This guide contains minor spoilers for the Picayune Dreams: Contamination update, proceed at your own risk! New items and suits will be mentioned, as well as strategies for unlocking them.

Guide for completing the Minimalist Achievement and unlocking the Perfected suit. Contains two versions, one which gives you just the necessary information, and another which walks you through the steps I took to complete this achievement.

This section of the guide will tell you the most important information for completing this achievement, for those who want to experiment with build specifics themselves. There are two key elements to completing this achievement: the Optimized suit, and the Statue of Discipline.

The Optimized suit can be unlocked by completing the Organized achievement, a much easier version of the Minimalist achievement. This achievement requires you to finish a run with 4 or fewer unique items. Once you have four items in your build, one of the upgrade options will always be a item you own, so just be sure to always take one you already have. The Optimized suit is key for the Minimalist achievement, as it starts with only 4 item slots.





The Statue of Discipline is by far the most practical way to limit your number of items for this achievement. Interacting with it allows you to exchange black holes for a stat increase and a reduction in your max items. Of course, you will need the Remnants Of What Was skill to encounter this statue. It is VITAL to encounter this statue in the first area you visit, so if you don't see it in the area previews, I recommend you restart the run.

The most important part of setup for this run is to LIMIT YOUR LEVEL-UPS BEFORE INTERACTING WITH THIS STATUE. You can take up to two different level-up items safely to try to get the loadout you want for the rest of the run, but don't go beyond that. Play using the Optimized suit, and use all your starting black holes on this statue to reduce you maximum number of items to two. From there, level to your heart's content!

• Plan what build you want before committing to a run.
  
• Consider investing in a good number of rerolls to have a better chance of getting the items you want.
  
• Avoid any statues/drills that increase your item capacity.

Once your run is finished, and if you've stuck to only having two items, the achievement should pop!

This section of the guide will walk you through the steps I took to complete this achievement directly.

There are many different item combinations you can use to complete this achievement, but the one I would recommend is:

• Core
  
• Digiwatch/Missing Award

I chose Core for the weapon as it is decently proficient in both crowd control and boss damage, and it can be improved with the skill tree.

Cooldown is arguably the best stat to improve in the game for most weapons, and both Digiwatch and the new Missing Award improve it. I think Digiwatch is definitely the better pick of the two, but settling for Missing Award will reduce the amount of times you need to reset, and it is the passive I used in my run. Missing Award can be unlocked by completing the Delivery achievement, which entails moving really far from your initial spawn and picking up a special package that appears. You can gauge your distance using the coordinates in the bottom left of the UI.

If you don't end up getting these items, restarting may be the way to go. Investing in rerolls can limit the number of resets you need to do.


Absolutely Required: Remnants Of What Was to spawn statues.

Key: 5-6 Rerolls to limit resets, Fast Core + Reversal Core to buff your only weapon, Shocking Results to detect dead runs faster.

Outside of those, the build is largely up to you! I recommend increases to XP modifier, drills, and survivability (black holes, damage reduction, etc.).

As mentioned in the bare minimum guide, you are pretty much required to get the Optimized suit to be able to complete this achievement. You can do this by selecting a balanced set of 4 items (ex. Static Satellite, Missile Belt, Digiwatch, Core), only selecting them in the upgrade screen (as once you have 4 items one upgrade option will be for something you have already), and finishing a run. Some rerolls/resets can help get you the build you want.






I recommend starting a run on Overdrive 0, though any level will work as long as you can deal with the stronger enemies.

Select the Optimized suit.

DO NOT USE ANY BLACK HOLES.

Take Core or Digiwatch/Missing Award as your starting item. If you can't get either in your first few rerolls, reset.

Move to the sector with a Statue of Discipline. If you don't see one, reset.

Level up once, using your rerolls to try for the remaining item between Core and Digiwatch/Missing Award. If you don't get either, reset. (If you see the one you already have, you can take it and get an additional level to try for the second again).

When the Statue of Discipline spawns, immediately interact with it twice, spending your black holes, to limit your max items to 2.

After that, it's all up to you! As long as you avoid any statues/drills that increase your max items, the achievement should pop when you finish the run. You can enable auto-upgrade at full build in the settings to skip the level-up screen if you want.

For completing Minimalist, you are rewarded with the Perfected suit! This suit reduces your xp radius by 0.30 and limits you to just one item.