Map Update
Greetings fellow Hypixelians! Here with a very big Map Update for some of your favourite games: Paintball, Quake, TNT Games and Vampire Z!
Paintball
1. Siege
Take your team to victory in Siege! Flank the enemy moving through the abandoned village or overwhelm them in numbers by taking the bridge. Don't get too close to the battlements as the castle's defense is strong.
2. Gladiator
Stuck in the pit, you must work as a team to overcome the enemy. Move over the bridge with haste to get kills or tread cautiously from wall to wall, avoiding enemies, giving you the element of surprise!
Vampire Z
1. Overhill
Set in an old dried out fishing village, hiding spots at first may be hard to come by. Use the landscape to your advantage and hide in the small cracks and crevices.
2. Kudong
Find yourself in an ancient cursed Oriental town. Move swiftly over rooftops to your advantage. Be weary of the river that meanders through Kudong, for if you fall zombies and vampires will be quick to jump on you!
Quake - Solo
1. Towns
Don't be struck in awe though as you need your wits about you! Move fast and capture buffers to gain an advantage over your enemies, however be careful as the level is more open than other quake maps.
2. Martian
Stuck on Mars inside a Botany Lab, you must escape the planet before you turn! Use height and booster pads to win, leap on enemies and move cautiously in open areas. Martian is unique in comparison to other maps by having two large open hangars.
Quake - Teams
1. Ascended
A fast paced Quake Teams map, small in size with lots of fast paced movement. Use pressure pads and height to overcome the enemy while using the pillars as cover.
2. Depths
Set in an undiscovered ruin, choose to fight close quarters in the ruins or out in the open over jungle and walkways. Use the many stairwells to kite enemies and jump pads to quickly escape during fight or flight. This level is more difficult than other Teams maps, will you be able to defeat the enemy?
TNT Games
TNT Games
1. Chaparral - Bowspleef
A double layered Bowspleef arena, use the lower platform wisely!
2. Heather - TNT Run
Don't be fooled by the setting!
3. Blossom - TNT Wizards
An Oriental setting, taken inspiration from Vampire Z map Kudong. Capture the windmills and farmhouse at the center of the map to secure a victory! Will you be able to control all three points at a time?
4. Bloom - TNT Tag
A surreal map, escape enemies by gaining height, parkouring and losing enemies through cracks and tunnels. Be cautious of how you choose to get higher as some routes are more difficult than others!
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That's it for this map update, but please keep an eye on these forums for all the latest from Hypixel including further Map Updates.
Warlords Update - Balance Updates, Achievements, Select Spawn, and More!
New maps. New achievements. Class balancing. A new select spawn system. Warlords brace yourselves, because we've added all this plus new helmets and playstreak rewards!
New Helmets
For Warlords players who have a class over level 90, you will unlock an exclusive helmet for that class. You can select any of these new awesome level 90 helmets through the shop! Which helmet will you strive to unlock?
Thanks to community member @Lift for working on these!
Playstreak System
We've revamped the rewards you get for completing more than one game in a row.
Each game you complete will now add 20% or 50 coins to your bonus, up to 100% or 250 coins. Your playstreak bonus will remain until you abandon a match - if you leave a game before it finishes, your reward will reset to 0!
Check out your playstreak reward in the lobby scoreboard or in-game.
Spawn Selection
In Domination, you now have more control over where you respawn. Choose any capture point under your team's control to jump into the battle, or wait 5 seconds to spawn at the nearest point.
Class Balancing
Shaman
- Thunderlord
- Lightning Bolt: Energy cost 35 -> 30
- Lightning Bolt: Chain lightning cooldown reduction per hit 1.5s -> 2s
- Lightning Bolt: Damage decrease by 10%
- Lightning Bolt: Crit Multiplier 125% -> 150%
- Chain Lightning: Cooldown 14s -> 12s
- Chain Lightning: Self Defense back to 10% per player
- Chain Lightning: Damage decrease by 10% (246-457 -> 221-441)
- Windfury Weapon: Damage decreased from 200% to 175%
- Windfury Weapon: Upgrade decrease from 50% to 25%
- Damage now scales from 175% to 200% weapon damage
- Capacitor Totem: Damage decrease by roughly 20% (462-858 -> 419-601)
- Earthwarden
- Earth Spike: Base damage decrease by 10%
- Earth Spike: Damage Upgrade increased by 5%
- Boulder: Base damage increase by 10%
- Pyromancer
- Flame burst upgrade: 50% -> 35% crit multiplier
- Inferno: 25% -> 20% crit chance
- EPH reduced from +7 to +5
- Fireball crit multiplier base reduced from 150% to 135%
- Aquamancer
- Buff EPH from +5 to +7
- Avenger
- Avenger’s Strike energy drain ability decreased from 5 to 3
- Avenger's Strike crit multi reduced from 150% base to 125% base
- Berserker
- Change to wounding effect, lasts 3 seconds instead of 4, 35% instead of 50% healing reduction (for Berserker, keep 25% for Defender)
Following its use in other games, we've added a map rotation system to Warlords. This makes it quicker for you to join maps, and easier for us to add new ones!
Thanks to the new system, we've added 6 new maps for you to war over.
Black Temple
Crossfire
Death Valley
Doriven Basin
Falstad Gate
The Rift
Bug Fixes
- “Immunity” in TDM should now work properly
- Berserker ultimate skill description now displays correct information
- Defender ultimate skill fixed
- Pyromancer fireball description now displays correct information.
- Spawn powerups and damage powerups no longer stack
Learn how to Make & Import 3D Weapons with a Make Matic tutorial
Do you want to learn how to make your own custom 3D weapon? We've joined forces with Make Matic to create a professional video tutorial teaching you how to make the sort of awesome 3D weapons featured in Hypixel minigames like Warlords and Smash Heroes!
In this completely free video class, Hypixel Admin MooTV takes you through the entire process of creating a custom sword including:
- How to use 2D design tools to create textures for your weapon
- How to use 3D design tools (Cubik) to create a 3D model of your weapon
- How to export your designs and load them into Minecraft
- There's also a section of advanced tips and tricks
Interested? Click here to check out the full videos!
Mega Walls - The Barrier Update
Here's a Mega Walls update!
BARRIERS
This update completely changes how we handle movement restriction in maps.
Previously we used movement checks to stop players from going into restricted areas, which could result in players being knocked into zones they shouldn't be in, and getting stuck there.
We have now switched to using barrier blocks! Barrier blocks are invisible and stop players from going where they shouldn't. Thanks to this change we have been able to remove a lot of zones which were previously open to abuse. The below image uses glass to show where our new barrier blocks are.
2 NEW MAPS
Aftermath
This map is set in the outskirts of a post apocalyptic city. Scavenge the area for resources before time runs out. Once the walls fall you will have to fight other scavengers for survival!
Goldforge
This map is set at a Dwarven outpost. Defend your battlements, protect your gold or venture into the depths of the goldforge to meet your foes.
2 MAPS ADDED TO FACEOFF
Faceoff gets fan favourite Forsaken, as well as a version of the new map Goldforge.
We've also made the following changes:
- Weekly Quest is now 15 plays and 25 kills (was 25 plays and 75 kills)
- Win quest is now to win a game with at least 1 kill (was at least 2 final kills)
Many thanks for the feedback on 1.9 and other various reports so far, we are reading the threads closely
I'll also reveal in the next few days, a fairly nice Warlords update coming out! Spoiler alert: Level 90 Helms + More!
Hypixel is now both 1.8 & 1.9 compatible!
Minecraft 1.9 has just released! We would like to make two announcements.
First - We are immediately supporting 1.9 and 1.8 Crossplay!
You can play all games and features on the network in either mode, RIGHT NOW.
Second - We've made 1.9 combat be the same as 1.8!
It's almost exactly the same between both versions! What wizardry is this?
*drops Mic*
The Hypixel team has spent many months preparing for 1.9, reading user feedback and concerns. We are happy with the result. Read the FAQ for more information!
FAQ
1.9 and 1.8 is the same?! What?!?
Swing speed, damage. Crits. It's all the same. 1.9 and 1.8 should be able to fairly PvP against each other.
1.9 introduces a lot of new possibilities that are gonna make a lot of new cool stuff possible in future games.
However it's more important to ensure that our existing game communities can continue without much disruption. Last thing we want to do is make those games non-fun.
This is why we've decided to make 1.9 to be the same as 1.8 in terms of combat.
Some new games will be 1.9 only (just like what happened with 1.8), we expect users will overtime move to 1.9. Those new games are likely to use the 1.9 mechanics.
All of the current game modes will remain in 1.8 / 1.9 dual mode until the foreseeable future. We won't make any current games use 1.9 mechanics. Only new games will potentially use them.
What about sword blocking for 1.9 users?
We have a neat trick for this! When a 1.9 user blocks with a sword, we actually give them a shield in their off hand. When you let go of right click, we remove the shield.
It acts the same as sword blocking. There's no change to damage values, server response time, slowdown etc. There is a small difference for high latency users in that it will take slightly longer for your shield to appear (since you have to make a full roundtrip packet wise) but the important thing is that just like before - when the server recieves the signal from the client. "I'm blocking" - serverside the values are correctly calculated. The response time for that remains the same.
What's the coolest thing about 1.9?
For some users 1.9 comes with absolutely huge FPS performance increases.
What problems do you expect might happen?
One of the biggest changes was with particle systems. We might need to rework some particle systems in certain games, to ensure FPS is working effectively. We need some time to gauge impact on average users.
Of course, it's possible that more problems will emerge now that we've made the swap. The entire team is on standby and fixing problems. If you see an issue report it on the bug forums! We are watching very very closely.
The following were casualties of the 1.9 update
- Horse Racing from Party Games 2
- The Boat game from Party Games 1
When did Hypixel first start working on this?
We started to work on this right as we dropped 1.7 support back in December 2nd. We knew back then that triple compatibility was off the cards, so this is the reason why we had to do it back then, and also why we forced the last 3% of users to move to 1.8. (Conspiracy Music playing in background as the truth is revealed!). There was also a lot of other reasons to force the network to 1.8 only, but this was secretly one of the main ones. So we could get working on this ;-)
That's it from us guys, as always thanks for all your support. We nearly hit 50,000 players yesterday; short by only 40! We're really humbled by this. A number of really cool projects are in the works and we are looking forward to sharing them with you soon.
See you on the server!
Announcing the Hypixel Zone at Insomnia57 (25-27 MARCH in the UK)
Do you live in the UK? Do you like live gaming events? We are extremely excited to announce that the Hypixel Team will be attending Insomnia57, the latest edition of the UK’s biggest gaming festival.
Taking place on the 25th - 27th March 2016 at NEC Birmingham in England, Insomnia57 is a weekend packed full of gaming goodness. The event features special guests such as DanTDM, as well as tournaments, an exhibition hall, Q&A sessions and more!
At Insomnia57 you’ll find our team in the Hypixel Zone, where you can compete with friends across several classic Hypixel minigames for fun and prizes. We'll also be hosting a live show each day on the main stage featuring popular YouTubers playing Hypixel games.
We attended MINECON 2015 last year and it was a joy to meet so many awesome Hypixel players. We look forward to meeting even more of you this year; if you’re attending Insomnia57 and you spot a Hypixel staff member, feel free to come and say hello!
Tickets to Insomnia57 can be purchased on the official website. Let us know if you're attending in the comments, so we know who to expect!