Roblox Samurai Series History: The Stone Samurai

Roblox's samurai family is a group of 10 tradeable Limited items published between 2010 and 2018, plus a small set of ordinary catalog hats that never became tradeable. A Limited is an item Roblox has stopped selling, with a fixed supply that players then resell to each other. The rarest member by a wide margin is the Stone Samurai, at 110 copies and a RAP of 182,949 Robux, with its cheapest listing sitting at 1,200,000 Robux. Everything else in the line is far more reachable: eight of the ten carry a RAP under 11,000 Robux. The story starts before any of them, with a plain Samurai Helmet that Roblox put on sale in March 2009 and still sells today.

Quick answer: The Roblox samurai series has 10 tracked Limiteds. The Stone Samurai leads at a RAP of 182,949 Robux across 110 copies, followed by the Steampunk Samurai at 18,743 Robux across 305 copies, per RBX Invest catalog data as of September 3, 2026. Seven of the ten are Limited U releases, meaning every copy carries its own serial number.

The samurai line is a good one to learn on because it covers almost every way a classic item could enter the economy: normal catalog buys, serial-numbered drops with a fixed stock, a Walmart gift card, a recycling-themed promo, and a forgotten 175-Robux hat nobody noticed for ten years. You can screen the whole family live on the samurai items collection, and the wider category sits on the classic hats collection.

Every Roblox samurai Limited, ranked by RAP

Three numbers matter in the table below. RAP is Recent Average Price, Roblox's smoothed average of an item's sales, and it only moves one tenth of the way toward each new sale, so it lags behind the real market. Copies is how many exist. Lowest ask is the cheapest copy listed for sale right now.

The Type column separates two things people mix up. Limited U, short for Limited Unique, means Roblox sold a fixed run and stamped every copy with a serial number, so copy #1 and copy #900 are different objects to a collector. Plain Limited means a capped supply with no serials.

Item	RAP (R$)	Copies	Lowest ask (R$)	Type	Published
Stone Samurai	182,949	110	1,200,000	Limited	Aug 2012
Steampunk Samurai	18,743	305	62,152	Limited U	Jul 2010
Ocean Samurai	10,021	918	10,918	Limited U	Mar 2010
Golden Samurai Lord of the Fifth House	9,696	659	9,595	Limited U	Mar 2011
Emerald Crescent Samurai	3,766	1,146	4,554	Limited U	May 2011
Samurai 3000 AD	3,731	2,699	9,000	Limited U	Jan 2012
Watermelon Samurai	2,436	2,501	2,249	Limited U	Jun 2014
Recycling Samurai	2,253	1,815	2,500	Limited	Apr 2018
Cantaloupe Samurai	2,233	2,502	2,842	Limited U	Jul 2015
Brilliant Samurai	1,598	2,759	2,000	Limited	Apr 2014

Trader consensus on street value, meaning what people actually pay rather than what RAP says, ranks the family in the same order as the table above. Classic lines often disagree with their own RAP ordering, so a family that lines up cleanly is a sign the samurai market still trades often enough to keep its numbers honest.

Where did Roblox's samurai hats start? A 2009 helmet that never went Limited

The original is the Samurai Helmet, published by Roblox on March 6, 2009 at 337 Robux. It is a black helmet with gold trim, and its catalog description reads "A Samurai's word is stronger than metal." Roblox still sells it, which is precisely why it is not a Limited. An item with unlimited supply has no resale market, so it can never build a RAP or a floor.

Two other samurai hats sit in the same permanent-catalog bucket. The Horned Samurai of the Seventh House went up on March 25, 2011 at 225 Robux, and the Solitary Samurai followed on September 19, 2012 at 150 Robux. Both are still buyable from Roblox today. If you want the look without the price tag, those are your options, and they cost less than any Limited in the family.

Plenty of players assume an old Roblox hat must be valuable. Supply is what sets the price, and a 2009 hat that Roblox is still selling seventeen years later is worth its sticker price and nothing more.

Why is the Stone Samurai the rarest samurai Limited? 110 copies

The Stone Samurai is the family's gem, meaning a scarce, high-value Limited that traders hold for years rather than flip. It carries a RAP of 182,949 Robux across 110 copies, roughly ten times the next member on the list.

Its history explains the scarcity, and it is a strange one. Roblox published it on August 2, 2012 at 175 Robux, with the description "Hard as stone, fast as steel." That is a low price for a hat, and it was an ordinary catalog item. It quietly went off sale at some point afterward. The Roblox Wiki dates its conversion to Limited status to November 15, 2022, with 111 copies sold, and RBX Invest tracks 110 in circulation today.

So the supply was set by accident. Only about a hundred people ever bought a cheap hat in 2012, and a decade later Roblox turned that forgotten purchase count into a hard cap. We wrote about how that conversion works in offsale Roblox items going Limited, and the Stone Samurai is one of the cleanest examples of it on the platform.

Note the spread on it. A 1,200,000 Robux ask against a 182,949 RAP is more than six times. On an item with 110 copies that is normal, because RAP only updates when a sale happens, so it freezes for months while holders quietly raise their listings. Read both numbers as endpoints.

What are the Roblox samurai "Houses"? A three-week run in 2011

Roblox released two samurai hats named after numbered houses, three weeks apart in March 2011, and then never touched the idea again.

The Golden Samurai Lord of the Fifth House came first, on March 4, 2011 at 175 Robux, described as "The bravest of the samurai, he has earned the respect of all." It sold as a Limited U with 659 copies now tracked. The Horned Samurai of the Seventh House arrived on March 25 at 225 Robux with the line "Few survive a visit to the seventh house of the Samurai. Those that do belong to it forever." That one stayed an ordinary catalog item.

There is no first, second, third, fourth or sixth house. Roblox wrote lore for a hat family, released two entries, and moved on. That is the sort of detail that makes the 2011 catalog worth reading.

For collectors, the Golden Samurai Lord is one of the better-balanced buys in the line. It has 659 copies, a RAP of 9,696 Robux, and a lowest ask of 9,595, so the ask sits just below RAP. That is a market trading often enough to stay honest.

Which Roblox samurai items came from gift cards?

The Brilliant Samurai never had a Robux price. Roblox published it on April 1, 2014, and its description spells out how you got one: "He shines brilliantly just like his hat. Get this exclusive item when you redeem a $25 ROBLOX card from Walmart in April 2014." One month, one retailer, one card denomination.

Nobody could buy their way to a second copy with Robux. The cap was set by how many people walked into a Walmart, bought a $25 card and redeemed it in a single month, and the result is 2,759 copies, the largest supply in the family and the lowest RAP at 1,598 Robux. Gift card exclusives are scarce in principle and common in practice, because retail promotions reach a lot of people.

Its cousin shows what happens when the same promo does not end in a Limited. The Frozen Samurai went up on November 28, 2013 for a GAME card promotion in December, with the description "One must be cool and reasoned to be an effective samurai." It never became tradeable, so it has no RAP, no floor and no resale market.

Why do the Watermelon and Cantaloupe Samurai look alike?

Because they are the same hat in different colors. A mesh is the 3D shape of an item, and a retexture is a new paint job over an existing shape. The Roblox Wiki lists both the Watermelon Samurai and the Cantaloupe Samurai under mesh ID 160201467, so the 2015 melon is the 2014 melon with a new skin.

Both sold at 100 Robux as Limited U drops, the Watermelon on June 6, 2014 and the Cantaloupe on July 23, 2015. Both landed at almost exactly the same supply, 2,501 and 2,502 copies. Fourteen months apart, they now sit 203 Robux apart in RAP. When two items share a shape, a price and a supply, the market treats them as near-substitutes and their prices track each other closely.

The descriptions tell you this family has never taken itself seriously. The Watermelon Samurai reads "A man who can wear such a silly hat with no shame, is the boldest of them all." The Samurai 3000 AD, a robot version from January 2012 that sold for 10 Robux, went with "Future samurai are robots - who would have guessed? Oh right...everyone."

Is the Ocean Samurai a hat? No, it's the family's only gear Limited

Every other samurai on the list is a hat. The Ocean Samurai is gear, which on Roblox means an equippable tool rather than a piece of clothing. It is a melee weapon, published March 2010 at 150 Robux as a Limited U, and its description is the most poetic in the family: "The rolling ocean encounters no resistance."

RBX Invest tracks 918 copies today, below the 1,000 the Roblox Wiki records as its original stock. On items this old the number in circulation usually sits under the original run, so that gap is normal.

Gear Limiteds are usually cheaper than hats of comparable rarity, because far fewer players build an avatar around a tool. You can screen the category on the classic gear collection, and the blade-shaped side of it on the katanas collection. The Steampunk Samurai belongs to two families at once, and we covered its other half in the Steampunk series history.

What should a Roblox samurai collector actually watch?

Start with the gap between RAP and lowest ask, because it tells you how liquid an item is. The Golden Samurai Lord asks 9,595 against a 9,696 RAP, and the Watermelon Samurai asks 2,249 against 2,436. Those are healthy items where you can expect to buy and sell at a fair price.

Now compare the thin ones. The Steampunk Samurai asks 62,152 against an 18,743 RAP, and the Samurai 3000 AD asks 9,000 against 3,731. Where most of the supply sits in long-term inventories, sellers set aspirational prices and RAP stays stuck at the last real sale. The clearing price usually lands somewhere in between.

Then do the fee math before you plan any flip. Every item in this family was made by Roblox, so a resale carries the classic Limited marketplace fee of 30%, and the seller keeps 70% of the sale price. Buy a Watermelon Samurai at 2,249 Robux and you need to sell it near 3,213 just to break even, which is roughly 1.43 times your cost. On the cheap end of a family like this, that fee is most of your margin. You also need an active Roblox Plus subscription on your account to list a Limited for resale, though whoever buys it needs nothing.

Practical entry points: the Brilliant Samurai and the Cantaloupe Samurai are the cheapest tickets in and both have enough copies to actually trade. The Golden Samurai Lord is the mid-tier pick. The Stone Samurai is a hold for a seven-figure Robux budget. Watch for listings that fall below RAP on the Deals feed, which needs a signed-in account, and screen the classic market on the items leaderboard. If serials matter to you on the seven Limited U members, our guide to Roblox Limited serial numbers covers what a low serial is worth.

None of this is financial advice. Thin Limiteds can sit unsold for months, a stale RAP is not a promise of a sale price, and copy counts this small mean a single seller can move the whole market.

RAP, copy counts and lowest asks come from RBX Invest catalog data as of September 3, 2026; publish dates, original prices, Limited types and item descriptions were verified against Roblox's own catalog records, marketplace fee figures against Roblox's marketplace fees documentation, and mesh and conversion details come from the community-maintained Roblox Wiki.

FAQ

What is the rarest Roblox samurai item?

The Stone Samurai, with 110 copies tracked and a RAP of 182,949 Robux as of September 2026. It was an ordinary 175-Robux catalog hat published in August 2012 that barely sold, and the Roblox Wiki dates its conversion to Limited status to November 15, 2022, which locked that tiny purchase count in as permanent supply.

What was the first Roblox samurai hat?

The Samurai Helmet, published by Roblox on March 6, 2009 for 337 Robux. It is not a Limited and never has been, because Roblox still sells it today. Unlimited supply means no resale market, so an old catalog hat like this stays worth its sticker price.

How many Roblox samurai Limiteds are there?

Ten are tracked on RBX Invest: the Stone Samurai, Steampunk Samurai, Ocean Samurai, Golden Samurai Lord of the Fifth House, Emerald Crescent Samurai, Samurai 3000 AD, Watermelon Samurai, Recycling Samurai, Cantaloupe Samurai and Brilliant Samurai. Several more samurai-themed hats exist in the catalog but were never made tradeable.

Which samurai Limiteds have serial numbers?

Seven of the ten. The Steampunk Samurai, Ocean Samurai, Golden Samurai Lord of the Fifth House, Emerald Crescent Samurai, Samurai 3000 AD, Watermelon Samurai and Cantaloupe Samurai were all sold as Limited U, which stamps a serial on every copy. The Stone Samurai, Recycling Samurai and Brilliant Samurai are plain Limiteds with no serials.

What is the cheapest Roblox samurai Limited?

The Brilliant Samurai, at a RAP of 1,598 Robux with a lowest ask of 2,000 as of September 2026. It has the family's largest supply at 2,759 copies because it was given out through $25 Roblox gift cards sold at Walmart during April 2014, and retail promotions reach far more people than a timed drop does.

Why do the Watermelon and Cantaloupe Samurai look the same?

They share a 3D shape. The Roblox Wiki lists both under mesh ID 160201467, so the Cantaloupe Samurai from July 2015 is a retexture of the Watermelon Samurai from June 2014. Both sold at 100 Robux, both settled near 2,500 copies, and their prices have tracked each other closely ever since.

Is the Ocean Samurai a hat?

No. It is gear, which on Roblox means an equippable tool rather than a wearable accessory, and it is the only gear item in the samurai family. Roblox published it in March 2010 at 150 Robux as a Limited U, and 918 copies are tracked today against an original stock the Roblox Wiki puts at 1,000.

How much does Roblox take when you resell a samurai Limited?

Roblox takes a 30% marketplace fee on the resale of a classic Roblox-created Limited, leaving the seller 70% of the sale price. Every samurai Limited is Roblox-created, so break-even on a flip is about 1.43 times what you paid. You also need an active Roblox Plus subscription to list a Limited for resale.