Summer Beach Party

The Summer Beach Party was an event that first ran from 29 June 2015 until the end of August 2015. The crater was transformed into a beach and the event was organised by Battle of Lumbridge survivor Reyna.

The Summer Beach Party returned on 15 August 2016, running until 12 September.



Preparations
For about half a week prior to the beach party itself players were able to bring Reyna buckets of sand each day in exchange for mystery boxes. In 2016 20 buckets of sand were needed per day.

A big mystery box could be received from Reyna after delivering sand to her on each of the five preparation days. In 2016 players had to claim their big mystery boxes on 15 August before the game update. The rewards from the mystery boxes and big mystery boxes were updated for the 2016 party.

Activities
There are various activities around the beach, which can be used to gain experience in different skills. Unique item tokens could also be a rare prize from any of the activities during 2015.

The filling of a temperature gauge to the right of the screen indicates how close the player is to reaching the daily experience cap, which can be reset 3 times a day by eating an ice cream.

You can only eat an ice cream at "Inferno" status.

Every 15 minutes a different activity is spotlighted, which provides an extra 10% experience buff to the relevant skilling activity. The spotlighted activity differs from world to world.

During the 2016 Summer Beach Party there is an additional happy hour mechanic which may be activated by Jagex Moderators. During Happy Hour participation in the beach party does not raise the temperature gauge and all activities except terrorbird racing are spotlighted.

Barbecues
3 grills and 3 large chopping boards can be found in the north-eastern corner of the beach. They can be used to gain Cooking experience, and are run by Nigel.

Each skilling spot can be used to gain experience twice per interaction which takes a total of 18 seconds. At level 99 Cooking, 584 Cooking experience is obtained. The Cooking activities can be done about 108 times before reaching 100% temperature.

Raw tropical trout may also be deposited here for Fishing experience.

Beach Ball Rolling
The Beach ball rolling portal can be found in the northern area of the beach. Entering it teleports the player to the beach ball rolling event island where players roll beach balls down a slope and run after them, trying to keep upright for as long as possible. Participating in the Beach Ball Rolling grants Agility experience. At level 99 Agility, 12.3 Agility experience is awarded for every metre stood upright. Players fall over if they collide with an object on the route. They can also fall over randomly without colliding and inevitably fall over at the 45 metres, making it impossible to reach the bottom. For stumbling right at the beginning 1 Agility experience is rewarded.

Note: The beach ball rolling activity is glitched; there is a possibility of falling over nothing.

This activity was initially released on 13 July 2015, as part of batch 2 of the beach.

Clawdia
Clawdia is an hourly boss who emerges from the water-filled hole in the middle of the crater 45 minutes after every hour. This is indicated by rain falling at the beach. She is level 250 and has 1,500,000 life points, with damage dealt scaling to the player's level and life points. If Clawdia retreats before being killed, it still rewards the participating players.

Upon defeat, Clawdia rewards players with the items gotten by skilling on the beach. Note that fighting Clawdia doesn't increase the temperature gauge and can thus still be fought for rewards even if the temperature gauge is full.

During the 2015 event, players could maximise their Clawdia kills by world hopping to defeat her during the five minutes that she appeared each hour. In 2016 it was changed so that Clawdia could only be looted once per hourly spawn.

Coconut Shy
There is one coconut shy on the beach (two in 2015), located in the south-eastern corner and run by Sarah. It provides Ranged experience relative to the type of projectile thrown and the player's Ranged level. Tropical coconuts from Palm Tree Farming can also be deposited here for Farming experience.

At level 99 Ranged, throwing a ball succesfully yields 198 Ranged experience. Cabbages yields 5/3 times that (330 Ranged experience), and chinchompas yields 5/7 times that (141.4 Ranged experience).

If the "play" option is selected on the stall, an interface opens where the item selection can be made. The stall can also be right-clicked to quickly start throwing any of the items. After the item is selected, the player attempts to knock off the coconuts for a maximum of 10 times per interaction. Each attempt can cause either experience being gained, the item bouncing off the coconut ("It bounced off the coconut. So close.") or the coconut being missed ("You missed the coconut, maybe next time.").

A player can successfully throw 300 times before reaching 100% temperature.

Hook a Duck
Hook a Duck is an event that first appeared in 2016. It is run by Sarah. In it the player must choose from three types of rod to fish at the booth and gain Hunter experience. The experience gained scales by the player's level in Hunter.


 * Light weight - average catch rate and average experience (234 Hunter experience per catch at level 99)
 * Fast action - lower catch rate and higher experience (390 Hunter experience per catch at level 99; 5/3 times the experience gained with the light weight rod)
 * Magnetic - higher catch rate and lower experience (167.1 Hunter experience per catch at level 99; 5/7 times the experience gained with the light weight rod)

If the "play" option is selected on the stall, an interface opens where the rod selection can be made. The stall can also be right-clicked to quickly start catching with any of the rods. After the rod is selected, the player attempts to catch a duck for a maximum of 10 times per interaction. Each attempt can cause either experience being gained, the duck slipping away ("The duck just slips away. So close.") or the duck being missed ("The duck was no where near your rod, maybe next time.").

Palm Tree Farming
There are 16 palm trees with coconuts found around the beach, grown by Palmer. They can be harvested for Farming experience and tropical coconuts.

Each picked coconut yields 34 Farming experience at level 99 Farming, taking 1.8 seconds for each coconut. After a random amount of coconuts picked the tree becomes depleted for a while. 500 coconuts can be gathered before reaching 100% temperature.

Additional Farming experience can be gained by depositing the tropical coconuts in the pile of coconuts east of Sarah, by the coconut shies. At 99 Farming each deposited coconut gives 8.5 Farming experience, a quarter of the experience given for picking them. This doesn't increase the temperature and you can thus get the XP for depositing coconuts after having filled the temperature gauge.

Rock Pools
The rock pools can be found on the east side of the beach, overseen by Wellington. Raw tropical trout can be caught here from the 4 fishing spots for Fishing experience. At level 99 Fishing, 239.3 Fishing experience is gained for each trout caught. Further Fishing experience can be gained by depositing the raw trout at the table north of Nigel, by the grills. This gives quarter of the experience received when catching the trouts (59.8 Fishing experience at level 99 Fishing).

Toy pirate battleships can also be found here, to fight toy royal battleships, earning the player Construction experience.

94 Trout can be fished before reaching 100% temperature. Depositing the fish at the table does not increase the temperature and can thus be done even after reaching the maximum temperature.

Sandcastle Building
Foreman George runs the sandcastle building, located in the north-western corner of the beach. Building the sandcastles rewards Construction experience. Players can build the corresponding tower to the current NPC guest to earn double experience. The NPC guest will spawn next to Foreman George and will change every few minutes.

Players will automatically stop shoveling when they tire out after 20 scoops of sand. For each scoop at the incorrect location with level 99 Construction, 36.7 Construction experience is awarded, and building the correct sandcastle doubles this to 73.4 Construction experience. One scoop takes 3 seconds. This activity can be done about 301 times before reaching 100% temperature.

Each sandcastle model has four different states and players can work together to advance the states.

Terrorbird Racing
Terrorbird Racing is a new event that featured for the first time in the 2016 Summer Beach Party. In it, the players participate in a race across Misthalin which awards an amount of Agility experience dependent on how quickly the course is completed. There are global and world hiscores for race completion times that can be checked on the starting portal. The global hiscores may take some time to update.

Players may participate in Terrorbird Racing once an hour, during the first 30 minutes past the hour. Terrorbird Racing does not increase the temperature gauge and can thus be played even if the gauge is filled. To participate in the race players must have a terrorbird mount. Previously unlocked terrorbird mounts can be used, or a mount of random colour can be obtained from the crate of Terrorbird costumes near Xuan at the race's start point. However, the mount from the crate will be removed each day upon the daily reset.

The race route is indicated by arrow signs and gates through which the player must pass. Teleporting and other means of getting around the course faster are permitted; all that counts is passing the gates. If the time runs out in the middle of the race, the race has failed and no experience is awarded. The experience is rewarded at 99 Agility as follows:

The gates along the route can be found:
 * 1) At the start/finish line just north of the beach in the Lumbridge Crater.
 * 2) Between Lumbridge and the Kharidian Desert.
 * 3) North of the Kharidian Desert.
 * 4) Between the Kharidian Desert and Varrock.
 * 5) Below Varrock (south of the Varrock Lodestone).
 * 6) By the river Lum (west of the Champions' Guild).
 * 7) Above Draynor Village (east of the Draynor Lodestone).
 * 8) At the start/finish line just north of the beach in the Lumbridge Crater again.

Terrorbird Racing is never spotlit.

Weight Training


There are five body building podiums south of where Clawdia spawns; these podiums are run by two bodybuilders, Ivan and Greta. Participating in the activity gives Strength experience when doing one of the following four actions:
 * Curl
 * Lunge
 * Fly
 * Raise

There is a warning about gaining Strength experience that can be toggled off permanently. Players earn experience for each of the actions that they perform and quadruple experience can be gained by following the bodybuilders' demonstration. At level 99 Strength, 19.8 Strength experience is gained for every incorrect action and 79.2 Strength experience for correct ones. After starting working out, the player continues to work out until leaving manually. While working out, the player occasionally says one of the following lines:
 * Feel the burn!
 * Oof!
 * Uuuh!
 * Weugh!

This activity was intially released on 13 July 2015, as part of batch 2 of the beach.

Happy Hour
Jagex moderators will sometimes host "Happy Hour", which allows players to receive increased experience for each activity without the temperature gauge increasing and an increased chance to receive tokens.

Distraction and Diversion portals
The south-western corner features 7 Distraction and Diversion portals, which can be entered to teleport the player to the corresponding D&D. A lifeguard announces which D&D activities are active on the players world.

The portals featured include:
 * Big Chinchompa portal
 * Evil tree portal
 * Familiarisation portal
 * Fish Flingers portal
 * Guthixian Cache portal
 * Shooting Star portal
 * Sinkhole portal
 * Waiko portal (added in 2016)

Note: If the world's current shooting star is in the wilderness, players will be given a warning beforehand.

Rewards
During the 2016 Summer Beach Party all items previously available during 2015 are re-obtainable. This includes previously released titles; reward items, including Solomon's General Store items; and cocktails.

Note: The old reward tokens themselves are not reobtainable; instead players buy the past overrides directly with runecoins. Additionally, to obtain the unlocks from previous year (without runecoins, for past tokens), all of 2016 unlocks have to be obtained first.

New rewards include:


 * New titles
 * Clawdia Wings, Lifeguard Chair Hat, Shark Fin, Beach Towel Cape, Duck Ring, Shadow Drake Ring, Summer fun outfit, Shell Shield, Conga Eel Whip, Water Balloon Launcher, Ice Lolly Wand, Coral Sword main-hand and off-hand, and Coral Dagger main-hand and off-hand cosmetic overrides.
 * Sandra and Gus pets. There will also be a seahorse pet which will be obtained via a Treasure Hunter promotion.
 * Rainbow kite item
 * Sand Dunk Resting and Hack Sack Resting rest animation overrides.

Treasure map
Treasure map is a daily event, similar to the Christmas Advent Calendar event, where the player can claim a free item each day, running from 16 August to 11 September. Claiming 20 or more items will unlock the Shell Shield cosmetic override and water splash lootbeam.

A bond cost could be used to claim all of the rewards from the treasure map, costing.

Tokens
Tokens may be earned as through skilling, from Clawdia, or purchased with runecoins from Flo's Fun Item Shop, Sheldon's Cosmetic Item Shop, or Gill's Pet Shop. Tokens can also be purchased on the Grand Exchange as they are all tradeable. The title is unlocked by redeeming all the 2015 tokens. The title is unlocked by redeeming all the 2015 and 2016 tokens.

2015
This amounts to 425 runecoins to buy back all previous unlockables, not counting the Masterwork music box. This takes 3 bonds costing.

Other
The following items can be earned from beach activities or killing Clawdia:
 * 5  - causes monkeys to come out of the barrel
 * 50 - can be thrown at players, similar to snowballs
 * - 5% experience boost to any activity done on the beach for the next 24 hours
 * - used to reset the temperature gauge, up to 3 times a day
 * - gives a 2% experience bonus (stackable to 10%) to all support skills (Agility, Dungeoneering, Slayer, and Thieving) for 30 minutes
 * - gives a 2% experience boost (stackable to 10%) to all combat skills (Attack, Constitution, Defense, Magic, Prayer, Ranged, Strength, and Summoning) for 30 minutes
 * - gives a 2% experience bonus (stackable to 10%) to all gatherer skills (Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, and Woodcutting) for 30 minutes
 * - gives a 2% experience bonus (stackable to 10%) to all artisan skills (Cooking, Construction, Crafting, Firemaking, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting, and Smithing) for 30 minutes
 * - Chance to lower temperature condition by 0.5–1% for a number of times before a crab scuttles away with the shell.
 * - Chance to lower temperature condition by 0.5–1% for a number of times before a crab scuttles away with the shell.

Rewards obtained through other means are:
 * Swimming outfit - 50 maxed thermometers (2015)
 * Summer Fun outfit - 50 maxed thermometers (2016)
 * Deckchair Resting animation - sit in each colour deck chair (red, blue, and green) 10 times
 * - Speak with every NPC on the beach once (includes: Nigel, Palmer, Reyna, Sarah, Wellington, Xuan)
 * Beach Towel Cape - Rest 10 times on the beach with any beach rest animation enabled

Titles
These titles are not purchasable; they are instead earned from doing certain things.

2015 Titles
Right-clicking lifeguards can be used to see the amount of ice creams eaten, Clawdias killed and thermometers filled for both the current and last year.

Music unlocked

 * Gorgon-Zola (m)
 * Tropical Breeze
 * Tropical Sneeze

Trivia

 * Clicking on home teleport while resting on a deck chair will cause the following message to appear: "It's hard to teleport when you're so relaxed."
 * Reyna compliments players who wear a Fish mask while fishing at Rock Pools, however fishing spots don't say anything.
 * Strange and golden rocks as well as anagogic orts and mysterious meteorites can spawn doing some of the beach activities after the 13 July 2015 update.
 * Summoning familiars are hidden on the beach much like in the Grand Exchange.