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

Double XP has been enabled in all SkyWars modes!

All SkyWars games will award double XP until Tuesday, September 3rd at midday (UTC).

It's time for another update, this time for SkyWars! This update brings 25 new levels and a brand-new Duos map!

New Map

Look out for Atomic, the newest map in the SkyWars: Duos roster!

Unlocks & Cosmetics

This update introduces 25 levels, bringing the total level 100. As always, with each level you reach, you'll unique new unlockable cosmetics.

Kill Effects

• Soul Bringer
• You Died!

Projectile Trails

• Bubbles
• Bees
• Music Notes
• Souls

Spawn Vehicles

• Lily Pad
• Runic Ritual
• Pantheon

Death Crates

• Ancient Vase
• Beastly Chest
• Bank Heist
• Deep Dark Chest

Player Flags

• Cherry Tree
• Boba Cafe
• Angelic Wings
• Castle in the Clouds

Avatars

• Pantheon
• Mimic
• Gladiator Creeper

Stat Track Hub Titles (NEW):

• Kills
• Victories

Costume

• Gladiator Creeper

Developer note: After reviewing community feedback, we have decided not to enable prestige with this level update, and will instead enable it in a future update, to give players time to reach level 100.

To resolve a problem with redeeming locker cosmetics, as well as aligning all our regions to the same update, The Hive will be down for scheduled maintenance today, August 30th.

Maintenance has finished.

Our North America region will be down for scheduled maintenance today, August 29th.

This maintenance:

• Adds support for an upcoming version of Minecraft
• Adds a new login streak reward:
  • A stat-track hub title showing your current login streak
  • Awarded at 200 days
  • Also awarded to players that previously reached 200 (or more) days
  • Currently only obtainable on North America, but equipable in all regions. Available on all regions soon.

A new update is deploying for BedWars. This patch includes new challenges, new team upgrades, and other quality-of-life changes and bug fixes.

New Features

• Added spawn protection team upgrade that increases spawn protection for 2 seconds
• Added mining speed team upgrade that gives the entire team haste
• Destroying a bed will mark nearby enemies to grant kill credit if they jump off the island or leave the game

New Challenges

Daily Challenges

• Victory Lap: Win a game of BedWars
• Quick Pick: Purchase 2 mining speed team upgrades

Season Challenge

• Unstoppable: Win 30 games of BedWars (Note: Wins must be acquired after the challenge was added; prior victories will not count)

Changes

• Spawn protection is now 6 seconds by default (increased from 4 seconds)
  
• Spawn protection now shows an action bar message with an expiration timer
• The 'Blaze It' daily challenge requirement has been reduced from 10 to 5 fireballs
• Starting sword team upgrade now grants a sword to all swordless players upon purchase
• Changed the wording on 'Generator Speed' custom server setting to be clearer

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused generators of eliminated teams to activate on game start

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback about this update! Be sure to let us know your thoughts by using our BedWars feedback form!

It's time for a Survival Games update! This update brings 20 new levels, bringing the total level to 50.

As always, new levels mean awesome new cosmetics for you to unlock and collect!

Gravestones (NEW):

• Rusted Sword
• Bonsai Tree
• Magic Rune
• Supply Crate
• Burrowed Bunny
• Knight Helmet
• Garden Gnome

The default gravestone has been modernized. The 'old school' gravestone can now be unlocked at level 10.

Kill Phrases:

• X finessed Y
• X ten-hearted Y
• X sent Y to the moon
• X gave Y the L

Spawn Pedestals:

• Enchanted Tome
• Royal Throne

Avatars:

• Royal Throne
• Bonsai
• Elite Skeleton

Stat Track Hub Titles (NEW):

• Kills
• Victories
• K/D Ratio

Costume:

• Elite Skeleton

We're proud to announce the immediate availability of the open-source version of Chunker, The Hive's bidirectional Minecraft world converter.

Check out the full announcement on our blog.

A balancing patch for SkyWars: Classic is now being deployed to all regions.

Thank you to everybody who left feedback, it has been very helpful!

Changes

• Instant TNT can now be pushed/launched by other TNT
• Reduced Instant TNT placement cooldown from 1 second to half a second
• Increased warmup time from 10 seconds to 20 seconds
• Reduced the chances of potions spawning in chests
• Reduced the chances of chainmail boots spawning (slightly increasing the chances of other armor spawning)
• Reduced the number of arrows
• Opening a vault will now grant 10XP

New Feature

• Vanilla Projectiles are now enabled in SkyWars: Classic

This is the first balancing patch for SkyWars: Classic. We will continue to review your feedback and make further changes where necessary. If you have any feedback on the changes in this balancing patch, be sure to join our Discord server.

Our newest mode blends the classic SkyWars gameplay you love with exciting new items and features that keep the action fresh! 

Be sure to check out our blog post for everything you need to know about this new mode!