Did anyone get the Plague Doctor achievement?

[ElALEX]

well! is that I failed the mission and I do not understand why.
Was the cure ?
I supposed that the game warns if the cure was not well done, right?

[Scrogdog]

I haven't done that part yet but as far as alchemy goes, which I assume was used to create this cure you speak of, if you made a mistake then you would have failed in its creation in the first place.

There is also no difference in quality of potions. So either you make it or you don't. And if you do, it is always exactly the same as the one(s) before.

[Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉]

The cure is named after Merhojed, it is a new potion in your alchemy book.

Very easy to make too.

You have to tlak to half of the village and administrate the potion intake though.

[ElALEX]

Originally posted by Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉:

The cure is named after Merhojed, it is a new potion in your alchemy book.

Very easy to make too.

You have to tlak to half of the village and administrate the potion intake though.

I did it, I gave them the cure, but after a few days, all died.

[Bloody_looser]

If you fail to properly determine the cause of the sickness, you will get the recipe for a wrong cure, which is a spirits-based solution. Basically, it's impossible to heal everyone, if Henry is unable to read.

P.S. Also, make sure you complete objectives on talking to Mattias and 'investigate the plague' before going to the Monastery for help. Sometimes, it results in deaths of the villages even if the diagnosis and cure are the right ones.

[Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉]

Originally posted by ElALEX:

I did it, I gave them the cure, but after a few days, all died.

No worry, there is no lawsuit against quack from dead men.

[Razmir]

Originally posted by Bloody_looser:

Basically, it's impossible to heal everyone, if Henry is unable to read.

This is partially true. But it is indeed possible to heal everyone if Henry is unable to read.
I did it while trying to accomplish the "Trial and error" achievement (which forbids you to learn to read).
BUT you have to know (or look it up) the receipt for the cure. Since alchemy is doable without reading.

Putting the alchemy aside, the only trouble with no reading skill is that you cannot help to identify the illnes from Nicodemuses book. He has to identify by himself which takes him an awful long time (24 hours). At this point, I believed I could not save everyone in time, thus failing the Plaque Doctor achievement.
To my great surprise, I still saved everyone. So the achievement is a little forgiving.

I did all the other steps with the utmost precision and haste, I must say.
You have to listen up to all infected villagers to know the symptoms and you have to tell them correctly to brother Nicodemus. You have to correctly identify the illness (or let him identify it for you) and you have to make the cure.

Brother Nicodemus can make the cure for you also. But it would take him more of the precious time. I believe it would result in failing the goal, but I didn't try that, so I'm not sure.
Quality of the cure doesn't matter if it's the right one. (If it's not the right one, the game doesn't tell you that and you'll administer a placebo instead.)
Then you have to distribute the medicine to all infected people and wait several days to see if it worked.

Don't take breaks, don't sleep and ride your horse even at night. If anyone sleeps wake him.
Also the Pestilence quest is activated not by talking to anyone but by traveling through the Merhojed area. So you can accidentaly start people dying and not noticing it. Then everyone will die even if you do everything right. (been there)

There are several good guides for you to look up. But you'll manage.

[Kayzuki]

i got unlock all achievements few days ago. make sure you choose the right answer, water poisioning.

[Veltimere]

i have it and the problem is that the bandits poisoned the towns well so when you cure the whole town always cure that lady that the monk is hovering over she counts too and you wont fail it . Use the cure for poisoning ....

[Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉]

Originally posted by Veltimere:

i have it and the problem is that the bandits poisoned the towns well so when you cure the whole town always cure that lady that the monk is hovering over she counts too and you wont fail it . Use the cure for poisoning ....

Initially I thought it was antidote. But noooo....the dev had to put a special potion page there.

[Veltimere]

Originally posted by Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉:

Originally posted by Veltimere:

i have it and the problem is that the bandits poisoned the towns well so when you cure the whole town always cure that lady that the monk is hovering over she counts too and you wont fail it . Use the cure for poisoning ....

Initially I thought it was antidote. But noooo....the dev had to put a special potion page there.

Yeah its a quest so its got its own special cure ... the priest will make it for you if you tell him that its poisoning in the water and tell him you cant make it even if you have high alchemy he will still do it for you , then you just stuff it in everyones mouth hole and wait .

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by ElALEX:

I did it, I gave them the cure, but after a few days, all died.

this quest does get sort of buggy, but generally the failures after "i thought i did it right?" are related to not giving the antidote to everyone quickly enough

i think there are 4 (?) people you need to dose, and the one that sometimes doesn't work for me is where the old man is standing (or the woman ?)... ??

for some reason my interactions to deliver the potions was not completely registering with the game, so i had to retry a couple times before it worked out (i think there's an alert when all done maybe?)

note: i think you've gotta interact with the herbalist (and Johanka?), and their patients, for it not to fail

[Narvany]

To get this achievment You need also give the cure to sick bandit inside of the barn not only the villagers

[[SVN] Kevonovitch]

Funny enough, I got this achievement 2 days ago, despite Vincent never spawning in, and yes Henry can read. That was the fastest, and easiest, skill to cap out. I even failed both the investigation, and the delivery of the cure, according to the quest updates from the game. I went back and checked a guide after the quest was done. According to Melichar , and the steam achieve, I saved everyone. I still don't have Vincent in my world either.

[@Anime4Play]

Melichar said I saved everyone bu the achievement did not pop up