Vault 8166 rumor

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What Is Vault 8166?
Vault 8166 was rumored to be a remote server on Roblox where unexplainable things beyond usual are occurring. It is allegedly a secret map run by unknown hackers who can watch or monitor activity between users. It is said that anyone who goes there can gain access to certain information on Roblox and obtain access to an entire database of installations, GUIs, and programs. This facility is believed to be the birthplace of the most dangerous exploits in the games. Software, bots, or viruses are also stored here that have been placed and hidden into Roblox models or plugins. The intentions and history of this place have yet to be known.

People have thought that this forum post was the final message sent by one of the users in the footage above before they got captured after one of the users found out that the footage was taken 2 minutes after the forum post was posted.

The First Mention of Vault 8166
On November 15th, 2016, an anonymous user created a thread on the Roblox talk sub-forum. This user claimed to have accidentally gotten onto this "unknown place" while testing out a teleporter for a game. The thread summarizes how "evil is operating behind our eyes" and that there is a place where dangerous people are gaining access to user profiles and other information as we speak. This secret place was referred to as "Vault 8166". A few hours after the thread was posted, word went out. Mysteriously, the forum was nowhere to be found, along with the user who posted it. Moderators may have taken off the thread. If not, something else was at work, and it wanted the forum thread gone.

New footage surfaced on 7/8/2022 revealing a whole new perspective to the infamous leaked Roblox incident footage, this new footage also gave a more detailed look into the players seen in the footage, although their names are still not visible the previously 'red head' user was shown to have dark red head and arms, a dark green torso, and black legs. While the user colored black is shown to have red fire, and a particle emitter resembling a cross-bone skull. The footage also disproves a theory of there being 3 users, as seen in the footage the red head user walks off screen and then returns a second later, jumps, and the guardian is seen attacking the user with red fire. For a few frames, the red fire user is seen flying off-screen as the guardian appears behind the user. Afterwards, the video ends.

Guardian
Vault 8166 has a guardian that roams around the facility, catching users in its path. Currently it is unknown what happens after it catches you. Almost nothing is known about it's creation and how it came to be, and current research and incident documentation related to the guardian are not yet underway.

There have been mentions of Vault 8166 having other different types of entities, that are not classified by everyone as a "Guardian". Further research as to be accounted for these claims since there have been unaccounted.

The Guardian as seen in multiple footages on YouTube (Notably the original attack footage) is portrayed as a fast skinny black figure with a black particle emitter on its head and upper torso.

It is not known how many incidents there are from the facilities creation up until this point.

Incidents
There have been very few incidents in the early years of Vault 8166, but in recent years, there have many major incidents that have been occurring due to unknown reasons. Below is a list of major incidents that have happened from 2021-now.

Incident 5/20/2021
On 5/20/2021, the automated guardian entity of level 5 went rogue and became controlled by an unknown exploiter. It was able to escape the pit of Level 5 and make its way into level 4 and then into Level 1. How the NPC was able to run Level 5 and move around the base is unsolved. The footage is available of the incident.

Log of the incident recorded in Pacific Standard Time (PST).


 * 7:48 AM - Level 5 Guardian sounds heard near Level 4, users seen running away from Level 4 area.
 * 7:50 AM - Level 5 Guardian made its way into level 1 hall and walked down the hall until reaching the white guardian chamber.
 * 7:55 AM - Level 5 Guardian is seen wandering in the entrance to Level 3, where the regular guardian is usually seen.
 * 7:59 AM-8:02 AM - Attacking spree begins.
 * 8:03 AM - Went to level 1 and started attacking users near the infamous main hall from the first footage.
 * 8:04 AM - It made its way to the spawn and started spawn killing.
 * 8:06 AM - the server was shutdown/locked

Around 20 minutes later, the rogue Level 5 Guardian re-emerged and made its way into Level 1 and spawn killing incoming users for around 40 minutes before the server shut down once again.

Incident 10/9/2021
On 10/9/2021, an unknown user breached the facility and caused chaos. The user managed to get control of the smoke detectors leading to level 3 and the big white room. The user spam activated the two smoke detectors. It was scaring users in the game. On further inspection, both alarms were not agitated, intriguing some users to investigate.

At the same time, there were screams heard in the vault randomly throughout the day, making users freak out. There was also a different ringing sound that was not affiliated with any smoke detectors in the vault.

Log of the incident recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).


 * 10:58 AM - Weird Screams were heard throughout the vault, along with weird ringing noises.
 * 11:01 AM - Smoke detector leading to level 3 was constantly being activated, without any user triggering its sensor.
 * 11:03 AM - Smoke detector at the split hallway was producing screeching noises when its “eye” was green and screams have returned and intensified.
 * 11:11-11:14 AM - The facility was fully breached when the screams, ringing and both alarms were being activated simultaneously.
 * 11:15-11:18 AM - Everything in the facility has died down.
 * 11:19 AM - The smoke detectors started to activate again without users triggering their sensors.
 * 11:24 AM - Screams and thumping noises were heard.
 * 11:27 AM - The majority of users have left and the facility breaches stopped.

Its best to have your volume near 0% when watching the footage since this incident gets really chaotic at times.

Footage

Incident 2/27/2022
On 2/27/2022, an incident occurred like no other. Users in the facility were randomly getting attacked and then instantly kicked. It was unknown what kicked the users until later in the recorded footage.

The culprit of the incident was a user named "Sambloxiki" he was able to capture the golden Guardian. After the capture, he began to teleport a guardian to each player for an inconspicuous time, thereby throwing out users from the server.

After the user who recorded the incident was kicked, many users panicked and left level 1 to different vault areas. Later in the day, another user recorded the smoke detector leading to the big white room randomly activating without it becoming white which is very strange. Then the video cuts to users getting attacked and kicked again.

Log of the incident recorded Pacific Standard Time (PST).
 * 5:53 PM - The Attacking spree begins.
 * 5:57 PM - Users panic and head off to different areas in the facility.
 * 5:59 PM - The attacks stop, and most of the users have rejoined, and users started to investigate.
 * 6:01 PM - The smoke detector at the split hallway mysteriously goes off, and the attacking spree starts again.
 * 6:02 PM - Most if not all of the users have left.

Footage 1

Footage 2

Incident 12/21/2022
On 12/21/2022 multiple users in Vault 8166 Demo were getting flung for unknown reasons. For a brief time, users couldn't even escape the spawn hallway leading into level 1. Users suspect a "test account" is working behind the scenes, and others suspect this is the level 5 golden guardian's doings.

Log of the incident recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)


 * 4:28 AM - Users started to individually get flung.
 * 4:30 AM - Flinging intensifies and most of the users can't leave spawn.
 * 4:31 AM - All users were getting flung simultaneously.
 * 4:33-4:39 AM - Users could wander around the facility, but people kept getting flung.
 * 4:41 AM - The flinging has stopped entirely, and users started to investigate.

Most likely this "Test Account" or some other obscure user was experimenting with their ability to fling users in the vault, attempting to trap users from exploring.

{ note left by me, the user who did it, 2004x2007x2004x2007 }

hey, im the one who did this incident, and it was hilarious.

Footage

Other Incidents
Multiple other footages have been uploaded to YouTube showing surprise attacks made by the Guardian. The Playlist's below shows incidents of all sorts happening in the facility, most of which are guardian breaches done by unknown users. However, these footages are minor and usually isn't chaotic.

There are so many minor incidents related to the guardians and the smoke detectors that we can't cover them all here, so you're going to have to search for them yourselves.

Facility
Although not much is known about the facility, anyone who enters the game will spawn at Level 1. To get anywhere else in the facility can only be done through secret passages or BTools.


 * Level 1 - Most visible area of the game. Does not contain much but guardian sightings are most frequent here.Level1.png.png
 * Level 2 - A large and dark room with two high floors on both sides with computers.Level2.png.png
 * Level 3 - Entrance is past the big white room and smoke detector trap in Level 1. Most likely what the guardian entity is trying to protect. Level3.png.png
 * Level 4 - Next to the entrance of Level 2, contains a floating skull and hall of strange data blocks.Level4.png.png
 * Level 5 - Can be found in level 4. It is the most dangerous area in the facility.Level5.png.png
 * Level 6 - Unknown
 * Level 7 - Easy entrance through level 1, does not seem to hold much, there is a place past a code door, past that is an empty room, and an active Smoke Detector.RobloxScreenShot20220227 221614612.png
 * Level 8 - Unknown
 * Level 9 - Unknown

The hallway shown in the first footage in 2016 takes place in Level 1, and it was most likely that the Guardian was chasing the users because they tried to enter Level 3.

Different screen boxes showing storage logs contain a record of scripts, plugins, and other assets submitted to the database of Vault 8166. None of the usernames are shown, but one of the screen logs above the big white room in Level 1 contains an "EXTRA LAYER SECURITY THEY KNOW" submitted on 10/30/2016, which was around the time that rumors started to surface about Vault 8166.

Handbook 8166
A public document has surfaced with insider info on Vault 8166. It contains brief history and information about the facility. A vital code is revealed on page 8, which gives any user the ability to bypass some security measures in Vault 8166. The author is anonymous.

On 1/04/2022, the handbook was updated with more info related to the Guardian and the effects of what happened to the facility after the infamous 2017 footage leaked onto the internet.

Theories
There have been many theories from users that have investigated Vault 8166, and the ones listed could connect the dots to discovering certain mysteries and loose ends.


 * A user in the 2017 footage must have survived to post a forum, most people suspect that the user left before the entity guard caught him.
 * Some sort of unknown entity had silenced the user who posted the forum, since he was never heard from again.
 * Vault 8166 may potentially have secret teleporters in the game that we don't know of, since there have been incidents during the earlier days of Vault 8166 where people we're teleported to these strange places. Unfortunately they were unaccounted for.
 * There have been mentions of other Vaults secretly in operation, and that there are ways to enter these mysterious Vaults.

Trivia



 * The numbers in the title are the first four numbers of 1x1x1x1's user ID. But it is unknown whether 1x1x1x1 is affiliated with Vault 8166 or not.
 * Vault 8166 is believed to have existed since 2014, although this has never been confirmed.
 * The server itself will not show up on recently played games, and doesn't have a game profile page, which makes it harder to locate.
 * There is no official Vault 8166 creator found yet. Even tho there's a lot of recreations out there.
 * Anyone who is able to get themselves into Vault 8166 will hide their username and identity, so it is not exactly known who has been there.
 * There is no official Vault 8166 creator found yet. Even tho there's a lot of recreations out there.
 * Anyone who is able to get themselves into Vault 8166 will hide their username and identity, so it is not exactly known who has been there.