Boom Beach Engravings Explained: Tips, Strategies & Insights

[@GermanBoomBeach]

This video was so helpfull. I searched for this for almost a week and you managed to answer all my questions! Thanks! Especially the Level of the engraving was so confusing for me.

[@zmot]

glad to help!

[@kirillslatin]

thanks for the detailed insights! As for the info to be conveyed to the BB dev team... I'm quite happy that finally leech is working for bombers. However, the system is not very fair. If the unit had 100% health at the moment it shot a bomb, but while the bomb was flying it got hit (not one-shot) it is not going to get health recovered. As if the shot must have happened with health below 100% to get a refill. This is not working the other way around. If the bomb went off, but the target got destroyed during the flight, health is not restored either. IMHO, this should be fixed to get health leeched whenever actual damage is done and health is below 100% regardless of when the bomb was shot

[@mahmoudsakka4372]

Thank you man, that really was helpful, ALL SUPPORT FOR YOU

[@saravthang]

Finally, i was expecting this from update. Kudos 🎉

[@shanky.y]

they need to pay you for this ! thank you for this i needed that.

[@alastairclarke]

Thank you as per usual. Hopefully SC is watching this! I love anything new so this is great! This seems to be a work in progress.

[@lincolneagle]

Thanks for the info. My armor is at quality level 11/17. It works really great!

[@RyanJ.ZuvichBBSS3.0]

👍😎💪 great upload n very well detailed

[@CaptnCanada85]

I have been on a bit of a BB and warships hiatus while I finalise my master's thesis. will need to sort out the new stuff when I get back at it around Christmas.

[@taylortanner3213]

I was going adrenaline on 5 of my AZ accounts. I’m now running armor. I would like some sort of visual que/icon to let me know what defenses I can completely negate. When you’re running lots of accounts with various armor levels, it becomes a slight annoying having to check the wiki etc. for damage per shot. Even a damage per shot along with current defense damage representation is fine with me. ❤LOVING THE VIDEOS ZMOT ❤

[@zmot]

I’m sure they’ll fix (or improve) the UI “soon” as lots of confusion :)

[@SatishChouhan]

Which engraver is best ? Details video ?

[@zmot]

Best depends on which parts of the game you play and enjoy

[@SatishChouhan]

@zmot should make a long video about that

[@davidnixon1629]

Ditto to what everyone else said. Big thanks

[@zendo3782]

Very helpful stuff!!!🎉

[@producerk8247]

Rally is awesome so far.

[@girsod8994]

Very helpful, thank you

[@Sky-ju3wp]

Most helpful thank you. Still not sure what the diff is on Activation between the 4 and 7 powder options?

[@zmot]

you can activate it NOW using 7 powder or you can save some powder (only costs 4) and wait 11 hours for it to activate.

[@dscent45]

thanks zmot this helps heaps. one thing ive noticed is that leech doesnt work when hitting a shield. i feel like it should as theyre still doing damage? please pass this on to the devs 🙏

[@danubumbu]

I’m working on Leech, i like it for the crab and for the OPs

[@Mmhhhhhhhhhh]

Thanks my man

[@raedjai]

Are armor and sabotage are the top 2 engraver?

[@zmot]

Adrenaline is very good as well if you use zookas

[@_sIash]

some crazy operation hits are cooking

[@aldacosta8151]

Hey ZMOT,u’ve explained a lot about the engraver! How do u upgrade a specific engraving,lets say Armor,to upgrade it to level 2,4 instance, do u use the colour of shards,green in this case in upper right corner ?

[@zmot]

you're asking questions that are literally covered in the video :)

[@uditbhattacharya3952]

Nice video

[@osheafamily6629]

Ill be waiting awhile to unlock this very good video tho for when i do unlock it or of i ever kepp it up bro

[@timdyar1860]

Ty

[@timdyar1860]

When you 'activate' an engraving, what's the difference between 4 pwdrs 11h 30min and 7 pwdrs instant? Confused. Instant last how long? 11h 30min starts now and last 11h 30min? please explain

[@zmot]

both last forever. One starts instantly (7 powder) and one starts in 11.5 hours (4 powder). Just slightly cheaper if you can wait a while.

[@davidsmith8853]

So how do you get multiple engravings active at the same time and can you improve the engraver building itself at any point?

[@zmot]

you can only have one active. to change you stop the first and start the second. I can't speak for what the future holds but currently there is only one level of engraver.

[@Seathrun1]

​@zmot this is the whole reason I watched this video to find out how to get more engraver slots

[@zmot]

@@Seathrun1 you don't

[@tigers9879]

Anyway you can show what each one does.., show in armory or before you attack a base.. when you have active does it show the speed boost in armory? Or barrage damage.. I think that might help people

[@zmot]

the descriptions are very obvious and I have gone over those bits in other videos :)

[@danubumbu]

I figure out from the beginning that we don’t have to use the same color of the shards to unlock leech let’s say which is red. Since then engraver is working on red and purples only and with greens and blues i do powders

[@coldvaper]

Going to take forever just to get 10 tokens anyway, for me at least a month to get 10 at the rate get them. On a side note has anyone noticed that when using energy drink with bullet he pauses much longer then normal or is it just me?

[@rupeshgurung2133]

After 4 yrs meeting the supporter😂😂😂 whom i supporting in game zmot🎉🎉

[@jeffkanatzar]

So it's a gem and powder hole I was wondering what they were going to do about excessive gems now that we have the resource black hole otherwise known as the monument

[@frankg6502]

Thnx 👊🏼👍🏼

[@Ernesto_Sergio]

Thanks! But also, SC could do with piloting some amendments by some human users so they can ask “what does this mean?”.

[@BobDeCaprio]

Is the research tied to any specific ability or is it just random and unknown until you complete the upgrade

[@zmot]

Random

[@BobDeCaprio]

@@zmot Thanks I entered your code on the cyber Monday instant training deal

[@MrBlackNorton]

unfortunately for some defense like proto laser and flamethrower, their dmg per shot shown in game aren't the true dmg per shot during gameplay (laser I believe it's similar to laser ranger, a series of low dmg shots that has short interval, then several seconds of cooldown); I have armor at 56 and lvl 1 laser in operation is barely scratching my troops, but lvl 2 laser can 2-3 shots them (which is still an improvement compare to no armor, in that case laser can one shot bombardier) For armor, quality 1 will grant the baseline of 40, the each point on quality will add another 3, so like mine is at quality 7 so it's 58; since the max is 100, then the max quality for armor will be 21, which probably will be unlocked at lvl 5

[@iSys31]

I have it quality 18 with 91 damage reduction, it's so ridiculously strong that I deactivated it, it's not even fun you don't never take damage by flamethrower, machine gun, Rocket launcher in op, even your critters are unkillable

[@MrBlackNorton]

@@iSys31 does it neglect enough dmg from microwav'r and shock blaster? Or even hot pot 3?

[@zmot]

flame thrower works fine. laser the damage per second is shown but the damage per SHOT is the important bit (128 > 100)

[@iSys31]

@@MrBlackNorton It doesn't neglect all damages from these prototypes. It does on some inferior versions like shockblaster 1 and Microwavr 1, but it doesn't on the Hot Pot 1 as it has about the same dps than a max level flamethrower (which already isn't completely walled by armor).

[@Imjustdone496]

There’s no way to choose what you research, just which type shards you spend?

[@zmot]

Yip

[@johnparaboombeach7535]

I still don't know what Alchemy exactly does. Can you explain in simple English please? Thanks.

[@zmot]

there's a comment on this video that explains it well. It is an awful engraving that isn't relevant for HQ27 IMO

[@rickymateo2878]

Im confused with the alchemy wording, how does it work?

[@thenonsequitur]

Say you just a killed a base on your map that would normally give you loot of 120k wood, 60k stone, and 180k iron. But if you have alchemy activate you you will get more balanced returns but the same amount of total resources. Let's say your alchemy is at 75% and you have it activated. Now killing the base, 25% of those resources stay exactly the same, so that's 30k wood, 15k stone, and 45k iron. The other 75% adds up to 90k (from wood) + 45k (from stone) + 135k (from iron), for a total of 270k resources. These are now equally divided among the 3. A third of 270k is 90k, so that means you add back 90k to each. So for wood you start with the 30k (the 25% that the alchemy did not affect) and add 90k for a total of 120k wood, for stone add the 15k base to 90k for a total of 105k stone, and for iron add the 45k base to 90k for a total of 135k iron. So in total, this base with 75% alchemy will give you 120k wood, 105k stone, and 135k iron. If you have alchemy maxed at 100% then it will covert all resources. So in this example, that would be 120k+60k+180k = 360k total. Divided in 3 that's 120k each. So looting this same base with 100% alchemy will give you 120k wood, 120k stone, and 120k iron. I think this is definitely the worst engraver boost. Seems pretty useless. Unbalanced resources from looting bases has never really been a problem for me.

[@rickymateo2878]

@thenonsequitur if all lessons were explained this clearly, my dog would be doing calculus. Thanks for making it make sense.

[@zmot]

Would be useful if not for the fact you get it at hq27

[@jhoward1669]

Did they take away “forever”. Now costs two powder for 12 hours ???

[@zmot]

Yup, and other nerfs. See the channel for more

[@KaraMurat64]

Geliştirici ekibin bu tekrarlayan şeyler için elmas ve hızlandırıcı karşılığı 10 defa aç gibi bir buton koyması lazım bunu düşenememeleri çok enteresan. Saatlerce bununla uğraşmak zorunda kalıyoruz.

[@AresEverett]

Haklısın reis mantıklı

[@zmot]

I am sure they have something in the works

[@KaraMurat64]

@@zmot Umarım, bence bunu onlara iletmelisin 🙏

[@zmot]

Siber tüccar çıkınca hemen yaptım.

[@AresEverett]

@@zmot Appreciate the effort to translate! You care about your viewers, thanks for that. Bought instant training with the code Zmot for ya!

[@taylortheturtle]

7:28 The part where he finally told us what we were all thinking.

[@testaMINT]

I literally spent my tokens right before I saw this video

[@zmot]

oops! it gets harder and harder to get upgrades the further you go so tokens (or being very lucky) are your only options later on

[@Azd1r]

Nice. also why does zmot code, and any code, run out after a week, so annoying, i legit had to set an alarm to remember to re-input it lmao, since i was buying stuff and realising after i didnt have your code 😂

[@zmot]

If you had a multi-billion dollar business and could make more money by having the code expire would you do it? 👀

[@Azd1r]

@zmot Yes id donate to the poor 🗿 but might aswell just not have the code if thats their mindset. Lol

[@tigers9879]

My question is, does in the armory does it show.. extra damage? More speed when active? And when was the other video?

[@zmot]

no it does not show extra damage when adrenaline is enabled.

[@Crispy983]

How were people getting so many skip tickets

[@zmot]

Cyber trader. Powder!

[@Crispy983]

@zmot wasn't it only 40 tickets for one powder?

[@zmot]

you could refresh and buy thousands of times

[@timdyar1860]

@@zmot is there a difference with Cyber trader and The Trader??

[@zmot]

@@timdyar1860 cyber trader comes 1-2 times per year and has crazy trades every time. Trader sells trash.

[@petrusylitepsa]

Q: if the lvl goes to max before quality can you still upgrade quality with tokens?

[@zmot]

Level maxed just means you can to max quality. Ignore that bit. You just want quality upgrades… which get more rare the higher the quality. That’s why you’ll have (and need) tokens

[@clumpbb791]

Some super crazy Finnish math going on here

[@morbid13]

No suitable location found say to me.. and not let me to build it. What I must do guys??

[@zmot]

Cut some trees

[@gladdersdon]

Still don’t understand tokens. What if you use tokens for low level upgrades? Do you have to? Is it progressive? Why spend so much time talking about maxing out engravings if it takes years anyway? More confused now than I was before the video.

[@zmot]

As you get your engravings towards max they get harder and harder to get an upgrade. Tokens become more and more valuable for max. Spending when upgrades are easy to obtain is a waste.

[@gladdersdon]

@ so just to be clear, do NOT use tokens until maxed

[@zmot]

Ideally. Too easy to upgrade at a low/mid level

[@gladdersdon]

@@zmot thank you for the insight man! Much appreciated!

[@بندرالدوسري-ص3ق]

هل يوجد ترجمة عربية

[@zmot]

ينبغي أن يتم الترجمة تلقائيًا، أليس كذلك؟

[@بندرالدوسري-ص3ق]

@ هذا الفيديو لا يوجد به ترجمة أبدا

[@zmot]

يبدو أن KZbin فشل. سأقوم بإنشاء بعض مقاطع الفيديو، أعطني بضع ساعات

[@zmot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6i2lXqKqc1jo8k

[@بندرالدوسري-ص3ق]

@@zmot شكرآ لك انت شخص لطيف وتستحق الاشتراك سوف اشاهد الفيديو مترجم الآن 😍

[@lambo8429]

I think that this was implemented in a very confusing manner. Sc should have simplified it, just stick to levels or quality, not levels and quality

[@zmot]

Isn’t that literally what I said in this video?

[@JeremyCañelas-o4c]

We have Filipino player this game maybe me

[@zmot]

🤔

[@JeremyCañelas-o4c]

@zmot why

[@dmandman4288]

🙏👍

[@baldevprajapati6991]

Sir please make video in hindi

[@zmot]

closed captions should work in all languages.

[@jeffortman6395]

Confused I thought you were going to explain this

[@zmot]

Speaking of confused, your statement makes no sense

[@ahuedhusenahmed]

👿🇸🇪🧿

[@AbdullahAlkhaldi-s7f]

it's not important I will not do it

[@zmot]

Do… what?

[@AbdullahAlkhaldi-s7f]

@zmot that engraving

[@RealisticRick27]

Pretty awful that people need to search on KZbin how to understand a game.