The website is still under maintenance, you might encounter weird behaviors and design issues for the next few hours.
Please report them in the bug sections to help us cover all of them.

It should be all fixed up within the next 24 hours.

This is not the new website we have been working on. It's just a much needed update to help us fix some issues that have been having for the past few weeks.

The good news is, we will be keeping the new cool features that were added by this upgrade.

The 100% new website will be hopefully happening early 2015.

EDIT #1: We went ahead and changed the style of the whole website to be able to handle upcoming stats and pages. It is not the final product nor was planned, but I think it's better than it was before!

EDIT #2: We stabilized most of the website, we can now start adding new features like leaderboards and such. Stay tuned.

Please note, this is a temporary style until our new website is 100% done.

Ranks
Ranked players can now claim free monthly bonus on our store! During the month of November you can receive about 1000 Hypixel Credits for VIP and up to a total of 4000 Hypixel Credits for MVP+. Each month we will be giving out free credits and potentially more goodies for the awesome players that support the server! On top of that, I’m working with the staff and the community to find ideas to improve the ranks. You will be seeing many more updates in the coming weeks.

Claim your free reward: http://store.hypixel.net/category/368022
Ranks are 35% OFF with HYPE coupon for a limited time!

User-friendliness
As we continue to grow as a network it’s important we evolve to allow easy access to all our content. In order to do so, in the next few weeks we will be improving the network by overhauling menus, scoreboards and lobbies to make it less confusing for both new users and veterans alike. This may mean removal of older features in place of new ones so your Suggestions and Feedback are important moving forward. Here’s a few examples of our current progress:

The compass will now only feature games and lobbies.


The animations are now gone from tooltips, and in their place is a description as well as a category for the game, so users unfamiliar with our content can easily learn what it is.


The action bar will also be simplified. And yes, that’s a Lobby Selector in a main lobby.

(The book will be replaced by the Shop emerald in game lobbies.)


The 2nd icon in your action bar is your “Inventory” which includes Achievements, Quests, Guild Info and all that good stuff as well as Settings, a new feature to help control your network experience without memorizing insane amounts of commands.

These are just small examples of what we are doing to improve the Hypixel Experience™. We especially have extraordinary plans regarding lobbies and we’re hoping to release these prior to the Winter break so we’re prepared to welcome new players.

Hypixel Public API
The Hypixel Public API was just released a few days ago and users can now use it to make all kinds of cool stuff. You can head over to the new forum section, “Code Creation”, for more details. We might be scouting for potential developers and we’re excited to see your creations!

Forum section: http://hypixel.net/forums/code-creations.65/
API: https://api.hypixel.net/

Adventure Lobby
The adventure lobby has been offline for quite a while and we apologize for that. However due to issues concerning the age of the maps and drastic redstone changes Mojang has made in the recent Minecraft releases, we are planning to start fresh with it and not use any of the older maps previously available. If you’re interested in playing them in all their glory, feel free to download them on the Maps page and create a 1.5.1-1.6.4 server. However, the Adventure Lobby won’t be empty for long as we will be adding Herobrine 3 and other new maps in the near future.

Arena Brawl Revamp
Arena Brawl will receive a total revamp. This will be our first game to receive a complete 100% revamp; we are even planning to change the name! We will keep the fun core elements, but we are going to make it more fun for everyone and introduce new 15v15 (and potentially 40v40) gamemodes. It will have a leveling system, as well as classes and items! But worry not, all your current unlocks and upgrades in Arena will be refunded in the form of coins for the new revamped game.

Removal of Older Maps
We are currently removing some older maps from games to create space for new content and to help revamp the network as we move forward. HOWEVER, we have a new feature coming soon that will allow users to create games with the old maps, so stay tuned! For now, don’t panic, we are only removing the least played maps.

Targeting
Targeting is an issue that we’ve seen a lot of recently affecting not only the more “famous” members, but ranked members as well. To help resolve this, we will be introducing a new feature for specific ranked players to mask their ranks in games. While this may not completely protect against targeting, we’re confident it’s going to be a extremely important step forward as we work to prevent targeting. Additionally, we have plans for helping the more “famous” players within our network, however we need time to perfect the implementation and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

Magical Chest? More like Mystery Box
The Magical Chest from Arena will be converted into a Mystery Box that will span across the network. You will be able to find keys in all games and unlock hats and will be updated on a regular basis to keep it fun - you will also be able to find credits, extra keys, unique pets, unique gadgets and more! As for Arena’s Magical Chest, it will be removed and replaced with the new Mystery Box. Players who previously unlocked hats in the Magical Chest will see them being moved to the Mystery Box for free.

Next Game?
The next game is not really a traditional game, you’ll see soon! At the moment we’re planning to remain quiet about it because last time we showcased a upcoming game, other networks ripped off the idea in an effort to release it first. We pride ourselves in our content and strive to produce unique games and will not allow other networks to steal it as we work to perfect it.

Delayed Updates
The main issue we have right now is time, not ideas. We know exactly how to fix and improve parts of the network and create great games. However, that requires time and our team is very small, smaller than you could think because some admins are actually not developing at all because of other matters taking precedence, such as school. Additionally, the EULA heavily limited our plans to grow the team. If it wasn’t for the EULA, several of our long-awaited features such as the new website, Blitz updates, new maps and Arcade gamemodes would have been completed.

Mojang believed that introducing the new rules would have been beneficial to the players by killing off the bad servers, but in fact it only made those servers stronger because the good networks spent their time on reworking their whole system in hope to stay alive while the bad ones were spending their money on copying us and using the extra money on marketing. That being said, we are still improving the ranks and features we add to help us cover the costs but the main reason right now is to get more developers, because I’m not happy with the current state of things. Currently the server is not being updated fast enough and there is an understandable impatience in the community. Because of our extensive collection of content, we need a bigger team to update and create new things as well as to help to meet our promises.


Thank you all for your support, see you in game!

• Anticheat
  • Additions
    • Added the /report command to easily allow you to report hackers.
  • Changes
    • Completely overhauled.
      • No longer instantly punishes you, avoids issues with hit detection.
      • Higher level users now see more leniency.
      • Disabled spammy messages and flying bot (until tweaked.)
  • Fixes
    • Patched fence exploit (again.)
• Global
  • Additions
    • Added the /myfilter command.
      • Add up to 15 custom words your very own chat filter.
    • Overhauled the pregame countdown system.
      • Cleaned up the messages and adding sound effects.
      • You'll see more from this soon.
  • Changes
    • Pets now respect the Player Visibility setting.
    • Pets vanish in sign regions the same as players do.
    • Limbo now works with 1.8 clients!
• Vanity Shop
  • Additions
    • Added the new Explosive Bow, Redstone Aura, Gold Fountain, Diamond Shower and Secret Service Gadgets - try them out!
  • Changes
    • Reduced cooldowns on most Gadgets to make them more fun.
    • Reorganized the items so it's easier to locate your favorite toys.
    • Rainbow Gadget can only be used in servers with less than 75 players to avoid crashing issues.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed Disguises not working.
    • Fixed /horsemask (for the 3rd time.)
    • Fixed issues with the Iron Golem Pet lore.
• Mega Walls
  • Additions
    • Added the new "City" and "Serpents" maps.
    • Added the long awaited Spider class.
    • Added an Ender Dragon sound when your Wither dies.
  • Changes
    • Everything included in the super-massive Mega Walls Update.
    • Enraged text is now bolded instead of bracketed.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issues with curse filter checking.
    • Patched an exploit in regards to combat logging and fall damage.
    • Improved performance to a limited degree.
    • Fixed issues with Mutation Visibility toggle not being respected.
• MVP Land
  • Changes
    • It's back! Type /mvp to join and play on the new world.
      • Griefing and PvP are now allowed/enabled - be careful!
• Blitz
  • Fixes
    • Patched hopper exploit with the Rich James Taunt.
    • Patched exploits with both the Fire Breather and Vault Hunter Blitzes.
• Cops and Crims
  • Additions
    • Introduced monthly and weekly scoreboards.
    • Added several new upgrades to various weapons.
  • Changes
    • Nerfed Sniper Rifle.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issues with Gun Upgrades not being respected ingame.
    • Guns automatically reload at the end of rounds.
• TNT
  • Changes
    • Overhauled Hat Shop, now uses an all-in-one system.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed formatting issues in /who
    • Fixed Hat lore formatting issues.
• Paintball
  • Changes
    • Increased cooldown duration of Force Field for high level Endurance users.
    • Reduced cost of Revenge to 7 Kill Coins

At Hypixel there's nothing we love more than seeing cool projects that people create, either as a proof of concept or a fully fledged feature for their fellow players. As such, we've recently introduced a PublicAPI that allows all you fellow keyboard bashers to take advantage of our content to produce your own. You can now access data including player stats, guilds, friends and more.

As always if you have any suggestions, map submissions, ideas or bugs, make sure to post them on the forums and you might just see them next update

Post your own video in this topic for a chance to get featured on my facebook/twitter

New Game: Cops and Crims

Inspired by Counter-Strike, this new game features a custom resource pack that will completely change your Minecraft experience. All you have to do is join the lobby and queue up for some 8 versus 8 action in one of the 4 launch maps we have available for you!

As a cop, your goal is to defend the bomb sites and as a criminal your objective is to plant the bomb. After 4 rounds, the teams swap around and the first team to reach 5 wins will be victorious.

Play now! You know the address! mc.hypixel.net

Unique Gun System

For Cops and Crims, we expanded on our new gun mechanics that were first introduced in the Blocking Dead. (Blocking Dead was actually a test for Cops and Crims! More on that later!) Other servers with gungames have their guns based on arrows or snowballs fired in Minecraft, which are subject to a lot of bugs and problems - like not firing through staircases or half blocks. - for our gun system we created something entirely new that would avoid these problems!

Our system is unique in that we do bullet calculations like real FPS games like Call of Duty / Battlefield etc do , this is called Raytracing. We won’t bore you with the details, but it means that it allows us to do things like have headshot detection, and firing through things that would normally block arrows. We are also able to fire bullets without issues at 20 times a second!

A hint for new players! When you fire the gun, it actually has recoil - use the trails you see from the bullets - for guns like a rifle. The gun pulls “up” like it would in real life. So aim lower to deal with the recoil! The more you play, the better you get.

Private Games

To help our community setup their own private games for fun or potential tournaments, we added a new command that you can use to challenge other parties for a 8 versus 8 by typing /p challenge

I hope this feature will bring epic guild versus guilds battles within our community! But rest assured, that won't stop us from doing official tournaments.


Lobby Shop

Since this is a full game, there is a shop with tons of upgrades, perks and skins to spend your Coins on! Some features are not released yet like the character progression.

The upgrades that requires ranks are purely cosmetics, to keep the game balanced for all players.

Official Trailer

Our official trailer for the game is still being edited, we once again got the help from a 3D animator that will be revealed when the trailer is ready!

Potential Gamemodes

Even if the game was inspired by Counter-Strike, our game Cops and Criminals has no limits and we plan to do future updates to make it unique and give that Hypixel vibe. We potentially can add gamemodes like Bank Heist, Hijacking Missions, Prison Escape, Hostage Rescue, Team Deathmatch, Deathmatch and more!

Achievements

Achievements are coming soon.

Balancing Guns

Unlike other games, the game has a spreadsheet that the server pulls from to get the values, that means we can balance the game at any time, instantly, with no patches required.

Random Stuff

We have been working on this for quite a while, in fact The Blocking Dead was our first test to see if we would have issues with resource packs being forced upon players, and if they would enjoy our newly invented gungame system. This new “feature” allow us to be more creative when it comes to games, which means you will see even more unique games from us in the future, as we expect some of the upcoming games to be using our new resource pack systems.

The resource pack currently used in Cops and Crims is 100% custom by paid artists and is copyrighted to us and us only to be used on the Hypixel server. If you see it used elsewhere, please let us know.

Need Help?

If you are having trouble with the resource pack, click here.
If you find a bug, please post it here.
If you have a suggestion, please post it here.

Contest

Post epic or funny screenshot/artwork of Cops and Crims here using IMGUR to host it and if I use your image on my twitter or facebook, you will be rewarded with 15,000 Cops and Crims coins!
Contest ends October 12.

Remember, have fun!