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Love is in the air... The Heart Hoodie costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!
Winterfest is back, and Santa needs your help!
Santa is in trouble. A shortage of toy-making supplies has led to the elves falling behind with making this year's presents, and it doesn't look like the Winterfest preparations will be completed on time!
Do you think you have what it takes to help Santa and save Winterfest? Speak to Mrs. Claus in the hub to get started!
Winterfest is all about giving! Starting on the 14th of December, be sure to join The Hive and check underneath the big Winterfest tree each day to receive a special daily gift.
There are twelve total gifts to collect. Each gift will only be available for 24 hours, and once gone, will never be available again - talk about exclusive!
As always, all of your favorite wintery maps are back once more, including some brand-new festive variants.
Happy holidays from all of us at The Hive! 💛
Winter is coming... The Ugly Sweater Bee costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!
The Block Friday Bundle is now available, but it won't be around for long!
This jam-packed bundle is full of exclusive never-seen-before cosmetics and offers a huge 50% saving.
Purchasing the bundle gives you access to all of the following:
Get it before it's gone! This special bundle will only be purchasable for 3 days, and once it's gone, the exclusive cosmetics will never be available again.
Over the past month, we've worked on new tools to bring custom blocks to The Hive. This is essential to achieve our long-term content ideas that require expansive, immersive worlds.
Read all about it in our Dev Diary: Custom Blocks!
Hive-o-ween content will be leaving on the 7th of November.
If you haven't yet unlocked the Ancient Vault, reached the maximum level in Ghost Invasion, or collected 100 souls in Murder Mystery, now is your last chance to do so!
Once they're gone, all of this year's Hive-o-ween unlocks will never be available again.
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:
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.
To help players find full lobbies better at off-peak hours, we automatically enable and disable the availability of specific game queues.
Learn more on our support website.
Developers note:
As we're in a post-lockdown world where Minecraft isn't currently the hottest game on the market, we are intervening to keep our games active where possible. One of longer-term goals is region agnostic matchmaking - allowing you to play against other regions from your "home" region. Dynamic game queues is a stopgap we're testing until then, both to accommodate players that just want to get into a functional queue, and to have Platform-Based Matchmaking active more often.
Whilst we understand that choice is good (and fun!), it can also cause issues when long queue times lead to players giving up. As always, feedback is much appreciated - the more detail the better. You can leave it below, on our forums as a suggestion, or on our socials.
It's the spookiest time of the year, Hive-o-ween is here!
Whilst unlocking the high-security vault where all of the Hive-o-ween maps are stored, our builders accidentally released a Reaper into Murder Mystery!
Can you help collect the souls of fallen players so that the Reaper will return to his realm? Who knows, if you collect enough souls, maybe you'll even be rewarded...
Join a game of Murder Mystery to get started!
The mysterious Ancient Vault has reappeared but appears to have been locked once again with a new magical spell...
Will you be able to unlock all of its secrets? Join The Hive to start exploring!
Everyone's favorite ghost game is back! Ghost Invasion has returned for a limited time once again, with an all-new set of exclusive cosmetics for you to unlock and collect!
As always, all of our game lobbies have been given a spooky makeover, and all of our seasonal Halloween maps are back for a limited time!
Developer note: Due to the limited space in the hub, the Survival Games NPC has been moved to the Arcade hub, to create space for the Ghost Invasion NPC. We plan to make changes to the hub to accommodate more games in the future.
Happy Halloween! 🎃