Overview
Descriptions of the requirements for all the achievements in the game, and extra hints for the less obvious or more difficult ones.This guide is finished, except for some remaining clarification of the conditions on a handful of the achievements.
Runes
Destroy runes through matches by matching them with runes of the same type with 3 or more in a row. (runes destroyed by spells or cascades do not count, probably not bombs either)
You’re getting good at that air thing. You’ve made 10 air matches!
Destroy 10 air runes through matches.
Congratulations! You’ve gained novice proficiency with air.
Destroy 100 air runes through matches.
You’ve made it pretty far down the journey on the path of air.
Destroy 500 air runes through matches.
Masters of the Universe? Nope, just of air.
Destroy 1000 air runes through matches.
Savant, now that’s a nifty word, and you totally deserve it in all matters regarding Air.
Destroy 5000 air runes through matches.
You’re getting good at that fire thing. You’ve made 10 fire matches!
Destroy 10 fire runes through matches.
Congratulations! You’ve gained novice proficiency with fire.
Destroy 100 fire runes through matches.
You’ve made it pretty far down the journey on the path of fire.
Destroy 500 fire runes through matches.
Masters of the Universe? Nope, just of fire.
Destroy 1000 fire runes through matches.
Savant, now that’s a nifty word, and you totally deserve it in all matters regarding Fire.
Destroy 5000 fire runes through matches.
You’re getting good at that water thing. You’ve made 10 water matches!
Destroy 10 water runes through matches.
Congratulations! You’ve gained novice proficiency with water.
Destroy 100 water runes through matches.
You’ve made it pretty far down the journey on the path of water.
Destroy 500 water runes through matches.
Masters of the Universe? Nope, just of water.
Destroy 1000 water runes through matches.
Savant, now that’s a nifty word, and you totally deserve it in all matters regarding Water.
Destroy 5000 water runes through matches.
You’re getting good at that earth thing. You’ve made 10 earth matches!
Destroy 10 earth runes through matches.
Congratulations! You’ve gained novice proficiency with earth.
Destroy 100 earth runes through matches.
You’ve made it pretty far down the journey on the path of earth.
Destroy 500 earth runes through matches.
Masters of the Universe? Nope, just of earth.
Destroy 1000 earth runes through matches.
Savant, now that’s a nifty word, and you totally deserve it in all matters regarding Earth.
Destroy 5000 earth runes through matches.
Should you be dabbling in that type of magic? You’ve made 10 void matches!
Destroy 10 void runes through matches.
Dark magic isn’t for novices, so be careful!
Destroy 100 void runes through matches.
Avoid the Void! You don’t want to keep going down this path.
Destroy 500 void runes through matches.
You’re now a master of the dark arts. Stupifexpelierminous!
Destroy 1000 void runes through matches.
Wow. You might have to uninstall before your darkness eats your computer.
Destroy 5000 void runes through matches.
So many runes, so little time. You’ve truly mastered the the manipulation of runes.
Destroy 50,000 runes total across all types through matches.
You’re such a savant that there are no more words to describe your awesomeness.
Destroy 100,000 runes total across all types through matches.
You get a triad rune from matching 4 runes and a gem rune by matching 5 runes in a line.
Gem runes are worth about twice as much as triad runes.
Gold and chests can drop from enemies when they are killed, and disappear after a while if not collected in time.
Gold piles are worth about twice as much as gem runes, while chests are worth about twice as much as gold piles.
So if you are able to take your eyes off the runes often enough to click the gold piles and chests, these achievements will take less time.
In addition, the value of all 4 increases at higher levels.
The total number of triads collected from the battlefield is what counts towards these achievements.
Digging up triads is your forte. You have collected 1000 triad runes on your board.
Collect a total of 500 triad runes (the in-game counter increases by 2).
Save those triads for a rainy day. You’ll need them.
Collect a total of 100,000 triads from the battlefield.
A triad saved is a triad earned.
Collect a total of 250,000 triads from the battlefield.
You need to go swim in your triads today.
Collect a total of 500,000 triads from the battlefield.
Matching 5 runes in an L or T shape makes a health rune.
You don’t need anyone else to heal you. You have used 1000 health runes.
Use 1000 health runes.
Matching 6 runes makes a bomb rune.
Bombs are your specialty.
Use 1000 bomb runes. (this one takes a while)
To make it a bit easier/faster, try using the water swap spell to turn a potential 5 match into 6. Doing this on the bigger maps, and/or the maps with only 3 rune types, also helps.
Matching 7 runes makes a big bomb rune.
Explosions never felt this good.
Use a big bomb rune.
Your explosions are so big that they can probably be seen from space.
Use 10 big bomb runes.
Corrupted, schmorrupted. You’ll break any runes you can find.
Make a number of matches that include a corrupted rune.
Nothing stays frozen around you, you ice breaker!
Make a number of matches that include a frozen rune. (number not shown)
City
These are unlocked by having a majority of your policies favoring a certain theme by the time you enact your 35th policy (the policy choice you get after beating level 35.) This means you will have to play through level 35 on at least 4 different cities. (recommend doing this on easy difficulty on as many cities as possible, though you will need cities at normal and hard difficulties for other achievements, so keep that in mind)
Magic permeates the very fiber of your town.
Choose policies that favor the tower of elements, or anything that involves the tower of elements or magic.
Power to the people! Well, at least they can vote on it.
Choose policies that let people vote, or establish committees to make decisions.
This is madness! No, this is ReignMaker!
Choose policies that favor the military, or anything to do with warriors.
Peace and love to all who live in your town. Oh, and a few human sacrifices.
Choose policies that favor the druids, or protect nature.
This is the house that you built.
Upgrade a building to level 2 (and maybe all other buildings to level 1).
Things are starting to look nice around here.
Upgrade all buildings to level 2 (and maybe at least one building to level 3).
This is getting to be a rather splendid place.
Upgrade a building to level 4 (and/or maybe have all other buildings to level 3).
Your city is looking mighty snazzy!
Upgrade every building in a city to level 5 (the max level).
This will take a long time, and a lot of resources, especially wood, so make sure you upgrade your lumbermill first, and check back into the city regularly to collect the resources so they can keep producing.
You’ve definitely perked that smithy up.
Upgrade the blacksmith to level 2.
No finer place to craft has ever been built.
Upgrade blacksmith to level 5.
Have a the maximum number of farmers allowed. (hidden)
Hire 20 farmers in your town hall.
You finally have some buying power. You’ve spent 5000 triads.
Spend 5000 triads.
Buy, baby, buy! You’ve spnt 50,000 triads.
Spend 50,000 triads.
It’s only money, right? You’ve spent 100,000 triads.
Spend 100,000 triads.
You can check what your citizens are saying by clicking on the speech bubble above their heads
Let’s just take a peek at those thoughts.
Read the mind of a citizen.
You must be psychic!
Read the minds of 10 citizens.
Your citizens know you spy on them with care.
Read the minds of 50 citizens.
Conquest
You’ve just crossed beyond the Threshold of greatness by beating 20 levels!
Beat level 20 on any difficulty.
That wasn’t so bad, was it? Good job defending the towers.
Beat level 50 on easy difficulty.
Excellent work defending the towers. Here’s a lousy award for it.
Beat level 50 on normal difficulty.
We bow to you, the Master of the Tower.
Beat level 50 on hard difficulty.
You are the master of beating towers. (hidden)
Beat level 10 of The InfinitY Tower (level 51.)
You are an even better master of beating towers. (hidden)
Beat level 25 of The Infinity Tower (level 51.)
It is possible to get the achievement for killing a boss without beating the level if you die before killing all the minions, but you need to beat the level to progress.
You beat the Tutor in the tutorial. Congratulations!
Beat the Tutor “boss” in level 1 on any difficulty.
You beat the Godgantupine. Congratulations!
Beat the Godgantupine boss in level 5 on any difficulty.
You beat Thargorina. Congratulations!
Beat Thargorina (the boss) in level 10 on any difficulty.
You defeated the Obliterator, a servant of the Void. Congratulations!
Beat the Obliterator boss in level 15 on any difficulty.
You beat the Wizard whose face is strangely familiar. Congratulations!
Beat the Wizard boss in level 20 on any difficulty.
You beat the Elemental Lord, something the Alchemists claimed they did. Congratulations!
Beat the Elemental Lord boss in level 25 on any difficulty.
You beat that rolling eyeball known as the Glaring Glancer. Congratulations!
Beat the Glaring Glancer boss in level 30 on any difficulty.
You beat Bizarre Bones. Congratulations!
Beat Bizarre Bones (the boss) in level 35 on any difficulty.
You beat the Cubicle. Congratulations!
Beat the Cubicle boss in level 40 on any difficulty.
You beat the Obliterati. Congratulations!
Beat the Obliterati boss in level 45 on any difficulty.
You beat General Mabelrode and saved the world. Congratulations!
Beat General Mabelrode (the final boss) in level 50 on any difficulty.
You did a good thing in destroying these poor, corrupted creatures.
Kill 1000 Turtooms of any variation.
We shall mourn these good turtooms.
Kill 2500 Turtooms of any variation. (this one will take a while)
Good job in destroying the d’orcs!
Kill 1000 d’Orcs of any variation.
The gobbo horde has been contained.
Kill 1000 Gobbos of any variation.
Strange creatures? Cute but no cigar!
Kill 1000 Gelatinous cubes.
The gargantupine threat has been contained.
Kill 1000 Gargantupines of any variation.
Avoid the Void. That’s definitely a new saying.
Kill 1000 Void enemies of any variation.
Excellent work in dispersing the crazed dragonets.
Kill 1000 Dragonets of any variation.
Horrid creatures! All romels need to be destroyed.
Kill 1000 Romels of any variation.
What kind of horrible beings would corrupt slemors?
Kill 1000 Slemors of any variation.
Who doesn’t like fighting the undead?
Kill 1000 Skeletons of any variation.
Fighting eyeballs? At first you were the pupil, but now you are the master.
Kill 1000 Glancers of any variation.
Gold flags for every tower? Maybe YOU should be the king!
Get gold on every level with a single city.
To get gold you need to beat the level with at least 95% of your tower health remaining.
Level 51 (The Infinity Tower) counts as gold if you get gold on any of the levels there.
Doing this on easy difficulty is recommended.
For the bosses you may need to bring strong spells fully charged, as well as the healing spell and possibly also healing troops, so you can heal up after the boss is dead before killing its last minions if needed.
If you are having trouble with getting gold on a boss, one (expensive) solution is to have the armory at level 5 and stocked up on direct damage items, and dumping them all on the boss at the start.
Collection
You gain some of these achievements by researching the gear recipes in the armory, but for the later ones it seems to sometimes be enough to complete the levels where the recipes are found as loot at the end of the level, without actually needing to research them.
Congratulations! You learned how to make something.
Research 1 recipe.
Congratulations! You learned to make a few things.
Research 5 recipes.
Wow, you sure do know how to make a lot of things!
Research 10 recipes.
You are a master of metal, indeed. You know all the blacksmithing recipes.
Research all 12 recipes.
This set of achievements is earned through filling the bestiary with cards you discover by collecting the scrolls that sometimes drop from killed enemies.
The drop rates can seem quite low, especially for the bosses, so you will probably have to defeat some of them a lot of times.
There was a rumored 46th scroll from the Pokka minions of the Cubicle (Gelatinous Cube) boss, but that was a bug and has been fixed, and it did not count toward the achievement anyway.
The enemy that is usually the hardest to find is the Shontan Gargantupine, but since The Infinity Tower (level 51 on the map) randomly cycles through all the different enemies, this seems to be the most reliable place to find it.
See the Completed Bestiary section at the bottom of the guide for images of a completed bestiary.
Discovered your first bestiary card. Gotta get them all!
Discover 1 bestiary card.
You’re starting a rather nice collection there.
Discover 10 bestiary cards.
Beasts! Gobbos! D’orcs! Oh my!
Discover 25 bestiary cards.
I choose you and your little dog, too! You’ve collected 40 bestiary scrolls.
Discover 40 bestiary cards.
Who knew there were so many creatures? You’ve got them all! (hidden)
Discover all 45 bestiary cards.
These achievements are for getting the required number of achievements in a single city/playthrough.
You unlocked your first (and now your second) achievement.
Unlock 1 achievement.
You’ve achieved 10 achievements. What an achievement!
Unlock 10 achievements.
You’ve achieved 25 achievements. What an achievement!
Unlock 25 achievements.
You’ve achieved 50 achievements. What an achievement!
Unlock 50 achievements.
You’ve achieved 100 achievements. What an achievement!
Unlock 100 achievements.
Congratulations! You just earned an achievement for earning all the achievements. (hidden)
Unlock all the achievements possible to earn in a single city/playthrough, as shown in the achievements menu in game.
Negative
It’s okay that you lost. It’s not like the fate of the world rests on your shoulders.
Lose once.
This losing thing, it’s getting to be a habit!
Lose 5 times. (the in-game counter increases by 2)
If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all. (You lost again.)
Lose 13 times. (the in-game counter increases by 2)
How did you manage to lose to the Tutor? That’s impossible! (hidden)
Lose to the Tutor on the first level. This takes a while, you just have to resist the urge to kill him while he whittles down the health of your tower.
Calm down and take a deep breath! You made three bad moves in a row. (hidden)
Make 3 bad moves in a row.
Troops
Hire healers and high priests from your town hall, and use them in battle so they can periodically heal your tower. The tower does not have to be damaged for the healing to count. A single healer can keep healing through a whole level if you keep them alive, but if the tower takes too much damage they will die, and you’ll have to use another one, or do it again from the beginning of the level next time.
You’ve healed your tower.
Let your healer(s) heal your tower for 1000 health points.
Who knew towers needed so much healing?
Let your healer(s) heal your tower for 5000 health points.
If anyone needs a tower healed, they should come to you, the Master Healer.
Let your healer(s) heal your tower for 10,000 health points.
Hire troops from your town hall. Higher town hall level gives access to better troops.
You hired a healer from your people.
Hire a healer from your town hall.
You hired some healers to keep things healthy.
Hire 5 healers from your town hall.
Heals for everyone! You’ve hired a high priest.
Hire a high priest from your town hall.
Hired a druid from your citizens
Hire a druid from your town hall.
Holy fluffy bunnies – you got yourself a lot of druids.
Hire 5 druids from your town hall.
Back to nature! You hired an archdruid.
Hire an archdruid from your town hall.
You got yourself a stoner, man.
Hire a stoner from your town hall.
You hired a bunch of stoners, and the rocks rained down.
Hire 5 stone rollers from your town hall.
Whoaaaah. That’s a heaaaavy rock.
Hire a mega stoner from your town hall.
You hired an archer.
Hire an archer from your town hall.
You hired some archers, and they’re very into pin cushions.
Hire 5 archers from your town hall.
You hired not just any archer, but an elite archer!
Hire an elite archer from your town hall.
Hired a scout from your citizens.
Hire a scout from your town hall.
Hired a bunch of scouts from your citizens and sent them to the battlefield.
Hire 5 scouts from your town hall.
Hired a lead scout from your citizens, and watch him scurry around the field.
Hire a lead scout from your town hall.
Your scouts surely didn’t sign up for this! (hidden)
Have your scouts pick up 10 items from the battlefield.
Completed Bestiary
A completed Bestiary will look as follows:
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