Caves of Qud

Caves of Qud

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big dave's really really really really big guide to non-secret qud achievements
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ABSOLUTE UNIT


Welcome back! I will be covering the secret achievements in a later guide, so keep an eye out for that.

Anyways.

Getting Absolute Unit isn't hard at all, though you are risking your run in most cases to earn it. Precognition and salt tonics let you cook with the flux safely, but you already knew that didn't you smart guy?

To get the flux in the first place, just head to the Stilt and nag the ichor merchants until they give you the space juice.
A BOND KNIT WITH TRUST


This one's pretty simple, just head to the Stilt and dump artifacts into the pit until the Mechanimists love you. You can even water ritual the priest for some bonus rep to make the process go by faster.

Alternatively, you could keep killing legendary creatures until some faction doesn't want to rip your guts out anymore.

Once you obtain the achievement, congrats! It only gets worse from here!
BECOME AS GODS


This achievement seems menacing at first glance, but it's actually super easy once you get your hands on a nano-animator. Granted, nano-animators are very hard to find and often cost a metric ton of water to purchase.

Though if you do happen to find one, you pretty much get this achievement for free, lucky you.
BELONG FRIENDS


Can I please just insert what I wrote from my quest guide? No? Fine.

The Landing Pads quest isn't that bad, it's the other slynth-related achievement you have to worry about. You only need to convince three villages, so that shouldn't be so hard for a pro gamer like yourself.

Not much else to say for this one really, just try to water ritual village leaders and kill legendary creatures I guess.
BYEVALVE


Arguably the most boring achievement in the game. Just find a clam and keep walking in and out of it. Unless you spilled a can of battery acid on your keyboard, you should be fine.
CLOSE THE LOOP


This one's a bit more interesting.

First, fix your reputation with the Trolls. You can do this through water rituals, killing, love tonics, or with the help of anal p- sorry, annal pages.

Once that's done, use up some of your Troll rep to learn the deer funko pop's location. The deer is usually located underground, so you are most likely going to need a spiral borer on hand.

Grab the deer, and enjoy.
CUBIC AND WISEST HUMAN


Timecubes are rare, like, REALLY rare. Finding one naturally is like winning the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lottery, so you are much better off just trying to craft one.

There's a good chance that Bep has a timecube data disk handy, so it shouldn't take too long to find.

Once you get it, use it. Preferably during a Precognition vision so it can be re-used for a different achievement I will discuss soon.
DARK TIDINGS


Die during a precognition vision.

I got nothing else to say here, just do it.
DONATION LEVEL: KASAPHESCENCE


And this is why I told you to not waste the timecube.

For this achievement, you gotta throw an artifact worth two hundred rep into the sacred well. Timecubes and Hand-E-Nukes generally work the best, though other artifacts like phase cannons can also do the trick.

And yes, you can still get this achievement from throwing in the artifact during a Precognition vision.
DAYENU


This achievement usually takes multiple playthroughs, since the tooth fetus is taken from your inventory upon freeing one of the children of the tomb.

However, if you have not felt empathy for another living creature once in your entire life, you can just murder the children to get the fetus back. This isn't exactly easy, since the children are all fairly dangerous, but it's still pretty doable.

Rinse and repeat, and you should be good.
EAT AN ENTIRE BEAR


Wait until you are famished, pick up a bear corpse, dig in.

In other words, kill a bear and eat it. Just eat an entire bear.
DAWNGLIDER


Step one, go to the Palladium Reef.

Step two, find a plasma jelly.

Step three, let it coat you in plasma (not too much).

Step four, throw a thermal grenade at yourself.

Step five, celebrate.

Step six, die.
FEAST UPON THE GOAT HEARTS! *CHEERS*


Inject Mamon with a love tonic, then smooch him on the lips. You can use Beguile or Proselytize too, but there's a bigger risk of failure.

Alternatively, you could try to raise your rep with the Children of Mamon, but there's just no need when the other methods exist.
JAWSNAPPER


Killing one hundred snapjaws isn't a big deal in terms of difficulty, just go scouting in the Desert Canyons for a while.

It can be a bit of a chore, but the hyena people should die in one hit if you are at any moderate level. Just keep playing the game normally, you should get this achievement pretty quick.
KNIGHT CONICAL


To learn the location of Stopsvalinn, you need to sacrifice some reputation with either the Barathrumites or the Trolls.

Once that's out of the way, eviscerate the poor snapjaw that happened to be holding the stop sign.

Wear it, and enjoy.
LEAP, FROG.


This used to be one of the hardest achievements in the game to get, but it's fairly straightforward now.

First, raise your reputation with svardym, any method is fine.

Next, go rummaging through the Palladium Reef until you find the hideout of a legendary svardym.

Lastly, speak to the legendary svardym and sacrifice some of your reputation to learn how to jump.

You used to only be able to get this achievement by finding the lair of an ice frog or pearlfrog, but those days are thankfully over.
LOTTERY WINNER


This one's a bit tougher.

First, you have to find a gamma moth. Gamma moths are pretty hard to locate, since they usually only spawn deep underground or in very high-tier areas.

If you do happen to find a moth, let it hit you with it's gaze over, and over, and over again. Keep gaining defects until you inevitably gain a mutation. You can alternatively use precognition or salt tonics as a true kin to roll the dice until you get a mutation, but it can be a little tedious.

Enjoy!
LIVE AND INK


Finding a tattoo gun naturally is a bit tricky, but thankfully you get one for free when you start the Tomb of the Eaters quest.

After that, just tattoo whatever you want on yourself. I tattooed a yellow smiley face on my forehead!
I-


This one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SUCKS.

Winking out of existence is really difficult, with all methods to do so being super convoluted. I will now list said methods.

One way to get the achievement is to dominate either a force bubble or force wall, and disconnect yourself. You have to bring the force fields to life first, which requires either Spray-a-Brain or the nano-animator. You can achieve a similar effect by dominating a living stasis wall too.

The other more """straightforward""" method is to dominate something like a Temporal Fugue clone and walk into normality gas. You can do this with living force fields as well.

Good luck on this one, you are gonna need it.
GOAT SIMULATOR


Dominate a goat. You can do this by dominating a goat.
IN CONTEMPLATION OF EONS


For this achievement, you need to find some legendary apes. The best place to find them is in the Salt Desert, so go and comb the dunes over.

Once you have found your ape, perform the water ritual with them. After that, sacrifice some of your newfound ape reputation to learn where the Ape God is.

Go to the Ape God's house and water ritual him. Try not to kill any apes in the place, even if they throw things at you. Attacking them will piss off the Ape God, so just be careful.
GO ON. DO IT.


Kill Mamon and equip the amaranthine prism, doing so has no consequences whatsoever.

It absolutely does not sap your willpower over and over again until you die. It is completely safe to use, regardless of what anybody says.

You should really equip the prism, it's good for you.

Equip the prism now.
GEMINI


To get Caslainard and Polluxus, Go to Kyakukya and kill Crowsong. Man, that's a sentence.

Just remember that Crowsong belongs to the village, and the other village members will attempt to defend him if you choose to start a fight.

You can also dominate Crowsong and make him drop the swords, if you are inclined to do so.
FRIEND TO FUNGI


For this one, go into a mushroom biome and get infected by a broodpuff. Also, make sure to remember the color of the broodpuff, as differently colored broodpuffs give you different infections.

Once you have gotten your first fungal infection, find another broodpuff with a different color and let it infect you.

Repeat one more time after that, and you have gotten your achievement!

You should probably purchase a copy of Corpus Choliys now.
LOVE THYSELF


Inject yourself with a love tonic, and gaze into your own dreamy eyes.

Just don't inflate your own ego too much.
LOVE AT FIRST SIGN


Just inject yourself with a love tonic, again, and stare at a sign.

You need mouse control for this achievement, so make sure to temporarily turn that on.
MAY THE GROUND SHAKE BUT THE SIX DAY STILT NEVER TUMBLE


Cross the salt desert, and make it to the Stilt.

Use basic desert safety measures, like hugging the edge of each zone and only travelling on foot during the day.

Just try not to die on the way mmmkay?
ME, MYSELF, AND I


This achievement is fairly simple, since there's multiple ways you can go about it.

The first method is to just level up Temporal Fugue until it spawns ten clones at once, though this can take a while.

The second method is to mod a space inverter to be fitted with a beamsplitter and fire it at multiple nearby walls.

The final method is to just hoard a bunch of cloning draught and cook with it until you have ten clones.

Any one of these methods work, but they each have their ups and downs.
CLONAL COLONY


It's similar to Me, Myself, and I, but way worse.

The beamsplitter and Temporal Fugue strategies don't work here. My recommendation is to just keep cloning and purchasing draught from ichor merchants, until you have about thirty drams of the stuff.

Cook with the draught, and hope that your game doesn't instantly crash the moment the clones start shooting.

However, a certain clever individual suggested the use of aloe fugues to get this achievement. This can absolutely help speed up the process, especially if you already have other clones.
BIOGRAPHER


Learning the entire history of a sultan is no easy task, but here's some methods to make it less hellish.

Eat psychal gland paste for free secrets, always stop to look at shrines no matter what, ask for secrets during water rituals, get the Trash Divining skill, and look at painted or engraved items.

Utilize these methods during a long run, and you should be good.
MUMBLECORE


Get infected with Mumble Mouth from a mushroom, and wait for it to say something.

Gross.
MUTAGENIC MASTERY


You want to do this achievement with mental mutations, not physical ones. Trust me, it's way faster.

Just keep playing while leveling up your ego, you should get this one eventually.
NON-LOCALLY SOURCED


There's a few things you need to do before you can get this one. First off, you need to be playing esper and possess a high enough ego to attract extradimensional hunters.

You also need the Cooking and Gathering skill, so make sure you aren't too stupid.

Now then, take out an axe and dismember a limb off of a hunter. After that, just throw the limb in a pot and chow down.
OPEN YOUR MIND


This one is kinda hard to give tips for, since you need to have just enough health to survive the initial mental assault, while still being able to die from the head explosion at the end.

I don't know what to tell you, good luck I guess.
PEEKABOO


The only way you can realistically get this achievement is by using anal pa- this joke sucks.

In all seriousness, just wait by a bookbinder until they sell an unspecified page. It's much harder to have to hunt down legendary creatures, let alone trying to find one that's hated by Newly Sentient Beings.

Have fun waiting for hours on end!
PROTEUS


Just run this build:

Beak, Electromagnetic Pulse, Heightened Hearing, Heightened Quickness, Night Vision, Photosynthetic Skin, Slime Glands, Tonic Allergy, Kindle, Sense Psychic, Telepathy.

You can thank me later big guy.
PYRAMID SCHEME


Killing a chrome pyramid is a herculean task...

But thankfully there's a lot of cheeses, so we don't have to do ♥♥♥♥! Well, sort of.

I will now list these "cheeses" from most easy to perform, to the dumbest and most dangerous methods.

The most effective method is using a Hand-E-Nuke by far. Load one into a grenade launcher, and blast that bastard triangle to HELL. Granted, you need to find or craft one of the things first, which ain't easy. But with time, you should be able to get your hands on one. Just don't blow yourself up.

The second best method is thermal disintegration. Stocking up on a bunch of plasma grenades and burning the pyramid with a flamethrower can instakill it. However, the pyramid has incredibly high heat resistance, requiring you to be constantly focus firing it. This forces you to stand still, increasing the risk of getting pelted in the face with hydra rockets.

Lastly, you could just try to beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of it. You need electric weapons, since the damn triangle resists just about everything else. Then, slowly whittle the thing's hp down. It's really hard.

Good luck, and godspeed.
MECHANIMIST REFORMER


Water ritual the high priest, throw artifacts in the well, smooch the robot-wannabe.

Badabing badaboom, Eschelstadt II has been reformed.
QUIET THIS METAL


For this one, you gotta make it far down into Bethesda Susa.

If only some handsome gentleman made a guide on how to do so wink wink nudge nudge.

Once you reach the eighth strata, find the alchemist and have a nice chat about states of matter and whatnot.
RAISINS IN THE LAYER CAKE


All you need to do for this one is find a historical site and loot the chest at the very bottom strata.

Any site counts, even the easy beginner ones.

Go ahead and pick Joppa as your starting village to knock this achievement out fast, the cemetery above the starting screen has a statue that leads you directly to the first site.
ROCKET BEAR


There are many clones of Saad Amus, but the one that has the sickass jetpack is in Bethesda Susa.

Break open his cryo-chamber, and beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of him. Natural weapons work best to avoid getting disarmed.

Snag the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear and inevitably crash into a wall.

Congrats!
STARRY DEMISE


Die from a neutron flux explosion.

This can be done by just simply pouring the flux on the ground.

Enjoy dying horribly!
SIX ARMS NONE THE RICHER


Choose Multiple Arms on character select, and find a pair of helping hands.

Alternatively, you could try to grow four arms with Chimera, but that's a little iffy.

Or, just dominate a beetlebum.

Whatever works best for you.

Actually, does Agolgot's circle of light count as having extra arms for this achevo? It probably does, right? I'm just going to assume that it does because I have no work ethic and can't be bothered to check!
SULTAN OF SALT


This one just takes a boatload of time.

Get the Carbide Chef skill, wander around a whole lot, and keep on making new recipes whenever you get inspired.

This one should keep you going for a while.
SURPRISE!


Hmm, sorry if these tips are kinda short. There's a lot of self-explanatory achievements in Qud.

This isn't one of them.

First, raise your reputation with mollusks. Use electric snail shells, magic pages, or any other common method.

Once you got that covered, jump into Golgotha. Try not to die.

Once you reach The Cloaca, perform the water ritual with Slog to learn the recipe. You need black ooze, green goo, and brown sludge, one dram of each.

Stir that ♥♥♥♥ in a pot and enjoy slug-mode. Oh, and remember that you need to be a mutant, no true kins allowed for this one.
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE MERE SUGGESTIONS, VOL. 1


Ok, back to the simple achievements.

On character select, choose mutant and pick Phasing.

Phase into a wall that is completely surrounded by other walls.

Un-phase.

Die.
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE MERE SUGGESTIONS, VOL. 2


This one's a little more out there. In concept that is.

All you need to do is mod a space inverter to be fitted with a beamsplitter and shoot it at a wall.

Locating a beamsplitter data disk shouldn't be too painful, but space inverters can be tricky to find. Try asking the sea-grape lady, she often has what you need.

Enjoy your (temporary) clones!
THE NARROWING SKY


The Tomb is such a complex and massive thing to explain, so I'll just skip to the important part.

Once you are inside of the sultan tombs, kill the cherubs that guard the coffins. After all the cherubs are dead, activate precognition through any means.

During your vision, steal the mask from the coffin and put it on. Repeat this process for each one of the sultan tombs.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE


Kill a psychic assassin and pray that the game will let you encode their bits.

If the game decides to be nice and lets you encode, do it.

If not, keep killing assassins.
THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE


There's two ways to find the location of the Ruin of House Isner.

If you are a complete psychopath, you can scour through pages upon pages of endless markov text. They did bump up the odds of finding the special text, but it's still really rare.

Or, you could just learn it's location from secret-trading with Trolls.

Your choice.
THE WOE OF APES


Do exactly what I told you to do for In Contemplation of Eons, but instead of performing the water ritual with the Ape God, kick his ass.

Ranged weapons are recommended here, melee fighting the Ape God is pretty much certain death.

Just hope you don't get oneshot!
THE WOE OF JOPPA


Piss off the Villagers of Joppa, nothing else to say.

Kill legendary creatures they love, murder the town residents, etc.
THREE/FIVE/TEN-SLUDGE MONTE


Go and find yourself a sludge, then pour different liquids on it.

Three liquids for the first achievement, five for the second, and ten for the third.

Once your liquids have been adequately dumped, kill the sludge.
TOKEN OF GRATITUDE


To whoever designed this achievement, I hope you stub your toe.

This is easily one of the most torturous quests in the game. It's the Landing Pads quest, but you have to get ten villages to agree to host the Slynth.

Since most factions hate each other's guts, performing the water ritual is bound to piss an important village off.

This is why you should just stick to the funny magic pages for rep building here.

This achievement takes forever, waiting for the bookbinder to restock and all. Hope you like sitting around doing nothing for hours!
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE


Cut off your face and regenerate it. You can also use the newly introduced Amputate Limb ability for this one, but you need a high enough IQ in order to afford the skill.

After that, pick up your own severed face and put it on your new face.

Freaky.
TOURIST


Visiting a hundred villages takes a long time, and there's no real way to speed up the process.

Just keep playing the game until you get this one, it will come naturally.
TSK TSK


Ok haha, I may have lied to you before. You see, the prism DOES actually kill you!

This is why it's a good idea to only equip it during a Precognition vision.

Doing this grants you both Tsk Tsk and Go on. Do it.

Sorry if my silly joke brutally murdered your run! Whoopsies!
TWO CATS ARE BETTER THAN ONE


Make sure you choose Joppa as your starting village, or else Ctesiphus wont spawn.

After that, grab some cloning draught from an ichor merchant or slime bog.

Finally, dump that pepto-bismol on the cat.

You now have two cats.
WAS IT SOMETHING I SAID?


Invoke the Chaos Spiel at the First Council of Omonporch.

Piss off that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ plant, make me proud.
WHAT'S EATING THE WATERVINE


To get this achievement, you have to complete the quest... What's Eating the Watervine... real clever naming.

You gotta have your starting village be Joppa for this one, since Mehmet can't spawn otherwise.

If only some ugly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ made a comprehensive guide on how to beat this quest, haha wink wink poke poke nudge nudge.
WHAT WITH THE DISEMBOWELMENT AND ALL


Finding the flattened remains is purely up to chance, just keep looking in the salt marsh until you find it.

Sure, it's a pain to get, but as the game aptly puts it; "the meat pancake is tender".
YOUR THIRST IS MINE, MY WATER IS YOURS


Try to make a habit out of performing the water ritual for this one. Sharing is caring, y'know?

Just, maybe think twice before performing the water ritual with a spider that is wanted dead by the Barathrumites and Mechanimists.
HEBREW NUMBERS 1-6


Oh, this one’s kind of easy! Just kidding, it’s actually not!

Nephellim suck, although you can mitigate how much they suck by killing them in a certain order, so they don’t get too obnoxious.

I’d do it like this:

-Rermadon (first)
-Agolgot (second)
-Shug’ruith (third)
-Bethsaida (fourth)
-Qas/Qon (fifth/sixth)
-??? (???)
ARCONAUT


Don't care, didn’t ask, use three spiral borers.
DREAM WITHIN A DREAM


First, go find a dreamcrungle; preferably a large group of ‘em. Now, keep falling asleep until you awaken as a creature in the Moon Stair. In your newfangled body, look for yet another crungle.

Let it hit ya, and enter the infamous double dream zone.
GET IN THE ROBOT


Finding a completely unguarded mecha isn’t exactly uh… common…

If you do happen across one though, keep trying to have sex with it (infiltrate) until you climax (enter the mech).

Silly metaphors aside, you are like, never going to find an unpiloted mecha. You’re gonna need a lot of luck on your side here, sorry pal.
HEAT DEATH


This one is a lot like Dawnglider, but with a little extra on top!

Follow the same steps for that achievement, but once you coat yourself in plasma, chuck not one, not two, not three, but a lot of thermal grenades at your disgusting ugly feet!

And then die.

Again.
IMAGINE A RUBBER SHEET


So, you might be thinking, “dash yourself on the crags of spacetime? The ♥♥♥♥ does that mean!”.

Don’t worry dumbass! It’s just schizo qud-speak for “die to normality”.

Just go to the cherub lair in the tomb, beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of yourself, and use an esper ability at low health to die from taking one too many normal pills.
LAIR CAKE


Whenever you see the “discovered a lair” popup, go and visit the lair. Even if you just hang around for one turn, that's all good.

Grinding is fun, right? I sure hope there aren’t any other new grindy achievements… right?
SOUND SLEEPER


There are, in fact, other new grindy achievements.

Find a crungle, go to sleep, level up twenty times. Don’t expect your character to be very worthwhile after inevitably losing eighty willpower.
MORE THAN A WILLING SPIRIT


Just… do the whole gologatha thing, with the waydroid and all that. Very few of these new achievements are easy, so just think of this one as a freebie!
MY MANY FACETS


Crystal delight is an easy, simple dish to make. If you couldn’t tell, that’s sarcasm, this ♥♥♥♥ actually sucks.

Here's a checklist of things you need:

-Warm static (easy to find)
-Crystal of Eve (harvest the underground Moon Stair vines)
-Gentling Cone (look for newfathers)
-Glitter Grenade MK III (pray to a god of your choosing)

Oh and also, no true kins allowed, they don’t get to have any fun.
ON SECOND THOUGHT


Eat pie.
SWOLLEN BULB


Autoexplore near all the coral in the reef, find a swollen bulb, chug the sun juice. You are bound to get this one eventually, might take some time though.

Just don't get your kneecaps broken in by a galgal.
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE MERE SUGGESTIONS, VOL. 3


Much like the rubber sheet achievement, the phrase “prove the information paradox by causing your surroundings to glitch” is just qud-speak for “pour a dram of warm static on the ground, moron”.

So, do that.
TOTAL MAKEOVER


The devs really like warm static, huh? Instead of pouring the warm static on the ground, for this achievement, you have to drink it.

Really crazy stuff, I know.
WANDER DARKLING IN THE ETERNAL SPACE


Equip the prism, wait a few days to die, yadda yadda, NEXT!
WATERPIPE AND REST


Haha… woah… this one is like… haha woooooah… like smoke… a waterpipe… they are like…
*spits up blood* like… in the six day stilt… go there and *wheeze* uhh… there's one in... *vomits black liquid* in the tutorial too... use that... *explosion* if you want to get it... faster... *elephant trumpeting*
WEIRDWIRE CONDUIT... EUREKA!


Do the ♥♥♥♥♥♥’ Rust Well quest.

Ugh.
14 kommentarer
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 25. dec. 2024 kl. 17:32 
if my gaming skills fail me, and it takes too long, i'll just add the ones i have at the moment
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 25. dec. 2024 kl. 17:32 
almost got all the new achevos, once that's done, they will be added
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 8. dec. 2024 kl. 16:41 
(some of them are actual hell!)
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 8. dec. 2024 kl. 16:41 
i should mention now too doe, i will get the new achevos on the guides, once i actually get them
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 8. dec. 2024 kl. 16:40 
oh that's funny, LMAO, didn't know you could even get achevos in the tutorial, gonna check that out
R3VENANT 8. dec. 2024 kl. 16:18 
Jsyk, there's a waterpipe in the new tutorial cave if you walk around a little. Makes the achievement ezpz
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 9. okt. 2024 kl. 18:58 
NEW STUFF!!! NEW STUFF!!! NEW STUFF!!!
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 16. sep. 2024 kl. 18:55 
thank you!
OutoftheLoop 11. aug. 2024 kl. 18:19 
Love your sketches.
billy.checkers.22  [ophavsmand] 29. feb. 2024 kl. 16:48 
also, i will be adding the new 40 achevos to the list once they come out, i got my work cut out for me!