Gear Friday Review: Easter Bunnies and Chickens

Happy Easter everybody! This week's gears were for the season of Easter. Although... I have no idea what chickens have to do with Easter (but Easter bunny gears are acceptable of course).
Update: I am told that CHICKENS LAY EGGS. Why didn't I think of that? I'm stupid. Wow. I am ashamed. Anyways, moving on to the gears.

This week we got 3, Wild Bunny Horde Attack, Bunneh Blade, and Crazy Chicken Bow. None of these were limited, and the two bunny items went off sale on Easter (4/20), and the chicken gear went off sale on the 21st. Anyways, time for the review.

Chicken of the Month: April

Time for CotM number 4! I really like this one, it was made by Gondwana and resembles the Royal Fabergé Egg from last year's egg hunt, which was made by nintendocpu. 

The Fab from last year is probably my favorite fab in last year's hunt, it's purple with yellow lines on it to make it look.. er, royal.

Enough with the Fabergé, this post is all about the CotM, which is a great chicken, but not the best so far (nothing has beaten the January Chicken so far, that one was great (ily TREVOR818730)).

ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2014: Save the Eggverse ~ Guide

THE EGG HUNT IS NOW CLOSED.
THE TIME HAS COME! The Egg Hunt is finally out! Aren't you guys so excited? Well if you decide to read this before you play, sorry, but your excitement will go away soon. The egg hunt is not great. What shall I start with? The Eggs? The Maps? The Gears? Anyways, if you need help finding a secret area in a map, or tips to find eggs, or if you're wondering whether or not to buy a gear, this is the article for you.

To search for a specific egg, use CTRL + F and then search the egg name.

The Map

Alright, the starting map of the universe is a giant terrain egg with others situated in the air around it. The spawn area has portals on it and Easter island statues around the portals. Each portal requires each egg from the past map (excluding Fabergés) to use it and go into that map. Around the main terrain egg are different eggs that are also used as "egg universes". There are 5 different places, each with their own eggs.

ROBLOX Egghunt 2014: What to expect II

Alrighty, now that April Fools and me being inactive and stuff is over, it's time to get into some more serious business. A few weeks ago, I posted this article going over some Egg Hunt related things. That was a few weeks ago. NOW, there are leaks. Yes, leaks. Leaks are things found when users use scripts to find meshes/textures of items that ROBLOX uploads, there's tons of them that are Egg Hunt related. Of course, I won't spoil too much on here, because some people like to be surprised.

Rival Egg Hunts: The Three Hunts of ROBLOXia

Hello everyone! CYNICALCHRIS here, and today, I thought I would write a little post about the upcoming Egg Hunts for 2014. These include my personal Egg Hunt, the official Roblox News egg hunt, and the Official ROBLOX Egg Hunt! Let's begin!

Roblox News Egg Hunt 2014: Retexturing Contest!

As many of you know, we are in the process of developing our annual Easter Egg Hunt which will span a number of maps and dozens of different eggs. As with every year, we are looking to outdo ourselves both in terms of scale, but also quality of the user experiences. However, while we are toiling away scripting eggs and building universes, we have little time to create the egg designs themselves!

This is where you come in! For our hunt we require a multitude of different egg designs to spruce things up and make sure that each egg feels and looks unique when compared to the next. We are looking for user submitted retextures to add to our count - with the best ones being selected to feature in our game with full credit given! We want you to be creative with your designs and produce work that is unlike any other eggs we have seen on ROBLOX. Simplicity is often the best course of action, so don't think that your retexture has to be complicated and detailed if the design/theme doesn't really warrant it. This set may provide some inspiration: 2014 Eggs.

How to enter:

Rules:
1. Any egg hat can be retextured - this means you can use the meshes from the 2013, 2012, 2010 and 2008 egg hunts. Do be aware that the basic egg mesh is the easiest to retexture and can often lead to the best results. There are a number of basic egg meshes from numerous years, I suggest you use this one as it is the simplest to retexture, and makes it easy to spot the oval area where the texture goes. Here is quick list of more eggsravagant ones you may want to retexture:

• Cataclysmic Egg 
• Fabergé Egg 
• Studio Egg 
• iEgg
• Sugar Egg 
• Vampire Egg 
• Outrageous Egg
• Scrambled Egg 
• Egg Fuse Bomb (can be turned into a hat) 

2. Recolours are permitted, but unless you have performed something really clever, they are unlikely to be chosen to feature in our hunt

3. You can send as many entries as you want - please try to keep them within one private message (it makes the collection process a lot easier). If you have a large amount of entries, it would be advisable to send  them as a set.

The requirements to enter this retexturing contest are simple:

1. Upload your creation as a ROBLOX model with 'egg' somewhere in the title. In the description, please insert the tag 'RN Egg Hunt 2014'. Make sure the model is freely available - this is important.

2. Copy the URL (link) of the model and private message it to Arbirator. I will be creating a set in order to store all of the egg entries

The winners will be announced  on April 6th 2014, so you have just under two weeks to complete your entries and send them in. Good luck to all contestants! I hope to see some fantastic designs!

-Arbirator
Editor of Roblox News 

The 2014 Roblox News Egg Hunt

Hello all,
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I am Josh (TechTeam911 on Roblox, previously zinc707), and I am the lead project designer + programmer + web developer for Arbirator's Roblox News. In my free time (When I'm not running my business & working in college), I love to create games on Roblox. I've been programming with Lua for over 6+ years now, and it's one of my favorite languages.

As many of you know, here at Arbirator's Roblox News, we always host a yearly Easter Egg Hunt event for the community to enjoy. Last year was the best egg hunt we've ever had (Over 30K visits, and tons of positive feedback), but of course, we always have to do better every year. That being said, on behalf of Arbirator's Roblox News, I am proud to introduce the Roblox News 2014 Egg Hunt.

This year is going to be one of the most sophisticated (And enjoyable) egg hunts that Arbirator's Roblox News has created.

Summary:

• Numerous universes where eggs rain down simultaneously (Universes are all connected to a central hub, pictured above).
• Central hub is used to teleport to other universes - hub is also used for socializing, purchasing items, viewing the leaderboards, and more.
• Universes are created by both Arbirator's Roblox News staff and the community (Will get into details later on about that.)
• Very few eggs are going to be recycled from last year to be reused this year, the majority of the content is going to be completely new and innovative.
• The egg hunt will be much more challenging than last year's egg hunt. That being said, certain universes will exclusively drop easy-to-get eggs for the people who are having difficulty with some of the other universes.)
• Each universe has exclusive eggs (Ie: Magma egg only drops in volcanic map, beach ball egg in beach map etc.)
• In place of game-passes, there will be currency packages.
• No, we're not going Candy-Crush on you guys, the currency purchases are completely optional.
• The two types of currency are as follows:
• Cash
• Gold
• Cash can be earned in-game through unlocking eggs.
• Gold can be earned only through currency purchases.
• Gold is completely optional, it's used to purchase certain assets that are locked for normal users.
• Buying in bulk gives bonus currency (Ie: 25% more cash if you buy y package vs. x package).
• Egg hunt should (Hopefully) be iOS compatible.
• That being said, there will be no eggs that are exclusive to iOS users.
• No eggs require you to pay for an item to unlock them, the items are purely optional.

So this year, we've decided to do something different. Instead of having just Arbirator's Roblox News builders do the maps this year, we've decided to reach out to the community for submissions. Yes, that's right - your map can be featured in the egg hunt this year!

Details for map submissions:

• Map submissions should be sent to RNEggHunt with the subject 'Egg hunt map submission'
• Maps must have a specific theme (Can't have water-theme in one area, and then volcanic-themed in another area.)
• Maps may not have hidden areas (Except without the explicit consent of RNEggHunt).
• All map submissions will not have scripts - if you want a specific effect to be added, talk to RNEggHunt about how it can be incorporated into your map.)
• Maps should be unique, free-model use is discouraged.
• Regular terrain is preferred over triangle-terrain.
• Maps should be medium to large in size.
• Deadline is April 10th.

If we like your map submission, we'll put it in the egg hunt for everyone to play! You will also receive credit for the map, and you will receive in-game currency as a reward (and possibly an extra prize).

We're also looking for egg property ideas, PM RNEggHunt with your ideas for the egg hunt.

More details to come soon :)

Screenshots of the hub (Created by Demjot), still waiting on map submissions.

ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2014: What to expect

GET READY EVERYBODY! The Egg Hunt is coming. Based on like 10 leaks I found, I'm going to be

predicting pretty much everything that there is to predict for the upcoming egg hunt, which has been confirmed to be released sometime this year on a recording of The Next Level, along with the Bloxcasts. Anyways, I'm just going to be addressing some questions that I'm sure all of you had. Nothing here is 100% verified, well, except for some things.

Gear Review: Badblox Hatchling

Today I decided to do a review on one of our items that came from the Egg of Duty (featuring in the 2013 Egg Hunt) called the Badblox Hatchling. Hatching onthe 4/4/2013, this item is extremely common, the egg of duty egg was awarded 194878 times; meaning that 194878 people own the gear.

For those of you who read my review about the duck gear, this is going to be déjà vu, the review will be very similar due to the fact that the scripts are exactly same. For those of you who missed my other review, I hope you enjoy this one!

Abilities: 7/10

This chick can’t do anything really…. It is useless in combat but it’s a gear designed for entertainment, causing no damage or destruction. When you click with the hatchling selected, seven Rambo chicks follow your every you move until your character is KO'd, then they disappear. When they are spawned, a marching sounds can be heard which I believe is a cute little addition.This gear has little purpose and is not a very good egg item. 

Appearance: 7/10

The texture consists of yellow fur and a green bandanna and war-paint. When you wear it on your avatar it just shows a little yellow chick in the avatar’s hand, appearing to quite small. This item is not bad at all, but it's not great. I personally liked the egg itself more than what it hatched into.

Value for money:  10/10

Some people were disappointed with what hatched from the Egg of Duty, others rejoiced in the news that had received a cute gear item. While the item is obviously not perfect, it was obtained from a free to collect egg hat and so I cannot complain about it's great value for money. 

Overall: 6/10

This gear is not a bad gear for a social item, but I wished a new script had been written for it, the recycling of the script makes the gear drop points in terms of originality. However, you cannot really argue with an item that was free in the first place - I just wished you could keep the original egg as well as the hatched item.

Thanks for reading this review, follow me on twitter for ROBLOX and RN updates @darkfish900

Article by darkfish900 and Arbirator.

Hat Review: Speech Bubble

Speech Bubble

This Speech Bubble hat hatched from the TL;DR Egg, an egg you could obtain from clicking an ad on the site during the 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt. It's a cartoon-style 3D Speech Bubble that floats next to your head. It's really plain and lacks detail, but there really isn't much detail you could put into something as simple as a speech bubble. 

Texture 8/10

The texture is simple, with the plain colour resembling a cartoon bubble found in a comic strip. The only problem I have with the texture is the shiny parts of the outline which are added to a lot of new ROBLOX items which are in my opinion, unneeded. These gives the impression that the speech bubble has been scratched or is worn in some way. Pure block colours like the classic Question Mark hat would have been more appropriate. An improvement to the texture would be adding text to the bubble - something like 'Noob' or 'Haxxor' would have added comical value to this hat. 

Mesh 9/10

While the mesh is simple in design, it resembles a speech bubble very well. With a sharp circular design and well placed comma it is perfect for all your comic book needs. The raised outline of the bubble is a nice finishing touch. The mesh of this hat is near perfect

Pricing 10/10

While it was a little harder for NBC players to find as they had to battle numerous offsite ads, it was pretty much a freebie to all. Can't complain about anything that is free!

Overall 9/10

With both a simple and effective mesh and texture, and being a freebie to obtain the Speech Bubble thoroughly deserves this high score. My only main complaint (which is unrelated to the hat's quality), is the fact that you do not keep the egg that the item hatches out of. This, in my opinion, is a far better way of pleasing players - if they don't like the egg they get an extra item to use, and equally if they don't like the hatched item they can wear the egg. Egg hatching occurring like Christmas gifts would be awesome. 

Post by Arbirator and Axelthehedgehog.

ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013 Guide!

Greetings fellow egg hoarders! Today I bring you a comprehensive eggsponential guide of every egg that is currently available within the ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013, which was beautifully crafted by the ROBLOX content team. The spawn areas, special abilities and tips to obtaining each egg will be detailed below along with important information about the map. (I promise - no more egg puns).

The Egg Hunt is a game published by the staff account named 'Games'; being joint-created by Tarabyte, Sorcus, Stickmasterluke and Brighteyes to name a few. The place has been visited a total of 1,367,732 times and has experienced 17,000 concurrent players making it easily the most popular ROBLOX event EVER. There are a total of 24 eggs that can currently be collected by players and all can be worn as hats. As of writing there are three unreleased badges which are all likely to be eggs that can be only be obtained on certain days of the hunt. These exclusive eggs will be added to the guide as the hunt progresses.

Egg Hunt Map

So without further ado, here is the ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013 guide: 
(use CTRL-F to find the specific egg you are looking for)

                     
                       Watermelon
This egg spawns in the grassland area very close to the ring of teleporters. It is a common egg with several appearing on the map at once and can be easily obtained with the player simply walking over it. Once the egg is collected, pieces of melon scatter around the player's feet - a juicy touch.

Gear Review: Faberge Egg Cloner

As most of you know already, ROBLOX's annual Egg Hunt has begun, which, of course, resulted in the usual mayhem that comes with large-scale events such as this one. To make your egg-hunting a tad easier, ROBLOX created three gear items specifically for this year's egg hunt, one of which we'll be looking at today. So, without further ado, let's get down to the review!

Abilities/Effects: The Faberge Cloner does exactly what it says on the tin. If you happen to be in one of the few servers in which a Fabergé Egg is present, there's a nearly 100% chance you'll get the egg, due to this gear's special ability. If anyone in the server finds the Fabergé Egg, and you own this item, you'll receive an exact copy of the egg yourself. Seeing as less than 1% of those who've played this year's egg hunt have a Fabergé Egg of any sort, I'd find that to be quite a useful little trick. 9/10.

Appearance: The Cloner itself is rather large, but it does sit in one's avatar's hands quite nicely. It's been made to resemble half of an easter egg, which fits. What appears to be some sort of high-tech scanning device resides where there would normally be the egg-yolk and egg-white, though I find that those colors clash with the brightly-colored back. 8/10.

Pricing: The Faberge Cloner hit the Catalog at a price of 1,000 ROBUX, making it the most expensive of the 2013 Egg Hunt-related items. However, seeing as once Fabergé Eggs go limited they sell for around 1,000 ROBUX alone, I can't say that having a cloner would be a horrible investment. This is assuming though, that one is able to locate servers with the Faberge Eggs which, by itself, is quite a difficult task. 7/10.

Overall: 8/10.

Thanks for reading, and be sure to follow me on twitter! @U98RBLX

Website-Egg Hunt Guide 2013

Greetings Egg Collectors!

My name is LOLFUNNY12345 and I have been building for Roblox News egg hunt. I have also been trying my hand at egg collecting in the official ROBLOX Game (Link to Game). Now, there are the normal eggs (the ones you find in-game) but there are also ones that aren't available in-game; ones you have to work for, ones you have to discover for yourself. If you hadn't guessed that's what I'm here for.

I shall explain how to get 9 website/studio egg hats:

1) The "Eggscrutiatingly Deviled Scripter" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Just enter "print(math.pi)" in command bar and hold enter to spam it till you get egg. I think it is based on lines pasted and the phrase shouldn't matter but this worked for me.















2) The "Eggcellent Builder" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Just publish a place to ROBLOX on your account.

3) The "Eggsultant Contributer" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Just publish a model to ROBLOX on your account.

4) The "Eggsplosion" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Just insert an explosion in a place in Roblox Studio.

5) The "Eggstreme Builder" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Insert the blue car from "Vehicles" in toolbox into your place.

6) "Yolk's on Us" - (Click For Hat Link)

- USES Roblox Studio 2013

Insert a part named 'Yolk' into a model named 'Egg'.

7) "The Easiest Egg" - (Click For Hat Link)

This really is simple click the egg in the "ROBLOX" image in the top left of your homepage.

8) The "Eggvertisement Egg" - (Click For Hat Link)

An advertisement should appear above the game page. Click it and you should receive it.

9) The "TL;DR Egg" - (Click For Hat Link)

This one should work. Instead of finding it on the forums use this link to gain it: Link

I hope this helps and remember, have fun hunting!

LOLFUNNY12345 - Roblox News Project Builder 

@roblox_tweeter

Roblox News Easter Contest: Eggcentric Retextures!

Greetings fellow egg hoarders of ROBLOXia! As you most of you are well aware, the ROBLOX team are hosting their (now) annual Easter Egg Hunt in which eggs fall from the sky in a set map and players scurry around the map to collect them to add to their inventories. In parallel to this fantastic event, Roblox News will also be running an Egg Hunt of our own! There will be a huge variety of eggs that drop in the map which will entail hours of enjoyment for fans and casual players alike.

That is where you come in! As of now, we have a selection of eggs we'd like to use in our hunt, but we would like a few more to add to our collection. The top entries in the Eggcellent Retextures contest will be be featured in the Roblox News Egg Hunt 2013 and will be scripted by our genius programmer: Zinc707! These eggs will drop in-game and will award badges to players who manage (without dying horribly) to obtain them.

The egg retextures can be of any theme or design, and you can use any egg mesh ever uploaded! Creativity is key in this contest as there are already hundreds of egg retextures previously made, and of course; dozens of official egg hats. Think outside the box with your entry, and try to produce something symbolises Easter - perhaps creating a classical, decorative egg such as the examples to the right. Eggs that represent Roblox News would also make an excellent addition to Easter Egg Hunt game - pictures of staff members or the RN logo would look great! The winning entries to our previous Easter contest can be found here.


If you'd like to enter the contest, simply:

1.) Create your retexture on ROBLOX and upload it as a model and give it a suiting title. If you are new retexturing, check out this helpful guide. In the model's description insert the tags: 'Eggcentric Retextures 2013', 'RN Egg Hunt Contest Entry'.

2.) Private message RNEggHunt on ROBLOX your entry. Title your message 'Eggcentric Retextures 2013' and include a link to your entry in the main message. You can send up to 3 entries, and can be sent in the same or different PMs.. The eggtastic entries will then all be added to this set for everyone to view!

3) From there they will be judged by myself (arbirator), and IBarrrageI. The top entries will be featured in the Roblox News Egg Hunt 2013, will receive a model trophy each, and finally will be featured on the blog for thousands to see!

The entry deadline is the 28th March 11:59 PM PST.

Thanks for reading, and good luck to all entrants!


-Arbirator
Editor of Roblox News

Community Article: Eggcognito Egg Hat Review

Hey there everyone, I hope you all enjoyed this years Egg Hunt!




General Info: This Egg could be obtained during the 2012 ROBLOX Egg Hunt. As you know all eggs have something special about them, This egg likes to copy people, You saw this egg all over the map but only one in the server was wearing 1 of the hats you were wearing, It was ranked as a "Comman" Egg.





Created: 4/5/2012

Updated: 2 days ago

Favorited: 219 times

Total Sold: 0

Genre: All Genres

Description:Find the Eggcognito egg when he is pretending you be you. He usually disguises himself with a hat that you are wearing along with a fake mustache and glasses.

(As of Friday 13th April 2012)

Mesh: The mesh is a normal perfectly shaped egg, The fake mustache and glasses add a great effect to the shape. 10/10

Texture: The texture of the egg looks great, Sadly the egg only has 1 colour but the mustache and the glasses help the egg look great. 9/10

How good it looks on your ROBLOXian: It looks great, The best thing to do with this egg is wear it with a different coloured egg (Stooge egg and the Eggcognito Egg) gives the effect of the Eggcognito Egg turning yellow, The Eggcognito Egg works well with ANY other egg due to the fact the glasses and the mustache add a great feature to your final look.

Overall: I would give this egg a well earned 9.5/10. The mesh and the texture work well together, Expecially the glasses and the mustache look excellent.




Link to the egg:http://www.roblox.com/Eggcognito-Egg-item?id=76692214




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Community Article by ToonTownBlox, thanks!

Community Article: The Eggcellent Shades Hat Review

Hey everyone, Here is a hat review!

General Info:

The Eggcellent Shades were a "Limited Unique" item, Meaning only a certain number are made, Once they have all been sold, The owners can sell them for a price of thier choice.









Created:4/6/2012 

Favorited: 222 times 

Genre:All Genres

 Total Sold: 600 

Price:1000R$ 

Description:You're a bit eggcentric, but somebunny is going to think that's eggciting. Okay that was a bad yolk. Omelettin' it slide.

 [As Of April 11th 2012]

 Mesh: The mesh is good, The shades are the same shape as the "Midnight Shades". These shades have a yellow background and pictures of some of the eggs from the 2010 egg hunt. On a player, they look reasonably good. 8/10

Texture: The texture is good, The picture is clear and the eggs look good. If I were to make a suggestion, don't put the same eggs on both lenses, Add different ones. 8/10 

Value for Money: Maybe, At the moment the shades are selling lower than thier original price, I would of sold for 750R$. 8/10 

Overall:The hat is good, Nearly perfect i would say a well earned 8/10.

Follow me on Twitter, Im @ToonTownRBLX 

Community Article by ToonTownBlox, thanks for the article!