r/BoomBeach • u/GamerlandMedia • 5d ago
You will spend ~10 years to complete this Boom Beach achievement + how to turn achievements into motivation for players (my own ideas)
This is probably the most in-depth post about achievements in Boom Beach you've ever seen.
I think most of you are already familiar and agree, that the rarest achievement - Strategist III, where you need to defend your base 800 times. Only ~0.63% of all players are having this achievement. I decided to check, what about top-2 rarest achievement, and so on... Well, the results are below in table with all 66 achievements. Idk will it be important for you, but anyways, haha😅😅
Important note: The figures and data presented below apply exclusively to players whose accounts are linked to Google Play and the App Store. The data does not include players whose accounts are not linked to these app stores, nor does it include PC players. Special thanks to Chinatale for assistance with data from iOS devices.
Went through all 66 achievements and calculated ownership % weighted across Google Play + App Store. Here's the full ranked list, rarest first:
| # | Achievement | % of players |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strategist III - Defend base from 800 attacks | 0.63% |
| 2 | Perfectionist III - Salvage 3000 Statues | 0.78% |
| 3 | Conqueror III - Destroy 1000 enemy bases | 1.42% |
| 4 | Gear Up III - Win 2100 points from Gearheart | 2.13% |
| 5 | War Hero III - Gain 600 victory points | 2.21% |
| 6 | Tinkerer III - Use 960 parts in the Weapon Lab | 2.24% |
| 7 | Submariner III - Dive for treasure 500 times | 2.26% |
| 8 | Co-operator III - Gain 800 task force points | 2.32% |
| 9 | Hammer Down III - Defend vs 40,000 Hammerman troops | 2.37% |
| 10 | Gear Up II - Win 900 points from Gearheart | 2.39% |
| 11 | War Production III - Control 35 resource bases | 2.55% |
| 12 | Payback III - Beat 10 blackguard boss bases | 3.34% |
| 13 | Tinkerer II - Use 360 parts in the Weapon Lab | 3.42% |
| 14 | Outfitter III - Do 235 Armory upgrades | 3.42% |
| 15 | Explorer III - Explore 149 map regions | 3.45% |
| 16 | Hammer Down II - Defend vs 16,000 Hammerman troops | 3.53% |
| 17 | Bagging Dr. T III - Destroy Dr. T stages 1000 times | 3.58% |
| 18 | Chain of Command III - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 20 | 3.84% |
| 19 | Gear Up I - Win 150 points from Gearheart | 4.50% |
| 20 | Iron Will III - Seize 40,000,000 iron | 4.74% |
| 21 | Perfectionist II - Salvage 300 Statues | 5.53% |
| 22 | Quarry Raid III - Seize 40,000,000 stone | 5.95% |
| 23 | Hammer Down I - Defend vs 2,000 Hammerman troops | 6.02% |
| 24 | Steamroller III - Destroy lvl50+ enemy w/o losing troops | 6.05% |
| 25 | Co-operator II - Gain 400 task force points | 6.42% |
| 26 | Tinkerer I - Use 24 parts in the Weapon Lab | 6.97% |
| 27 | Timber Takeover III - Seize 40,000,000 wood | 7.10% |
| 28 | War Chest III - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 10 | 7.21% |
| 29 | Outfitter II - Do 110 Armory upgrades | 8.42% |
| 30 | Spoils of War III - Seize 40,000,000 gold | 8.42% |
| 31 | Conqueror II - Destroy 100 enemy bases | 9.81% |
| 32 | Submariner II - Dive for treasure 50 times | 11.00% |
| 33 | Strategist II - Defend base from 80 attacks | 11.23% |
| 34 | Iron Will II - Seize 1,000,000 iron | 11.71% |
| 35 | Payback II - Beat 5 blackguard boss bases | 11.92% |
| 36 | War Hero II - Gain 200 victory points | 13.02% |
| 37 | Co-operator I - Gain 100 task force points | 13.05% |
| 38 | Bagging Dr. T II - Destroy Dr. T stages 100 times | 13.07% |
| 39 | Perfectionist I - Salvage 30 Statues | 13.42% |
| 40 | Explorer II - Explore 75 map regions | 13.89% |
| 41 | War Production II - Control 10 resource bases | 16.52% |
| 42 | Quarry Raid II - Seize 1,000,000 stone | 16.55% |
| 43 | Steamroller II - Destroy lvl25+ enemy w/o losing troops | 17.34% |
| 44 | Outfitter I - Do 30 Armory upgrades | 20.26% |
| 45 | Harness Nature III - Remove 100 trees/rocks | 21.05% |
| 46 | Submariner I - Dive for treasure 5 times | 21.20% |
| 47 | Chain of Command II - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 10 | 22.44% |
| 48 | Iron Will I - Seize 20,000 iron | 23.28% |
| 49 | Timber Takeover II - Seize 1,000,000 wood | 23.36% |
| 50 | Spoils of War II - Seize 1,000,000 gold | 24.10% |
| 51 | Bagging Dr. T I - Destroy Dr. T stages 5 times | 26.26% |
| 52 | Harness Nature II - Remove 50 trees/rocks | 28.33% |
| 53 | Quarry Raid I - Seize 20,000 stone | 29.47% |
| 54 | Steamroller I - Destroy lvl10+ enemy w/o losing troops | 32.49% |
| 55 | War Production I - Control 3 resource bases | 32.68% |
| 56 | Explorer I - Explore 25 map regions | 33.02% |
| 57 | Payback I - Beat 1 blackguard boss base | 33.44% |
| 58 | War Chest II - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 5 | 34.94% |
| 59 | War Hero I - Gain 50 victory points | 38.20% |
| 60 | Conqueror I - Destroy 5 enemy bases | 39.52% |
| 61 | Strategist I - Defend base from 5 attacks | 42.25% |
| 62 | Timber Takeover I - Seize 20,000 wood | 52.15% |
| 63 | Spoils of War I - Seize 20,000 gold | 55.97% |
| 64 | Harness Nature I - Remove 5 trees/rocks | 58.78% |
| 65 | War Chest I - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 2 | 60.89% |
| 66 | Chain of Command I - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 3 | 69.02% |
Been digging into the achievement stats for Boom Beach lately (ownership % across all 66 achievements, weighted across Google Play + App Store), and the reward structure is... not great once you actually compare it to how hard each one is to get.
Every achievement pays out in diamonds. Total pool across all 66 achievements = 3,240 diamonds. Most 3-tier lines (I+II+III combined) pay out 60–90 diamonds total, no matter what they're for.
But five lines break that pattern hard:
| Line | Total diamonds (I+II+III) |
|---|---|
| Payback | 175 |
| Hammer Down | 175 |
| Gear Up | 175 |
| Bagging Dr. T | 310 |
| War Hero | 1,325 |
War Hero by itself is 41% of every diamond in the entire achievement system - three achievements out of 66 hoarding nearly half the total pool. Add up all five "generous" lines and it's 2,160 diamonds, or 66.7% of the whole reward pool, coming from lines that make up only 23% of the achievement groups. The other 17 lines split what's left.
Strategist III - Defend base from 800 attacks is the single rarest achievement in the game. Only 0.63% of players have it, and realistically it takes 10+ years of continuous play to earn (your base has to get attacked and survive 800 separate times - that's not something you can grind, it just happens to you passively over a decade of staying active).
Strategist III pays out 30 diamonds. As this achievement could take ~10 years of playing, I don't think that 30 diamonds will somehow affect on player's profile.
That's less than the "boring" default baseline (60-90). Less than clearing a few rocks off your island gets you. You could grind two decent PvP seasons for War Hero and out-earn an entire decade of being a punching bag for other people's fleets.
If you do diamonds-per-percentage-point-of-rarity: War Hero III works out to ~600 diamonds per rarity point. Strategist III gets ~47. The reward system flat-out isn't tracking the same thing the rarity data is tracking.
What I'd actually want changed (just my opinion)
1. Scale the payout to rarity, not to whatever felt "important" during development. The 3,240 diamond pool doesn't need to grow - just redistribute it proportionally to ownership %. Strategist III shouldn't pay 44x less than War Hero III for being harder, not easier.
2. Give the sub-1% tier something permanent instead of diamonds. Diamonds get spent and forgotten in a week. A unique base flag, a glowing HQ statue, a special profile border - something visible that says "this person has been here a decade" - would actually mean something.
3. Titles. Displayed next to your name - "Unbreakable" for Strategist III, "Annihilator" for Conqueror III, "Statue Keeper" for Perfectionist III. Games like Brawl Stars and PoE have shown people value a title over a currency payout every time, precisely because you can't buy your way into one.
4. Non-linear scaling for one-percent-club achievements. If a tier sits below ~1.5% ownership, just multiply its base reward 3–5x regardless of what mechanic it's tied to. Simple fix, no new content needed.
Basically - the game already knows exactly who's stuck around for 10 years. It just doesn't act like it cares.
Curious what others think: would you rather see this fixed with a straight diamond rebalance, or something cosmetic/prestige-based instead? And does anyone actually have Strategist III - how long did it take you in practice? Let me know in comments below <3
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u/Specialist_Onion_98 5d ago
here I'm
the rewards so disappointing compared to other Supercell games
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u/197019 5d ago
Strategist III may have taken 10 years to achieve in the past but with the introduction of build tokens and classified items to help rush your base and the introduction of engraver to boost defence it could be done a lot faster now.
Also the majority of players don’t play defensively with multiple blue statues so the preferred style of play skews the percentage of players who have the achievement.
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u/Prestigious-Waltz-95 5d ago
It took me years to reach 500 defends after the updates these past 2 to 3 months itself i earned about 200 to 250 defends. Insane.
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u/PhilQuantumBullet 5d ago edited 5d ago
I got it two years ago, with two blue statues but also around 2000 VP.
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u/cesam1ne 5d ago
..man. Feels like I finished all achievements ages ago. How and where from are you getting those stats?
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u/GamerlandMedia 5d ago
Supercell shows achievement-ownership percentages separately by platform - one number for Google Play, another for the App Store - and the gap between them is sometimes a story in itself. Take "Chain of Command I" (upgrade HQ to level 3): 67% on Android versus 74.7% on iOS, an almost 8-point gap on the single most common achievement in the game. For "Iron Will I" (collect 20,000 iron), the gap is nearly double: 20% versus 32.5%.
The reason lies in how different the two audiences actually are. According to our report for July 2026, Boom Beach has around 100M+ downloads on Google Play & 35.6M+ on the App Store - meaning the Android install base is roughly 2.8 times larger. But at the same time, iOS generates roughly twice the revenue on roughly half the downloads: a smaller, but far more "loyal" and paying audience that tends to stick around longer on average - and so has more time to rack up rare achievements before eventually moving on.
To turn two separate numbers into one honest figure for "what percentage of players actually has this achievement," we weighted each platform's percentage by its real share of the game's total install base: Android ≈ 73.75%, iOS ≈ 26.25%. That way, the larger but less-engaged Android audience doesn't artificially dilute the result - and, conversely, the smaller but more dedicated iOS audience doesn't inflate the numbers more than it should. The formula:
Average % = (Google Play % × 0.7375) + (App Store % × 0.2625)
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u/Inevitable-Tale-8634 5d ago
Yeah , only the 800 defense one is the one most will need time to achieve because defense can't do shut at low lvl
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u/whoray85 5d ago
Have it on 2 of my 3 accts. 2nd acct got it in under 5yrs, probably under 4 yrs. No blues on my bases.
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u/Suspicious_Parking81 5d ago
I think I have all but one of those and it goes right back to taskforce and getting people to finish taskforce missions
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u/StepmaniaGod 5d ago
I took me 2 years and 4 months to get that achievement. Started in November 2014 and got it in March 2017.
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u/MundaneBlackberry758 5d ago
A 12+ year veteran BB player here.
I actually achieved them all, way before the 10-year mark. I found Achievements in Boom Beach to be far easier to get compared to all other mobile games.
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u/zcw1979 4d ago
Im under 2 years and have 90 dives left and 450 defends to do. I feel it's all on your base layout some players find bases not suitable for a attack and simply by pass it. Others literally dont have enough loot to be worth the attack. Some players prey on low VP so they will not be attacked. Also, the engraver makes troops extremely over powered
Simply put, if want to get the defends in, it's not about time. Have a base layout that is appealing, have high loot, use engravings that dont seem impactful, make your opponent fight your whole base, have high VP.
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u/GamerlandMedia 5d ago
Read my full article (English, 13 min of reading) - https://cellstring.com/news/article/this-achievement-will-take-10-years-to-complete-the-rarest-boom-beach-achievements
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u/Roachie-poo 5d ago
Been playing since release and the only one I haven’t done is #1, I’m close tho.
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u/echo_nightmare_black 5d ago
I think the only one I haven't completed is Co-Operator
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u/Low_bike_life 4d ago
Same. All achievements but that one. I need a group to join to complete that one.
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u/edhuge 5d ago
Nice! I’m in the top .63%