Achievements

Spoiler Warning: This article contains information normally only found in the course of advancing the main quest line.

In Caves of Qud, there are a total of 100 Steam achievements awarded for completing certain tasks. Of these 100, 35 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 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.

These are currently only available for players playing on Steam clients.

Non-Hidden Achievements

A Bond Knit with Trust

Become loved by a faction.

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 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).

Become as Gods

	Bestow life to 20 inanimate objects.
	Inanimate objects can be animated through the application of Spray-a-Brain or a nano-neuro animator.

Belong, Friends

	Help the slynth find a new home.
	Complete the main objective of the Landing Pads quest, given by Thah, by convincing at least three villages to accept the slynth.

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 variety of methods: viewing shrines, asking for secrets during water rituals, rifling through trash with Trash Divining, looking at painted or engraved items, cooking with psychal gland paste and exploring new areas while infected by mumble mouth.

Byevalve

	Enter 100 giant clams.
	Giant clams are commonly found in Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef.

Close the Loop

	Recover Kindrish.
	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.

Cubic and Wisest Human

Activate a time cube.

Come into possession of a 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. Thus, if you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a sphynx salt 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.

Dark Tidings

	Foresee your own death.
	Die while using the Precognition mutation or, if you are a True Kin, die while under the effects of a sphynx salt injector.

Dawnglider

	Become auroral.
	Catch fire while you are coated in plasma.

Dayenu

Give the repulsive device to all four children of the Tomb.

Once inside the 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. This achievement will typically require multiple playthroughs, as only one repulsive device can be found and it cannot be duplicated with metamorphic polygel. 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.

Main article: Sacred well Throw an artifact worth 200 reputation or more into the sacred well. timecubes, Hand-E-Nukes or phase cannons are the only artifacts valuable enough to give 200 reputation when cast into the well. If you have it, it is a good idea to use Precognition (or a sphynx salt injector, 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 (D) mutation need not wait until they are famished.

Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers*

	Perform the water ritual with Mamon Souldrinker.
	Travel to Kyakukya and begin the Raising Indrix quest to receive directions to Mamon Souldrinker's location. 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.

Gemini

	Wield Caslainard and Polluxus.
	Wield Caslainard & Polluxus, Crowsong's two electrified longswords. 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.

Go on. Do it.

	Wield the amaranthine prism.
	Kill Mamon Souldrinker and equip the amaranthine prism that he drops. Note that once you equip the amaranthine prism there is no way to remove it, and it will eventually kill your character.

Goat Simulator

	Project your mind into a goat's body.
	Dominate a goat.

I-

	Wink out of existence.
	Die by ceasing to exist in one of several ways; see instant death.

In Contemplation of Eons

	Perform the water ritual with Oboroqoru, Ape God.
	Find Oboroqoru, Ape God and then perform the water ritual with them. The lair of Oboroqoru is a hidden lair in the jungles around Kyakukya. Apes will also trade you the location if you have reputation with them.

Jawsnapper

	Kill 100 snapjaws.
	There's so many of the little buggers. Play long enough and you'll get it.

Knight Conical

	Recover Stopsvalinn.
	The location of Stopsvalinn can be easily gained from trading secrets from the Barathrumites or Trolls.

Leap, Frog.

	Convince a frog to teach you how to jump.
	Perform the water ritual with a frog or svardym and have them teach you Jump.

Live and Ink

	Tattoo yourself.
	Main article: Tattoo gun

Lottery Winner

	Gain a mutation from a gamma moth's mutating gaze.
	Main article: Gamma moth

Love at First Sign

	Fall in love with a sign.
	Inject yourself with a love injector and look at a sign. 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

	Travel to the Six Day Stilt.
	Main article: Six Day Stilt

Mechanimist Reformer

	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.

Clonal Colony

	Share the map with 30 clones of yourself.

Mumblecore

	Learn a secret from the microbiome.
	Main article: Mumble mouth

Mutagenic Mastery

	Advance a mutation to level 15.
	Have at least one mutation at level 15. It is much, much easier to do this with a Mental Mutation, as Mental Mutations can get their level boosted by Ego. You can also use mutants' rapid advancement to boost a physical mutation to this level.

Non-Locally Sourced

	Cook a meal with an extradimensional limb as an ingredient.
	Main article: Extradimensional Hunters

Open Your Mind

	Have your head explode.
	Die to the burst of damage at the end of Sunder Mind.

Peekaboo

	Become loved by newly sentient beings.
	Gain a reputation of more than 600 with newly sentient beings. 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.

Pyramid Scheme

	Kill a chrome pyramid.
	Main article: Chrome pyramid

Quiet This Metal

	Speak to the alchemist.
	Speak to the alchemist found in the depths of Bethesda Susa.

Raisins in the Layer Cake

	Recover a relic from a historic site.

Rocket Bear

	Equip the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear.
	The Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear can be acquired from Saad Amus, the Sky-Bear.

Starry Demise

	Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.
	Get damaged by a neutron flux 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 sparking baetyls when at low health.

Six Arms None the Richer

	Have six arms.
	Take the multiple arms mutation and equip helping hands. Or grow four extra arms via Chimera. Or dominate a creature that has 6 limbs (most members of insects, arachnids and crabs factions qualify), such as a beetlebum.

Sultan of Salt

	Invent 100 recipes.

Surprise!

	Eat the Cloaca Surprise.
	Main article: Cloaca Surprise

The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 1

	Violate the Pauli exclusion principle.
	Phase back into the corporeal realm inside a wall which is completely surrounded by other walls. This will kill you instantly.

The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2

	Exploit wave-particle duality to clone yourself.
	Fire a beamsplitter space inverter.

The Narrowing Sky

	Wear each of the six Faces of the sultanate.
	Equip the 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 Precognition, as only one mask can be acquired per playthrough.

There Can Be Only One

	Encode the psionic bits of someone's psyche onto the holographic boundary of your own psyche.

The Psychal Chorus

	Drink 20 drams of brain brine.
	Main article: Brain brine

The Spirit of Vengeance

	Recover the Ruin of House Isner.
	Main article: Ruin of House Isner

The Woe of Apes

	Kill Oboroqoru, Ape God.
	Main article: Oboroqoru, Ape God

The Woe of Joppa

	Become hated by the villagers of Joppa.
	Reach a reputation score of -600 with the Villagers of Joppa, for instance by killing legendary creatures they admire.

Three-Sludge Monte

	Kill a trisludge.
	Kill a sludge composed of 3 different liquids. 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. A detailed description of how to do this can be found in the Voluntary Dismemberment guide. This can also be achieved via the Evil Twin (D) mutation.

Tourist

	Visit 100 generated villages.

tsk tsk

	Disappoint a highly entropic being.
	Use Precognition (or, for True Kin, a sphynx salt injector) to revert equipping the amaranthine prism.

Two Cats Are Better Than One

	Clone Ctesiphus.

Was It Something I Said?

	Invoke the Chaos Spiel.
	This is one of the options at the First Council of Omonporch.

What's Eating the Watervine?

	Complete the quest What's Eating the Watervine?
	Main article: What's Eating the Watervine?

What With the Disembowelment and All

	Find one of Argyve's old apprentices.
	Spot the 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..

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

Aaaaaaaaargh!

	Overdose on a hulk honey tonic.
	Main article: Hulk honey injector

A Clammy Reception

	Enter Mak's clam in the Yd Freehold.
	Mak and his giant clam are found in the northwest part of Yd Freehold.

Aetalag

	Be turned to stone.
	Get petrified by the gaze of a lithofex.

All Those Who Wander

	Travel to the pocket dimension Tzimtzlum.
	While lost and carrying at least one dram of neutron flux, enter a giant clam.

Cosmo-Chrononaut

	Enter 25 spacetime vortices.
	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.

Free Falling

	Fall to your death.
	Die by falling down a shaft. The deep shaft behind the purple door in Golgotha or the deep shaft in Bethesda Susa will both kill you if you fall in them. Use of Precognition or, if you are True Kin, a sphynx salt injector, is advisable.

From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif

	Cross into Brightsheol.
	Enter Resheph's sarcophagus in the Tomb of the Eaters and then tell Rainwater Shomer that you want to enter Brightsheol. This will end your run!

Glimmer of Truth

	Attain 20 psychic glimmer as a true kin.
	This can be achieved via high Ego with sources of mental mutations (cooking, brain brine, and gamma moths), or by equipping the Otherpearl.

*gulp*

	Be swallowed whole.
	Stand in the path of an advancing salt kraken or star kraken.

Hole Like a Head

	Get decapitated.
	The following NPCs have Decapitate as a skill: Kesehind, Warden Indrix, Goatfolk Pariah. In addition, you can be decapitated by a decarbonizer's Decarbonizer 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.

Jeweled Dusk

	Be transmuted into a gemstone.
	Main article: Transmute into gem

Litteratus

	Read 10 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.

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.

Metal Pedal

	Contract ironshank.
	Main article: 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.
	Main article: 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

	Violate the sacred covenant of the water ritual.
	Kill someone you performed the water ritual with.

On the Rocks

	Drink lava.
	Randomly generated 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 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 marsh parasangAn 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.
	Main article: Red Rock

Say No More

	Contract glotrot.
	Main article: 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.
	Main article: 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. 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.

Sight Older Than Sight

	Discover psychic glimmer.
	Main article: Glimmer

What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?

	Attain 40 psychic glimmer and discover the vast psychic aether.
	Main article: Glimmer

Star-Eye Esper

	Attain 100 psychic glimmer.
	Main article: Glimmer

The Quasar Mind

	Attain 200 psychic glimmer.
	Main article: Glimmer

Synolymb

	Regenerate a limb.
	Can be done by either having 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.

That Was Nice

	Compliment Q Girl.
	Choose the "Your hair is a quasar of red ochre and indigo." option while talking to Q Girl.

The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth

	Wear the Otherpearl.
	The Otherpearl can be purchased from 0lam.

Welcome to Qud

	Die.
	Perish. This can be caused by being reduced to zero HP or by several methods of instant death.

You Are Becoming

	Install a cybernetic implant at a becoming nook.
	Main article: Becoming nook

You Became

	Have a cybernetic implant installed on every implantable body part.
	Main article: Becoming nook 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.

Your Better Half

	Get killed by your evil twin.
	Main article: Evil Twin

You Recame

	Rematerialize in the corporeal realm.
	Enter Resheph's sarcophagus in the Tomb of the Eaters and then tell Rainwater Shomer that you want to return to Qud.