100 %Achievement Guide

This Guide is aimed to let you you get all achievements in while True:learn().
There will be no solutions to the puzzles in this guide. It will link to other guides where necessary.
Currently noone knows how to get the Major Tom achievement. Feedback about it is welcome!

Introduction

Greetings to all humans unbeknown to me. I believe you want to understand your feline friends to the fullest, thus I have compiled this collection of wisdom I gained while my human persued the goal of fully understanding my humble gestures.


My human has since gone about other interests and hardly even talks to me anymore, except for those rare occasions when it wants cuddles or treats me with kittysnacks. But I am in need for propper conversation and an intellectual challenge, hence I present this wisdom to you, so that maybe someday I will meet a more suitable specimen to converse with than my current iteration of... h. sapiens.

Story playthrough and The Scrooge

The first thing to do is to follow the main storyline path without buying anything from C-Bay to unlock "The Scrooge". We don't need to get gold to get there. Getting gold can be done after buying the upgrades when we have unlocked "The Scrooge".
There will be some missing funds from not getting gold on first attempt, but this can easily be compensated with startups.

First .. Bit?

Complete the first level
Second node on the path, Expert Systems.
At this point I thought my human was going completely nuts.

The dawn of civilization

Pass the "Ancient" epoch
Eighth node on the path, after Illuminati Origins.
Didn't seem so crazy anymore. At least he knew I existed now. Duh!

Step by step

Pass the "First Steps" epoch
Twentysecond node on the path, after President Elections.
Cats don't smile. Try harder.

That's one small step for a man...

Pass the "First Success" epoch
Thirtysecond node on the path, after Fast Date Sorting.
What a party, everybody came to visit me.

Skynet, is that you?

Pass the "Neural Networks" epoch
Thirtyseventh node on the path, after Recommendation System.
I had to come up with something easy for this human's little mind to understand...

Cyber-Geek 2047

Pass the "Deep Neural Networks" epoch
Fourtysecond node on the path, after Video Games Reviews.
For the sake of savescumming, my human created a savegame here. No more kittysnacks, I thought.

Magna cûm laude

Finish all the tasks on main trunk
Fourtythird and final node on the path.
I had a dream.

The Scrooge

Are you a cheater?
If you haven't screwed up, this should unlock now.
If you screwed up, start a new game and choose RNN as your starting point. Don't buy upgrades, do the last few puzzles and unlock it.

Achievable during the story

These achievements can easily be unlocked while going through the story without excluding The Scrooge from getting unlocked at the end.

Press this one more time!

One more!
I'm not sure actually. My human kept poking at his computer screen and random stuff on his desk when this happened.

We need more gold!

Join the startup
My human invested in a pizza shack and then tried the same algorithm on me, that he used to check if pizzas were round. My geometry is more complicated than that.

README reader

Read all personal mail
This will become available before passing the "First Success" Epoch. Why did he even read those? Oh, free money... offcourse!

Error: Stack Overflow

Complete a task with unlocked trashcan without it
Several tasks require you to trash elements. Just let the last filter's buffer fill up instead of trashing the elements in a task with only a few elements to trash. *HINT* See next achievement.

RNG is my best friend now

Complete a task with not fully trained node
This one can be done very early with perceptrons. *HINT* These require a fresh puzzle and only work if you have not previously completed the puzzle during the same playthrough.

Got Money?

These achievements will most likely ruin your playthrough to get The Scrooge, so they are best to be gotten afterwards or seperately.
Some will need you to have progressed very far towards the end on the main storyline to unlock the purchase options on C-Bay.
You will most likely not have enough money to get all of these in one playthrough. I plan on making a startup guide to make this possible for you too.

More FPS for the FPS god!

Buy a PC upgrade
Always the cheapest they can get... these humans.

Evolution in progress...

Buy a node
Now that's an investment.

Beauty and harmony

Buy an interior
Can I play with it?

Cosplay

Buy clothes for a cat
Keep that thing away from me!

Evolution complete

Purchase all PC upgrades in one walkthrough
All the riches!

To see it all, to learn it all

Purchase all nodes at the shop in one walkthrough
Not that many, actually.

The hoarder

Purchase all interior items in one walkthrough
So much stuff, I keep throwing them over when patrolling the desk.

Cat-o-holic

Purchase all items for the kitty in one walkthrough
Yeah right. You get used to it after some time.

Elements will destroy you!

UPS is a cool thing
My human played each tambourine available until the gods of thunder got angry. Sometimes I wish he were really destroyed in the process.

Half a year at a low interest rate

Get a loan
Be really low on cash and totally screw up a task by having a very high running cost. My human once had to take a loan because he tried to to solve a simple decision with 100 balancers and a few decision trees.
Warning: Should you try this, make a manual savegame first, as the loan might mess up your autosave.

Upgrades maybe?

These Achievements are for the harder puzzles. They are easiest to be solved when all upgrades and nodes have been bought.

Overmind

Better than developer
Have a very good solution to a puzzle. My human said this was his masterpiece. I think he's lying. Proof is needed.






Today another one of those big-brain humans came along. "I obtained Overmind when using fewer nodes than the maximum allowed for a gold medal", it said. It said it's name was Aaron. I cuddled and purred as hard as I could, it wouldn't take me with it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1890626890

Data scientist

Complete all tasks with real RL
There are five Tasks named RL-0 to RL-4 that have to be completed for this. Yes, cat's need fast transportation too. Not just carrying around.

Ping

Pong
It's a secret. Psst, cats can recieve distress signals from outer space. Apparently they used cat brains as prototypes for extraterrestrial surface survey rovers asking if Major Tom could hear them.
Thanks to Fierkun: Complete the Major Tom task in gold within 8 minutes, when playing the level for the first time on a "fresh playthrough" (RNN start is recommended)

Gold rush

Complete all tasks with a Gold rating
I recommend this pictured guide.
Some humans prefer the video, I don't know why.

Deal with it!

Complete all tasks in the game
My human got this after completing everything else in gold and watched the gold version of the final comic. He said it was unfair as others got it for less work. I guess my human just isn't that smart.

Gameplay independent

Speak friend and enter

Receive a promotional kitty
Enter a promotional code in the pause menu (hit escape).
You don't have a code? Check out this discussion and choose to your liking.

Horrible nightmare

Where the hell is that 'any key'?
Halloween Achievement. Play when your computer thinks it's time for helloween.
My human's computer was already hyped for helloween on the 4th of October, even though it's at the end of the month. Computers are so similar to their humans.

Ho Ho Ho!

Catty Holidays! Happy Catidays!
Xmas Achievement. Play when your computer thinks it's 24th of December.
Unconfirmed: Other days towards the end of the year might also work.

Both Ho Ho Ho and Horrible nightmare can be unlocked by setting the date of your computer to the respective holiday.

Outroduction

Well my friend, I see you are also just one of those who want cuddles and feed me unhealthy kittysnacks. I am so dissap....
Wait, is that a red dot on the floor?
If the guide has been helpful to you, you might want to give it a like ;-).

[Azranite]

what is the "RNN start"?
When you start a new game, you get some milestones to choose where to start from. RNN is one of them.

[Tri]

what is the "RNN start"?

[Double Dark]

If you're going for 100% achievements then I recommend focusing on Cat-o-Holic. Make sure to use the manual save feature. Scrooge was easy by comparison and only took me 1 hour from a fresh game. Cat-o-Holic is probably going to take 3 hours and requires replaying 50% of the game with startups. It's enough that I'm considering using Cheat Engine or manual editing the save file...

[Thalion]

You are correct @Fierkun thank you very much!

[Fierkun]

Iranite should update the guide soon. This is how I did ping:

After my initial run failed, I started a new run with the RNN start. Finished the game, then went back and did Major Tom in under 8 minutes.

I believe you just need to do it in under 8 minutes the first time you try on a run. Easy to retry quickly with the RNN start.

[Thalion]

Nope, no luck yet on my side with major Tom.

[Hermann]

Any progress regarding "Ping"? I fooled around with naming the solution ping/pong, waiting for 8 minutes prior and after solving Major Tom. Nothing worked so far.

[Thalion]

Major Tom message also starts with "Ping". However I spent a while in there and had no luck so far. I'll try to rework the Meterorite alarm, as you suggested.

[Azranite]

I can only guess it's for completing either the Major Tom? or Meteorite alarm Tasks.

[Azranite]

Regarding the ping achievement, the game's developer gave this hint:
There's a task in the last part of the game where you can ping something with an 8 min response time. I'll look into it again since this is the last unclear one. (I hope )