Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales in Roblox History

Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales ran March 28 through April 20, 2018. It was Roblox's ninth annual Easter event, and the one built around a Steven Spielberg movie tie-in. The hunt shipped 45 prize eggs across a hub of themed worlds, and its finale doubled as the entry to a Ready Player One promotion that handed out a one-of-one Dominus. Today not a single one of its prizes trades on the marketplace, because none of them was ever made a Limited (an item Roblox no longer sells, with a fixed number of copies that players resell and trade).

Quick answer: Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales was Roblox's ninth Egg Hunt, ran March 28 to April 20, 2018, had 45 eggs, and tied into the Ready Player One film. Nothing from it is tradeable today, including the one-of-one Dominus Venari.

What was Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales? Roblox's ninth Egg Hunt, timed to a movie release

The Great Yolktales was announced on the Roblox Blog in early March 2018 and went live March 28, one day before Warner Bros. released Ready Player One in theaters. That timing wasn't an accident. Roblox had lined up a cross-promotion with the film, and the egg hunt's final stretch doubled as the entry point for a separate Ready Player One event running alongside it.

Counting from Roblox's first hunt in 2008 through 2017, with no official hunt in 2009 or 2011, Great Yolktales was the ninth Egg Hunt Roblox had run. It followed Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs and came a year before Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time, so it sits in the middle of the run of hub-based hunts (one purpose-built world holding all the eggs) that Roblox leaned on for most of the late 2010s.

The in-game story picked up a year after the defeat of a villain called Dr. Deville d'Egg. A new threat breaks loose, and you work through a device called the Eggcyclopedia alongside a companion named Booker to track it down across a set of new worlds. It's flavor text wrapped around a scavenger hunt, the same way most Egg Hunts frame their egg count, but it gave the 2018 hunt a stronger throughline than some of its neighbors.

The hunt originally carried an end date of April 11, 2018, but Roblox extended it, and the event ultimately ran through April 20.

How many eggs were in Egg Hunt 2018, and what kinds? 45, in four groups

Great Yolktales shipped 45 eggs total: 38 standard eggs found by exploring or completing quests, 2 Fabergé eggs continuing the Fabergé line's yearly cameo (that year's pair were named the Feathered Fabergégg and the Garbagé Egg), 4 treasured eggs, and one Eggmin, the small collectible egg pet that had become a recurring feature of the series by then. Finding each egg unlocked both a badge and a matching wearable hat for your avatar, the standard reward loop Roblox has used across nearly every hunt since the early 2010s.

If you follow the whole Egg franchise, Fabergé, treasured, and every hunt year at once, the full Eggs collection shows what's actually live on the marketplace today.

The standout among the 38 standard eggs was the Radio Egg, an old, battered metal radio styled as an egg. It matters for reasons beyond its look. It was the first egg in series history designed by a contest winner, credited to a community member who went by PartyMonsterToast. Roblox had opened a public design contest ahead of the hunt, and the Radio Egg's inclusion was the first time that process actually shipped in a live event.

The hunt also built in a genuine capstone. The Feathered Fabergégg, a golden egg decorated with feathers and the Roblox logo, was the last of the 45 to fall for most players. Reaching it meant first working through a large share of the other eggs, including the villain-themed Aymegg, then finding a hidden staircase down to the room where it sat.

What was the Ready Player One crossover? A one-of-one Dominus for a single winner

The most consequential part of Great Yolktales was its movie crossover. Roblox ran a companion Ready Player One event that used the egg hunt's world as its final stage. It sent players after three keys named for objects from the film before funneling the field into a last challenge. Roblox's own account promoted the stakes directly at the time: only one player on the entire platform would win the grand prize, while everyone else who finished the gauntlet still walked away with a consolation reward.

That grand prize was Dominus Venari, a single, one-of-one hat awarded to a player named r0cu. It's covered in more detail in our history of the Dominus series, and it's the rarest item in that eleven-strong family. It never went limited and was never made tradeable, so despite carrying the most famous name in Roblox trading, it has no resale market and never has. Everyone else who completed the Ready Player One challenge received Golden Wings of the Pathfinder, a shoulder accessory that also stayed off the resale market permanently.

Do any Egg Hunt 2018 items trade today? No, not one

No. Checking the hunt's identifiable prizes against Roblox's live economy comes back empty across the board.

Every one of these shows zero remaining supply and no RAP in our item database. (RAP is Recent Average Price, Roblox's running average of what an item has recently sold for. An item that never sells on the marketplace never gets one.) That puts Great Yolktales in the same bucket as Egg Hunt 2019, where no prize ever became a Limited, rather than Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G., where ten hats still carry live RAP six years later.

One warning if you go looking. If you come across catalog listings for a "Dominus Venari" or "Wings of the Pathfinder" with an actual RAP and hundreds or thousands of copies in circulation, those are separate UGC items (items made by community creators) that reuse the name. They are not the original 2018 prizes. The originals were never reissued and were never converted into tradeable Limiteds.

Why do some Egg Hunts leave a trading legacy and others don't? It's a prize-by-prize call

There's no fixed rule for which hunt years produce lasting Limiteds and which don't. It comes down to a case-by-case call Roblox makes on each prize: flag it as a Limited with a capped serial count (every copy gets a serial number, and the cap is how many copies will ever exist), or ship it as a normal catalog item and pull it once the event closes. Movie-tied promotional items, in particular, tend to land in the second bucket, since they're scoped tightly to a release window. Great Yolktales is a clean example. It was an event with real cultural weight at the time, cross-promoted with a major studio release, and yet nothing from it survives in the resale economy.

If you're building out a full collector's set across every hunt year rather than chasing tradeable value, 2018 is a dead end the same way 2019 was. What it does offer is a genuinely interesting historical footnote: the year Roblox's biggest annual event briefly shared a stage with a Steven Spielberg film, and the year the platform's single rarest Dominus was minted and immediately frozen out of circulation forever.

The event details in this article come from the Roblox Blog's early March 2018 announcement and Roblox's own account of the Ready Player One promotion. The tradeability check is RBX Invest's item database.

FAQ

What was Egg Hunt 2018 called?

Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales, Roblox's ninth annual Egg Hunt event. It ran from March 28 to April 20, 2018.

How many eggs were in Egg Hunt 2018?

45 total: 38 standard eggs, 2 Fabergé eggs (the Feathered Fabergégg and the Garbagé Egg), 4 treasured eggs, and one Eggmin. The Feathered Fabergégg was the finale egg, reachable only after working through most of the others.

What was the Ready Player One connection to Egg Hunt 2018?

Roblox ran a companion Ready Player One event timed to the film's March 29, 2018 theatrical release, using the egg hunt's world for its final stage. The sole winner received the one-of-one Dominus Venari; everyone else who finished received Golden Wings of the Pathfinder.

Can you still trade any Egg Hunt 2018 items?

No. Every identifiable prize from the event, including the Radio Egg, Eggmin 2018, Dominus Venari, and Golden Wings of the Pathfinder, shows zero remaining supply in Roblox's catalog today and has no active resale market.

What made the Radio Egg different from other eggs that year?

It was the first egg in the series' history designed by a public contest winner, credited to a community member known as PartyMonsterToast.

Who won Dominus Venari?

A player named r0cu. Roblox awarded exactly one Dominus Venari, to the single winner of the Ready Player One challenge, and it was never made tradeable, so it has never had a resale market.

Was Egg Hunt 2018 extended?

Yes. The hunt was originally due to end on April 11, 2018, but Roblox extended it and the event ran through April 20.