The new main lobby has just been released! Legends tell of hidden treasures, rewards and uh… punchable sheep? This stunning new lobby is packed full of secrets and ready for exploration, so gather your friends and venture into the unknown... or just click a NPC to join a game!

There’s also a new Lobby Selector that lets you track your friends or guild members. This update is the final step in preparation for the Housing and Mystery Box updates!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the art contest, the winners have been chosen.


Winners
1st Place: Stormgamers888 250,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits
2nd Place: Christi 200,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits
3rd Place: hudsonhull 100,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits

7 Runners up: AmyTheMudkip, Azenzeph, MrDerpyTree, KayGoesCray, Patronuz, Cartoonhero, InkyTheDragon (50,000 Arcade Coins)

Lucky Draw Winner - Ido Perez / IdoPlaysMC (200,000 Arcade Coins + 10,000 Credits)

We've been so impressed with the high quality of effort and quality of the drawings that we've decided to give all entrants 10,000 Arcade Coins regardless of result. Here is the full list.

Thank you to everyone who participated! Prizes will be handed out in the next few hours.



The Gameband Competition winners have been chosen by random draw!

Winners
(1st) @beeperblast IGN: _Spooder_
(2nd) @Trotex IGN: Trotex
(4th) @AFluffyGriffin IGN: AFluffyGriffin

Unfortunately due to one of the users having recent bans on their account we had to disqualify them and draw a 4th winner.

Gameband have also reached out to us and told us that if you use the Coupon Code "hypixelredstone" on the Gameband store - for a limited time they'll reduce the price of the Gameband by $20 for the Hypixel Community!

Congratulations winners! Gameband will contact you regarding shipping information in the next few days!

Hey guys! Here's a bit of a community round up for you all!


If you missed it when it was live, or just want to see it again, you can now check out the video from Build Battle Live at Minecon 2015 below, or as Mojang seem to be mistakenly calling it "Battle Build"


It was wonderful getting to meet so many Hypixel fans, hopefully including some of you here, over the weekend and we hope that you enjoyed the event.

The Build team made this gif of @mooTV at the event. He shall forever be the chickenhawk that watches over us.


To enter this contest it's quite simple! All you need to do is enter your forum username at the link below - Gameband will then contact the winners after we announce them via the forums!

There is a total of three awesome Gamebands (worth $80 each!) to win


Don't know what a Gameband is yet? Visit their website for more information or check out this nifty video below that shows the production process.



Guys! Its the last day of voting on the community art contest!



The rather awesome Hypixel Build team have submitted an entry for the first time to a building contest! Specifically the "Underwater Wonderland contest"

Hey guys! Here's a bit of a community round up for you all!

Build Battle Live @ Minecon Video!

If you missed it when it was live, or just want to see it again, you can now check out the video from Build Battle Live at Minecon 2015 below.


It was wonderful getting to meet so many Hypixel fans, hopefully including some of you here, over the weekend and we hope that you enjoyed the event.

Gameband Contest!

To enter this contest it's quite simple! All you need to do is enter your forum username at the link below - Gameband will then contact the winners after we announce them via the forums!

There is a total of three awesome gamebands (worth $80 each!) to win


Don't know what a Gameband is yet? Visit their website for more information or check out this nifty video below that shows the production process.


Last day of Voting on the Art Contest!

Guys! Its the last day of voting on the community art contest!


HPBT PMC Submission!

The rather awesome Hypixel Build team have submitted an entry for the first time to a building contest! Specifically the "Underwater Wonderland contest"

The Blitz update has arrived!

This update features a huge batch of quality of life changes, new kits and maps and a host of other stuff, read on for more details! We polled the community for what they'd like to see changed and were overwhelmed with the response. The vast majority of the changes came from your suggestions directly. We also took this opportunity to work with the Elite team add some new features in there. Finally we tried to aim the changes at putting Blitz back into Blitz Survival Games and make the game more fast-paced and bring some fresh air to the much loved game mode.

Features
New Maps
Two new maps are in the game.

The first one is Mithril Revived, which is a retake on the old Mithril map. This version is much smoother and fancier. It's a 24 players solo map.
The second is is called Mirador Basin. It's a large 24 players teams map with teams of 2.

Pixelville was moved to teams, and some of the least popular Solo maps were removed to make way for the new maps.

Quest Master
The Quest Master has come to Blitz with 4 new quests!

• Daily Game of the Day (Play a game of Blitz for 1250 coins)
• Daily Win (Win a game of Blitz for 1250 coins)
• Daily Kills (Kill 5 players in Blitz for 1250 coins)
• Weekly Blitz Master (Play 60 games, win 10 games of them and kill 50 players for 4000 coins)

Check them out in-game at the Quest Master in the lobby.

After-kill Effects
These effects are gameplay powerups which you gain after killing a player. Currently in the game you gain speed II after killing another player. There are now more options for which to pick in the lobby :

• Speed II for 20 seconds
• Resistance II for 10 seconds
• Regeneration II for 10 seconds
• Infinite arrows for 20 seconds

Finishers
These are cosmetic effects which trigger when you kill a player. Here are the different ones :

• Boom (Explodes when you kill a player)
• Lightning Strikes (Strike even more lightning on your victim)
• Creeper Firework (Launch a creeper firework where your victim stood)
• Infestation (Silverfishes jump out of your victim's body and eat its remains)
• Gravestone (Pay your respects to your victims with a sweet gravestone)
• Squid missile (Launches a squid missile in the air)
• #rekt hologram

Kit Customizer
The kit customizer is an in-depth feature which primarily lets you change in which order you get your kit items. If you don't have any custom permutation for your kit, you will gain your items exactly as before. Otherwise, it will force your hotbar to look exactly as your specified.

The kit customizer also offers a few new features (in order of the bottom icons) :

• Reset your customization (not a feature!)
• Set a kit as your default kit.
• Rename an item.
• Auto-equip armor.

Blitz powerups - Rebuilt from the ground up.
We went through every single one of the Blitz powerups to make sure they are all appealing. This resulted in some of the blitzes getting completely removed and some brand new ones to be created. The Blitz Star itself will appear faster now too because right now, most of the games don't even see it.

The new blitzes are completely over the top with things shotguns, jedis force pushes, incredible treasures, the Angel of Death's sword, powerful spells, nukes and more!

Some of the old blitz's have been removed - you will recieve a refund for any of these your account already had unlocked

New kits
We added three new kits to the game. Here's what you have to look for :

Paladin : Focuses on upper body armor, gives you a sword and splash healing pots at higher levels.
Shadow Knight : Lighter-armored kit with blindness potions, a sword and an incredible mask.
Rambo: A special kit for the hardcore players out there. This kit has no item whatsoever, you can't upgrade it and won't let you pick up any armor. But you'll get bonus coins when winning a match!

Smaller features
In no particular order :

• A new way to track your enemies and teammates. Check out this video to see how it works.
• Scramble names for the first 15 seconds.
• Your pet name is used for your spawned creatures in-game.
• Assist coins. You now get 2 base coins + 1 coin per 20% damage dealt to the victim.
• Avenge kills. Gain bonus coins for killing your teammate's killer in Team mode.
• New cookie taunt (MVP)
• When joining team mode with a party, it'll auto-create the team.
• Let players click in chat to join a team.
• Added a button to toggle the enemy's auras and off in the Auras menu.

UI & Display

• Added a confirmation menu when buying kits over level 5.
• Added a lobby announcement when you max out a kit.
• Kit levels are displayed in the kit selection.
• Show your selected kit in the scoreboard.
• Show the kit and level of your killer.
• The winner summary shows the winner's kits and level.
• After the game starts, you will see your teammates and your own kit and level.

Balance Changes
Kit prices reduction
First off we reduced the kit prices for level I through VI to make it smoother for new players :
Kit changes
We documented the kit changes on this publicly available Google Sheets document.
Excluded from the document is the much-requested buff to Hunter X. We thus added Power IV Leather boots to the kit.

Revisited chests

• Removed all of the trash items such as bowls, rotten flesh and wheat from the all chests.
• Added potions to the chests. A lot of speed potions.
• Reduced the chances of getting a stone sword and xp bottles.
• More iron ingots.

Other Balance Changes

• Buffed bow damage by 30%.
• Horse eggs don't spawn donkeys or babies anymore.
• Zombie eggs won't spawn babies.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue which kicked players on game spawn.
• Won't die from mounting horses when going into deathmatch.
• Can now read spectate chat after winning.
  
• Can now properly block in front of other player's spawned animals (explained here)
• Magma cubes and Slimes won't hit teammates.

That's it! This is a pretty massive. We'll be closely monitoring the game and your feedback on the forums and in-game in the next few days. We hope everyone will be pleased with the update!

We have updated Pixel Painters to include theme translations in 8 languages!

• French
• German
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Spanish
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Italian

Thanks to all translators and @Gerbor12 for making this possible!

You can select your language in-game with the nametag in the pre-game lobby :


We also took this opportunity to add 300 new themes to the game!
By the way, we just passed 1,000,000 images created so far in Pixel Painters! That's about a 14 GBs of pixels. If we wanted to display all of these images in full resolution, we'd need to line up 1582 full-hd monitors.

Finally, we fixed up the fill tool so that it can fill single pixels. No more need to switch to the pencil to fix rogue pixels.

We hope this update will let more people enjoy Pixel Painters!