One strategy for Piglantis level 1-1 is to send the Red bird underwater to cut the rope holding the boulder. Send the Yellow bird along a similar trajectory, triggering the speed boost as it approaches the surface to blast through the suspended TNT. If you can destroy enough material, 3 stars may be yours!
If you have a different strategy feel free to leave a comment below; however, don't just post your score via the comments, as that's what the leaderboards are for.
Perhaps I missed it or I am missing something, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned that if you get the red bird onto the deck & take the pig out it’s worth over 6,000 pts. as compared to about 1,130 in the video. There’s been a lot of talk about the vases (are people referring to those white pillar-like objects?). If not, what and where are the vases? Also a lot of discussion about which way the round rock rolls, but I don’t remember seeing anything about the R.B. landing on the pier or deck and killing the pig. It seems like a 5,000 pt. advantage in this game is significant. If I’ve missed it, I apologize. If it’s not important, I’d appreciate knowing why. Now I just need the other 65 or 70,000 pts. to go with it. Diabolical episode!
Hi @duffy – yes it’s good to get the red bird on the pier to take out the pig – mainly to get red out of the way so yellow does not bump into him. That pig on the pier has to go either way – so it doesn’t matter if you get him with red or later on – but getting a clear lane for yellow to hit the suspended TNT is the best thing you can do.
Sorry – the vases everyone talks about are on the ocean floor – the suspended ball that red cuts can go to the bottom and break a vase – which I think is worth 100 points.
Thanks for this. Really helped me to increase my score a bit.
By the way, the highscore on this level seems a bit high.
@duffy. The vase and treasure chest are on the ocean floor–vase on the left.
Pigs are always worth 5,000 points. If you don’t get it with first shot, you have to get it with second (or third) to clear the level. In other words, you will always get the 5,000 for killing the pig. There is no point advantage getting it with the first bird.
LOL, I hadn’t seen the responses from @playdbird, when I wrote this. Hopefully, between the two of us, things will be clearer.
@PlayDBird@DocTonyNYC…Thanks to you both. Now I get it about the red bird, etc. I do realize the vase & treasure chest are underwater. I
just don’t understand exactly what object you are calling a vase – is it that white pillar-like thing? Sorry to be so obtuse.
@duffy. Right below the boulder hanging from the rope is a hill. After hitting the rope, the boulder falls in the water and rolls either right or left, if it rolls to the right, it stops at the treasure chest (I’ve never seen the boulder break it). If the rock rolls down to the left, it goes over w shell and stops at (and sometimes breaks) the vase. Maybe it’s an urn, instead? Does that help?
@duffy on my phone I couldn’t see the vase..it is on the ocean floor..below the boulder.if you zoom out you may be able to see it ..
@Kathy…I’m embarrassed to say that I just never noticed it. Guess I thought it was a fish! As I’ve said before – old eyes. But thanks for the help. I need all I can get on this level. I’ve 3 * it several times but my scores are lousy. I may have to settle for 68+. It’s making me a little crazy.
No problem…believe you me..lol I have old eyez also and old contact lenses ..double trouble;)
Well I finally broke 70K which was my goal. I really needed to see how a score of 70+ was achieved so in desperation I went to YouTube. I found a video by Yuryigolkin which showed how to get 70+. So many many thanks @Yuryigolkin, whose video confirmed moonsabre’s screen shot so a shout out to @moonsabre too. I may go back for a higher score :)! Here’s what I learned:
1st shot: RB cuts rope near top of rock which falls left & breaks vase/urn/jug. RB lands on dock & kills pigf(6,0 pts. 6,000+ pts. (smiles to @PlayDBird and @DocTonyNYC). VERY IMPORTANT for RB to land on the dock.
I don’t think enough importance is attached to this 1st shot. For me. It’s chief value is in setting the trajectory
for YB in 2nd shot.
2nd shot: YB follows as closely as possible the trajectory of RB. If on the mark it will be aiming just slightly
to the right of the TNT. Boost as YB comes out of the water.
I have repeated this strategy several times for 70+. I had tried every strategy described here without success,. I already had 3* with a 68+ score but I could never get more. After I discovered the video I got my first 70+ after a
few tries. But beware, I’ve had my share of failures too as I continued to try & improve. I decided to post now so I could get my life back!
Finally I want to give a shout out to @Ernor63 who wrote a description in Piglantis 1-7 that is my favorite of this entire series. I am going to try to emulate his style in my 2nd shot description. I don’t think I can do him justice but here goes:
2nd shot: With 2nd shot you must have YB closely follow the trajectory of RB. YB shall come out of the sea like a shark & it shall smash the 1st TNT to its slight right and the iron structure with the 2nd TNT shall be lifted up and smash down on the dock. All pigs shall be destroyed One chain of the trapeze might survive; nothing of the dock shall remain. Amen!
Thank you again @ernor63 for that wonderful description in 1-7. I knew I could never do it better than you.
I wish 2 things: that Rovio’s scoring was a bit more transparent & that I could edit my comments. In 1st shot paragraph it should be…lands on deck & kills pig – 6,000+ pts. Same paragraph, it’s should be its. It should read: For me its chief value is…
Sorry about the typos & misspelling.
Worst mistake of all…Sorry @Yuriyigolkin for misspelling your name in above comment. It’s very hard for me to see the difference between the l and the i on my iPad, especially when the print is small. I really hate misspelling people’s names so I apologize profusely.
@duffy no problem. Glad that helped you…
@duffy, LOL. your’s is way better than mine.
@ernor63… Thank you. No one can really do better than your description but I am glad to hear from & know you are still around. Do you ever play the Daily Challenge?
No I’m focusing on some old Seasons episods that I never really digged into before.
If you leave a piece of rope on the ball, you never break the vase. If you cut the rope right above the bolder, you always break the vase, giving you the points. The best shot is to hit the slanted wall just over the rope. Then the red bird cuts both top and bottom rope and also breaks the coral by the treasure chest. It is also possible to hit the rope right in the middle to break both parts. If you do the slanted wall shot, the red bird sometimes bobs up and seems to ALMOST set off the TNT.
@enor63… Have fun with Seasons. Give it the old Viking try. But why should I tell you anything – you are one of the
best shooters around. Good luck.
@PlayDBird@DocTonyNYC… Forget the vase — I see it now. It’s kind of gold colored, right? OMG I guess I must have thought it was a fish or something because I actually did not see it until now. Old eyes. Thank you both again.
No problem! Ignore my reply above. By the way, if you click on “reply” under a message, it will keep a discussion thread together.
@DocTonyNYC. Thanks. I knew that. Just not thinking. Old brain too. This level is draining all my brain cells.
@DocTonyNYC…urn is better. Thanks for all your help.
For this frustrating level, let’s “revolt” and start a different, reverse strat and contest, if you want :)
Who can get all four pigs with the LEAST score?
I’ll go first with 35190 points.
1) RB on medium-high arc to land behind column on overhanging cliff; 170 points…
2) YB on very steep arc into orbit, 0 points…
3) BB flat to break rope and drop boulder; 1550 points… running score of 1720 so far…
4) YB however you want to pop all four remaining pigs with the LEAST score.
Golf, anyone?
@dseufert Interesting…
1) Red Bird w/ low trajectory to the sea and jump towards the top rope holding the rock (Kinda challenging to do this, though). Score- 150.
2) A careful shot to the sea that hits the 1st pig (This one is challenging! This is madness! (Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAA!!!)). Score- 5790.
3. Bomb Bird at near-same trajectory w/ the previous bird, that kills all the pigs and topples the tower to the w/ (I’m exploding him in mid-air, that’ll cause less destruction, and try to make the tower to not explode that TNT). Score- 31250
4. Yellow bird- Fire him backwards, he’ll not hit anything. Score- 31520.
Total score- 31520 (At least i beat ya, hehehehe)
LOL !!! Nice to know someone else is up as late (or very early?) as me with a similar sense of humor :) Keep on flinging… er, well,… unflinging! I’ll try your “un-strat.” :)
I got 32970
*First bird – threw him in there – something happened.
*Second bird – threw him in there – something happened and all pigs died.
*Third bird – threw him into the sea.
*Fourth bird threw him into the sea.
There’s gotta be less points out there somewhere….
Is it just me or is this the only level in Piglantis where you actually have to fling the birds through the water? I can’t place any other level that you have to use the water physics to get anywhere…
There’s quite a few I believe.
On most levels you have an option to use the water or not.
For example, levels 1-13 and 2-14. You can go underwater to complete those, but both are set up that you can also avoid the water and complete them more traditionally.
There are levels where there are structures underwater that you need to destroy to get high scores, but I do believe that 1-1 is the only one where you HAVE to fling a bird into water.
If I’m wrong someone please let me know.
@hinarei there are lots of levels where different strats could take your bird or egg through the water..most have a choice of water method or air..good luck;)
1-9′s a good one for sending the egg through the water and I’ve found that gives a better score in general, but for those that find the water a bother more than a boon then only 1-1 could be a struggle for a 3-star
Thanks @playdbird. That’s what I was trying to get across, and apologies if its been mentioned before :) I realise there’s several levels where its a benefit to make use of the new control water shots give you, and I will enjoy going through those, especially if it could improve my score.
Any level that only gives you a thousand points on the 1st shot is definately trouble. Thank you @duffy for your input on this level, & also thank you @yuriyigolkin for your YouTube video, for some reason it made things much clearer.
Why did they remove the red rock structure in the background? I assume it was done in the BTS update, but what is the point in taking it out?
@karen68 – You are so welcome.
I managed to clear this level with the first red bird. Got enough lift when he popped out of the water that he clipped the board with the TNT ……..and the whole thing blew. Total luck, as I have played this level many times and failed to get the 3 star score!
After 3 months of not playing this episode, I come back and it only gives me 290 more points, it’s incredible that they keep making the first episode of all the chapters harder to make a decent score, perhaps they could include lessons in free diving with these water themed episodes.