Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs

The 2017 ROBLOX Easter Egg Hunt (titled The Lost Eggs) is a sponsored event and the eighth Egg Hunt event that started on April 4, 2017 and will end on April 17, 2017. In the years past, ROBLOX hosted Egg Drops in 2008 and 2010, and the first ROBLOX Egg Hunt to be held in one place was the 2012 hunt. For this egg hunt, players will try to find eggs across different worlds. The players will receive a badge when an egg is found and the egg corresponding to the badge will be obtained as a wearable hat as well. The official date of release for the annual event is April 4.

Promotion
On March 17, 2017, a blog post was posted on the official ROBLOX blog revealing detail about the upcoming event.

The article states that there are over 40 different eggs included in the egg hunt, and also features a teaser photo as well as 3 of the 40+ new eggs.

On March 31, 2017, ROBLOX announced during their Twitch live stream that the release date for the ROBLOX Easter Egg Hunt 2017 is set for April 4, 2017.

Following the stream, ROBLOX released a trailer for the Egg Hunt which shows us previews of each location of the map. The trailer also states to "Find the Eggs". "Save the tree" and "Save the Eggverse" which could hint at our main goals.

On April 4, 2017, a release date confirmation post was tweeted on the official ROBLOX Twitter.

On April 17, 2017, the egg hunt event ends. Blog was shared (you can find it on the ROBLOX's blog)

About the game
The game was made by "Elite Builders of Robloxia", a group owned by DieSoft. The game features a few worlds, including:
 * Stratosphere Outpost
 * This map is featured in the Earth's layer of atmosphere with floating islands,that has a city sitting on them.


 * World of Tomorrow
 * This map is featured in the future, when supposed technology exists.


 * Northern Antarctica
 * This map is featured in northern Antarctica. It is a world full of ice, houses, and a destroyed ship.


 * Timeless Desert
 * This map features a desert area that has pyramids and holes to secret areas.


 * Mount Ignis
 * This map is featured in the lost city of Pompeii. There is lava in lots of places, and holes of lava throughout the map.


 * Abyssal Plain
 * This map is featured underwater. While in the map, you have limited oxygen. When you run out, you start to lose health. To refill oxygen, find an area that is an air bubble.

Fabergé eggs
There is only one Fabergé egg for this year's egg hunt.

Trivia

 * This is the first egg hunt to feature 40+ eggs.
 * This is the very first egg hunt to feature its own trailer.
 * In Abyssal Plain near the big rusty submarine skeleton, there's a pineapple, an Easter egg island head, and a half-circle rock, referencing SpongeBob SquarePants.
 * In the place where you can get the Obsidian egg, there is a thumbs up sticking out of the lava. This is a reference to the ending of Terminator 2: Judgement Day in which the gives a thumbs up after sacrificing itself into molten metal.
 * Inside the bottom of World of Tomorrow's Tesla Tower is the companion cube from the Portal series.
 * The Egg9000 egg is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000, an AI with similar appearance to the egg itself.
 * In Timeless Desert, there is a comb in the sand. This is a reference to a scene in Spaceballs where dark helmet was ordered to comb the desert (which he took literally).
 * The Devs are hidden everywhere in the game, a specific spot is near the ravine where you go to get The Sands of Time. They are in a tiny crack in the wall near a campfire, each of them being talkable.
 * At the top of the volcano where you get the Eggcano, to the left there is a diamond pickaxe from the game Minecraft, sticking into the wall. This might be even a reference to a reference to the same game on the game Skyrim, where at the top of a mountain, a pickaxe is also found sticking in a wall.
 * Younite was the first person to finish Egg Hunt 2017.
 * The Tesla Egg can arguably be the hardest to obtain; due to the waiting time varying from short to long, if you exclude the ROBLOX egg.
 * The Power Core Egg's description is a reference to the Back to the Future series.