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.

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

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.

Main article: Sacred well 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.
	This can be easily done by walking near three different color broodpuffs. Make sure that one fungal infection already grows before walking into the next one, as itchy skin does not stack and walking into more spores will not change the infection type.

Gemini

	Wield Caslainard and Polluxus.
	Kill Svenlainard, Trophy Hunter and wield his two swords. He is not affiliated with the Village of Kyakukya, so you do not need to worry about others joining in the fight unless you have area of effect moves.

Go on. Do it.

	Wield the amaranthine prism.
	Kill Mamon Souldrinker and equip the amaranthine prism that he drops.

Goat Simulator

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

In Contemplation of Eons

	Perform the water ritual with Oboroqoru, Ape God.
	The lair of Oboroqoru, Ape God 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 gotten from trading secrets from the Barathrumites or Trolls.

Leap, Frog.

	Convince a frog to teach you how to jump.
	This is a very rare achievement due to based mostly on the random chance that you will come across a legendary frog lair, and have enough reputation for them to teach you Jump. ice frog lairs are generally located in the Jungle biome.

Love at First Sign

	Fall in love with a sign.
	Mouse control is required for this achievement, as looking through keyboard forces the cursor to center on yourself, making you fall in love with yourself instead. 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 (press l).

Mutagenic Mastery

	Advance a mutation to level 15.

Peekaboo

	Become loved by newly sentient beings.

Proteus

	Have 10 mutations.
	Can be easily done by creating a character that has a 4 point defect and choosing all the cheapest mutations possible. Example Build: BAEEEEEGB6BJBPBVB1B3DADKDNDRDWED

Pyramid Scheme

	Kill a chrome pyramid.

Quiet This Metal

	Speak to the alchemist.

Starry Demise

	Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.
	Get killed by a Neutron flux explosion.

Six Arms None the Richer

	Have six arms.
	Take multiple arms, and equip helping hands. Or, dominate an insect that has 6 legs.

The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 1

	Violate the Pauli exclusion principle.
	Phase back into the corporeal realm inside a wall while surrounded by walls.

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.
	Proselytize or beguile a sludge(favilink error!), 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.

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

	Enter a lot of space-time vortexes.

Free Falling

	Fall to your death.
	Fall down the deep shaft behind the purple door in Golgotha or the deep shaft in Bethesda Susa.

Hole Like a Head

	Get decapitated.
	The only NPCs that have Decapitate as a skill are: Kesehind, Warden Indrix, Goatfolk Pariah. You can also learn decapitate and take the Evil Twin defect. A relic that has a chance of decapitation also works.

Litteratus

	Read 10 books.
	Easily accomplished while looking for the Ruin of House Isner.

So Powerful is the Charm of Words

	Read 100 books.
	Easily accomplished while looking for the Ruin of House Isner.

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

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

On the Rocks

	Drink lava.
	Find a puddle and drink that good juice. Note that this is instant death.

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 pasarang.

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.
	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 Synolimb achievment.

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. Example code: BGEKMGSNB5DJDNDP

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 achievment.

That Was Nice

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

Welcome to Qud

	Die.

You Are Becoming

	Install a cybernetic implant at a becoming nook.

You Became

	Gained by having a cybernetic in every slot.

You Are What You Eat

	Eat one of your own limbs.
	Get dismembered (voluntarily or not), and cook with your limb. Meal Preperation is highly recommended.

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.