SearchForTheNeedle
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Search For The Needle Chapter 3: Is It Out? Place ID & Confirmed Facts (September 2026)

Chapter 3 shipped on 26 September 2026. This page carries the confirmed official facts, the check date, and what one recorded full run shows — with the two kept apart.

place 82626725163709Live since 26 Sep 2026Official facts checked 7 Oct 2026Objectives: seen in two recorded runs
Quick answer

Yes — Chapter 3 is live

Chapter 3 exists now. The experience carried the name [CHAPTER 3] Search For The Needle at launch and has since moved on to [SKINS 🐮], the new place is 82626725163709, the official [🛸] CHAPTER 3 event’s published window ran to 3 Oct 2026 17:30 UTC and has now closed, and the Finish Chapter 3 badge is already being awarded. The only official description of the chapter's content is that badge's own text — "Defeated the Boss and drove away" — so a Boss and an ending exist. A recorded full run fills in the shape of the chapter: find seven UFO parts in the haystack, fit them through short repair minigames, beat a hay golem boss, then take its key and drive away. That order comes from a player's recording, not from Garage Games, so it is labelled as such below and the values in it are not treated as fixed.

Confirmed

The facts that are checkable right now

Each row comes from Roblox's own API fields, read on 2026-09-27.

Official

Chapter 3 is out

The experience is named [🎃] Search For The Needle on Roblox at the 2026-10-17 read — it carried [CHAPTER 3] at the 26 Sep launch and has been renamed several times since — and the build timestamp moved to 2026-09-26 17:44 UTC. The live build has moved again since — 2026-10-16 19:40 UTC at this check, and the updates page logs each move. Players are already earning the completion badge.

Official

Chapter 3 place ID

82626725163709 — Roblox resolves it to the same universe as the main place (77108422251420), Chapter 1 (108628039999641) and Chapter 2 (83445806734780).

Official

Official event window

[🛸] CHAPTER 3 — "The story continues... 👽" (event 8683070328009785940) flipped from an upcoming entry to New content. Its published window ran Sat 26 Sep 2026 17:30 UTC to Sat 3 Oct 2026 17:30 UTC, and that window has now closed; no closing note or contents list was ever published with it.

Official

A completion badge exists

Finish Chapter 3 appeared in the official badge list on 2026-09-26, so the chapter has a finish line. It is now the rarest badge in the game.

Official

The ending, in the creator's own words

The Finish Chapter 3 badge (id 793331041896611) carries the description "Defeated the Boss and drove away." That single official line is the only published description of what finishing the chapter involves: a Boss, and then a drive away. Nothing says how the Boss works, where it is, or what follows the drive.

Observed in two recorded runs

What a full Chapter 3 run actually does, in order

Read from two player Chapter 3 completion recordings — uploaded 2026-09-26 and 2026-10-01 — not from an official surface. The official badge text confirms a boss and a drive-away ending. Both recordings show the same jobs in the same order and print the same enrage line, so the sequence has more than one witness; they read different boss health and different payouts, so every number here is what a run showed rather than a rule.

Observed

Find the UFO parts in the haystack

A recorded full run of Chapter 3 (player video uploaded 2026-09-26) opens with the objective panel reading “Find all the Parts of the UFO (0/7)” and “Repair the UFO (0/1)”. The parts surface in the central haystack, and a banner on pickup tells the player to carry each one back to the ship and click it on.

Observed

Repair the ship through short minigames

Fitting a part opens one of two quick tasks: matching coloured wires between labelled terminals, or pulling stuck hay out of a gap before a roughly fifteen-second timer runs out. The counter climbs as each one is fitted (“Part attached! 2/7”, then 4/7).

Observed

Beat the boss

Once all seven parts are on, both recordings show a hay golem named “Guardian of the Haystack” with a visible health bar and a rage phase partway through the fight, announced by the same on-screen line on both: “HAY GOLEM IS ENRAGED! It's faster now. Watch for new attacks!” The number above the bar is where they part: the 2026-09-26 recording reads 15,000 health with other players on screen, and the 2026-10-01 recording reads 4,000 playing solo. The official Finish Chapter 3 badge text — “Defeated the Boss and drove away.” — is what confirms a boss and an ending exist at all; the health, the rage timing and the attack set are readings from those runs, not published constants.

Observed

Take the key and drive away

Defeating it drops a car key, the key starts a truck, and driving out of the farm ends the chapter — the “drove away” half of the official badge text. Both recordings finish on the same shape of screen: a “TO BE CONTINUED... (CHAPTER 4)” teaser over a run time and a payout. The figures differ — 21:47 with 16 Gems in the 2026-09-26 recording, 48:42 with 200 Gems and 478 Chroma Coins in the 2026-10-01 one — and the uploaded recording of that second run is only 28:49 long, so its own clock does not match the time printed on the screen. Treat both as readings from one run each, and the Chapter 4 line as a teaser rather than a date.

The game is the authority on every one of these steps: objectives, prices and boss behaviour can change with a build. If your run differs from the order above, the objectives on your own screen win.

Still unknown

What nobody has published yet

These are the questions a chapter page is supposed to answer. The badge text answered one of them — the chapter ends with a Boss and a drive away — and two recorded runs show the shape of the rest, but the numbers in them disagree with each other or were never published, so nothing here is a fixed value.

  • - The objectives in the game's own words — no official surface lists them; the order below comes from a player's recording, not from Garage Games.
  • - The map or layout of the new place as a whole.
  • - Whether the minigames are fixed or rotate, and what happens when one is failed — the recorded run cleared each one first time.
  • - The Boss's real health — two independent recordings read 15,000 and 4,000, so it is not a fixed constant; whether it scales with the number of players in the round is still unpublished.
  • - Whether the end-of-run payout and run time are fixed, or depend on speed, group size and difficulty — the two recordings disagree on both.
  • - Whether any Chapter 3 code exists — no official surface lists one.

The rows above the unknowns are split on purpose: the official ones come from Roblox's own fields, and the run-through comes from one dated recording and says so. A single run is not a general rule, so nothing in it is presented as a fixed number. If you are playing it now, the game itself is the authority: read the objectives off the Chapter 3 place, and treat any page (this one included) as out of date the moment the build changes.

Next up

Chapter 4 shipped with the Halloween build

The “TO BE CONTINUED... (CHAPTER 4)” teaser both recordings ended on is no longer a promise. Two official badges — “Finish Chapter 4” (created 2026-10-07) and “Defeat the Pumpkin Boss”, described as “In GRAVEYARD Map” (created 2026-10-08) — entered the badge list, and the official “[🎃] CHAPTER 4 + HALLOWEEN” event published a window of 11 to 25 October 2026, since extended to 2026-10-31 18:30 UTC. The live build moved again on 2026-10-16. The chapter's own steps, boss readings and open questions are on the chapter 4 page.

Chapter 4: Graveyard map & Pumpkin Boss — every build move is dated in the Updates changelog.

FAQ

Chapter 3 questions

Is Chapter 3 out yet?

Yes. It went live on 26 September 2026: the experience name carried [CHAPTER 3] at launch and has since moved on to [SKINS 🐮], the launch build was timestamped 2026-09-26 17:44 UTC, and the Finish Chapter 3 badge is already being awarded. The live build has moved on since — 2026-10-16 19:40 UTC at the latest check, with no published change list — and each move is logged on the updates page.

How do I get to Chapter 3?

It is a place in the same experience: 82626725163709. Join from the game page or the official [🛸] CHAPTER 3 event, and finish Chapter 2 first if the chapter gate has not opened for you yet.

When does the Chapter 3 event end?

The official event window ends Sat 3 Oct 2026 17:30 UTC. Roblox renders event times in your own timezone, so open the event panel to read it as your clock shows it.

How do I beat the Chapter 3 boss?

A recorded full run shows the boss as a hay golem named “Guardian of the Haystack”, with a visible health bar, marked weak spots and a rage phase partway through the fight, reached only after all the UFO parts are fitted. The official badge text is the only official statement about it (“Defeated the Boss and drove away.”), so its health value, its attack set and the rage timing stay single-run readings here — the in-game fight is where those numbers are authoritative. Two independent recordings disagree on the health itself: 15,000 in the 2026-09-26 run, which had other players on screen, against 4,000 in the 2026-10-01 solo run. That is one more reason to read the bar on your own screen rather than this page.

Are there Chapter 3 puzzles or codes?

One recorded run shows two short repair minigames — matching coloured wires, and pulling stuck hay out before a timer — rather than the number-based puzzles Chapter 2 uses. No official surface lists a Chapter 3 code, and the codes page only ever carries strings it can label, so anything describing a Chapter 3 code today is repeating someone else's claim.

What do you get for finishing Chapter 3?

The official reward is the Finish Chapter 3 badge, whose own description reads “Defeated the Boss and drove away.” Two recorded runs also finished on a payout screen, and they disagree: the 2026-09-26 run shows a time of 21:47 with 16 Gems, and the 2026-10-01 run shows 48:42 with 200 Gems and 478 Chroma Coins. No official surface publishes an amount, so treat your own end screen as the answer.

Is there a Chapter 4?

Yes — it shipped with the Halloween build. The teaser in this chapter's ending came true: “Finish Chapter 4” and “Defeat the Pumpkin Boss” entered the official badge list on 7 and 8 October 2026, and the official “[🎃] CHAPTER 4 + HALLOWEEN” event published a window from 11 to 25 October 2026, extended on 17 October to 2026-10-31 18:30 UTC. The chapter 4 page has the Graveyard steps and the Pumpkin Golem fight.

Why this page separates its sources

A launch page is easy to fill with guesses and hard to correct later. The official rows are the ones Roblox itself returns — including the badge text that names the ending. The run-through rows come from two dated player recordings and are labelled that way, because two runs that disagree on the boss's health and on the payout are evidence of what happened, not of a rule the game promises to keep. Every line here carries the date it was read, and the blanks stay blank until an official field or a checked run fills them in.