HWS Events
Updated Oct 21, 2026Written on the HWS forum
On HWS you can play many Events to get new inspirations and gameplay outside the box. Some of them are automated and handled via Chat commands, some are manually hosted. Check this Guide out from time to time to see all available Events and their conditions.
🏆 HWS Events on HWS Connect
👉 HWS Connect → HWS Events (NA players: /rn/events)
HWS Connect has two kinds of events:
Hosted events: tournaments and contests
Knockout brackets, leaderboards, team battles, build contests and open sessions, run by the HWS staff. The hub lists what is live, upcoming and past on your server; each event has its own page:
- Starts and Sign-up closes with countdowns, the Rules, the Prize pool per server and, when live, the stream (Twitch, YouTube or Kick; it loads only when you click it)
- The bracket, standings, teams or entries of the event, updated live
- Sign up: one sign-up per server in Your sign-up. Your entry is Awaiting review until the staff approve it
- Blueprint events: Upload .epb after signing up (max 10 MB; the latest upload counts). Your blueprint is only ever seen by the staff. Tick Show preview to other players to show an outside picture of your ship next to your name once approved
- Build contests: up to 3 screenshots and a description; when voting opens, Vote for your favourite entry (one vote per server, not your own)
- Predictions (some knockouts): pick the winner of each match before it starts, one point per correct pick
- Withdraw until you are placed in the bracket. If late joining is allowed, Request late join after the cutoff
- Prizes of hosted events are handed over by the staff after the event
Managed events: automated in-game events
On Managed events you Join an automated event; the site moves you into the event and home again and pays out the prizes automatically.
- Be online in game on that server when the event starts, or you miss the start. You get warnings 5 and 1 minutes before
- In events that store your backpack, your items are kept safe and given back afterwards; you get an event kit instead. You can't bring a vessel
- Each card shows the phase, the start countdown, who signed up, the prizes (credits, Ingots, items, per kill or for taking part) and your last results
- Exit event (if the event allows leaving early) moves you home; you lose your placement but keep per-kill prizes
- Prizes are delivered when you are online. While you are in an event, website actions that change your character in game are paused
In game, managed events use event: commands (type them in faction chat, or in the Server tab with s! in front):
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
event:list | Open events on this server |
event:info:<id> | Summary, time, prizes and players |
event:join:<id> / event:leave:<id> | Sign up / leave before the start |
event:status | Your sign-ups |
event:exit | Leave a running event at once |
event:help | All commands |
🎮 The in-game Events
⏸️ The in-game events below are deactivated for now. They are coming back soon! Until then, check the HWS Events page on HWS Connect for tournaments and managed events.
SV / HV / CV Deathmatch Events
Type: Get and keep an item until the end Event
These three events are pure PvP - 1 vs 1 - every 2 hours running. Both players get the same ship and loadout to be able to fight 20 minutes against each other.
To be declared as the winner, in the end, it is required to activate the Loot Crate in the Center of the Arena. After you triggered the Motion Sensor by foot, the Loot box will unlock after 5 minutes (plan ahead). Inside there is a Bomb Drone item, you need to keep in your inventory before the event ends. (do not drop it - you can't pick it up anymore)
Deathmatch Event Prize
- 100k credits
- 10 HWS HWS DNA
Tower Jumper Event
Type: Reach a Zone Event
Every Sunday you have the chance to win a lot of credits and HWS DNA in this PvE event in 15 minutes. All you have to do is to skill your Jetpack very smartly from Tower to Tower. You will find a lot of resources along the way too. Only if you reach the last Tower, you will be declared as the winner.
Tower Jumper Event Prize
- 7 million credits
- 100 HWS DNA
- 7000 Xeno Blocks
Quake Arena Event (FPS)
Type: Most kills Event
In this First Person Shooter event, you have to kill as many players as possible until the time runs out. Whoever has the most kills by then wins the Event!
Quake Arena Event Prize
- 1 million credits
- 50 HWS DNA
- 50k credits per kill
- Epic Armor
HL2 Arena Event (FPS)
Type: First that got 20 kills Event
In this First Person Shooter event, you have to kill as fast as possible 20 players within 15 minutes to win. Whoever has the most kills by then wins the Event!
HL2 Arena Event Prize
- 500k credits
- 70 HWS DNA
- 25k credits per kill
- Epic Armor
Eton Capture the Base Event
Type: Capture a base Event
Find the 4 Lever to get to the Core Room!
- You can join the event any time during that span but make sure to let the tool know you participate with the ev:start:ctb command.
- No CVs allowed on Eton.
- Solve the puzzle mentioned above.
- You have to check your surrounding carefully and use all legit options to conquer the Metropolis.
- Place your own core and protect the Core Room from intruders.
- Stay in the Core Room until the end to be the Winner.
- Everyone who is not in the faction which captured the base will then immediately warped out of Eton. Winners stay.
- The winner has now access to Eton for 20 hours and can farm the deposits of all resources.
- The planet can't be entered by anyone again.
HWS+
- Starts every day on EU at 7 PM - 8:30 PM | NA at 12 AM - 1 AM.
- At 5PM (EU) | 11PM (NA) EVERYTHING on the planet will be wiped to prepare for the next run.
HWS RE
- Start every Sunday on RE EU from 7 PM - 9 PM | RE NA from 4 AM - 6 AM (HWS RE).
- At 6PM EVERYTHING on the planet will be wiped to prepare for the next run.
Capture the Base Event Prize
- 7 million credits
- 100 HWS DNA
- 250k credits per kill
- Access to the planet which contains all resources as Deposit
Battle Royale Event
Type: Reach and Defend a Zone Event
- PvP Event with First Person Shooter and building HVs from scratch as focus
- Loot and gather over 200 POI Houses along the way as quickly as possible but especially: survive!
- No blueprint spawning allowed. You can only build an HV via Elite Builders League (by hand) - boosted by non-stop falling Meteorites and the POI Loot.
- Up to 100 Players will get teleported randomly on the planet with the barest survival loot as start
- The goal is to reach and contest the "Battle Royale Pyramid" (activate the levers outside to get inside)
- Stay in the marked red area at the very end to count as winner and defend this Pyramid with your life!
- The event is running weekly and you have 2 hours - from 8:00PM to 22PM EU, on Sundays, and 3AM to 5AM NA, on Mondays.
Battle Royale Event Prize
- 10 million credits
- 100k credits per player kill
- 100 HWS DNA