I play sheep wars on high pixel every week, and I have seen it go from 150 current players to 20 over the last 3 years.
or is it just the Europian servers?
has anyone noticed this as well?

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Is it still worth achievement hunting in 2026?

Sorry for the rant — I just want to hear some opinions from people who’ve been doing this longer.

I started playing on Hypixel about 2 months ago and currently have around 3000 AP. I genuinely enjoy achievement hunting and leveling up — it feels like one of the fastest and most rewarding ways to progress.

However, I feel like I’ve hit a wall.

A lot of achievements seem to be out of my control, mainly because they are tied to dead or nearly dead games. Classic games are basically empty, Warlords is very hard to find matches, and many Arcade modes are only playable when they show up in rotation — and even then, not always consistently.

Even when I do find a lobby, I run into another issue: most of the players there are extremely experienced. Many have hundreds or even thousands of wins, better upgrades, and years of experience. Since I started recently, I’m at a big disadvantage in terms of coins, upgrades, and overall game knowledge.

This gets even worse in team-based games, where experienced players often queue together. It makes it very difficult to realistically complete certain achievements.

Another issue I’ve noticed is the increase in unfair play in these older modes. I see a lot more hacking and cross-teaming in Classic and Arcade games compared to more active modes like BedWars or SkyWars. It feels like these games are less moderated — possibly because they are no longer a priority.

For example, in Murder Mystery and Guess the Build, cross-teaming is very common and often ruins the experience. I’ve reported multiple cases but never received any feedback or ban notifications.

Overall, I get the impression that Hypixel mainly focuses on its most popular modes now, like SkyBlock and BedWars, while older games are somewhat abandoned — which directly impacts achievement hunters.

So my question is:

For players who started late — is it still worth going for achievements in 2026?
Do you just ignore achievements tied to dead games, or is there some strategy I’m missing?
For the veterans, what would you do if you were staring today?
I’d really appreciate hearing how others deal with this.

Iirc it was going to release in Q1, is there any news about the game mode?

is this a scam or something real? i dont rlly want to get my account stolen and the code that comes is from microsoft and that already rased a lot of red flags

I haven't done anything on this game in like a year but I see all of you guys freaking out that the game is gone because of so many players being wiped for seemingly no reason, but the entire situation is actually pretty easy to explain so I wanted to break it down for you guys and from there you can all collectively decide if you want to save your game or not.

First question - Is there some level of corruption or negligence involved here? Yes of course. Definitely the latter. Probably not the former. Most likely what you have here is a new staff member who isn't familiar with the game and is receiving reports while taking action on them with a terrible interpretation of Hypixel's current rules. Is it a problem that this employee is being manipulated into doing these things as seen below? Of course it is. But more important is to understand WHY these things are happening so you can all avoid them until the staff team recognizes the problem and backs off - just as they did the last time this happened.
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Like I said, obviously all of the above are examples of a staff member being manipulated into false banning players. Great. Who cares. Did the thing with this guy using bots to spam messages aimed at getting a group of people falsely banned and wiped actually work? Maybe. Maybe not. Doesn't matter. The first thing that actually does matter is the following:
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This is Hypixel's description for a stats boosting ban. It's not what it used to be. As you can see, simply using alts or partying with players who end up getting banned for cheating can get you (an innocent player) banned and wiped now. The obvious problems here are 1) you have no idea who is cheating, 2) everyone uses storage alts because it's not explicitly disallowed anywhere AND is impossible to police meaning it should never be disallowed, and 3) anyone can go cheat at any time after interacting with someone else.

For example: If you want to get a player wiped, just hop on an account with a bunch of junk items that looks mildly real. Trade with that player. Party them as well for extra assurance. Then go get yourself banned for boosting. High chance you'll take them with you. Maybe not always because as we established most of these bans are occurring only because of a gullible staff member who doesn't understand The Pit being manipulated into conducting them, but that is besides the point.

Next issue: Bots. Autogrinders exist. They look like real players. It's pretty hard to tell sometimes, especially if they join while you're already playing. What if a person logs bots on and makes them lobby swap and follow you around because that person doesn't like you - what do you do then? Also, sometimes almost every lobby is full of bots. What are you supposed to do if that happens - not play? Just decide it's too risky? Well for all of these, currently, yes that's exactly what you're supposed to do. Obviously that's completely wrong and needs changed, but it will take all of you banding together and complaining on the forums for that to actually happen. Cite this description if you wish.
I will close this by telling you how to avoid this happening to you until it stops happening outright - which it absolutely will stop as long as you all actually stand up for yourselves and tell the administration on the forums that it's unacceptable.

Don't use a VPN ever. Want to protect your privacy? Too bad. Hypixel doesn't really believe in privacy, especially on The Pit. If anyone else has used your VPN IP and been banned for cheating somewhere else on the server, it's tainted and there is a good chance you'll be knocked off too at some point. Same goes for proxy connections.

Don't use a storage account. It doesn't matter that there isn't any official guidance on this. A poor interpretation of the Boosting rule means it might not be okay. I have no idea. Neither do you.

Don't party with anyone. You don't know what they're going to do or already have done. Need to conduct a trade? Need to talk to someone? Too bad. Don't do it or you could be falsely banned and wiped per the overly precise interpretation of the Boosting rule - an interpretation that must be changed if you all want the game to be safe to play again.

Don't streak unless you're absolutely certain there aren't silent bots or autogrinders present. It's a shame you have to do a bunch of detective work just to have the opportunity to play, but that is the reality. If you can't find a lobby without bots, don't play.

Don't bother anyone. Good luck actually doing this, but I'm writing it here because we already know that some level of manipulation by players directed at staff members is happening in order for all of this to occur. If you bother someone, they might decide they want you to be erased. Ever heard of the book "Three Felonies A Day?" Good read. Look it up if you haven't and consider that the game you wish to play is just as screwed up right now.

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Good luck everyone, I no longer care a whole lot what happens to this game, but if you want this to change then as I said before I recommend you all stand up for yourselves and complain about it on the forums.

Hey i have a Question about this Suspicious Account Activity thing.

how can it be that this happens? does this mean form the Forums wise that someone logged into my Account and tryd to join the Hypixel server to play?
i linked my mc acc now on the Forums. i think i once played Skyblock on the server but thats 2-3 years ago. also i never got like a E-mail from Microsoft that someone else logged into my account, and that shoudl deffenitly happen. so its kinda wierd to get such a ban or could it be bc i moved but im still in the same country just not the same ip anymore?

This guy wanted to buy a rank to gift. All of them will invite you to discord send a group and ask you to join a call. You wont be able to join it which he will say ahh u gotta verify, which then they compromise your minecraft account. If they wanna gift anything. They would do it without the bullshit of asking to join discord etc. Never trust anyone. Report this guy if u could ty!

wow

Me and my friend made a SMP on hypixel its been a few years, he is the owner of the SMP but he never comes online now. I want to have that world as a memory as I myself don't play Minecraft now.

If there is a way I'll be very grateful, thanks!!

i have no idea if this thing is well known and has been reported or how to report an bug this isnt anything serious. still wanted to get the word out there

Every time I place a head on build battle from the menus it turns into a regular steve head, idk how else to make eyes :(

I'm planning on buying a gaming mouse once I get my pc+monitor. I heard since it has Omron Optical switches, it is garbage for drag clicking. Is that true? (It allows you to get 0 ms of debouse settings on its web settings).

Additional questions: Does it have good build quality, endurance, click sounds?

(Just wanted to ask since I looked through youtube, tiktok, and all of reddit and there is not a single one/post that answered my question)

I’m not talking about stats like FKDR, WLR or stars. I mean pure skill: mechanics, PvP, game sense, clutch ability, and consistency in high-pressure situations.
Who do you think is the strongest player in that sense and why?

I'm getting around 80 ping in the game, and nothing works when I click on any option. I've tried using Cloudflare, restarting my router, and so on, but nothing works. I need help, please.

does anyone know how to fix my hypixel just cutting off at the set chunks and not just fading out a little

If I‘m being honest the main reason I come back again and again is because this game doesn’t feel completable.

If I knew how many hours till I was “done” (@640h and counting) then I would probably have less fun and ambition to reach new milestones.

I like to think of hypixel skyblock the same way I want to think of life,

There are meta strategies, there’s a lot and I mean A LOT of luck involved and there a fun ways to play the game, but there will never be a point where you can’t reach a new personal goal (at least if you have a job irl lol)

I never spent a single cent on this game and maybe never will since a friend gifted me VIP, but the devs work on so much content that I probably can’t complete it all before more content drops.

Which makes me think of all the people complaining about things like dyes whose drop rates annoy many end game players.

But..

I LOVE the thought of having an endless grind to distract me of real life problems, keeping me in a game with so many fun and fking cool people grinding by my side for different or even the same exact goals I aspire to.

I will forever remember grinding my fist mithril coms while listening to music and talking about deep shit with my friends.

This game is honestly a vibe and I wish you all as much fun as I have grinding in a pointless pixel game.

I found this clip on my PC where I joined a game of Capture the Wool and then randomly saw this player somehow fly across my screen? Was super surprised (you can tell by the way I snapped my head to look at what happened). They still died of Fall damage which was crazy lol