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The Roblox Builder's Quest · six missions · 600 XP

Six missions from zero to a game your friends can actually play.

Learn Lua by building — every mission ends with something working on your screen, every line of code you need is on the page, and the boss fight is a real person playing your obby.

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How the quest works

6 missions · every mission ends with something working on screen · full code included. Type the code yourself — don't paste; typing is how it sticks. When something breaks (it will — it breaks for professionals too), every mission's Repair Shop lists the common errors and their fixes. Collect all 600 XP to complete the quest.

01+50 XP
Setup · 15 min

First Contact — make Roblox obey your command

Install Studio, meet the Explorer and Output panels, and write your first two Lua lines — a print and a variable — inside a real game engine.

Start mission
02+100 XP
Events · 20 min

The Trap — a brick that defeats anyone who touches it

Your first real mechanic: the Touched event, FindFirstChild, and the Humanoid — the classic kill brick, built and understood line by line.

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03+100 XP
Debugging · 25 min

The Upgrade — damage, cooldowns, and your first real bug

Switch from instant kill to 20 damage, discover why you still die instantly, and fix it with a debounce — the professional pattern every Roblox dev uses.

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04+150 XP
Systems · 35 min

The Treasure — coins and a real score on the leaderboard

Two scripts in two places working together: a leaderstats builder in ServerScriptService and a coin that pays out, then destroys itself.

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05+100 XP
Physics · 20 min

The Launch Pad — a pad that sends players flying

HumanoidRootPart, Vector3 directions, and velocity — push a character into the sky and discover the debounce pattern working a third time.

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06+100 XP
Boss Fight · one sitting

The Gauntlet — combine everything into a playable obby

No new code. Lava floor, coin alley, a launch gap, and a trophy — the boss fight is a real person playing your game from start to finish.

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The through-line

The quest traces one arc: from making the engine obey a single command to shipping a game someone else plays. Mission 1 proves the engine listens. Mission 2 teaches events — code that waits for the world to act. Mission 3 hands you a real bug and the professional pattern that fixes it. Mission 4 wires two scripts together into a system. Mission 5 shows the same pattern moving physics. And the boss fight adds no new code at all — because the secret of coding is that you don't learn a hundred things, you learn ten things and combine them.

THE ROBLOX BUILDER'S QUEST
Mission 1 first contact  ·  Mission 2 the trap  ·  Mission 3 the upgrade  ·  Mission 4 the treasure  ·  Mission 5 the launch pad  ·  Mission 6 boss: the gauntlet. Built for one determined builder — short missions, visible wins, all code on the page.