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Spoiler Warning: This article contains information normally only found in the course of advancing the main quest line.
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Spoiler Warning: This article contains information normally only found in the course of advancing the main quest line.
There are a total of 150 Steam achievements awarded for completing certain tasks in Caves of Qud. Of these 150, 62 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 the page in a separate section from the non-hidden achievements.
Note: Many achievements such as Open Your Mind will kill the player (or have other highly undesirable effects). In these cases, using Precognition or a sphynx salt injector for True Kin 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.
Non-Hidden Achievements
A Bond Knit with Trust
Absolute Unit
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Successfully cook a meal with neutron flux as an ingredient.
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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).
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Aleph
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Defeat one of the Girsh Nephilim.
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Kill one of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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Arconaut
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Descend 50 strata deep.
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Travel 50 strata deep into the earth, most easily accomplished with use of spiral borers.
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Become as Gods
Belong, Friends
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Help the slynth find a new home.
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Biographer
Bet
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Defeat two of the Girsh Nephilim in a single playthrough
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Kill two of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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Byevalve
Caves of Qud
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Beat the Game.
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End the game via any of the main endings
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Clonal Colony
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Share the map with 30 clones of yourself.
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Can be achieved 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 and pistol skills 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.
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Close the Loop
Cubic and Wisest Human
Dalet
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Defeat four of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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Kill four of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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Dark Tidings
Dawnglider
Dayenu
Donation Level: Kasaphescence
Dream within a Dream
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Enter a waking dream from within a waking dream.
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This will require you to be hit by a Crungling Gaze from a dreamcrungle whilst already within a waking dream.
This achievement is highly chance-based and usually hinges on awakening as a creature in the Moon Stair, as most creatures do not carry any water and thus cannot travel long distances without dehydrating to death.
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Eat an Entire Bear
Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers*
Friend to Fungi
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Host 3 different fungal infections at once.
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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. This can also be achieved by water-ritualing legendary fungi and asking them to colonize your body.
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Gemini
Go on. Do it.
Goat Simulator
Get in the Robot
Gimel
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Defeat three of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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Kill three of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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He
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Defeat five of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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Kill five of the six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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Heat Death
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Get vaporized.
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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. Alternatively, Great magma crabs have the same burn point and vaporization point, meaning they will vaporize from overdosing on blaze injectors.
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I-
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Wink out of existence.
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Die by ceasing to exist in one of several ways; see instant death.
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Imagine a Rubber Sheet
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Dash yourself on the crags of spacetime.
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Die to damage from failing to contest normality.
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In Contemplation of Eons
Jawsnapper
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Kill 100 snapjaws.
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There's so many of the little buggers. Play long enough and you'll get it.
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Knight Conical
Lair Cake
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Discover 100 lairs.
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Lairs can be found randomly when traversing the surface of Qud. Many factions are willing to trade secrets about the locations of lairs.
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Leap, Frog.
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Convince a frog to teach you how to jump.
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Perform the water ritual with a frog or svardym and have them teach you Jump.
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Live and Ink
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Tattoo yourself.
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Lottery Winner
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Gain a mutation from a gamma moth's mutating gaze.
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Love at First Sign
Love Thyself
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Fall in love with yourself.
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Inject yourself with a love injector and look at yourself.
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May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble
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Travel to the Six Day Stilt.
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Mechanimist Reformer
Me, Myself, and I
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Share the map with 10 clones of yourself.
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Can be obtained with a space inverter fitted with a beamsplitter by shooting at several walls. Ruins usually have good geometry for this. It is much easier to obtain with a high quickness and pistol skills 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.
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More Than a Willing Spirit
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Return from Golgotha with a repaired waydroid and gain admittance to Grit Gate.
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Mumblecore
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Learn a secret from the microbiome.
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Mutagenic Mastery
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Advance a mutation to level 15.
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Have at least one mutation at level 15.
It is much easier to do this with a Mental Mutation as their level is boosted by Ego modifier. You can also use mutants' rapid advancement to boost a physical mutation to this level.
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My Many Facets
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Eat the Crystal Delight.
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The recipe for the Crystal delight can be obtained from Thicksalt during a water ritual for 50 reputation. Thicksalt will not teach the recipe to True Kin.
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Non-Locally Sourced
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Cook a meal with an extradimensional limb as an ingredient.
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Have either yourself or a follower ready an axe and use Dismember on the delicious visitors. Then cook a meal with the limb of a hunter turned prey. Alternatively, they can be recruited and have a limb removed via Amputate Limb or being made to fight a creature with Dismember. Infecting them with Ironshank or a fungal infection is required in order for them to allow the limb to be amputated.
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Open Your Mind
On Second Thought
Peekaboo
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Become loved by newly sentient beings.
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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 increases newly sentient beings reputation by 300.
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Proteus
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Have 10 mutations.
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This can be easily done by creating a character that has a 4 point defect and choosing all the cheapest mutations possible.
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Pyramid Scheme
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Kill a chrome pyramid.
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Quiet This Metal
Raisins in the Layer Cake
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Recover a relic from a historic site.
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Rocket Bear
Six Arms None the Richer
Sound Sleeper
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Wake peacefully from twenty dreams.
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Starry Demise
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Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.
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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. Alternatively, cook with neutron flux and get the 10% chance outcome of instant death.
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Sultan of Salt
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Invent 100 recipes.
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Surprise!
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Eat the Cloaca Surprise.
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The recipe for the Cloaca Surprise can be obtained from Slog of the Cloaca during a water ritual for 50 reputation. Slog will not teach the recipe to True Kin.
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Swollen Bulb
The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 1
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Violate the Pauli exclusion principle.
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Phase back into the corporeal realm inside a wall which is completely surrounded by other walls.
This will kill you instantly.
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The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2
The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 3
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Prove the information paradox by causing your surroundings to glitch.
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Pour a dram of warm static onto the terrain, causing everything nearby to randomly change position or transmute into something else. Note that the player can be turned into another creature, which can be unexpectedly permanent if you were using Precognition and your new body does not have precognition. True Kin can safely use sphynx salt injectors to avoid permanent consequences.
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The Narrowing Sky
There Can Be Only One
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Encode the psionic bits of someone's psyche onto the holographic boundary of your own psyche.
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When you deal the final blow to an esper hunter there is a 10% chance to be prompted to encode their psyche and gain +1 Ego permanently. Have some glimmer and keep killing hunters. It will happen.
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The Psychal Chorus
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Drink 20 drams of brain brine.
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The Spirit of Vengeance
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Recover the Ruin of House Isner.
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The Woe of Apes
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Kill Oboroqoru, Ape God.
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The Woe of Joppa
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Become hated by the villagers of Joppa.
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Reach a reputation score of -600 with the Villagers of Joppa, for instance by killing legendary creatures they admire.
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Three-Sludge Monte
Five-Sludge Monte
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Kill a pentasludge.
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Kill a soupy sludge composed of exactly 5 different liquids.
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Ten-Sludge Monte
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Kill a decasludge.
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Kill a soupy sludge composed of exactly 10 different liquids.
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Token of Gratitude
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Be gifted a 10-pointed asterisk.
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Complete the main objective of the Landing Pads quest by convincing at least ten villages to accept the slynth.
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To Thine Own Self Be True
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Wear your own severed face on your face.
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Get your face dismembered and equip it on a face slot.
Most easily accomplished by being Two-headed and using the Amputate Limb skill on one face, then equipping it on your other face. If you do not have multiple face slots you will need to regenerate the severed face first.
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Tourist
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Visit 100 generated villages.
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This achievement is tracked cumulatively between runs. It is tracked when you first enter a village, meaning the same village can also be visited 100 times using Precognition.
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tsk tsk
Total Makeover
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Pour a dram of pure warm static on yourself.
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Pouring warm static on yourself is potentially irreversible including when using Precognition as the mutation can be removed. True Kin can use sphynx salt injectors without risking permanent consequences.
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Two Cats Are Better Than One
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Clone Ctesiphus.
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Vav
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Defeat six of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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Kill all six Girsh Nephilim that can be found in various locations in Qud.
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Was It Something I Said?
Wander Darkling in the Eternal Space
Waterpipe and Rest
Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!
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Help Argyve build the contraption.
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What's Eating the Watervine?
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Complete the quest What's Eating the Watervine?
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What With the Disembowelment and All
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Find one of Argyve's old apprentices.
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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..
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Your Thirst Is Mine, My Water Is Yours
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Perform the introductory water ritual 100 times.
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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.
This achievement is tracked cumulatively between runs.
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Hidden Achievements
0 for 2
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Die of thirst.
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Easiest to do by dropping any fresh water you have and then travelling on the world map until you die of thirst.
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Aaaaaaaaargh!
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Overdose on a hulk honey tonic.
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A Call to Arms
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Defend Grit Gate from the Putus Templar.
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A Clammy Reception
Aetalag
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Be turned to stone.
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Get petrified by the gaze of a lithofex.
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All the Leaves are Grey
All Those Who Wander
Bricks Can be Thrown, Too
Cosmo-Chrononaut
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Enter 25 spacetime vortices.
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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.
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Delight in the Abundance of Peace
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Pacify all seven of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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Pacifying the Girsh nephilim can be done through water rituals. Notably, the seventh nephilim is only accessable by pacifying the first six before starting the Reclamation quest.
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Decoding the Signal
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Travel to the Temple of the Rock and decrypt the mysterious signal.
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Else
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Cure ironshank.
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Cure Ironshank using the method described in the Corpus Choliys.
Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted in order to be cured. Removing the stiff legs condition before it progresses into ironshank does not count. Curing ironshank by other methods than the cure perscribed by the Corpus Choliys also does not count.
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Free Falling
From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif
Glimmer of Truth
*gulp*
Hole Like a Head
Jeweled Dusk
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Be transmuted into a gemstone.
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Klanq Puff at Sun
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Spread Klanq in Space.
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Keep the Klanq fungal infection until you have accended the spindle, and then spread spores.
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Litteratus
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Read 10 books.
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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.
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Metal Pedal
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Contract ironshank.
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Note that Ironshank must actually be contracted. Removing the stiff legs condition before it progresses into ironshank does not count.
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Oops
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Be killed by a companion on accident.
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Companions wielding grenades, inaccurate missile weapons, or other attacks that often cause collateral damage may do this.
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Pax Klanq, I Presume?
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Deliver a message to the mushroom progidy.
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Rainbow Reading
Reclamation
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Recover the Spindlegrounds from the Putus Templar war party
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So Powerful is the Charm of Words
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Read 100 books.
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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.
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Oathbreaker
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Violate the sacred covenant of the water ritual.
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Kill someone you performed the water ritual with. Note that this reduces your reputation with every faction by 100.
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On the Rocks
Psst.
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Find the oddly-hued glowpad.
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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..
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Red Rock Hazing Ritual
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Be stoned to death by a baboon on the surface of Red Rock.
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Say No More
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Contract glotrot.
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Note that glotrot must actually be contracted. Removing the sore throat condition before it progresses into glotrot does not count.
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The Comedy
The Dusted Cosmos
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Leave the solar system on a starship.
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After making it to the top of the Spindle, follow Barathrum to a spaceship, and stay with him as it takes off.
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The Earl of Omonporch
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Strike a deal with Asphodel the Lovely for control of the Spindlegrounds.
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The History
The Golem
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Form large creature.
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The Sonnet
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Return the crumpled sheet of paper to its intended recipient or its author.
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The Tillage of the Noosphere
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Accede to Resheph's plan for purging the world of higher life.
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Choose to join Resheph while passing judgement on Qud.
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The Tragedy
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Settle the dispute in Bey Lah and doom the village.
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Complete Kith and Kin such that Bey Lah is doomed to be destroyed.
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Then
Tomb of the Eaters
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Travel to Brightsheol and disable the Spindle's magnetic field.
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Tongue in Cheek
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Cure glotrot.
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Cure Glotrot using the method described in the Corpus Choliys.
Note that Glotrot must actually be contracted to be cured. Removing the sore throat condition before it progresses into glotrot does not count. Curing glotrot by other methods than the cure perscribed by the Corpus Choliys also does not count. This also counts for the Synolymb achievement.
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Seraphic Covenant
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Enter into a covenant with Resheph and help prepare Qud for the Coven's return.
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Unlike the other two endings that can be achived through talking to Resheph, this one will only be available to you if you exhasted Barathrum's dialogue during the ride up the spindle.
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Seraphic Heresy
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Spurn Resheph and return to Qud.
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Choose not to join Resheph while passing judgement on Qud.
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Shoot.
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Get killed by a chute crab.
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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.
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Sight Older Than Sight
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Discover psychic glimmer.
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What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?
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Attain 40 psychic glimmer and discover the vast psychic aether.
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Star-Eye Esper
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Attain 100 psychic glimmer.
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The Quasar Mind
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Attain 200 psychic glimmer.
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Synolymb
That Was Nice
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Compliment Q Girl.
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Choose the "Your hair is a quasar of red ochre and indigo." option while talking to Q Girl. Note that this option is not available if you have monochrome.
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The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth
Ungyre
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Annul the plagues of the Gyre.
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Inform Resheph you have ruined his plans after killing or pacifying all seven Girsh Nephilim.
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We Are Starfreight
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Accend the Spindle
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Accend the spindle in your golem after completing the Reclamation quest.
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Welcome to Qud
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Die.
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Perish. This can be caused by being reduced to zero HP or by several methods of instant death.
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You Are Becoming
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Install a cybernetic implant at a becoming nook.
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You Became
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Have a cybernetic implant installed on every implantable body part.
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You Are What You Eat
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Eat one of your own limbs.
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Get dismembered and eat your raw dismembered body. Cooking with your dismembered body part as an ingredient does not count towards this achievement. Note that if the body contains a cybernetic implant and you have automatic Butchery enabled the cybernetic will be butchered from the body part, destroying the body part and possibly the cybernetic too.
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Your Better Half
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Get killed by your evil twin.
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You Recame
Zayin
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Defeat all seven of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough.
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The seventh nephilim can only be accessed by killing the first six before starting the Reclamation quest.
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