Gaming How-To

Search For The Needle: How to Redeem the ALIEN Code and Use Alien Chests

The one live code hands over 200 Gems and 200 Alien Coins, enough to start rolling the limited-time Alien Chest.

The one live code hands over 200 Gems and 200 Alien Coins, enough to start rolling the limited-time Alien Chest.

Garage Games’ hay-digging Roblox experience has exactly one working code right now, and it lines up with the alien-themed chest currently sitting in the lobby. Redeem it before you queue into a match, because the code menu is only reachable from the main screen.

Quick answer: Enter ALIEN in the Codes menu on the lobby screen and press Redeem. You should see “Successfully redeemed code!” along with 200 Gems and 200 Alien Coins added to your totals.


Active Search For The Needle code and rewards

There is a single live code, and nothing has expired yet. Type it in capital letters exactly as written, since the entry field does not correct spelling or stray spaces.

CodeRewardStatus
ALIEN200 Gems and 200 Alien CoinsWorking

Note: The alien currency is displayed as green tokens in the chest interface, which is what the 200 coins feed into.


How to redeem the ALIEN code

Load Search For The Needle on Roblox and wait for the lobby to finish loading around your avatar. Do not start a match yet.
Find the Codes icon on the right-hand side of the screen and click it. A small panel opens with a text field labelled for code entry.
Type ALIEN into the field and press the green Redeem button. Copying and pasting works too, but check that no trailing space came along with it.
Lobby code entry panel with the ALIEN code typed into the text field
The Codes panel on the lobby screen, where ALIEN is entered and confirmed. Image: Garage Games
Look for the “Successfully redeemed code!” confirmation and check your Gem and coin counters at the top of the screen. If the numbers jumped by 200 each, the code registered and you can queue up.

Why the code fails to redeem

There are only a few reasons the entry gets rejected. The most common is a typo, a capitalization mismatch, or a hidden space picked up while copying. Retype it by hand if a paste attempt does nothing.

The other issue is location. Codes are accepted from the lobby menu only, so an active match will not show the entry field. If the button responds but nothing changes on screen, leave the server, rejoin a fresh one, and try again from the lobby.


Alien Chest drop rates and cost

The limited-time Alien Chest sits in the lobby and costs 100 green tokens per open. With 200 coins from the code, that covers two rolls. Most of the outcomes are gems, and the tool and mount drops sit well under ten percent each.

RewardChance
Gems (25-75)60%
Gems (75-200)25%
Alien Dynamite7%
Alien Vacuum4.3%
Alien Squidfork2.5%
UFO1%

The chest is tied to the event, so the tokens are worth spending rather than banking. Roughly 85 percent of openings return gems, which still feed back into upgrades.


Where Gems and cash actually go

A run starts with a hay-collecting objective. Chapter 1 in the Farmhouse map asks for 25 hay, which you carry over to the cow and feed it to turn into cash. That cash is the in-match currency for upgrades.

Farmhouse hay pile with the Collect Hay 0 of 25 objective tracker on screen
The opening Farmhouse objective tracks hay collected toward the first 25. Image: Garage Games

Three character stats matter early. Speed raises how quickly you collect, Grasp increases how much hay comes up per grab, and Hold removes the repeated clicking by letting you gather continuously while the button stays down.

Collect button highlighted while the avatar gathers material from a pile
The Collect prompt drives every gather action in a run. Image: Garage Games

Hold is the upgrade worth saving for. Once it is active, collection continues without any input beyond keeping the button pressed, which is what turns a slow first chapter into a steady clear.

Continuous collection running on a hay pile after the Hold upgrade is purchased
With Hold purchased, gathering runs continuously instead of one click at a time. Image: Garage Games

Tools, prices, and the Pitchfork upgrades

Beyond bare-handed collecting, the shop sells tools that clear hay in bulk. The Pitchfork is the first meaningful jump, and it has its own two stats to raise.

ItemPrice
Upgrade Bag$2.00
Infinite BagR$40
Pitchfork$8.00
Dynamite$25.00
Vacuum$69.99 or R$49

Sweep controls how much hay a single swing shifts, and Cooldown shortens the gap between swings. Both are upgraded from the same menu that holds Hand, Dynamite, Drone, Vacuum, and Pitchfork entries.

Pitchfork upgrade menu showing the Sweep and Cooldown stat options
Sweep and Cooldown are the two Pitchfork stats that decide clearing speed. Image: Garage Games

Clearing is also faster with other players in the lobby. Splitting a pile across several people cuts the search time for the needle noticeably compared with a solo run on Normal difficulty.


Where new codes get posted

Garage Games drops codes alongside updates and events rather than on a schedule, and the developer’s own channels are where they appear first. The official Garage Games Discord server carries the announcements, and the Garage Games Roblox group mirrors most of them.

No expiry date has been attached to ALIEN, but event codes generally stop working when the event they belong to ends. Since it costs nothing to redeem and covers two Alien Chest openings, there is little reason to sit on it.