Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs

Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs was the eighth Egg Hunt event that started on April 4, 2017, and ended on April 24. In the years past, Roblox hosted Egg Drops in 2008 and 2010, the first Roblox Egg Hunt to be held in one place was the 2012 hunt, and the first Roblox Egg Hunt to be held in a game universe was the 2014 hunt. For this egg hunt, players will try to find eggs across different worlds. The players received a badge when an egg is found and the egg corresponding to the badge was also obtained as a wearable hat, however the event itself has ended so players will not be awarded any hats.

This Egg Hunt was sponsored by McDonald's Happy Meal. Unlike most of the other sponsored events, there was no related item, this was also the very first sponsor of a part of the Egg Hunt series and one of the first few events to receive positive feedback for a sponsored event.

About the game
The game was made by Elite Builders of Robloxia, a group owned by Ravenshield. The game features a few worlds, most of which use an egg-styled teleporter to access:


 * Stratosphere Outpost - The starting location. Set in the Earth's layer of atmosphere, the floating islands of this world have a steampunk-like theme.
 * 5 eggs can be obtained here.
 * World of Tomorrow - Set in the future, this world contains a large amount of technological advances. This location features a big metal tower, a large telescope and a rocket station. Additionally, most plants are replaced with mushrooms of different sizes, with most of the smaller ones glowing brightly.
 * 7 eggs can be obtained here.
 * Northern Antarctica - A frozen world. Supposedly set in the north Antarctic, it has a frozen lake, several ski lodges and a destroyed ship that holds the teleporter.
 * 6 eggs can be obtained here.
 * Arctic Battlegrounds - The only PvP map in the game. Set near Northern Antarctica, two teams - red and blue - pelt each other with snowballs.
 * A physical teleporter is not present here - instead a new GUI button teleports players back to the Stratosphere Outpost.
 * 1 egg can be obtained here.
 * The Timeless Desert - A desert world, mainly based around Ancient Egypt. It mainly has several temples located in various places, including a large pyramid.
 * 7 eggs can be obtained here.
 * Mount Ignis - A volcanic world, with instant kill lava found almost everywhere. A town named Pompeii is present too, devastated in a similar way to its namesake.
 * 7 eggs can be obtained here.
 * Abyssal Plain - An underwater world, with Atlantis and Bermuda-like themes. Most of the map requires use of a limited oxygen supply, which can be regenerated with air bubbles.
 * 7 eggs can be obtained here.
 * Shrine of the Eggs - The final location. This map mainly consists of an egg-shaped shrine with a large tree in the middle.
 * This map is only accessible from under the hatch at Stratosphere Outpost, which requires at least 40 eggs to open.
 * 1 egg can be obtained here.
 * Stratosphere Settlement - A bonus location. A darker, spookier version of the original Stratosphere Settlement, it requires exploration and problem-solving to unlock its teleporter.
 * No information will be revealed as to how to get here.
 * 1 egg can be obtained here.

Egg References

 * The EGG9000 is a reference to the computer HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, also the description is a reference to a movie dialog of this computer.
 * The Faster than Light Egg's description is a reference to the Back to the Future series.
 * The Martian Egghunter's description mentions the NASA Mars rovers Curiosity and Opportunity.
 * It also refers to the famous quote by Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut on the moon: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
 * The Martian Egghunter and Aqua Pal of Egglantis eggs are both references to DC Comics characters:
 * The Martian Egghunter's name is a reference to Martian Manhunter.
 * The Aqua Pal of Egglantis' name, description and appearance are all references to Aquaman.
 * The Pompeiian Egg is a reference to an ancient city of southern Italy southeast of Naples that was founded in the sixth or early fifth century. It was a Roman colony at BC 80 and was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
 * The Eggteen-Twelve Overture Egg is a reference to 1812 Overture. Overture means the instrumental introduction to an opera from French to English. It was written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to commemorate Russia's defence of its motherland against Napoleon's invading Grande Armée in 1812. The overture is best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes, and brass fanfare finale. The cannon fire may be why the egg requires you to shoot out of a cannon and the egg itself looks like a cannon.
 * The Answer Egg is a reference from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with 42 on the egg being the answer from a computer with the question being "What is the meaning of life?". You're required to wait 7.5 hours as the computer took 7.5 million years to answer. Also, that computer was called Deep Thought which is where the statue Shallow Thought got its name.
 * The Top of the World Egg's description mentions the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye.
 * Treasure Eggland's name is a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
 * The Peep-a-Boo Egg and Egg of Ra's descriptions are references to the Chicken or the Egg paradox.
 * The Eggverse's description is a reference to Star Trek.
 * The Snowman Egg's description is a reference to the popular Christmas carol White Christmas.
 * It is possible that the Ruby Egg is a reference to the Sonic The Hedgehog series as said in a Twitch livestream, the reference being the 7 rubies and 7 chaos emeralds.
 * The Amber Egg is a reference to Jurassic Park, in which scientists find a mosquito containing dinosaur DNA trapped in amber. The scientists then extracted the DNA from the mosquito, then combined it with the DNA of a frog/toad's, and supposedly brought dinosaurs back from extinction.
 * 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 thumb 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.
 * In The 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).
 * 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.
 * In Mount Ignis people will refer to Dark Souls and Skyrim.
 * The Tesla Egg is named after the scientist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), who invented the tesla coil.
 * Dr. Deville d'Egg's name is a play on devilled eggs, a dish usually consisting of hard-boiled eggs and additional ingredients.
 * The Egg-Bit is a pun on the term 8-bit; a term given to video games released in the Third Generation of Video Game Consoles, due to their primitive graphic and sprite design.
 * The Humpty Dumpty egg's description mentions its namesake poem, with Builderman filling in as the king.
 * The Lumineggscence's description references the song "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
 * The Frostbitten Egg's description references the song "Let it go" from the 2013 animated film Frozen.

Other Trivia

 * This is the first egg hunt to feature 40+ eggs.
 * This is the second egg hunt to have a trailer, after Egg Hunt 2013, and third if you count Egg Hunt 2014's teaser trailer.
 * 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.
 * Younite was the first person to finish Egg Hunt 2017, he later makes an appereance in Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales as a person you need to invite for the Treasured Egg Of Wonderland quest.
 * 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. This may have changed since an update made it more common.
 * This is the first egg hunt to be made by a group.
 * There were testers that played from roughly around March 11, 2017, to the release of the event. These users were carefully chosen and were asked not to share anything.
 * The majority of players were getting so irate due to the chances of getting the Tesla Egg and finding the Peep-A-Boo Egg that EBR ended up increasing the spawn rate for both.
 * The EBR Egg may have originally been called the "Developer Egg" when looking at the blog's "Developer Egg" and the current EBR Egg.
 * The EGG9000, The Egg-Bit and the Frostbitten Egg were retextures of previous eggs in the Egg Hunt 2013; the EGG9000 with the iEgg, the Frostbitten Egg with the Cataclysmic Egg.
 * During The Next Level on their "Day 2" stream for the 2017 egg hunt, it was said that majority of staff like to spend their time in one server to drop ROBLOX Eggs.
 * The Eggcano and Unstable Egg requires the use of a unique grappling rope ability - which is considered hard to use by many desktop players. The Unstable Egg, in particular, requires using them under pressure so it is considered extremely difficult to obtain.
 * Even though we knew the name of the villain this year, there was no boss battle or major encounter. However, in the Shrine of the Eggs, we can see Dr. Deville D'Egg and the wizard Alrune.
 * The aircraft in Stratosphere Outpost can be used to kill other players. This can be done by ramming the plane propeller-first into another player.
 * Even after you collect the crystal inside The Light Bass's vault during the EBR Egg quest, the bandits' dialogue won't change.
 * The Sands of Time Egg is a reference the figurative expression of sand in an hourglass (sand timer). This is supported by the egg sporting an hourglass within and that you play against time when attempting to get it.
 * Within 24 hours of the Egg Launcher being available for purchase, the ROBLOX Egg amazingly increased by 14.5% to 16.1%, from it previous 1.6%. This also made it the most common egg in the event.
 * McDonald's Happy Meal sponsored the event.
 * Because some players found riding the balloon hard, the EBR added seats to it. Evidence of the previously unseated balloon can be found in the McDonald's Happy Meal Egg Guide.
 * This egg hunt shattered the record of almost 40,000 players being in one game. Last year, the record was about 35,000 players.
 * The egg hunt reached 21 million visits.
 * The Egg Launcher was being sold for 10000 ROBUX as players were complaining and found it hard to collect the ROBLOX Egg. This allowed for the community to help each other further in this event.
 * Like 2016's egg hunt, this egg hunt remained open for visitors but you can no longer get the eggs for your avatar just badges.
 * This was the first egg hunt to have eggs that doesn't despawn when another player touches it. This was a big issue in the past egg hunts.
 * The Egg Hunt 2017 Thumbnail originally had a female robloxian holding an egg similar to The Basic Egg from Egg Hunt 2014, and is walking towards an egg similar to the Dragon Scale Egg from Egg Hunt 2018
 * The egg in the Robloxian girl's hand has since been removed but the Dragon Egg remains in the thumbnail.

Ready Player One

 * Many players have speculated that the Dominus Venari is hidden in this game. This was proven false when the Dominus Venari was found in Egg Hunt 2018.

Bugs

 * In The Timeless Desert, there was a glitch that even after trapping the mummy in the fire you still couldn't get the Mummy Egg sometimes. Eventually, it got fixed.
 * There is a rare chance that you can enter a server where you are only in it. The developers stated that the bug is fixed, but for some people, it is still showing.
 * When you are alone in Stratosphere Outpost, there is a possibility that you will be granted access to the Shrine of the Eggs no matter how many eggs are collected.
 * Sometimes the Peep-A-Boo Egg in Northern Antarctica wouldn't spawn, so players would either server-hop or spend hours just to obtain it. Since April 9, the spawn rate for Peep-A-Boo has been increased dramatically, thus making the Peep-A-Boo one of the most common eggs in the entire event.
 * The Tesla Egg used to disappear after one person obtained it. This has been no longer the case.
 * The GUI buttons sometimes don't function properly, only showing the server list and nothing else.
 * If you ride the balloon with other people, you'd look like the only person on the balloon while everyone else stayed stationary in the sky. This is just a visual glitch and on their screen the same thing is happening.

Links

 * [//web.archive.org/web/20170411193501/https://www.roblox.com/sponsored/EggHunt2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170411193501/https://www.roblox.com/sponsored/EggHunt2017]
 * [//blog.roblox.com/2017/03/2017-roblox-egg-hunt-game-coming-soon/ https://blog.roblox.com/2017/03/2017-roblox-egg-hunt-game-coming-soon/]
 * [//blog.roblox.com/2017/04/save-eggverse-2017-roblox-egg-hunt-game/ https://blog.roblox.com/2017/04/save-eggverse-2017-roblox-egg-hunt-game/]