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Love is in the air... The Heart Hoodie costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!

Winter is coming... The Ugly Sweater Bee costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!

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:

• 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.

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.