Welcome to the Hive blockchain!

As you may have noticed there are a lot of things that you will need to figure out in order to start using the blockchain so with that in mind I have put this Hive Survival Guide together to possibly help those trying to navigate how to do so.

It is worth noting that I will be updating this Survival Guide with the release of newer versions as I find new things that might be helpful and the platform continues to develop.

If you think that something should be included in this guide please leave a link to it in the comments of this post so that I can review it for addition in the next version.

If you want a good news feed for the Hive blockchain then I highly suggest subscribing to the Chain News Badge here:
https://peakd.com/b/badge-321321

If you need a history lesson on why there is a Hive blockchain then the following article provides a good summation of events:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/steem-community-resists-takeover-hard-fork-launches-hive-network

If you already have a Steem blockchain account and just want a quick crash course on how to login into Hive with your Steem credentials then read this:
I Have A Steemit Account: How Do I Switch to Hive?

A simple beginners guide for Hive can be found here:
@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs

If you are an absolute beginner then I recommend reading over the following guide so that you can gain some general understanding about the Hive blockchain:
@remotehorst23/hive-beginner-tutorial

There is also some really good information about Hive in the following two articles:

Hive Beginners Tips is a Community dedicated to helping new users:
/created/hive-198524

Beginner's Guide 11 Fatal Hive Mistakes To Avoid:
@sidwrites/11-hive-mistakes

I recommend keeping an eye on the Unofficial Hive Beginners FAQ as it gets updated with information. It is still a work in progress but looks promising.

A nice article about the use of Tags on Hive can be found here:
@innerhive/let-s-talk-tags

19 Ultimate Hive Tips For Brand New Users:
@sidwrites/hive-tips-for-new-users

Hive Video Tutorials:

Lesson 1 - Creating an Account & Signing in
Lesson 2 - Participating Successfully
Lesson 3 - Money Matters
Lesson 4 - Useful Tools & Features

PEAK FAQ PROJECT:

PEAK FAQ PROJECT Community:
created/hive-198327

Accounts, Sign In Options & Interfaces:

Personally I highly recommend using the https://peakd.com interface and logging in via one of the following methods:

Hivesigner
Hive Keychain For Chrome, Opera, or Brave
Hive Keychain For Firefox
Hive Keychain On Github For Manual Installation
PeakLock This Works Best For Mobile Browsers

Another good login and account creation option is eSteem for Mobile or Desktop:

Get Esteem for iPhone, iPad and Android, Windows, Mac and Linux

For more on Esteem read the Esteem FAQ 3.0

The official Hive sites are https://hive.blog and https://hive.io

Official Hive account creation portal with a list of ways to create an account:
https://signup.hive.io/

Create a Hive account via Blocktrades:
https://blocktrades.us/en/create-hive-account

Create a Hive account with Hiveonboard:
https://hiveonboard.com/

Invite people to join Hive:
@pharesim/announcing-hiveinvite

General Hive tips for PeakD:
@eddiespino/general-hive-tips-peakd-com

PeakD Community on Hive:
created/hive-163399

PeakD launch information:
@peakd/peakd-live

Download and installation instructions for the Hive Keychain from Github: @stoodkev/hive-keychain-1-8-4

How to use Hivesigner (Hive version of SteemConnect)
@good-karma/hivesigner-released-and-ready

Tutorial: Working with Hive Keychain and Steem Keychain.
@deniskj/tutorial-working-with-hive-keychain-and-steem-keychain

How to use the Steem Keychain with Hive by changing the api endpoint: @bitrocker2020/how-to-use-keychain-to-login-and-post-on-hive

How to view and change your Recovery Account:
@engrave/review-your-recovery-account-if-you-dont-want-to-lose-your-assets

Hive Account Recovery:
@netuoso/introducing-hive-account-recovery-hive-139531

Hive Account Recovery GUI:
@reazuliqbal/hive-account-recovery-gui

Trading/Managing HIVE, HBD & Tokens:

You can now give HIVE and HBD Tips via PeakD:
@peakd/tips-notifications-and-other-improvements

Hive wallets for multiple platforms can be found here:
https://hive.io/wallets/

Trade HIVE and HBD on the internal market:
https://wallet.hive.blog/market

Buy HIVE on BlockTrades: @blocktrades/blocktrades-adds-support-for-new-hive-cryptocurrency

How to buy and sell HIVE on the Ionomy exchange:
@timcliff/how-to-buy-and-sell-hive-tokens-using-the-ionomy-exchange

Tutorial: How to transfer HIVE to Bittrex | 将HIVE转移到Bittrex换:
@ace108/tutorial-moving-hive-to-bittrex-or-hive-bittrex-by-ace108

Tutorial: How to Remove & Make HivePower (HP) Delegations @eddiespino/tutorial-how-to-remove-hivepower-hp-delegations-also-useful-of-you-want-to-make-a-delegation

Hive-Engine is Steem-Engine for Hive but with more features:
https://hive-engine.com/

Convert EM and ENG to BEE or WORKER BEE tokens:
https://converter-api.hive-engine.com/convert/

Witness Related:

PeakD Witness page:
https://peakd.com/me/witnesses

Official Hive.Blog Witness page:
https://wallet.hive.blog/~witnesses

Detailed Witness information:
https://hivekings.com/witnesses

MTW Toolbox Witness information and tools:
https://toolbox.mintrawa.com/

Hive Tools:

I Love PeakD is a Chrome (Brave) web extension for those who love PeakD. This extension redirects various frontend articles to the peakd.com:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-love-peakd/nnjpaiehjlcdpajkbajkkdnepdafiiaa/related

I Love PeakD on Github:
https://github.com/selabie68/i-love-peakd

Esteem Search is a search engine for Hive:
https://search.esteem.app/

BeeMe is a Hive clone of SteemWorld:
https://beeme.icu/

HiveDesktop is a desktop application for the Hive blockchain:
@holger80/hivedesktop-a-new-desktop-app-for-accessing-hive

HiveDesktop installers for Linux, OSX and Windows on Github:
https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/releases

HiveBuzz is SteemitBoard for Hive:
@hivebuzz/hivebuzz-hive-gamification-experience

HIVE2VESTS converts HIVE to VESTS:
https://hive2vests.chitty.me/

Hive-Converter is for switching between blockchain sites:
@eminidi/switch-between-all-blockchain-sites-using-hive-converter

SteemRSS is now HiveRSS and how to use it: @torrey.blog/migration-announcement-steemrss-is-now-hiverss

HIVE Ticker Extension for GNOME desktop environment:
@engrave/hive-ticker-extension-for-gnome-desktop-environment

Hive-Now is a site for retrieving information and stats for a Hive account:
https://hive-now.com/

HiveStats track and manage a Hive account:
https://hivestats.io/

HE Explorer is a Hive-Engine blockexplorer:
@reazuliqbal/he-explorer-hive-engine-explorer

HE Explorer on Github:
https://github.com/CodeBull/HiveEngineExplorer

Hive.Vote is Steemauto for Hive:
https://hive.vote/

Tagbot is an upvote bot:
https://github.com/emre/tagbot

Hiveblocks is a Hive blockexplorer:
https://hiveblocks.com

Hive-db is a Hive blockexplorer:
https://hive-db.com/

HIVE WHAT is a Hive blockchain Search & Directory:
https://hivewhat.com/

Hive2csv makes it possible to download Hive blockchain data in .CSV format:
https://hive2csv.lightproject.me/

Engage is a Hive Community management tool:
https://engage.hivechain.app/

Jarvis is an automatization tool:
@therealwolf/jarvis-your-butler-on-hive

HiveURL is a URL link shortener for Hive and includes analytics:
https://hiveurl.com/

dBuzz is a microblogging service for Hive:
https://d.buzz/login

Anon Ramblings is a site to post anonymously to Hive:
https://anonramblings.com/

Hive Message for sending messages on Hive:
https://hivemessage.com/

Hive Images:

Official Hive brand assets (images) can be found here:
https://hive.io/brand/

Hive Image Kit:
@nateaguila/free-hive-badge-kit-and-other-ramblings

Hive Wallpapers for Desktop:
@doze/hive-wallpapers-for-desktop

Developer Resources:

Hive developer portal:
https://developers.hive.io/

HiveDevs Community
created/hive-139531

Hive Source Code on Github:
https://github.com/openhive-network/hive

A list of current Hive projects can be found here:
https://hiveprojects.io/

A public repo containg lots of Hive projects:
https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive

Hive Developer Portal Quickstart:
https://developers.hive.io/quickstart/

Hive Developer Portal Resources:
https://developers.hive.io/resources/#resources-overview

Hive dApps directory:
https://hivedapps.com/

Hivejs Tutorial: Introduction for beginners:
@pakgamer/hivejs-tutorials-introduction-or-or-for-beginners

Hive Javascript libraries:
@good-karma/javascript-libraries-are-ready-to-build-on-hive

HIVE compatible Steemfeed-JS:
@someguy123/steemfeed-js-v3-1-0-released-easier-to-use-and-now-hive-compatible

Beem is a python library for Hive that also includes the CLI tool beempy:
https://github.com/holgern/beem

Beem documentation page that also includes tutorials:
https://beem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Hivesigner Python Client:
@emrebeyler/powering-up-2

Hive Witness Essentials on Github:
https://github.com/therealwolf42/hive-witness-essentials

Lighthive is a light python client to interact with the Hive blockchain:
https://github.com/emre/lighthive

Hiveengine a python library for Hive-Engine:
@holger80/hiveengine-a-python-library-for-hive-engine-com

Hive-ruby is a Ruby API for the Hive blockchain:
https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-ruby

Hive-Ruby setup guide:
@inertia/ruby-client-for-hive-hive-ruby-1-0-0-pre-1

Go-Hive is a Hive library for Go:
https://git.sr.ht/~jrswab/go-hive

Hivescript is a script/json to keep app URL structure of all Hive apps: @good-karma/hivescript-for-canonical-links-and-seo

SuperHive is a PHP blog engine for embedding Hive posts on a website: @bambukah/superhive-is-alive-hive-139531

Gatsby is a static site generator for React:
https://github.com/codingdefined/hive-blog

Hive Message Server on Github:
https://github.com/ederaleng/hivemessage-server

Hive Message Client on Github:
https://github.com/ederaleng/hivemessage-web

Hive Games & Gaming:

Gamers Badge 0n PeakD where you can subscribe to a gaming feed of Badge holders:
https://peakd.com/b/badge-969696

EXODE Hive Game:
https://exodegame.com/

EXODE Wiki:
https://exodegame.com/wiki/doku.php

EXODE Getting Started Guide:
@jacobpeacock/exode-hive-game-getting-started-guide

Rising Star Hive Game:
https://www.risingstargame.com/

Rising Star Tutorial:
@risingstargame/rising-star-tutorial-how-to-play

Dcity Hive Game:
https://dcity.io

Dcity Information:
https://dcity.io/info

Qlabs Hive Game:
https://qlabs.online/

Qlabs Hive Blog:
@qlabs

BROcity Hive Game:
https://thebrocity.com/

BROcity Hive Blog:
@bro.city

Battle Games Hive Frontend:
https://www.battlegames.io/

Battle Games Hive Blog:
@battlegames

Angry Warlord Hive Game:
https://gemslab.io/

Dominuus domination Hive game:
https://dominuus.io/

Helpful Discord Channels:

The Official Hive Discord server can be found here:
https://discord.gg/xHKUjeC

The Official PeakD Discord server can be found here:
https://discord.gg/Fy3bca5

The Discord link for Palnet that never expires can be found here:
http://minnowpond.org/

The Beem developer Discord channel can be found here:
https://discord.gg/4HM592V

That is all for now!

Please keep in mind that the Hive blockchain and all its associated projects are new and there will undoubtedly be things to fix and stuff that does not work correctly as well as new features and new projects being developed. Give it time and please be patient with those developing the blockchain and the applications that run on it!

Cheers and Happy Hiving!

Previous Survival Guide Versions:

Hive Survival Guide Sixth Edition!