Core - Cambridge Battlecode

The core is each team’s central building. If your core is destroyed, you lose the game. Each team starts with one core.

Properties

Property	Value
HP	500
Footprint	3×3
Vision radius²	36
Action radius²	8 (from centre)

Spawning

The core can spawn one builder bot per round on any of the 9 tiles it occupies. Spawning costs one action cooldown.

# Spawn a builder on an empty core tile
pos = c.get_position()  # centre of the 3x3 core
for dx in range(-1, 2):
    for dy in range(-1, 2):
        target = Position(pos.x + dx, pos.y + dy)
        if c.can_spawn(target):
            c.spawn_builder(target)
            break

Resource delivery

Resources must be transferred to the core via conveyors to be added to your team’s global resource pool, which is used for building.