It's time to celebrate Lunar New Year!

New Hub

To ring in the Year of the Ox, we've decorated the hub! We've also made some changes to the parkour.

Banner Hunt

We've hidden 12 banners around the hub, each one of them features an animal from the Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.

If you manage to find them all, there might be a special costume in it for you!

Happy Lunar New Year!

Based on community feedback, we've made the following additional changes to SkyWars:

• Increased the Sword of Embers ignite chance to 1 in 4 (from 1 in 5)
• Added Fire Protection 1 to Bling Boots
• Added Fire Protection 1 to Diamond Leggings in Ender Chests
• Added Fire Protection 2 Diamond Leggings to the Mystery Chest

We will continue to monitor the balancing of these changes, and where needed, make additional adjustments.

The information below is out of date, please read the follow up changes HERE.

SkyWars - Minor Balancing Patch

Removed:

• Fire Sword

Added:

• Sword of Embers
  • 1 in 5 chance of igniting an enemy on hit

NOTE: This will continue to be balanced, do not assume this is the final implementation.

It was worth the wait... Battle Beans, available now in the Quest Store.

We've had to delay the February Quest Costume by a few days. The Minotaur Costume will be available until then.

We've got two brand new DeathRun maps, playable now:

• Relic
• Primus

We are performing maintenance on the North America region to work on lag- and stutter issues.

Players will be redirected to our Europe region.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

We are continuing to look into issue with stutters, mainly on the North America region. These usually occur during busier times on the region.

To be clear, these stutters do not mean The Hive is running at capacity, but are caused by a software bug.

We hope to resolve this soon. If you are encountering this issue, you can try re-connecting as this may help improve your experience.

Any rumours about The Hive: Bedrock edition closing are completely false. Hive Games is a perfectly healthy company and our Bedrock server is thriving. We have NO plans, in any way, to close The Hive: Bedrock Edition.

This is our second small change roundup, where we feature changes not covered in individual update posts. Please note that this roundup includes multiple holidays, on which the company was closed. It also spans the New Years update/event, which is not included in this post.

More information about how to read this post can be found in the First Edition.

Updates since December 17th, 2020

Framework

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where when trying to teleport to players that had died/logged off as a spectator, it would teleport you to a random player

Treasure Wars

Changes

• Introduced a new SkyWars-style play area system, which stops players camping over the build height, and below the minimum play height

Fixes

• Fixed Rainbow Swirls Treasure Particles
• Modified Play Region logic to allow for "Clutch Pearls" again

Hide and Seek

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Hiders could remain hidden by jumping onto the edge of an adjacent block

Murder Mystery

Fixes

• Fixed various particles

Survival Games

Changes

• Added support for 100 player (solo mode) custom servers

Server / Proxy

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some unlocks would not be searchable as their name contained spaces
• Fixed an issue where shift opening a door would be desync'd allowing the player opening the door to walk through it
• Fire damage now properly penetrates armor over time (vanilla parity)
• Vines are now destroyed if there is not a vine above, or the direction is not the same
• Vines can now only be placed on solid blocks
• Buckets no longer place 'ghost liquid' in certain scenarios
• Fixed off-hand not being cleared in certain games/scenarios

Changes

• Added /queue help [page]: a command that lists all the games that are queue-able along with their aliases in a nice paged message list
• Added support for new Persona format (this allows the usage of, for example, the free Character Creator items from the Creator Celebration)