Starbound achievement guide & roadmap

Complete a quest! Joke's on you, there isn't any XP in this game.

Survive the Protectorate. It could have been worse.

Harvest a crop. See what happens when you eat it.

Practice your chef skills. Try not to harm anyone.

Meet Esther.

Collect your first musical instrument! Keep playing, even when everyone begs you to stop.

Defeat Mother Poptop. Every Poptop you meet from here on out is a lonely orphan.

Fix your ship.

Find a Codex. On Earth it's rude to read other people's diaries.

Obtain an entire set of armour. Now use dye to make your armour fabulous.

Augment your EPP. Now it's an AEPP.

Return Nuru to the outpost.

Recruit your first crew member. Captain!

Defeat the dastardly Dreadwing. Bring joy to penguins everywhere.

Incapacitate an innocent bystander. You monster.

Return Koichi to the outpost.

Capture a monster. How does it fit in that tiny ball?

Obtain a cool vehicle. Pop some sweet wheelies.

Return Tonauac to the outpost.

Obtain the mythical perfectly generic item.

Attract your first colonist. Make sure you treat them right.

Defeat the Shockhopper MK I. Notice it rarely hops.

Return Lana Blake to the outpost.

Become champion of the arena. Crush your foes like an orange sorbet.

Kill 100 small flying monsters. They had it coming.

Return the Baron to the outpost.

Harvest 30 unique crops. Start thinking about who you'd like to romance and that barn extension.

Recruit a penguin mercenary from the Beakeasy.

Defeat the Ruin.

Destroy a robot chicken. Don't try to eat it.

Capture your first bug with a bug net. Esther would be proud.

Recruit at least 12 crew members. Consider starting a pension plan.

Complete Mazebound. You only need to beat it 300,000 times to win a slide whistle.

Build a large colony. Well done Protector!

Complete 10 quests for your colonists. Feel like an asset to the community!

Prepare at least 100 unique dishes. Bonus points if they're edible.

Build 5 homes in a very small space. This isn't a healthy way for anyone to live.

Complete the Cosmic Museum's cosmic collection.

Restore a complete fossil. Make wild assumptions about what it used to be.

Kill another player. Unity is overrated anyway.

Complete 25 quests for your colonists. These guys sure do ask a lot of you don't they...

Attract 10 unique tenants. Marvel at their collective peculiarity.

Recruit one crew member from every race. It's like a teeny tiny protectorate.

Obtain a complete alpaca costume. Use it only for good!

Complete 50 quests for your colonists. When did this become your full time job?

Find 100 unique codex items. Study them all, prepare for a pop quiz.

Collect at least 50 unique action figures. Insist to your friends they're actually called statuettes

Unearth 55 unique fossils. Try not to pay attention to the ones that are alarmingly humanoid.

Catch 42 unique bugs. Give them all funny names.

Collect 210 unique pieces of armour. See how many you can wear at the same time. (Spoiler, it's 3).

Move a planet's worth of blocks. If you weren't using a Matter Manipulator you'd be ripped.