Mad Max - 100% Achievement Guide

The achievement "Up to the Task" is NOT achieveable anymore!
It can only be unlocked by loading a savefile (for which there is a link provided in the guide).

Otherwise, no permanently missable achievements.

Extended Version

If you want a more thorough version of an 100% achievement guide for this game, you'll find it over at:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157776055

Story, Hidden & literally Unmissables

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Everything Lost Again Wasteland of Opportunities Digging a Deeper Hole	Complete Act 01 Complete Act 02 Complete Act 03
	Power in the Machine Downward Spiral Reawakening	Complete Act 04 Complete Act 05

There are 5 hidden achievements for Mad Max. All of which are story related achievements. There's not much to say here, just follow the green story markers on your map.

I, personally, would recommend clearing each territory before entering the next one, though.

Finishing the story will NOT trigger New Game+ (since there is no NG+), so you can do that whenever you feel like it and continue to gather the missing achievements afterwards.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Slight Distraction	Complete the Dinki-Di Wasteland Mission
	Stop and Smell the Roses	Complete all Wasteland Missions

Upon completing story missions, you'll unlock wasteland missions. Those, with blue markers instead of green ones. The game will show a message on your screen, whenever you unlock new wasteland missions and they are easily spotable from the map.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Just Walk Away On the Road to Nowhere	Travel 650 car lengths on foot Travel 1300 car lenths in a vehicle
	Golden Boy Road Warrior	Reach a new legend rank Reach Road Warrior legend rank

These achievements are absolutely impossible to miss. They will just happen, you can't really do anything to avoid it. So I just put them here.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Maximum	Fully upgrade Max

This one is not UNmissable, but basically done together with the "Road Warrior" achievement just above. All you've to do here is to buy Max' best clothes and all of his skills, once they are unlocked.

Miscellaneous

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Quench Their Thirst	Give water to a wanderer
	Wasteland Chef	Eat a meal of maggots

You'll learn early on in the game about the 2 methods of healing. Water and food. Both coming with related symbols above them in the world.

If you see some random NPCs walking through the dessert with the water symbol above them, you've encountered some wanderers. Walk towards them and press the interact button. If you've around a half filled water canteen, this achievement is yours. Problem is, they are entirely up to RNG. That being said, I found 5 of those, while going for all achievements.

If you should stumble across a corpse with a food symbol above him, you've found yourself some maggots. Lunch time. The earliest maggots I found where at the ventage outpost in "colossus" in Jeet's territory.

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Just Rewards Scrap Collector	Have 5,000 scrap in your inventory Have 10,000 scrap in your inventory
	Blockhead	Own the best V6 and V8 Engines

There are quite a few ways of obtaining scrap. I'll not tell you how you should gather up on it. I'll tell you, however, that you shouldn't buy any V8 engines until you've unlocked the 10,000 scrap achievement. To get to the best V8 from the one unlocked by the story, you'll need approx. 15,000 scrap. So just wait with this one. Aside from that, the 10,000 shouldn't pose a problem.

But if you really want some hints and tipps on how to gather up on scrap, look at this:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592702264

Car, Archangels & Deathruns

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Fresh Air	Drive the Magnum Opus off a Wasteland Jump
	Maximum Air	Be airborne in a vehicle for 4 seconds or more and land without dying

Fresh Air is basically part of the story. You'll need to do it, once you've unlocked the boost.
Maximum Air on the other hand is a tricky one. Personally, I followed this guide:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=515861136

Picture	Achievement	Description
	The Quick Driver The Smart Driver The Skilled Driver	Complete a Time Bomb Death Run Complete a Scatter Death Run Complete a Barrel Bash Death Run
	Running Wild	Complete at least 1 race at every Death Run Location

Deathruns. Winning one of those unlocks you 2 things - apart from achievements:
The vehicle you drove will be added to your vehicle collection.
And a stack of 3 infinitely respawning fuel cannisters appear at the deathrun's location.
Apart from winning 1 deathrun for the second benefit, I'd recommend leaving these for the late game. Just do them together with:

Picture	Achievement	Description
	The Saint	Complete a Death Run in an Archangel
	The Guardian	Successfully complete a Death Run with every Archangel
	The Messenger	Complete a Death Run in legendary time with every Archangel
	The Exiled	Defeat an enemy vehicle with every Archangel

So, what are Archangels. Archangels are just predetermined combinations of certain parts on your Magnum Opus. The story forces you to build one of them pretty early on, so I won't bother you with any further explanations.
Regarding the achievements: You can use the max level booster, with each Archangel. So make good use of it.

And you don't actually have to destroy an enemy vehicle with every Archangel. You just have to sit inside one of them. Which means you should destroy at least 1 enemy vehicle with your thunderpoon per deathrun.

If you're only missing the car body for a specific Archangel, then take a look at this:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=511969233

Strongholds

Jeet	Gutgash	Pink Eye	Achievements	Description
			Doing Jeet a Big Favor, Doing Gutgash a Big Favor, Doing Pink Eye a Big Favor	Build two projects in the Stronghold
			Jeet Thrives, Gutgash Thrives, Pink Eye Thrives	Reduce threat to 0 in the region around the Stronghold
			Start of Something Good, Keep Up the Good Work, Spreading the Word	Clear all threat in the territory

All of them:

Picture	Achievement	Description
	The Constructionist	Build all projects in all Strongholds --- Attention: This includes Deep Friah's territory!

Not much to say here, really. In order to build projects, you'll need to find specific project parts. You'll get those in camps and scrap locations. Big chests with a tools symbol above it.
You can see on your map, whether a camp/scrap location has a project part or not.

Reduce the threat to 0 by doing all of the stuff in the next section:

Wasteland, Camps & Threat

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Up, Up and Away	Fly the balloon at every Vantage Outpost
	Looked Everywhere	Loot all Scavenging Locations

Driving to all available ventage outposts in a territory is the very first thing you should do upon going into a new territory.

But there are 3 aspects, which the outpost won't show/reveal you:
Scrap locations, convoy routes and minefields.

For the convoy routes and minefields, refer to this guide:

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=513462342

The scrap locations can all be revealed by building the survey crew project for the respective territory. The parts for said project can be anywhere in a territory. To find them, watch the following videos by Joey Houlahan:

• Jeet's territory
  Gutgash's territory
  Pink Eye's territory

Picture	Achievement	Description
	No Brainer	Destroy all scarecrows
	Sniper Suppressor	Take out all Scrotus snipers
	Bomb Specialist	Clear all minefields
	A Thousand Words	Collect all History Relics
	Daddy Wants a New Grill	Collect all hood ornaments --- Take down all convoys
	Rust is the New Black	Collect all body colors --- Take down all Top Dog camps
	The Bigger they are…	Take down a Top Dog camp
	Razing Legend	Take down all Scrotus camps
	Explosions Are Not Enough	Complete all optional objectives in all camps

No explanation needed for these. Complete the open world objectives. If you don't know what those achievements want from you, just play the first 2h of the game and it will tell you everything you need to know.

Well, this is it. Clear the wasteland.
Scrotus destroyed your car, you'll destroy his empire. Eye for an eye. Simple as that.

Up to the Task

Picture	Achievement	Description
	Up to the Task	Complete all non-repeating challenges

This achievement can NOT be unlocked anymore. Two of the many, many "challenges" you had to complete for this one - "A Penny Saved" and "Divident", for which you needed to "Earn 500/2000 scrap from Scrap Crews" - required a server connection, but Mad Max's server were shut down on the 31. Oct. 2020.

Thanks to tragedy for bringing this to my awareness and thanks to Trondesson for confirming it.

Soo... if you want this achievement, there's two ways around this:

1) Download a save file.

You can either go for the link provided by Psychic in this steam discussion (click me),
or download this Up to the Task achievement (Save)[www.nexusmods.com] (account required).

2) Download a workaround mod.

Thanks to Xyra for pointing out the Scrap Crew Challenge Workaround[www.nexusmods.com] mod (account required) in the comments. This one will replace the afk server collecting requirement with collecting scrap by yourself.

I haven't tested either of these, so do this at your own risk. I will say though, that I've never had any negative experiences with Nexusmods. Just check whether or not Nexusmods' build-in virus scan still marks it as "Safe to use".

[Xyra]

Might also be worth changing the link that leads to the last history relic (since it doesn't work anymore). It's likely the one in Pink Eye's stronghold on the top floor (unless there are relics in other strongolds)

[Brachragon]

@Xyra - Thanks, done

[fadster]

@Seany Boyo You have a link to that mod on Nexus? I couldn't find it.

[Xyra]

This guide can be updated by including the 'Scrap Crew Challenge Workaround' mod on nexusmods that allows you to still complete Up To The Task

[Ryan Davanzo]

You can also use Cheat Engine for "Up to the Task", but that's the hard way lol

[Battleship3206]

good guide

[Seany Boyo]

A new development! Someone made a mod that reactivates the 2 challenges that required WBPlay so that they work while you play the game. It's on nexus mods, so this way you can do the achievement semi legitimately.

[esplixo]

sigma

[Alpha-methyl]

I understand the frustration of not being able to unlock something simply because the game no longer has a server to communicate with, but it seems crazy to me to NOT play a game this good simply because one achievement is not there, lol... this game rocks. It's almost like people view it as a chore if they don't get some reward.

I guess I always felt this game - and any good game - was the reward.

[Xyroxcz]

never created game or did any code, but how hard whould it be to just remove the required challenge with the Scrap Crew