Introducing Block Drop, our newest Limited Time Mode!

Block Drop

Check out our brand new limited-time game, Block Drop! Battle with up to eleven other players to be the last player standing as the map begins to crumble below your feet! Be sure to look out for powerups to give yourself an edge over the competition.

This game was the result of a developer hackathon! Every few months, we let our development teams work on fun projects to expand their skills. These projects help shape the way for future games and features. We had so much fun with this game we felt we needed to share it with you all!

Block Drop won't be sticking around forever, so be sure to level up and grab these exclusive cosmetics while you can:

Death Messages

• Fell to their demise (Level 5)
• Parachute (Level 10)
• Goodbye Cruel World (Level 15)
• Yeeted Off (Level 20)

Powerup Skins

• Potion (Level 2)
• Flower (Level 9)
• Chest (Level 16)
• Lightning (Level 22)

Trails

• Blue Sparkles (Level 3)
• Gold Sparkles (Level 7)
• Lime Sparkles (Level 12)
• Magenta Sparkles (Level 17)
• Red Sparkles (Level 23)

Vault Effects

• Gray Swirls (Level 4)
• Blue Swirls (Level 6)
• Green Swirls (Level 8)
• Red Swirls (Level 13)
• Yellow Swirls (Level 18)
• Rainbow Swirls (Level 19)
• Flames (Level 21)
• Hearts (Level 24)

Hub Titles

• YA YEET (Level 6)
• AHHH (Level 11)
• AHHHHHH (Level 17)
• AHHHHHHHHH (Level 24)

Avatars

• Slippery (Level 4)
• Burger Run (Level 14)
• KNOCKBACK POG (Level 20)

Costume

• Runner (Level 25)

Egg Hunt

We've hidden eggs around the hub you to find! There are 24 to find, making this our biggest hub hunt yet.

Find all the eggs and you'll be rewarded with an exclusive costume!

Spring has arrived on The Hive!

New Hub

The hub is in full bloom! As well as the hub being covered in colorful fauna, some of the characters and models that you know and love have also been given a new lease of life, be sure to look out for them!

Rumour has it there's even a new parkour run to try out and a new hub title for those that manage to complete it!

Spring Maps

This update sees the return of many seasonal maps, as well as the addition of some new ones! Be sure to check out the newly decorated game lobbies as well.

Survival Games Map

We've released the second of two new maps as part of our Survival Games update - Blossom! This map is a permanent addition to Survival Games and will be sticking around after Spring.

We use a lot of different ways and channels to collect feedback: this website, Discord, the forums, YouTube and others. We're now introducing a new way to poll our players directly: in-game surveys.

Surveys are delivered to players using MailBot and triggered by a combination of chance and defined criteria. For example, our first SkyWars Update Survey polls 1-in-5 players that are level 10 or above.

Below is our first survey that we're running right now (again, not all players will receive this one!). You will see these from time to time as we gather more feedback on game updates, maps, future updates, and anything else!

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!

Join our New Years Celebration Events today!

At key times, the events will run in their respective regions. Check out the exact timings below.

We suggest you join 5+ minutes before to make sure you're ready in a hub. A countdown will appear in hubs 30 minutes before the event start. 

CLICK FOR THE CURRENT TIME IN UTC

Asia Region

Show One: 

Much of Australia

UTC: December 31st 14:00:00

Show Two:

Queensland/Australia

UTC: December 31st 15:00:00

Show Three:

Japan, South Korea

UTC: December 31st 16:00:00

Europe Region

Show One:

Eastern Europe

UTC: December 31st 22:00:00

Show Two:

West- and Central Europe, parts of Africa

UTC: December 31st 23:00:00

Show Three:

United Kingdom / Ireland / Portugal
UTC: January 1st 00:00:00

North America Region

Show One:

USA Eastern timezone

UTC: January 1st 5:00:00

Show Two:

USA Central timezone

UTC: January 1st 6:00:00

Show Three:

USA Mountain timezone

UTC: January 1st 7:00:00

Show Four:

USA Pacific timezone

UTC: January 1st 8:00:00

It's winter time in The Hive!

New hub

This years winter hub is our most expansive change yet - make sure you explore it! One good way of doing this is participating in our...

Santa Hub Quest

Santa needs your help! Rather than our usual hub hunt, we've taken it to the next level with a fully featured in-hub quest. Finish all 6 objectives and get amazing rewards!

Head to the workshop below the spawn area in the Hub to get started.

With 36 returning and new Winter maps, this our largest selection of seasonal content ever. On top of this, lobby and other additional maps have also been wintered up.

Enjoy!

We've added over 50 new themes and over 100 new blocks to Just Build!

Happy building 😀

More leaderboard goodness!

• You can now view detailed (monthly & all-time) statistics for a player. Pick a game, select Friend or Search Username, and their statistics will be shown. If the player has 10 or more victories in the current month, their leaderboard placing will be shown.
• Loading times have been improved for those with many friends. However, we may show less placings on your Friend Leaderboard in certain scenarios. You can always load a friends placing (if they have above 10 victories) by viewing their statistics directly using Select Friend (see above).
• "Go Back" buttons have been added to most menus so you can easily browse the leaderboards without having to re-run the command.
• Resolved most issues causing certain leaderboards placings to load in as 'unset' with a default avatar.
• Resolved timestamps showing up in the 'raw' format - they are now formatted relatively, for example, "Last Played: 2 hours ago".

You can open the in-game leaderboards with the following command:

/leaderboard

More updates, including visual improvements to this system, coming soonTM.

Some of the above changes are thanks to the feedback left on Update 1! If you have any suggestions, leave them as a comment on this post. Here's some answers to common questions:

• Q: Will there be an item/NPC so I can open the leaderboards quicker?
  A: Yes, in the future.
• Q: Will previous monthly leaderboards become available?
  A: We are looking into realistic ways to make this possible. We plan to, at the very least, make the top 1000 of each previous month available in a future update.
• Q: What do you call a wasp?
  A: A wanna-bee!

Additional functionality is now available with the in-game (monthly) leaderboards:

• You can now view the all-time leaderboards
• You can now view a subset of the monthly leaderboards, showing you and your friends. Both their standing in 'your' leaderboard, as well as their actual monthly standing, will be shown.
• You can now click through on a leaderboard entry to view all their stats, such as kills, deaths and more.

You can access these leaderboards with

/leaderboard

(why does a pizza have a corn as their avatar? Please tells us!)

This is a tech-demo and may be unavailable at times.

You can now view the monthly leaderboards in-game! Simply load into the Hive and run the following command:

/leaderboard

You can retrieve your own standings, as well as viewing the current top 100 for supported games. Keep in mind that leaderboards reset monthly!

We're aware that, at times, player names load in as 'unset'. This is an issue we will fix before this feature will become more prominently available. For now, simply request the same leaderboard again, and it will load fine.