Welcome to our updates website! Come back regularly to find the latest Hive updates.

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

Historically, we've used this page to report on game updates, events, important issues, version support, and maintenance announcements. However, small changes, features and bug fixes have often slipped through the cracks, only to be noticed by very dedicated players or those hawking the bug threads on our forums.

As we see the value in sharing these updates with the community, we're starting this 'small change roundup': a at-most-weekly collection of updates we normally wouldn't have reported on! We might skip a week when there's little to report on, or when the company is closed during a festive period (Christmas, New Year).

As this is our first edition, let's go over some base principles:

• We'll generally not cover changes and updates that are covered by bigger announcements. For example, these wouldn't contain references to the Winter Update.
• Changes related to security, exploits, and anti cheat, except fixes for false positives, will not be covered.
• Non-server and non-code changes (think forums, Discord, policy) will not be covered
• "Framework" refers to the 'base' that all our games run on. Framework updates apply to all games.
• "Server" refers to our individual game server software. Server updates apply to all games and hubs.
• "Proxy" refers to the proxy layer between our individual servers and your client. You'll see updates to friends, parties, and other social systems here.

Updates since December 1st, 2020

Framework

Fixes

• Stopped custom servers from showing "finding a new game" at the end of a game, and replaced it with "sending you to a hub" instead.
• Stopped "we'll find you a new game shortly..." from appearing in the end game stats panel if it's a custom server
• Fixed an issue with VIP ranks losing the permission to change the max players past 30 if they were nicknamed

Changes

• Disabled any and all sign editing

SkyWars

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Boom Boxes would explode the map if they exploded during endgame

DeathRun

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Leap Effects would not spawn when the game started, only when they were equipped
• Fixed various particles

TreasureWars

Changes

Changed the Treasure Wars Mega UI to include more pieces of information:

• Minion Treasures are represented by mini circles
• Each mini icon is removed when a minion is destroyed, and removed from the bar based on the direction you're facing from spawn
• Once all minions are destroyed, only the large circle icon will remain alongside the health % of the boss treasure
• Once destroyed, the circular icon is replaced with a cross out version alongside the remaining players of the team

Fixes

• When a player is dead and their treasure is destroyed players could see the team upgraded summoner message, this is now resolved.
• Fixed various particles

Hide and Seek

Fixes

• Fixed Blue Gas Cloud Taunt particle

Murder Mystery

Fixes

• Fixed Sparkle Zapper Trail Cosmetics particles

Server / Proxy

Fixes

• Resolved various issues relating to modal input being rejected, for example, large numbers.
• Fixed an issue where axes would lose lots of durability when stripping wood/logs
• Chains now have the correct bounding box
• End portal frames now have the correct bounding box
• Coral blocks can now be placed on any block
• Coral now requires a block below it
• Coral blocks, Coral and Coral fans correctly place the right color
• Coral fans & Coral hanging now drop / middle click the correct block
• Coral block / Coral now drop / middle click the correct block
• Fixed bug where water buckets would use the wrong position for placement events
• Buckets now correctly work
• Fixed fireworks charge being mis-identified causing fire charges to break
• Fixed an issue where capes would not be updated due to the client caching the skin id
• Allowed ray tracing packs on 1.16.200+

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 😀

As we work with our provider to immensely scale up our North America region, we will redirect part of our traffic to Europe overnight.

You can always use the Region NPC in the hub to switch to a specific region.

We expect to have this fully resolved before the weekend.

The Hive is now available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Make sure you update to the most recent Minecraft update to play.

Welcome, PlayStation!

It's time for a Murdery Mystery game update!

New maps

• Witch School
• Eso Hotel

AFK Prevention

To prevent players farming XP by being AFK, you will now be removed from the game if you don't participate.

Innocent Detector

To help Murderers find hiding Innocents, the Innocent Detector will help them find remaining Innocents in the last minute of the game.

Enjoy!

We're applying some small fixes to all regions - no public facing changes will be introduced. We'll be back very soon.

We're applying some minor fixes and VIP-rank related changes. We'll be back very soon.