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, although the server once was able to be played on the Pocket Edition of the game. Hypixel has won four Guinness World Records.
History
The Hypixel server was released in beta on April 13, 2013, by Simon Collins-Laflamme, whose username is Hypixel, and Philippe Touchette. The two originally created Minecraft adventure maps together 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, 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. 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. Today, the server regularly reaches over 100,000 concurrent players. On December 21, 2016, Hypixel reached 10 millionunique players in total, and had reached 14.1 million unique players by the time Hytale 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. 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.
Hypixel China
In May 2017, Hypixel partnered with NetEase, the publisher of Minecraft China, to release a version of Hypixel in China. 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, NetEase announced that the Chinese version of the server would be shutting down on June 30, 2020, due to the expiration of the agreement.
''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, with support from Riot Games and other developers including Dennis Fong, Rob Pardo and Peter Levine. 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. On April 16, 2020, Riot Games announced their full acquisition of Hypixel Studios.
