YOU ARE GOD

[op89x]

Has there been a change to how this achievement works?

[op89x]

So the old guides say that you need to have one mountain survive for almost 1000 hours, but someone else on this board said that the developer announced a change to this achievement, making it so that it counts cumulative playtime over multiple mountains instead.

Can anyone point to where the developer said that, so verify how it currently works?

[Rapsh_eu]

I don't know how this achievement works. I'm almost 2000 hours into the game, I'm thinking about giving it up.

[RolandHTG]

I have 1300 hrs in now and still don't have the achievement

[op89x]

I wish the dev were still active here and could provide us with some insight.

[Saltyman]

You can check your progress with this guide : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701909333

(in the case that the dev did not update the ach)

[kocon_tu_byl]

It works. I've just got this achievement. Right after counter in save file had reached 987 hours. It works for multiple mountains (I can confirm they can die now). I wasn't doing any edit in file. The only thing I was doing was backup of save file, to not lose progress in case of error (I was smart after I lost save with around 100h of progress).

[Heimo]

1700+ hours and no achievement.

[Nick Coleman]

I assume the achievement doesn't pop up if you've had to uninstall and erase your data just to get mountain to load multiple times. 2500+ hours

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by kocon_tu_byl:

It works. I've just got this achievement. Right after counter in save file had reached 987 hours. It works for multiple mountains (I can confirm they can die now). I wasn't doing any edit in file. The only thing I was doing was backup of save file, to not lose progress in case of error (I was smart after I lost save with around 100h of progress).

Wdym? They die now if we leave the game idle while we're AFK??? If that's true, that renders this achievement impossible.

[Red Shift]

Originally posted by Ceceli Δ:

Wdym? They die now if we leave the game idle while we're AFK??? If that's true, that renders this achievement impossible.

Mountains have always been able to 'die' - the whole annihilation thing, yeh?

He's saying death USED to stop the time counter for the achievement - it could only be achieved if you kept a single mountain alive for the required length,
but that has since been changed so death doesn't restart it - it counts the time across multiple attempts.

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by Red Shift:

Originally posted by Ceceli Δ:

Wdym? They die now if we leave the game idle while we're AFK??? If that's true, that renders this achievement impossible.

Mountains have always been able to 'die' - the whole annihilation thing, yeh?

He's saying death USED to stop the time counter for the achievement - it could only be achieved if you kept a single mountain alive for the required length,
but that has since been changed so death doesn't restart it - it counts the time across multiple attempts.

Oh! So it's safe to get this achievement now. That's a relief. Thanks for clarifying that. I never really paid too much attention to this "game". I'm suddenly revisiting it now since I realized I now have a second monitor and it would be neat to have it on there while I study and do some other sht. Might as well go for the achievements... hehe

[Red Shift]

Some kind soul has created a program that manages to read the hidden timer - its available in the guides section, might help you keep track of it.
I found it incredibly useful as otherwise I never would have realised the counter stops when my monitor was turned off (which is how I had spent a LONG time with it idling).

Best of luck if you crack on with it.

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by Red Shift:

Some kind soul has created a program that manages to read the hidden timer - its available in the guides section, might help you keep track of it.
I found it incredibly useful as otherwise I never would have realised the counter stops when my monitor was turned off (which is how I had spent a LONG time with it idling).

Best of luck if you crack on with it.

Wow! Devs really went the extra mile to ruin this achievement for everybody, uh? Monitor off = no counter??? Who would have figured that out were it not for this little program? Jesus!!

[momoroxy]

I lost almost 380 hours of progress when my mountain was annihilated by following the advice that the counter goes across multiple mountains, so incredibly sad now