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Starsand Island Beach Festival Guide: 4 Activities (2026)
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Starsand Island Beach Festival guide coverage is finally separate from the game's cooking-recipe notes. The event is an annual three-day visit to Half-Moon Bay with ten preparation deliveries, four timed activities, a temporary currency, and cosmetics you cannot buy from the normal clothing shop. This walkthrough covers the full event loop, including what to gather before Summer 25, how to spend your Beach Coins, and when to save the bonfire for last. For the wider farming, fishing, romance, and progression systems, use the Starsand Island complete guide hub.
TL;DR: Prepare the listed planks, panes, coal, ingots, salt, and sheets before Summer 25. Finish all five NPC deliveries on Summer 25 and Summer 26, clean every reachable beach for trash and Treasure Maps, race at 10 AM, shop at noon, and join the Bonfire Party at 7 PM only after the other activities are done. Beach Coins expire at the end of the festival.
Starsand Island Beach Festival guide: quick answer
The Beach Festival takes place at Half-Moon Bay every in-game year on Summer 25, Summer 26, and Summer 27. The first two days are setup days. Solara starts the event, and Solara, Momo, Delphin, Aurelis, and Lunelle each accept two material deliveries across those days. Summer 27 is the main celebration: Crab Herding starts at 8 AM, Offshore Racing at 10 AM, the market opens at noon, and the Bonfire Party begins at 7 PM. The Beach Festival page on The Games Wiki is the source for the current schedule and activity order.
The practical priority is simple: do the preparation work first, farm Beach Coins through cleanup and maps, buy permanent rewards before midnight, and treat the bonfire as the day's final activity. The event is not just Aurelis's recipe stall, which is the only part currently summarized in the pillar FAQ.
Key Takeaways
- Summer 25 and Summer 26 are prep days. Summer 27 is the main festival day.
- The ten requests require 12 Hardwood Planks, 4 Glass Panes, 18 Coal, 3 Iron Ingots, 3 Bronze Ingots, 3 Fine Salt, and 2 Iron Sheets in total.
- Every completed prep delivery pays 50 Beach Coins, 200 regular Coins, 15 Starsand or Starsand Points depending on the wiki page's label, and 20 Affection.
- Beach cleanup produces Treasure Maps. A map chest is documented at roughly 65 Beach Coins, plus blueprints, resources, and sometimes recipes.
- Crab Herding is easy to try but pays only 15 Beach Coins and costs 100 regular Coins per attempt. Offshore Racing pays 35, 60, 100, or 200 Beach Coins depending on your placement and time.
- The market's outfit blueprints, festival hairstyles, furniture, and other cosmetics are the reason to save Beach Coins. Buy them before the event closes at midnight.
The Bonfire Party is the visual finale, but it should be the last thing you join on the main day.
Starsand Island Beach Festival guide: the three-day timeline
The event occupies three consecutive in-game days at the end of Summer. The prep days are not filler. They are the only window for the NPC delivery quests, and completing all ten deliveries gives a meaningful starting balance of Beach Coins before the main festival begins.
| In-game date | What happens | Best use of the day |
|---|---|---|
| Summer 25 | Solara opens the preparation quest. Five NPCs each have their first material request. | Bring the first five deliveries and start clearing beach trash. |
| Summer 26 | The same five NPCs have a second request. | Finish the remaining deliveries, dig any maps, and stock regular Coins for Crab Herding. |
| Summer 27 | Main festival at Half-Moon Bay. Crab Herding at 8 AM, Offshore Racing at 10 AM, market at noon, Bonfire Party at 7 PM. | Do time-sensitive activities in order, shop before the bonfire, then finish with the performance. |
The schedule repeats annually on the same in-game dates, so missing one year is not a permanent lockout. You can still use the intervening seasons to prepare materials and save regular Coins. If your festival scene is missing buildings or decorations on the third day, update the game before assuming the event has moved. Seed Sparkle Lab's post-1.0 patches specifically addressed festival-scene display problems, including the issues tracked in the Starsand Island 1.09 update guide.
Step-by-Step
1. Pre-craft before Summer 25: Put the full material total in storage before the end of Summer 24 if possible. You need 12 Hardwood Planks, 4 Glass Panes, 18 Coal, 3 Iron Ingots, 3 Bronze Ingots, 3 Fine Salt, and 2 Iron Sheets. The Starsand Island fishing and mining guide is useful for the coal, iron, and sheet-making part of this checklist. Keep regular Coins available as well, because Crab Herding charges regular Coins rather than Beach Coins.
GODEEPER: If you are still building your first production chain, the Starsand Island beginner guide explains the early tool, storage, and resource priorities that make this prep list less painful.
2. Start Solara's preparation quest: Visit Half-Moon Bay on Summer 25 and talk to Solara. This starts the Beach Festival is Coming quest and makes the five prep NPCs part of the event loop. Visit Solara, Momo, Delphin, Aurelis, and Lunelle rather than waiting for one central hand-in point. The complete guide hub is the better reference for the island's other NPC schedules.
3. Complete the five Summer 25 deliveries: Hand over the first request from each NPC. Solara asks for 4 Hardwood Planks, Momo asks for 4 Glass Panes, Delphin asks for 3 Iron Ingots, Aurelis asks for 10 Coal, and Lunelle asks for 3 Bronze Ingots. Each delivery returns the same reward bundle. If this is your first seasonal quest chain, the beginner guide explains how to keep storage and travel routes organized.
4. Complete the five Summer 26 deliveries: Return to the same five NPCs on the next day. Solara asks for 8 Coal, Momo asks for 4 Hardwood Planks, Delphin asks for 4 Hardwood Planks, Aurelis asks for 3 Fine Salt, and Lunelle asks for 2 Iron Sheets. This is the second and final prep round, so your farming guide can return to crop planning once these items are in hand.
5. Farm coins before the main-day clock starts: Use the prep days to clear trash along the whole accessible coast, not just the sand around the festival props. Equip each Beach Festival Treasure Map as a tool, follow its yellow arrow, and dig when you reach the marked spot. The maps and their chests are a better use of time than repeatedly paying for low-yield Crab Herding. Keep the fishing and mining guide nearby if you are combining cleanup with a resource run.
6. Run Summer 27 in schedule order: Try Crab Herding near 8 AM, borrow the jet ski for Offshore Racing at 10 AM, visit the market when it opens at noon, and make the Bonfire Party your final stop at 7 PM. The bonfire locks you into the music sequence, so do not enter it while you still have a map, race attempt, or purchase planned.
Beach Festival prep requests: all 5 NPCs and costs
The five NPCs are Solara, Momo, Delphin, Aurelis, and Lunelle. They each have one request on Summer 25 and another on Summer 26. The Seasonal Events page confirms the NPC roster and the shared delivery reward bundle.
Summer 25 requests
| NPC | Material cost | What the request supports |
|---|---|---|
| Solara | 4 Hardwood Planks | Festival construction |
| Momo | 4 Glass Panes | Stall and decoration work |
| Delphin | 3 Iron Ingots | Festival infrastructure |
| Aurelis | 10 Coal | Festival setup |
| Lunelle | 3 Bronze Ingots | Festival setup |
Summer 26 requests
| NPC | Material cost | What the request supports |
|---|---|---|
| Solara | 8 Coal | Final construction work |
| Momo | 4 Hardwood Planks | Final stall work |
| Delphin | 4 Hardwood Planks | Jet ski and event infrastructure |
| Aurelis | 3 Fine Salt | Food-stall preparation |
| Lunelle | 2 Iron Sheets | Clothing-stall preparation |
That is 12 Hardwood Planks, 4 Glass Panes, 18 Coal, 3 Iron Ingots, 3 Bronze Ingots, 3 Fine Salt, and 2 Iron Sheets. The material names and exact quantities come from The Games Wiki's Beach Festival tables. They are distinct from the crop and ore priorities in the Starsand Island farming guide, so do not assume a normal farm chest has everything ready.
Every hand-in pays 200 regular Coins, 50 Beach Coins, 20 Affection, and 15 Starsand. The same row is called “Starsand Points” on the wiki's Seasonal Events page, so the label is inconsistent, but the coin and affection values match. Ten deliveries therefore give 500 Beach Coins before the main day, in addition to the regular Coins and relationship progress. For the broader relationship system behind that Affection reward, see the Starsand Island romance guide.
Beach Coins: how to earn and spend them
Beach Coins are a temporary event currency. You can earn them from prep deliveries, beach cleanup, Treasure Maps, Crab Herding, and Offshore Racing. You spend them at the Beach Festival market on event cosmetics and other rewards, not at the normal shops. The wiki says the balance expires when the event ends, so treat Summer 27 as a spend-down deadline rather than a savings account.
The most reliable farming route is cleanup into maps. Treat the permanent-unlock mindset from the Starsand Island achievements guide as a useful model here: spend temporary currency on rewards that stay with your save.
- Walk the main festival beach and the adjacent accessible beaches.
- Pick up every piece of trash you can find. Maps can appear outside the immediate event area.
- Put a Treasure Map in your tool slot and follow the yellow direction marker.
- Dig the chest, collect the roughly 65 Beach Coins, and keep any blueprint, resource, or recipe it contains.
The Games Wiki documents the roughly 65-coin map chest value and lists the Explorer perk Victory Siphon as doubling chest rewards. Players on r/StarsandIsland also report that the perk applies to Beach Festival map chests, but I would treat the doubled result as a bonus rather than a reason to delay your event shopping. If you have the perk, check the chest contents instead of assuming every map is a fixed payout.
Offshore Racing is the best repeatable activity once you are comfortable with the course. The Seasonal Events table lists 200 Beach Coins for first place at 1:30 or under, 100 for second at 1:40 or under, 60 for third at 1:50 or under, and 35 for fourth place or lower. Crab Herding gives 15 Beach Coins for a successful attempt and costs 100 regular Coins, so it is better as a first-time activity than as your main income source. The Starsand Island review provides the wider 1.0 context if you are deciding whether the event's co-op additions are worth returning for.
At the market, buy the permanent reward you care about first. Outfits, hairstyle unlocks, race prizes, furniture, and decorative blueprints have more lasting value than food you can obtain elsewhere. Some clothing pieces are listed at 600 Beach Coins, so do not spend the balance on a regular food item by mistake. Confirm the currency and the item description at each stall before purchasing.
Spend temporary Beach Coins before the main day ends, even if you save the fireworks for last.
The 4 Beach Festival activities, step by step
The four headline activities are Crab Herding, Offshore Racing, the Beach Festival market, and the Bonfire Party. They reward different kinds of players, so use the schedule to sample all four once before committing the rest of your day to the activity that fits your goal.
1. Crab Herding at 8 AM
Go to the docks near Marston's house and talk to the Crab Boss when the activity opens. Each attempt costs 100 regular Coins. Fiddler crabs move around a glowing target zone. Walk close enough to nudge a crab toward the zone, then steer it with short zigzags instead of sprinting directly behind it.
The important first-timer rule is patience. If you chase a crab for too long, it can burrow and despawn. Obstacles, furniture, and the shoreline can also interrupt your angle. A successful attempt pays 15 Beach Coins. Try it early for the novelty and the activity completion, but spend the rest of your coin-farming time on trash and maps unless the mechanics click immediately.
2. Offshore Racing at 10 AM
Talk to Delphin to borrow a jet ski, then use the leaderboard behind him to start a race. Follow the checkpoints and use the sprint boost on open water. Steering control matters more than holding boost constantly, so release speed before tight turns and straighten the jet ski before the next boost.
| Result | Time threshold | Beach Coins |
|---|---|---|
| First | 1:30 or under | 200 |
| Second | 1:40 or under | 100 |
| Third | 1:50 or under | 60 |
| Fourth or lower | Any time | 35 |
The first completion also unlocks outfit pieces, and the top three placements have unique rewards according to the event reward table. Make one safe practice run before chasing the 1:30 target. If you clip a turn, recovering quickly is usually better than restarting mentally and missing the next checkpoint.
3. Beach Festival market at noon
The market opens around Half-Moon Bay at noon and uses Beach Coins. Aurelis runs the food stall, while Lunelle's stall handles clothing and cosmetics. The market is the main reason to finish the prep deliveries early: the 500 Beach Coins from all ten hand-ins can cover a meaningful purchase before you add map and race income.
The documented exclusive pool includes outfit blueprints, a premium beach-flower outfit, festival-only hairstyles that do not appear at Ethereal Styles, Lunelle clothing, furniture, and decorative blueprints. The wiki specifically lists some bottoms at 600 Beach Coins. Item availability and prices are not presented as one complete official catalog, so this guide does not invent a full reward list. Open both stalls and prioritize the permanent cosmetic or blueprint you want before buying food.
4. Bonfire Party at 7 PM
Go to the bonfire at 7 PM and speak with Stella, the singer, and Sylvain, the violinist. You play the guitar part in a rhythm sequence using arrow keys or WASD notes. The event ends with a cutscene.
Joining the Bonfire Party commits you to that sequence. You cannot leave to race, herd crabs, revisit a stall, or dig a map after it starts. That lock-in is why the correct order is activities first, shopping second, bonfire last. If you only have one main-day attempt, arrive at Half-Moon Bay early and leave the bonfire untouched until every other task is complete.
Exclusive cosmetics and other permanent rewards
The Beach Festival's permanent rewards are mainly cosmetic or collection focused. The market offers outfit blueprints, a premium beach-flower outfit, festival hairstyles, Lunelle's clothing items, furniture, and decorations. Offshore Racing adds outfit pieces and placement-based prizes. Treasure Map chests can add blueprints, recipes, and resources alongside Beach Coins.
Not every reward has a published item-by-item catalog, and the two wiki pages group some rewards differently. That is why the safe shopping rule is to inspect each stall and chest rather than promise a specific color, hairstyle name, or furniture count that the current documentation does not establish. The rewards described above are permanent even though Beach Coins themselves are temporary.
Half-Moon Bay is also worth checking beyond the central event props when you are clearing trash for maps.
Post-1.0 status and known Beach Festival bugs
Starsand Island reached 1.0 on August 18, 2026. Seed Sparkle Lab's official Steam launch announcement confirms online multiplayer for up to four players and introduces the broader 1.0 scope, including an autumn festival. Our Starsand Island 1.0 launch coverage records the reported PS5 and Switch 2 versions and expanded romance context. Neither the official launch announcement nor the official patch notes reviewed for this guide announces a new Beach Festival date, a fifth headline activity, or a replacement for the Summer 25 to 27 schedule.
The event did receive post-launch fixes. Official notes for v1.08.4646 mention festival buildings failing to display correctly on the third day. v1.09.6444 addresses treasure-map chests that could not be dug at some locations, stage flicker, NPCs embedded in the stage, and festival objects remaining after the event. v1.09.7160 fixes NPC overlap below the performance stage and more stage flicker.
If you arrive on Summer 27 and the stalls, jet skis, crabs, stage, or treasure chests are absent, first check that the game is fully updated and reload the day. Community reports after 1.0 describe missing event objects, but they are bug reports, not evidence that the annual event was removed. The official fixes support treating a broken scene as a version or placement problem. Compare the current build with the 1.0 launch guide before falling back to an Early Access walkthrough.
Tips
The easiest first-year clear is a preparation-first route: craft every material, finish all ten hand-ins, clear the coastline, then use racing and the market on Summer 27. These small habits prevent the event clock from turning a relaxed festival into a scramble.
Craft the whole list before the event
Do not carry only the first day's items. Having the Summer 26 requests ready lets you collect all five delivery rewards immediately and gives you 500 Beach Coins before the main celebration.
Bring regular Coins as well as Beach Coins
Beach Coins pay for market rewards. Crab Herding uses regular Coins, so a player who spends all ordinary money before Summer 27 cannot practice the crab activity even if the festival currency is full.
Sweep the coastline, not just Half-Moon Bay
Trash and map locations can extend along adjacent beaches. A complete coastal loop produces more chances at maps than circling the decorated festival area.
Shop before you join the bonfire
The bonfire is a hard endpoint for the day's activity route. Finish the race, open every stall, buy the reward you want, and dig nearby maps before starting the performance.
Use a vehicle for cleanup and map routing
The event covers more shoreline than the central beach. A vehicle reduces travel time between trash piles, map markers, and Half-Moon Bay without changing the event's schedule.
Common Mistakes
- Bringing only the Summer 25 materials and discovering that the second five requests need different items.
- Spending Beach Coins on food before checking Lunelle's clothing stall and the event blueprints.
- Treating Crab Herding as the best coin farm even though each attempt costs 100 regular Coins and pays 15 Beach Coins.
- Entering the Bonfire Party before the noon market or an unfinished race attempt.
- Searching only the decorated beach for trash and concluding that no Treasure Maps spawned.
- Assuming missing festival props mean the annual event ended instead of checking the post-1.0 fixes and updating the game.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is the Starsand Island Beach Festival?
It runs every in-game year at Half-Moon Bay from Summer 25 through Summer 27. Summer 25 and 26 are prep days, and Summer 27 is the main festival, with Crab Herding at 8 AM, racing at 10 AM, the market at noon, and the bonfire at 7 PM.
What materials do I need for Beach Festival prep?
The ten deliveries total 12 Hardwood Planks, 4 Glass Panes, 18 Coal, 3 Iron Ingots, 3 Bronze Ingots, 3 Fine Salt, and 2 Iron Sheets. The prep table above splits those totals between the five NPCs and two days.
How do I get Beach Coins?
Clear beach trash, dig Beach Festival Treasure Maps, complete prep deliveries, race offshore, and herd crabs. Treasure-map chests pay roughly 65 Beach Coins according to the event wiki, and the market accepts Beach Coins for festival rewards.
What is the best Beach Festival activity for Beach Coins?
Start with beach cleanup and Treasure Maps. The documented map chest value is roughly 65 Beach Coins, while Crab Herding pays 15 and charges 100 regular Coins. Racing becomes stronger once you can reliably place in the top three.
What rewards are exclusive to the Beach Festival?
Look for outfit blueprints, the beach-flower outfit, festival hairstyles, Lunelle clothing, racing prizes, furniture, and decorative blueprints. The event's cosmetics and furniture remain permanent after Beach Coins expire.
Can I leave the Bonfire Party?
No. Joining the 7 PM performance locks you into its rhythm game and closing cutscene. Complete every other activity and buy your market rewards before you talk to the performers.
Did 1.0 change the Beach Festival?
No schedule or activity change was announced in the official 1.0 material reviewed here. 1.0 expanded the game with four-player online co-op and a broader seasonal-event scope, alongside the expanded romance context covered in the romance guide. Later patches fixed several Beach Festival display, digging, and stage issues.
Related Reading
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