Gothic 1 Remake

Craft any single item at the relevant station (a forge, alchemy bench or scroll desk). You'll do this naturally early on — e.g. cook a piece of meat or forge a crude blade. Comes automatically on the way to the crafting-count achievements below.

Reach the Old Camp early in Chapter 1 and complete the introductory tasks the Shadows and ore barons set until you're formally accepted. This is one of three mutually exclusive faction achievements (with Lowlife and Cult Loon) — you can only align with one camp per save. Make a save just before joining so you can reload it for the other two camps without a full replay.

Kill 10 enemies with headshots using a bow or crossbow. Aim for the head on weaker humans and animals (scavengers, molerats) from range. Easy to grind early — it stacks naturally while you level ranged weapons for String Wielder.

Pick 20 locks with lockpicks. Buy a stack of lockpicks and open every locked chest and door you find (save first — wrong combinations can break picks). There are far more than 20 lockable containers across the Colony, so this comes naturally if you loot thoroughly.

Story-gated — unlocks automatically on finishing Chapter 2's main questline. Unmissable; just follow the story after picking your camp.

Rank up within any guild/faction at least once (e.g. from novice to a higher standing in your camp or mage order). Comes naturally as you complete camp questlines and prove yourself — you'll rank up well before the mid-game on any faction path.

Story-gated — awarded on completing Chapter 3. Unmissable; keep progressing the main quest.

Travel to the New Camp and earn the mercenaries' trust to be let in. Mutually exclusive with Gomez' Paperboy (Old Camp) and Cult Loon (Swamp Camp) — reload your pre-join master save to pick it up on its own. The New Camp is a valid mage path (Water Mages), so it also works for Abracadabra and Overachiever.

Read 10 books (or scrolls/tablets that open a reading view). Books are scattered around the camps, huts and towers — loot and read every one you find. Reading them also feeds lore quests like The Anatomaniac, so don't skip them.

Learn Orcish to Level 2. This is taught after finding/reading the Orcish language books and getting the relevant lessons (tied to the later chapters where you deal with Orc ruins and culture). Read every Orcish tablet/book you find and take the language lessons when offered.

Join the Sect in the Swamp Camp. Mutually exclusive with the other two camp achievements. Important: the Swamp Camp caps your magic at the 4th Circle, so do not plan Abracadabra or Overachiever on this save. This is, however, the run to use for Map Sniffer (the Cor Kalom mine map is Swamp-only).

Acquire a full set of Ore Armor — the heavy end-game armour crafted/bought with ore. Reach the point where a smith or the mine barons can provide it (usually mid-to-late game once you have enough ore/standing). Any ore-tier set counts.

Enter the Old Camp without using the main gate — sneak in over the walls or via an alternate route rather than being waved through. Look for a climbable section of the palisade/rock around the perimeter and slip in behind the guards. Do it before you're formally a member.

Story-gated — unlocks at the end of Chapter 4, around meeting and allying with the necromancer Xardas. Unmissable.

Story-gated — unlocks when you first enter the Sleeper Temple in the late game. Unmissable; it comes as part of the main quest in the final chapters.

Forge 5 weapons at a smithy. You need the smithing skill/lessons plus raw ore and a forge, tong, hammer and cooling barrel. Blank crude swords are cheap to make in bulk — forge five to stack this alongside Anvil Enthusiast and weapon-mastery progress.

Brew 10 potions at an alchemy bench. Learn the alchemy lessons, gather herbs (you'll find plenty exploring), and cook up simple healing or mana potions. Herbs respawn/are abundant, so this is trivial over a playthrough.

Craft a single rune/scroll at a magic desk. Requires the relevant magic-crafting lesson and materials; any one scroll pops it. Do this on your mage run where you're learning spells anyway.

Story-gated — awarded on completing Chapter 5. Unmissable; continue the main quest.

Story-gated — the campaign-completion achievement, earned by finishing Chapter 6 (defeating the Sleeper and ending the game). Unmissable on any successful run.

Exhaust every dialogue option with Mud across the game. The catch: Mud is a weak, cowardly NPC who dies easily — if he's killed, the achievement is permanently missed. Protect him whenever he's near danger, check back with him after major story beats, and keep talking until all his dialogue is used up. Highly missable, so keep a save from before any fight he's involved in.

Kill an enemy with fall damage. Lure an enemy (or knock/pull it) off a cliff or ledge, or fight near a drop and let a shield-bash/kick send one over. There are plenty of ledges around the Old Camp approach and the mountain paths — position an enemy at the edge and push it off.

Complete the "Escape Plan" quest. Follow its objectives to completion as part of the mid-game story/side content. Talk to the relevant quest-giver, work through each step, and turn it in — nothing tricky, just don't abandon it.

Successfully pickpocket 20 different characters. Learn the pickpocket lesson, then sneak up behind NPCs (ideally when alone/unobserved) and steal. Save beforehand — a failed attempt turns them hostile. Plenty of targets in every camp.

Complete the Chromanin questline — a hidden lore chain centred on tracking down the scattered Chromanin books/clues and following the mystery to its end. Read every book you find (they trigger and advance the quest) and see the questline fully through. Treat it as missable and don't leave the Colony's later chapters with it unfinished.

Defeat 10 enemies using only your fists (no weapon drawn). Easiest on weak early wildlife — scavengers, molerats, young meatbugs. Unarm and punch them down; do a handful whenever you pass easy prey and it's done well before you're strong.

Complete Cavalorn's book quests — the questline given by Cavalorn (the hunter/hermit) that revolves around collecting and returning specific books/anatomy tomes. Talk to Cavalorn, take the quest, and hand in every book it asks for. Reading and hoarding books throughout the game (see Bookworm) makes this much smoother.

Apply every available modification/upgrade to a single armour at the appropriate crafting station. Pick one armour and fit all its mod slots (materials/plates/etc.). Gather the required components first, then apply each mod to the same piece.

A choice-based, missable achievement: at the confrontation with Gomez (the Old Camp's ore baron), choose to spare his life rather than killing him. Save right before the encounter so you can pick the mercy option deliberately — taking the kill route instead permanently locks this out for that save.

Reach master rank in every ranged weapon (bow and crossbow). Train the ranged skill lines fully with a trainer. Like the melee masteries, this needs a good stock of learning points, so plan to over-level via quests and hunting.

Reach the 6th (highest) Magic Circle. You must commit to a mage guild — the Fire Mages (Old Camp side) or Water Mages (New Camp). Progress their questline and learn each circle in turn up to the 6th. Do not attempt this on a Swamp Camp save: the Sect caps you at the 4th Circle, making this impossible there.

Parry an enemy 5 times in a row without dodging or taking damage. Pick a slow, single melee attacker (a lone bandit or skeleton), stand your ground and time blocks to its swings — block, don't roll. Do it against one weak enemy so the pressure is low.

A simple exploration easter egg — visit Xardas' private room/bedroom inside the necromancer's tower. Once you've reached Xardas (Chapter 4 area), explore his tower fully and step into his personal quarters to pop it.

Deal all three elemental damage types (fire, ice and lightning/energy) to the same enemy. Easiest on a mage run: bring one spell/scroll of each element (e.g. a fireball, an ice attack and a lightning attack) and hit a single tanky enemy with all three before it dies. Runes or scrolls work if you're not a full mage.

Reach master rank in every melee weapon category (one- and two-handed). Spend learning points with a weapons trainer to max each melee skill line. Budget for it — you'll want a combat-heavy build, and it pairs with Overachiever (learn all lessons) on the same mage/warrior run.

Transform into every creature form at least once. Transformation is done via transformation spells/scrolls (each turns you into a specific beast — e.g. scavenger, wolf, and larger creatures). Collect one of every transformation rune/scroll and cast each one. Buy them from mage trainers and loot them from spellbooks; keep a checklist so you don't miss a form.

Finish the entire game without ever sleeping in a bed. Decide on this before you start the run — a single sleep voids it, and beds are tempting for passing time or healing. Rest is optional in Gothic, so simply never use a bed: heal with potions/food and wait out day/night by standing around if a quest needs a time of day. Pairs well with your main story run if you commit from the start.

Collect every map in the game — the trickiest collectible. Most maps are bought or looted normally, but one, the Map to the Old Mine #2 from Cor Kalom, only appears if you're in the Swamp Camp and are holding no map at all when you take that quest. Because that requires a Swamp-aligned save, it clashes with the mage/Overachiever run — do Map Sniffer on a dedicated Swamp playthrough, grabbing the Cor Kalom map before picking up any other. Highly missable.

Learn every lesson (all trainable skills from every trainer — combat, magic circles, crafting, thieving, etc.). This demands a lot of learning points, so over-level through quests and hunting, and spend at every trainer. Requires a full mage path, so it's incompatible with the Swamp Camp (4th-Circle cap) and, in practice, with Map Sniffer's Swamp map — plan them on separate runs.

Complete the game on Permadeath mode (one life — death ends the run). Best done as its own dedicated playthrough. Tips: over-level in safe early areas before advancing, always carry a deep stock of healing potions, fight one enemy at a time and use terrain/ranged pulls, avoid packs and known ambushes, and save-scum is off — so play patiently. A route you already know from earlier runs makes this far safer.

The 100% capstone — unlocks automatically once every other achievement is earned. Follow the roadmap: one full mage run (story + skills + magic + missables + spare Gomez), reloads for the other two camps, a Swamp run for Map Sniffer, and a Permadeath run for No time to die. When the last one pops, this does too.

The overall completion award — granted for unlocking all other achievements in Gothic 1 Remake. There's nothing to do for it directly; clear the full list (see the roadmap and Colonyholic) and it unlocks with the final achievement.