Drain the Lake
Drain the Lake Events Schedule: Endless Lake Countdown and What’s Next
Drain the Lake has grown into one of Roblox’s busier experiences, regularly holding tens of thousands of players at once and passing about 79,000,000 total visits, with more than about 280,000 people saving it to their favorites. The premise is deliberately silly: your phone has fallen into a lake, and the only way to get it back is to empty the water entirely — fill a bucket, drain it for tokens, pour those tokens into a skill tree, and push deeper until the phone finally surfaces.
Attention now turns to the game’s next scheduled drop, Endless Lake, which the developer has set to open on Saturday, August 1, 2026. It is teased as a dive into the lake’s seemingly bottomless depths, with fresh mysteries left to solve; details beyond that are thin ahead of launch. Interest is already building, with about 440,000 players marked as going before it has even started, and that number is still climbing. Exact start and end times are in the schedule below.
That follows the Atlantis update, a three-day event that wrapped on July 28, which itself came after Update 2 (July 18–23) and Update 1 (July 11–18). Each of those drops opened on a Saturday, and Endless Lake keeps that weekly rhythm going — four updates on four straight Saturdays. Last updated August 9; we update this page as the schedule changes.
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ENDLESS LAKE!
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Aug 1, 12:44 PM – Aug 3, 2:44 PM ET
Exploration event revealing deeper areas and new mysteries to uncover.
ATLANTIS AND MUCH MORE!
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Jul 25, 12:00 PM – Jul 28, 12:00 PM ET
A new Atlantis biome offers procedurally generated areas with hidden secrets, treasure, and new base-upgrade machines to unlock.
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Next update and recent history
Endless Lake
Endless Lake is the developer’s next scheduled event, set to open on Saturday, August 1, 2026 and close on Monday, August 3. Going by the teaser, it leans into exploration — the lake’s endless depths and a batch of new mysteries to uncover — though the developer has kept the specifics quiet ahead of launch, so the full picture will only come into focus once it goes live.
On the sign-up side, about 440,000 players have already marked themselves as going. That is a smaller pre-launch tally than the game’s biggest updates pulled earlier in the month, but it is still several times the live concurrent count and climbing steadily as the date nears.
Atlantis update
The Atlantis update ran from Saturday, July 25 through Tuesday, July 28, 2026, and has now finished. It centered on a new Atlantis biome — a lost-city area built around secrets and treasure — and introduced runs that generate differently each playthrough, so no two trips through the lake looked quite the same. It also added more hidden areas to find and new machines to upgrade the player’s base, alongside the usual round of fixes.
It drew over 500,000 players marked as going, a strong turnout in its own right, though well short of the near-2-million numbers Update 1 and Update 2 posted a couple of weeks earlier.
Update 2
Update 2 ran from Saturday, July 18 through Thursday, July 23, 2026, picking up the moment Update 1 wrapped. The developer gave little away beforehand beyond a brief “coming soon” teaser, so what actually changed only became clear once it went live.
It remains the biggest draw so far: nearly 2 million players marked themselves as going, edging past Update 1’s turnout and pointing to an audience that kept growing update over update.
Update 1
Update 1 ran from Saturday, July 11 through the morning of Saturday, July 18, 2026, the first in the run. Teased with a line about something lurking deep in the water, it closed out with over 1.8 million players marked as interested — the turnout Update 2 would narrowly top days later.
The pattern across all four events is a clean weekly one: each opened on a Saturday, exactly one week apart. What has shifted is length — Update 1 ran a full seven days, and the events since have grown shorter, with Endless Lake set for a two-day window.
Frequently asked questions
When does the next Drain the Lake update start?
The next scheduled event, Endless Lake, is set to open on Saturday, August 1, 2026 and run through Monday, August 3. It is the developer’s latest drop, following the Atlantis update, which ended July 28.
What time does Endless Lake start in Drain the Lake?
It is scheduled to open at 12:44 PM ET (Eastern) on August 1, 2026. That works out to 11:44 AM CT, 10:44 AM MT and 9:44 AM PT across the United States, and 5:44 PM BST / 6:44 PM CEST in the UK and Central Europe. The event is set to close at 2:44 PM ET on Monday, August 3.
When did the Atlantis update end in Drain the Lake?
The Atlantis update finished at 12:00 PM ET on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, after a three-day run that began July 25. Endless Lake is the next event on the calendar, opening August 1.
How many players does Drain the Lake have?
The game regularly draws tens of thousands of concurrent players and has passed about 79,000,000 total visits, with more than about 280,000 people adding it to their favorites. For the upcoming Endless Lake update, about 440,000 players have already signed up — several times the live player count at any single moment.