featured Presets per game for 'recommended' playlists, including community favorites

Improvements and fixes:

• Fixed Code Only Mode + the code now shows on screen permanently during lobby
• Fixed various issues relating to Set Roles
• Added Set World Time
• Improved permission system
• Games now only start when the owner, or a player with the right permission, manually starts the game. The start-game countdown is fully removed in Custom Servers.

Game-specific changes:

Treasure Wars:

• Added settings to enable/disable the purchasing of certain items from the item shop
• Fixed an issue where summoners would drop empty items when the summoner amount setting was set to 0, also changed the summoner name to show it does not drop items
• Non-CS: Fixed an issue where spectators wouldn't get a UI in Treasure Wars Mega

SkyWars:

• Added the ability to change the health on kill setting to the amount of the max health setting
• Fixed a bug where turning off chest filling would stop you from being able to open them at all

Survival Games:

• Added the ability to set roles and players as spectators
• Added a setting to control supply crate spawn rate 
• Added a setting to enable/disable supply crates
• Non-CS: Fixed an issue where the fire boomboxes would ignite the thrower but not damage them
• Non-CS: Stopped standard boomboxes from giving knockback to the player that threw it
• Non-CS: Fixed a bug where a player could spam dozens of Boomboxes 

Just Build:

• Added the ability to create your own theme in the theme settings
• Added the ability for players to be spectators

And one more thing...

We know that getting to the Custom Server menu is command-only at the moment, preventing our more casual players from discovering this feature. Stay tuned for improvements to our Hub that resolve this as well as future user experience improvements!