MIT Battlecode

I am participating in MIT Battlecode 2024

2024 §

Objective §

• Food has become a scarcity in this world filled with Duck life
• It’s your job to defend your faction’s valuable bread while simultaneously preparing a strategic attack against the other team
• Build traps, dig water channels, and hide bread to ward off enemy factions
• Capture all enemy team’s bread to win

Map Elements §

The Dam §

The Dam is the impassable barrier that divides both teams

• Keeps teams separate for the first 200 rounds (setup phase)
• Once removed, doesn’t come back

Spawn Zone §

9 tiles where your ducks are allowed to spawn

• Each map has exactly three for each team
• Your team’s bread is placed here by default, but can be moved during setup

Crumbs §

Boosts team supplies of crumbs

• Used to build traps and dig water
• Gained passively by each team in addition to these boosters

Water §

An impassable tile

• Ducks can dig which creates water
• Ducks can fill which removes water

Walls §

Impassable barriers

• Fixed as part of the map and cannot be changed

Resources §

Only resource is crumb which will be gained passively

Robots §

Duck §

• The base and only unit
• Only 50 ducks max for each team
• Other variants are upgrades of the base duck
• Can automatically ‘specialize’ in certain actions by performing them
• Respawns in the spawn zone after being removed from the game after certain # of rounds

Builder Duck §

• Appears once the base duck becomes high enough in the ‘build’ skill
• Is more adept at performing build actions
• Cannot be multiple duck variants at once

Attack Duck §

• Appears once the base duck becomes high enough in the ‘attack’ skill
• Is more adept at performing attack actions
• Cannot be multiple duck variants at one time

Healer Duck §

• Appears once the base duck becomes high enough in the ‘heal’ skill
• Is more adept at performing heal actions
• Cannot be multiple duck variants at one time

Traps §

Traps can be built by the ducks using crumbs

Water Trap §

When set off by another duck it’ll dig water in a radius from the trap (blocks cannot be traversed by the duck)

Stun §

Stuns all enemy ducks within a radius

Explosive §

Harm all enemy ducks in a certain radius

Bread §

Flag that you’re protecting and the flag you want to obtain from the opposing team

Global Upgrades §

• Each team gets one upgrade point every 750 rounds
• Applies to all ducks, and each upgrade can be activated once
  • Can’t use same upgrade twice
  • Whatever upgrade you use all ducks will be affected
  • Game ends automatically after 2,000 rounds so the max you can obtain is 2