Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs Explained

Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs ran April 4 to April 24, 2017, and sent players after a FabergEgg stolen by the villain Dr. Deville d'Egg across dozens of Roblox worlds. It was built by the community team Elite Builders of Robloxia, and none of its 42 prize eggs ever became a tradeable Limited (an item Roblox no longer sells, with a fixed number of copies that players resell and trade). That's a clean break from the hunts before it and a preview of the direction Egg Hunts have taken ever since.

Quick answer: Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs was a three-week April 2017 hunt with 42 eggs and a detective storyline, and not one of those eggs ever got Limited status or a resale market. If you're looking for something from this year to buy or sell, there's nothing.

What was Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs? A three-week detective hunt built by Elite Builders of Robloxia

Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs was built by Elite Builders of Robloxia, the community development team (known as EBR) that Roblox brought in to construct that year's hunt world. The event ran for three weeks in April 2017 and cast players as investigators chasing a stolen artifact.

Roblox's own listing credits the build to the EBR team working under names including DieSoft, Ravenshield, Fractality, and Resonating, among others. That continued the practice of handing hunt construction to a rotating cast of external Roblox-affiliated builders. It's consistent with how the platform had run most hunts since 2012: a purpose-built hub world commissioned from outside developers. 2015's Dev Hunt had been the odd one out, scattered across existing games.

The hunt was also notable off the map. By community accounts, it carried Roblox's first branded sponsorship tied to an Egg Hunt, a McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in that showed up only on the event's landing page. That low-key approach reportedly went over well with players at the time, in contrast to how sponsored content is sometimes received on the platform today.

What was the story of Egg Hunt 2017? Hunting down the stolen FabergEgg

The Lost Eggs wrapped its egg-collecting in an actual plot. According to Roblox's own listing for the experience, players had to track down a FabergEgg that the antagonist Dr. Deville d'Egg had stolen, working through a mystery realm to get it back. Finding at least 40 of the hunt's eggs unlocked access to that final realm, and two additional bonus eggs were available through optional side missions, for 42 eggs in total spread across the hunt's collection of worlds.

That FabergEgg framing comes from the same Fabergé Egg family that anchored nearly every hunt from 2010 through 2014 as an ultra-rare random spawn, the single hardest item to find in a given year. Egg Hunt 2017 appears to be the point where that mechanic changed. Roblox built the entire hunt's story around recovering the FabergEgg and handed it out as the reward for finishing the event.

Why did none of the 42 eggs become Limiteds? A guaranteed reward has no scarcity

That shift matters more than it sounds. A random, low-odds spawn naturally produces a small, capped group of winners. That's exactly the kind of scarcity that makes an item worth turning into a Limited with a fixed supply and a resale market. A guaranteed reward for finishing an event doesn't work the same way. Every player who puts in the time gets one, so there's no natural ceiling on how many exist.

Checking RBX Invest's items database for anything catalogued around the hunt's April 2017 window turns up nothing. Not one of Egg Hunt 2017's 42 prize hats was ever flagged as a Limited or given a resale market. That's a sharper break than it might seem next to what came before it. Egg Hunt 2015, the "Dev Hunt," still managed to put one of its 22 items on the resale market despite a rough reception overall. Egg Hunt 2017 put zero of its 42 eggs there.

How does Egg Hunt 2017 compare to other hunts? It's the first year with zero Limiteds

Figures for years other than 2017 are drawn from RBX Invest's own published research on each hunt; the 2017 column is this run's items-database check.

Read top to bottom, the table traces a fairly steady retreat from Limiteds as the default outcome for hunt prizes. Early hunts converted almost every egg into a tradeable item. By the mid-2010s that ratio was already thinning out, and Egg Hunt 2017 is the first year the count hits zero outright. Egg Hunt 2020 partially reversed that with ten Limiteds, but those came from a completely different mechanic (a rotating roster of partner games each handing out a free hat).

Is there anything left to collect from Egg Hunt 2017? Not on the resale market

Not on the resale market. Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs is now a legacy experience. Roblox's own listing states plainly that egg hats are no longer awarded now that the event has closed, and there's no Limited status on any of the 42 prizes to buy or sell today. The place itself is still playable for anyone curious about the map and the Dr. Deville d'Egg storyline, but that's purely a nostalgia visit.

For a portfolio built around historical Egg Hunt exposure, this year is a gap. The eggs that do carry live RAP and resale data (RAP is Recent Average Price, Roblox's running average of what an item has recently sold for) sit in earlier and later hunts. Check the eggs collection page for the full live-ranked set of what's actually tradeable across every hunt year.

That said, the gap is worth knowing before you go looking. A trader who assumes every named egg from every hunt year eventually surfaces on the resale market will come up empty searching for anything from 2017. Time spent hunting for a "Lost Eggs" Limited that never existed is time better spent screening years that actually produced one.

The event details in this article come from Roblox's own listing for the experience and from community accounts. The Limited-status check is RBX Invest's items database, 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 event item's lack of a resale market today doesn't guarantee that status will never change.

FAQ

What was Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs about?

Players searched for a FabergEgg stolen by the villain Dr. Deville d'Egg, working through a mystery realm built by Elite Builders of Robloxia. Reaching the final realm required finding at least 40 of 42 total eggs, with two more available through optional bonus missions.

When did Egg Hunt 2017 run?

April 4 to April 24, 2017, a three-week run.

Are any Egg Hunt 2017 items tradeable today?

No. A check of RBX Invest's items database found none of the hunt's 42 prize hats ever carried Limited status or a resale market, unlike most Egg Hunts before it.

Why didn't any Egg Hunt 2017 eggs become Limiteds?

Earlier hunts used rare random spawns, the mechanic that created the scarcity that makes an item worth turning into a Limited. This hunt built its story around recovering the FabergEgg as a guaranteed reward for finishing the event. With every finisher getting the same prizes, there was no small winner pool left to cap into a resale market.

Was Egg Hunt 2017 sponsored?

By community accounts, yes. A McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in appeared on the event's landing page, without any in-game item or placement tied to it, and it was reportedly Roblox's first branded sponsorship attached to an Egg Hunt.

Who built Egg Hunt 2017?

Elite Builders of Robloxia, a community development team known as EBR. Roblox's own listing credits builders working under names including DieSoft, Ravenshield, Fractality, and Resonating, among others.

Can you still play Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs?

Yes, the place is still playable as a legacy experience, but Roblox's listing states that egg hats are no longer awarded now that the event has closed. Visiting it is purely a nostalgia trip.