The new year has just started, and 2024 is kicking off with more BitLife challenges for the game’s loyal iOS and Android players. As we’ve often mentioned, this is one key reason the title remains immensely popular more than five years after its launch, and a great source of replayability. But for those who aren’t too familiar with how these events work, they usually run for four days (but can be completed later on via the Challenge Vault, which costs a small one-time fee), and include four to six tasks or requirements based on the week’s given theme.
This week’s BitLife challenge has many of the characteristics found in those “classic” challenges, and by that we mean a lot of grinding. However, it also draws inspiration from one of the world’s most popular anime and manga series, though for presumably legal reasons, the spelling has slightly been changed.
The One Peace Challenge sort-of puts you in the shoes of your own version of main protagonist Monkey D. Luffy, and a lot of the requirements in this challenge pay homage to the anime and manga. So how should you go about completing it? We’ve got you covered in this BitLife mini-strategy guide, as we’ve got all you need to know if you want to finish the One Peace Challenge in as little time and with as little effort as possible.
Growing Up Luffy — Creating a Character and Pirating from Porches
The first, and as usual, the easiest requirement in the One Peace Challenge is to create a male character from Brazil, to match Luffy’s canon nationality in One Piece. There aren’t any requirements in the challenge that would definitively put a premium on certain stats, but in order to make the process easier, you can keep re-rolling for a character with high Looks and/or Smarts, or better yet, choose a Special Skill.
It’s up to you which Special Skill you want to choose, but we would suggest Sports, partly because it’s relatively easy to make a huge fortune (which you’ll need later) by being a professional athlete, and for another reason we’ll be mentioning later on.
Although you can do this at an point in the challenge, it’s usually better to get this task out of the way while you’re still young. In preparation for your later “career” as a pirate, you’ll have to steal from five houses as a Porch Pirate. This should be another very simple requirement, as it would normally take way more than five porches pirated for the cops to take notice. Still, we recommend spacing out your acts of piracy across a few years instead of pirating five porches in one go.
Of course, porch piracy won’t earn you anything resembling a steady income, and you’ll only be getting a tiny fraction of what you need for a Pirate Ship, emphasis on tiny. This is where the grinding begins, and this is where your Special Skill (if any) will come in handy.
Become Some Sort of Celebrity and Save Up at Least $10M for Your Pirate Ship
The best, and possibly fastest way to earn enough money to buy your pirate ship in the One Peace Challenge would be to embark on a celebrity career and wait until you have at least $10 million in your bank account before buying a pirate ship. This is among the most expensive types of boats you can buy, and before we proceed any further, we should remind you of the boating license test, which will set you back by about $150 in Brazilian currency — just select the correct meaning of the symbol and you should be good to go.
Our preferred means of earning money through a celebrity career would be playing sports as a professional athlete, which is why we mentioned having good Athleticism and choosing Sports as a Special Skill in the first tip. Later on in the challenge, you will most likely have to emigrate to two separate countries, and in order to do that, you’ll first need to quit your current job.
Leaving the movie or recording studio you work for as an actor or musician, for example, could cost you some momentum if you’re playing for the long term. Meanwhile, most professional athletes can keep playing till their early 40s, so you can theoretically buy the pirate ship, then emigrate to Norway and Japan once your career is over. (Or you can simply retire from competition early.)
Emigrate, Get a New Job, Make a Friend, and Emigrate Again
The final requirements in BitLife’s One Peace Challenge would ask you to make a female friend from Norway and a male friend from Japan. As we noted above, you will have to quit your current job in order to emigrate, but as long as you don’t have a criminal record, you will be approved right away — travel should cost you anywhere from a few thousands to upwards of ten thousand dollars, depending on whether you have any spouse or children at the moment, or how many kids you have.
Once you’ve migrated to Norway or Japan, start working at any job of your choice, and pull up the Job menu so you can choose a female or male coworker (depending on the country) to befriend. After making that friend, you’re free to repeat the process for the other country.
It shouldn’t be too difficult at all, but as is the case with most BitLife challenges, the game will make it rarer than usual for Japan and Norway to appear among the few countries you can emigrate to. Fortunately, you don’t need to quit and restart the app to refresh the list of available nations — you can simply leave the Emigration sub-menu and view a fresh list of countries upon returning there.
After you befriend a Norwegian woman and Japanese man, that should do it for the One Peace Challenge and free you up to choose a prize chest for a new piece of eyewear or headwear. (No guarantees, though, that you’ll be getting a straw hat!}