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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.

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notification
3 months ago

December Quest Costume Released

Winter is coming... The Ugly Sweater Bee costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!


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notification
3 months ago

Block Friday 2022 Bundle

The Block Friday Bundle is now available, but it won't be around for long!

This jam-packed bundle is full of exclusive never-seen-before cosmetics and offers a huge 50% saving.

Purchasing the bundle gives you access to all of the following:

  • Exclusive Ender Golem Costume
  • Exclusive Traffic Cone Hat
  • Exclusive Cat Cap Hat
  • Exclusive Captain's Hat
  • Exclusive GOBBLE GOBBLE Hub Title
  • 1x Replay Cinema Pass (1 year)
  • 1x Costume Gift
  • 10x Hat Gift Tokens

Get it before it's gone! This special bundle will only be purchasable for 3 days, and once it's gone, the exclusive cosmetics will never be available again.

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feature
3 months ago

Hats: Game Support

Today we've started rolling out support for Hive Hats in our games.

Initially, hats are only supported in the lobby and endgame phases. Over the coming days and weeks, we will enable hats for the entire game session in titles that do not utilize armor. For example, Murder Mystery.

Currently, hats can only be equipped/changed in our hubs, but we aim to make it a global cosmetic in the future.

Developer note: We've heard feedback that you'd love to use your hats in games. To bring this feature to you as soon as possible, we decided to hold back moving the hat menu to the proxy (global) level. We hope to update this in the future.

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small change roundup
3 months ago

Bugs, translation issues and small features: November 24th, 2022

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last 2 weeks. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as the Just Build: Theme Voting Update.

Network:

  • Added initial support for Minecraft 1.19.50

All games and hubs:

  • Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!
  • Fixed an issue where effects like absorption would not correctly show when reapplied
  • Fixed custom block break time rendering for certain newer versions of Minecraft
  • Please note that it can take up to 1 week for newly added translations mentioned below to be available in all supported languages.

SkyWars (Kits):

  • Added translation support for game specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram
  • Fixed Shield Spell users taking environmental damage
  • Fixed fire trails spell ability to be placed on transparent blocks, which made the fire invisible

Hide and Seek:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented lobby skin changes from applying in the live game

Capture the Flag:

  • Fixed a bug which allowed players to ignore water damage by staying in waterlogged blocks
  • Fixed arrows vanishing from offhand after respawning 
  • Fixed a bug that allowed respawning players to speed up flag return process 

Just Build:

  • Fixed an issue where helmet cosmetics would get removed after theme voting stage

The Bridge:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the game from ending with only 1 player
  • Prevented players from using special items in warmup phase

Murder Mystery:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from interacting with a rune box once it has teleported away from its first location

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!

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notification
4 months ago

Dev Diaries: Custom Blocks

Over the past month, we've worked on new tools to bring custom blocks to The Hive. This is essential to achieve our long-term content ideas that require expansive, immersive worlds.

Read all about it in our Dev Diary: Custom Blocks!

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game updatejust build
4 months ago

Just Build: Theme Voting

Today, we are deploying a heavily requested feature for Just Build: Theme Voting.

When the game starts, you can vote for your favorite of 5 random themes. The theme with the most votes will be chosen for the round.

Additionally, we have added a custom server option, allowing you to enable/disable theme voting.

We hope you like this quality-of-life update to Just Build, and we can't wait to see your awesome builds!

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small change roundup
4 months ago

Bugs, translation issues and small features: November 10th, 2022

We've been improving our workflows to release bug fixes, translation improvements, and small (quality of life) features faster and more frequently.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last week. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as the Hat Gifting Update.

All games and hubs:

  • Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!
  • Please note that it can take up to 1 week for newly added translations mentioned below to be available in all supported languages.

GroundWars:

  • Fixed an exploit that allowed players to get up to 80 eggs by storing them in the crafting inventory
  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram

The Bridge:

  • Fixed a bug that allowed players with slow connections to mine out of the spawn tube
  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Murder Mystery:

  • Added translations for the innocent hot-cold detector COLD, WARM, HOT
  • Added X Left translation in the UI Bar showing how many innocents are still alive

Just Build:

  • Fixed duplicate themes appearing in the Custom Server choose-theme modal

Survival Games:

  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram
  • Fixed player trackers working in deathmatch if held when teleported to the deathmatch arena
  • Bow health notifications now correctly account for absorption hearts 

BlockDrop:

  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Capture the Flag:

  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram 

Hide and Seek:

  • Added translation support for game-specific statistics for the lobby stats hologram

Treasure Wars:

  • Fixed an issue that would cause progress for quests to win x games of Treasure Wars to sometimes not be counted

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!


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feature
4 months ago

Hat Gifts and Gifting Menu Mini Update

You can now gift Hats! As Hats are available at different price points, gifts work a little bit differently: they use a token based system. Learn all about it HERE!

Gifting any Hat to another player (not yourself!) grants you the Gifter Hat*, pictured above. Perfect for showing off your generosity!

As the old gifting menu was getting a little bit out of control, we've used this opportunity to give it a mini makeover: 

  • Top-level icons to make the menus more visually pleasing
  • Bundles are now categorized under a brand new category
  • Deals (such as discounts for purchasing higher quantities) are now shown in their own menu
  • Coloring is now consistent on the "using" and "buying" menus

Happy gifting!

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small change roundup
4 months ago

Bugs, translation issues and small features: November 6th, 2022

We've been improving our workflows to release bug fixes, translation improvements, and small (quality of life) features faster and more frequently.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of these types of changes that have been released in the last 2 weeks. This list does not cover new features that received their own post, such as the Hats update.

All games and hubs:

  • Updated a large number of translations. Thanks to community feedback, we keep improving our translations. You can report translation issues on our forums!

DeathRun:

  • Traps that replace blocks will no longer show a Molang error to players with Content Log enabled
  • Better action-bar message for spectators that joined mid-game
  • Lobby statistic hologram now supports translations

Capture The Flag:

  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to purchase items whilst respawning

GroundWars:

  • Fixed a bug that caused the blindness particle trail to have the wrong color

Treasure Wars:

  • Bow health notifications now correctly account for absorption hearts

SkyWars:

  • Fixed a bug that allowed teammates to kill each other in, for example, the Death Tag preset

BlockDrop:

  • Fixed a bug that showed mob effect particles instead of sparkles for the blue sparkles trail

Many of these bugs and issues were reported on our forums. Big thanks to everyone that reported them!

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