YouTubers Face the Ultimate 99 Nights in the Forest Roblox Challenge
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A team of YouTubers attempts an ultra-hard version of the Roblox game '99 Nights in the Forest.' With strict time limits to rescue children and a brutal final boss fight featuring a shared health mechanic, the group fights to survive and win money for their subscribers.
Guest: Jimmy (MrBeast)
Key takeaways
- A group of YouTubers attempted to survive 99 nights in a custom, high-difficulty Roblox forest game to win prize money for their subscribers.
- The challenge featured escalating difficulty, including stronger enemies, environmental hazards like snow, and a shared health mechanic during the final boss fight.
- Players had to balance base building, resource gathering, and rescuing missing children within strict time limits to avoid player elimination.
- The final challenge involved defeating the 'Cult King' while managing a shared health pool, where damage taken by one player affected everyone.
- The successful completion of the challenge resulted in $100,000 being awarded to subscribers of the participating channels.
The Ultimate Roblox Survival Challenge
In a high-stakes Roblox challenge hosted by MrBeast, a group of popular YouTubers attempted to survive "99 Nights in the Forest." The developers created a custom, significantly more difficult version of the game, designed to test the group's coordination and survival skills. The objective was clear: survive the forest, rescue missing children, and defeat the final boss within 99 nights to win $99,000 for their subscribers.
The game introduced brutal mechanics to increase the difficulty. If the team failed to rescue key children by specific day milestones, one player would be randomly eliminated. The environment itself became more lethal over time, introducing wolves, polar bears, and upgraded cultists, while the fire—a critical source of survival—required constant maintenance.
Cooperation and Survival Mechanics
Survival required constant teamwork. Players had to gather resources, maintain a central fire, and manage hunger with farming and cooking. As the game progressed, the challenges intensified; players had to navigate snow biomes, fight bosses like mammoths, and handle increasingly aggressive waves of enemies. The team frequently dealt with internal chaos, including accidental fire-killing incidents and playful betrayals, as they struggled to keep everyone alive.
The stakes were raised significantly in the final act. To defeat the "Cult King," the developers implemented a shared health system: any damage taken by one player was applied to the entire group. This forced the remaining players to play with extreme caution, as a single mistake by one person could lead to the total failure of the mission.
The Final Victory
After nearly 99 nights of intense struggle, the remaining players faced the Cult King. Despite previous losses and the pressure of the shared health pool, Caylus and Steak successfully delivered the final blows to the boss. Their victory ensured that the prize money would be distributed to their subscribers. Jimmy concluded the event by instructing the participants to select random subscribers to receive the winnings, marking a successful end to the grueling survival challenge.
Timestamps
- 00:00The Rules of the 99 Nights Challenge
- 02:14First Night Survival and Early Enemies
- 03:22Trading and Defending the Camp
- 05:01Rescuing the First Child
- 06:42The Game Gets Harder: Day 40 Milestone
- 10:24Navigating the Snow Biome and Polar Bears
- 13:36Base Building and Upgraded Cultists
- 20:31Fighting Mammoths and Saving the Third Child
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00:00Whoever survives the next 99 nights in the forest will split $99,000 for their subscribers. Yes! That is so much money. Get wood, lock in. [Steak] Wood, wood! Everybody, go chop trees! Ok. Jimmy, I'm 30, which means I should be five times better than the average Roblox player. [laughing] [Jimmy] In this game, you survive in the forest and try to find the missing kids. But since these guys are actually really good at Roblox, I worked with the developers to make this the hardest version of 99 Nights in the Forest ever made. How hard could it be? For starters, if we don't find the first missing child before Day 20, one of us will be eliminated and win absolutely nothing for our subscribers.
00:35Oh, no! Ok. Speedrun! Speedrun. Come save the first kid with me. Guys. You can't-- We gotta get the fire to level two and then level three as quick as we can. [Caylus] I need a lot of wood. Gather the logs. Throw it in the fire, buddy. [Jimmy] We leveled up the fire! [Caylus] Map's grown. I've got this. Oh, I can see wolves, man. Let me go see if they're friendly. Hey, buddy. [wolf growling] They're not friendly! [Steak] Lazarbeam! No, I got you, bro. We got this. Oh, wolves! Die! Die! [Lazar] Yeah! Food! [Caylus] Guys, at night, there is a deer in this forest that will hunt you down. The deer is going to be insanely OP. I already know. [Caylus] Night is approaching! [Foltyn] Night time!
01:14Wait, are we about to get attacked? Surely this video still gets uploaded if Jimmy dies, like, Night 2, right? [chuckling] I have an idea. We should just kill Steak so our subscribers make more money. Why? I'm literally trying to help you! Oh, tonight's going to be cooked. [Steak] Hey guys, there's no deer on Night 1, right? Wait, I'm gonna go out and test it.
01:34[screams] A twig snapped! He's out there. [Steak] Uh… Oh! Oh, no. [screams] It's here. It's here. Oh! There he is! [Caylus] Get back! [Steak] Oh my gosh! [Lazar] Yo, what's up buddy? We are friendly. We come in peace. We come in peace.
01:56[Caylus] Alright, we're good. Let's go!
02:02Guys, I leveled up the fire. Alright? We need weapons. [Steak] Oh, that's the trader! We have to trade bunny feet. Kill bunnies. That's the only way. I'm killing 'em. Gather the loot. Ooh! Guys, I got a revolver. Who gave him a gun? [Steak] We gotta go out and loot, bro. Please, please. Oh! I got a spear. Night's approaching. Oh! We're cooked. [Foltyn] Oh my gosh. [Steak] Ok, we got this. We got two guns here, bro. I just got one. Yeah, yeah. Oh my-- Guys! There's cultists there. [Jimmy] Defend the camp! Ok, everybody fall back! Fall back to camp. Fall back! Ay! Get outta here! Jimmy, I'll protect you. You mean more to the world than I do. [Steak] Oh, nice. Nice, nice.
02:43Ok, we got this. We got this. Oh! [chuckles] Alright, we got 'em. Let's go! Let me show you what we do to people around here. Put their bodies on the fire. [Steak] Burn them! Guys, we have 15 days left or one of us will be randomly killed. [Steak] Oh, man.
03:01I need bunnies. [Thea] Dude, I found the kids. There's like seven cultists with guns. Be careful. Don't die. Meet at the fire. Let's go to the kid. Ok! Follow me to the child. Lead the way. There's so many enemies. [Jimmy] We can save this kid. Let's do it. There are so many people! There's so many. I care about my fans, so I'm standing at the back. Wait, we're actually doing insane, bro. Ok, I have a spear. Look at this. Oh yeah, get off me! Make sure to get the wolf pelts! Get the wolf pelts. Yeah, get the wolf pelts. You're gonna need that. No, there's still more. There's, like, two more. Got ‘em! Let's go. Got the key! [Steak] Yes! [Lazar] Good job, team. [Foltyn] There we go.
03:46Alright. No, no, I'm saving the kid. I'm the hero! No! I got shut behind the door! No! [Thea] Guys, the kid is right here. I got it, I got it! Let's go! No, I'm not gonna get any of the credit!
04:02The kid is saved. Woo! Now that we have saved the first kid, the game is now gonna get exponentially harder. And if we don't save the second kid before Day 40, someone will once again be randomly eliminated. We got this, bro. Where's the next one? Let's see. Six hundred meters that way. Ok. We need to increase the fire size! It's easy. I'm burning their bodies on the fire. That's what happens to our enemies.
04:33[screaming] Ah! Oh my gosh! What in the world?! [Jimmy] They do more damage now, we gotta clutch up. Guys, actually lock in. Oh, I'm almost dead. I'm almost dead. I told you the game gets harder as we save the children! I shouldn't have said how hard it could get because it's actually getting hard. I'm bobbing and weaving. I'm low health. Alright, we got him. We got him. [Steak] Good job, guys. Good job. [Steak] Oh, no! It's raining. Wait, the fire's going down. [Steak] Guys, we need to keep the fire open. If it goes out, we are absolutely screwed! Day 10! Dude, we're doin' this. The food is going down way too fast. I'm not gonna lie.
05:09We need a crock pot and farm plots, and we will never get hungry. True. Yeah, yeah, we need a lot of farms. Ok, W! We got the crockpot. Perfect. Great job.
05:21Hey, if we don't find the next kid in 26 days, one of us will be killed. Guys, lock in, lock in! The kid's out there. Yeah, this is actually starting to get hard. I was-- I thought they were joking. This is tough. I'm actually stressing. Dude, we're one fifth of the way through, bro. We still haven't saved the second kid. Guys… We gotta find where the kid is. Let's go, let's go. Alright, let's go. Follow Caylus. I'm comin', I've got a crossbow now. I'm locked in. I'm ready. [Steak] You better not be leading us to our imminent death. [Caylus] No, no. Don't worry. [Foltyn] This is the biggest mistake of our lives. Guys, 16 days until someone's randomly dead that I hope is Steak. Bro…
05:59There's so many wolves, guys! Guys, I don't know about this. No, this is not a good idea. Caylus, you brought us to our death. [Caylus] Guys, go back, maybe. [high-pitched] I'm all by myself out here. I don't know where to go.
06:15I hear the deer! I think it's eating Foltyn. Honestly, Lazar, you need be more grateful that I'm here.
06:24Oh, wait, the deer! The deer's on me! Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. He's-- [Caylus] Are you good? No! He's on me, but he can't catch me. He can't catch me, I'm too fast. I'm too fast-- [tiny scream] Oh! Let's go! That was-- Oh my gosh, that was last-second. [Caylus] It's Day 26. We need to lock in. [Lazar] I'm gonna go find this kid. [Thea] Snow biome, right here. Guys, I found the second child. [Foltyn] Wait. Where? [Thea] It's right here in the snow biome. Is that a polar bear guarding the kid? [Caylus] The polar bear is actually terrifying. [Jimmy] I'm just gonna go rescue the kid in the snow. I don't care. You're going to die. I'm too cold to sprint. Oh my gosh.
07:04We need to build protective gear before we can go in the snow. [Caylus] Where do we build those, though? [Lazar] It's in the hut in the snow. Build some snow protection gear. Put the earmuffs on. Where'd my head go?! We gotta do that ASAP, though. It's Day 28, guys!
07:19Where is this child? No, this is bad. This is a bad idea. Yeah, that's probably a bad idea. Oh, that is the kid! That's the kid. Look at this kid. Come on. Oh, there's a polar bear! [screams] [Thea] Guys, there's a polar bear coming! He's quick, he's quick. Could someone shoot the dude chasing me? What?! Hold the line! Ah!
07:46I got the key. [Foltyn] Let's go! [Lazar] With ten days to spare, we've done it! [Thea] Be free, child. [Caylus] Grab the kid. We got two kids. Let's go! Now that we have saved the second missing kid, the cultists have just got a massive upgrade and are gonna be much tougher, and there's more creatures in the forest, and we have to save the third kid before Day 60 or, once again, someone will die. Oh my gosh. MrBeast never makes it easy.
08:16[Jimmy] Alright, here comes the upgraded cultists, good luck. Oh, they're big now! Oh! What is that? Oh, wait. He's bigger. Should we get some, uh… some furniture? Oh, I'm so glad you're thinking about chairs! You useless Roblox YouTubers, I swear. Hey, I have been helping you, bro. I've been helping you. Ok, I got this guy. Juggernaut?! You aren't wrong.
08:43[Jimmy] Alright, let's make a house and some walls. Oh, yeah, yeah. We should do that. The pelt trader has arrived. Ok. I need the pelt trader. Ooh, ok, I'm gonna get the giant sack. Should I get the strong axe or iron armor? Uh… Strong axe. Strong axe. Yeah. Strong axe. I can chop down the big trees now. Jimmy, look. Look, Jimmy.
09:04Chop down faster, you slowpoke. I know, what is this? I thought this was, uh, a great axe. Chop! Chop! I'm trying!
09:14There we go. Look at all that wood. Should we get the next kid or nah? I mean, we have 20 days, I guess, right? It's actually in our best interest not to find the third child yet because it'll make everything harder. I think build a base, build a base. Yeah. We need a base. I've never even built in this game before.
09:34Ok guys, this base is looking insane by the way. We're almost halfway there. We're doing good. We need to save the other kid, too, by Day 60. Do not forget this.
09:45Guys, I'm officially closing up the wall. Boom, baby! Yes! W base. Dude, it's so cool. [Steak] Ok, guys, this base, I can't even lie, this is looking amazing. Look at the trees, bro. They're gonna stop the guys. Wait, here's the juggernauts. Let's see how they get in. Oh, yeah. They're not gonna be-- Oh my gosh. Wait, they can get in. Oh my gosh. They're climbing walls. Wait, now we're trapped with them! How do I get out? These walls have just trapped us in. We built the walls to keep ‘em out, but little did we know, they're keeping us in. [Lazar] Yeah, I've just, like, abandoned our base, guys. I've abandoned it, like, there's no point.
10:20How do we make walls that actually, you know, keep things out. [Jimmy] Wait, I might die. No! [Thea] No, Jimmy! [Foltyn] No! We could revive him, right, like? [Caylus] Yeah, we can revive him. [Foltyn] But we need to find bandages. It's fine. I'll just eat some of my MrBeast Jack Link's collab beef sticks. I got a bandage. Yo, I'm coming. Go save him, yes! Where'd you get bandages? But there's people…
10:44Alright, Jimmy. [Foltyn] We're not letting you die, man. There you go. I think we have a problem with the trees. Wait, what's wrong with the trees? They don't collide with the leaves of the trees, so they jump onto the trees. The trees are actually worsening our problem. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. Hey Steak, can you please get wood? Please, ASAP. I need ammo. [Steak] Look at what I just got for you. Look at that. Look at that, baby. Let's build this ammo crate. Ammo crate time. Yes! Let's go! Finally. Caylus, do you wanna go on an adventure with me? Hey, I'm down. Let's go together. See you guys. [Jimmy] Let's go on an adventure. Let's hit it.
11:19I think they're gonna betray us, for sure. Alright, well, let's betray them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm cool with that. Guys, I can lowkey hear you. We're not saying you. You're in this call right now. Like, I'm saying, Jimmy's about to betray you as well. [laughing] Wait. There's gonna be something good in this treasure chest. [Caylus] The furniture man is here. I'm getting furniture for us, guys. Finally. Ooh, we got a lot of good stuff here, I'm not gonna lie. Ooh, beanbag, that's nice. Alright, I'm coming back, and I'm gonna make this camp look nice.
11:51[Caylus] Day 50 halfway there! We are only halfway done for this, bro. So, what'd you guys, uh… what you guys do over there? Nothing. Alright, it's just interesting that you guys were all off on your own, you had like some sort of secret stuff going on. Yeah, you guys left us. What were you guys talking about? Don't worry about it. Here, I'm doubling up the walls. Let's see what happens. Bro, if they can jump over one wall, they can jump over two walls. Ok. Crazy idea: triple walls. Now you're thinking. Man, that's a good idea. We're running out of time to save that kid. Yeah, guys, we should save the child, or else it's game over for one of us. Now's the time. Yes, yes, yes.
12:25So where could the third one be? I don't know.
12:31I found the kid! Wait, you found him? How do we save the kid? What do we have to kill? [Steak] There's mammoths, bro. Oh my gosh, wait, we have to kill those mammoths? We're cooked. You guys got flashlights? Yeah, I got a flashlight, but we gotta fight this stuff first. Wait, go in this building. Go in this building, go in this building… Hide in here.
12:51Ow, ow.
12:55Oh my God. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. Lazar, there's no bandages anywhere. Well, surprise, surprise. It's just me. Here. I'll kill this guy on your dead body. Thanks, Jimmy. I always love you, man. Uh, It's great. Always a pleasure. Ok, you don't have to-- You don't have to do that. You don't have to jump on my dead body. Wait, wait. It says hold E to revive with bandage. Should I do that? Maybe do it now. It's not time, Jimmy. Oh, wait. It said you need a bandage to do that. Ok, well, have fun being dead. Goodbye. I hope you die in the night, Jimmy. I hope you die, buddy.
13:30We need to save the kid. [Caylus] Alright, we gotta kill these. We gotta kill these. No!
13:38Nice. We need one more bear. One more bear. Wait, where's the bear? Where's the last bear?
13:44No, no, no! No! No, no, no!
13:50Oh my gosh. I might be dead, no! No! [Caylus] Foltyn! I don't have a bandage. No! [Steak] What happened? I might be dead. [shrieking] [Steak] Oh my gosh. [Jimmy] Oh, no. I'm on top of a mammoth. [laughs] I got a med kit. Who do I use it on? Come revive me. It's time to pick your favorite out of us three. Oh, I found a bandage! Nice. Let's go! Caylus, where are you? I'm here to revive Caylus. There he is. Oh! You didn't tell me there was a hole in the ground there. Caylus! I didn't even know. Oh, this is bad. This is really bad. I could save someone over here. I'm gonna save Foltyn. Yes! Thank you. You're the only one I can save, bro.
14:34Guys, in two days, one of us is gonna be randomly killed. [Caylus] I need you guys to work together and kill these mammoths and bears. Ok, I'm gonna try. I'm gonna take this mammoth. You take that one. Wait. Ok, ok, I'll try. Wait, which-- These two mammoths right here? [Caylus] Yeah, and then you get the kid. [Caylus] Oh my God, be careful of the traps. I've almost got the mammoth. He's dead! [Caylus] There's one more mammoth back here. I'm killing the last mammoth. I got the last mammoth. I got the key! [Caylus] Let's go! Get the kid. Get the kid right now! No!
15:12Dude, I can't escape. Oh my God. Oh my God. [Jimmy] Wait, Steak, do you have the kid? [Steak] I saved the kid. -[Foltyn] Let's go! -[Thea] Yay! With five seconds! You had five seconds. Oh my gosh. That was crazy. Now that we have saved the third kid, going forward, if someone's not near the fire, it will go out. [Caylus] Wait, what? If we do not save the final kid by Day 80, someone random will die. Hey guys, being dead ain't so bad. Oh. Oh, you can pick me up? Wait, since when do you pick someone up? Woo! Dance party, dance party. Wait, do you wanna swim? What-- Bro, threw me in the water! Alright, let me put you in the fire. Ok. You just tried to cook me.
15:54Wait, can I throw him over the thing? Watch this. [all laughing] I'll build a playpen for him. This is miserable! [Foltyn] Oh, he's got the premium playpen! I'll leave a door into his little playpen. [Lazar] Oh, we got the cultist in here, now it's a real playpen. Let's go. I found a bandage! Please, Caylus. Please, I beg you. Free me from MrBeast's playpen, please! [laughs] Here you go. I got you, bro. Ugh! I'm back. Wait, everyone! By the fire now. This is the most important part of the video. -[Caylus] Oh! -[Foltyn] What the…? [Jimmy] Three, two, one! Day 6-7! Woo! Oh! Oh! Can I go back to being dead?
16:35Dude, I just put 25 wood, and it went up by three. I've got some fuel canisters. I'm coming back. I got it, I got it.
16:45You're kidding. We're at 99! I got you, bro. I got you guys.
16:50[All] Yes! [Foltyn] Woo! Yo! Finally, we maxed it out. Ok, where's this other kid at? Oh, is this the lava kid? [Caylus] We can actually get that kid right now. Guys, lowkey, this kid is probably scared and, like, alone. Oh my gosh, we have five days left to save the kid. Oh my gosh! We gotta go. Come on, guys. Yeah, I'm like… Oh, I'm invading igloos.
17:13Ooh, I got an ice axe, epic. Wait, what igloo? I'll come join you. Uh, if you can see me. I'm over here. Oh, no! [Lazar] Jimmy has died. Oh, come with me, buddy! While waiting to be revived, I wanna tell you guys about this big one million dollar giveaway that we're doing on Whatnot. Whatnot is a platform where people buy, sell, and auction literally anything live. And I'm giving away over a million dollars in prizes live on Whatnot for the big game on February 8th. Jimmy, do you need help? Oh, he needs help! What is he doing to you? No! Whoa! Ok, I threw him way too far. [Jimmy] We're giving away a Lamborghini, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, and to make things even better…
17:52this computer right here that I just signed is one of many items we will be giving away on February 8th. No purchase necessary. So, follow me on Whatnot to be notified when the stream goes live. That's actually insane! That's so insane! I have to revive you for that. There's no reason not to download Whatnot. It's literally free. [Caylus] But do you wanna go get that kid? We have five days. Where's the kid again? In the fire biome? [Steak] Yep. I'm heading there now. [Caylus] Yeah. Let's go, let's go. Is it all elephants we have to kill? Let's hunt them to extinction! We all need to work together. It's teamwork. [elephant trumpet] [Foltyn] Let's go! [Lazar] We got five days!
18:25We can do this. Let's get these mammoths. [elephant trumpet] Behind you! [Jimmy] Oh, oh! Oh! Oh! Nonstop kill mammoths. [Thea] We can do it! [screams] They're really low. [Caylus] Perfect. [Jimmy] We got two days. [Steak] We're so close! [Thea] Ok, ok, ok. It's the last one. We're right here. We might be able to clutch this! I think we got 'em. [Thea] Yes, yes, yes. Wait, wait! It's the cultist, has it probably. Oh, yes! Go, go, go. [Caylus] Go quick, go quick. It's ok, it's ok. Come on, come on… [Steak] We have 17 seconds! We're not gonna do it, bro. I have the kid right now. I have the kid. We're not gonna make it. We got it! We're not gonna make it! Come on! We can do it!
19:07[Caylus] You got it! Four, three… [Caylus] Are you good?! Oh, I did it! Yes! [laughs] Oh, dude! Literally seconds! [Jimmy] Every single missing kid has officially been found. But here's the deal, now comes the hardest part of the entire video. We have to kill the hardest version of the cult king ever made in history. What? Starting now, any time you take damage, everyone takes damage. [exclaims] We're cooked! If no one is alive on Day 99, no fans receive any money. [Steak] We gotta keep this fire going. [Caylus] Cultist! Oh, we're taking damage so far-- Oh! Don't get damaged! Oh, who just got damaged? Oh, whoa, whoa! Who's getting hit?
19:51Run, run, run! Seriously run! This is really bad. We gotta play it safe guys, we can't leave the base. [Jimmy] That was crazy. We almost all died. Heal by the fire, guys. Everyone, try to get by the fire maybe. [Lazar] Tomorrow is the final day! We make the final push to liberate this land! Woo! What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? Before Day 99. -[Jimmy] Let's go! -[Lazar] Yeah! [Caylus] Let's go! [Foltyn] Woo! Time to slay the cult king! [Lazar] There's no coming back! The cult king dies or we die! [Caylus] Come on, lock in! [Jimmy] Is this it right here? Alright, start picking 'em off. Wait, who's taking damage? Yeah, I'm one shot. You can't take damage, guys.
20:33Whoa, whoa! Be careful, be careful. Ready for this? Yeah, I think we're good. Ok. Let's do this. Should I do it? I'm doing it. [Lazar] Yo, what? What's that? [screaming] Oh! [Jimmy screams] [Foltyn] Shine the lights on 'em! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! There's no way-- Oh my gosh! No! Foltyn, you killed me! How did I kill you? Because, look, your name popped up first, which means you did the damage to all of us. Foltyn, no! I'm dead! No! [Lazar] It's up to these two to save us. These two have to save the video. Fight 'em! Fight 'em! Oh my God, that's the cultist king? Caylus! [Jimmy] He's walking on my dead body! [Foltyn] You guys can win it! We got this. It's just me and you.
21:18[Caylus] Steak, lock in. I'm right here. [Lazar] You're doing good damage! We got this! Caylus! Caylus! We can do this! [Lazar] The king is stuck in a tree! Yes! Let's go. Come on, Steak. Come on! [Foltyn] He's one shot! The last shot! -[Steak] Yes! -[Foltyn] Let's go! We did it! We did it! I finally won! [Jimmy] Congratulations, Caylus and Steak! Guys, pick a random subscriber from each of your channels, DM me their names. I will send them $50,000 each, AKA $100,000 in total. If you guys haven't already, subscribe and download Whatnot. Catch ya later!
