Roblox turns 20 this September, and the celebration is built around a new entry in The Hunt series, informally called The Hunt 2 or Roblox Classic 2. The reward structure is the part that matters if you want the free avatar items: you do not buy them, and you do not find them lying around the hub. You earn them by playing.
Quick answer: Join the event hub, take a portal into a participating game, complete that game’s quest to earn its badge, then return to the hub and spend the badges you have collected on items.
How The Hunt unlocks free items
Every edition of The Hunt runs on the same loop. A central hub experience acts as the front door, and a row of portals inside it sends you out to the games taking part. Each of those games has one Hunt-specific quest attached to it, and finishing that quest hands you a single collectible. In the first edition that collectible was a badge; in the Mega Edition it was called a token. The 20th anniversary event is described as running on badges.
You can only earn one per experience, so the way to reach the higher reward tiers is to play more games, not to replay the same one. The items themselves are always claimed back in the hub, never inside the individual games.
Claim items from the event hub
The items only exist for the length of the event. Once the hub closes, unclaimed rewards stop being redeemable, so it is worth cashing in every milestone you have already reached rather than saving the claim for later.
Milestone thresholds in past Hunt events
The anniversary reward track has not been detailed yet, but the two previous editions give a clear sense of how the tiers are spaced and how much of the event you need to finish to empty the track.
The Hunt: First Edition badge tiers
| Item | Badges required |
|---|---|
| Vault Holo-compass | 5 |
| Staff of the Vault Explorer | 20 |
| Vault Explorer’s Wings | 40 |
| Vault Explorer’s Cowl | 60 |
| Vault Explorer’s Crown | 95 |
| The Infinite Egg | 95 |
That edition spanned 100 partnered games, which is why the numbers run so high. The Infinite Egg originally demanded all 100 badges before the requirement was lowered to 95 after player feedback.
The Hunt: Mega Edition token tiers
| Item | Tokens required |
|---|---|
| Visor | 3 |
| Shoulders | 7 |
| Backpack | 12 |
| Wings | 18 |
| Horns | 25 |
The Mega Edition shrank the lineup to 25 games, so collecting all 25 tokens cleared the entire free track. It also layered a separate set of hidden Mega Tokens on top, which had to be found in a fixed order and fed into a live competition rather than the standard reward list.
Items you get from people instead of milestones
Not every reward sits on the badge track. The first edition put the Vault Star Headphones behind meeting a member of the Roblox Video Star Program inside the hub, with the creator appearing at unpredictable times. The Mega Edition did something similar with three spiral horns, which Roblox admins, developers, and star creators fired out of cannons in the hub for anyone standing nearby.
If a creator drop is running, standing in the hub costs you nothing while you queue between games. These items have no badge requirement at all, so missing one is purely a matter of not being there.
Goldify and other Robux extras
Alongside the free track, past Hunts offered a paid layer. In the Mega Edition you could Goldify an item with Robux, either one at a time or through a single upgrade that applied to everything. The important detail is the order of operations: Goldify is a finish applied to an item you already own, so you still have to hit the collectible requirement and unlock the free version first. Paying does not skip the quests.
The first edition ran a parallel Gold Track with its own mirrored items, plus a daily rotating limited item sold for Robux on the side of the hub screen.
Games rumored to take part in The Hunt 2
Roblox has not published a final lineup. The names circulating ahead of the anniversary event are unconfirmed, though most of them have appeared in a Hunt before:
- Piggy, Adopt Me, Murder Mystery 2, Jailbreak, Doors
- Dress to Impress, Grow a Garden, Berry Avenue, Roblox High School 2
- Blox Fruits, Blade Ball, Base Wars, NFL Universe, Speed Keyboard
- A Dusty Trip, Untitled Tag Game, The Hood, Fish, Steel-Venture
- Creatures of Sonaria, Catalog Avatar Creator
Treat that as a shortlist to keep an eye on rather than a schedule. The confirmed list only becomes final when the portals open and you can see which ones are actually standing in the hub.
Items teased for the 20th anniversary
Roblox marked the start of the month on its official account with a post reading “it’s September…you know what that means?” followed by “ROBLOX IS TURNING 20! can’t wait to celebrate with you… all. month. long.” The attached clip has a set of objects drifting through the frame, and they lean heavily on classic catalog gear:
- Bloxy Cola, a burger, a taco, and a teapot
- A sword, a Valkyrie helmet, and a Dominus
- A Fedora and a Twitter bird
- A white “gubby” pet
The gubby drew the most attention. When KreekCraft replied to the post asking “is that a gubby,” the Roblox account answered “maybe…” — which is as close to a confirmation as anything has come.
Objects shown in a teaser are not a reward list. Which of these end up on the badge track, sold in the Marketplace, or used purely as set dressing is still open.
No official start date or time for the anniversary Hunt has been confirmed. The practical preparation is the same either way: when the hub row shows up on your Roblox home page, work through the portals one game at a time, because the count of completed quests is the only thing that moves you up the reward track.
