You will keep all of your stats, purchases, friends, guilds, etc.



Players who are banned will stay banned, and punishments don’t get removed from your account history for simply changing names.



You can change your name as many times and as frequent as Mojang will allow you to. Our system will handle it.



It’s your responsibility to keep your friends up to date on what name you’re going by, otherwise they’ll just see a stranger in their friends list!



Mojang is making it possible to see the previous names a player has gone by via their API service. So in the future websites will exist that you can check a player’s name history.

Hey everyone! I wanted to tell you a little bit about the update that we released this morning on the Hypixel Network.This update was a major and mandatory overhaul of our backend systems (over 20,000 lines of code changed!) and made us 100% compatible with Mojang’s upcoming switch to a UUID system for the purposes of allowing name changes (more info on name changes here ).This means that when they begin supporting name changes, you’ll be able to change your name on their website and log in to Hypixel and play with all of your friends, purchases, and stats.We’ve got some points we’d like to clarify about the name-change system, though:Even though we have dealt with the vast majority of the bugs from this morning, there is a possibility we’ve missed some. Be especially on the lookout for bugs such as thisNote the long set of random letters and numbers being shown instead of the player name. If you find such bugs, please let us know on our bug forum Thanks for your patience, we timed the update and maintenance period to be on our quietest period of the week (1AM - 10AM EST Monday Morning) to make as little impact as possible to your playing experience. ,AgentK