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

The Egg Bunny has hopped in and hidden colorful eggs throughout the hub! Don't miss your chance to collect them all and earn the exclusive Nibbles costume reward.

Act fast, though - this limited time event ends on Friday, April 14th.

Happy egg hunting!

Edit: We're aware of an issue affecting some players causing them to not recieve the reward. We're aware of this and we are working on a fix. Anyone that completes the hunt will be guaranteed to receive their item.

The Hive will be down for global maintenance today, April 3rd. During this time, all regions are unavailable.

During this time, we are making multiple backend and infrastructure changes. Because of this, we have no set ending time for this maintenance. We appreciate your patience and will be back online as soon as we can.

In addition to nonpublic facing changes, the following minor changes and improvements are releasing:

• Added the /joinfriend (/jf) command
• The current XP reward, from login streaks, now shows the correct number for streaks under 11 days
• Fixed party invites revealing players appearing offline
• Fixed various commands revealing player nicknames
• The party invite command is now case-insensitive
• Various error messages are now properly translated, rather than always being in English
• Fixed the /party and /friend commands having the same "tab completions"/command suggestions, despite having different subcommands
• Resolved a potential kick when modifying multiple preferences in BlockParty
• Implemented a speculative fix, which should resolve Custom Server presets not loading at times

A new update is deploying to all regions. This update brings a seasonal hub, a new DeathRun map, and something very dangerous.

DeathRun

• Added new map: Temple
• Added new trap: Swinging Axes
• Added new trap: Falling Dripstone

Seasonal Hub

• Spring has sprung! Switched to updated Spring hub
• Egg hunt coming next week

Dangerous Mount

• Added the fastest, most furious mount.
• Claim for free by logging in before 3rd April 00:00 GMT
• Use at your own risk

As always, if you have feedback or find any bugs, let us know on our Discord or Forum.

Rise from the depths with the Coral-Encrusted Drowned costume, now available at the Quest Store!

A new DeathRun update has been deployed to all regions. This update brings a new map, Synthwave, and adds new map functionality.

New Map

• Added Synthwave

Changes

• Added a new automated trap system for time-based world traps

Developer note: We understand that DeathRun is a game dependent on content. Our level designers have been working hard to create new maps, with two more in active development. We aim to release another map, including a new trap, next week.

As always, if you have any feedback or find any bugs, please let us know on Discord or our Forums.

We're planning on making some changes to the versions of Minecraft we support, and want to hear your feedback!

To preface this article, we are not removing support for non-RenderDragon versions at this time.

After reviewing community feedback last year, we decided to continue to support 1.18 versions of Minecraft for as long as we could, to allow the small minority of players that use 1.18 for valid reasons to continue to have a good experience playing on The Hive.

Several new versions of the game have been released since our decision in October, and we are now having to support over 20 different versions of the game. Naturally, having to support so many versions has led to a significant amount of additional work for our developers.

The vast majority of our players use the most recent version of Minecraft. Our data also shows that the small minority who are still using version 1.18 are primarily playing with version 1.18.12.

To ensure that we can continue supporting older clients to our high standards, we're wanting to reduce the range of client versions we support. This allows us to plan around a known set of clients, making development and testing easier. To achieve this, we plan to discontinue support for all versions except the following:

• 1.18.10, 1.18.11, and 1.18.12
• 1.19.70, 1.19.71, and 1.19.72 (latest release)

If you play The Hive with a version of Minecraft that is not listed above, please let us know which version you are using and why. This will help us take your feedback into consideration. To leave your feedback, please leave a comment on this post.

As we aim to be more transparent, we're updating you on the current state of The Hive, our company, and what we're working on. Read our full development update, for March 2023, on our website HERE.

An update to The Bridge has been deployed to all regions. This update adds support for the following quest criteria:

• Win x games
• Play x games
• Score x points
• Use x leaps
• Deal x arrow damage

Developer note: Although this update supports these quests, it may take a while to see available quests using these new criteria.

An update to BlockParty is deploying across all regions. This update includes minor bug fixes, support for quests, and adds custom server options.

Custom Server Options

• Enable/Disable Negative Powerups
• Enable/Disable PvP Powerups (Knockback Nemo)
• Enable/Disable Color UI Elements
• Powerup Count (Disabled, Default, Custom between 1-10 per round)
• Enable/Disable Color Mixing

Quest Criteria

• Surviving X rounds
• Outliving X players
• Using X powerups (including per-powerup)
• Player X games
• Winning X games

Developer note: Although this update supports these quests, it may take a while to see available quests using these new criteria.

Bug Fixes

• Changed the pink color to use a better color for UI rendering

We hope you like this minor update to BlockParty! If you find any bugs, please report them on Discord, or our Forums.