The Hunt: Roblox 20 How to Claim Hunt Rewards

Every free historical UGC in The Hunt: Roblox 20 follows the same rule: the featured game grants a badge, and the hub grants the wearable reward plus the next year unlock. Players who treat the badge toast as the finish line are the ones stuck on “locked years.” This page explains registration, the return trip, pedestal claims, inventory verification, and practical fixes before the event ends September 28, 2026 at 10 AM PT.

Pair this guide with All Quests for objectives, Getting Started for the portal loop, and Year Infinity once 2006–2025 are fully claimed. Creator and community pages live under players.

What “done” actually means

A year is complete only when all of the following are true:

1. The anniversary quest objective finished inside the featured experience.
2. Roblox showed the related badge notification (or the badge appears on your profile / badge list).
3. You physically returned to The Hunt: Roblox 20 hub.
4. You interacted with that year’s claim pedestal / claim UI successfully.
5. The UGC appears in inventory, and the hub timeline shows the year cleared with the next portal open.

Missing any step leaves you in a partial state that feels like a bug even when the quest already counted.

The Hunt: Roblox 20 claim rewards walkthrough

How badges register

Badges are awarded by the featured game when its Hunt objective completes — three Crossroads KOs, four Heights swords, Pizza Place secret recipe, fifty MM2 coins, and so on. Registration depends on that place’s server acknowledging the objective. Laggy combat years may delay the toast; wait a few seconds and check the badge list before replaying an entire KO count.

Important nuances:

• Direct joins into featured games can still award badges.
• Badges do not auto-claim hub UGC.
• Multiple badges can sit unclaimed if you chain games without returning.
• A badge without a hub claim will not unlock the next chronological year on the hub timeline.

If you are unsure which badge belongs to which year, cross-check names against the UGC list on the all-quests page (Crossroads Tower, Duel of the Heights, Builder Brothers’ Balancing Act, The KittyKånka, Grown From a Garden, and the rest).

Return to the Hub every single time

After the badge:

1. Open the Roblox menu and leave the featured experience.
2. Rejoin The Hunt: Roblox 20 from your continue list or the hub place page.
3. Stand near the year you just finished.
4. Use the claim interaction on the pedestal or prompt.
5. Wait for the reward confirmation and timeline advance.

Do not rely solely on in-game “return to hub” buttons during peak traffic — they sometimes no-op. A manual leave-and-rejoin is the reliable path. If friends are still inside a featured game, resist teleporting back to them until your claim is finished.

Claim pedestals and timeline gates

The hub is chronological. Claiming 2014 unlocks 2015; you cannot pedestal-skip to 2025 while 2016 sits unclaimed on the hub track. That is true even if you already earned a later game’s badge through a direct join. Think of badges as items in a backpack and pedestals as the turnstile: the turnstile only accepts the next ticket in order.

When a claim succeeds you should notice:

• UGC granted (hat, back accessory, pack, etc.)
• Year marked complete
• Next portal interactive

If the UI plays a claim animation but inventory stays empty, rejoin the hub once and re-check inventory before repeating the quest. Duplicating long story clears “just in case” wastes the event clock.

Inventory verification checklist

After each claim — or at least after each era cluster — open avatar inventory and confirm the wearable exists:

• Early cluster: Crossroads Tower, Duel of the Heights, Brick-Blast Jetpack, Crest of the Canyon
• 2010 highlight: Builder Brothers’ Balancing Act
• Mid examples: The Disaster Forecaster, Manliest Man Award, Biting BLOXikin, Knife-Dodger’s Bighead, Leather Adventure Backpack, Time Travel Schoolpack
• Later highlights: A Bandit’s Bandana, Build A Boat for a Top Hat, The KittyKånka, Hounds of the Zero, Willow’s Legacy Hood, The Berry Bindle, The Last Deflection, The Runway Sunhat, Grown From a Garden

Favorite or equip each piece briefly so you can see gaps at a glance. Screenshot your hub timeline if you share progress with friends; screenshots help distinguish “badge owned” from “pedestal claimed.”

Troubleshooting locked years

Badge yes, pedestal no

Rejoin the hub, wait for full lobby stream-in, and try the claim again. Avoid switching servers mid-click. If multiple unclaimed badges exist, claim the earliest missing year first so the gate can move.

Pedestal claims but next year still locked

Hard refresh by leaving Roblox entirely and rejoining the hub. Confirm you claimed the year you think you claimed — players sometimes stand on 2011 while trying to claim 2010 visuals under lag.

No badge after a “finished” quest

The objective may not have counted. Common in combat years with desynced KOs, Base Wars partial loss progress, or Pizza Place story skips. Re-run the objective cleanly; for 2010 use the Pizza Place guide on a solo server.

Direct-clear confusion

You cleared Grow a Garden early with friends, but 2018 is still the hub’s active gate. Your 2025 badge is banked; you must still claim 2018–2024 in order before the hub accepts 2025’s pedestal. Keep playing the unlocked year, not the badge you are excited about.

Inventory empty after celebration UI

Check recently earned items filters, search the UGC name, and confirm you are viewing the correct account. Then rejoin hub and see whether the year shows claimed. If the year is claimed and the item is missing, note the year and watch updates for hotfix notes rather than immediately grinding a duplicate clear.

Plus early access oddities

Plus players entering at 9 AM PT on September 17 should still claim normally. Early access does not remove the badge → hub → pedestal loop. Public players starting at 3 PM PT use the same claim rules.

Order of operations when you are behind

If the end date is close:

1. List every badge you already own without a matching inventory UGC.
2. Join the hub and claim from the earliest gap forward.
3. Only replay quests for years with no badge.
4. Schedule long clears (Pizza Place, Jailbreak, World // Zero, Grow a Garden) before short KO leftovers if those long badges are missing.
5. Leave buffer time after 2025 for Year Infinity.

Replaying claimed years does not help Infinity unlock — only finishing and claiming the full 2006–2025 set does.

What claiming does not do

• Claiming does not require promo codes; see codes for unrelated promotions, not as a substitute for pedestals.
• Claiming does not auto-equip cosmetics; check inventory yourself.
• Claiming one year does not grant the next year’s UGC early.
• Claiming does not extend the September 28 close — late claims simply fail when the event ends.

Habit that prevents ninety percent of tickets

Adopt a verbal checklist after every badge: “Badge, leave, hub, claim, inventory, next portal.” Say it every year from Crossroads Tower through Grown From a Garden. The players who invent complicated theories about locked timelines usually skipped “claim” once and then completed three more games in confusion.

Use the mid-article video if you want a visual of the return-and-claim flow, then keep this text checklist beside you while you clear the remaining all-quests entries. When the historical twenty are inventoried, move straight into Year Infinity instead of assuming the anniversary is over.