Evil Cannibals Unlocked!

[Dark_Turn]

Alright, so for all of you guys who've been struggling with the evil cannibals achievement, here's how to unlock it.

The achievement has nothing to do with the amount of 'people' you've eaten, nor does it have anything to do with the pig farmer questline. It's all about 2 things.

1 - When you meet with the pig farmers and they ask you for one of your civilians, give them somebody.

2 - Immedietely afterwards, buy food from the pig farmers.

This is what registers as progress for the achievement. Buy enough food after you sacrifice civilians, and the achievement will unlock. It can get a bit pricy, so it's probably a good idea to buy some stock from Gustav.

[megamelfina]

Thank you so much for posting this! It worked like a charm for me.

[Matschel]

Didn't work for me :/

[Spartan]

Worked for me !

gave them a survivor and then bought them food twice (with low food stocks)

Thank you so much

[IL PALLINO]

This didn't work for me. I'm still grinding it out just in case this method does eventually work.

It might be possible that my alliance with another faction is preventing this from unlocking, but I also have the fast aging mod active in my game.

Do any of you have any mods in your game?

[IL PALLINO]

Day 718 in Chilliwack, and still no luck. I've sent plenty of people to the Pig Farmers and bought tons of food thereafter and all the while running a controlled deficit of food. (At least the Handle With Care event spawned!)

To add to my question of mods in a game, does anyone remember any of the ongoing circumstances at all when they got this achievement? Such as:

-City in which the player earned this achievement.
-Alliances with other factions.
-Person sent to visit with the Pig Farmers. (Was it the main character or somebody else?)

[IL PALLINO]

I removed all my mods and replayed Chilliwack. I'm up to day 366, and I still haven't been credited with this achievement.

[Gatebase]

Any luck yet? I'm in the same position, only trying to trigger it on the map Trail (city 5) where the Pig Farmers are the only other faction. So far I've done two runs, both without any mods.

Both runs: Put capital cannibal punishment into the constitution. Cozy up to the pigfarmers, but never ally them.

Run 1: Loaded an old save on the map. Sent them a survivor via quest. A while later I got the BBQ event. These two should have been enough under the guide I was working with. At this point I started endlessly grinding. I had sacrificed 8-10 people, had the BBQ event twice and bought more than thousand units of food (usually their whole stock, often the day after sacrificing someone, almost always when I had a full stockpile as well though) when I finally gave up after two hours of grind.

Run 2: Loaded an old save from the end of city 4 and generated a new city 5. Randomly got the BBQ event before I even managed to the sacrifice quest. Nothing. Finally they asked for someone and I handed them over. I unlocked a farming tech the same day, so I had room for food. Then I immediately went and bought 60 units of food (not their whole stockpile, in case it mattered). Nothing again. By that point I had never closed the game or loaded, so it's not just a bug in tracking progress either.

Is it completely random? I'm honestly out of ideas and hesitant to sink another two hours into a pointless grind. Having read dozens of forum threads and guides, I honestly don't think anyone actually knows what triggers the achievement. I randomly got the 10k zombies achievement during run 2, so loading an old save file doesn't seem to bar you from doing achievements.

[Gatebase]

Alright, I guess I have to give an update now. Running out of options I went back to run 2. Loaded the old save and continued. Talked to the Pig Farmers and gave them explosives. Traded with them again and bought 48 of their 49 units of food even though I had a full pantry myself. And out of the blue the achievement popped!

So I can say now with confidence:

• Saving and loading doesn't matter.
  
• You can do it on Trail (city 5)
  
• The main trigger is definitely buying food.

What has to happen before is still unclear. In my successful run I had the BBQ event randomly. Then I got the quest to hand over one of my guys which I did. Immediately afterwards I bought 60 units of food. The next cycle I did a different quest and bought 48 units of food. Then the achievement triggered.

Suspected contridbuting factors:

• Maybe it can only happen after the first time you hand over a survivor? So if you never buy food and just do quest after quest, maybe it bars you from getting the achievement? In my first attempt I didn't buy any food after the first survivor, but many times afterwards. Looking at the various guides and comments - there seem to be many people claiming to have unsuccessfully tried for hundreds of days and many people who say it worked the first time (usually after buying food for the second time). Maybe that's not a coincidence and it has to happen after the first murder? If the achievement doesn't pop after a while, you should probably restart the level instead of trying on for hours. It's probably best to generate a new city instead of reloading the same layout (at leas tthat worked for me).
  
• Maybe you need to have "Never trust a Pig Farmer" on your profile? Inbetween pausing run 2 and getting the achievement I did the Pig Farmer questline in Nelson (city 6). Maybe you have to officially reveal the source of the meat first?
  
• Maybe you cannot do it while on turn-based mode? I usually play turn-based exclusively, but for the achievement I switched to real-time. It might be complete supersticion but I figured maybe the game wanted me to buy food in a short time-window after handing over a survivor and playing just day by day meant always missing the window?
  
• For the first purchase I didn't have a full food stockpile, but for the second one (where the achievement happened) I did. I strongly suspect it doesn't matter and is just a myth.

[revenleigh]

I have almost 2000 hours into this game (yes i have a problem) and i finally got this achievement a couple days ago. I was in Abbotsford, and I have it set to click to next day. I gave up a survivor to the pig farmers -- i also had an available trade opportunity with them -- so after i gave my guy up, I traded for every scrap of food they had. Then the next time they offered a trade I took everything they had again and the achievement popped.

Again, I have a looooot of time into this game overall and this is the only playthrough, ever, where I've been able to choose the option to lie about eating people while recruiting. Any other time it's always said truth--we've never eaten people. So that's how I figured I may have finally become a filthy cannibal.

HOWEVER---before i went to abbotsford, I did a 1400 turn run in chilliwack, by far my longest ever, bc I'm still trying to get the many of us achievement and I had 85 people. I also got the option to lie to people about being a cannibal in this playthrough, but the achievement didn't pop. Neither did the many of us achievement even though I had 105 people.

What I learned from this---DO NOT PLAY IN OFFLINE MODE, YOU WILL NOT GET THE ACHIEVEMENT. even loading an earlier save and switching to online won't help--i had to go to a whole new map. and I also don't know if all that eating in chilliwack carried over at all to the next town

[Ɲíght₷hádow]

Alright, I've just done the achievement. Took me quiet a while, because description was incomplete. So here is how to get it done :

0. ("Challenging" difficulty) // haven't tried other difficulties
1. Story mode -> city Trail. There are only Pig Farmers and very small city.
2. As soon as you get capitol up, destroy all your farms or rebuild them into smth else.
3. When food stock gets to zero, start farming the achievement just by talking with Pig Farmers. Got it on my first try - they gonna ask if you could send someone to work for them (not return the certain man iteration).
4. Then and only then buy food from them. If it doesn't work - delete the file , redo everything till this moment and give it a few seconds before buying food.
5. Enjoy

Hope that was helpful. Good luck!

[Valdacil]

Finally got it:
1. Quick Play - Epic size map; all 11 factions
2. Eliminated Chosen Ones, Rotten, and the biker gang (shouldn't matter)
3. Ally everyone else except Pig Farmers
4. Found Pig Farmers early and sent Leader every time available to both talk and trade
5. Bought food whenever possible
6. Didn't get the sacrifice person until like Day 200 or something (frustrating)
7. Got that even like twice
8. Always bought food right after sacrifice (actually after every Talk regardless of sacrifice)
9. Around Day 350 finally got Backyard BBQ event; still no Achievement
10. By this point map was stable, so just put it on the fastest speed and talked+traded every time available. I also put rations at Double and destroyed some farms to get to a sustainable deficit so I could always buy food.
11. Around Day 650, finally got the sacrifice event again, still no achievement
12. Finally Day 714 got sacrifice event two more times, achievement popped after sacrifice (before trading for the food)

Some thoughts:
- I noticed that the sacrifice event always showed the Leader I sent and a random person. But if I sent someone with the Leader, it seemed to always show that person as the one to sacrifice. So if you want to make sure who to sacrifice always send them with the Leader on the diplomatic mission.
- Since the achievement popped after the sacrifice, not after buying food, I'm not convinced buying food necessarily helps. Unless it was just lucky timing that the eating of the food I'd bought previous finally ticked over some hidden counter that triggered the achievement.
- Because it took longer (more events, buying over 1000 food from them over 714 days) than others reported, I wonder whether there is some correlation between how many people you have. Kinda like the 50% Cultist achievement, which you can easily count. Maybe there is a hidden counter for how many of your people have eaten human meat. Those that report completing it sooner or with fewer sacrifice events maybe had fewer people overall therefore got to the hidden percentage sooner? By the time I ended I had 132 people so maybe that's why it took so long to trigger?

[notthisagain]

Originally posted by Ɲíght₷hádow:

Alright, I've just done the achievement. Took me quiet a while, because description was incomplete. So here is how to get it done :

0. ("Challenging" difficulty) // haven't tried other difficulties
1. Story mode -> city Trail. There are only Pig Farmers and very small city.
2. As soon as you get capitol up, destroy all your farms or rebuild them into smth else.
3. When food stock gets to zero, start farming the achievement just by talking with Pig Farmers. Got it on my first try - they gonna ask if you could send someone to work for them (not return the certain man iteration).
4. Then and only then buy food from them. If it doesn't work - delete the file , redo everything till this moment and give it a few seconds before buying food.
5. Enjoy

Hope that was helpful. Good luck!

Underrated post. Got this achievement first try using this method!