Search For The Needle Wiki
Search For The Needle is a cozy incremental simulator on Roblox by Garage Games. One needle is buried in a pile of 1,000,000 hay, and the only way to reach it is to remove all of the hay.
This wiki covers the core loop, all eight classes with their real in-game odds, both chapters, every badge, the working code, and every free Gem source — with each claim labelled by how well it is sourced.
The game at a glance
| Developer | Garage Games |
| Platform | Roblox |
| Genre | Incremental Simulator |
| Created | 23 August 2026 |
| Players online | 58,371 |
| Total visits | 28,238,318 |
| Favourites | 87,327 |
| Rating | 94% (118,293 up / 7,188 down) |
| Server size | 20 players |
| Chapters | 2 |
| Classes | 8 |
| Badges | 4 |
How the game works
The loop is four steps: collect hay flakes by hand, carry them to the cow, feed the cow to convert hay into Cash, and spend that Cash on upgrades and tools that clear hay faster.
The needle only appears once the whole pile is gone. It is not hidden for you to find — it is the reward for finishing, which is why no search technique can shortcut to it.
Two currencies matter. Cash is per-run and disappears when the run ends. Gems carry back to the lobby and buy class spins at 40 Gems each, making them the real long-term progression.
Start here
- Beginner guide — the loop, the controls and your first purchases.
- Best upgrades order — Hold, then Grasp and Speed, then Dynamite, then Pitchfork.
- How to find the needle — why it is a clearing problem, not a searching one.
- How to farm hay — cutting the trips to the cow, which is the real bottleneck.
Classes
Eight classes roll from one wheel at the Classes station for 40 Gems a spin. The odds are printed under each class name in-game, and they sum to exactly 100 percent.
| Class | Odds | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 40% | Default, no bonuses |
| Pack Mule | 25% | +50% carry capacity |
| Hay Merchant | 14% | +20% money from selling hay |
| Forkmaster | 9% | Pitchfork +25% hay, upgrades 25% cheaper |
| Demolitionist | 7% | Dynamite radius +20%, 10% three-way split |
| Prospector | 3.9% | Diamonds 50% more frequent |
| Drone Specialist | 1% | Permanent drone, +30% speed, +40% carry |
| Ultimate Farmer | 0.1% | All other bonuses at once, plus Golden Harvest |
Chapters
Chapter 1 is the Farmhouse: clear the pile, find the needle. Chapter 2 is the Basement, which opens after the farmer shoves you in and throws the key into the hay.
Chapter 2 has four steps — dig out the key, pull three colour-coded levers, solve three randomly generated puzzles to free the Alien and kill the lasers, then climb the ladder and use the key.
The common trap is assuming the key is enough. Laser traps block the ladder until the puzzles are done, so both objectives are mandatory.
Badges and completion rates
There are exactly four badges. Because Welcome! is awarded just for loading the game, its count works as a headcount and turns the rest into completion rates.
| Badge | Awarded | Share of players |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome! | 13,577,221 | 100% |
| Found the Needle! | 3,092,594 | 22.8% |
| Find the UFO | 2,405,364 | 17.7% |
| Finished Chapter 2! | 1,025,828 | 7.6% |
Find the UFO is the only badge Roblox publishes no description for, and no verified route to it exists. Its award count proves it does not come from the Chapter 2 ending, since more players hold it than have finished that chapter.
Codes and free Gems
There is one working code: ALIEN, for 200 Gems and 200 Alien Coins. No code has ever expired, so there is no expired list.
Free Gems come from the eight-day login track (880 per cycle, with 500 of that on day 8), a one-time free reward panel worth 25 Gems for liking the game and joining the Garage Games group, and completing runs.
A first-week account can reach roughly 1,105 Gems, or about 27 class spins — enough to be nearly certain of landing an A-tier class.
How this wiki labels information
- Official data — straight from Roblox's public APIs or the developers' own channels.
- Cross-verified — confirmed by two or more independent sources that agree.
- Unverified — the thing exists, but no reproducible method or value has been published. We say so instead of guessing.
Where sources disagree, both positions are shown and named. Garage Games ships an update roughly every five days, so every page carries the date its facts were checked.
