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Pirates Ahoy from Playfish launched a major new feature this week, to further evolve the game beyond its treasure digging roots. Players can now challenge their friends in ship vs. ship combat! Besides earning plenty of glory, players can also win coins, gems, and other rewards.

Players begin with three challenges per day, and can get more in daily neighbor visits, by digging, or by purchasing them with Playfish cash. Right now, players can only challenge their fellow Pirates Ahoy neighbors. After challenging a friend to a fight, players then pick what attacks they want to perform.

There are three battle moves to choose from – Ram, Shoot, and Shield. Every fight has five attack rounds, and players choose which move to perform each round. Victory is decided in a rock, paper, scissors manor – shoot beats shield, shield beats ram, and ram beats shoot.

After challenging your opponent, they will then need to log in and select their own attack moves. Then you can see which ship came out on top! The more players battle, the higher their battle rank becomes. Thicker shields, more devastiting cannons, and other upgrades can then be purchased. Players can also spend some Playfish Cash to give themselves an even bigger edge.

A handful of new home island decorations have been added to Playfish’s treasure digging title Pirates Ahoy, giving players a few more options for customizing their pirate HQ.

The new items are: Lava Statue, Hay Roll, Scarecrow, Wooden Crane, Pirate Wagon, and Fish Pond. All of these new items are available for coins besides the special lava statue. It is for sale for 13 PF Cash, and when purchased it turns the ocean water around your home island into red lava!

A new sailing perk has also been released – the game’s 2nd. As its name implies, the new Invincible perk allows players to win every monster battle for seven days, at a cost of 20 PF Cash.

Pirates Ahoy developer Playfish introduced a new Storage treasure collection, today. The prize for completing the collection is a storage shed, which gives players +10 storage space for their home island treasure chest. Unlike other treasure collections, players can repeatedly complete this Storage collection, providing them with more and more storage space.

The collection is made up of six treasures, which must be dug up and restored in the same manner as other Pirates Ahoy treasures. Storage treasures can be found at random in any of the Pirates Ahoy locations.

Pirates Ahoy developer Playfish gave treasure seekers a new project to work on besides just filling their coffers with coins and treasures, this week. Players can now construct a Giant Pirate King Statue on their home islands. Besides just looking cool & intimidating, when construction is completed players also get +10 to their maximum energy.

To complete construction, players will need to collect a variety of statue parts. The Hook Part and Parrot Part can be found at random when digging. The others must be collected from friends as free gifts, or purchased with Playfish Cash. In total players will need to dig up 3 Parrot Parts and 20 Hook Parts, and collect 10 each of: Head Part, Jug Part, Leg Part, and Sword Part. That’s 63 parts total!

For players that don’t want to go through the hassle, the entire construction can be completed automatically for 101 PF Cash.

Playfish’s treasure digging title Pirates Ahoy (we refuse to type out the exclamation point every time) has truly hit the ground running. Despite being a brand new game, last week a collection of French themed Bastille Day decorations were released, and this week a collection of Tiki items have hit the shop.

New HQ decorations include: tiki hut, tiki bar, tiki lantern, happy tiki head, angry tiki head, summer gazebo, summer palm tree, and more. A few of the items are available for just the next seven days, but the bulk of the Polynesian goodies are permanent additions to the Pirates Ahoy store.

Now if we could just save enough coins to purchase them… we be poor pirates, as it is!