Natural Disaster Survival contains another goal beyond the animal rescue objective most players complete in The Hunt: Roblox 20’s 2011 stage. Find it in the underground chamber below the waiting lobby, activate it yourself, and receive both a badge and the Personal Safety Spikes accessory.
Quick answer: Stand on the grey podium under the lobby’s blue staircase, change canCollectHats to True on the blue monitor, then deposit 20 hats into the Donation Box.
What you need before the secret room will open
The hidden route is gated by event progress, not by anything inside Natural Disaster Survival itself. Reaching the 2011 lobby and finishing the animal rescue does not unlock it.
- All 20 main quests in The Hunt: Roblox 20 completed, with Year Infinity unlocked.
- The Natural Disaster Survival clue followed from the hub before you enter the experience.
- A public server. The hat mechanic does not function on private servers.
- Time before the event closes on September 28 at 1 p.m. ET.
Secret quests opened on September 19, separate from the normal era objectives. Once the clue is done, join the Natural Disaster Survival experience directly.
Find the secret room under the lobby podium
Switch the hat objective on at the blue monitor
Inside the room there is a wall-mounted blue monitor covered in script text. One line controls whether hats can be picked up at all, and it starts switched off next to your username.
canCollectHats[YourUsername] = falseClick the false value, delete it completely, and type true in its place. That single edit arms the quest. Hats will not drop or register until the line reads true for the account you are actually playing on.
Finding the Donation Box does not start anything on its own. If you leave the room without touching the monitor, every hat you chase afterwards is wasted.
How hats drop during disaster rounds
Hats come out of ordinary rounds on the regular disaster maps. There is no special mode and no dedicated map. Two things put a hat on the ground in front of you.
- A player dies, takes disaster damage, resets, or leaves the server mid-round.
- Hats spawn at random points around the map during a round.
Unlike the animals in the 2011 rescue task, hats have no per-round cap. You can carry several at once, and picking up three in a single round is realistic on a busy server. Survive to the end of the round with whatever you are holding, because dying mid-round costs you the haul.
A populated public server is worth more than a safe one. More players means more resets and deaths, which means more hats on the floor per round.
Deposit the hats in the Donation Box
The Donation Box is the glass display case sitting opposite the monitor in the underground room. Only what goes into that box counts. Pickups on their own do nothing for the counter.
The target sits at 20 deposited hats, although some runs report the box asking for as many as 25 before it pays out. Treat 20 as the point where you start watching for the award and keep feeding the box until it fires rather than counting down to an exact number and quitting early.
How to confirm the Secret Quest badge unlocked
When the final deposit is accepted, the glass box visibly fills and a badge award notification appears on screen. The badge is listed on your Roblox account as Roblox 20 Secret Quest – Hat Donation Box.
Wait for the notification to appear before exiting the server. The game and hub exchange event progress, so disconnecting during that transfer may cause a completed objective to appear unfinished when you rejoin.
Claim Personal Safety Spikes in the 2011 hub
The badge and the wearable are separate. The accessory is not handed to you underground, so there is no point searching the secret room after the last deposit.
If the count is not moving
Work through these in order before restarting a collection run.
| Symptom | What to check |
|---|---|
| The room will not open | 20 main quests done, Year Infinity unlocked, hub clue followed |
| No hats are appearing | Monitor value set to true; you are on a public server |
| Counter stuck | Hats carried but never dropped into the Donation Box |
| Badge or statue missing | Round not survived, or deposits under the threshold |
If everything looks correct and the badge still has not registered, rejoin the hub or the server and check again before repeating the loop. A stale session is a more common cause than a failed deposit.
The whole route is a grind rather than a puzzle once the monitor is flipped, so the limiting factor is time. With the event running until 1 p.m. ET on September 28, a few busy public servers are usually enough to fill the box and collect both rewards.
