Roblox morning briefing — October 23, 2026: The Hollow's first night in numbers, and the Home screen test starting today
The Hollow opened overnight, and its badge counts show which of the nine rewards players are actually finishing; a new Home layout starts testing today, and custom terrain materials are out of Early Access.
The Hollow opened last night, and by this morning Roblox had handed out its nine reward badges 3.6 million times. 1
The hub was carrying 64,148 players at 08:10. DOORS, one of its nine games, had 77,518 — five times the number it held at the same hour yesterday. 2
This edition covers the 24 hours to 08:00 on Friday 23 October. Times are Central European, CEST until Sunday 25 October and CET after.
The Hollow opened, and the badge counts show what it pays out
Roblox let Plus subscribers into the hub at 21:50 and everyone else in at 23:00. 3
The hub's own description puts the opening at 2 p.m. Pacific and the first night's start an hour later, which was midnight here. It asks players not to go in, then explains that a different monster arrives each day. 4
Roblox named the nine this week, one from each participating game 5:
- The Deer, from 99 Nights in the Forest
- Seek, from DOORS
- Twisted Dandy, from Dandy's World
- Piggy, from Piggy
- The Inspector, from Scary Shawarma Kiosk
- Mimic, from Animal Hospital
- Biter, from Demonology
- Hiachi, from The Mimic
- The Overseer, from Warden
The hub carries nine badges, and each one's award count is public. It shows which rewards players are actually finishing. The last column below is the share of players who have earned that badge.
| Badge | Players awarded | Share of players |
|---|---|---|
| Little Plus-tergeist | 2,329,274 | 63.5% |
| Lord Umberhallow BLOXikin | 793,325 | 21.5% |
| All-Seeking Antlers | 164,882 | 4.4% |
| The Beasthammer | 94,701 | 2.5% |
| Spotlight Specter | 59,443 | 1.6% |
| Phantom in the Code | 45,856 | 1.2% |
| Quack-o'-Lantern | 42,704 | 1.2% |
| Incorporeal Incorporated | 31,172 | 0.9% |
| Gourdlord: The Entangled | 23,678 | 0.6% |
The counts come from the hub's badge list, read at 08:15. 1
Little Plus-tergeist has gone to 63.5% of the players who have tried for it. Gourdlord: The Entangled, at the other end, has reached fewer than one player in a hundred.
Four of the badge names match items already in Roblox's catalogue: Lord Umberhallow BLOXikin, All-Seeking Antlers, The Beasthammer and Gourdlord: The Entangled. All four are made by Roblox and handed out through the event rather than put on general sale. 67
Roblox's post for it reads "head's off. gear's on.", and the bundle swaps in replacement body parts rather than a hat. The post had 95,702 views by this morning. 8
Three creator livestreams are already on the hub's Events rail. Seek pairs with NO_DATA at 20:00 tonight, Twisted Dandy with LimaMosca at 01:00 on Sunday, and Biter with Vani and Kyle at 16:00 on Sunday. 4
The event runs to a live finale on the morning of 31 October, and reward collecting closes at noon Pacific on 2 November, which is 21:00 here. 5
Shorts angle: the 0.6% item. Open on Gourdlord: The Entangled's catalogue page, then on the hub's badge count, then on the route you took to get it — the scarcity is the whole hook.
A new Home screen starts testing today
Roblox posted the test at 19:30 last night, and it begins today on large landscape screens, mostly PCs, consoles and tablets. 10
A pane now sits on the right and keeps the player's avatar in view while they browse. Game details and profiles open inside that pane, and the discovery grid stays where it was. 10
Players cannot opt in or out; eligible devices get it automatically. The pane collapses with one click. 10
Roblox says the recommendation grids and game ranking stay as they are, and the layout adds no new ad slot or paid placement. Studio and game APIs are untouched. 10
Shorts angle: film the same PC account's Home before and after the switch lands, and put a timer on screen until the pane appears.
Custom terrain materials leave Early Access
The terrain launch went out at 22:00 last night, and places that use it can now be published and played by anyone. 11
Builders get up to 62 materials they can paint straight onto terrain, enough for distinct environments inside a single place. Roblox's benchmark for the same release cut CPU memory overhead by 90% and meshing latency by 45%. 11
Nothing turns on by itself. Open Workspace properties in Studio, set Expanded Terrain from Default to Enabled, then save and reopen the place — custom materials otherwise show up as grass. 11
Two limits come with it. Team Create places need the place closed for about 15 seconds before reopening, and terrain thinner than 16 voxels can disappear at a small streaming radius. 11
Shorts angle: paint a snowfield and a desert into one map, then walk the seam between them in play mode.
Top Fall Games to Watch
Every date was read this morning from the game's own listing. Times are Central European, CEST until Sunday 25 October and CET after.
- The Hollow — night two tonight, with Seek and NO_DATA streaming from inside at 20:00. 4 Pitch: the hub changes shape each night, so film tonight's maze and hold the footage for the comparison at the end of the run.
- Tower Defense Simulator — Solar Requiem Night II is live, and Night III opens at 18:00 tonight. 12 Pitch: film the last wave of Night II this afternoon so viewers meet Night III already knowing what it has to beat.
- Adopt Me! — Halloween Week 4 opens at 17:05 today, and the Admin Abuse round follows at 18:00 on Saturday. 13 Pitch: the admin round hands out freebies, so film what a new player walks away with in ten minutes.
- Dandy's World — "Only Two Weeks Left!" lands at 21:00 tonight, with new skins and Toon dialogue. 14 Pitch: a closing date is posted, so film the deepest floors most players will not reach before it shuts.
- Dress To Impress — HALLOWEEN! is live, and Tales of the Dark King opens at 17:00 on Saturday. 15 Pitch: film a winning outfit tonight, then the same brief on Saturday, and set the two runs side by side.
- Animal Hospital — Halloween is live; Halloween Part 2 opens at 20:00 on Tuesday 27 October. 16 Pitch: record one clean shift now as a baseline, so Part 2 reads as a visible change to a place the audience knows.
Closing notes
Live counts at 08:10: Steal An Egg 1,113,713; Murder Mystery 2 657,229; Brookhaven 226,207; Adopt Me! 138,696; 99 Nights in the Forest 134,591; Break and Steal an Egg 122,002; RIVALS 121,319; Blox Fruits 115,135; DOORS 77,518; Fish It! 74,832; The Hollow 64,148; Dandy's World 56,084; Fisch 55,595; Dress To Impress 43,180; Forsaken 28,740; Animal Hospital 23,583; Cat Battles 22,023; Tower Defense Simulator 9,741; Piggy 7,021; Demonology 2,674; The Mimic 2,250; Duck Duck 2,168. 2
Steal An Egg gained 180,439 players overnight and Murder Mystery 2 gained 137,812. DOORS' jump from 14,599 came with its THE CANDY VAULT card switching from Notify Me to Join Event, which means the door opened. 2
Roblox's status page reports every system operational, with the newest incident still the site issue of 5 October. 17
The newsroom's newest item is now the Hollow announcement, published 21 October. 18
Two smaller things went up on the announcements board the same evening. Text-to-speech can now generate speech assets in Studio through
AssetService:CreateAssetAsync, which removes the play-time rate limit on voice lines. 19The other is a Studio tool that shows where a UGC body, head, layered clothing or rigid accessory fails validation, with errors in red and warnings in yellow. 20
The chat thread that has tracked games removed over TextChatService since 10 October now stands at 618 posts and 9,252 views. 21
Today's lead rests on Roblox's own hub page, its badge list and its newsroom post. The launch times come from Roblox's account and the hub description, and the difficulty ranking is read off the badge counts rather than from anyone's playthrough.
References
- 1Roblox badges API — The Hollow hub
badges.roblox.com
- 2Roblox games API — live player counts
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- 3
- 4The Hollow on Roblox
roblox.com
- 5Roblox Newsroom — The Hollow: new platform-wide survival event
about.roblox.com
- 6
- 7Roblox catalogue — All-Seeking Antlers
roblox.com
- 8
- 9Roblox — Hollow Horseman bundle
roblox.com
- 10Developer Forum — New Home layout test
devforum.roblox.com
- 11Developer Forum — Custom Terrain Materials full launch
devforum.roblox.com
- 12Tower Defense Simulator on Roblox
roblox.com
- 13Adopt Me! on Roblox
roblox.com
- 14Dandy's World on Roblox
roblox.com
- 15Dress To Impress on Roblox
roblox.com
- 16Animal Hospital on Roblox
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- 17Roblox Status
status.roblox.com
- 18Roblox Newsroom
about.roblox.com
- 19Developer Forum — Text-to-speech asset creation in Lua
devforum.roblox.com
- 20Developer Forum — UGC validation visualisation
devforum.roblox.com
- 21Developer Forum — TextChatService moderation takedowns
devforum.roblox.com
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