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

During the 2016 Summer Beach Party rewards from the mystery boxes included:


 * Small protean pack
 * Medium cash bag
 * 20 Water balloons
 * 2 Royal battleship kits
 * Parasols
 * Huge prismatic lamp
 * Huge fallen star

Big mystery boxes can be claimed from Reyna, the number received depends on how many mystery boxes were opened. During the 2016 party players had to claim their big mystery boxes before 15 August, as Reyna was removed during the update to add the beach party. During the 2016 Summer Beach Party parasols were a potential rewards from the boxes. Prize tokens and Crab hat (tradeable)s were removed as a potential reward however.

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.

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. Participating in the Beach Ball Rolling grants Agility experience.

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

Clawdia
Clawdia is an hourly boss, which 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, damage scaling to the player's level.

Upon defeat, Clawdia rewards players with ice creams, anti-sun potions and cocktails. There is also a rare chance to receive a unique item token. Note that Clawdia can still be fought for rewards 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. This was changed in 2016.

Coconut Shy
There are two coconut shies on the beach, located in the south-eastern corner and run by Sarah. They provide Ranged experience relative to the type of projectile thrown. Tropical coconuts can also be deposited here for Farming experience.

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

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
 * A new portal to The Arc will be added in the 2016 party.

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

Grills
Grills and 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.

Raw tropical trout may be deposited here for Fishing experience.

This activity can be done ~108 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 chose 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 ( experience per catch at level 99)
 * Fast action - lower catch rate and higher experience ( experience per catch at level 99; 5/3 times the experience gained with the light weight rod)
 * Magnetic - higher catch rate and lower experience ( 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 Trees
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 at level 99 Farming. After a random amount of coconuts picked the tree becomes depleted for a while.

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, a quarter of the experience given for picking them.

You can even get the XP for depositing coconuts after having filled the temperature gauge.

500 coconuts can be gathered before reaching 100% temperature.

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 for Fishing experience. Further Fishing experience can be gained by depositing the raw trout at the table north of Nigel, by the grills.

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.

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 is awarded, and building the correct sandcastle doubles this to.

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

This activity can be done about 301 times before reaching 100% temperature.

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 RuneScape which awards an amount of Agility experience dependent on how quickly the course is completed. There are global and world highscore for race completion times, which are updated during the weekly game update. The race route is indicated by arrow signs and gates through which the player must pass. Players may participate in terrorbird racing once an hour, during the first 30 minutes past the hour.

To participate in the race players must have a terrorbird mount. Players may use previously unlocked terrorbird mounts. Players can also claim one of random colour from the crate of Terrorbird costumes near the race's start point. However, the mount will be removed each day on reset.

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, is gained for every incorrect action and  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.

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. When a player has not obtained previously available rewards these will be obtained prior to their being able to obtain the 2016 rewards.

Please note that the old reward tokens themselves are not reobtainable; instead players buy the past overrides directly with runecoins.

There will also be new rewards including:


 * New titles
 * Clawdia Wings, Lifeguard Chair Hat, Shark Fin, Beach Towel Cape, Duck Ring, Shadow Drake Ring, Summer fun top and Summer fun bottoms, 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. The treasure map will run from 16 August to 11 September. The treasure map can be obtained by speaking Reyna. When a prize is available to be claimed a X symbol will be shown on the map; click on it to receive the item. The prizes must be claimed on the day that they are available. If the player misses a prize they may use a bond to claim them, this applies to any future that the player may miss as well so players will not need to use more than one bond. Claiming 20 or more items will unlock the Shell Shield cosmetic override and water splash lootbeam.

1 bond cost.

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 tokens.

2015
The old overrides can be bought, but not as tokens. Instead they are bought, and unlocked immediately.

This amounts to 425 runecoins to buy back all previous unlockables, not accounting 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

Rewards obtained through other means are:
 * Swimming outfit - 50 maxed thermometers
 * Deckchair Resting animation - sit in each colour deck chair (red, blue, and green) 10 times

Titles
These titles are not purchasable, instead earned from doing certain things.
 * - Find 10 hidden little toy ducks
 * - Find 10 hidden little toy ducks and own the mega ducklings or Mod Dolan's rubber duck
 * - Successfully hit 5 coconuts in a row in the coconut shy game
 * - Kill Clawdia 50 times
 * - Reach maximum temperature 10 times
 * - Reach maximum temperature 25 times
 * - Eat 10 ice creams
 * - Participate in all of the activities
 * - Unlock all of the beach tokens from 2015
 * - Unlock all of the beach tokens from 2015 and 2016
 * - Randomly obtained by playing Hook-a-duck
 * - Participate in every activity at least once
 * - Listen to a large shell 10 times

Right-clicking lifeguards can be used to see the amount of ice creams eaten, Clawdias killed and thermometers filled.

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 ort 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.