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Today we've released SkyWars: Kits Duos, and the first of our brand new collector bundles: the SkyWars Collectors Bundle.

SkyWars Collectors Bundle

Introducing the SkyWars Collectors Bundle, the first of our brand new collector bundles!

Purchasing the SkyWars Collectors Bundle will grant you access to the following 12 exclusive cosmetics:

• Dark Magma Death Crate
• Golden Pegasus Death Crate
• Pirate Tavern Island Flag
• Daisy Island Flag
• Sunflower Island Flag
• Confetti Kill Effect
• Hearts Kill Effect
• Flower Power Projectile Trail
• GG Projectile Trail
• Hoverbike Spawn Vehicle
• Pegasus Spawn Vehicle
• The Collector Hub Title

Check it out: https://mcstore.io/the-hive/skywars-collectors-bundle

We plan to release collectors bundles for more of our games in the near future, be sure to let us know which games you'd like to see a collectors bundle for next!

SkyWars: Kits Duos

SkyWars: Kits Duos is now available to play!

You can access it by using the game selector, or by typing /queue SKY-KITS-DUOS in chat.

We've started granting the new Hive+ cosmetics to those that already have Hive+. You'll be granted these unlocks automatically when you join.

Around 5PM UTC tomorrow, the original Hive+ cosmetics will no longer be available to new purchasers. Starting then, buying Hive+ only grants you the new cosmetics. Players that purchase Hive+ before 5PM UTC tomorrow will gain access to both the original and new cosmetics.

The Hive plans to use new blocks and functionality from modern Minecraft versions. As such, we are removing support for the following versions:

• 1.16.x on December 3rd
• 1.17.0, 1.17.1 and 1.17.2 on December 9th

We will be supporting recent 1.17 versions for the foreseeable future.

On Windows 10 and experiencing input delay and/or pink glitch? Check out our tutorial on installing non-Renderdragon Minecraft HERE.

Mojang has released Minecraft 1.18 today, November 30th. As usual, the Hive has full support for this version of Minecraft.

If you wish to play without the RenderDragon engine on Windows 10, we've updated our support page with the download link for 1.18. You can also obtain the 1.18 32-bit non-RenderDragon directly HERE.

Please note that due to our wish to use new features, blocks and items from Minecraft 1.17, The Hive will be dropping support for 1.16 versions of Minecraft on or after the 3rd of December. We will be supporting 1.17 versions of the game for the foreseeable future, but generally advise the most recent version of the game.

Back by popular demand: The Hive Block Friday sale! Save on many Hive store offers this weekend:

• 50% off ALL regular costumes!
• 30% off Hive+!
• 50% off Hive booster!

For costumes and Hive+, this sale also applies to Gift versions.

Hive+ sale ends early Saturday, November 27th. Costume and booster sale ends early Monday, November 29th.

For those affected by performance issues, input delay, and "pink glitch" on Windows 10, we now provide a tutorial on installing the non-RenderDragon version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition. Whilst we can't guarantee this resolves all 1.17 issues for all players, it is worth trying this if you are affected by the aforementioned bugs.

Find the tutorial here.

Despite 1.17 having been released almost 6 months ago, up until now, The Hive has continued to allow players to play on some 1.16 versions of Minecraft.

Whilst we understand that a small number of players have continued to use 1.16 in order to avoid bugs that have been introduced in some of the more recent versions of Minecraft, continuing to support these older versions would leave us unable to use any of the new features that the newer versions of Minecraft bring.

The Hive will be dropping support for 1.16 versions of Minecraft on or after the 3rd of December.

From this point onwards, you will need to update to a 1.17 version to be able to join The Hive.

The Hive has a large number of non-English players - especially in our ever-growing Asia region. Over the last few months, we've been working on making it easier to manage our translations, to ensure players worldwide have the best possible experience.

As of today's update, we have near 100% translation coverage across all games and social features in:

• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish (Spain and Latin America)

We'll continue improving our translations, as well as adding languages based on geographic player statistics. In the future, we plan to make it easier for community members to report wrong translations as well as suggest potential improvements.

Last weekend, we were informed about an exploit affecting us and some other (featured and non-featured) servers, which allowed users to log in with an arbitrary identity. As this posed a possible security risk, we went into maintenance mode and resolved this issue ASAP.

As of this announcement, we believe the issue has been resolved. We have reached out to other affected servers in the community, as well as affected software maintainers, to aid them in resolving this issue.

We have no evidence that this exploit was used maliciously. The Hive stores no personal data, so there is no risk to players in any form. 

As there was no impact to player accounts, we are under no obligation to post this notice, however we're sharing this to promote transparency and to assist affected networks.

We have rewarded the people that informed us about this exploit with a generous bug bounty.

This incident was limited to server logins, due to the way Minecraft client issues and validates logins, and not any backend service or web services such as Discord or our forums.

FAQ:

Is my account at risk? Should I change my password?

No. This incident has no relation to passwords, and as it’s been resolved, there is no risks for any accounts. Absolutely NO action is required by any user at this time.

Was my account affected?

From our current evidence, this affected less than 10 accounts, mainly vanity and known influencer accounts. There was no substantial abuse of the affected accounts. No player account was banned, kicked, or modified because of this incident.

Did this affect all servers?

This affected a small number of featured servers as well as several non-featured servers, as well as popular Bedrock to Java translation servers. Most affected servers have since resolved this issue.

Was the Hive “hacked”?

No. The scope of this incident was purely related to in-game access, and the number of privileges that in-game accounts have is incredibly limited as well as audited. No personal, account, or other privileged data was accessed or modified.