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The Watney Challenge Achievement

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I was surprised to see only 1.4% of players have unlocked The Watney Challenge achievement. It's not overly difficult, if you set everything up just right. I'll go over what I did in the guide. With this method, I unlocked it on my first try.

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Mission Setup

Build, Wait, Win

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Mission Setup

Configure a new mission using the images below as a guide.

Sponsor: International Mars Mission - You may as well take all the funding you can get on this one.

Commander: Psychologist - To help your lonely new Martian stay sane.

Game Rules: Each of these 8 rules improve your chances or speed things up and none of them disable achievements.

No Events - we don't need events for this so turn them off
Prefab Colony - free structures, why not?
Fast Rockets - why wait for supplies if you don't have to?
Fast Scanning - why wait for scans if you don't have to?
Increased Production - more production = good
More Applicants - more chances that you'll get an ideal candidate
No Disasters - we don't need a meteor hitting the dome, right?
Amateurs - we won't need any specialists

Build, Wait, Win

Site: I chose Elysium Alpha and landed at the pre-exposed area at bottom right.

Your First Rocket:

Remove the RC Commander
Add drones until you have 15 on board
Put any remaining space toward orbital probes

Your Second Rocket:

Before you even land, request another cargo rocket
Load it with 5 drones and 55 or 60 concrete
Send it

Your Third Rocket:

Before you even land, request yet another cargo rocket
Load it with 3 advanced sterling generators & 3 moisture evaporators & any food that will fit
Send it

Your First Cargo Pod:

Before you even land, request a cargo pod for $100M
Load it with 2 fuel refineries any food that will fit
Send it

Landing:

Use existing and arriving probes to expose more of the area at bottom right
Land near the concrete deposit(s), build universal, concrete and metal depots
Create a transport route for your RC Transport that gathers metal from the surrounding area then drops it off at the metal depot.

Break Ground:

Land all your rockets - away from each other but within drone range.
Build a concrete extractor. One is enough.
Build a self sufficient dome.
Build 3 Fuel Refinery/Moisture pairs
Deploy Sterling Generators and run power lines/pipes as needed.

Dome Time:

Wait for everything outside the dome to finish construction and make sure it all works
Build one house, one small grocer and as many parks as you want. At least 1.
That's all you need.

Draft Pick:

Find a colonist with no flaws and 2 or more of these perks Rugged, Composed, Nerd, Religious, Hippie
Load just that one colonist into a passenger rocket and send it.
Land the rocket and watch your guy or gal walk to their new, lonely, glass prison.

Wait:

If your colonist has Nerd, scan the anomalies in the area to complete research items and boost his/her morale. If not, that's ok - mine did not have Nerd and he still made it.
At this point, just put it on the fastest game speed and keep an eye on things.
Wait 9 sols

You Win.

That's all folks. Couldn't be simpler, IMHO. The image below shows what my base looked like when the achievement was won, for reference. Good luck!

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blackknight24 9 sep, 2024 @ 11:18

wow... you really need all that nerfing? i got it by simply placing down the prefab dome and one colinist... just waited after that.

EasyAwesomeSauce 30 aug, 2023 @ 11:55

Great little guide. Thanks.

vacuumdiagram 10 apr, 2023 @ 7:00

Cheers! Hadn't occurred to me to try, so was helpful in giving me a boot to do so, as well as making good suggestions.

Hate Bear 10 jul, 2022 @ 14:19

Most people don't have it because they either don't care about achievements at all or they're just phenomenally lazy. Sometimes I don't bother with achievements in some games, so I can't quite call them all out for it, but I was tempted.

Midnight 20 maj, 2022 @ 18:49

Oh who asked...

Rogue Star 11 maj, 2022 @ 13:19

Oh who cares...

SolarFlare1234 11 jan, 2022 @ 23:15

i just dumped a botanist on mars with standard settings and he probably just managed out of spite

Linux Ziggy 6 aug, 2021 @ 1:57

I just sent a Botanist and made concrete, collected some metal put him in a micro dome with some solar power and a hydroponics farm. make his ass work. bonus points if you can do it with a disco playlist on repeat.

JohnC2308 28 jun, 2021 @ 10:16

@q_r I feel your pain. I was doing the thing where you do thumbs up/down for colonists. Instead of thumbs down i did thumbs up for tourists. 22 tourists came to my colony. I sent them as far away as I could.

JohnC2308 28 jun, 2021 @ 10:15

Simple:
Go with default settings, use whatever commander you want.
YOU HAVE 4 ROCKETS REMEMBER.
YOU START WITH A SELF EFFICIENT DOME.
Build the dome, get all your power running (make sure the stirling generators are open) then build, a gym, garden, hydroponic farm and living complex.
2nd rocket: Fuel refinery, 2 water vapour collectors, 2 stirling generators, FOOD
3rd rocket: Fill with enough metal for 10 days maitenance and a concrete producer. FOOD
BUILD A TON OF STORAGE
4th rocket: Mark Watney
Simple.
Or just build the prefab dome, 2 rockets full of food then sorted

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