Egg Hunt 2016: Eggcellent Adventure

The 2016 ROBLOX Easter Egg Hunt (titled Egg Hunt 2016: An Eggcellent Adventure) was the seventh annual Egg Hunt on ROBLOX. In the past years, 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 had to hunt for eggs within a map that contains several locations such as a city, a farm, and a secret island. The players would receive a badge when an egg was found and the egg corresponding to the badge will be obtained as well. As expressed within the hunt's description, the egg hunt revolves around a leap year that has magically distributed dynamic eggs with special abilities.

This is the first Egg Hunt since 2014 to feature Fabergé eggs and is also the first egg hunt since 2013 to feature one consolidated map to navigate upon. This is also the second time that a non-admin member of ROBLOX was the lead designer of an Egg Hunt, the first time was 2015. There were 26 total eggs, but you could only get 24 eggs because of the nesting eggs. Some people actually got all 26 because of a glitch during the beta testing. If you delete the nesting badge, you can get all the nesting eggs. This was later patched. This game also marked the beginning of eggs primarily based around "quests", with very few eggs truly spawning randomly. This theme has currently carried onward to 2017 as well as 2018 egg hunts.

The hunt was available as a BETA game with 450 ROBUX paid access. This was to test the game and fix any bugs before the official release on March 22, 2016.

As of April 4, 2016, players can no longer earn hats, however, the place is still active.

As of February 11, 2020, the creator HawaiianSnowman closed the game down to fix bugs, however, the game is now reopened.

About the game
The Egg Hunt 2016 map contains numerous unique locations to hunt for eggs. All major quadrants of the map contain a teleportation portal for easier access. The first main location that players are introduced with is a farm with harvest fields, a barn, and stables. Near the farm is a covered bridge that leads to "New Yolk City". In the opposite direction from the city and the farm is a large body of water and a docking area for boats where players can gain access to a secret island. This area also features an extensive underground mine for players to explore. If a player uses one of the boats, it will bring them to the secret island which features a graveyard and coliseum. The coliseum is the location of the dragon boss as well as the only area of the map to combat other players with swords.

Reception
Upon the announcement of the event, reviews of the event were generally positive, with users praising it for not being a developer-made event like its predecessor. However, some criticized some of the eggs for being too difficult to find or obtain, and for some of them being very rare. At the same time, users have criticized the event for the high amount of minor glitches and bugs that interrupted small portions of gameplay.

Trivia

 * This game shattered the 2013 Egg Hunt's record of 19,000 concurrent players with the new record being at least 35,000+ concurrent players.
 * This year's egg hunt's Nesting Eggs mark the first set of eggs where players have to choose which one you get and could not get more than 1 egg.
 * This game uses the music Darkest Child which is the same soundtrack from the 2013 Egg Hunt and the Ripull Minigames segment from the 2015 Egg Hunt.
 * This game also maintains the same "Stonehenge" and "Easter Island" theme from the 2013 Egg Hunt.
 * Egg Hunt 2016 marks the second egg hunt in a row to not be created by Roblox administrators.
 * The Egg Hunt 2016's challenges and eggs are somewhat harder to complete or obtain than the 2013 Egg Hunt.
 * The Rainberge spawned ingame every 6 hours, resulting into people fighting and racing to get the egg first.
 * All of the Eggs in the game (Except for The Rainberge, The Three Nesting Eggs, Egg Farmer and the Eggmins) are all based on original concepts for Masterbeyblade12/HawaiianSnowman's (Cancelled) Fanmade Game "The Quest for Eggcellence"
 * There were also several eggs that were going to be used, at least from the fanmade stage that never made it into the final product.
 * The Eggcellent Pearl's concept was used again for Egg Hunt 2017, but remained in its clam.
 * There are two references to Egg Hunt 2014:
 * Under the bridge, in a covered pipe underwater, is a hidden Malicious Minion.
 * A Drawing of the Egg of Destiny is in a building in the city map.