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What's better than getting yourself Hive+? Getting your friends Hive+! Starting today, our Hive+ Rank can be gifted to other players.

Access the gifting menu using the Post Boxes in the hub, or if you have Hive+ yourself, by punching the Hive+ Advert in the hub.

The receiver of the gifts gets:

+ 50% XP boost in ALL GAMES
+ Instant access to Hive+ only costume, hub titles and avatars
+ Green name in chat and above head
+ Double party size
+ Double friend slots
+ Double map vote power

This afternoon, we performed some housekeeping maintenance. In this maintenance, we:

• Removed support for older Minecraft versions
• Added initial support for Minecraft 1.12
• Fixed issues with Treasure Wars boosters not applying to all types (solos, duos, trios, squads)
• Added support for new upcoming gift types
• Network stability improvements

Note on 1.12 support: Our support for 1.12 is in early stages, and if issues arise, may be disabled at any point. 1.12 includes some amazing improvements to performance, however, more work is needed from our side to enable this. Because of this, chunk loading may be non-optimal. For the best experience, we continue to recommend 1.11.

Updates like these may not be particularly exciting, but are necessary to keep the network in a good shape.

Enjoy playing!

Merry Egg! Just in time for Easter we’ve got a little update for you all.

Easter Hub

• Easter Theme! A pleasure to the eyeballs.
• Easter Egg Hunt! Find them all to get a unique costume, for FREE.
• Easter Skin Enhancement! Did you just… grow bunny ears and a tail!?
• Post Boxes! A new way to access the gifting menu.

Treasure Wars: Trios

You’ve asked, we’ve delivered. Team up with two others and defeat your opponents in this new playlist.

Easter Costumes

Available this weekend.

And that’s it for now! We’re hard at work on new games, game updates, and a pretty fancy feature many of you have been asking for. That’s for later, now go enjoy the eggs!

Update 23rd April: 1.11 has now been released. 1.9 support will be removed in the very near future. We are finalizing our initial support for 1.12.

The first beta of Minecraft 1.12 is now publicly available. We do plan to start supporting the 1.12 betas in the future, but we have no set date for this. For the best experience, we currently recommend Minecraft 1.10.

1.12 is a big update, especially compared to the 1.11 update. This may impact the speed at which we can support this update. We will always support new versions when they officially release, this only impacts beta users.

The official release of Minecraft 1.11 is on the horizon. When this version releases, we will drop support for Minecraft 1.9.

To sum it up:

SUPPORTED TODAY: 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11

SUPPORTED WHEN 1.11 RELEASES: 1.10 and 1.11

For information about leaving the beta, head over to the Minecraft Feedback Site. Please note singleplayer worlds accessed on a beta can’t be opened on older versions.

It’s that time of the week again! Here are this weeks weekly costumes.

Television Costume

Are you a media mogul? Maybe a YouTuber extraordinaire? This might be the perfect costume for you.

Check it out!

Chicken Costume

Cluck cluck! This might be one of the tastier costumes we’ve added…

Check it out!

Piggy Costume

This little piggy didn’t go the market, he came here!

Check it out!

It’s time for our first major game update! 30 new levels, with a plethora of new unlocks, new maps, and some tweaks!

Treasure Wars: Trios will be added in the very near future, stay tuned!

30 new levels

• This raises the level cap from 20 to 50
• Want to level up quicker? Hive+ gives you a 50% boost. Going to grind for an hour? 50% 1-hour boosts are now available on the store!

2 new maps

• Squads: Temple
• Duos: Atlantis

New global unlocks

• 4 Hub Titles
• 3 Avatars

New bridge builders

• Mooshroom
• Mini Ghast
• Horse
• Endermite
• Chicken

New Treasures

• Egg
• Recycling Bin
• Sunflower
• Robot Head
• Campfire
• Money Bag
• Pirate Parrot
• Trophy
• Cactus
• Crystal
• Gold Chalice
• Flamingo
• Portal
• Golden Skull
• Bed

New Treasure Particles

• Rainbow Sparkle
• Rainbow Swirl
• Rainbow Confetti

New Item: Tracking Compass

• Helps you find that final player that’s too scared to fight you
• Cost: 1 emerald

Shop Changes

• Diamond Armor now costs 20 emeralds, up from 16
• Bow now costs 2 diamonds, up from 1
• Arrows now cost 16 gold, up from 10.
• Arrow purchasing now gives you 8 arrows, down from 10

Fixes and changes

• Pre-existing armor will now be added to your inventory or dropped in front of you when buying new armor.
• A build height limit is now enforced
• Players are now informed that (cross)teaming is not allowed

A new week, time for new costumes! Let’s see what we got in store…

Parrot Costume

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Wait… that actually is a bird!

Check it out!

Banana Costume

This delicious banana costume is good enough to eat!

Check it out!

Mr Grump Costume

The perfect costume for your grumpy days!

Check it out!

As the Treasure Wars game update is around the corner, Treasure Wars Boosters are now available in the /booster command and Booster Item in Treasure Wars lobbies.

The Treasure Wars booster works in all current and upcoming Treasure Wars modes (solos, duos et cetera).

The Murder Mystery in-game personal leaderboard rankings are now available on the North America region.

Easily and quickly see your current leaderboard ranking! Now available in Murder Mystery, and soon available on all games. Note that leaderboards reset monthly.