The Hunt: Roblox 20 Year Walkthroughs: 2006 Crossroads to 2008

The Hunt: Roblox 20 drops players into a chronological museum of Roblox history, with one classic game anchoring each year from 2006 to 2025. Mastering the hunt roblox 20 year walkthroughs for the first three years unlocks the foundation of the entire event, because every year shares the same hub structure, the same UGC item claim, and the same double-layer progress bar. This guide focuses on the 2006 Crossroads quest, the 2007 Sword Fights on the Heights IV badge, and the 2008 Duel of the Heights fight, giving you badge steps, spawn mechanics, and quest routes that have been confirmed by community testing during the September 18, 2026 launch window.

According to a detailed walkthrough of the game, players can expect each of the twenty years in The Hunt to present distinct challenges, with later years typically featuring tougher enemies and more complex map layouts as documented in the Roblox Hunt full walkthrough covering all 20 years.

2006 Crossroads Quest and Badge Steps

The 2006 year gate is the first stop in the chronological hub, and it uses Classic: Crossroads as its anchor game. When you walk into the portal framed by the 2006 marker, the game teleports you into a faithful recreation of the original Crossroads obby, including the brick tower, the cylinder pillars, and the hidden killbrick floors. The badge is called I Joined In 2006, and it is one of the twenty-three account-age badges that track when your account first appeared on Roblox, although the 2006 year-gate badge is actually the gameplay badge earned inside the Crossroads instance.

Spawn Route Through the Brick Tower

The fastest confirmed route climbs the front face of the brick tower and skips the lower cylinder section. Players report that the tower has six visible layers, but only four are required to reach the crown platform where the quest NPC stands. The lower two layers contain decorative bricks that are safe to touch, and skipping them saves roughly fifteen seconds per run. According to community testing posted by SharkBlox on the launch day video, the spawn point places you on the south side of the tower, and the quest giver sits on a small wooden balcony attached to the north face.

The total time for a clean run sits at roughly thirty-one seconds, which means farming the 2006 badge takes about five minutes if you miss the jump twice. The badge itself is awarded the first time you speak to the NPC, but the UGC item claim at the central hub requires the full Crossroads Tower tower item, which is a separate unlock earned by reaching the very top of the brick tower instead of the quest balcony.

Crossroads UGC Item and Crown Tower

The Crossroads Tower item is the free UGC reward tied to the 2006 year gate, and it is the only tower item from the first three years that you can claim without completing a PvP encounter. After speaking to the quest NPC, a small prompt appears in the upper-right corner of the screen that reads Claim Tower, and accepting it adds the tower to your Roblox inventory. Community testers have noted that the claim button only appears while you are inside the 2006 Crossroads instance, so leaving the game before clicking it forces you to re-enter and speak to the NPC again.

If you want a visual reference for the 2006 portal layout, the Crashuan walkthrough posted on September 17, 2026 shows the exact camera angle of the hub portal and confirms that the 2006 gate is the leftmost of the three earliest-year portals. You can compare the year-gate placement against the full year lineup covered in the featured games list for The Hunt: Roblox 20 if you need to map the rest of the chronological order.

2007 Sword Fights on the Heights IV Badge

The 2007 year gate moves the action from platforming to PvP duels, because Sword Fights on the Heights IV is the anchor game for that year. The badge here is Duelist of 2007, and the gameplay loop is a best-of-three duel against a single NPC opponent called the Heights Champion, who uses the classic linkable sword loadout. Players report that the duel triggers automatically when you step onto the central floating arena, and there is no queue or matchmaking to wait through.

Sword Loadout and Stamina Management

The Heights Champion uses a standard loadout of one Classic Sword and one Linked Sword, which means the duel has two phases. In phase one, the Champion blocks with the Classic Sword and waits for you to overcommit, then in phase two, the Champion switches to the Linked Sword and tries to chain three hits together for a one-shot combo. The counter-strategy, confirmed by KAM Gats in the September 17 launch coverage, is to bait the Classic Sword block by attacking twice from the same angle, then dodge-roll backward and punish the recovery frames with a single sword swing.

Stamina is the hidden resource that determines whether you can pull off the dodge-roll punish, and each successful sword swing drains roughly fifteen percent of your stamina bar. If you spam clicks and run out of stamina before the Champion finishes the Linked Sword chain, you take the combo to the face and lose the round. Players recommend waiting for the Champion to swing first, then dodging into the attack and counter-hitting, which preserves stamina for the third round.

Claiming the 2007 UGC Item

The UGC item tied to 2007 is the Heights Trophy, a small golden cup that sits on your avatar's shoulder. The trophy is awarded immediately after you win the third round, and the claim notification appears in the same upper-right slot where the Crossroads Tower prompt appeared. Unlike the 2006 badge, the 2007 duel has a cooldown of roughly ninety seconds before you can re-enter the arena, so farming the badge for alts is intentionally slow. The full set of cooldown timers across all twenty years is documented in the broader chronological guide for every year in The Hunt: Roblox 20, which is worth bookmarking if you plan to clear the entire event in one session.

2008 Duel of the Heights and Rocket Arena Route

The 2008 year gate is the first year that requires you to complete a secondary game mode, because Rocket Arena is the anchor game but the badge is called Duel of the Heights and is earned inside a special PvP arena attached to the Rocket Arena hub. This is the year that trips up the most players, because the badge name does not match the anchor game name, and the quest NPC who explains the rules is hidden behind a sliding door on the upper level of the Rocket Arena lobby.

Entering the Hidden Duel Arena

To reach the duel arena, you spawn into the standard Rocket Arena lobby, then look for a metal door on the east wall that is half-concealed by a rocket prop. The door opens when you walk within three studs of it, and it reveals a small corridor that leads to a floating platform identical to the 2007 Sword Fights arena. The opponent here is the Rocket Champion, who uses a Rocket Launcher and a single Sword, which makes the fight much more chaotic than the 2007 duel because rockets apply knockback on every direct hit.

The recommended opening is to rush the Rocket Champion during the first three seconds of the round, before the opponent has time to fire a rocket. Closing the gap forces the Champion into sword range, and the sword swings are easier to read than the rocket arc. After you win the first round, the Champion pulls out a second rocket for round two, and the arena adds two extra cover pillars to balance the fight.

2008 UGC Item and Badge Synergy

The 2008 UGC item is the Rocket Cape, a small jetpack cosmetic that emits a constant flame particle. The cape is awarded after you defeat the Rocket Champion twice in a row, which means you need to win back-to-back rounds without dying once. The full Duel of the Heights badge requires three total wins, but the cape only requires the two-win streak, so efficient players farm the cape first and then grind the third win for the badge. If you want a more general overview of how badge tiers stack across the event, the beginner guide for The Hunt: Roblox 20 explains the difference between the hidden S01-S20 progress badges and the visible item badges.

Hub Layout, Roblox Plus Early Access, and Year Infinity

The central hub ties all three years together, and understanding the hub layout saves time when you are farming badges across multiple years. The hub is a circular platform with twenty portal frames arranged in chronological order around the rim, and the Year Infinity portal sits at the center of the circle. Roblox Plus subscribers get a two-hour early-access window from 9 AM to 11 AM PDT, which lets them enter the hub before free-to-play users, but the badge steps inside each year gate are identical for both groups.

Portal Order and Visual Cues

The first three portals on the left side of the hub are 2006, 2007, and 2008, and each portal is color-coded by year. The 2006 portal uses a brown brick texture, the 2007 portal uses a steel-grey metallic texture, and the 2008 portal uses a rusted iron texture with rocket decals. The visual difference is subtle in screenshots but obvious in person, and players have used the texture as a quick way to confirm they are entering the right year gate when the hub is crowded.

Subscriber Early Access to the 2006–2008 Gates

The early-access window opens at 9 AM PDT and closes at 11 AM PDT, which is a two-hour head start for subscribers. According to the September 18 launch coverage, the window is enforced by a server-side flag that prevents free-to-play users from joining the hub instance at all, so you cannot skip the queue by relogging. Subscribers also get a Classic Roblox avatar frame and three exclusive subscription items that persist in their inventory after the event ends, but none of those items are required for the year-gate badges.

Year Infinity Unlock Condition

The Year Infinity portal at the center of the hub unlocks after you collect all twenty year-gate badges, including the 2006, 2007, and 2008 badges covered in this guide. The Infinity portal leads to a hidden lobby with a single NPC who awards the Year Infinity cosmetic, which is a glowing crown that changes color based on your account age. Players report that the Infinity portal does not count toward the visible item badge progress, but it does count toward the S01-S20 hidden progress bar that determines your final crown tier.

Crown Tiers, Progress Bars, and Time Investment

The Hunt: Roblox 20 uses a three-tier crown system to reward players who complete all twenty years, and the crown you receive at the end of the event is based on how many of the twenty item badges you have collected by the closing date. The three crowns are Obsidian Reignment, Gossamer Reignment, and Aureate Reignment, and they are awarded for completing 7, 14, and 20 years respectively. The 2006, 2007, and 2008 badges covered in this guide count toward all three tiers, which means they are the cheapest three years to farm if you are aiming for the Obsidian crown.

Crown Tier Thresholds and Rewards

The Obsidian crown is the easiest tier to hit, because seven years out of twenty is only thirty-five percent completion, and you can clear the 2006, 2007, and 2008 badges in roughly twenty minutes if you already know the routes. The Gossamer tier requires fourteen years, which is roughly seventy percent completion, and the Aureate tier requires all twenty years plus the Year Infinity cosmetic.

Time Budget for 2006 to 2008

Thirty minutes is a reasonable estimate for clearing all three years if you do not die to the killbricks or the Linked Sword chain, and a more cautious first attempt might take forty-five minutes. The full event takes roughly six to eight hours of focused play to clear all twenty years, and the fastest route to finish The Hunt: Roblox 20 breaks down the optimal year order if you want to minimize backtracking through the hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need Roblox Plus to earn the 2006, 2007, and 2008 badges?

No. The 2006 Crossroads, 2007 Sword Fights on the Heights IV, and 2008 Rocket Arena year-gate badges plus their UGC rewards are available to every player for free. Roblox Plus only matters if you want the 9 AM–2 PM PDT early-access window, the Classic Roblox avatar frame, or the three subscription-exclusive cosmetic items.

What happens if I leave the 2006 Crossroads instance before claiming the tower item?

If you leave the 2006 Crossroads instance before claiming the tower UGC item, the item is not saved to your inventory, and the Crossroads badge progress resets. You must re-enter Classic: Crossroads, climb to the top again, and claim the tower at the Event Hub before teleporting anywhere else.

What happens if I leave the 2006 Crossroads instance before claiming the tower item?

The claim button only appears while you are inside the 2006 Crossroads instance, so leaving the server resets the prompt and unbinds the Tower token from your quest state. You will need to re-enter through the Crossroads portal, track down the 2006 quest NPC, and click Claim Tower before exiting again, because the flag is tied to your active session rather than your badge progress.

Can I duo the 2007 Sword Fights duel with a friend?

No, the duel is a single-player encounter against the Heights Champion, and the arena only fits one player at a time because the encounter scales specifically to the entrant's 2007 Sword Fights gear tier. Friends can watch from the spectator railing around the arena, but they cannot enter the fight, and any attempt to respawn into the platform during the 90-second cooldown simply drops you back to the lobby hub, so alt-account queueing is the only way to chain multiple duels in one sitting.

Why does the 2008 badge say Duel of the Heights if the anchor game is Rocket Arena?

The 2008 badge is named after the duel arena attached to the Rocket Arena hub, not after the anchor game itself. The duel uses sword and rocket combat inside a floating platform, which is why the badge name references the Heights-style arena.