Old Roblox Facts

1. BrickColor Had Strict Limits

Palette‑locked creativity.

  • 64 legacy swatches — names like Really red, Bright blue.
  • No Color3 pickers until late 2009.
  • Builders faked gradients by stacking 1‑stud strips.
Deeper lore

Rumour says an unreleased build let admins input raw HEX codes as early as 2006, but it corrupted place files on save. All testers’ games opened as pure white.

-- Beta slider experiment (never shipped)
BrickColor.new(Color3.fromRGB(255,0,255))

2. Crossroads Wasn't Always the Same Map

Your nostalgia is version‑locked.

  • 2006‑alpha — blue roof, two spawns.
  • 2007‑rev — lava pit added.
  • 2008 — brighter sky, tower recolour.
Lost versions list 
cbbe036…  "crossroads_v0.rbxmx" (SHA‑1)
1e9d52b…  "crossroads_final.rbxl"

3. The “Better Than You!” Glitch

Kill feed trash‑talk from the void.

  • Appeared mid‑2009 after a gear patch.
  • No attacker Humanoid recorded.
  • Likely rogue LinkedSword script.
Full stack trace 
[KILL] Better Than You! -> noobmaster99
stack: damageEvent > Humanoid:TakeDamage
line 204, LinkedSword.lua

4. Easter Eggs in the Roblox Client

Menus to nowhere.

Build 0.3.126 (Jan 2007) shipped with a disabled “More” tab referencing:

  • Inventory slots 301‑400
  • Stat page “Trophies”
  • Hint tooltip: “This feature is coming later!”
XML snippet 
<Button Text="More" OnClick="openMoreMenu"/>

5. Old Admin Shirts Were a Real Thing

Wear your permissions.

if player.Shirt.ShirtTemplate == "rbxassetid://123456" then
  grantTools(player)
end
Exploit era story
Exploiter Rails wrote a script that mass‑equipped every shirt ID in existence, giving himself 40 different admin panels in under 60 s.

6. Dynamic Lighting Arrived in 2013

Flat worlds till May 1 2013.

  • Horror maps faked darkness with fog distance 50.
  • First showcase: Deep Space Tycoon: Remastered.
Dev quote
“Spotlights are cheating. If your map isn’t scary with flat lighting, it’s not scary.” — Horror dev, 2012

7. The “NullMesh” Glitch

The invisible brick that still punches you.

local m=Instance.new("SpecialMesh",part)
m.MeshId=""  -- uh‑oh
Why it happens

Physics engine kept the part’s mass but render step skipped because of empty MeshId.

8. The “1x1x1x1” Infection Wasn’t Just a Meme

Self‑replicating place gremlins.

  • MainModule rewrote Workspace.
  • Hidden strings: “he’s already here”.
Removal myth
Some believed pressing Ctrl+Shift+D 7Ă— purged the scripts. It never did — they respawned on Heartbeat.

9. “Roblox Test” Client Hauntings

Sandbox that wasn’t.

  • Cached live chat logs.
  • Phantom players #256 & #257.
  • Secret void map internal_place.

10. The Locked Baseplate

Indestructible foundations.

  • Archivable=false, Locked=true.
  • Lighting strings: “do_not_remove”, “silentobserver”.

11. The 0,0,0 Void Spawn Quirk

World origin = delete key.

Deleting all spawns in 2007 dropped players at (0,0,0) inside the void. Patched Dec 2008.

12. Early Sound Files Were Tiny & Mono

8‑bit vibes for all.

  • Max upload: 148 kB.
  • Transcoded to 22 kHz mono.
  • Short loops doubled.
-ar 22050 -ac 1 -b:a 32k

13. The Anchor‑Bomb Rocket Bug

Infinite‑mass missiles.

rocket.Anchored=true
wait(.1)
rocket.Anchored=false

14. Classic Chat Filter Quirk

Everything was ####.

  • “discord”, “tweet”, “paypal” → ####
  • Numbers > 3 digits → ###

15. Badge ID 0 Was a Hidden Test Badge

The badge you can’t own.

https://api.roblox.com/Badges/0

16. Telamon’s “Gear Corner” RSS Feed Easter Egg

Official blog inside the client.

  • Feed: static.roblox.com/rss/gearcorner.xml
  • Panel hidden until 2014 code purge.