Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs

The 2017 ROBLOX Easter Egg Hunt (titled The Lost Eggs) is 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.

This egg hunt shattered the record of almost 40.000 players being in 1 game. Last year, the record was about 31.000 players. But one time Clash Royale Tycoon 2 was the most popular game for a few minutes. But Clash Royale Tycoon 2 got deleted for an unknown reason.

This Egg Hunt is sponsored by McDonald's Happy Meal. Unlike the other sponsored events, there is no related item.

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.


 * Arctic Battlegrounds
 * This map is featured in a setting alike to Northern Antarctica. Two teams; red and blue, fight each other using snowballs. You can achieve one egg only from this place, the SnowSpheroid Egg.


 * Shrine of the Eggs
 * This map is unlocked when you have collected at least 40 eggs. To go here, go through the hatch near the Hot air balloons in the Stratosphere Outpost. Only one egg can be awarded here, The FabergEgg.

Aside from the main worlds, this game also features a map that is used for bonus missions.
 * Stratosphere Settlement
 * This map is a darker, much spooky version of the real thing. Only one egg can be rewared here, the EBR Egg.

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 T-800 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 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).
 * 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 talk-able.
 * 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 Faster Than Light Egg's description is a reference to the Back to the Future series.
 * The Martian Egghunter is a reference to Martian Manhunter a DC Comics character
 * 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.
 * Quite a few players were getting so annoyed / angry due to the chances of getting the Tesla Egg and finding the Peep-A-Boo Egg that EBR increased the spawn rate for both.
 * 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 EBR Egg may have originally been called the "Developer Egg" when looking at the blog's "Developer Egg" and the current EBR Egg.
 * The Top Of The World Egg's description mentions the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye.
 * The EGG9000 and the Frostbitten Egg were retextures of previous eggs in the Egg Hunt 2013, the EGG9000 with the iEgg, while 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.
 * 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 a robot with a wizard, and we can assume one of them is Dr. Deville d'Egg.
 * In the Timeless Dessert map 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.
 * It is possible that the ruby egg is a reference to the Sonic The Hedgehog games as said in a twitch livestream. The reference being the 7 rubies and 7 chaos emeralds.