User badge

For official Roblox badges, see Roblox badge.

An example of a badge.

Badges (also known as user badges or player badges to distinguish from Roblox badges) are items that serve the function of an achievement, and are generally obtained by visitors to a Roblox experience after fulfilling a certain developer-chosen requirement; for example, via in-experience progression, or by locating an Easter egg. As a result, it is not uncommon for users to intentionally seek out as many badges as possible, with many users creating "Badge Walks" where all the player has to do is walk down a line of badge givers usually and badges will be awarded. There are entire badge-hunting groups dedicated to finding these badges. Unlike Roblox badges, which have their own exclusive section on profiles, users can remove player badges from their profile.

Rarity

Badges have a rarity value that is influenced by the ratio of the number of users in the past 24 hours to achieve the badge to the total number of players that have joined the experience within the same timespan; for example, if 99,900 of 100,000 daily visitors receive a badge, its difficulty will likely be Freebie (99.9%), while if only 100 players get a badge in the same experience, its difficulty will appear as Impossible (0.1%).

Badge rarities

Name of difficulty	Percentage
Freebie	100% to 90%
Cake Walk	89.9% to 80%
Easy	79.9% to 50%
Moderate	49.9% to 30%
Challenging	29.9% to 20%
Hard	19.9% to 10%
Extreme	9.9% to 5%
Insane	4.9% to 1%
Impossible	0.9% to 0%

Criticism

Player badges were widely criticized due to their creation cost of 100 Robux, and also because badges created under group experiences required payment through group funds, with no option for the badge creator to use their own funds. Because of this, badge creation was made free on February 24, 2022, allowing users to create 5 free badges every 24 hours, thereinafter costing 100 Robux per creation.

Creating a badge

A template used for creating image of a badge. The shaded part will be trimmed and have anti-aliasing in the final image.

Users can create their own badge for an experience they have development permission to by uploading an image, typing in the badge name and description, and creating the badge. Images for badges are circular, so the outside of the circle will be trimmed in the final image. Where the badges are created can be found by opening up Roblox Studio, loading a place, opening the Roblox Studio Explorer, right-clicking on Badges, and then selecting Create Badge. Alternatively, this can be found on the website by clicking on Create and then Badges.

Scripts

This code will award a player of specified ID a badge of a specified ID. The user must be present in the game for it to work.

--!strict
local BadgeService: BadgeService = game:GetService("BadgeService")

local badgeId: number = 14417332 -- John, Loved of Muses
local userId: number = 18573528 -- tazgurl400

BadgeService:AwardBadge(userId, badgeId)

Additionally, this code uses the UserHasBadgeAsync function which returns whether the user has a badge of a specified ID:

--!strict
local BadgeService: BadgeService = game:GetService("BadgeService")

local badgeId: number = 14417332 -- John, Loved of Muses
local userId: number = 18573528 -- tazgurl400

print(BadgeService:UserHasBadgeAsync(userId, badgeId))

Badges can be manually awarded through most trusted "admin command" models, such as Kohl's Admin Infinite (in that case, the command would be :badge (player) (badge ID)).

Limitations

• The awarded badge must belong to the current experience.
• Badges can only be awarded once per user, unless that user has deleted the badge.
• There is a rate limit of badges, so only a certain amount of badges can be awarded per server per minute.

Badge Givers

Until 2018, uploading a badge would result in its creator having automatically received a badge giver in the form of a model, which corresponded to the created badge. The naming scheme for these badge givers followed the format "Badge Giver for BadgeName: PlaceName" (excluding quotes). This model is given a default name of "BadgeAwarder" of which comprises a single child, a part instance, itself given a default name of "Platform". This part is similar in shape and size to that of a SpawnLocation and all of its six surfaces are welds. Within the single part instance are three children, an intvalue instance, a decal instance & finally a script instance. The intvalue instance named "BadgeID" simply stored the ID of the badge itself. The decal instance named "Decal" was the icon of the badge itself & finally the script instance named "BadgeAwarderScript" would allow for the badge to be awarded to visitors that touched the part instance of which the script was parented to.

The purpose of this convention was likely to make it easier for users less familiar with the programming language (Lua) and the platform itself (Roblox) to be able to award badges by simply inserting the badge giver model into their place.

History

• 2009 - Badges are introduced.
• 2010 - Badges get a new design.
• 2011 - Badges no longer play "victory.wav" when earned.
• 2012 - Players earning badges is no longer announced in-game via a message in chat.
• 2017 - Badges can now be awarded by any place in the experience, and badges no longer require Builders Club to create.
• 2018 – Badge comments are disabled due to scams and bots. Badge givers are no longer awarded to one's inventory of which corresponded to the created badge.
• 2022 – On the Roblox Developer Forum, the free creation of badges is announced. Starting February 24, users can create five badges a day for free, for each of the experiences. Badges created after the fifth within a 24-hour period will cost the original price of 100 Robux each.

Top 10 experiences with the most badges

1. Information accurate as of March 9th, 2024.

Top 10 places with the most badges

Rank	Experience Name & Link	Creator	Number of Badges	Robux Spent on Badges
1	Manner's Badge Walk	unmannerliness	30,070	3,000,000
2	🎖️12,003 Badge Walk🎖️	Reginald	12,015	1,201,000
3	BathStory's Badge Walk!	BathStory	4,612	461,200
4	NEW BAN BADGE WALK	banndecool	3,808	248,000
5	Hotel Badge walk	Da_NormalGuy	3,728	25,300
6	Paws's Badge Walk	Pawsromanul10	3,035	6,300
7	Bryson's Badge Walk!	PreBryson	3,007	300,700
8	Manner's Game Hub	unmannerliness	2,871	264,700
9	🏅Free Badges	ShadowOblivionX	2,839	283,900
10	Game 1	Pumpkin Storage	2,715	0

Trivia

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• As of November 5, 2023, the record for the most legitimately earned badges is held by tazgurl400 with over 3,500,000 badges. ikfalse has 9,986,385 badges, however they were obtained using third-party tools.
• As of January 1, 2023, the most obtained badge on Roblox is You played! from the game The Floor is LAVA.
• The first user-created badge is John, Loved of Muses uploaded by Shedletsky on August 12, 2009, which can be earned at Sword Fights on the Heights IV by locating a signature within the experience.
• For events officially coordinated by Roblox, earning badges can sometimes come with the additional bonus of receiving a real marketplace item which can then be worn.
• When badges were first conceptualized, they were going to be a complete customized mesh as opposed to a circle-cropped image of whatever the badge's creator had specified as the icon. The originally planned mesh scheme for badges seems to have been designed in a way, such that it could easily be retextured by the badge's creator. It seems that this mesh was either a gear that any player could equip and show to others or a hat that could be worn by the player, this is however yet to be confirmed.^{⁠[citation needed]}
• It was once possible when a badge is created, for its specified icon to be cropped as a square image instead of a circle image. During August 2021, a method has been found to create badges with square icons. This method has been patched as of November 27th, 2023 when badge creation was moved to being exclusively on the Creator Hub dashboard.
• Even though badges had their comment sections removed in 2018 in an effort by Roblox to reduce spam, their badge giver counterparts would still have their comment sections enabled by default, unless otherwise disabled by the creator of the badge.