Achievements

In Caves of Qud, there are a total of 52 achievements awarded for completing certain tasks. Of these 52, 20 are hidden, meaning that neither the requirements for completion nor the achievement's icon are displayed until after the player has completed them. These hidden achievements are displayed further down, in a separate section from the non-hidden achievements.

Non-Hidden Achievements

A Bond Knit with Trust

Become loved by a faction. Through some method, gain a reputation of +700 or more with one of the in-game Factions. This can generally be achieved most easily by becoming loved by the player's starting village, as the player can water-ritual with the Mayor, the town's Warden, and the town's Questgiver. From there, one must either kill creatures disliked by the village, perform a Water Ritual with creatures liked by the village, or use Schrodinger pages from the Annals of Qud to increase their reputation further.

Biographer

Learn the complete history of a single sultan. Learn every piece of historical gossip about the life of a single Sultan. Gossip can be learned through a combination of viewing statues, gossiping, and looking at painted or engraved items.

Cubic and Wisest Human

Activate a time cube. Come into possession of a timecube, and then activate it. A timecube is one of the few Artifacts which can earn the achievement Donation Level: Kasaphescence when cast down into the sacred well. Thus, if you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a Sphinx salt injector(favilink error!), if you are True Kin) before activating your timecube, so that you can earn the achievement and still have a timecube to cast into the sacred well.

Dark Tidings

Forsee your own death. Die while using the Precognition mutation or, if you are a True Kin, die while using a Sphinx salt injector(favilink error!).

Donation Level: Kasaphescence

Make an offering at the Sacred Well of an artifact worth at least 200 reputation. Throw an artifact worth 200 reputation or more into the Sacred well. A timecube or phase cannon is the only artifact valuable enough to gain 200 reputation when cast into the well. If you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a Sphinx salt injector(favilink error!), if you are True Kin) before offering to the well so that you can gain the achievement and still keep your artifact.

Eat an Entire Bear

Kill a bear and eat it. Just eat an entire bear. Kill a bear and eat its corpse raw by picking up the Bear corpse, waiting until you are famished or hungrier, and choosing to eat it. Players with the Carnivorous mutation need not wait until they are famished.

Friend to Fungi

Host 3 different fungal infections at once.

Gemini

Wield Caslainard and Polluxus.

Go on. Do it.

Wield the amaranthine prism.

Goat Simulator

Project your mind into a goat's body.

In Contemplation of Eons

Perform the water ritual with Oboroqoru, Ape God.

Jawsnapper

Kill 100 snapjaws.

Knight Conical

Recover Stopsvalinn.

Leap, Frog.

Convince a frog to teach you how to jump.

Love at First Sign

Fall in love with a sign.

Love Thyself

Fall in love with yourself.

Mutagenic Mastery

Advance a mutation to level 15.

Peekaboo

Become loved by newly sentient beings.

Proteus

Have 10 mutations.

Pyramid Scheme

Kill a chrome pyramid.

Quiet This Metal

Speak to the alchemist.

Starry Demise

Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.

Six Arms None the Richer

Have six arms.

The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 1

Violate the Pauli exclusion principle.

The Spirit of Vengeance

Recover the Ruin of House Isner.

The Woe of Joppa

Become hated by the villagers of Joppa.

Three-Sludge Monte

Kill a trisludge.

Five-Sludge Monte

Kill a pentasludge.

Ten-Sludge Monte

Kill a decasludge.

To Thine Own Self Be True

Wear your own severed face on your face. Through some method, manage to get your face severed off, regenerate it, and then equip your severed face in your face slot. A detailed description of how to do this can be found in the Voluntary Dismemberment guide.

What With the Disembowelment and All

Find one of Argyve's old apprentices.

Your Thirst Is Mine, My Water Is Yours

Perform the introductory water ritual 100 times.

Hidden Achievements

Cosmo-Chrononaut

Free Falling

Hole Like a Head

Litteratus

Read 10 books.

So Powerful is the Charm of Words

Read 100 boooks.

Metal Pedal

Contract ironshank. Become afflicted with Ironshank. Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted. Using honey or Yuckwheat stems to stave off the disease after getting the "Your legs ache at the joints" message will not count.

Footloose

Cure ironshank. Cure Ironshank using the method described in the Corpus Choliys. Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted in order to be cured. Staving off the disease using honey or Yuckwheat stems will prevent you from contracting the disease and thus prevent you from curing it.

Oathbreaker

On the Rocks

Psst.

Find the oddly-hued glowpad. Find the oddly-hued glowpad in the Salt Marsh.

Say No More

Contract glotrot. Become afflicted with Glotrot. Note that Glotrot must actually be contracted. Using honey or Yuckwheat stems to stave off the disease after getting the "Your throat feels sore" message will not count.

Tongue in Cheek

Cure glotrot. Cure Glotrot using the method described in the Corpus Choliys Note that Glotrot must actually be contracted to be cured. Staving off the disease using honey or Yuckwheat stems will prevent you from contracting the disease and thus prevent you from curing it.

Shoot

Synolymb

Regenerate a limb.

That Was Nice

Welcome to Qud

Die.

You Are Becoming

Install a cybernetic implant at a becoming nook.

You Became

You Are What You Eat

Your Better Half

Get killed by your evil twin. Get killed by one of your evil twins, which will occasionally appear when entering an unexplored map tile if you have the Evil Twin defect.