Achievements
| Achievements | |
|---|---|
| Type | Collection |
Achievements are the game's long list of milestones, kept on their own tab inside the Collections screen of the player menu. They cover money earned, friendship, cooking, crafting, fishing, museum donations and the deepest floors of the mines, so the list doubles as a quiet guide to everything a save can still do. Earning the very first one wakes up the ruined house in the south of Cindersap Forest, where a mouse opens a hat shop and adds a new hat to the shelf for each milestone that follows. A few go further than cosmetics: Mayor Lewis posts gold after the Help Wanted milestones, Willy posts a Stardrop after every fish has been caught, and the bottom of the mines hands over the Skull Key. Steam and PlayStation layer their own trophies on top of the in-game set, and the final entry is awarded for standing on the summit at Perfection.
Overview
Unearned milestones sit greyed out in the menu, and a few stay hidden until the ones before them are done, so the list slowly reveals itself rather than showing the whole road at once. Platform trophies on Steam and PlayStation only have to be earned once on an account. The in-game rewards are tied to the save file instead, which means a second farm has to work for its hats and its gold all over again.
The money tiers form the spine of the list. Greenhorn arrives early at fifteen thousand gold, Cowpoke at fifty thousand, Homesteader at a quarter of a million and Millionaire at a round million. Legend asks for ten million and stays a secret entry until it lands, and it pays out the Sombrero.
Cooking, crafting and fishing each run as a short ladder. Cook and Sous Chef only ask for different recipes to be made, while Gourmet Chef wants every one of them. D.I.Y. and Artisan work the same way for crafting, with Craft Master closing it out; the Wedding Ring sits outside those three and never counts, even in multiplayer. Fisherman, Ol' Mariner and Master Angler count different species, while Mother Catch simply counts fish. Green Algae, White Algae, Seaweed and the three jellies all count towards the fishing tiers, so slow days at the river still move the number. Trash does not count, and the quest fish from Qi's Extended Family order are not needed for Master Angler.
Shipping is the slowest group. Polyculture asks for fifteen of each crop, which means a full year of planting, since spring, summer and autumn crops all appear on the list. Monoculture asks for three hundred of a single crop and is far easier, because the flowers count here even though they are left off the Polyculture list: Blue Jazz, Tulip, Summer Spangle and Fairy Rose all qualify, as does Ancient Fruit. Full Shipment is the hardest of the three, because it wants one of every entry in the shipping tab of the collections menu.
Friendship milestones run from a single five-heart friend up to twenty of them, with Best Friends and The Beloved Farmer asking for ten hearts instead. Children count as people for all of these, so a family on the farm quietly helps.
Several milestones unlock something more interesting than a hat. Restoring the Community Center brings the Stardew Hero Trophy, while buying out the Joja projects brings a Soda Machine. Beating Journey Of The Prairie King hands over the arcade cabinet for the farmhouse, reaching the lowest floor of the mines hands over the Skull Key, and clearing the dangerous version of that climb earns the Space Helmet. Forging the strongest weapon in the game is rewarded with the Infinity Crown, and Perfection itself with the Junimo Hat.
Notes
Hats bought from the mouse all cost the same thousand gold, and hats won at the Egg Festival and the Festival of Ice turn up on the same shelf once the shop is open. A letter arrives the day after the first milestone to announce the shop, but the door is already unlocked before the letter is read.
Both Help Wanted tiers count more than the board outside Pierre's General Store. Weekly jobs taken from the Special Orders board and from Qi's board count towards Gofer and A Big Help as well, which makes the forty-request tier much less of a grind than it looks.
Progress towards Perfection is read from the tracker in Qi's Walnut Room on Ginger Island, which breaks the score down into shipping, friends, stardrops, obelisks, the Gold Clock and monster goals.
A milestone occasionally fails to register, usually when the game cannot pass it to the platform. Most of those repair themselves on the next load or the next night's sleep. On PlayStation and Xbox a nudge is sometimes needed instead, such as entering the museum, opening Robin's shop menu, cooking a single dish or shipping one item so the nightly summary rechecks the shipping tiers.
All Collections
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
