Gingerbred Fred

[HY417 / ar558]

LOL dude how is it possible you have played 6600 hours, know an answer to every issue someone else asks, but at the same time only got half of the achievements?

[Gingerbred Fred]

In three words or less: Fatal Error Crashes.

More words:
During Early Access.
Each crash required New Game.
Release 1.0 also required New Game to access its new content.
In each case: before I could complete all the game's Quests that earned said achievements.

One crash was so severe that it triggered Windows Repair into trying to restore corrupted components; in the end, it took 6 hours of Microsoft Corp downloading and installing Windows 11 Repair Version to fully reinstall Windows.

IOW, this device's OS took major damage playing Early Access. Never again with an essential computer.

I've since also learned how to manually back up bedtime-saved game plays at will, so that I can go back and replay any previously-played day, season, year or Game if a fatal error ever loses everything on me again.

Finally: I also played the game backwards without realising it.
Discovery: do all Quests First; THEN do Big Farming Finding Fishing Furnishing...

[HY417 / ar558]

Ah damn all those issues suck. So I am quite lucky I only started playing last year summer. I had crashes too though and learned fast to backup the save game often (also had that experience in other games before so nothing new to me). So far I had no crash ever since the last update they made, it seems good now.
Are you still trying to get the missing achievements or do you now only maintain a nice farm and house?

[Gingerbred Fred]

(a) trying to get the missing achievements — most, if not all, of those in the Witches' Exam via Crystal Ball, maybe a few more of the Steam Achievements too.

The Mansion is rather spartan this 6th time around — nothing much upstairs; workstations, Big Storage Racks and minimal decor downstairs. The farm is now fully set up for growing crops after the Tears of Ishu Quests and their related Quests are completed (Ishu is a Habaro—source: Urushu, so the Tears will definitely get re-sealed).

Meanwhile, Abrill is Chatting and servicing Commissions along with Loved or Liked GIfts to more quickly advance Islanders' Hearts Charts to trigger the last of the Tears of Ishu Quests along with a few other Quests not yet triggered — Horace & Danika, Yutu's Cat, etc.

[Gingerbred Fred]

Same here: WoFI is more stable now. Last crash was mid-November last year, followed last month by 1 Game Hang + 1 Hospital due to Terrain Traps + 1 Hang just yesterday due to a Terrain Trap that Abrill fell through right next to her Mansion's Backstairs—now posted here in Discussions (after witch I parked the game and rented/watched Wicked featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo).

[HY417 / ar558]

If you didnt complete the final Ishu quest yet, note that there 2 achievements for it, one to seal Ishu away and one to free him. So you should free him first and then reload the day and then seal him for both achievements. Reward is mostly the same.