Egg Hunt 2015: Roblox's Controversial Dev Hunt

Egg Hunt 2015 ran March 23 to April 5, 2015, and broke from every hunt before it: instead of a dedicated hub world, Roblox scattered its 22 eggs across three existing games, Ripull Minigames, Super Bomb Survival, and Twisted Murderer. Players and press nicknamed it "Dev Hunt" for the switch, and most of its prizes never became tradeable at all. Only a handful of Egg Hunt 2015 items show up in the collections eggs page today with real resale data behind them.

What Was Egg Hunt 2015?

Egg Hunt 2015 was Roblox's sixth annual Egg Hunt, following the earlier hunts in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Roblox administrator BrightEyes announced the event on social media in March 2015, and a follow-up blog post on March 20, 2015 laid out the format: instead of one purpose-built hunt world, eggs would be hidden inside three community-made games that were already popular on the platform.

Players had until April 5, 2015 to track down all 22 eggs, 21 standard eggs plus a single "eggmin," split across the three games. That egg count was a record low at the time, coming in under even the 2010 hunt.

Why Did Roblox Move the Hunt Into Developer Games?

Every hunt before 2015 lived in its own contained world built for the event. Egg Hunt 2015 flipped that model: eggs were placed directly inside Ripull Minigames, Super Bomb Survival, and Twisted Murderer, three RBXDev-affiliated titles that ran their normal gameplay loops around the hunt. Each game held five eggs found only there, while six eggs appeared across all three, adding up to the 21 standard eggs plus the eggmin.

To help players keep track, Roblox sold a 15 Robux gear called The Gigantic Tome of Eggs starting March 23, 2015, the same day the hunt opened. It was meant to show players which games held which eggs, but players quickly reported it as buggy, and after the event ended it stopped functioning as a guide altogether.

The community shorthand "Dev Hunt" (also written "DevHunt 2015") stuck because the whole event ran inside RBXDev member games rather than an official Roblox-built world, a first for the series.

Why Was Egg Hunt 2015 So Controversial?

Three things drove the backlash. First, the record-low 22-egg count felt thin next to the sprawling worlds of 2013 and 2014. Second, the Gigantic Tome of Eggs bugs left players without a reliable way to find eggs they'd paid Robux to help track down. Third, and most cited by players at the time, was the Phantom of the Egg: an egg locked behind a chain of luck-based conditions, it only spawned on a specific map that rotated in randomly, required the player to score a kill, and even then only had roughly a 4% chance of dropping. Community consensus at the time treated Phantom of the Egg as needlessly punishing, even by the standards of a franchise built on hard-to-find grails.

At launch, Egg Hunt 2015 drew some of the roughest reception in the series' history, in the same conversation as 2014's bug-plagued debut and later hunts in 2019 and 2020. Unlike 2014, which players eventually came back around on for its story and scope, 2015's developer-games format never returned in later years.

Which Egg Hunt 2015 Items Can You Actually Trade Today?

This is where Egg Hunt 2015 diverges hardest from the hunts before it. Even hunts with a slower conversion rate, like 2013's 34-egg lineup, still put a third of their prizes on the resale market. Egg Hunt 2015 didn't. Live data pulled from our items database as of this run shows the great majority of the hunt's catalog entries are still flagged as non-Limited, meaning they were never given a copy cap or opened to resale.

Egg Crazed is the only Egg Hunt 2015 item with a genuinely active resale market: it went Limited with a 2,000-copy cap, launched around 50 Robux, and now carries a live RAP near 4,579 with asks starting close to that number. Eggstermination Slingshot did get flagged as a Limited item type in our database, but it has favorited well over 8,000 accounts and shows no recorded resale sales, so treat its Limited status as technical rather than functional; there simply isn't a real market to check a price against.

The rest of the table, including the eight hat and accessory eggs found across Ripull Minigames, Super Bomb Survival, and Twisted Murderer, were handed out as ordinary catalog items with no copy limit and no resale path. Phantom of the Egg, despite being the event's most talked-about prize, isn't in our tracked catalog at all, which lines up with it never being opened to trading. If you're screening old egg hunt gear on the items leaderboard expecting a full 2015 lineup, you won't find one; there's just not much of a Limiteds market left from this particular hunt.

How Egg Hunt 2015 Compares to Other Hunts

That last column is the real takeaway for collectors. Every hunt before 2015 carried at least a third of its eggs into the resale economy, and most carried nearly all of them. Egg Hunt 2015's single tradeable item, out of 22, is a different order of magnitude, and it's the clearest reminder that not every Roblox event item was built to become a collectible.

A Collector's Outlook

If you're building a position around historic Roblox events, Egg Hunt 2015 is a thin hunting ground. Egg Crazed is the only piece with a functioning market, and at a 2,000-copy supply it's nowhere near the scarcity of the grails that came out of earlier hunts. Eggstermination Slingshot is worth watching only if you think Roblox might one day open resale on it; right now there's no floor to buy against. Everything else in the 2015 lineup sits outside the trading economy entirely, so don't expect to find them on the deal feed or list one through the Reseller Terminal.

This isn't financial advice. Roblox item values move on supply, demand, and platform decisions that can change without warning, and a non-Limited item staying non-Limited is never guaranteed.

FAQ

What was Egg Hunt 2015 in Roblox?

Egg Hunt 2015 was Roblox's sixth annual Egg Hunt, running March 23 to April 5, 2015. Instead of a dedicated hub world, its 22 eggs were split across three existing games: Ripull Minigames, Super Bomb Survival, and Twisted Murderer.

Why is Egg Hunt 2015 called "Dev Hunt"?

Players nicknamed it "Dev Hunt" (or "DevHunt 2015") because it was the first Egg Hunt held entirely inside RBXDev member games rather than a world Roblox built specifically for the event.

Are any Egg Hunt 2015 items still tradeable?

Yes, but barely. Egg Crazed is the only Egg Hunt 2015 item with an active resale market, currently carrying a live RAP near 4,579 across a 2,000-copy supply. Eggstermination Slingshot is technically flagged as Limited but has no recorded sales, and the rest of the hunt's items never went Limited at all.

Why was Egg Hunt 2015 controversial?

Players criticized its record-low 22-egg count, bugs in the 15 Robux Gigantic Tome of Eggs gear meant to help track eggs, and the Phantom of the Egg, an egg gated behind a rotating map, a kill requirement, and roughly a 4% drop chance.

Did Roblox keep the developer-games format for later Egg Hunts?

No. While later hunts have experimented with their own formats, none repeated the exact 2015 approach of hosting the entire hunt across pre-existing developer games rather than a hub built for the event.