If VS had achievements

[Maelstrom]

Given the snarky humor in the game, what do you think achievements would look like?

I'm thinking things like:

"Ice Bucket Challenge - Accepted" when someone freezes to death (beautifully paired with "Congratulations! You died.")
"Pin Cusion" after multiple deaths to bowtorns.
"PhD - Pile it Higher and Deeper" upon stacking peat to world heigh limit.
"To the Moon" upon stacking firewood to world height limit.

 

What are your additions?

Edited December 3, 2025 by Maelstrom

[Teh Pizza Lady]

"Wolf Bait" when you die to your first wolf
"Bear Snack" when you die to your first bear
"Picky Eater" when you starve to death
"You squeezed what from where?" when you milk your first sheep or goat

[Teh Pizza Lady]

"You gonna eat that?" when you fully consume a food item that someone else made

[LadyWYT]

"Right to Bear Arms" -- killing a bear...with your fists!

"Killer Rave" -- have 10 drifters die to other drifters within a minute.

"Elder Abuse" -- kill Tobias

"Robots in the Skies" -- die to a flying mechanical creature

 

[Heart_Afire]

"And I'm Free...Free Fallin": Die to Fall Damage while wearing a glider
"YABBA DABBA DOO!": Kill a Drifter with a Wooden Club
"Sticks to yer Ribs!": Eat a Meal that pauses hunger for more than 5 minutes
"Ah, A Fellow Wizard!" : Hit Tobias with a Stick
"What Year is It?": View the sign in the Village Well

[Broccoli Clock]

Butterfly collector 

A playthrough I actually started, which was a descent into utter madness once I realised how many there were and all the spawn limitations! It's made all the more frustrating (and I suppose realistic) in that butterflies don't have tool tips, you have to identify them based on their patterns it wont tell you the type until it's in your inventory. Lots of lovely cottage core mods for butterfly collecting, but I honestly can't imagine the hours you'd have to play in survival to collect the lot.

For anyone wondering, here's the butterfly wiki page. (edit: expand the [butterfly spawning] section)

 

 

Edited December 3, 2025 by Broccoli Clock

[LadyWYT]

"The Other Block Game" -- using a shield, block 20 rock throws from 20 different drifters.

"An Unexpected Adventure" -- complete the main story without ever using the map items.

"You're Finally Awake!" -- use a bed in a trader cart.

"Ultimate Cave Man" -- beat the game without metal tools or weapons.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" -- die to a monster summoned by a bell

"Dances With Wolves" --survive attacks from 3 different wolves within 3 minutes, while not wearing any armor.

[Maelstrom]

2 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

"Right to Bear Arms" -- killing a bear...with your fists!

Maybe "Right to Arm Bears" instead?  

[Vexxvididu]

"It's a cruel world" -- Die within 10 minutes of starting a new world.

"Failed to plan"  -- Starving to death at least 5000 blocks from your spawn point.

"Still fresh!"  -- Eat food or cook food that was within 1 hour of going bad.

"Overprepared"  --Not starting the story till you've made steel.

"Eat the rich" --spend 50 rusty gears.

"This armor sucks!"  --Wear improvised armor till it breaks.

[Vexxvididu]

"Fire.... BAD!"  --Have a fire spread to a bed from a source at least 4 blocks away.

[ThornRanger]

"Ground Score!" --First time you eat something off the ground that wasn't placed there by you.
"Sloppy Seconds!" --First time you eat a portion someone else already ate some of.
"Slim Pickins!"--First time you have the thirds of a shared portion with two others.
 

[Venusgate]

"Pin Cushion" -- Have ten or more arrows stuck in your shield at once

"Shame on Me" -- Pick up heated metal without tongs that you just dropped because you didn't have tongs.

"What a shot!" -- Hit an enemy or animal at 50 blocks or more.

"Doors and Corners" -- Survive for one year with a 5hp starting setting.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

11 hours ago, Venusgate said:

"Shame on Me" -- Pick up heated metal without tongs that you just dropped because you didn't have tongs.

I've... never done this before. Why are you all staring at me??

[Vexxvididu]

"All fungi are edible, some fungi are only edible once." --Died from eating a toxic mushroom.

[CABLES]

"Maximum Overdrive" - Build a windmill at the build height limit.

"Mass Production" - Forge 20 iron blooms into ingots within 5 minutes.

"Rock Enjoyer" - Visit every kind of rock stratum at least once.

"Beam Me Up" - Travel 50,000 blocks, cumulatively, via translocator.

"Audiophile" - Obtain every tuning cylinder.

"Motion Sickness is Merely a Construct" - Reach maximum drunkenness during a heavy temporal storm.

"Rust World Safari" - Spend an entire temporal storm outdoors.

"Practical Historiography" - Fully restore a set of Forlorn Hope or Blackguard armor.

"Jump Scare" - Be killed by a drifter or animal that spawned within 5 blocks of you.

"Yarr" - Kill a drifter while seated in a boat.

"Have You Tried Being Productive Instead?" - Spend 5 hours chiseling blocks.

"Fancy Lad" - In each applicable clothing slot, wear clothing that's sold/bought by Luxury Traders.

"ABC" - Make 100 gears by selling items to traders.

"Great Khan" - Kill a drifter with a bow while riding an elk.

"Nothing Beats Rock" - Kill 20 animals and/or drifters by pelting them with stones.

"1,000 Cuts" - Be killed by bees.

"Icarus Has Nothing On Me" - Die of fall damage while wearing a glider.

"The Forbidden Snack" - Eat a meal that deals 50 or more damage to you.

[hstone32]

Returning the favor - Kill a bowtorn with a bone arrow

Workplace accident - lure a monster into a lit beehive kiln or cementation furnace

The universe has an attitude - Experience your first hailstorm

Tripping hazard - Throw a rock on the ground and have something die to it

As deep as it gets - build an archway out of obsidian and attempt to ignite it

[Teh Pizza Lady]

"Impeccable Aim" -- throw a rock; Get hit by said rock

"Would I Was Told" -- hit yourself with your own arrow while eating an apple.

[Slam]

I notice a lot of theses are challenge runs, just dieing, or near impossible (punching a bear to death). There’s some obvious ones such as:

Filling up all the nutrition bars to the max.

Having a windmill power something.

making a full set of metal armor

To slightly more out of your way

seeing the northern light.

Making all the types of bronze

fully taming an elk

[LadyWYT]

4 minutes ago, Slam said:

I notice a lot of theses are challenge runs, just dieing, or near impossible (punching a bear to death).

This is the main purpose of achievements, no? Pushing players to do things nigh impossible, or that they wouldn't normally do, purely for the sake of bragging rights.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

I see achievements in other games as a sort of metric of "Oh the player made it this far" which I guess is okay, but it's also kind of crazy when you get an achievement just for making your first flint knife and then look and see that only 75% of the people who own the game have that achievement like... okay... so 25% of the people who have this game just haven't even played it???

Those kinds of metrics are lame. I want to see how many people have managed to do something fun, silly, or down right impossible in the game... something truly worthy of bragging rights. Something I can tell my friends with a stupid grin on my face, "Look at what I did. XD"

I do agree with the full set of metal armor one and the bronze one... but only if it's a full set of gold plate armor... Achievements should be

"Life of Luxury" -- Craft a full set of gold plate armor.

"Who Needs Iron Anyway?" -- Cast an ingot of every type of bronze.

[LadyWYT]

2 minutes ago, Teh Pizza Lady said:

I do agree with the full set of metal armor one and the bronze one... but only if it's a full set of gold plate armor...

"Full Metal Alchemist" -- equip the Forlorn Hope armor set, while wearing all alchemist clothing and accessories.

[Maelstrom]

20 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

This is the main purpose of achievements, no? Pushing players to do things nigh impossible, or that they wouldn't normally do, purely for the sake of bragging rights.

I intended it to be list of "accomplishments" that were taken to the absurd extreme.   Such as the following, which I find absolutely, ridiculously hilarious!!!

 

39 minutes ago, hstone32 said:

As deep as it gets - build an archway out of obsidian and attempt to ignite it

 

[CABLES]

"Become the Beast" - Kill a bear while wearing a full set of bear-hide armor.

"Moderation is For Suckers" - Experience -40 degree and +40 degree temperatures.

"1 in 9 million" - Be killed by lightning twice.

"Flaxmaxxing" - Create a full set of windmill sails, a full set of gamboised/tailored gambeson armor, and a boat.

"Extreme Tedium Challenge" - Craft 40 chains from ingots without the aid of a helve hammer.

"Part of a Complete Breakfast" - Plant one of every type of crop.

"It Has Been [0] Days" - Cause a large fire via irresponsible pit kiln usage.

"Nothing Lasts Forever" - Shatter a Tier 3 refractory brick block during a firing.

"By Our Powers Combined" - Craft a full stack of Terra Preta.

"Fasting Slowly" - Survive for 5 days at 20% satiety or less.

[CABLES]

Ooh, one more:
"TOBG" - Attempt to craft a diamond pickaxe.

[MKMoose]

43 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

This is the main purpose of achievements, no? Pushing players to do things nigh impossible, or that they wouldn't normally do, purely for the sake of bragging rights.

Not necessarily. They provide small positive reinforcement as reward for progression, helping to create a sense of accomplishment and motivate the player to reach the next goals in sight, especially for players with a more completionist mindset. Easier achievements can motivate a beginner to keep playing until they can attempt the more difficult ones, if nothing else.

Additionally, achievements can inform the player about next steps in progression and content they haven't seen yet, or remind about mechanics that they may not know or remember.

 

Nothing against a little bit of fun, though. I'm torn between one name and two triggers.

"I didn't hear no bell!" - eat a funeral bell and live to tell the tale.

"I didn't hear no bell!" - allow a bell to summon 10 monsters.