This Week In Destiny - 1/8/2026

We hope you had a restful and recuperative end of the year, Guardians! Well, aside from pelting each other with snowballs to freeze foes to the bone in the Dawning’s new Crucible Ops activity. Good thing you could thaw out by Eva Levante’s cookie oven and go on baking sprees making tons of cookies for your favorite friends. Now that the snow’s melting, we have one final Dawning gift to share: our first TWID of 2026!

• Celebrating your showstopping Dawning creations
• ...and your seasonal Dawning fashion choices!
• Stay on target with the Renegades soundtrack
• Game2Give returns in a big way next week
• New Lights learn what makes a Guardian

Let’s take a look at what your fellow Guardians shared over the last three weeks!

Delectable Dawning Creations

We said Lodi was in need of your seasonal baked goods and you responded in force. Thousands of cookies, cakes, and gingerbread confections filled the hashtag, showcasing some serious skills and clever cookery!

While we’ll be gifting the Before Dawn emblem to lots and lots of fantastic entries (check your special deliveries!), here’s a baker’s dozen of highlights in alphabetical order.

Before Dawn Cake by @SweetJoey897

The Dawning Cookie Set by @Watch_my_wifi

The Dawning Snow Globe Cookies by @TryhardTristan

Dredgen Dough Cookies by @dankthewarlock

Fallen Baby Cake by @thelugardis

Gingerbread Mouse Droid by @akkonite

Hive Worm Cake by @pan1q

The La"Mint" by @bansheebotpete

Lodi Sponge Cake by @CrownHyprion

Peanut Butter Pumpkin Paw Print Doggo Treats by @WitCHella_x

Praxic Blade Cake by @SarcasticWheat

Sweet & Snowy Emblem Cookies by @Ayo_Bucky

Tharsis Syndicate & More Cookies by @Nikkitavia

Thanks to all our Guardian bakers for their tasty treats, there were far more than we could feature in this TWID or on our socials but each and every one was appreciated!

Fabulous Dawning Fashions

The gauntlet was thrown down when we asked you to design Dawning fashions that wowed the team and you, Guardians, rose to the challenge! We’ve alphabetically highlighted a stylist’s dozen (now a thing) of selections and the Felis Galaxias emblem is also on its way to a great many more.

Arctic Explorer Hunter by @J4C0BXX

Classy Christmas Ornament by @immanet_flower

Die Hard: The Dawning by @dantasthicc

Eva's New Cookie Oven by @EdenOfChaos

"Experienced" Snow Hiker by @Addyishra

Fire & Ice Warlock by @SoullessMemes21

The Hunters Become the Hunted by @FreeZiiX_

Local Warlock Tries Baking for the First Time by @BlursArt

Praxic Blades of Glory by @GizmoTheOG13

Renegades Holiday Special by @MythicalXB

Search & Rescue by @LemonadeMP4_

Snow Cat & Owl by @Knowah721

Snowman by @kemiz1227

Sashay our way, fantastic fashionistas, and thanks for sharing your many, many emblem-earning entries!

Renegades Soundtrack on YouTube

From: Bungie
To: Our Guardians

We had a special gift for all of you this December: the music you’ve been swinging Praxic Blades to all month. Check out our Destiny 2: Renegades soundtrack playlist or enjoy the full album as a single YouTube video below!

Little Lights // Big Heroes. Game2Give 2026.

Guardians: it is once again time to rally in support of the Little Lights! The Bungie Foundation’s annual Game2Give fundraising campaign runs from January 12-29 and with it comes an awesome new set of 90s anime-inspired in-game incentives and another opportunity to show the gaming world the power of our collective Light.

Along with earning some epic rewards, we’ll be spotlighting real Little Lights patients who your support has helped supercharge into heroes and whose courage and joy prove what’s possible when Lightkeepers stand together. Head to Tiltify today to set up your fundraising page and tune in for our streaming marathon featuring 200+ Destiny 2 content creators starting at 12 AM PT on January 12!

Check out this year’s incentives and get the complete campaign rundown in our Game2Give deep dive article.

New Player Guide: Your Guardian

Our updated New Player Guide for Destiny 2 continues to grow! This week brings a section detailing everything New Lights need to know about being a Guardian, from subclasses and damage types to weapons and armor. Check out the third installment here!

We’ll continue adding sections to this guide covering everything new players need to know.

Player Support Report

Known Issues List  |  Help Forums  |  Destiny 2 Team Bluesky

Character Deletion Time Limit

With Update 9.5.0, we implemented a restriction to how often players can delete and recreate their characters. Players can create and delete characters up to five times each before hitting a 24-hour mandatory cooldown.

Recent Known Issues List

Please note that only selected issues are listed.

• We are investigating an issue where players logging into multiple characters of the same class can lose Weekly Shipments.
  • In the meantime, please make sure you claim any available shipments in Spider's Lounge before logging into alternate characters of the same class.
• The shader and D.A.R.C.I. weapon ornament in the D.A.R.C.I. bundle doesn't match the shade of blue of the class agnostic helmet.
• Crucible matches are not progressing the B Greater weekly objective.
• Lawless Frontier activities can kick players to orbit if the daily reset time (9 AM PST (UTC-8)) occurs mid-activity.
• The final Artillery Specialist does not always spawn in Freehold Outpost: Sabotage, blocking progression through the encounter.
• The displayed value for the New Gear Damage Resistance is showing as too low.
• Combination Blow on Arc subclasses is not functioning in PvP.
• Weekly Vanguard Alerts challenges are sometimes not resetting at the weekly reset.
• Lawless Frontier vendor rank-up rewards are being unintentionally gated by The Witch Queen ownership.
• If Harrow, Dredgen-Apprentice, destroys a coil as a DPS phase ends, players can become soft-locked and unable to activate another DPS phase.
• Opening Salvo volatile mod is not stunning Champions when equipped on a Sword.
• Trials of Osiris currently has lobby balancing unintentionally enabled.
• Player's Ghosts can end up in unreachable spots for reviving in The Arms Dealer.
• The Covert Ranger Cloak ornament does not properly move with the character model and physics.
• The description for the “Vanguard Alerts: Challenges” weekly objective incorrectly references general activity challenges in its description.
  • This objective can be progressed with Vanguard Alert activity challenges or Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts.
• The Sweaty Confetti combat flair is missing its activation audio.
• The Opportunist Triumph is not progressing upon completion of all optional objectives.

For a more comprehensive, targeted list, please view our Destiny 2 Known Issues and Vital Information article.

Cube of Sorrow

The attention to detail is remarkable in this Minecraft recreation of Crown of Sorrow which includes the raid’s spawning area, transitions, and encounters. The artist reports it took around 93 hours to complete!

Minecraft Crown of Sorrow by @UnknownMemes___

We Wish You a Merry Praxic Blade

A classic holiday commercial is reimagined with Dark Matter Crystals instead of chocolate bells. Best reply: “Is this why you wanted the red crystal?”

Merry Praxic by @destiny_thememe

And that'll do it for our first TWID of 2026! From everyone here, we hope you had an excellent holiday and that your new year is off to a great start.

Now to shake all those Dawning snowballs out of our boots...

Destiny 2 Community Team