This minigame just got a new twist, with some awesome skills and a fun new mode that is sure to shake up even the most established of veterans!

New Gamemode : 1v1



1v1 is an UNRANKED mode which means that you can play as much as you want and it won't affect your rating. Opponents are randomly selected. Be careful which skills you bring to battle as skills which effect team mates obviously won't work in a 1 v 1 mode!

Special thanks to community member @Momica for providing the map for the new gamemode! We had a lot of fun in testing with it!

New Skills!
A total of 7 new skills have been added, some are obtainable via the shop - others via finding them in the Arena Chest!


Falcon Punch
Stand still and charge up your fists! Unleashing your power can destroy all player made structures and the enemies health bar!

Flame Sword (Found only in the key chest!)
Enchant your weapon with the power of fire! Dealing extra melee damage for the next few seconds, be careful though - while your sword blazes your energy regen is halted!

Pumpkin Launcher (Found only in the key chest!)
Launch explosive pumpkins that explode into smaller exploding pumpkins!


Magnetic Impulse
A strong magnetic force draws all nearby players to you. They are then immobilzed for a duration!


Spirit Link
Links your spirit to a teammate, healing you every 0.5 seconds for depending on your health difference!

Cactus Shield (Found only in the key chest!)
Surround yourself with cacti that will protect you from the next few sources sources of damage. Each time damage is taken, a cacti is destroyed and damage is dealt to your attacker.


Reflect Damage (Found in Shop)
Reduces damage taken by 50% for 8 seconds and reflects 50% damage back to your attacker for the duration!

New: Multi-buy chest discount

The Arena Challenger now offers a bulk-buy discounts for those who save up lots of coins and wish to purpose multiple magical chest keys


Chest Drop Rate Buffed
Magical chest drop chances have also been increased, so you're more likely than ever to find cool hats and skills!

New Hats!
The following new hats (complete with sayings) are now possible to find in the chest

• Sweg Hat
• Diamond Helmet
• Cactus Hat
• Space Helmet
• Polar Bear Hat
• Bee King Hat

Small Balance Changes!
Several balance tweaks to existing skills are also included in this update and can be read about in these threads:
https://hypixel.net/threads/brood-changes-2-new-hats.315670/
https://hypixel.net/threads/skill-t...-skills-including-1-community-created.316710/
https://hypixel.net/threads/skill-tweaks-2-new-hats.317137/

Many thanks to all the members of the community who contributed to this recent flurry of updates to Arena Brawl, your opinions, feedback and ideas formed the basis of these changes.

This is the final major patch before we start tinkering with the ladder system (note we will announce any potential end of season resets!) - have your say here: https://hypixel.net/threads/arena-brawl-trophies-and-rating-my-proposal.317108/

Keep the suggestions coming in the Arena forums and enjoy the patch guys!

Hello music lovers !

We're looking to make your musical talents shine by organizing another music creation contest!
If you love music and love creating music, this is the perfect opportunity to make your mark on the server. The best songs submitted will be used in upcoming games!

Some of the winners of the last song contest now have their music being played on Build Battle.

We have two different categories which you can participate in :

• 15-30 seconds (Jingles)
  • Examples of jingles are the DK Oh Banana and these Pokemon Moves
• Original Compositions (90 seconds or more)
  • Anything you want!

Note for all of the participants of the previous song contest, we are now only accepting original compositions! Cover songs will not be eligible. Jingles should also be original compositions.

You can have as many entries as you want in every category!

Prizes

• 1st place, Original Composition : 300,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits
• 2nd place, Original Composition : 250,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits
• 3rd place, Original Composition : 200,000 Arcade Coins + 5,000 Credits

• 1st place, Jingle : 200,000 Arcade Coins
• 2nd place, Jingle : 150,000 Arcade Coins

Also, even if your song is not selected as a top prize, we may pick your song to be featured on the network and you will win 50,000 Arcade Coins ! That's right : if you submit 5 quality songs, you may get up to 250,000 Arcade Coins!

How to create a valid entry

Using NoteBlockStudio (Click!) create a NBS file matching the following requirements

• Must not use more than 15 channels at a time
• The tempo must be either 2.5, 5 or 10 ticks per second​
• All blocks must be within Minecraft's 2 octave range​
• No custom instruments must be used​

You can verify that your song matches these requirements by verifying that your song this icon at the top-right :

These two great tutorials will help get you started with Note Block Studio :

Part 1 - Composing NoteBlock Music
Part 2 - Opening MIDI Files

Feel free to share videos of your creations with the community on our forums and elsewhere, however please note that posting a download link to the .NBS file itself will result in your entry being forfeited.

How to submit a valid entry

Once you have completed your entry, carefully fill this ENTRY FORM. As part of the form you will have to record your song playing on your screen and upload it to a video sharing site (such as Youtube). To record your video, we recommend a free program like Camstudio or Bandicam. This is to make it easier for judges to check out your entry.

Entries close on the 21st of May 2015, a panel made of 5 Moderators and Admins will decide on the winners in the few weeks following it. Prizes will be distributed right after the winners announcement.

We wish a really good luck to everyone who participates! Even if you've never created music before, just take time to play around with the software and create something which sounds good. Who knows, maybe your song will be played in our next game!

New Class: The Shaman

The Shaman has been included in this patch! Sorry but you can't actually play him just yet! He will launch at Wednesday 4pm EST

At the top of the website homepage, you'll see a countdown time - and the Shaman in game will also show you his countdown timer.

Why is the Shaman still locked for 3 days?

We want to be ultra certain the the Shaman is balanced on release, we need some time (3 days) for the admins to be able to test him in a live environment and make sure for the best possible launch, this means you will be seeing Zumulus and other admins playing the shaman ingame to make sure he is balanced for the release to the players.

To play the shaman, you must be level 35 in at least one other class to unlock him.
This is to prevent warlords from becoming "Shamanlords" on the shaman release day.

Here is a gif for how the Shaman Chain Lightning Skill Works!

Check out this video that shows how @NoxyD reacted the first time he ever tried the chain lightning spell! We happened to be recording audio while making the above gif, "heeheheehehe"

We hope you are looking forward to the Shaman launch! Onto the rest of the patch (which is all live now!)

New Features

Hotkey Mode (New Optional Control Method!)


This new control method allows you to activate skills immediately by pressing the number like most modern MMO and RPG games, rather than having to select the skill and then activate it by right-clicking.

For serious Warlords players, this will for sure be the best way to fight in the came, saving previous time during combat!

You can either enable this in the shop, or via the command /hotkeymode ingame.
Note that this control scheme is disabled by default.

Play Streaks

Completing 3 games in a row without leaving or being afk now rewards 2 extra broken parts (repeatable!) , this system should encourage players to stay for the entire game - and we'll see more exciting comebacks and fairer matches!

Salvage All


Common and rare weapons now have a special button that allows you to salvage of of these with just one click. This feature is for our VIPs and above only!

Lobby Improvements


The Lobby got some improvements too! The class selector is updated to include the shaman, there is a new wing in the Hall of Weapons showing off the latest 5 new legendary weapons and the entrance path to the hall of weapons got a new look!

Completely Rewritten Projectile System

The entire projectile system in the game (fireballs and so on) has been rewritten from the ground up to have much better collision detection, and spell effect appearance.

Gameplay Changes

• The chance of finding a Legendary from repairing a broken weapon has been increased.
• Healing power up no longer removed if you damage someone (still removed if you take damage!)
• No longer can punch horses when a specatator!
• Cursor Tooltips at the end of the game for Top Damage / Healing
• Power up respawns now are random on Domination
• Fixed a bug where sometimes players spawned at the enemy spawn.
• Time Warp now dismounts players as intended

Class Changes

• Paladin

• Mage

• Warrior

Achievements
Warlords Achievements have been included in this patch, but just like the Shaman they require some testing on a "live" environment to ensure they are working perfectly for you guys. The achievements will be enabled on Wednesday 4pm EST along with the Shaman class.

Enjoy the patch guys! Watch out for those admins playing as Shamans ;-), save up your coins for the release!

See you again on Wednesday for the Shaman release newspost!

The Delivery man has arrived to the Hypixel server!

His first job is to deliver the Monthly free credits to donors (1000/2000/3000/4000) for each rank respectively! Donors no longer need to go to our store to pick them up!

He also has some new things we'd like to tell you about, his second job is rewarding dedicated players!

• Non-Donors and Donors alike get an additional 100 Credits Monthly just by picking up their packages
• Everyone gets a 2,000 XP package daily, this rewards the most loyal players who log in everyday!
• You can answer a survey question once per week for a reward
  • These questions allow us to learn more about our players like "How did you hear about Hypixel?" or "What is your favorite type of game?" Knowledge like this helps us develop better features!
• Non-donors are now able to help and contribute to the server by voting for us on various websites. You get XP and Arcade coins for doing this! This will help in the quest for coin mastery!
• Everyone can get a small personal booster from him once a week! Unlike other boosters, this one activates immediately - so be sure to activate it at the right time.
• The Delivery man now contains the info about the Facebook Quad Boosters, no more messages when you log in if you didn't activate it!
• He also contains info about linking your website account (and getting the bonus for it)

In short, the Delivery man is here as a way for us to give our players presents and other cool stuff in game. Be on the lookout for once off deliveries on special days!

The Delivery Man is currently located in main lobbies, but he will soon be everywhere!

As always, if you encounter a bug - please report it on our bug section!

Hope you have been enjoying our recent flurry of updates ;-) there is at least one more thing this weekend....
A preview of an upcoming game....

Hello all and welcome to the new website!

I won’t be providing image previews on this update, as we want you to look around the new website and see for yourself the amount of new stuff and work that has gone into it! That being said however, here is a summary of the changes as always!

• New Custom Design
• New Logo
  • Allows many exciting new possibilities! The old logo presented some very big challenges with things like making badges and such, the new one solves this issue and looks awesome in the process!
• Revamped Play page
  • Custom Artwork for many games!
  • New Server Trailer
  • Awesome Herobrine Backdrop
  • Video showing how to connect!
• Revamped downloads page, shows lots more info about maps!
• New Home page
  • Same feel layout
  • The main news items appear at the top of the frontpage now! This allows us to post more more often now without bumping important information about major releases off the page
• Friends leaderboard Added
  • Cached for 24h when accessed! See how you compare against your friends!
• Daily leaderboards Added
  • Refreshes at around 12:00 AM MST (6:00 AM GMT)
• When someone is banned from the forums ratings they have given are now cleared!
• Players Page
• Games Page
  • With full information on each game!
• Added Warlords & new Arcade games stats
• Build Team Page
• Jobs Page
• Guild Pages Added
  • Set a description for your guild
  • View Guild Members
  • Create a banner for your guild, this will be used in upcoming features ingame!
  • Upload a header for your guild
  • Showcase your guild in 2 different games

Be sure to report any new bugs in our bug forum! We will tweak and refine the new website based on your feedback over the next coming days, so expect a few changes here and there!

We hope you guys enjoy all the improvements and awesome features!

Edit: We are aware of issues affecting some mobile users. We are working to resolve these

Edit 2: We have pushed the first batch of fixes and changes. More info here.

Hey guys, we are very happy to be bringing you the latest Mega Walls patch today!

This update was mostly community feedback driven and designed to provide balance changes and new features.

Let us know what you’d like to see in the next Mega Walls update by visiting this thread...


New features


Armor from your kit is now automatically moved to your armor slots!



The area in which defenders gain bonus coins for kills is now much larger. Also, While close to your Wither, you now get Saturation, no more starving to death while defending!



We added your selected team and class to the scoreboard, so no more guessing games!
Side note, once when NoxyD was a young pup. His teacher wrote L and R on his hands because he kept forgetting left and right!

Gameplay Additions and Changes

• Reduced the price of 1st to 5th upgrades for every kit by 50% !
• Abilities now count towards determining player kills.
• 100 coin bonus added for killing the last wither alive.
• /who now shows the list of players in your team AND the amount for a quick status.
• There's now a message when the last wither is dead
• Added a message for describing the rules when the game begins.
• Nerfed the Wither's Vacuum skill to prevent buggy behavior.
• No more PVP logging debuffs if relogging before the walls have fallen.

Class Balance changes
Enderman :
Golem :
Herobrine :
Blaze :
Arcanist :
Creeper :

Bug fixes

• Gathering talents no longer ignore world protection. (No more instant iron armor!)
• Fixed an issue where pigman gathering talent was 100% at every level.
• Fixed an issue which would clear the player's enderchest if he died while looking inside it.
• NPC combat logger will now properly drop equipped armor.
• Dreadlord’s now finds chest as expected when mining.
• Timer in the scoreboard no longer disappears when relogging.
• Players can't drink potions after relog anymore.
• Skeletons don't get regen and speed from arrow hits after relog.

Overall we’re incredibly excited to bring you this update and will be monitoring the forums extensively over the next few days to gather feedback. and the community at large for being behind these changes.

Finally, I am new to the Hypixel admin team! So please say hi if you find me in-game!
See you in Mega Walls!