Deep Rock Galactic's Space Beach Party 2026 Returns August 6 with Hats and Double XP

What's coming

Deep Rock Galactic's Space Beach Party 2026 opens on Thursday, August 6th at 13:00 CEST and runs for two weeks. The event was previewed in an announcement authored by Snifle on July 30, 2026.

The headline reward this year is the Tactical Turtle hat — nicknamed Shelly the Shellmet — earned by completing the assignment tied to the event via the Mission Terminal.

What changed

• New cosmetic: Tactical Turtle hat (Shelly the Shellmet), unlocked through an event assignment at the Mission Terminal.
• Seasonal activity: Pool floaties have been lost en route to Hoxxes IV. Players must locate and deposit them during missions.
• Double Performance Pass Point Bonus awarded to players and their teams for participating in the floatie recovery.
• Legacy hat access: Players who missed previous years' Space Beach Party celebrations can still earn past hats by completing one work assignment.

The in-universe explanation — a disputed delivery mishap between DRG and Longbeard Freight, with Resinite Mass containers and allegedly inebriated pilots both implicated — provides the seasonal fiction, but the mechanical upshot is straightforward: two weeks of bonus progression and a new hat for miners willing to do a little beachside scavenging on a hostile alien planet.