Egg Hunt 2016: An Eggcellent Adventure History

Egg Hunt 2016: An Eggcellent Adventure was Roblox's seventh annual Egg Hunt. It launched March 22, 2016, was built by community developer HawaiianSnowman, and by community accounts set a new concurrent-player record for the event, with more than 35,000 people hunting at the same time. For collectors it's one of the thinnest years in the whole series. RBX Invest's items database shows that exactly one of its roughly two dozen prize eggs, the Tabby Egg, ever became a Limited (an item Roblox no longer sells, with a fixed number of copies that players resell and trade) with a resale market.

Quick answer: Egg Hunt 2016 launched March 22, 2016, drew more than 35,000 concurrent players by community accounts, brought Fabergé eggs back with the Fabrainz Egg and the Rainberge Egg, and left exactly one tradeable Limited behind, the Tabby Egg.

What was Egg Hunt 2016: An Eggcellent Adventure? Roblox's seventh Egg Hunt, built by a community developer

The seventh annual Roblox Egg Hunt was built by HawaiianSnowman, a community developer. That continued a shift that had started the year before with Egg Hunt 2015's Dev Hunt. Before the full launch, Roblox opened the game as paid beta access for 450 Robux. That was a way to stress-test the map and catch bugs before opening it to everyone on March 22.

Players explored a single connected map split across a city, a farm, and a secret island, hunting down eggs hidden or spawned across all three zones. Finding an egg triggered a badge and added the matching item to your inventory, the same core loop the hunt series had used since its early years. Two other firsts are worth knowing. It was the first hunt since 2013 to keep everything on one consolidated map rather than splitting the hunt across the Roblox website or several linked places, and it was the first since 2014 to bring back Fabergé eggs at all.

Did Egg Hunt 2016 have Fabergé eggs? Yes, two of them, after a year without any

Fabergé eggs had anchored most hunts from 2010 through 2014 as the single hardest item to find each year, then sat out 2015 entirely. Egg Hunt 2016 revived the tradition with two: the Fabrainz Egg and the Rainberge Egg.

The Rainberge Egg worked the traditional way. It was a rare random spawn scattered around the map, and players simply had to stumble onto one. The Fabrainz Egg took a different approach. It was the first Fabergé egg built on a different mesh than the standard egg shape (the mesh is the 3D model an item is drawn with), and getting one took a server-wide effort. Players collected a potion from an in-game character to reveal pink shards hidden across the map, and the whole server had to gather 100 of them together before anyone could claim the egg.

Neither the Fabrainz Egg nor the Rainberge Egg appears in RBX Invest's items database today, so neither one carries live RAP or resale data on the site. (RAP is Recent Average Price, Roblox's running average of what an item has recently sold for.) For the broader story of how Fabergé eggs fit into Roblox's item history, see our Fabergé series deep dive.

Did Egg Hunt 2016 set a player record? More than 35,000 at once, by community accounts

Egg Hunt 2016 is remembered as much for its numbers as for its prizes. By community-tracked accounts, the game broke 35,000 concurrent players at its peak, well past the roughly 19,000 that Egg Hunt 2013 had reportedly drawn three years earlier. One caveat: Roblox's overall player base had grown a lot in that stretch, so some of that gain reflects a bigger platform rather than a uniquely popular hunt. It's still the record cited for the event specifically.

Which Egg Hunt 2016 items actually trade today? Only the Tabby Egg

This is where the hunt gets thin for anyone shopping for a piece of it. Checking every egg-named asset created around the event's March 2016 launch window turns up exactly one with Limited status:

In that table, Live RAP is the item's Recent Average Price right now, Copies is how many of the item exist, and Lowest Ask is the cheapest copy currently listed for sale.

Everything else in the batch is flagged as never having gone Limited: the Dicey Egg of Chance, Fiery Dreggon, Petrified Egg, Mean Eggstructor, Heat-Seeking Egg, Vanishing Ninja Egg, Normal Egg, Scribbled Egg, Cherry Nesting Egg, and Gooey Egg of Ew. That's ten named prizes with no resale market alongside a single one that does. It's a similar story to how Egg Hunt 2015 converted only one of its 22 items into a Limited, and a slightly better result than the total shutout that followed a year later.

How does 2016 fit the bigger Egg Hunt pattern? Right between 2015's one Limited and 2017's zero

Line up 2016 next to other years and it sits squarely inside a broader trend: fewer and fewer hunt prizes turning into tradeable Limiteds as the 2010s went on.

The 2016 row reflects assets RBX Invest could confirm as tied to the event's launch window; the two Fabergé eggs aren't tracked in our items database and aren't counted here. Figures for other years are drawn from RBX Invest's own published research on each hunt.

Read down the right column and the pattern is hard to miss. Early hunts turned nearly every egg into a Limited by default. By the mid-2010s that had stopped being automatic, and 2016 lands right where you'd expect, between 2015's single conversion and 2017's total shutout.

Why did so few Egg Hunt 2016 prizes become Limiteds? Most eggs had no scarcity to work with

Turning an item into a Limited has always depended on scarcity. You need a fixed, capped pool of winners small enough to support a resale market. Random-spawn Fabergé eggs and small badge-gated prizes can produce that kind of pool. A prize handed to every player who finishes a straightforward hunt objective usually can't, because there's no natural ceiling on how many end up in circulation.

Most of Egg Hunt 2016's named eggs read like standard hunt rewards tied to exploring the map rather than to a scarce, hard-to-repeat action. That lines up with why only the Tabby Egg picked up Limited status while the rest didn't. It's the same dynamic that later left Egg Hunt 2017 with zero Limiteds out of 42 prizes, just less extreme here.

A collector's outlook: one entry point, and it's an affordable one

If you're building a position around Egg Hunt history specifically, 2016 offers exactly one entry point today: the Tabby Egg. It's a low-RAP, high-float item (float means how many copies are out in circulation, so a high float means there are plenty of them), and it behaves more like an accessible piece of Roblox history than a scarce gem (a gem is a rare, high-value Limited). It won't move a portfolio on its own, but it's a genuine, dated artifact from a record-setting event at a price most beginner collectors can afford.

For a live, ranked view of every egg Limited that does carry a resale market across every hunt year, check the eggs collection page. If you track listings across several hunt years, you can also watch the deal feed for underpriced Tabby Egg asks, or screen it against pricier founding-era pieces on the items leaderboard.

The Limited status and price figures in this article come from RBX Invest's items database, the player counts are community-tracked accounts, and the counts for other hunt years come from RBX Invest's own published research on each hunt. This isn't financial advice, and an item's current lack of a resale market, as with the Fabrainz Egg and Rainberge Egg, doesn't guarantee that will never change if Roblox ever revisits the assets.

FAQ

What was Egg Hunt 2016: An Eggcellent Adventure?

It was Roblox's seventh annual Egg Hunt, built by community developer HawaiianSnowman and released March 22, 2016, after a period of paid beta access. Players hunted eggs across a single map covering a city, a farm, and a secret island.

Did Egg Hunt 2016 set a player record?

By community-tracked accounts, yes. The event reportedly drew more than 35,000 concurrent players at its peak, breaking the roughly 19,000 concurrent players attributed to Egg Hunt 2013. Part of that jump reflects Roblox's bigger player base by then.

Which Egg Hunt 2016 items are Limiteds today?

Only the Tabby Egg, based on RBX Invest's items database. Ten other named prizes from the event, including the Dicey Egg of Chance and Cherry Nesting Egg, are flagged as never having carried Limited status, and the hunt's two Fabergé eggs aren't tracked in the database at all.

What were the Fabergé eggs in Egg Hunt 2016?

The Fabrainz Egg and the Rainberge Egg. The Rainberge Egg was a rare random map spawn, while the Fabrainz Egg required a whole server to cooperatively collect 100 hidden shards, and it used a different mesh than any Fabergé egg before it.

How does Egg Hunt 2016 compare to other hunts for collectors?

It's a thin year. Only one of its identifiable prizes, the Tabby Egg, ever became a tradeable Limited, putting it closer to 2015's near shutout and 2017's total shutout than to the item-rich hunts of 2012 through 2014.

Did Egg Hunt 2016 cost Robux to play?

Not at full launch. Before the game opened to everyone on March 22, 2016, Roblox sold paid beta access for 450 Robux so early players could stress-test the map and help catch bugs.

Is the Tabby Egg worth buying?

It depends on what you want from it. The Tabby Egg is a low-RAP, high-float Limited, so it's an affordable, dated piece of Roblox history, and it won't move a portfolio on its own. This isn't financial advice.