Introduction On October 14th, 2021, Hypixel released a massive BedWars update, which included a lot of balancing changes, a new dreams mode, as well as BedWars Challenges. Challenges enhance your gameplay by causing you to play the game in a different way to how you would otherwise play, making each game super fun, unpredictable, and sometimes very annoying! So far, 30 challenges of ranging difficulty are available for players to pick from. In this thread, I will be giving you guys different tips/ways of beating each challenge from a winstreaker/pro bedwars player’s point-of-view, in case you yourself are struggling on any and need some inspiration. The challenges are listed in order, to make it easier to find a specific challenge you’re looking for. • I recommend that all these challenges are played in a 4s party (4s mode), unless stated otherwise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Renegade Useful Tips: • Rush fast, break beds quickly, don’t let other teams get stacked. Very difficult to kill sharp + high prot teams since you yourself cannot get upgrades • Fireballing the diamonds in a diamond generator will cause them to disappear. Highly useful against sweats, diamond-hungry opponents and generators filled with 5+ diamonds Difficulty: 1/5 Warmonger Useful Tips: • Tool rushing is the main strategy for this challenge • Don’t lose your own bed, clutching is difficult due to lack of availability of useful items Difficulty: 2/5 Selfish Useful Tips: Difficulty: -10000/5 Minimum Wage Useful Tips: • Other teams will have regular speed gens not affected by slowness, so use neighbouring generators as much as possible for resources Difficulty: 1/5 Assassin Useful Tips: • Not recommended to play side-maps like Invasion or Lectus – if your target is across the map, you may get sandwiched whilst rushing through mid • Fireballs, fireballs, fireballs. Can’t stress enough, highly important for taking out incoming players who aren’t your target. Difficulty: 3/5 Regular Shopper Useful Tips: • Regular IYN-strategy will work just fine. TNT and break bed. If tools are really needed, it doesn’t matter if you die with Tier 3 tools since they’re so cheap anyway Difficulty: 1/5 Invisible Shop Useful Tips: • Playing with your teammates in a discord call, and working together to memorise the locations of stuff helps a lot. 3s and 4s are easiest for this challenge. Difficulty: 4/5 Collector Useful Tips: • Collect wool (3 of each color in 3s, 4 each in 4s, 1 for each teammate) before you final kill the last guy and give to shopkeeper. Win.
• When I mention the “IYN-strategy”, I am talking about the widely used 2 bridgers – 2 TNTers side-rushing strategy on side-maps
• Pro tips are highlighted in red
Challenge 1
1. Team upgrades and traps are disabled
2. You cannot pick up diamonds
Reward: Cat Death Cry
• Standard IYN-strat rushes should do the job. Keep an eye out for mid rushers, since traps won’t alert you because they're disabled
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Challenge 2
1. You cannot purchase nor use any utilities to aid you in battle.
Reward: Warrior Shopkeeper Skin
• Utilities include everything in the “Utility” tab – Gapples, milk, TNT, etc
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Challenge 3
1. You are too selfish to drop any items to other players
2. Your team chest and enderchest are locked though
Reward: Bite Projectile Trail
• Literally a regular game of 4s, no one on the team shares or drops stuff anyway!!!!
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Challenge 4
1. Your island resource generator is 2x slower
Reward: It's Raining Gold Final Kill Effect
• Easier to complete in doubles (2s). Play a fast iron map such as Lighthouse, Apollo or Pernicious. 2x slower on a fast-iron map = normal speed, since the slowness cancels out the fast-iron speed. Could enhance that with a cheap 2 diamond iron forge upgrade
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Challenge 5
1. You can only break the bed of your assigned target
2. No other beds can be broken until you eliminate your target's entire team
3. After successfully eliminating your target team, a new target will be assigned
Reward: Assassin Island Topper
• Full-send the assigned target team, and kill the players as soon as possible. Don’t let them be annoying and hide/stack up
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Challenge 6
1. Any purchased armor upgrade will be removed upon death
2. Any purchased tool upgrade will be removed upon death
Reward: Shopping Cart Island Topper
• Don’t queue sweats, since armour is essential for long, sweaty games, and losing it every death becomes inefficient
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Challenge 7
1. Every item in the Item Shop and Team Upgrades is randomized and hidden
2. The locations of each item will remain the same throughout the game
Reward: Invisible Villager Island Topper
• AWFUL, AWFUL challenge. Work together to prioritise finding the location of blocks first before anything else, otherwise RIP your bed. Bunker down and stack on defence if needed, until the location of other essential items are found
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Challenge 8
1. Collect all wool colors and return them to your shop keeper
2. You must win the game after all team members return all wool colors
Reward: Collector's Chest Island Topper
• Extremely easy in 4s, extremely annoying in solos and 2s
Difficulty: 1/5
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Challenge 9
Woodworker
1. You can only purchase and pick up items made out of wood
2. You cannot use your enderchest, it isn't made of wood!
Reward: Lumberjack Shopkeeper Skin
Useful Tips:
• Play on a small map like Dreamgrove or Jurassic so less blocks (aka wood) are needed for bridging
• DO NOT LET A TEAM GET OBSIDIAN – REMEMBER YOU CAN’T GET A HIGHER TIER OF TOOLS THAN WOOD!!
Difficulty: 3.5/5
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Challenge 10
Bridging for Dummies
1. You cannot purchase any blocks other than sponge
2. You cannot pick up any blocks
Reward: Bridging for Dummies Kill Message
Useful Tips:
• Forget sponge bridging, use pop-up towers to get to mid, collect ems and use them on bridge eggs. Ideal on small maps such as Dreamgrove and Apollo
• Knockback-sticks/projectiles are useful to defend your bed, with since this is, at it's core, a no bed-defence challenge
• You can make a nice wool defence by placing a pop-up tower and shearing irrelevant blocks
• The challenge is easiest completed on Sky Festival. Saving up 4 fireballs, a player can fireball all the way to mid and back with ems for bridge eggs. Alternatively, ladders, water buckets and fireballs can be used to hop from island to island; bridge eggs not even needed on this map. OR, just use jump pots
Difficulty: 3.5/5
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Challenge 11
Toxic Rain
1. There will be toxic rain throughout the game
2. Standing in the rain drains items from your inventory
3. The longer you are in the rain, the faster items drain
Reward: Toxic Rain Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Items in your inventory drain EXTREMELY quickly, so ensure you have multiple stacks of blocks in your inventory when pushing a team. Games can be prolonged if you aren’t stacked enough at the beginning
• The rain drains blocks first, so get that first, or else your wood sword may end up getting drained!
• Placing blocks above your head prevents the rain from touching you, so you could build a long head-hitter to diamond gen/mid
• Play Jurassic, lots of trees block the rain on this map which is good. Block off the glass above spawn though since the rain goes through them and you end up dying in your forge
Difficulty: 4/5
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Challenge 12
Defuser
1. Every enemy team's bed needs to be defused before being able to break it
2. Once you defuse an enemy's bed defence, it will stay defused for 2 minutes
Reward: Defuser Shopkeeper Skin
Useful Tips:
• To defuse an enemy bed, right click the bed, and then click the random redstone dust that appear in the chest menu. This takes time to do so, so it’s easiest completed if you block yourself in, or alternatively invis the bed
Difficulty: 2/5
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Challenge 13
Lazy Miner
1. You gain permanent Mining Fatigue throughout the game
2. If you activate a Mining Fatigue Trap, you receive a greater Mining Fatigue effect
Reward: Lazy Miner Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Regular IYN strategy works fine for this challenge, although you’ll need your teammates to body-block when you attempt to break a bed
• Slightly annoying to break obsidian in this challenge, so 2s is probably not a good idea against sweats
• I suggest fast-paced maps in order to limit the chances of someone having rushed diamonds and bought miner fatigue
Difficulty: 1.5/5
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Challenge 14
Ultimate UHC
1. Natural health regeneration is disabled
2: Golden Apples do not provide health
Reward: Heartbleed Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Dont lose your bed, or you're basically done for
• Try and avoid fights until you get a team’s bed. Too many fights taken = no health
• Voiding if you’re low on health is recommended, to get you back to full HP easily
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 15
Sleight of Hand
1. You only have 1 available hotbar slot to use
Reward: Magic Bunny Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• This challenge sounds hard, but in reality is very easy with the IYN strategy - one person buy blocks and bridges, one person buys tnt. Once you break a bed, quickly hotkey your sword into your first slot and kill the team
• With good resource management, this challenge is easy on any map
• Don’t lose your bed, clutching becomes slightly annoying with this challenge
Difficulty: 2/5
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Challenge 16
Weighted Items
1. Each item has a unique weight to them
2. Carrying heavy items will make you move slower
Reward: Anvil Smash Final Kill Effect
Useful Tips:
• Don’t buy armor or tools since those items have a heavier weight, and cause you to be slow
• Standard IYN strategy works just fine - one person only buys blocks, one person only tnt, to keep the weight down, and full send an enemy team. Play with an organised team, and play on maps such as Lectus or Invasion
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 17
Social Distancing
1. You can only use Knockback Sticks and Punch Bows to attack players
Reward: Social Distancing Kill Messages
Useful Tips:
• Fireballs, golems and silverfish are incredibly useful for dealing with enemy teams
• Keep a kb stick in your team chest at all times – highly useful for dealing with enemy players at your base
• Can take multiple attempts and is usually time consuming. I suggest choosing maps such as Carapace, Invasion, Aquarium, etc where there is a lot of void
Difficulty: 3.5/5
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Challenge 18
Swordless
1. You cannot purchase any swords from the shop
2. You cannot pick up any swords
3. Using axes or pickaxes will only deal 1 damage to players
Reward: The End Projectile Trail
Useful Tips:
• Pretty easy, just use the IYN strategy. Wood swords are perfectly fine against noobs and most sweat teams
Difficulty: 2/5
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Challenge 19
Marksman
1. You cannot hit any players with melee weapons, including your fist
2: You can only attack players using a bow
Reward: Ballista Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Use standard IYN strategy to break beds
• Fireballs, bows, golems, and silverfish are your best friends for getting those juicy final kills
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 20
Patriot
1. You can only walk on blocks your team has placed
2. You cannot pick up any items from enemy players
3. You do not receive any items from killing a player
4. You can only pick up resources from your own generator
5. If you walk on blocks placed by an enemy team, the challenge will be failed
Reward: Patriotic Eagle Shopkeeper Skin
Useful Tips:
• Make sure you’re invested in stacks of blocks at the start of the game and choose maps such as Sky Festival where there is enough flat ground to spam blocks
• Building high, watering a base and landing on your own blocks/the ground helps with getting beds
Difficulty: 4/5
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Challenge 21
Stamina
1. Any action in the game such as running or breaking blocks consumes stamina
2. If you don't have enough stamina, you won't be able to sprint or break blocks
3. Your stamina is represented by your hunger bar
4. Golden Apples double your stamina recharge rate for 10 seconds
Reward: Cake Walk Victory Dance
Useful Tips:
• Spam gaps to help with your stamina recharge rat. Gold Forge and higher is recommended for longer games
• Playing on smaller maps is advised: less gaps needed to get to someone’s base
• When rushing a team, build high so that you’re not having to fight enemies with no stamina
Difficulty: 4/5
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Challenge 22
Old Man
1. You cannot sprint during the whole game
2. If you sprint, the challenge will be failed
Reward: Old Man Kill Messages
Useful Tips:
• Impossible to combo players, so try to have your back against a wall of blocks at all times when fighting, making it easier to trade hits
• Ranged weapons, such as bows and fireballs, are very helpful in winning fights and killing players • Speed pots are useful against more sweaty teams; they allow you to actually combo a team by cancelling out the no-sprint
• I would recommend Swashbuckle for this challenge. The trees can be used for height, and since the enemy islands are very enclosed, there's always a wall to have behind you when PVPing
Difficulty: 3.5/5
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Challenge 23
Capped Resources
1. All shop items have a limited purchase cap for your entire team
2. You cannot pick up any items from enemy players
3. You can only pick up resources from your own generator
Reward: ?
Useful Tips:
• Make sure to queue noobs – against sweats and in longer games, you stand no chance once you reach your limit
• Play on smaller maps so you don’t cap out your blocks purchased limit as fast
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 24
Red Light, Green Light
1. At random intervals the stop light will switch between red and green
2. If you move when the light is red, you fail the challenge
Reward: Traffic Light Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Don’t get hit by an enemy when the red light appears, as the knockback you take will count as a "movement" and cause you to fail the challenge
• When at an enemy base, stack up and wait until the red light appears. As soon as it switches to green, full send so you have the most time possible to do stuff before you need to freeze again
• This is one of the most difficult challenges to complete since you’re often left in compromisable positions. May take a few attempts to complete
Difficulty: 4.5/5
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Challenge 25
Slow Reflexes
1. You can only hit enemies once every 2 seconds
Reward: Guardian Death Cry
Useful Tips:
• Basically 1.17 Minecraft, aim and time your clicks
• Ranged weapons such as bows and fireballs, and silverfish, golems are your best friends
• The around-the-world strategy is pretty OP – everyone rushes a base together. Slowly whittle down the final kills while body blocking each other. Back out once you get a hit, rush in 2 seconds later
• Knockback stick are useful for keeping distance between you and the enemy
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 26
Pacifist
1. You cannot hit any players with melee weapons, including your fist
2. You cannot use any bows to deal damage
3. You can only use Utilities to deal damage
Reward: Aura Victory Dance
Useful Tips:
• Fireballs, silverfish and golems are your best friend. Use them to stop anyone getting close to your bed
• DON’T LOSE YOUR BED!!!!! Otherwise it's practically impossible to clutch
Difficulty: 5/5
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Challenge 27
Master Assassin
1. You can only break the bed of your assigned target
2. You can only damage players of your target team
3. No other beds can be broken until you eliminate your target's entire team
4. After successfully eliminating your target team, a new target will be assigned
Reward: Assassin's Blade Island Topper
Useful Tips:
• Fireballs, fireballs, fireballs to stop incoming players that aren’t your target!
• Full-send your assigned target and take them out as soon as you can, before you get rushed by another team
• Build up on other teams if necessary, this makes you look menacing. Don’t let them know you can’t attack them though
Difficulty: 2/5
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Challenge 28
Standing Tall
1. You cannot sneak during the challenge
2. If you crouch, the challenge will be failed
Reward: Portal Projectile Trail
Useful Tips:
• Jitter bridging helps a lot with getting around the map, so practice that beforehand
• The challenge is easiest completed on Sky Festival - saving up for fireballs allows you to get around the map, with no blocks needed, and so no need for bridging
• A walk in the park if you’ve done the Assassin challenge
Difficulty: 3/5
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Challenge 29
Protect the President
1. One player on the team is selected as the president
2. Only the president has the authority to break enemy beds
3. If the president dies, you fail the challenge
Reward: Presidential Goons Island Topper & President Sloth Shopkeeper
Useful Tips:
• The around-the-world strategy helps a lot with this strategy. Protect/body-block the president while he breaks the bed. Kill all enemies while he watches on.
• Please, please, please don’t let the president bridge – if he falls into the void, you fail the challenge
Difficulty: 2.5/5
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Challenge 30
Can't Touch This
1. You must not take any damage for the whole game
2. If you take any damage or fall into the void, the challenge will be failed
3. Your team must break at least one bed to complete the challenge
Reward: Elder Guardian Victory Dance, Guardian Rocket Final Kill Effect, & Fire Spiral Projectile Trail
Useful Tips:
• Rush a bow immediately to stop incoming players from reaching your base
• Low bridge everywhere so you don’t take fall damage
• High bridge to mid, and make a tower out of water so you can jump down without taking damage
• Invis, jump, bridge egg are key to getting beds. Watch your potion status so you don’t take fall damage when your jump boost runs out
• Don’t let your own TNT damage you when you place it and it explodes
• Don’t take damage from getting stuck in your own pop-up tower
• Don’t invest in prot upgrades since it’s useless. Focus on forge upgrades instead
• Jump boost + bows and lots of pop-up towers + playing extremely annoying, is the way to go
Difficulty: 5/5 (Hardest Challenge by far!)
Queue the challenge in 4v4 instead of 4v4v4v4. Super easy to do, can be done very quickly with no stress.
Conclusion
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Credits to 1eaf, @flame53II, @ObviouslyYes, blck and Howw for proof-reading + suggesting ideas + the rewards