This guide will help you get 100% achievement progress in Survivalist. May contain spoilers. This guide is currently a work in progress, so any corrections/updates are welcome :)

In Survivalist there are a few different types of achievements:

• Story-related mission achievements (usually can't miss these)
  
• Building and crafting achievements (requires you to build and craft stuff)
  
• Destruction achievements (requires you to destroy stuff)
  
• Combat achievements (requires you to engage in combat)
  
• Community achievements (requires you to expand your community)
  
• Collectibles achievements (requires you to find items all over the map)
  
• Miscellaneous achievements
  
• Secret achievements

Required skill not high enough? You can use books to boost your skill level. Each book will boost a certain skill by +1. These boosts are stackable so e.g. 3 books will give you +3 in that skill. Traders usually have some books in stock if you can't find any.

Here is a list of books you can use:

• Health and Fitness Guide (+1 Fitness)
  
• Gun Fetishist Magazine (+1 Firearms)
  
• Farming Handbook (+1 Farming)
  
• Medical Textbook (+1 Medicine)

This section lists the achievements that can be gained simply by progressing through the story and completing missions.

You should receive this achievement during the insulin missions for Fat Neils and McCoys. You can receive these missions by asking Johnny Casey and Josephine Jackson for insulin.

Annie Dillinger of Fort Kohai will ask you to put her infected family out of their misery during the Inseparable mission. One of the bodies will have a locket. Give it to Annie when completing the mission and you will receive the achievement.

Can’t miss. During the Internal Workings of the Mind mission you do with Isham Seely, you will be asked to search the military vehicles. Inside will be the brain scanner.

These achievements require you to free Bridget Cassidy and Willard Williams without giving the kidnappers any ransom money or gifts.

Bridget Cassidy needs to be freed during the White Knights mission, which can be obtained by talking to Cathay Starr in Santa Maddalena. Not sure if you can talk your way out of this, but here is how I did it. Go to the looters (bring enough followers! I took 4), tell them you want to negotiate the release of Bridget and they will let you in. Go to Bridget's cage in the center of town and start killing nearby looters. The key to the gate will be on one of the looters. Just make sure they don't target Bridget or she will die. Return to Santa Maddalena to ask Cathay for a reward and you'll receive the achievement.

Willard Williams is freed during The Grand Army mission which can be received from Vincente Alvarez in Los Ceros. You can use the same method used for Bridget Cassidy here. Tell the gang you want to negotiate the release of Willard. Go to his cage, which is located a little to the south west of the town, and start killing. Don't forget the guy in the pillbox. The achievement will unlock once you return him to the person in Los Ceros.

Hard to miss if going for all community achievements. Simply do all gang missions for every community. Here is a list of quests I completed in order to get the achievement:

Fort Kohai:

• Devil's Gulley (Charlie Cashman)
  
• Duck Hunt (Sarah Slaughter)
  
• Looters Stole My Locket (Zee Franklin)
  
• The Road to Santa Maddalena (Eliza West)

Fat Neils

• The River (Jane Leroy)

McCoy's

• Circle the Wagons (Manuel Gregg)

Santa Maddalena

• Big Sister (Dorcas Williams)
  
• The Death Penalty (Amelia Murphy)
  
• The Lord's Work (Maud Gilbert)
  
• White Knights

Los Ceros

• Dune Bandits (Robert Fink)
  
• Kill Cassidy (Elfego Arcine)
  
• Merry Men (Chris Nixon)
  
• The Gas Station Mafia (Ned Jackson)
  
• The Graybill Family (Em Arcine)

These achievements are dependent on the choice you made when Alice asked what you wanted out of life. I highly recommend going for LOVE, as you will be able to change your choice near the end of the game and get all 3 achievements in one playthrough (save & reload) + a possible secret achievement.

Progress towards the achievement can be viewed by going to mission Complete the Game questlog. For all 3 achievements you will need to:

• Build a base with 4 or more defensive structures, a well, and sufficient accommodation and outhouses for everyone in your community. You can check the accommodation by going to the community tab (needs to be >= recommended).
  
• Plant enough crops to feed your community sustainably. This can also be checked on the community tab (crops needs to be >= recommended).
  
• Have a total of level 5 in each skill. This can be spread across multiple people. For example, Joe can level up Fitness, while other members level up Firearms, Construction, Farming and Medicine.
  
• Choice specific objective (see below).

If you choose LOVE, you will need to progress through the 'Alice' quest in order to complete the game and get the achievement. New objectives for this quest will trigger once you do other missions and get more insulin.
Before you can complete the final Follow your heart! objective, you must first have completed all the other Complete the game! quest objectives. Once those are complete, save your game and talk to someone about Alice (needs to have a high approval of Joe)*. Choose to not believe F.E.M.A., take the alternative explanation and go after Alice.
* Talk to Isham Seely with really high approval of Joe to also get the What the Hell; right? secret achievement.

To get the other 2 achievements, reload your game, talk to the person again but choose to forget about Alice this time and you will be able to pick between money or power again (the love quest will objective will fail, just choose continue anyway).

If you choose MONEY, you will need to collect a total of 100k gold to get the 2nd ending achievement.

If you choose POWER, you will need to recruit at least 80% of the survivors in the area to your community in order to complete the game and get the 3rd ending achievement (killing some of them to reduce the other communities works too).

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In this section you will find all achievements which require you to build or craft something.

Both of these achievements require you to craft the item. First, find the right ingredients. For a molotov cocktail you will need a rag, cheap vodka and a match. A bandage requires a rag and cheap vodka. Once you have the ingredients, open up your inventory and click on any of these items and select make bandages or molotov cocktail.

Requires a character with a toolbox and cement. A pillbox requires Construction level 4 and 8 cement to build. A Concrete watchtower requires Construction level 5 and 12 cement. Switch weapons until you have selected the toolbox. Use left mouse button to open up the build menu, scroll until you find the building and click to build.

Note: your character doesn't need to be carrying all the supplies. You may store the supplies in the bunker. Just make sure your character's backpack is big enough for at least 1 supply, so he can carry them back and forth to the building location.

Requires at least Construction level 1. Build wooden or wire fences around your bunker until it is completely enclosed so looters/zombies can’t get to it (hills can be a part of your fence too). A fence requires 1 chicken wire or plank, a gate requires 2.

This small section contains all the achievements that requires you to destroy stuff :D

Throw some Molotov cocktails on any buildings and wait for them to burn down. Don’t throw the Molotovs too quick after each other as they need time to burn up. A shack usually takes about 4 to take down and an outhouse or watchtower about 3.

Launch rockets at any buildings until they blow up. The RPG will only become available later in the game (after a few missions).

This section contains all achievements that require you to perform a certain action in combat.

For this achievement, use a character with at least Firearms skill level 1. Aim at any zombies and move down your mouse to target their legs. Shoot until they move slowly. I recommend doing this by yourself so your followers don't kill the zombies before you can cripple them.

This achievement requires you to use a character with at least Firearms level 3. Aim at any zombies and move up your mouse to target their head. Shoot until they die.

You will need a character with at least Firearms level 1 for this. Find any person in a tower you can shoot. Go to the side with the ladder, aim and shoot at his legs. He will then fall out of the tower. I tested this with the pistol and assault rifle, but any weapon should do the trick. Take some backup with you so you can aim properly at the enemy (instead of being hit all the time).

For this you will need a character with at least Firearms level 5 and a sniper rifle. Find any White Strain, usually located in the southern and far eastern part of the map. Aim for the head and you should get a single shot kill.

When looking for work, some characters may offer you a fisticuffs challenge. The person will ask you to wager 100 gold (if he has skill level 5). Chris Kane in Fort Kohai is a possible fisticuffs opponent that will get you the achievement (bring enough bandages).

This section contains all achievements that are received for expanding your community.

When killing looters or gangs, the last person alive will usually surrender. Ask him to work for you and he will tell you that he has no choice and join.

These achievements are more or less the same. Go to the specific community and ask people there to join you. They won’t join straight away, and some of them will tell that there is still some work to be done. Ask them for work, complete the mission and ask them to join you again. You might need to give them some gifts to persuade them.

Recruitable Fort Kohai members:

• Ed Hutchinson
  
• Nat Allison
  
• Sarah Slaughter

Recruitable Santa Maddalena members:

• Bridget Cassidy
  
• Cathay Starr
  
• Dorcas Williams
  
• Hiram Parker
  
• Maud Gilbert

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These achievements are related to the Fat Neils vs McCoys mission. Near the end of the mission, Camila Aird of the McCoys community will ask you to pick a side. Save your game at this point if you want all of these achievements without having to replay the game.

Side with Fat Neils and make sure none of them gets killed. The last McCoys member alive should surrender. Recruit him/her to receive an achievement. Next, go to every Fat Neils and ask them to join for another achievement.

Reload your game and do the same proces, but side with the McCoys this time for another achievement.

Important: don't take the surrendered member you recruited to the other faction or they will declare war on you.

This section contains all the achievements for collectibles in the game.

This achievements requires you to find all insulin. Don't forget to actually trade them to Alice. A total of 62 doses can be found (thx to bob’s forum post on indiedb):

• 6 in Isham’s Sienna Pharamcy (obtained during the Sienna intro mission)
  
• 20 sold by Clay Parker in Fort Kohai
  
• 2 given by Johnny Casey (received during Eye for an eye)
  
• 5 in Johnny Casey’s house (requires key, received after Eye for an eye)
  
• 2 given by Josephine Jackson (received during Tit for Tat)
  
• 5 in Buckeye Hospital (requires key, received after Tit for Tat)
  
• 5 in Monkey Wrench Gulch Pharamcy (requires key, received after Monkey Wrench Gulch)
  
• 5 in Red Sands Hospital (requires key, received after Alliance)
  
• 2 given by Sam Deetz in Santa Maddalena (free)
  
• 10 in Pequeno Canyon Pharamacy (requires key, received after The Death Penalty

There are 47 crates in total, spread out across the map.
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This section contains all other achievements in Survivalist.

Respect can be gained by threatening and robbing a person or saving him from being infected. However, a person will lose respect for you if he hasn’t got enough to eat, drink, etc. If you have received the Neural Imaging System AKA brain scanner, use it to scan a person to see the exact opinion he has of you.

Approval can be gained by saving people from being infected or giving them medical assistance and gifts. You will lose approval when threatening or robbing a person. If you have received the brain scanner, use it to scan a person to see the exact opinion he has of you.

This achievement requires you to find a getaway vehicle from a long-forgotten heist. It is located to the north east of the bunker, just south west of the Highwaymen.

This section contains the secret achievements in Survivalist.

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This achievement can only be obtained when choosing the LOVE game ending. Once you need to talk to someone about Alice to complete the game, max out Isham's approval of Joe and then talk to him. Upon choosing to go after Alice he will join you and the achievement will pop up.