Battleship 2025: Board 1 Rules

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Each square on the 12x12 grid contains either vegetables or dirt. Your team must dig up all the vegetables on its grid in order to advance to the next level.

Team progress trackers for Board 1:

Team Grape | Team Lemon | Team Pear | Team Strawberry

Vegetables

There are 8 total vegetable patches in 5 different shapes. Each shape is associated with exactly one type of vegetable. There may be multiple patches of any vegetable. Here is what the shapes look like:

The shapes are:

Line, 2 squares

Diagonal line, 3 squares

L-shape, 3 squares

W-shape, 5 squares

Bump, 6 squares

Shapes may be rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees, or flipped horizontally and/or vertically from how they appear in the diagram. Each team's arrangement of shapes is different.

Dirt

Dirt squares have a value between 400 and 1000 grams, and will be applied to support your efforts during the lunch rush (ie. reduce the number of hit points needed to clear the boss). Additionally, each strike of overkill beyond a board goal claims a bonus equivalent to 300 grams of dirt, up to a maximum of 10 strikes of overkill against each board goal.

The collective value of all dirt squares on the board plus overkill will not equal more than half the boss's hit points.

How to clear a square

Each square is assigned a goal. The list of goals is displayed below the grid. A goal consists of a number and two tags, such as "16, Enemies to Lovers, IN SPACE." Meet the goal by posting works that claim one (or more) of those tags. A work that uses multiple tags on a square contributes to a goal multiple times.

Every work must fulfill one of this year's requests in the prompt collection, and be gifted to the prompter.

Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

If you're on a team, your works must be posted to your team's collection to count toward clearing squares on your team's board. If you're not on a team, post treats to the main collection.

Grape Collection | Lemon Collection | Pear Collection | Strawberry Collection | Main Collection

In addition, there are board-wide goals for AO3 labels such as “Major Character Death,” work mediums, and freeforms that do not appear on any board. You must collectively achieve these goals to complete the board.

Teams may continue to fulfill board goals beyond the required number to claim bonus “overkill” points. Each board goal counts up to 10 strikes of overkill.

Claim relevant tags in your author's note, in a comma-separated list (e.g. "First Kiss, Fisting, Friendship"), with the tags exactly as they appear in the tagset. The mods will only count tags claimed this way. Fic and podfic may claim 1 tag per 100 words. Art may claim all tags that are clearly present in the work. Metadata such as ship type will be claimed automatically.

Each team’s members (and only members of that team) should post works to their respective team collection. Each team member is capped at 7 works per board. The collection is moderated, and works will be approved as the mods count them.

All teams also possess an “X-ray.” Once a square requires 3 or fewer tag claims before it is cleared, teams may go into the team’s shots channel in Discord to request to use the x-ray. Teams do not need to name specific squares for the X-ray; when used it will automatically scan all squares with 3 or fewer works remaining. Using the X-ray will reveal whether qualifying squares contain a vegetable or not. This information will be displayed in the list of goals, next to their respective squares. An X-rayed square is not a cleared square, and does not grant the team anything other than information; teams must still fully clear a square to retrieve the vegetables or dirt beneath it.

Once enough works have been approved to fully clear a square, it will be marked "Ready to Call." Call the (specific, with grid location) shot in the team’s shots channel in Discord to finish digging up the square and retrieve what's beneath it: vegetables or dirt.

When all the squares of a vegetable patch have been found, the mods will announce to the team that the vegetable patch has been dug up, and reveal which vegetables the team found. Mods will also announce if all patches of a particular vegetable have been dug up.

Advancing to the next level

Once the garden grid is cleared of vegetables and the board goals have been met, the team will collectively decide whether to keep digging up dirt or return to the cafe and confront the lunch rush. When you've decided, announce in the shots channel that you're ready to begin the boss battle.

If you're on a Battleship team and haven't already joined the Discord or claimed your Discord role, now's the time! Your team members there will share the team coordination sheet and cheer you on.

Good luck!