[Guide] The Bedwars Dictionary - BW Terminology/Lingo (2024)

Aimbot

Aimbotter / Aimbotting

A hack type that makes the player aim automatically

Note: This hack type is often paired with autoclicker

AntiKB

No KB / KB reducer / KB modifier

Abbreviation for anti-knockback, a hacked modification preventing or limiting the knockback the player takes

Example: “I hit them three times to the side on a bridge but they didn’t move at all, I think they might have AntiKB”

Autoclicker

Autoclicking / Click assist

A hack type / macro that automatically clicks high CPS for the user

Note: Autoclicking is a difficult hack for the player to detect

BB

Acronym for bed break, the game event where all beds are broken

Example: “it just said in chat that BB is in five minutes”

BBLR

Acronym for beds broken to lost ratio. The ratio you get from dividing your total bed breaks by your total bed losses

Note: This gives you a rough approximation of a player’s attacking and defending capabilities

Bed Trade

Bed Trading / Trading

Purposefully giving up defending your bed to destroy someone else's

Note: Trading may also refer to trading hits, where you get into a PVP fight and hit each other the same amount of times due to no combos, making it purely reliant on crits and gear.

BHOP

BHOPPER / B-HOP / Bunny Hopping / Hopper / B-hopping / Bunny Hopper

Abbreviation for the blatant hack bunny hop which makes the player move and fly insanely fast around opponents making it very hard to aim at them

Example: “that one blue guy just killed an entire team, they might be a Bhopper”

Note: Sometimes you might see watchdog flying around you, that is not a bhopper, this is just Hypixel’s anticheat checking players for hacking

Blatant

Describing someone that’s not trying to hide any unfair advantage they are using

Example: “They just teleported across the map and killed a whole team, they’re so blatant!”

Note: blatant types of hacks usually are: Kill aura, Fly, Bhop, Reach

Block-in

Blocking in / Blocked in

To break the outer 1-2 layers of a defense and then place blocks around you to trap you in the defense so you can break the bed protected

Example: “If you distract, I can block in”

Block-trap

Block trapper / Block trapping / Block trapped

A strategy in which the player places blocks to guide a player to fall into a hole of some kind

Example: “Yellow is waiting to block-trap, watch out!”

Boosting

Boosters / Booster

Teaming up with hackers to win games quickly and easily. This is not allowed

Example: “This hacker just killed all the players except for one team and then disconnected, I think they’re boosting”

Note: This is not to be confused with network or personal Hypixel boosters which you can buy in the store

Breezily

Breezily bridging

An advanced bridging technique that involves walking backwards whilst strafing left to right and placing blocks without crouching to bridge extremely fast

Bregg

Bregged / Bregging

An abbreviation for a bridge egg, an item available in the item shop

Butter

Buttering / Buttered

Placing a first layer of endstone in a wing shape around the bed

Note: Used in the B0MBIES strategy, preventing immediate rushers or snipers from breaking your bed before you have your defense

Butterfly

BF / Butterfly defense

An optimized popular bed defense often used in 3s and 4s

Example: “Drop me some iron, I’ll build a BF”

Note: Invented by Wahk

Camp

Camping / Campers / Turtles / Turtling / Turtle

To stay in one position without giving it up

Clean up the base

Cleaning up / clean / clear up / tidy the base

Remove all unnecessary blocks at your base, making it easier to fight incoming opponents

Closet-cheater

Closet cheating / Closet cheaters / Closet cheated

A player using unfair advantages that are difficult to detect

Clutch [1]

Clutched / Gqtored / MLG water bucket / X-Extension

Placing a block, ladder, or water bucket to break a fall or jump that couldn’t have been made previously

Example: “That was such a nice clutch, I got a three-block extension”

Note: Other usage of this word includes ‘extension’ that refers to the number of blocks built to survive

Clutch [2]

Clutched / Clutching

A situation in a Bedwars game where you lose your Bed and still win the game

Coconut defense

A butterfly defense that has wood added as a third layer

Example: “I feel like we’re going to be targeted, we should probably make a coconut defense”

Note: This defense is often used in Bedwars tournaments

Combo

Comboed / Combo’ing / Wombo combo

A PVP term meaning to get multiple hits on a player without them hitting you

Competitive Bedwars

See: Ranked Bedwars

Cosmetic

Cosmetics

Nonessential animations and features used for fun

Example: “The Dragon Rider victory dance is my favorite way to celebrate a win”

Note: Bedwars has no kits or perks and so no players have any unbalanced from the start, cosmetics are the only thing you can spend with Bedwars coins

CPS

Acronym for clicks per second

Crit

Crits

Abbreviation for critical hit. Hitting a player whilst falling/jumping to deal more damage

Example: “Did you know you can’t crit on ladders?”

Crossteaming

Crossteamers

The act of different teams not fighting each other to try and beat a mutual enemy team. This is not allowed

Note: This could be in a large coordinated party or just with random teams

DC

DC’d

Abbreviation for disconnect, to leave the game

Def [1]

Abbreviation for defense

Example: “It’s been 40s and we still don’t have a def!”

Def [2]

Abbreviation for defend or defender

Example: “INC from left side DEF!”

Dia

Abbreviation for diamond island

Dias

Abbreviation for diamonds

Dodge

See: fold or requeue

Downstack

Downstacked / Downstacking

Placing blocks in a stack under your bridge as you fall in the void

Dream

The six rotational Bedwars modes that change every week

Example: “The castle dream mode is so fun”

Drop

Dropping / Dropped

When having a height advantage used to inform your teammates to jump onto a lower object, often a Bed defense

Example: “If you drop on those two guys, I’ll try to get the Bed”

EC

Acronym for ender chest

EM

Ems

Abbreviation for the resource emerald

ES

Acronym for the block endstone

EXP

XP / Experience

Experience contributing towards levelling up, gained from playtime and winning

Example: “It’s a common misconception that bed breaks, kills, and final kills contribute to XP gain”

Note: You need 5000XP to progress to the next Bedwars level with exception to the first five levels after every prestige which require slightly less

FB

FBS / FB’ing

Acronym of the word fireball

Example: "Watch out, they've got more FBS!"

FD [1]

Acronym of fall damage

Example: “did you know that you have a second invulnerability after you take fall damage?”

FD [2]

Acronym of final death, to die without a bed

Final

Finals

A player without a Bed

FK

Acronym for final kill, to kill a player without a bed

Note: May also refer to your overall final kills

FKDR

A ratio you get from dividing your overall final kills by your overall final deaths

Note: This can give a rough estimate of a player’s skill level

Fly

Flight / Flying

A player using hacked modifications that allow them to fly or teleport quickly

Note: Can be used as a noun or a verb

Fold

Requeue / Dodge / Folding / Folded / RQ

To leave a Bedwars game before it starts to avoid playing it

Example: “There are too many nicked players, we should probably fold if we want to keep this winstreak”

FPS

Acronym for frames per second

Full glass

A rendition of the Butterfly defense that only uses 8 endstone (out of the 12 you get) and 18 glass (out of the 20 you get)

Example: “our TNT will not work, they got full glass”

Full send

To go 'all out' in an attack to make advantage of a situation, often with teammates

Example: "we've only got one last shot on this rush, let's full send"

Gap

Gapple / Gapped / Gapping

Abbreviation for the item golden apple

Gen

Abbreviation for a generator

Note: The gen may also be called the machine or the fountain

GF

GFs

Abbreviation for good fight

Example: “wow that was a close fight, GF yellow”

GG

GGs

Abbreviation for good game

Godbridge

Godbridger / Godbridging

An advanced bridging technique involving aiming at a 45-degree angle whilst placing blocks without crouching whatsoever to bridge extremely fast

Example: “blue team has a godbridger!”

H

Hackusating

Hackusate / Hackusated

The notion of accusing a player of using hacks with or without knowing they’re actually hacking

Hold

Holding / Held

To stall enemies whilst you wait for your teammates

IG [1]

IGs / Golem

Acronym for iron golem

Note: IG can also mean ‘I guess’ or ‘in game’

IG [2]

Acronym for ‘in game’, to tell someone you are busy in a game

Note: IG can also ‘iron golem’ or ‘I guess’

INC

Abbreviation for ‘incoming’, notifying teammates that there are players they need to watch out for, often to your base to destroy the bed

Example: “Red is INC! Get back to base”

Note: This is one of the oldest coined Bedwars exclusive terms

Invis

Invised / Invising

Abbreviation for invisibility. Often referring to a player who has drank an invisibility potion

IYN

IYNing

A strategy in which two players would immediately rush at the start of the game and the other two split the defense cost and follow the rushers with TNT

KA

Aura

Acronym for kill aura. A hack type that automatically hits all players within a certain range

Note: KA hackers can lock on one player or several players at the same time. It’s often combined with BHOP and autoclicker

Kamikaze

Suicided

To *************, often by jumping in the void, to take someone else out

KB

Abbreviation for knockback. How much a player moves after being hit

Note: See also - AntiKB

KDR

Acronym for kill death ratio. The result of dividing your total kills by your total deaths

Note: This statistic isn’t as representable of skill level as FKDR

Kill steal

Kill stole

To kill an enemy, despite delivering a small amount of the total damage compared to your teammate or mutual enemies

Note: This term is only notable to those who care about their statistics

Layer

A layer indicates one coating of a bed defense.

Note: 1st layer or core layer would refer to the original eight blocks surrounding a bed. Every layer of blocks surrounding that is called the 2nd layer and so one. The outer layer of the defense is the set of blocks visibly surrounding the bed

Legit

A player not using hacks or any unfair advantages

Level-up

To go up one Bedwars star

Example: “I just levelled up to 97, I’m almost iron prestige!”

Maxed

Refers to maximum upgrade of a pickaxe or axe

Example: “I got a maxed axe but no sword so I might as well use it as a weapon”

Note: Could also refer to maxed protection levels or maxed forge levels

Mid

Middle / the main island

The main island at the centre of every map that contains the emerald generators

Example: “Blue is at mid, we should rush”

Nicked

Nick / disguised

Refers to when a player has the MVP++ Rank of Youtuber rank and changes their name with /nick to hide their identity and rank

Example: “That non is really good, I think they might be nicked”

Ninjabridge

A bridging technique that involves uncrouching to bridge faster

Example: “your ninjabridge is fast!”

Note: See also - Speedbridge

Non

Abbreviation for non-donator

Example: “I think that’s a party of all nons, they might be nicked”

Obby

Ob / Obbie

An abbreviation of the word "obsidian"

For example: "they've got obby, so get a diamond pickaxe.
Note: See also - 'probby'

One

One-hit / one hp / very low

A callout used to indicate that a player is on very low hp

Example: “I hit him five times already, he’s one”

One-tap

One-tapped / one-hit / one-shot-kill

A kill that was made by hitting that player only once.

Note: This could either be because of high attack damage or because of knockback into the void

Overgen

A 3s and 4s strategy in which the attackers bridge all the way over the neighboring diamond island to the other team's base

Party

Partied / Partying

Refers to a group of people that are in a party on Hypixel that join a game

Example: “There is a full party of MVP+’s I think we should fold”

Note: This can be spotted in the lobby if multiple people join at the exact same time

PB

Abbreviation for a personal best

Example: that was 36s! That’s our new PB”

Note: Used in Bedwars speedrunning

Pic

Abbreviation for pickaxe

Pressure

Stalling / pressured

A callout used to notify teammates that there is no one incoming, because your team is stalling them and preventing them from leaving their position

Prestige

Prestiged / Prestiging

Reaching a star that is a multiple of 100 giving you a new star chat colour

Example: “After playing for three years I finally hit rainbow prestige”

Pots

Abbreviation of potion(s)

Example: “I’ve got 2 ems I'll buy invis pots”

Probby

[They] probably have obsidian

Note: See also - obby

Prot

Abbreviation of the upgrade protection

Example: "We got maxed prot, so we should survive this."

PVP

Abbreviation for player versus player combat

Note: PVE means player versus environment

Queue

Queued / Queueing

To join a game and wait for it to start

Note: see also - RQ

Ranked Bedwars

RBW / Competitive Bedwars / Ranked

A private gamemode of Bedwars in which there are two teams of four talented players playing against each other

Note: You could join these by signing up in the ranked Bedwars Discord making it possible to account for elo

RQ

RQing / RQ’d

Acronym for requeue, to leave a Bedwars game before it starts to avoid playing it

Example: “I think they are rq-ing since they see we’re a party”

Note: See also – fold or dodge

Rush

To attack a base or player

Example: “I’ll rush left side”

Note: For the dream mode see dream. Sometimes used in the form X-rush to show many blocks you need to get to a base on a certain map e.g. aquarium is a 64 rush

Safewalk

A hack type that prevents a player from being able to walk off a block, often used whilst bridging

Example: “that godbridger does not look legit, I think they have safewalk”

Scaffold

A type of hack used by blatant hackers that will place blocks directly under the player's feet extremely fast

Example: "They're placing these blocks so fast underneath them. They might be scaffolding"

Sharp

Abbreviation of the diamond enchantment called ‘Sharpened Swords’

Example: “I’ve got 8 dias, I’m going to buy sharp”

Skip

Skipping / passing / dodging

Running past players without fighting them

Sniping

Illegal groups of extortionate hackers who warp into specific players games to sabotage their statistics

Speedbridge

A bridging technique that involves uncrouching to bridge faster

Example: “your speedbridge is fast!”

Note: See also - ninjabridge

Speedrun

To complete an objective within Bedwars as fast as possible

Splitting

Splitting the gen / Split

A technique that involves walking in the gen at the same time to have the materials give to all the players

Example: “Could you wait 5 seconds for me to respawn so we can split the gen?”

(x) Stacking

Making a bridge with a certain amount of x blocks before you jump and bridge up one block

Note: 2-3 stacking is used in Competitive Bedwars

Star (noun)

Your Bedwars level shown next to your name

Example: “3/4 4v4v4v4 party, 200[star]+”

Note: Your level isn’t an immediate representation of your skill but more your playtime

Stream sniping

Viewers of a streamer queuing into their game to target them

Sub

To do something under a certain amount of time

Example: “that was sub 3 min!”

Sweats

Sweaty

A word for good players.

Example: "watch out there are sweaty players in this game. They're almost 900 stars"

Note: This can be used as a verb to concentrate on winning as much as possible, for example, “we need to sweat, we have a 100 winstreak”

S-tap

A PVP technique that involves pressing S to reset your sprint to deal more knockback and get combos

Note: see also - W-Tap

Target

Could be used in offense or defense to describe when a team is specifically going for a certain team colour. Reasons for this include: Toxicity, An opposing team is a threat, Possible Cheating.

Example: “A player on Red team is a 900 star I think we should target them first”

Tier-x

The amount of times a pickaxe or axe has been upgraded

Note: An iron pick would be a T2 Pic and a T1 Axe would be a wood axe

Tier 3 pick / T3

A name for the gold pickaxe in Bedwars. After buying and upgrading a pickaxe three times, it will be the fastest mining golden pickaxe (except for mining obby)

In ranked Bedwars the go to tool to break beds.

Example: "We can get their bed. I got a T3 pick."

TMCODE defence

A defence made up of 12 endstone and 16 wood

Note: invented by TMCODE and further developed by 02P

TNT Jump

A technique that involves using the explosion from TNT to jump a certain distance that a player would have had to bridge

Example: “I’ll rush, I’ve got extra TNT to TNT jump into their base”

Note: This can also be done with fireballs, a ‘Fireball Jump’

Tracker

The compass always found in your inventory that can be used to track players after all beds are gone for 2 emeralds

Void [1]

Jumping off / voiding

To fall in the void deliberately to get back to base

Example: “there’s three players INC, I need you to void”

Void [2]

Throw items in the void to prevent opponents from getting them

Example: “I voided all the ems from mid”

Walk out [1]

A term used to tell your teammates to leave the generator and stand on the bed because there might be a threat incoming

Example: "Two red guys skipped me, so you should walk out just in case someone's incoming."

Walk out [2]

To step out of the generator to stop taking the resources to later split the generator

Watchdog

Hypixel’s anticheat that tries to detect hacking players and ban them

Water their base

To place a water bucket on top of a pillar above someone’s base to slow them down

Example: “if we want to get pressure back, we’re going to have to water their base”

(/)WDR

Watchdog report

A Hypixel command that reports a player for Hypixel’s anticheat to target detection

Note: you can also use /report or /watchdogreport

Wiped [1]

Teamwiped

The act of killing all the players from a single team.

Example: "I killed 4 red guys. I wiped them completely"

Wiped [2]

Stat wiped

The removement of a player's stats by an admin or watchdog. Reasons for this could be cheating, boosting or account sharing

Example: “Famous player ‘Jiyn’ was wiped for being in a party with hackers”

Wobble

Diagonal / wobble bridge

A bridge that’s build to either skip or flank the opponents.

Note: frequently used in ranked bedwars

WP

An abbreviation for well-played

Example: “well played, that was really smart”

WR

Abbreviation for world record

Example: “that was sub 2, so close to WR!”

Note: Term used in Bedwars speedrunning. FWR means former world record

WS

Acronym for winning a certain number of games in a row without losing

Example: “We got a 10 winstreak for 3s!”

Note: You can view your winstreak in the player stats NPC in the Bedwars lobby

W-Tap

A PVP technique involving pressing W to reset your sprint to deal more knockback and get combos

Note: see also - S-Tap

XP

See EXP

(/)zoo

A command that could be put in chat to troll players into leaving the game

Note: /Zoo removes you from the game leaving the message ‘This isn’t the zoo, it's the lobby!’

Example: “Use command /zoo to get a free achievement”

1v1 for the bed

To have to take a fight solo against one other player to defend or destroy a bed

Example: “I’m going to take a 1v1 for the bed even though they outgear me”

3s

Abbreviation for the 3v3v3v3 mode

4s

Abbreviation for the 4v4v4v4 mode

Note: not to be confused with 4v4

[Guide] Bedwars Speedrunning explained
https://hypixel.net/threads/guide-on-behalf-of-the-bedwars-speedrunning-community-updated.3707153/
[Guide] How to split the generator in Bedwars
https://hypixel.net/threads/guide-how-to-split-the-generator-in-bedwars.3565332/