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3 years ago

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Welcome to our updates website! Come back regularly to find the latest Hive updates, or subscribe by email to get (important) updates delivered to your mailbox.

3 years ago

Treasure Wars Update

It's time for a Treasure Wars update!

Shop

Added Wooden Planks (32 planks for 10 gold)
Added Ender Pearls (1 pearl for 3 emeralds)
Added snowballs (6 snowballs for 1 emerald)
Moved Player Tracker to new "Special" shop category

Maps

Solos: Added "Mushroom"
Duos: Added "Oasis"
Trios and Squads: Added "Tropical"

Bug Fixes

Andesite store item now gives andesite instead of diorite
Concrete store item now shows the correct icon

Enjoy! Feedback? Leave it below or discuss it on Discord.

3 years ago

Treasure Wars: MEGA mode (LTM)

Available now: a brand new LIMITED TIME mode for Treasure Wars: MEGA! 12v12 action on a unique and brand new map.

2 teams of 12
Extra spawners
Exclusive brand new map

3 treasures per team

Minion treasures: destroy these to make the enemy team take longer to respawn, and to be able to destroy the Boss treasure
Boss treasure: destroy this one to stop the enemy team from respawning all together, so you can WIN! This treasure has a health bar.

Adjusted XP rates for kills, treasure destroy and wins
GUI indicators for enemy and friendly treasure status, and players remaining when the boss treasure has fallen

3 years ago

North America Region: Update on performance issues

Thanks to community reports we have identified and resolved two issues that were causing performance issues ("lagspikes") on our North America region.

The Hive: Bedrock Edition does not have a "player cap", and automatically scales infinitely. When running normally and correctly, more players does not introduce performance issues on our network.

We welcome any comments and reports! The best ways to reach us are through Discord (that's https://discord.gg/hive) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/theHiveMC, DM's are open).

Please do note that because of the complexity of the internet completely eliminating for everyone lag is impossible: players can be individually affected by many factors, such as poor WiFi performance, local congestion, and congestion between the local internet exchange and our actual servers. However, we always strive to have the best performance on The Hive's Bedrock network.

The distance between the player and the server has a big impact on your latency, and usually, the further you are the more issues may arise between the player and server. For reference, our regions are located in:

North America: Montreal Area, Canada
Europe: Calais Area, France
Asia: Tokyo, Japan

3 years ago

Survival Games Beta

This is a abbreviated version of the full PlayHive.com article

We're proud to announce our 5th main Hive game, Survival Games! A modern variant of the 2013 Hive Java launch game, this game combines the classic 24-player Battle Royale experience with a number of modern additions.

Only interested in future plans? Skip to the last paragraph!

Overview

24 players, solo and duos mode (12 teams). The game is won by eliminating all other teams.

Players spawn in the cornucopia, on 3D pedestals. After the initial countdown ends, players are unfrozen and can start looting chests and scatter around the map. PVP is disabled for 30 seconds (grace period), after which players can damage enemies.

After 15 minutes have passed, or only 4 players remain, the game will start a deathmatch countdown. At the end of this countdown, players are teleported to the deathmatch arena. A short 5 seconds countdown keeps them in place, once this countdown ends players are once again unfrozen with PVP enabled.

Hunger

Survival Games uses a non-vanilla style hunger system. Hunger depletes at a lower rate than vanilla, and does NOT impact health regeneration. Low hunger WILL prevent sprinting.

Loot

Tier-1 chests provide basic loot at randomized locations. Better loot can be found in fixed-position Tier-2 crates.

Top tier level loot can be found in so-called Cache Cows: these pinata-style cows, of which 3 are randomly spawned each round, can be punched to reveal their high level loot inside.

Additionally, supply drops come falling down from the sky every 2 to 3 minutes, with a maximum of 3 drops per round. You can wait for the drops to fall down, or shoot them down with a bow and arrow. Supply drops are filled with high-tier loot.

When a player dies, their body falls down on the floor and becomes a Lootable Body. These act like a virtual chest.

Cosmetics

30 levels are available at this time. This includes:

6 global avatars
5 hub titles
1 costume
3 arrow trails
11 pedestals
11 kill phrases

The future

We intentionally launched Survival Games as a Beta gamemode. We will be making tweaks to gameplay and lootsets where it makes sense. These will be announced on this website as and when they happen.

20 extra levels will be added in a quickly following Game Update 1. This will include never before seen cosmetics, such as a new hub title: StatTrack Hub Titles. These hub titles allow you to show your all-time leaderboard stats in a game as your hub title.

We plan to launch extra variants of Survival Games in the near future.

Monthly leaderboards will launch after the beta period ends. This will be announced at that time.

3 years ago

Discord Nitro Boost rewards!

If you Nitro boost our Discord server (discord.gg/hive), you will now gain access to exclusive cosmetics!

"Chumpus" costume
Purple "The Booster" hub title

These benefits will be available to you for the duration of your Nitro boost. If your Nitro membership expires, or you switch which server you boost, you will lose these benefits.

Want to learn more about Discord Server Boosting? Check out their article HERE!