All 16 Achievements: A Low-Repetition Route
Most achievements follow normal progression. The efficient approach is to delay the four Gold holding milestones until spending can pause, and track unique creatures before the map becomes difficult to revisit.
Official Achievement List
| Achievement | Official requirement |
|---|---|
| Promotion Protocol | Earn your first factory promotion. |
| Flux It Up | Mine your first Fluxite. |
| Gold in the Bin | Hold 1,000 Gold in your Collectors at once. |
| Ancient Technology | Recover an alien Artifact from the dunes. |
| First Bloom | Grow your first Flower in a Planter Box. |
| Void Touched | Investigate an Anomaly. |
| Critter Catcher | Capture your first critter with the Corraller. |
| First Spark | Charge your first unit of Energy. |
| Quartermaster | Hold 10,000 Gold in your Collectors at once. |
| Conservatory Curator | Capture one of each unique creature. |
| Stratacore Secured | Neutralize your first Strataform event. |
| Aura Extractor | Unlock Aura Extraction through the Swarm Console. |
| Full Circle | Fill the whole Aura circle so the next factory tier becomes available. |
| Final Schematic | Research every node in the tech tree. |
| Vaultkeeper | Hold 100,000 Gold in your Collectors at once. |
| Heliodyne Tycoon | Hold 1,000,000 Gold in your Collectors at once. |
Requirements checked against Steam Global Achievements. Percentages are deliberately omitted because they change.
Phase 1 — Let Early Progress Unlock Eight
Promotion Protocol, Flux It Up, Ancient Technology, First Bloom, Void Touched, Critter Catcher and First Spark attach naturally to research and factory progression. Pause spending briefly when Collectors first reach 1,000 Gold for Gold in the Bin.
Phase 2 — Track Creatures and Bank Gold
Use the Corraller on every distinct creature you encounter rather than postponing all captures. Conservatory Curator needs one of each unique creature, while the Gold achievements require the balance to be held in Collectors at once.
Claim Quartermaster at 10,000 and Vaultkeeper at 100,000 during natural production plateaus. Spending the stored balance before the achievement fires defeats the requirement.
Phase 3 — Finish Late Systems
Neutralize a Strataform event for Stratacore Secured, then follow Swarm Console and Aura progression for Aura Extractor and Full Circle. These are progression milestones, so solve the underlying factory instead of creating a separate achievement build.
Final Schematic and One Million Gold
Before the final grind, inspect every Tech Tree branch and buy any optional node for Final Schematic. Heliodyne Tycoon requires one million Gold held at once, so reserve enough Collector capacity and stop nonessential spending.
The community route proposes a very large dedicated vault and late-game production tools. Treat its dimensions and production claims as an example: verify current Collector capacity, build one measured production module, then multiply from observed output.
Community Route and Spoiler Note
The ordering and tactical suggestions are adapted from the spoiler-heavy Sandustry Chronological 100% Achievement Guide. Achievement names and requirements come from Steam; unverified ratios from the guide are not presented as official mechanics.
Achievement FAQ
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Does produced Gold count if I spend it?
Should I grind one million Gold early?
Spoiler warning
The official list names late-game systems. Stop after the early-progress section if you want to discover Strataform and Aura mechanics yourself.
T1–T7 Progression
Build through the systems behind most achievements.
Gold Production
Scale the production loop before banking milestones.