Vault 8166 rumor

What Is Vault 8166?
 Vault 8166  was rumored for years to be a hidden server on  Roblox  where unexplainable things beyond usual are occurring. It is allegedly a secret map ran by unknown hackers which have the ability to watch or monitor activity going on 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 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.

On 9/14/2020 the public version was released. The UI panels within the facility cannot be accessed and it is implied that all connections to a hidden API network have been disabled, although is possible to execute some scripts by chatting leaked codes. The facility is divided into multiple "levels", and as of date level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 have been found.

The First Mention of Vault 8166
On November 15th, 2016, an anonymous user created a thread on the Roblox talk sub-forum. This user was claiming to have accidentally gotten onto this "unknown place" while testing out a teleporter for a game. The thread was a brief summary on 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 thread was nowhere to be found, along with the user who posted it. The thread may have been taken off by moderators. If not, something else was at work and it wanted the forum thread gone.

First Leaked Incident
The first footage of the facility (first leaked in January 2017) shows two users with common exploiter avatars walking through one of the main hallways of the facility. Within seconds a "creature" comes out and attacks both users, with the footage ending in the blue screen of death. For years there has been speculation and debate as to what this entity actually is. It is usually spotted near the entrance to level 3, and most believe it to be a "guardian" of the facility. In 2021 alone there have been multiple incidents that have been uploaded to YouTube that intrigued users to investigate more. Users have managed to capture strange occurrences in the vault that are not supposed to happen. Users with exploits have been able to breach the vault in many ways to scare off the users investigating.

Rising incidents also include the "smoke detectors" seen throughout the base emitting paranormal behavior, including their eye turning red when agitated. They are placed throughout the facility and are usually harmless but sometimes have the ability to crash the victim. These [devices?] are most likely controlled by unknown third parties in order to watch users who enter the base.

Guardian
As previously mentioned, vault 8166 has a guardian. Guardian was created to protect the vault from players like us. The main function of the guardian is to run after the players, when touched, he "kills" you. If you are caught by a guardian, then the following list of actions occurs: You die → your account data is saved to the hacker database from the vault → you are kicked out of the server.

Submitted data from the guardian is registered on the board Trello. If you look at one of the cards showing the victim of the guardian, then there will be information about the victim. The data includes: Real and edited name, account ID, premium, region, followed (?), date and time when you were caught by the guardian (you can see in the actions of the card).Holders of the "brain" type are responsible for storing user information. Players only know the board for the public version, only the hackers and the owner (possibly someone else) know the original vault. The GUI that is used for all this is called "Crash GUI".

For some reason, the guardian sightings have completely stopped, the last sighting of the guardian was months ago. It is unknown why the guardians sightings have stopped.

It is not known if the guardian has differences in the original 8166 storage. Rumor has it that if you are caught by the guardian, your computer will shut down for a long time.

Primary Guardian Model Name: OP@########||#

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 escape Level 5 and move around the base is unsolved. 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 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 spawnkilling.
 * 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 spawnkilling incoming users for around 40 minutes before server shutdown once again.

Incident 10/9/2021
On 10/9/2021 a unknown user breached the vault and caused chaos. The user managed to get control of the smoke detector leading to level 3 and the smoke detector leading into the big white room. The user spam activated the two smoke detectors. Scaring users in the game. On further inspection both of the 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 to freak out. There was also a different ringing sound heard that's not affiliated with any smoke detectors.

Footage

Incident 11/13/2021
An unknown user managed to add more ladders into the big white room in level 1. The ladders were unanchored. For unknown reasons, at random times some of the ladders seemed to float intriguing the users at the time the incident occurred.

Footage

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

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 areas of the vault. Later in the day, another user recorded the alarm leading to the big white room randomly activating without it becoming white which us 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 - Attacking spree begins.
 * 5:57 PM - Users panic and head off to different areas of the vault.
 * 5:59 PM - The attacks stop and most of the users have rejoined.
 * 6:01 PM - Alarm mysteriously goes off and attacking spree starts again.
 * 6:02 PM - Most if not all of the users have left.

Footage 1

Footage 2

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

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

Now we know this only means about the public version of the facility, and even then not completely.


 * Level 1 - Most visible area of the game. Does not contain much but guardian sightings are most frequent here[[File:Level1.png.png]]
 * Level 2 - A large and dark room with two high floors on both sides with computers[[File: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. [[File:Level3.png.png]]
 * Level 4 - Next to the entrance of Level 2, contains a floating skull and hall of strange data blocks.[[File:Level4.png.png]]
 * Level 5 - Can be found in level 4. It is the most dangerous area in the facility.[[File: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[[File: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.

A logical explanation on why the "creature" is most spotted near the entrance of level 3 is that the level holds many secrets and users often go searching for the stuff that's most secretive, so the creature guard's that area the most before anyone can see or access something special.

Different screen boxes showing storage logs contain a record of scripts, plugins, and other assets which have been 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 entry "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 of the facility. An important 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 updated with more info related to the guardian and the effects of what happened to the facility after the infamous 2016 footage leaked onto the internet.

Smoke Detectors
Smoke Detectors are appliances [entities?] seen in Vault 8166. They are placed throughout the facility and are usually harmless, only known to be lethal in the most remote areas of the facility by crashing the victim. Their purpose is to be some sort of back up if the guardian doesn't catch you. They have one glowing eye which will turn red when "agitated". One theory is that they are being controlled by an anonymous source to spy on users, but this is unproven. The smoke detectors eye can also turn white, although it's not sure what this indicates, and very rarely, the smoke detectors eye can admit no color at all.

Something that's very noteworthy is that when the smoke detectors eye turns white, it makes a weird sound, which we still don't know why it does that to this day. There is also a very small chance of the smoke detectors breathing, there are many reports of it happening and users witnessing the event.

It is unknown if these smoke detectors could do more cause these are the only recorded 'incidents' of these devices interacting with users in the vault, but its most likely they could do much more.

A detailed inspection into the Smoke Detector model, reveals 5 scripts labeled Alarm, Flash, Masterscript, Normal and Watching each are contained in a single value labeled 'Brain'

It is believed that the Smoke Detectors are controlled via Gui, or some other method like one of the monitors scattered across the vault. More info about these smoke detectors are in the handbook.

Trivia

 * Vial.4S47.png 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.
 * The server itself will not show up on recently played games.
 * The LVL5 Guardian's theme song is the Barney theme song Pitched at 0.15. (True)
 * Inside of one of the Smoke Detectors is a Value holder called "Brain", Inside is a master script, and different values with scripts that activate when the value connected to them is set to true, the values are Normal, Flash, Alarm, and Watching.
 * The Level 5 guardian's file name is "OP30417h", and the level 3 guardian file is "OP@111########ll#"
 * It is only possible to access some secret areas with BTools or Noclip, and in some cases even an exploit.
 * Users caught by the guardian are logged on a Trello board which is found here. It seems however that the Trello board is no longer active, most likely due to the Guardian being inactive in the facility.
 * At the moment, the smoke detectors do not have an alarm sound loaded (the "loaded" item is not checked in the audio file), this explains the lack of beeping.
 * It is unknown if other infamous users are affiliated with the vault.
 * There are many codes that can be executed that can do strange and useful things, however, none of these things are known.
 * There are areas in the vault where you can see but can't to go because of invisible barriers. They seem to hold nothing interesting for now.
 * The alarms and guardian are being controlled by a entity. More info about this is in the handbook.
 * The public version is not the real Vault 8166, it's just a server through which you can get into the real server, but no one knows how.
 * In the past, it was rumored that smoke detectors would 'breathe' at 3:00 AM; this has been proven partially true due to the discovery of a audio labeled 'sound,' which, when played, the sound of breathing can be heard. This was discovered by an unknown player (Presumably a leaker or exploiter.)