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.

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!

All-new hats, and our newest pet, the Witch Cat are now available on The Hive Store!

Hats

Introducing hats, The Hive's newest category of hub cosmetics:

Hats come in several levels of rarity; rarer hats come with special features, such as animations, color variants, or state changes when you sneak.

The following hats can be purchased from The Hive Store right now:

• Octopus Plush (changes state when you sneak)
• Gamer Headset (comes with 2 colors)
• Cardboard Box
• Axe Head
• Shining Crown (comes with 3 colors)
• Flower Crown (animated)

Additionally, anyone that purchases the Broomstick mount will get the Witch Hat for free! If you have purchased the Broomstick already, the hat will be added to your locker within the next few days.

We will be implementing the option to gift hats in the very near future, be sure to look out for future announcements for more information.

You can view and purchase hats by selecting the Hub Cosmetics (egg) item in the hub.

Witch Cat Pet

Just in time for Halloween, the brand new Witch Cat pet is the perfect spooky companion for any young witch or wizard!

The new pet comes with 3 color variants, its own unique animations, and an exclusive avatar and 'cat person.' hub title.

The Witch Cat pet is a permanent addition to The Hive Store and can be purchased for 830 Minecoins.

Our first hub mount, which allows you to fly on an epic spaceship, is available now. Grab it from the Hive Store using the in-hub "Pets and Mounts" hotbar item, for 1690 Minecoins.

You can also share the joy of in-hub flying with your friends by gifting the Spaceship - head over to a giftbox, or use /gift in an (arcade) hub, and grab a Regular Mount Gift.

To improve in-game communication of changes and updates, we're happy to announce in-game patch notes have arrived on The Hive.

When there are unread patch notes, a book will appear in your inventory in the relevant game, and will stay there until you've read it.

Want to read older patch notes? /patchnotes during lobby will get you the book back when you want it. These will, over time, be available in all supported languages.

In-game patch notes are now live on The Bridge, and will appear over time in all games as they receive updates.

Our largest update ever, The Arcade, has been released!

This is a major update that's full of awesome content, be sure to read our latest blog post for all of the details:

https://playhive.com/2022/06/03/the-arcade/

As always, we will be closely monitoring feedback and balancing games where necessary, be sure to leave feedback on our Discord server!

For offline friends, the Friends List now shows the last time your friend was seen on the server!

For friends that have been offline for more than 30 days, the classic Offline tag is shown. This feature respects Appear Online: if you leave with Appear Online disabled, this won't refresh your Last Seen time.

This is now available on Europe and North America, and soon on Asia.

Updated friend notifications are now live on our Europe and North America regions!

You can choose between these, and classic notifications, by toggling 'Modern Friend Notifications' in the /toggles menu.

The social backend updates, which we detailed in yesterdays announcement, are now also live on Europe and North America.

Appear Offline is now available network wide. We look forward to releasing many more social feature updates in the near future.

You can now report chat messages using in-game reporting! You can access this using the regular reporting tools (/report or using the hotbar item as a spectator). If you report during the game, you'll be able to select the relevant chat messages and submit these as evidence.

Additionally, a range of new reporting reasons have been added. We'll keep reviewing and updating this list based on both community and staff feedback.

As we will be phasing out Discord reporting, we recommend using in-game reporting where possible. Discord reporting will remain available for games and hubs that don't have in-game reporting, until it is added to all these places.

Thank you for using reporting, which helps us keep the network clean. A special shoutout goes to the now over 1000 players that have submitted enough valid reports to receive reporting rewards.