Mission by mission Achievement guide

Dishonored 24 · 61 ratings3.6k views171 favorites9 min readby JakkusUpdated 8 Jun, 2024View on Steam ↗

Intro

I was inspired by another guide for Dishonored 1 I followed, so I tried to reproduce it for my use.

Credits:
Contents from the Dishonored wiki[dishonored.fandom.com]
The original guide idea I followed
The original guide author (give them an award, if you like)

Achievements unlockable at various points in the game

  • Occult Carver - Craft 10 Bonecharms
    Cumulative on different saves
  • Heartbeat Reaper - Eliminate 6 enemies in less than 1.5 seconds
    Corvo: use bend or stop time
    Emily: use domino
    Alternatively, knock out 6 enemies, stack them in one place and use grenades/oil tanks/springrazors
  • Fatal Redirect - Killed an enemy with their own bullet
    Needs Superior Deflection ability
    Alternatively, with bend time upgraded (stop time):
    Stop time
    Fire a bullet or bolt
    Move in front of the projectile you just shot
    Resume time
  • Circle of Life - Cast Possession once, chaining between human, hounds, rat, fish and Bloodfly
    See below which missions have all five entities
  • Ghostly - Finish an entire mission without being spotted
  • Alternative Approach - Finish an entire mission with no casualties
  • Black Market Burglar - Rob a black market shop
    ATTENTION: If you rob more than one shop, you will lock yourself out of Songs of Serkonos (the third encounter with the musicians will be switched with an ambush)
  • Well Funded - Find 60% of all available loot
    Easier with Dark Vision
    Ammo does not count
  • Heart Whispers - Using the Heart, listen to the secrets of 40 different people
    Cumulative on different saves
  • Rogue - Eliminate 20 unaware enemies
    Cumulative on different saves
  • Acrobat - Eliminate 10 enemies with drop assassination
    Cumulative on different saves
  • Sliding Marksman - Score a headshot while sliding

Achievements unlockable on a full game run

  • Shadow - Finish the game without being spotted
  • Flesh and Steel - Complete the game without supernatural powers
  • Clean Hands - Complete the game without killing anyone

Achievements unlockable on multiple game runs

  • The Lovers - Link 2 characters with Domino just before one kills the other
    Needs to be playing with Emily
  • The Royal Protector - Finish the game with Corvo Attano
  • The Empress - Finish the game with Emily Kaldwin
  • In Good Conscience - Complete the game in low chaos
  • Empire in Chaos - Complete the game in high chaos

Achievements, A Long Day in Dunwall

  • Imperial Seal - Recovered your signet ring
    Unmissable
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    Small boat carving (Imperial Safe Room)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Custis, Morgan and the Postulate Child (Imperial Safe Room)
    - The Obtuse Arguments of Lady Boyle (Doctor Galvani's apartment)
  • Freedom of Speech - Saved the printer of the Dunwall Courier
  • Familiarity Breeds Contempt - Rob Doctor Galvani multiple times
    First Part

Achievements, Edge of the World

  • Jewel of the South - Reached Karnaca
    Unmissable
  • Morbid Theft - Stole a corpse for Mindy Blanchard
  • Stay of Execution - Stopped the Grand Guard from pushing someone into the Wall of Light
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - Helmet of a member of the Grand Serkonan Guard (you just need to knock out one of the guards dressed in red, there are some at the Addermire carriage stotion)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - The Isometry of High Overseer Thaddeus Campbell (top floor apartment overlooking the Campo Seta Dockyards, when you dock with the skiff, the blue apartment building with the Delilah poster)
    - The Outsider in Conditional Dreams (inside Amadeo Monte's apartment)
    - The Vice Overseer's Predicate Logic (third floor of the Overseer outpost)
    - Hypatia's Projective Gaze (Dr. Hypatia's apartment)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Limited Resources (unmissable)
    - Sokolov's Notes – Bloodfly Study
    - Trying to fix secondary engine
    - Anton Sokolov's Investigation Notes
    - Anton Sokolov's Abduction
    - Dreadful Wale Accounting
  • Songs of Serkonos - Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
    Near Addermire station, Campo Seta Dockyards

Achievements, The Good Doctor

  • The Beast Within - Dealt with Dr. Alexandria Hypatia
    Unmissable
  • Fearless Fall - Dropped from Addermire's highest point and take out an enemy below
    Lethally or not
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - Syringe (inject Alexandria Hypatia with the antidote)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Duke Abele's Propositional State (Main lobby of the Addermire Institute)
    - Anton Sokolov in Subtractive Light (in the lost and found storage)
    - I Regard Her, Within and Without (in the Recuperation Room of the Addermire Institute)
  • Circle of Life (doable here, easiest in the Conservatory)
  • Counter-Serum - Chat with Dr. Hypatia aboard the Dreadful Wale

Achievements, The Clockwork Mansion

  • Place of Three Deaths - Kill Paolo three times
    In the black market shop in the Aventa Quarter (does not count against Clean Hands)
  • Labyrinthine Mind - Found Anton Sokolov in the Clockwork Mansion
    Unmissable
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - Head of a clockwork soldier
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Ramsey's Stochastic Eyes (Major Bonville's apartment in Lower Aventa)
    - The Spymaster's Axis of Asymmetry (third floor of Correy Brockburn's apartment in Lower Aventa)
    - Jindosh Considers An Odd Numerator (in the bloodfly-infested apartment in Upper Aventa)
    - The Blood Topology of Grim Alex (in Sokolov's cell in the Clockwork Mansion's Assessment Chamber)
    - Light Along the Inverse Curve (behind Jindosh's desk in his laboratory)
    - I Look Upon the Craftsman (in Jindosh's apartments)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Meagan Foster's Notebook (first entry)
  • Clockwork Collector - Obtain numbered plates for 3 Clockwork Soldiers
    Cumulative on different saves
  • Silence - Eliminate Jindosh without him ever knowing you were there

Achievements, The Royal Conservatory

  • Oracular Echoes - Listen to the voices of the sisters of the Oracular Order
    Activate the Oraculum three times
  • Circle of Life (doable here)
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - Whalebone Sword (in a display in the office of the curator)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Ashworth Within An Existential Graph (in the bloodfly-infested building across from the Royal Conservatory)
    - My Fires Burn within Breanna's Marrow (Breanna's office)
    - Her Heart, I Bathed in Poison (Conservatory's archives)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Trip to the Markets
    - Anton Sokolov's Diary - Started painting again
    - Meagan Foster's Notebook (second entry)

Achievements, Dust District

  • Place of Three Deaths - Kill Paolo three times
    In the district (does not count against Clean Hands)
    In the Crone’s Hand Saloon (counts against Clean Hands – save and reload)
  • Howlers 'til the End - Side with the Howlers in the Dust District
    Counts against Clean Hands – save and reload
  • Faithful to the Abbey - Side with the Overseers in the Dust District
    Counts against Clean Hands – save and reload
  • Eureka - Crack the Jindosh Lock without finding the solution elsewhere
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - A silvergraph of Meagan Foster's skiff – On a wall in the Modotti silvergraph studio
    - Corvo Attano's Blade Verbena trophy – Behind a crumbling brick wall in the ruins of Paloma Attano's apartment
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Indiscrete Time Finds Aramis Stilton (fourth floor of the Overseer Headquarters)
    - Paolo and the Inaccessible Cardinal (Paolo's chambers in the Crone's Hand Saloon)
    - Vera Moray and the Affix of Her Skin (Paolo's chambers in the Crone's Hand Saloon)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Note from Meagan to Sokolov
    - Anton Sokolov Diary - The Gears of Time
    - Searching for Aramis Stilton
    - Note from Sokolov
  • Songs of Serkonos - Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
    Central courtyard (before delivering Vice Overseer Byrne to the Howlers)

Achievements, A Crack in the Slab

  • A Night in 1849 - Visited the past
    Unmissable
  • Under the Table - Obtain Stilton's master key from under the table, with the guards there conscious & unalerted
  • Flooded Basement - Drain the water to recover a Rune
  • Dilapidation - Find the hidden balcony passageway
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - A calendar of 1849 (on the wall of the music room in Stilton Manor)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - The Commutative Rats and the Weeper (in a locked vault adjacent to the dining room of Stilton Manor, in the past)
    - The Torturer's Quaternionic Groan (in the room above the indoor pool in Stilton Manor, in the past)

Achievements, The Grand Palace

  • Spirit Thief - Took Delilah's soul
    Unmissable
  • Down with the Duke - Eliminated Duke Luca Abele
    Unmissable
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - A small wood carving of a gazelle (on a table in the locked vault at the Grand Palace)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    -Daud and the Parabola of Lost Seasons (in Claudio's bloodfly-infested apartment overlooking Ravina Boulevard, below the windmill)
    - Her Face is My Smile (Delilah's chambers)
    - My Name on Their Lips (Duke's office)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Decisions
    - Losing Deidre
  • Songs of Serkonos - Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
    In the Palace District
  • Circle of Life (doable here, easiest in the Conservatory)
  • Years Ago, Another Time - Heard Meagan Foster's story
    - Low chaos: after finishing the mission speak with Meagan
    - High chaos: steal Meagan’s key, read the journal in her cabin

Achievements, Death to the Empress

  • Familiarity Breeds Contempt - Rob Doctor Galvani multiple times
    Final part
  • Gazebo - Pay tribute to Jessamine one last time
  • The Greatest Gift - Saved your last known family member
    Save Corvo or Emily after dealing with Delilah
  • Souvenirs - Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
    - Mrs. Pilsen (a doll, by the bed in Dunwall Tower's Imperial Safe Room)
  • Art Collector - Acquire all collectible paintings
    - Luca, His Eyes On Me (in the Dunwall Tower front yard, near the waterlock)
  • Royal Spymaster - Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
    - Meagan Foster's Notebook (third entry)
    - Life on Sea

Outro

This guide is intended to be a checklist (mainly for me, as I replay the game).
I didn't go into the details of every achievements, and just added a small description where I thought it was needed.
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