Hey everyone! The time is finally almost here for the public release of Housing, we’ve released a final update in preparation for it. Many thanks to our users for all feedback and bug reports as always! Details below

Jukebox
The Jukebox is now working properly for all users in your house - and we’ve given it an upgrade - making it so we have 39 total songs in housing up from 15! All of these songs are immediately accessible for anyone who has the Jukebox unlocked.

You’ll also see now that each song creator is fully credited in the tooltip now too.

Keep your eyes peeled for Noteblock song contest #3 in the coming weeks if you want your chance to be on the Housing Jukebox!

We’ve also moved jukebox to be now unlocked by default for anyone VIP and above. Spent credits have been refunded

Themes Revamp

• All themes are now unlockable via Mystery Boxes
• All players now start with 5 themes by default
• There are a total of 25 new themes, bringing the total amount of themes to 34
  • These themes vary from the very simple, to the very complex. They aren’t just limited to floating islands anymore!
• Youtubers have access to some special youtuber only themes! The Auditorium, Disco, and Pool Party are among them!

What about themes we already bought with Credits?
Great news for anyone - not only will you keep the themes you bought with credits, you’ll also receive a full refund of the credits you spent!

Housing Achievements
We’ve added 11 achievements to housing! Go get ‘em!

Random House Visiting
There is now a button to visit someone's house randomly, the really fun thing about this, is that the system decides who’s house is the random house globally. So if you have your house open. Be ready for a lot of visitors suddenly at anytime!

Staff / YouTuber House Filtering
You can now apply a search filter to only view staff / youtuber houses that are open.

Social Media Blocks
Want to advertise your Youtube, Twitter, Twitch or Instagram? You can now place down social media blocks that other players can click for links to the above! Remember it’s not ok to do this in lobbies, but everyone is fine to do it in their own houses! Be sure you want to share it before you do!


Build Mode Border
While in build mode, the buildable area of the plot will now show up as having a red border of wool. This will help you to understand the boundaries! When you swap to social mode this disappears!

Parkour Upgrades
It’s now possible to create 5 checkpoints for a parkour.
You can now view a parkour leaderboard with /parkour leaderboard

Sign Editor
You can now edit signs without breaking them, by holding SNEAK and then right clicking the sign!

Party warping /housing invite
You can now party warp to any house - go make friends or hang out in your own homes!
It’s now possible to invite your friends / guild members and party members to your house by typing /housing invite (username) while inside your house.

Food Category Unlocked
The food category has been unlocked! Everyone ranked VIP and above has access to that entire section of 57 textured heads to use freely.

Simplified tag sorting
We have simplified the tag selection menu to allow you to search for houses more effectively!

Rate houses by giving cookies
You are now able to give out 10 cookies a week to the houses you like the most! You can even search houses by who has the most cookies.

Can you be the king of the cookies?

That’s it folks! The hardware is here, the final patch is done. You can expect some stress tests today… and if all goes well. Who knows. We might flip the switch and move housing from closed beta into open beta.

See you on the server!

This housing update includes a lot of the requested features such as Parkour Blocks, a permissions system and most importantly… the jukebox works now. Read on for more information.

Our version of player housing is a completely new and unprecedented thing in Minecraft, so we really needed to see things at a smaller scale and also to gather your feedback.

Some great news is that we do have the hardware required to enter open beta now on site, once we are happy with stability and functionality we are going to open the housing for all. This could be a few days or more than a week. Let’s see what happens!

House Settings

• House Tags
  Apply up to 3 different tags to your house, players will be able to filter all public homes by tag and thus find a relevant home much easier.

• House Name
  Set a name for your home, this shows up in the house listing and scoreboard. Truly mark your house as your own.
  
  

• Permissions System
  You can now add players to the ‘Resident’ group, and set up specific settings for them. This includes allowing them to moderate your home by doing things like banning, kicking or muting.
  Other permissions you can set include: Teleport, Wood doors and trapdoors, Iron doors and trapdoors, fence gates and the permission to use Jukebox for Residents.

• Chat Modes
  You can set chat speed in your home. Completely turn it off, instant chat or with a set delay up to 60 seconds.

• Max Players
  To make sure your house doesn’t get too crowded you can now set a limit of players in your home, ranging from 25 up to 150.

• Parkour blocks
  One of the most requested features was Parkour Blocks, we’re happy to announce that these were added in this update and is available for everyone without requiring to find them in the Mystery boxes. Look in the Housing menu under ‘Items’ to grab the Parkour pressure plate.
  You’re able to define up to 3 checkpoints, simply place them in order from start to finish.

• Youtuber changes
  Youtubers are now able to join any player’s home, even if they’re offline. Helpful for them to visit their fans!
  They are also able to set a password on their home, and have a bigger amount of maximum guests. The purpose of the password is to allow only true followers to join rather than people interested in that nice gold rank name

• Reporting Homes
  Ever spot a house that breaks the rules? As a guest you now have a ‘Report House’ anvil in your menu. Right-click the anvil to open the reporting menu, select one of the predefined reasons and we’ll send a moderator or helper to check it out.

General and Quality of Life changes

• Proper sorting in block list.
  
  
• Allow users to rotate log blocks by right-clicking them with the nether star.
• Allow users to rotate mushroom blocks by right-clicking them with the nether star.
• Allow users to plant and grow seeds by using seeds.
• Users can quickly admin other players by right clicking them with the nether star or ghast tear.
• Allow users to make tilled soil by right-clicking dirt with the nether star.
• Added tips above the hotbar.
• Cleaned up scoreboard and menus
  
  
  
  
  
• Added commands for settings, in case you want to bypass the menu.
  
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed house reset
• Fixed multiple world corruption bug
• Fixed Jukebox playing sounds to the wrong players
• Fixed players turning invisible sometimes
• Reduce the chance of a server crashes
• Fixed fire spread, ice melting.
• Remove entities when house is reset.
• Prevented falling blocks outside plot area
• + Various other small bugfixes.

As always, these bug fixes would not be possible without your community reports. Please continue to report bugs as and when you find them! We really appreciate it.

That’s it for these update notes - Tweet us or put your creations up on housing gallery!

Regarding pets with housing, we can confirm that we will bring those in eventually - anyone will be able to summon their pets for housing, regardless of rank. Multiple Builders is also a high priority for us.

As always, more to come folks! Sorry for the lack of updates in the last 2 weeks, we had some relaxation time after a busy summer, as always - the best is yet to come!

#HypixelFTW

The Mystery Box is finally here! This update is definitely our biggest and boldest to date - The box contains over 500 items to unlock and along with the other stuff... there is perhaps enough content to fill 6 separate news posts, so we've tried our best to condense it to this one post!



For those brave enough… read on, and strap yourselves to your seats just in case it’s too much to handle!


Over 500 cosmetics to discover & unlock! These items are spread across a range of new systems like Housing / Suits / Pets (more on those below)

• Earn Mystery Boxes simply by playing games on the network - Any game has an equal chance of giving you a mystery box. Go to the Mystery Vaults in the lobbies to unlock your rewards.
• Boxes with 1-3 stars are able to be opened by everyone - 4 stars requires VIP and up. 5 stars requires MVP and up.
• A higher number of stars on a box means higher chance of better loot - you can see the difference below. Boxes that are bought directly on the web store have no rank requirement, regardless of the number of stars.
• However, any box has the potential to have "any" loot - there is no such thing as 5 Star exclusive content - the only thing which changes is the drop percentages.
• Get a duplicate reward? Never fear - those become dust that you can use to create Crafted Mystery Boxes!
• For those of you with a surplus of Credits that they want to use - you can convert credits into a guaranteed 3 Star Mystery Box - we’ve limited this to once per day for now.

Finally - the wait is over! Mystery box represents an exciting future for the server economy!


Simply visit the Player Housing NPC in the main lobby to be whisked away to your own house or visit a friends house, guild members or a publicly listed house! Housing can support hundreds of players in one house - and is the result of months of work by @AgentK writing his own minecraft server from scratch (Even I don’t understand all the details on how this actually works!)

Every player, non-donor and donor alike is entitled to their own housing plot!

To join housing, simply visit the housing NPC in any main lobby. You can either join your own world or visit another players!


Once you are inside - complete the housing tutorial to receive around 27 blocks - these blocks are everything you need to get your first home up and running but lacks exotic minecraft blocks like Quartz and Diamond - find those in mystery boxes!

You can use credits to increase your plot size, unlock things like Jukeboxes, new Biomes and Themes among other things. VIPs & MVPs get special discounts for this!

Player Housing will be developed sometime in the future to guild fortresses, and will have other systems such as house parties - we have a lot of ideas with this system.

Please tweet us your homes or post them on the forums! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Please be aware that we have flagged the housing system as Closed Beta - There is a small chance your housing plots will get reset during the Beta Phase without warning - although we don't anticipate it happening. We've had to set it to VIP and above for now for testing reasons to deal with scale, further details at the bottom of the post - we will enable it for all users as soon as we can. We are also aware of a few minor issues and we wanna sneak in a few final features before launch. We expect the housing beta flag to be removed by early September.


The pets system has been revamped and entirely improved from the ground up!

There are currently a total of 95 pets you can collect - some with achievements, others with credits and most with the mystery boxes.

General info on pets...

• Pets require food, water and exercise in order to be happy! Happy pets level up faster!
• Send pets on missions to have them level up! Who knows, there might also be some other things you can do with pets in the future where their level helps ;-).
• Learn what food your pets like the most to take the best care of them!
• You can find pet consumables inside mystery boxes! (In additon to the normal mystery box rewards)
• You can summon your pets and rename them just like you could previously to show them off in the lobby !

Most importantly - your old pet collection has been completely transferred into the new system!

Morph is a complete replacement of the disguise system that you can do special abilities with.

You become a ghost and then you can control the mob - even doing attack animations. Other players won't even see your name - it's truly the ultimate disguise!

Morph Special Abilities
Pig (Rare) - Squeal
Cow (Rare) - Moo
Enderman (Epic) - Teleportation
Chicken (Epic) - Lay Eggs
Spider (Epic) - Shoot Webs (How Do I?)
Sheep (Epic) - Rainbow Sheep Mode
Creeper (Legendary) - Creeper Explosion
Blaze (Legendary) - Shoot fireballs
Zombie (Legendary) - Infect other players

Morphs are only obtained via the Mystery Box!

Any user who previously had bought a disguise - has received a full refund!


You can also craft special Mystery Boxes from the Dust of any duplicate stuff you find!
Loot inside crafted chests can not be found normally in mystery boxes, and you will always get a preset list of drops. For launch we've only announced one crafted box - but who knows what will be in the future boxes? Do you save or spend?


Anyone can create crafted Mystery boxes, but ranked users get discounts (VIP 50% off, MVP 75% Off)!

Collect over 50 hats and wear em as above! Simple as that!


We are launching with 20 collectible suit pieces. Assemble a full suit to unlock a special lobby ability!


Particle Cloaks have been added to the server, currently you can only get these via a Legendary Drop on a Crafted Chest. I won't spoil how they look though!

Frequently Asked Questions

• Why can't everyone join yet?
  • We have to wait for hardware specifically for Housing - at the moment we need a special 16 bay server that can store all the data for housing. It will take a few days for us to arrange this. The reason why we need this is each house can take 2.5MB of data - considering we have 500,000 players logging in per day - we need to be able to store at least 1 million houses, which means we need 2.5 Terabytes of powerful SSD's at the very least. As soon as we have this in place we will open for everyone.
• Where is Vanity Shop?
  • The Vanity Shop is now known as "Collectibles"
• Where is wardrobe builder?
  • Wardrobe Builder had to go - to make way for suits.
  • MVP+'s will recieve 3 exclusive gadgets in the next few days to make up for the removal of wardrobe builder and /head
• Why do I suddenly have more credits?
  • A percentage of players have received refunds where certain things were removed (like some of the disguises) you should have these already when you log in.
• Where do we report housing bugs?
  • Please report them on the bug reports forum, as housing itself does not have it's own subforum.
• Why only one credit converted box per day?
  • This is so we can closely monitor for any exploits, we intend to raise this limit once we are sure everything is ok.
• Will my house be reset?
  • We are trying to avoid this (we would lose our houses too!) but we can't make any promises while we are in the beta phase for housing.
• If housing is reset what happens to purchased and unlocked stuff?
  • All of that will remain, even in the unlikely case we have to reset everyones plots

• How do I get Pet Items?
  • Every single Mystery Box opening gives you some pet items
• What about pet heads and pet names?
  • These have been fully refunded.
• I'm a non-ranked player who previously bought a pet that I could summon! What happens to me?
  • Have no fear! The pets which you already paid for are still summon-able by you even if you are a non donor - this is a special case just for people in this scenario. 2,000 Players are affected by this special case.

• Why are VIP / VIP+ / MVP / MVP+ able to open 4 and 5 star boxes?
  • Ever since the EULA changes when we had to remove the coin multiplier- we've been trying to really make ranks super great again - we think this is going to allow that. We are free to do whatever we like cosmetically, so you can be sure we wished to use this chance to reward our supporters!

• How can I get mystery boxes?!
  1. By Playing Games
  2. By Purchasing Mystery Box Packs on store.hypixel.net
  3. By converting Credits into boxes

• Can pets die?
  • No you horrible person

Hope you guys enjoy the update! As always, we have multiple projects being worked on at the same time - there is plenty more to come ;-)

Want to attend Events like Minecon, Arcadia Con and the Insomnia? Paid for your work on Minecraft? A chance to move onto non Minecraft game projects? A friendly workplace with a cool multinational team?! Read on!

After the conclusion of 1st wave of the Dev training program which saw the resultant joining of @Plancke & @DeprecatedNether to the Admin team we are now accepting applications for the 2nd wave!

Essential Facts

• The 2nd wave will start during September, you will be notified if you make a short list of candidates for interview as well as be provided more details.
• If your application is unsuccessful you will not get a reply, unfortunately we do not have time to reply to each applicant by hand.
• Wave 2 is specifically orientated towards creating Arcade Quality Games for the Hypixel Network, however you can also apply if your specialism is not in minigames.
• Previous applicants may re-apply again.
• Please tell us about your current life situation in basic terms - are you studying ? Are you looking for full time work? This is important info for us.
• You must be aged at least 16 to apply and have a good command of both verbal and written English.
• The position is paid on a per project / training stage basis, more details provided if you are short listed.

How to Apply
Send your application via email to [email protected]

A tip for applying: We rarely get time to look at any source code until the interview stage, videos links are best, personal websites work great too - but best is an IP we can come check out your work on ;-)! The first impression is the most important! Avoid walls of text that are too big and also avoid giving us no information!

Please note, previously this program was called "Junior Developer Training Program" we have renamed this to simply"The Developer Training Program". The reason for this - is that we expect a lot from people that wish to join the Hypixel team, as do our community (who are always hungry to interrogate you!) The word junior was simply not applicable to what still amounts to a tremendous level of responsibility.

Good luck to all applicants!

Hello Hypixelers!
Mojang released a nice video of our 3D weapon creation panel at Minecon!


It is the perfect chance for the people who couldn't attend the convention to discover the secrets of the 3D-object creation process! And...There's the other admin MooTV! As well as @Proper and @Otium from the build-team. Must see!

Thanks Patrick from Mojang for inviting us to do this awesome panel!


Shoutout to @Sphax84 for helping us some with the prep for the event!

What do you mean you haven’t been keeping an eye on the Media section of our forums? We’ve got you covered. Community round up time!


Just in case you missed it, you should check out this hilarious Farm Hunt animation from community member Arbiter617. Can you believe this is only his second Minecraft animation?


Thanks for this wonderful animation! You also managed to perfectly capture how I play Farm Hunt… (I’m the Horse)


Comment and let us know which animal is most like your style of playing! #TeamCauldronHorse

You can keep an eye out for future animations from Arbiter on his youtube channel or twitter where he goes by the handle Black Plasma Studios!


Don’t forget to keep checking the Media section for awesome community submissions and if you’ve made any cool Hypixel community themed content, be sure to add it there so we can check it out! We love looking through all your artwork and videos!