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In Caves of Qud, there are a total of 140 Steam achievements awarded for completing certain tasks. Of these 140, 53 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.
Note: Many achievements, such as On the Rocks, will kill the player (or have other highly undesirable effects). In these cases, using Precognition or, if you are True Kin, a sphynxsalt injector before dying will still award the achievement. It is also possible to use Domination to obtain some (but not all) of these achievements by killing the player-controlled creature instead of the player character.
These are currently only available for players playing on Steam clients.
Have a reputation of +600 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 you can water-ritual with the Mayor, the town's Warden, and the town's Questgiver.
From there, you 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 your reputation further.
Another easy-to-please faction is Mechanimists, just toss enough artifacts in the sacred well at the Six Day Stilt. For example 8-9 laser rifles which are relatively easy to gather/tinker, but give a respectable +75 reputation per offering.
Absolute Unit
Successfully cook a meal with neutron flux as an ingredient.
Cooking with neutronflux (typically stored within a phial) has a 90% chance to succeed. However, be aware that failure will cause a gravitational collapse (instant death).
Aleph
Defeat one of the Girsh Nephilim.
Kill one of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various places about Qud.
Find and acquire Kindrish, the lost bracelet of the hindren of Bey Lah. Its location can be learned from Trolls by asking them for secrets during a water ritual.
The location will always be the center zone of a random tier 4-6 parasang, between 0-9 strata deep. It will be generated either within a normal colored chest, a creature's inventory, or on the ground.
Thus, if you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a sphynxsalt injector, 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.
Dalet
Defeat four of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
Kill four of the six Girsh Nephilim in a single playthrough, abilities of previous killed Girsh Nephilim will be added to the rest of them.
This achievement will typically require multiple playthroughs, as only one repulsive device can be found and it cannot be duplicated with metamorphicpolygel. However, an unscrupulous player could kill or dominate the children to reclaim the device.
Donation Level: Kasaphescence
Make an offering at the Sacred Well of an artifact worth at least 200 reputation.
If you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a sphynxsalt injector, if you are True Kin) before offering to the well so that you can gain the achievement and still keep your artifact.
Dream within a Dream
Enter a waking dream from within a waking dream.
This will require you to be hit by a Crungling Gaze from a dreamcrungle whilst already within a waking dream.
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 (D) mutation need not wait until they are famished.
To perform the water ritual with Mamon, he must be made neutral or friendly by raising the player's Children of Mamon reputation (from the default of -600 to at least -249) or by recruiting him as a follower (with Beguiling or Proselytize).
Friend to Fungi
Host 3 different fungal infections at once.
Become the host of 3 different types of fungal infection.
This can be easily achieved by walking near three differently colored broodpuffs. Make sure that one fungal infection has grown before walking near the next broodpuff, as itchy skin does not stack and walking into more spores will not change the infection type.
Killing Crowsong is, for obvious reasons, an expedient. They are affiliated with the Village of Kyakukya, so you need to worry about others joining in the fight. However, dominating them and forcing them to drop their swords also works.
To be vaporized your temperature needs to be above 10,000. This can be accomplished with relative ease via being covered in plasma and then detonating multiple thermal grenade mk IIIs on top of your character in quick succession.
I-
Wink out of existence.
Die by ceasing to exist in one of several ways; see instant death.
Mouse control is required for this achievement, as looking through keyboard commands means the cursor will always start to centered on yourself, making you fall in love with yourself before you have a chance to look at a sign. Turn on mouse controls, apply love injector, and right click a sign to look at it.
Love Thyself
Fall in love with yourself.
Inject yourself with a love injector and look at yourself.
May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble
Convince the High Priest of the Stilt to join your party.
Me, Myself, and I
Share the map with 10 clones of yourself.
Can be obtained with a space inverter fitted with a beamsplitter by shooting at several walls, ruins usually have a good geometry for this. It is much easier to obtain with a high quickness as the clones disappear after 5 rounds. Alternatively, drink or cook cloning draught, use Temporal Fugue, or combine cloning methods to have several clones of yourself.
More Than a Willing Spirit
Return from Golgotha with a repaired waydroid and gain admittance to Grit Gate.
Have either yourself or a follower ready an axe and use dismemberment on the delicious visitors. Then cook a meal with the limb of a hunter turned prey.
Open Your Mind
Have your head explode.
Die to the burst of damage at the end of Sunder Mind.
On Second Thought
Eat a serving of humble pie.
Eating humble pie will permanently decrease your ego by 1, making you more humble. It is sold from apothecaries.
Somewhat difficult to attain, due to the rarity of newly sentient beings. Reputation can be gained from Schrodinger pages and water ritualing creatures that are loved by newly sentient beings and killing creatures hated by them. Completing Landing Pads is also helpful, as it offers a reputation boost of 300 with them.
Proteus
Have 10 mutations.
This can be easily done by creating a character that has a 4 point defect and choosing all the cheapest mutations possible.
This requires the player character to peacefully wake up which can be done by leveling up as the dream character. See Waking dream.
Starry Demise
Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.
Get damaged by a neutronflux explosion or similar effect, such as the explosion caused by failing to examine an tier 8+ artifact with Dystechnia (D) or the explosion created by baetyls and sparkingbaetyls when at low health.
What this means is, when you deal the final blow to hunters there is a 10% chance to do this and gain +1 Ego permanently. Have some glimmer and keep killing hunters. It will happen.
Proselytize or beguile a soupy sludge, and dump 3 different liquids on it. Then wail on the helpless thing. It must be a trisludge: any more and it will not count.
Five-Sludge Monte
Kill a pentasludge.
Kill a soupy sludge composed of 5 different liquids.
Ten-Sludge Monte
Kill a decasludge.
Kill a soupy sludge composed of 10 different liquids.
Token of Gratitude
Be gifted a 10-pointed asterisk.
Complete the main objective of the Landing Pads quest, given by Thah, by convincing at least ten villages to accept the slynth.
To Thine Own Self Be True
Wear your own severed face on your face.
Get your face severed off, regenerate it, and then equip your severed face in your face slot.
Spot the flattened remains. They are located in the center zone of a random salt marshparasangAn area made of 3x3 screens, which is represented as one tile on the overworld map..
Your Thirst Is Mine, My Water Is Yours
Perform the introductory water ritual 100 times.
Make a habit of performing the water ritual with all the NPCs in your starting village after beginning a new game and this should not be too difficult to complete.
Hidden Achievements
0 for 2
Die of thirst.
Easiest to do from a fresh character, drop any fresh water you have on you and then walk on the world map until you die of thirst.
The easiest way is to take Space-Time Vortex at character creation and use it at every opportunity. This is an aggregate number so it can be done across playthroughs.
Decoding the Signal
Travel to the Temple of the Rock and decrypt the mysterious signal.
Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted in order to be cured. Staving off the disease using honey or yuckwheatstems will prevent you from contracting the disease and thus prevent you from curing it.
In addition, you can be decapitated by a decarbonizer'sDecarbonizer effect, an axe-wielding dervish, or by an Evil Twin (D) if you know decapitate or are wielding a relic that has a chance to decapitate. If you only have one head, losing it will kill you unless you have Regeneration at level 10.
When finding a book in the world, make a habit of choosing to read it before putting it in your inventory. You need only look at the first page of a book for it to count as read.
Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted. Using honey or yuckwheatstems to stave off the disease after getting the "Your legs ache at the joints" message will not count.
Oops
Be killed by a companion on accident.
Beguiling a creature with an innate ranged attack such as a slugsnout and then standing directly between it and an enemy should be a reliable way to accomplish this.
Use the method described by the CorpusCholiys to cure it.
Reclamation
Recover the Spindlegrounds from the Putus Templar war party
See Reclamation for more information on the quest.
So Powerful is the Charm of Words
Read 100 books.
When finding a book in the world, make a habit of choosing to read it before putting it in your inventory. You need only look at the first page of a book for it to count as read.
Randomly generated thermoelectriccells occasionally contain some lava inside, which is usually easiest way to get it without spelunking 30 strata deep to kill a redjell or getting lucky with an ichor merchant. Then just drink that good juice. Note: this usually deals enough damage to kill you instantly.
Psst.
Find the oddly-hued glowpad.
Find the oddly-hued glowpad in the salt marsh. They will be located in the center zone of a random salt marshparasangAn area made of 3x3 screens, which is represented as one tile on the overworld map..
Red Rock Hazing Ritual
Be stoned to death by a baboon on the surface of Red Rock.
Note that Glotrot must actually be contracted. Using honey or yuckwheatstems to stave off the disease after getting the "Your throat feels sore" message will not count.
Note that Glotrot must actually be contracted to be cured. Staving off the disease using honey or yuckwheatstems will prevent you from contracting the disease and thus prevent you from curing it. This also counts for the Synolymb achievement.
Shoot.
Get killed by a chute crab.
Easily done if entering Golgotha blind. For a dedicated build for this, take Precognition and Wings, fly to Golgotha, and precog until you find the shaft with scratched vents, and wait.
Finding enough credits to install them all is the hardest part. These can be farmed by scouring the deserts for Putus Templar parties. Completing the Tomb of the Eaters will also increase the player's license level by 8.
You Are What You Eat
Eat one of your own limbs.
Get dismembered (voluntarily or not), and eat your raw dismembered limb or other body part. Cooking with your dismembered body part as an ingredient does not count towards this achievement.
Precognition or, if you are True Kin, a 
sphynx salt injector before dying will still award the achievement. It is also possible to use 
Domination to obtain some (but not all) of these achievements by killing the player-controlled creature instead of the player character.
neutron flux (typically stored within a 
phial) has a 90% chance to succeed. However, be aware that failure will cause a gravitational collapse (instant death).
spiral borers.
Spray-a-Brain or a 
nano-neuro animator.
Thah, by convincing at least three villages to accept the 
slynth.
Giant clams are commonly found in Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef.
Kindrish, the lost bracelet of the hindren of Bey Lah. Its location can be learned from Trolls by asking them for secrets during a water ritual.
timecube, and then activate it. A time cube is one of the few artifacts which can earn the achievement Donation Level: Kasaphescence when cast down into the 
sacred well.
Tomb of the Eaters, kill or trade with 
k-Goninon for the 
repulsive device. The device can then be given to one of the four children: 
Nacham, 
Va'am, 
Dagasha, and 
Kah. This is the final objective of the Fraying Favorites quest.
dreamcrungle whilst already within a waking dream.
bear and eat its corpse raw by picking up the 
bear corpse, waiting until you are famished or hungrier, and choosing to eat it.
Kyakukya and begin the Raising Indrix quest to receive directions to 
Mamon Souldrinker's location.
Caslainard & 
Polluxus, 
Crowsong's two electrified longswords.
amaranthine prism that he drops.
goat.
temple mecha mk Ia, a 
temple mecha mk II or a 
temple mecha mk Ib, can be done by force interacting with it and then selecting the Infiltrate option, an infiltration will have a 10% chance to succeed.
thermal grenade mk IIIs on top of your character in quick succession.
Oboroqoru, Ape God and then perform the water ritual with them.
Stopsvalinn can be easily gained from trading secrets from the Barathrumites or Trolls.
love injector and look at a 
sign.
Temporal Fugue, or combine cloning methods to have several clones of yourself.
Thicksalt during a water ritual for -50 reputation.
Sunder Mind.
humble pie will permanently decrease your ego by 1, making you more humble. It is sold from 
apothecaries.
alchemist found in the depths of 
Bethesda Susa.
Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear can be acquired from 
Saad Amus, the Sky-Bear.
helping hands. Or grow four extra arms via 
Chimera. Or 
beetlebum.
Dystechnia (D) or the explosion created by 
baetyls and 
sparking baetyls when at low health.
sunslag can be rarely found in a 
swollen bulb by plucking coral from a 
palladium strut with coral growth. It can also be purchased from 
ichor merchants and the 
Phase back into the corporeal realm inside a wall which is completely surrounded by other walls.
space inverter.
warm static onto a nearby item causing it to glitch into a random item.
Kesil Face, 
Shemesh Face, 
Earth Face, 
Levant Face, 
Olive Face, and 
Null Face, all found within the Tomb of the Eaters. This will take multiple playthroughs unless the player has 
sludge composed of 3 different liquids.
hookahs can be commonly found around the stiltgrounds and require at least one dram of fresh water to be smoked from.
flattened remains. They are located in the center zone of a random 
salt marsh parasangAn area made of 3x3 screens, which is represented as one tile on the overworld map..
Mak and his 
Yd Freehold.
lithofex.
adiyy, who are located within the Banana groves near the spindle.
Aoyg-No-Longer, servant of Ptoh in the Cosmic Wood is found at the bottom of Eyn Roj.
Space-Time Vortex at character creation and use it at every opportunity. This is an aggregate number so it can be done across playthroughs.
Rainwater Shomer that you want to enter Brightsheol. This will end your run!
brain brine, and 
gamma moths), or by equipping the 
Otherpearl.
salt kraken or 
star kraken.
Beguiling a creature with an innate ranged attack such as a 
slugsnout and then standing directly between it and an enemy should be a reliable way to accomplish this.
Corpus Choliys to cure it.
thermoelectric cells occasionally contain some 
lava inside, which is usually easiest way to get it without spelunking 30 strata deep to kill a 
red jell or getting lucky with an 
oddly-hued glowpad in the 
crumpled sheet of paper to 
Eskhind or to 
Warden Neelahind.
Golgotha blind. For a dedicated build for this, take 
Wings, fly to Golgotha, and precog until you find the shaft with 
scratched vents, and wait.
Regeneration, entering a 
regeneration tank, or applying an 
ubernostrum injector after losing a limb. Regenerating a tongue to cure Glotrot also counts for this achievement.
Q Girl.
0lam either through battle or by trade.
