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Mojang has released Minecraft 1.18 today, November 30th. As usual, the Hive has full support for this version of Minecraft.

If you wish to play without the RenderDragon engine on Windows 10, we've updated our support page with the download link for 1.18. You can also obtain the 1.18 32-bit non-RenderDragon directly HERE.

Please note that due to our wish to use new features, blocks and items from Minecraft 1.17, The Hive will be dropping support for 1.16 versions of Minecraft on or after the 3rd of December. We will be supporting 1.17 versions of the game for the foreseeable future, but generally advise the most recent version of the game.

To prepare for an upcoming version of Minecraft, our North America and Europe regions will be temporarily unavailable for maintenance. Players will connect to Asia during this time.

Back by popular demand: The Hive Block Friday sale! Save on many Hive store offers this weekend:

• 50% off ALL regular costumes!
• 30% off Hive+!
• 50% off Hive booster!

For costumes and Hive+, this sale also applies to Gift versions.

Hive+ sale ends early Saturday, November 27th. Costume and booster sale ends early Monday, November 29th.

In the coming week, Hive+ will be updated. The hub titles, avatars, and costume will be replaced with newer, better ones.

Anyone who has already purchased Hive+ will keep the current cosmetics and receive the new ones free of charge when the offer is updated.

As a result, these are the last few days new Hive+ purchases will receive:

• Royal Melon Costume
• "The VIBee" Hub Title
• "The OG" Hub Title
• "The Supporter" Hub Title
• Oinky Avatar
• Hopper Avatar
• Quackers Avatar
• Moorisson Avatar

We understand a specific subset of players collects cosmetics, so consider this a last-chance notice before these cosmetics will no longer be collectible.

You're going to love the new cosmetics!

For those affected by performance issues, input delay, and "pink glitch" on Windows 10, we now provide a tutorial on installing the non-RenderDragon version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition. Whilst we can't guarantee this resolves all 1.17 issues for all players, it is worth trying this if you are affected by the aforementioned bugs.

Find the tutorial here.

Despite 1.17 having been released almost 6 months ago, up until now, The Hive has continued to allow players to play on some 1.16 versions of Minecraft.

Whilst we understand that a small number of players have continued to use 1.16 in order to avoid bugs that have been introduced in some of the more recent versions of Minecraft, continuing to support these older versions would leave us unable to use any of the new features that the newer versions of Minecraft bring.

The Hive will be dropping support for 1.16 versions of Minecraft on or after the 3rd of December.

From this point onwards, you will need to update to a 1.17 version to be able to join The Hive.

• Teleports you back to your spawn island when eaten.
• Deals 5 hearts of damage when used. If below 5 hearts, leaves you with half a heart.
• Can be purchased from the merchant for 5 diamonds. Each merchant has a limited stock of 2 Chorus Fruit.

Fall Boots

• Golden boots that completely negate fall damage.
• Can be purchased from the merchant for 3 emeralds.

Shears

• Can be used to quickly break wool (can be purchased for 10 gold).

Players that have reached the maximum level (100) can now prestige. Prestiging will reset your level to level 1, and grant you the following rewards:

• A prestige icon next to your name in chat, and above your player's head in the lobby.
• A hub title with a special icon to represent your prestige level.
• An exclusive avatar.
• 500 Quest Points.

Global unlocks (hub titles, costumes, and avatars) that you previously unlocked through leveling up will be kept, but you will have to unlock in-game unlocks again, by leveling up.

You can prestige multiple times, and each time you do, you will unlock a new prestige icon, and additional hub titles and avatars.

Personal Win Streaks

Treasure Wars now tracks personal win streaks. Your current win streak is displayed on the stats hologram in all Treasure Wars lobbies.

To prevent targeting, we will not be making players' win streaks public, nor will the data be available on our API.

Wins in all Treasure Wars modes count towards your personal win streak.

• Updated the merchant and treasure indicator models.
• Added custom, colored items for boomboxes.
• When your treasure is destroyed, it will now tell you who destroyed it in chat.
• Summoners now display how many items are waiting to be picked up.
• Each merchant now has a limited stock of 4 golden apples, as opposed to there being a global cap per game.
• All 3D models are now entities - this improves performance and reduces the likelihood of the 'pink glitch' occurring.

New Maps

Thanks to your feedback, we're continuing to update SkyWars: Kits. Today's update sees a slight rework to the trapper kit and a few other changes.

Trapper

• Invisibility spell now removes armor while being used. When the spell expires, armor is automatically re-equipped. If armor was equipped during invisibility, the armor that provides the least defense will be added to your inventory.
• Invisibility now creates a particle trail at your feet while active.
• Spell of Invisibility now regenerates 20 seconds after last use.
• Reverted Diamond Shovel back to Golden Shovel, with plans to add unbreaking in the near future.
• Trappers now start with a Diamond Pickaxe.

Developer note: We heard that trapper was slightly too underpowered. We hope these changes help. We understand this could result in an over-correction and we will be monitoring feedback closely. We understand this might make the builder kit less valuable, however, we're planning to add some new perks to the builder kit - including a block breaker boombox.

Panik

• The critical health perk now only plays a sound to the affected player.

Developer note: We heard that the sound/perk is giving away too much information to nearby players. This meant nearby players knew you were on critical health and would then chase the kill. We're hoping this balances that slightly and will continue to tweak if needed.

Keep the feedback coming, SkyWars Kits is a living game and will be updated regularly.

Thank you for all the great feedback on SkyWars: Kits so far. We will continue updating this new type as time goes on.

Builder:

• Now spawns with a Diamond Pickaxe.

Void Walker:

• Removed Ender Pearl on spawn.

Trapper:

• Receives a new Invisibility Book 15 seconds after using the last one. This does not stack (you can only have 1 book at a time).
• The golden shovel has been replaced by a diamond "Elite" shovel.

Panik:

• Added in-game messages when the Shield is activated and when it expires.

General bug fixes:

• Invisibility Books no longer spawn in chests.
• You can no longer (attempt to) use a Bridge Builder during warmup