Party Powder
Heist Information
Contractor	Shayu
Tactic	Any
Loot	Cocaine Money Meth (Standard, Pure, Burnt)
Bag Total	N/A
Loose Loot Total	N/A
Payout Statistics
Base Completion	{{{mic_nom}}} (Normal){{{mic_har}}} (Hard) {{{mic_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{mic_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Maximum Completion	{{{mac_nom}}} (Normal){{{mac_har}}} (Hard) {{{mac_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{mac_ovk}}} (Overkill)
All Bags Bonus	{{{alb_nom}}} (Normal){{{alb_har}}} (Hard) {{{alb_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{alb_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Loose Loot Payout	{{{llp_nom}}} (Normal){{{llp_har}}} (Hard) {{{llp_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{llp_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Stealth Statistics
Stealth Completion	{{{sc_nom}}} (Normal){{{sc_har}}} (Hard) {{{sc_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{sc_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Minimum Bag Payout	{{{smip_nom}}} (Normal){{{smip_har}}} (Hard) {{{smip_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{smip_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Maximum Bag Payout	{{{smap_nom}}} (Normal){{{smap_har}}} (Hard) {{{smap_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{smap_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Loud Statistics
Loud Completion	{{{lc_nom}}} (Normal){{{lc_har}}} (Hard) {{{lc_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{lc_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Minimum Bag Payout	{{{lmip_nom}}} (Normal){{{lmip_har}}} (Hard) {{{lmip_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{lmip_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Maximum Bag Payout	{{{lmap_nom}}} (Normal){{{lmap_har}}} (Hard) {{{lmap_ver}}} (Very Hard) {{{lmap_ovk}}} (Overkill)
Other
Time	N/A
Location	N/A
Achievement	N/A
Heist Track	N/A
Internal Name	N/A

Party Powder is a paid Side Hustle heist in PAYDAY 3, released on May 26th 2025.

Briefing

Shayu's Dialogue

"The Palatucci mob family has been gunning for you since you robbed First World Bank—one of their money laundering operations. It might serve you well to strike at them first Our interests align. Those snitching vermin called the police on one of my operations. The cops sealed off a valuable packing and production facility. Here’s the deal: get to my warehouse and grab my merchandise. I will, of course, reward you handsomely. It’s an active crime scene, so be careful."

Description

Corrupt cops working for the Palatucci mob family are raiding one of my warehouses. Get down there and secure my merchandise.

Overview

After a failed sting operation, cops with connections to the Palatucci Family raid a set of three warehouses belonging to the Golden Dagger Triad. The Payday gang attacks the location on behalf of Shayu, while also as retaliation over the Palatucci Family killing off their Inside Man who helped with the First World Bank legacy heist.

As stated in pre-release material, the heist contains objectives that can be achieved through multiple different methods rather than a linear progression of completion, similar to Diamond District.

Objectives

1. Get inside a warehouse
2. Secure the goods
   • OPTIONAL: Find a way into the other Warehouse (s)
   • OPTIONAL: Find and add Ingredients to the Meth Lab in the correct order.

Favors

v·d·e
Name		Price
Generic
Ammo Bag		10,000
Armor Bag		10,000
Medic Bag		10,000
Zipline Bag		10,000
Heist Specific
Marked Crates		N/A
Rooftop Helo Escape		N/A
Sewer Access		N/A
Train Top Helo Escape		N/A
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Walkthrough

As stated before, there is no linear progression completion of objectives. Both loud and stealth have the exact same objectives, with the only difference being the already established differences between stealth and loud gameplay.

Once loud has started, negotiation phase will be skipped entirely (similar to Road Rage). No civilians are present in the heist either, necessitating the need for skills such as Menacing to take police and SWAT hostage in order to trade for consumables.

There is optional objective for cooking meth in both loud and stealth. Instead of following instructions from Shade, a whiteboard with the order of the ingredients can spawn in either the top floor office in the right warehouse, or the office inside the left warehouse. The whiteboard will display the order in which the ingredients must be placed, going from left to right. Ingredients can only be found inside each of the three warehouses, spawning on both levels of each warehouse. A maximum of four sets of ingredients (twelve in total) can be found.

Variations

• Which crates contain loot.
• Which shipping containers contain loot.
• Which container the camera operator spawns in.
• Location the whiteboard with instructions for meth cooking.
• Location of ingredients for cooking meth.
• Location the computer containing the correct code for the keypad locked cage.
• Location of van escapes.
• Which entrances are barricaded on the warehouses.

Difficulty Changes/Modifiers

Modifiers

Very Hard

• Titan Cameras - All security cameras are indestructible.
• Tactical Flashlight - Shields come equipped with tactical lights that can blind heisters.

Overkill

• Cerberus Core - Hack runtimes are reset after 5 seconds.
• Combat Duo - Two specials of each kind can now enter the level.

Achievements

Party Powder currently has no achievements.

Challenges

Party Powder currently has no challenges.

Gallery

Teaser image of the heist

Video

PAYDAY 3- Party Powder Heist - Teaser Trailer

PAYDAY 3- Party Powder Heist - Gameplay Trailer

Trivia

• Party Powder is the first DLC-exclusive PAYDAY 3 heist to release in 2025, five months after the free legacy heist First World Bank was released on December 2024.
  • Party Powder was unveiled on April 30th 2025 on the official PAYDAY 3 blog^[1] amidst growing community outcry over the lack of content and relevant news since the release of PAYDAY 3's Jacket Character Pack DLC.
• Party Powder chronologically takes place right after the First World Bank legacy heist, as the lead up to its release - as detailed in trailers and the Dragan Files ARG - reference the death of the Inside Man and Locke alluding to an at-the-time unknown mob organization who were using the bank as a money laundering operation.
• According to Almir Listo in a stream, Party Powder was being developed alongside another heist, Delivery Charge. With Party Powder having reached final stages of development prior to its announcement while Delivery Charge is still in development.

Bugs

References