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released on April 13, 2013, by Simon "Hypixel" Collins-Laflamme and Philippe Touchette, and is managed and run by Hypixel Inc. Hypixel is only available on the

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Edition of ''Minecraft'', but was formerly available on the '' Bedrock Edition'' of the game as well. Hypixel has held four

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and is widely considered to be the largest currently active ''Minecraft'' server.

History

The Hypixel server was released in beta on April 13, 2013, by Simon Collins-Laflamme, and Philippe Touchette. The server is managed and run by Hypixel Inc. The two originally created ''Minecraft'' adventure maps together and uploaded trailers to their

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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, 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. Hypixel Inc., Hypixel's maintainer, was registered as a

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under the name "8414483 Canada Inc" on January 23, 2013. Its name was then modified to "Hypixel Inc." on February 2, 2015. In 2015, it was revealed that the server cost around $100,000 a month to maintain. As of April 2021, the server regularly reaches over 150,000

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, peaking at over 216,000 on April 16. On December 21, 2016, Hypixel reached 10 million unique players in total, and had reached 14.1 million unique players by the time ''

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'' was announced on December 13, 2018. The server reached 18 million unique players in April 2020, according to a tweet by the server owner. , Hypixel attracts 1.9 million players every month.

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". This separate version of Minecraft and the Hypixel Minecraft server would be operated and translated by NetEase, as part of their partnership. On April 13, 2020, due to the expiration of their agreement, NetEase announced that the Chinese version of the server would be shutting down on June 30, 2020.

Attacks

Around April 2018, Hypixel began to use

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Spectrum as a

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protection after being the victim of multiple attacks hosted by Mirai, a malware, against the server. On 18 June 2021, Hypixel shut down for emergency maintenance, stating their host was under "large-scale DDoS attacks". Connection problems were reported by players before the server was shut down, and the Hypixel team had claimed to have "identified the issue with an upstream provider". The server subsequently remained closed for four days before fully reopening. In its statement, the Hypixel team re-iterated that they had "dealt with DDoS attacks for well over 8 years", and that "recent changes at heirhost caused a flaw in heirsetup".

Gameplay

Hypixel has various

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s created by modifying and repurposing the

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of ''Minecraft''. Its players can purchase cosmetics and ranks that allow for certain in-game abilities.

Guinness World Records

On October 20, 2017, Hypixel announced that they held four ''

''.

References

External links

Official website
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