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The Bridge 1v1: coming June 3rd, the first Hive game to introduce Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM).

Our Asia region is now running our new 'player social' backend!

This is a massive change that touches many parts of the network. As well as making our social features more reliable, these updates also act as the groundwork for some of our upcoming social updates. 

As so much has changed behind the scenes, you may notice some tiny changes and quirks - some are on purpose, but if something feels like a bug, be sure to report it on our forums or Discord.

For now, these changes have only been applied to our Asia region. Until our EU and NA regions are on the new backend, certain cross-region functionality may not function correctly. For example, players in other regions won't show up as online on Asia in friend menus.

As part of this update, a new toggle has arrived: Appear Online. Disabling this toggle in the /toggles menu will prevent you from showing up as online on friends lists, and make it so your friends won't be notified when you join or leave.

We plan to bring these changes to Europe and North America very soon!

As of today, The Hive no longer supports 1.17 versions of Minecraft. Players will need to use version 1.18.0 or above to play.

Support for older versions of Minecraft is removed to allow us to use blocks and features that are introduced in newer versions of the game and to improve performance for our players.

We have decided to remove support for 1.17 a little earlier than usual, this is because only a tiny percentage (less than 1%) of players still used a 1.17.X version to join The Hive.

Today, Minecraft is releasing 1.18.12, which resolves the player movement issue. We recommend all players update to this version to receive the latest features and fixes.

The Endolotl pet is now available to purchase!

All players now have access to the brand new pet menu, which can be accessed by interacting with the spawn egg in your hot bar.

The pet menu can be used to purchase pets, summon and put them away, and change their name and name color.

Want to gift an Endolotl to your friend? Regular pets are giftable through the gifting menu!

It's time to ring in the Year of the Tiger!

Festive Hub

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, and the start of the Year of the Tiger, the hub has received a festive makeover!

Zodiac Banner Hunt

Be sure to look out for 12 banners special banners that have been hidden around the hub! Each one of them features an animal from the Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

Players that manage to find all 12 of the banners will receive the exclusive Lunar Tiger costume:

Happy Lunar New Year! 🏮

We are continuously improving and expanding in-game reporting.

If you received continuous errors reporting before, this should now be resolved.

In-game reporting prioritizes reports behind the scenes based on a wide number of factors. Submitting accurate reports will increased the speed of your future reports being handled, and you may receive rewards for correctly reporting.

We urge all players to utilize in-game reporting in supported games for reporting rule breakers.

We are currently testing our upcoming in-game reporting system.

We have given a limited number of players access to the feature, to allow us to test it and to gather data.

At this time, the system is still in heavy development, and as such, we cannot guarantee that reports sent using the system will be looked into by our staff. To ensure that your report is looked at, we strongly encourage you to continue to report players on our Discord server, as well as in-game.

We will be giving more players access to the feature in the coming weeks, look out for further announcements regarding this.

Check out our 2021 recap, and what's coming in 2022, on our main blog HERE!