Badge
Badges are bought in the palace shoppe of any island on a doubloon ocean for doubloons. These items provide the holder with the ability to hold a given rank, or lower, in a crew or the ability to take employment at a shoppe or stall to provide "offline" labor. A labor badge also enables the player to forage from an uncolonized island.
Badges last a limited amount of time, after which new badges must be purchased. There are two distinctions in how this time is measured. Login days refer to days in which the pirate holding the badge is logged in. Calendar days refer to days on the calendar, regardless of how often the pirate holding the badge logs in. Unlike other items that decay, mousing over a badge will display exactly how many days are left on it (font color indicates new, good or old). Decay begins from the day a badge is purchased.
If a player already has badges, they cannot purchase any badges that would not give them new privileges.
One may also buy wrapped versions of a badge. All wrapped badges can be traded/given away, do not age and do not grant any abilities while still wrapped. The player who unwraps a badge obtains the normal version of the corresponding badge. Badges cannot be unwrapped if the player already has a badge with the same functionality.
When a rank badge expires, the pirate who held the badge maintains their rank. However, any abilities that the rank has over that of the pirate cannot be executed. For example, a captain who does not have a badge can no longer modify the crew articles, promote or demote crew members, expel crew members, or command a ship with officer level control.
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Pirate badge
| Pirate badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | - |
Price: (no longer available)
The pirate badge previously allowed the holder to do any tasks which require the rank of pirate in a crew. It was purchasable from a palace shoppe or the second floor of a fort. Prior to its removal, it cost one doubloon. It was the only unwrapped badge that could be traded between players. The requirement to have pirate badge for certain missions (such as Navigate with the Navy) and the badge itself were removed in release 2017-06-14.
Officer badge
| Officer badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 8 |
Price: 8 doubloons
The officer badge is required to do any tasks which require the officer or fleet officer ranks.
The officer badge can be upgraded to a senior officer badge or a captain badge based on the time remaining on the officer badge. Upgrading from a new officer badge to a captain badge costs 12 doubloons. Upgrading from a new officer badge to a senior officer badge costs 2 doubloons. These prices increase as the time remaining on the officer badge decreases.
This badge is good for 30 login days.
Senior officer badge
| Senior officer badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 10 |
Price: 10 doubloons
The senior officer badge is required to do tasks which require the rank of senior officer and allows the holder to do any tasks which require the officer badge.
The senior officer badge can be upgraded to a captain badge based on the time remaining on the senior officer badge. Upgrading from a new senior officer badge to a captain badge costs 10 doubloons. This price increases as the time remaining on the senior officer badge decreases.
This badge is good for 30 login days.
Captain badge
| Captain badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 20 |
Price: 20 doubloons
The captain badge allows the holder to create a new crew, or to create a flag, if they meet the other requirements. This badge also allows a captain to be awarded the captain's booty share in crews using uneven booty shares. It also allows the public and private statements of a crew to be edited by the captain.
This badge is good for 30 login days.
Labor badge
| Labor badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 5 |
Price: 5 doubloons
The labor badge allows the holder to to play all crafting puzzles all the time, and produces 24 hours of labor per day. This pool of hours will be drawn from by playing crafting puzzles, by shoppes in which the pirate holds a job, and by foraging.
The labor badge can be upgraded to a deluxe labor badge with a cost depending on the time remaining on the labor badge. Upgrading from a new labor badge to a deluxe labor badge costs 10 doubloons. These prices increase as the time remaining on the labor badge decreases.
This badge is good for 30 calendar days, as opposed to login days.
The freeplay days section in the puzzle article shows when the labor badge is not required to play the labor puzzles.
Deluxe labor badge
| Deluxe labor badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 15 |
Price: 15 doubloons
This badge allows the holder to produce 72 hours of labor per day, and functions like a labor badge in every other respect.
This badge is good for 30 calendar days, as opposed to login days.
Parlor badge
| Parlor badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 4 |
Price: 4 doubloons
The parlor badge allows unrestricted playing of the parlor games (including tournaments). Swordfight and Rumble challenges are always free.
This badge is good for 30 login days.
The freeplay days section in the puzzle article shows when the parlor badge is not required to play the parlor games.
Bravery badge
| Bravery badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | 5 |
Price: 5 doubloons
The bravery badge grants access to Sea Monster (Atlantis, Cursed Isles, Haunted Seas, and Kraken lairs) voyages. Everyone on board a ship charted to a Sea Monster lair must have a bravery badge for the vessel to set sail.
This badge lasts for 30 login days.
The bravery badge is not required on the Obsidian Ocean.
Summary table
The following table collates the doubloon cost and duration.
| Badge | Doubloon cost | Days duration |
|---|---|---|
| Bravery | 5 | 30 login |
| Labor | 5 | 30 calendar |
| Deluxe labor | 15 | 30 calendar |
| Parlor | 4 | 30 login |
| Officer | 8 | 30 login |
| Senior officer | 10 | 30 login |
| Captain | 20 | 30 login |
Miscellaneous badges
Permanent badges
The Dark Seas Eminent Explorer pack gives a permanent Officer badge and a permanent Labor badge. These badges function in the same manner as their normal counterparts, except that they do not decay, and purchasing an upgraded badge will not replace them.
StARRter badge
| StARRter badge | |
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| Doubloon cost | N/A |
Price: Special
The StARRter badge was a combination of a pirate badge and a parlor badge. It was included with the Stowaway Starter Box, a one-time bonus reward offered to players who purchase a quantity of doubloons. The Stowaway Starter Box also included one Striped shirt with vest and one pair of Fancy boots.
It could be purchased via the Puzzle Pirates billing system. All players who have not received a Stowaway Starter Box are eligible to receive one with their purchase. It can only be claimed once per account.
This badge was good for 15 login days.
Historical notes
- The requirement for a Pirate Badge was removed in release 2017-06-14.
- Wrapped badges became available with release 2007-09-19.
- The bravery badge came into existence release 2007-09-04, though it looked like a pirate badge until release 2007-09-05.
- The StARRter badge came into existence release 2006-06-20, and has been included in the following offers:
- The Summer 2006 25 Cent Offer for new Puzzle Pirate players, as part of the StARRter Kit, which also included a random item of furniture and random piece of clothing or a sword. This badge was good for 14 login days.
- The October 2013 Stowaway Starter Box offer. This badge was good for 15 days.
- When doubloon oceans first came into existence, a rank badge was required to be promoted to a specific rank. This requirement was removed in release 2005-11-03, though the badges are still required to do any tasks which require their ranks.
- The parlor badge came into existence in release 2005-10-20.
- All badges originally lasted for 30 login days, including the labor badge. When release 2005-03-28 came, all badges were changed to last for 30 calendar days. All of the badges except labor were changed back to login days with release 2005-03-30.
