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Hypixel (fully the Hypixel Network) is the biggest Minecraft: Java Editionmultiplayer server, run by Hypixel Inc. Hypixel features dozens of different minigames on its server which cover many different play styles.

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History[edit | edit source]

Hypixel is the most popular multiplayer server for Minecraft: Java Edition, released in beta on 13 April 2013 by Simon Collins-Laflamme and Philippe Touchette.^[1] Development of the server started around September 2012.^[2]

The two originally created custom Minecraft adventure maps and uploaded them to their YouTube channel before creating the Hypixel server to showcase their creations. They then created small minigames for users to play while waiting to join the main adventure maps;^[3] the first of which being Paintball. Many more minigames were created after many players started joining the server.^[4]

On 28 October 2015, Hypixel released a Minecraft: Pocket Edition server in alpha which was developed under the codename 'Bladestorm'.^[5] The server reached over 6 million registered accounts and 20 thousand concurrent users before being shut down on 31 March 2016.^[6]

On 21 May 2017, Hypixel announced that they had partnered with NetEase, the publishers of Minecraft China, to release a version of Hypixel for the game in China.^[7] On 13 April 2020, it was announced that Hypixel's Minecraft China server would be shutting down on 30 June 2020.^[8]

Technical[edit | edit source]

Hypixel runs a highly modified version of the Spigot server software. The server uses two types of dedicated machines: one for small minigames (such as SkyWars and BedWars) and the other for larger games (such as UHC). Each dedicated machine runs 20 instances of minigame servers, while each large game gets 5 instances per machine.^[9]

Hypixel uses a custom Slime file format as a replacement to Minecraft's default Anvil file format which contains fields and data unnecessary for the server, saving gigabytes of storage space. Additionally, HypixelBlocks3 is a caching system for storing information from Minecraft versions 1.9 and above. Hypixel uses SeaweedFS to store Slime files.^[10]

Hypixel has used DDoS protection software Cloudflare Spectrum since April 2018 after being the victim of DDoS attacks.^[11]

Hypixel has over 350 dedicated servers running the server network as of July 2017.^[12]

Minigames[edit | edit source]

Hypixel offers many different minigames, the most popular of which include SkyWars and BedWars. The server also features beta games in its prototype lobby where players can vote on which games they would like to see fully released.

Hytale server[edit | edit source]

The Hypixel server has been recreated in Hytale and features many of the same minigames, including SkyWars, BedWars, Survival Games, Build Battle, and more.

Hypixel Store

Statistics[edit | edit source]

The server attracts around two million players each month.^[32] Hypixel reached 10 million unique players in total in December 2016,^[33] 15 million on 18 May 2019,^[34] 18 million on 7 April 2020,^[35] and 20 million on 16 September 2020,^[36] which is over half of all Java Edition players.On 9 April 2020, Hypixel reached the milestone of having over 100,000 players on the server at once for the first time.^[37]On 23 August 2020, the server reached its 111,000 concurrent players,^[38] and the server's overall record for 2020 was 140 thousand players online at once.^[39]Hypixel reached 200,000 concurrent users on 16 April 2020.^[40]

Records[edit | edit source]

Hypixel holds four Guinness World Records as of August 2017;^[41] however, these figures are now outdated.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

• Hypixel is named after Simon Collins-Laflamme's username, 'hypixel'.

References[edit | edit source]

1. ↑ ^ab'Official Hypixel Minecraft Server 1.5.2 (BETA)' – Hypixel Forums, 13 April 2013.
2. ↑'Developers needed for the Hypixel server!'(archived) by Alexandercitt. Hypixel Forums, 23 September 2012.
3. ↑'First Look: Hytale is putting adventure and creativity at the heart of its ambitious block-building sandbox' by Jen Simpkins. GamesRadar+, 24 February 2020.
4. ↑'RPS Presents: The Story Of Hytale | Developer Sessions | EGX Rezzed 2019'– EGX on YouTube, 6 April 2019
5. ↑'Hypixel: Pocket Edition Launch' by hypixel. Hypixel Forums, 28 October 2015.
6. ↑'An Update on Hypixel Pocket Edition Server' by NoxyD. Hypixel Forums, 28 September 2017.
7. ↑'Hypixel is coming to China' by hypixel. Hypixel Forums, 21 May 2017.
8. ↑'Hypixel中国版服务器停止运营公告' ['Announcement about the suspension of the Hypixel China Edition server'] – mc.163.com, 13 April 2020.
9. ↑'Dev Blog #6 - Keeping up with the Masses' by erosemberg. Hypixel Forums, 19 August 2019.
10. ↑'Dev Blog #5: Storing your SkyBlock island' by Minikloon. Hypixel Forums, 24 July 2019.
11. ↑'Internet security expert links massive botnet DDoS attacks to Minecraft disputes' – PC Gamer.
12. ↑'What are Hypixel Admins even working on?' (comment) by Simon Collins-Laflamme. Hypixel Forums, 15 July 2017. 'There are over 350 dedicated servers'
13. ↑'New Prototype Game - Hypixel SkyBlock' – Hypixel Forums, 11 June 2019.
14. ↑'New PTL Game: TowerWars' – Hypixel Forums, 9 January 2019.
15. ↑'New PTL Game - The Hypixel Pit' – Hypixel Forums, 26 February 2018.
16. ↑'New PTL Game - Murder Mystery' – Hypixel Forums, 20 February 2017.
17. ↑ ^ab'The Prototype Lobby (PTL) is now live! Help us playtest cool new stuff' – Hypixel Forums, 19 January 2017.
18. ↑'New Game! Speed UHC' – Hypixel Forums, 23 June 2016.
19. ↑'Hypixel's Smash Heroes is NOW LIVE!' – Hypixel Forums, 11 January 2016.
20. ↑'Housing has Launched!' – Hypixel Forums, 24 September 2015.
21. ↑'New Game! SkyWars' – Hypixel Forums, 14 June 2015.
22. ↑'Welcome to Turbo Kart Racers!' – Hypixel Forums, 22 May 2015.
23. ↑'New Featured Arcade Game: Build Battle!' – Hypixel Forums, 11 April 2015.
24. ↑'Warlords Open Beta' – Hypixel Forums, 21 February 2015.
25. ↑'UHC Champions' – Hypixel Forums, 20 December 2014.
26. ↑'Cops and Crims' – Hypixel Forums, 28 September 2014.
27. ↑'The Arcade Games are now Public Beta!' – Hypixel Forums, 26 June 2014.
28. ↑'Minecraft: ARENA BRAWL! (BRAND NEW PVP Mini-Game)'– AntVenom on YouTube, 3 March 2014
29. ↑'Mega Walls public BETA' – Hypixel Forums, 8 December 2013.
30. ↑'Introducing Tournament Tokens' – Hypixel Forums, 1 October 2013.
31. ↑'UPDATE: Every Game's Release Date' – Hypixel Forums, 4 July 2020.
32. ↑'The Future Of Minecraft's Biggest Server' by Alex Wiltshire. Rock Paper Shotgun, 15 September 2015.
33. ↑'The Uncertain Future of Minecraft's Independent Servers' by Robert Guthrie. Kotaku.
34. ↑'A few hours ago, we hit a record 15 Million unique logins on the Hypixel Server. We would like to thank every one of our players for all these wonderful years!' – @hypixelnetwork on Twitter, 18 May 2019
35. ↑'We just hit 18,000,000 unique players on the Hypixel Minecraft server!
    That means about 52% of people who bought Minecraft java edition manually typed the address and logged on the server😮
    Thank you all for this opportunity, I am still working hard like day 1. Love you all ❤️' – @Simon_Hypixel on Twitter, 7 April 2020
36. ↑'Congratulations everyone! The Hypixel Server has had 20 MILLION unique players join the server! This literally couldn't be done without you, so thank you for playing with us here at Hypixel! 🥳' – @HypixelNetwork on Twitter, 16 September 2020
37. ↑'We made it to 100k peak players before some stuff exploded, gg everyone!
    We can hold about 92k stable but couldn't resist the 100k meme and pushed as far as we could with current hardware.
    Thanks all! My twitter feed is full of 100k screenshots, hype!' – @Simon_Hypixel on Twitter, 9 April 2020
38. ↑'111k peak player count today, nice' – @Simon_Hypixel on Twitter, 23 August 2020
39. ↑'2020 Roundup - Generate your unique stats on Hypixel' by Connor Linfoot. Hypixel Forum, 27 December 2020.
40. ↑'7 months ago, we set a goal of 200,000 concurrent players in a tweet and today we hit over 216,000! Thank you all for your support, we got big things for you all in the coming months
    This week also marks the 8th anniversary of the server, happy 'birthday' everyone!' – @Simon_Hypixel on Twitter, 16 April 2021
41. ↑'It's Official - Hypixel holds 4 Guinness World Records' – Hypixel.net.

See also[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

• Hypixel on Wikipedia

Hypixel Skyblock Wiki

Hypixel, officially the Hypixel Network, is a Minecraftminigameserver released on April 13, 2013, by Simon 'Hypixel' Collins-Laflamme and Philippe Touchette, and is managed by Hypixel Inc. Hypixel is only available on the Java Edition of Minecraft,^[2] but was formerly available on the Bedrock Edition of the game as well. Hypixel has held four Guinness World Records^[3] and is widely considered to be the largest currently-active Minecraft server, with over 100,000 unique players concurrently online during peak hours.^[4]

History

The Hypixel server was released in beta on April 13, 2013, by Simon Collins-Laflamme, whose username is Hypixel, and Philippe Touchette.^[5][6] The two originally created Minecraft adventure maps together^[2] and uploaded trailers to their YouTube channel. The Hypixel server was created to play and further showcase these maps. Minigames were originally created for users to play on while waiting for other players,^[6] but the minigames themselves gained popularity on their own and became the server's main identity, and efforts from Hypixel were put towards new server content instead of the making of other Minecraft maps and games.^[2][7][8] In 2015, it was revealed that the server cost around $100,000 a month to maintain, back when the server had around 16,000 players online.^[7] As of April 2021, the server regularly reaches over 150,000 concurrent players, peaking at over 216,000 on April 16.^[9]On December 21, 2016, Hypixel reached 10 million unique players in total,^[10] and had reached 14.1 million unique players by the time Hytale was announced on December 13, 2018.^[11] The server reached 18 million unique players in April 2020, according to a tweet by the server owner.^[12] As of September 15, 2015, Hypixel attracts 1.9 million players every month.^[7]

Around April 2018, Hypixel began to use Cloudflare Spectrum as a DDoS protection after being the victim of multiple attacks hosted by Mirai against the server.^[13][14]

Hypixel China

In May 2017, Hypixel partnered with NetEase, the publisher of Minecraft China, to release a version of Hypixel in China, sometimes known as 'Chypixel'.^[15] This separate version of Minecraft and the Hypixel Minecraft server would be operated and translated by NetEase, as part of their partnership.^[16]

On April 13, 2020, NetEase announced that the Chinese version of the server would be shutting down on June 30, 2020, due to the expiration of the agreement.^[17]

Hytale

On December 13, 2018, a stand-alone game named Hytale was announced to the public to be in development by Hypixel Studios, a separate company founded by the creators of Hypixel,^[11][18][19] with support from Riot Games and other developers including Dennis Fong, Rob Pardo and Peter Levine.^[11] Development for Hytale started around 2015 and was teased at occasionally. The trailer for Hytale was released on December 13, 2018, and amassed over 30 million views within a month.^[20][21] On April 16, 2020, Riot Games announced their full acquisition of Hypixel Studios.^[22]

Gameplay

Hypixel has various multiplayerminigames created by modifying and repurposing the game mechanics of Minecraft.^[7][23] The server tries to find players that are cheating, or hacking, in its games using an anticheat called 'Watchdog'.^[24] Players can purchase cosmetics and ranks that allow for certain abilities, like flying in hubs or lobbies.^[7][23]

Guinness World Records

On October 20, 2017, Hypixel announced that they held four Guinness World Records.^[25]

1. ^Based on historical data,^[26] as opposed to a GWR record attempt event.
2. ^Guinness considers a game as a 'live game, which Minecraft players could log in and play' and the count 'excludes different modes for the same game and games that have been removed'.^[26] A full list is not provided.

References

Hypixel Skyblock Wiki

1. ^'Language Troubleshooting - Hypixel Support'. Hypixel Support. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
2. ^ ^abcdeMacGregor, Jodie (December 20, 2018). 'Hytale is a Minecraft follow-up that remembers the minigames'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
3. ^'It's Official - Hypixel holds 4 Guinness World Records'. Hypixel - Minecraft Server and Maps. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
4. ^Hays, Edward (December 19, 2020). '5 most popular Minecraft servers of 2020'. www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
5. ^'Official Hypixel Minecraft Server 1.5.2 (BETA)'. Hypixel - Minecraft Server and Maps. April 13, 2013. Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
6. ^ ^abSimpkins, Jen. 'First Look: Hytale is putting adventure and creativity at the heart of its ambitious block-building sandbox'. GamesRadar+. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
7. ^ ^abcdeWiltshire, Alex (September 15, 2015). 'The Future Of Minecraft's Biggest Servers'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
8. ^Brown, Fraser (December 13, 2018). 'The designers of one of Minecraft's most popular servers are making a blocky RPG'. PC Gamer. Archived from the original on December 13, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
9. ^'Minetrack Data'. Minetrack. May 22, 2020. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
10. ^Guthrie, Robert. 'The Uncertain Future of Minecraft's Independent Servers'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on December 4, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
11. ^ ^abcde'Riot Games Leads Investment in Hypixel Game Studio'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
12. ^Collins-Laflamme, Simon [@Simon_Hypixel] (April 6, 2020). 'We just hit 18,000,000 unique players on the Hypixel Minecraft server! That means about 52% of people who bought Minecraft java edition manually typed the address and logged on the server Thank you all for this opportunity, I am still working hard like day 1. Love you all' (Tweet). Retrieved April 7, 2020 – via Twitter.
13. ^'Internet security expert links massive botnet DDoS attacks to Minecraft disputes'. PC Gamer. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
14. ^'Cloudflare Spectrum – DDoS protection for the rest of the Internet'. Archived from the original on December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
15. ^'NetEase Reveals Games Pipeline at Third Annual Game Enthusiasts' Day'. PR Newswire. May 22, 2017. Archived from the original on August 7, 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
16. ^'Hypixel is coming to China'. Hypixel Forums. May 21, 2017. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
17. ^'Hypixel中国版服务器停止运营公告' [Announcement about the suspension of the Hypixel China Edition server]. mc.163.com (in Chinese). April 13, 2020. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
18. ^ ^abFogel, Stefanie (December 13, 2018). 'Creators of Popular 'Minecraft' Server Announce New Game 'Hytale''. Variety. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
19. ^Tarason, Dominic (December 13, 2018). 'Hytale is a blocky sandbox RPG spawned from a massive Minecraft server'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
20. ^Milkameluna (January 9, 2019). 'Hytale : 30 millions de vues sur le trailer d'annonce'. Millennium.org (in French). Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
21. ^Fischer, Tyler (January 12, 2019). 'First Trailer of 'Minecraft' Inspired Game 'Hytale' Has 31 Million Views In Less Than 30 Days'. ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
22. ^'Riot Games Acquires Hypixel Studios, Developer of Upcoming Block Game Hytale'. riotgames.com. April 16, 2020. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
23. ^ ^abHandrahan, Matthew (July 21, 2020). 'Adopt Me: The most popular game you've never played'. GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
24. ^Stevens, Cara J. (May 2, 2017). The Ultimate Unofficial Encyclopedia for Minecrafters: Multiplayer Mode: Exploring Hidden Games and Secret Worlds. Sky Pony Press. ISBN9781510718258. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
25. ^'It's Official - Hypixel holds 4 Guinness World Records'. Hypixel Forums. Hypixel Inc.
26. ^ ^ab'Application Record Search'. Guinness World Records. Retrieved September 19, 2019.

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