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feature
2 weeks ago05/10/2022

Mini Feature: Friend Last Seen

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.

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feature
a month ago03/31/2022

Updated Friend Notifications

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.

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feature
2 months ago03/29/2022

Social Backend Updates - Europe and North America

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.

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feature
3 months ago02/24/2022

Chat reporting in in-game reporting

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.

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5 months ago12/11/2021

Winterfest 2021 ⛄

It's that time of year again! Winter has come to The Hive!

Mysterious Ice Cave

A powerful blizzard has swept through the hub, and a mysterious Ice Cave has appeared under spawn! The Ice Caves are said to be extremely cold, so make sure you pick up an Ice Suit if you plan on venturing down there!

Snow Wars

Back by popular demand, Snow Wars has returned, bringing with it brand new hub titles, avatars, and an exclusive costume to unlock and collect!

Gather your friends, and get ready to go head to head in this epic snowy battle! Use blocks to build defenses and pelt your enemies with snowballs to gain territory. The team to claim all the territory shall be crowned the snow champions!

More to come!

Seasonal maps will be making a return to all of your favorite games later on today, and there'll be some more seasonal surprises later on next week!

Happy holidays! 💛

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feature
7 months ago10/21/2021

Hive Replay Cinema 🎬

It's time for the second of our four Friday updates... Welcome to the Hive Replay Cinema!

This article is just the key details - be sure to check out our blog post for everything you need to know about the Hive Replay Cinema!

What is the Hive Replay Cinema?

In the Hive Replay Cinema, you can watch back all of your SkyWars, Survival Games, and Treasure Wars matches as soon as they've ended.

Controls & Settings

In the Hive Replay Cinema, you have access to a range of controls and settings, allowing you to pause, rewind, speed up or slow down, and even view gameplay in reverse!

By using the menu, you can also jump to a given timestamp, or view certain events within the game (such as kills, or treasure destroys).

Replay Pass

To access the Replay Cinema, you'll need to purchase a Replay Pass from the Hive Store, for 830 Minecoins.

The Replay Pass gives you access to the Replay Cinema for 365 days.

Purchasing the Replay Pass will also give you access to the following exclusive cosmetics:

  • Replay Raccoon Costume
  • It's rewind time! (hub title)
  • Lights, Camera, ACTION! (hub title)
  • Action (avatar)

Feedback & Future Updates

As always, this feature is still subject to change, and we'll be looking for feedback and suggestions from the community - be sure to let us know your thoughts!

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7 months ago10/14/2021

Hive-o-ween 2021 🎃

It's time to get spooky! Hive-o-ween is back, and better than ever! 

The Ancient Vault

Whilst our builders were getting the hub ready for this year's Hive-o-ween festivities, they stumbled upon what appeared to be the entrance to a mysterious Ancient Vault, hidden underground...

Do you think you have what it takes to unlock the mysteries of the Ancient Vault? Click here to find out more!

Ghost Invasion Returns

The ghosts are back! Ghost Invasion has returned once again, bringing with it a brand new set of cosmetics for you to unlock!

Unlocks

  • 6 Ghost Characters
  • 5 Ghost Pop Designs
  • 4 Zapper Rays
  • 4 BRAND NEW Halloween Hub Titles
  • 4 BRAND NEW Halloween Avatars

And...

  • Over 30 seasonal maps and lobbies, including the return of Haunted (TreasureWars:Solo) and two BRAND NEW SkyWars:Solo maps: Crypt and Village
  • Over 100 spooktacular Just Build themes (coming later on this evening)

Did we mention that it's our 3rd birthday on Saturday? Be sure to join The Hive this weekend to collect a special Beeday surprise! 🎂

Happy sp00ping! 👻

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feature
7 months ago10/11/2021

Improved Replay IDs

Reporting replay IDs can be... difficult at best. To help you share them easier, and to make it easier for our staff to handle them, we're introducing improved Replay IDs.

Magic!

Improved Replay IDs are available today on our Europe and North America regions, with Asia coming next. Stay tuned for more replay updates!

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feature
9 months ago08/14/2021

Custom Servers Overhaul & Update

Custom Servers are loved by many of our dedicated players, but have historically been a bit tricky to use and configure. With this full overhaul and update we're making them better and easier!

To get started with Custom Servers, run the following command in-game: /cs

Full overhaul of all menus to make settings easier to find and quicker to change:

  • One top-level modal now serves as the starting point for all customization as well as access- and other features
  • Related settings are now shown in one modal instead of multiple, making it easier to configure 'deeper' settings
  • Improved wording and general look and feel to make modals and settings more clear

Presets:

  • Presets (featured, custom and recent) are now functional
  • Custom presets can be shared with other players using a preset code
  • Recent presets allow you to go back to a recent game's settings
  • Featured Presets per game for 'recommended' playlists, including community favorites

Improvements and fixes:

  • Fixed Code Only Mode + the code now shows on screen permanently during lobby
  • Fixed various issues relating to Set Roles
  • Added Set World Time
  • Improved permission system
  • Games now only start when the owner, or a player with the right permission, manually starts the game. The start-game countdown is fully removed in Custom Servers.


Game-specific changes:

Treasure Wars:

  • Added settings to enable/disable the purchasing of certain items from the item shop
  • Fixed an issue where summoners would drop empty items when the summoner amount setting was set to 0, also changed the summoner name to show it does not drop items
  • Non-CS: Fixed an issue where spectators wouldn't get a UI in Treasure Wars Mega

SkyWars:

  • Added the ability to change the health on kill setting to the amount of the max health setting
  • Fixed a bug where turning off chest filling would stop you from being able to open them at all

Survival Games:

  • Added the ability to set roles and players as spectators
  • Added a setting to control supply crate spawn rate 
  • Added a setting to enable/disable supply crates
  • Non-CS: Fixed an issue where the fire boomboxes would ignite the thrower but not damage them
  • Non-CS: Stopped standard boomboxes from giving knockback to the player that threw it
  • Non-CS: Fixed a bug where a player could spam dozens of Boomboxes 

Just Build:

  • Added the ability to create your own theme in the theme settings
  • Added the ability for players to be spectators


And one more thing...

We know that getting to the Custom Server menu is command-only at the moment, preventing our more casual players from discovering this feature. Stay tuned for improvements to our Hub that resolve this as well as future user experience improvements!

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feature
10 months ago07/17/2021

Sonic Event Delay

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties we've had to make the difficult decision to delay the Sonic Live Event until Saturday, July 24th.

We hope you can join us on the new event date!

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