Roblox Developers' Journal

ROBLOXia has been hunting eggs like crazy for the past several days. Today is the last scheduled day of the egg hunt, but we are thinking about running it for an extra couple of days towards the end of this week. You can vote on whether the egg hunt should be extended or not as part of our Summer Egg Hunt Survey.

Now for some egg hunt stats. I’ve seen a lot of questions like this on the forums – “I just found a Red Faberge Egg! Is it RARE!?” (the answer is yes). The following is a table of the results of the egg hunt thus far. The right column “X in 10000” is the number of each egg one would expect to see if 10000 eggs spawned in your game at the same time. The variations in the Number Found between rarity classes is due to some eggs being harder to catch than others. For example, the Scenic Egg of the Clouds is common, but only survives at high altitudes, making it hard to find on most maps – as a result it is more rare than the Zombie egg, which is actually a “rare” egg.

	Number Found	Percent of Total	X in 10000
COMMON	861133	69.46%	6946
Red No Blue	166421	13.42%	1342
Bullet	78652	6.34%	634
Ugly	153666	12.39%	1239
Shy	125532	10.13%	1013
POW!	147461	11.89%	1189
Clouds	18736	1.51%	151
Fiery	118325	9.54%	954
Starry	52340	4.22%	422
UNCOMMON	314199	25.34%	2534
Gold	79894	6.44%	644
Day	64310	5.19%	519
Night	16384	1.32%	132
Rusty	62340	5.03%	503
Kaboom	45142	3.64%	364
Extinct	46129	3.72%	372
RARE	40007	3.23%	323
Zombie	25806	2.08%	208
Singularity	12298	0.99%	99
Crimson	1903	0.15%	15
Faberge	24450	1.97%	197
Blue	13131	1.06%	106
Red	6740	0.54%	54
Green	2827	0.23%	23
Pink	1159	0.09%	9
Hivemind	593	0.05%	5
TOTAL	1239789

- Telamon

We’re happy to announce a new way to buy stuff at ROBLOX! It’s called Boku PayMo and it’s a way for you to pay with your cell phone without the need for those pesky credit cards.

How does Boku PayMo work?  It’s simple. Just enter your cell phone number on the PayMo payment option, wait for a text, and reply ‘Y’ to collect your items! You can find the Boku PayMo option on our Buy ROBUX and 6 month Builders Club Membership payment pages.

*PayMo by Boku is currently limited to the US.  Products costing more than $29.99 are not purchasable with Boku PayMo.  Only users aged 13 or older may use Boku PayMo. Get parental assistance if you are under 13.

-njay

Happy weekend everybody! I’m really excited about the gear coming out soon, two of our items feature fire! If you haven’t heard, fire is a new feature we released, and works similar to the way smoke and sparkles work currently. I can’t wait to see what all you creative Robloxians do with it!

US Military Top Secret Experimental Jetpack- Reach all new heights with JetPack! Simply point the camera up to reach the heavens, or down to plant your feet back on the Earth. You can also move around while flying like you normally would (WASD keys). Be careful to watch your fuel gauge however, as you might fly too close to the Sun and run out of juice!

Epic Sauce – While on the topic of liquid, we have concocted a special sauce that only one word can describe: Epic. The Surgeon General of Robloxia does warn however that it may be too hot for some Robloxians, well actually all Robloxians.





Barrel O’ Monkeys – Free the Mad Maroon Monkeys from the Big Blue Barrel! Just don’t be around when they do get free, just trust me on that…

Talk about the gear in the forums.

-jeditkacheff

We know it’s important that every player feels safe. So with our new social features we’re also adding some new privacy features! The new privacy features affect four areas of the ROBLOX social scene:

• Chat – for website chat
• Party – for the new Party group chat feature coming
• Private Message – for private messages
• Follow – for the feature to follow friends into Games

To change your settings go to the Account section of your profile. At the bottom of the page you will see the Privacy Matrix! It’s not actually a matrix but that sounded kind of cool. You can set each feature to your most comfortable setting of privacy.

All of these settings are superseded by the Extra Privacy mode that is in place when a Parent Account changes it to that mode, or the account was created in <13 mode. Users with Extra Privacy On will not see these new privacy settings, and can not chat or send PMs.

We hope these new privacy features will help players find and play with their friends more easily! You can talk about this feature more on our forums!

-ReeseMcBlox

ROBLOX is eggcited to invite our users to Eggstravaganza 2010! Eggstravaganza is an exciting egg hunt that will be going on for the next couple of days – beginning at 3:00PM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 21st. At predetermined times – eggs will rain from the sky in every ROBLOX game. Once it starts raining eggs – the hunt is on! Get in game and start trying to get the eggs before other players do. Each type of egg behaves differently, so you’ll have to figure out how to earn each one.

Once you’ve captured an egg a message will pop up on screen to let you know that you’ve collected it. The egg will show up in your hat inventory and you’re free to wear it!

This year’s egg hunt is sponsored by our Builders Club Members. Builders Club is our premium subscription service – membership has all sorts of benefits, which you can read more about here. All new and current Builders Club members will receive a copy of the Egg Basket gear item, which allows the player to collect an unlimited number of different eggs. Free members are welcome to join in the fun. However, without the basket they can only carry 6 eggs in their online inventory.

Egg Drop Schedule

All times are Pacific Daylight Time (What time is it in PDT right now?)

Wednesday -

3:30 – 4:30 PM

Thursday -

10:00 – 11:00 AM

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Friday –

10:00 – 11:00 AM

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Monday -

10:00 – 11:00 AM

2:00 – 3:00 PM

These are the scheduled Egg Drop times. There will probably be drops at other times, but these are the only scheduled ones. Some players want to play games without explosive eggs raining death from above, and we respect that, which is the reason egg drops aren’t 24/7.

Egg Hunt Gear

You may find the following items useful in your hunt!

Egg Compass – Points you to the rarest egg in a level. Very helpful indeed.

Egg Magnet – The Egg Magnet makes you very attractive to metallic eggs. In fact if you get close enough to one, it may just come flying towards you!

Eggdentifier 2010 – The eggdentifier lets you know which kind of eggs are in a place and also lets you know how many of each kind there are.

Magic Bunny – The magic bunny helps you hop extra high to get those hard to reach eggs.

Bad Bunny – This bunny is evil! He drops explosive decoy eggs that will trick other hunters!

 

Keep and eye on the News Section for future Eggstravaganza updates, there will be some good ones!