100% Achievement Guide Desolate

This guide will help you understand what you have to do in order to get the 100% for the game. Many achievements are just related to story or progression so they can't be missed but others will require of a certain event or action to happen or be done, for those there will be a more elaborated explanation and even pictures if its consider necessary or helpful.

For any question or suggestion you can post it on the comments and it will be appreciated and considered if added to the guide. Thank you in advance for reading and hope this guide eases your way into completing this game.

Introduction

In this guide there will no be a further explanation for collectibles nor guide to its location as there is already one really good guide for that. Check this one, it has all the info you need, including a map with icons for each collectible.

As a piece of advice, I suggest you take notes of the coins you collect in a separate map with windows paint or something, unlike posters and relics, coins have no way to in-game keep track of which ones you get besides the number of coins you collected, as it shows in the Jar next to the inventory crate.

Progression < Storyline & Leveling >

From the Very Beginning
Complete the prologue


The prologue can be selected from the main menu.

Home Sweet Home
Complete the Oasis quest


Reach Oasis and talk to the Trader to complete the quest

Why Did I Sign Up for This
Complete the first chapter


The last main quest for the first chapter is called “Madness”, after you come back to Oasis to return the quest, the achievement will pop up. This means a 34% completion of the storyline.

Underground Life
Complete the Podzemka quest


On this quest Eleanora will send you to a location where you need to go down some tunnels but before that you’ll need a tool called the Mobscarer, this is when you meet the Engineer.

The Truth Will Out
Complete the second chapter


The last main quest for the second chapter is called “Let the world know the truth…”, this comes right after you investigate some kind of underground New Light base. The storyline completion would be 67% at this point.

Who Am I?
Complete the third chapter


The last quest for the third, and last, chapter, is called “Decapitate the Snake” 400 will ask you to go to the Oplot Stronghold, section G2.

It’s All Ahead of You
Reach level 5


Perfection Knows No Bounds
Reach level 40


Level 40, it’s the max level. While doing sidequests for the biologist, engineer, etc… for their own achievement you will, most likely, reach this level way earlier.

Progression < Sidequests >

Running Errands
Complete a random quest


Complete a daily quest from any of the npcs you meet throughout the story, perhaps any secondary quests count as well.

< Biologist >

Student
Reach the rank of 2 with the biologist


Just do missions for the biologist, there are side quests and daily quests you can do.

Biology Is My Friend
Reach the rank of 5 with the biologist


Novice Hunter
Complete the first Hunt quest


Hunt quests are given to you by the biologist at the point when you can find him on Oasis

Granichny Animal Control
Complete the all the Hunt quests


The last hunting quest is to hunt the Grutch Alpha.

Beast's Lair
Complete the Missing Corpses side quest


This is a side quest from the Biologist. It will ask you to kill the Butcher. This enemy is quite easy to kill, you don’t need your best equipment because you will not fight the Butcher, instead you will run around the room he is in and activate the traps that are in the corners of it. Get the timing right and when he teleports to the middle just hit the bodies that he has trapped and he will be on his feet again. From here just repeat the process until he’s done.

< Quartermaster >

Volunteer
Reach the rank of 10 with the locals


Just do missions for the quartermaster, you can find him next to the trader at Oasis.

Our Man
Reach the rank of 60 with the locals


By doing the liberation quests along with the supplies you will get this achievement with the previous one or short after. Keep in mind that by liberating locations you “unlock” a checkpoint for your reputation with the locals, this means that you won’t be able to reach higher ranks if you only do the supplies quests, by the time you do Chernovsk you will be able to reach rank 60.

The Fight Begins
Help the locals liberate their first location


A quest chain given by the Quartermaster at Oasis First location is Yuzhny Bereg Theater

Recovering What’s Lost
Help the locals liberate all the locations


There are 7 locations to recover the last one is to recover Chernovsk

< Trader >

Novice Gumshoe
Complete the Mysterious Murders side quest


The maniac’s quest is given by the Trader The last maniac’s location is the Krasnaya Zarya Quarry, tunnel 18.

Granichny’s Occultism
Complete the Church side quest


This quest is given by the Trader in Oasis. This will lead you to the church in sector H6.

< Engineer >

Assistant
Reach the rank of 2 with the engineer


Just do missions for the engineer, you can find him at Lugovniki Village (Section E5).

Companion
Reach the rank of 5 with the engineer


X-perimental Technology
Complete the New Technology side quest


This quest is given by the Engineer and will unlock the x-workbench, which you can find in the same building where he is but at the back of it. This will allow you to craft more advanced gear.

< Scientist >

Aide to Science
Reach the rank of 2 with the scientist


Just do missions for the Scientist You will meet him very late in the storyline and can be found on Severnaya camp at D2 next to Grachovsk

Scientific Colleague
Reach the rank of 5 with the scientist


Mother of Ruptures
Compete the Mercy quest


Mercy is a quest given by the Scientist on the last part of this quest you will be sent to a bunker where you meet Alice, someone trapped inside an anomaly. This is where you learn how to make Traps, which allows you to unlock the Fishing for Artifacts achievement.

Painful Blindness
Complete the Painful Blindness side quest


After you meet the barely Blindman in one of the quests from the storyline, you will be asked to investigate that creature. This enemy can be also be defeated without laying a single finger on it but it takes a bit longer and some practice. There are no traps in the location where the Blindman is, only spikes on some walls. It has various attacks and one of them is charge towards you until it hits either you or something else, this is why you need to stay infront of the spikes. If you have a good weapon you can also hit him a few times after he get stunned by running into a wall to get some small extra damage. At one point your range of vision will be greatly reduced to the point of not being able to see anything beyond 2 meters / 6 feet, so this is when your sense of orientation kicks in to remember where were the spikes.

Killing

Neutral creatures will run away as you as you've been spotted, flashlight does not reveal you, only walking in front of them or making noise close to them do reveal you.

Aggresive creatures will attack you as you've been spotted, flashlight still does not reveal you.

Cute Dog
Kill a Dorg



Aggresive creature. They look like a normal dog, sometimes they have some antennas with lights around their head. Very simple creature with normal attacks and can be instantly killed from behind.




Miss Granichny 2019
Kill a Churaka



Neutral creature. This creature doesn't have any lights on it or glowing parts of its body and looks like a skinny pig.






Quack Quack
Kill a Quacker



Neutral creature. The top of its head glows and it looks like a small gorilla with a fish face.







Young Naturalist
Kill a Gorlan



Neutral creature. The most recognizable part of this creature is the glowing finn on its back and looks like a moose without the horns.






Kitten to Tiger
Kill a Sapsy



Aggresive creature. They look like a different version of the Dorg but with less hair and a thin mohawk. This creature has a shield and can also heal when they get to low hp.





Fall of Goliath
Kill a Grutch



Aggresive creature. These look like bears and they're dangerous. A lot of health, area attacks, ram attacks and can stun you when they stand up while healing a bit too, so take your best weapon and something to heal up. Once you learn it's attacks and timings, it will be easy to kill them without taking almost any damage


Creature from the Deep
Kill a Wanogah



Aggresive creature. Looks like a naked old messed up woman. They are usually found inside a building on the ground eating some stuff from it or sat down crying so it’s easy to get behind her. The air is toxic around her and she spits every once in a while, they also have an area attack so keep your distance.


The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Kill a Hunter



Aggresive creature. Looks like a tall messed up humanoid with an alien mouth. They wander around in an almost invisible form, it looks more like smoke. They have shield and can become invisible again throughout the fight and tries to get behind you so watch your back and keep moving to make it harder for them.


Easy-Squeezy
Kill a Marauder


Marauders are Dodgers or Thugs, not New Light Soldiers.

Law and Order
Kill an NL employee


There are camps where NL (New Light) employees are, they usually wear an uniform so they're distinguishable from marauders, some of them even wield a gun. Killing any of them works. It is mentioned that Chieftans also count towards the achievement, so killing any of those in the prologue is supposed to work as well.

This Is Madness
Kill 10 Madmen


Madmen are somewhat easy to kill once you get a decent weapon. First hit from the back while stealth and then keep hitting them until they’re either dead or out of the stun. If they’re still alive block his hit and attack right away.

Whenever you unlock the Killer Skill they can get one-shot from behind with any weapon.



Big Boom
Kill an enemy with a grenade


Grenades deal good damage but it might not instantly kill some of the stronger enemies, to make sure you get the kill with a grenade just hit the enemy with a different weapon until its hp goes low.

Ninja
Kill an enemy with a kunai


Kunais do not deal much damage so if you don’t want to spend too much materials on them just craft a few and follow the same strategy as for the previous achievement.

Careful Preparation
Get level 3 Research on one of the creatures



You get research points for enemies by killing them or finding samples from each enemy but the neutral ones, those have no research level.


Visit with a Sadist
Kill the Butcher 5 times


See Beast's Lair achievement for tips for this enemy

Guide
Kill the Blindman 5 times


See Painful Blindness achievement for tips for this enemy

Miscellaneous < Anomalies & Artifacts >

Arts & Crafts
Craft your first item


Can be any item.

Decorator
Change the carpet, sofa, and walls of your room.


You can buy different designs for your room in the trader, they cost parts (money).

2k19 volt
Experience the electrical anomaly for yourself



This is what an electrical anomaly looks like, very distinguishable. As you get close to one of these you will hear sparkling sound.






Heartless Gravity
Experience the gravitational anomaly for yourself



You will notice this anomaly when you see some small rocks floating around inside a distortied kind of field. It has some cracking sound when you get close to it.





Hot
Experience the infernal anomaly for yourself



This anomaly is very easy to notice as you see in the picture, the ground looks volcanic and you get damage from heat when you walk through the anomalies.





Through Space and Time
Enter the black hole


Around the map you will find some these things. They’re not that black but they still teleport you around the map, just go walk into one of those. There are 2 different black holes.










Abnormal Physics
Experience the all the anomalies for yourself


All the abnormal physics are: electrical, gravitational and infernal anomalies and black holes. Check the previous achievements for visual references.

What Is This New Devilry?
Witness an anomalous vision.


There are various anomalous vision that you will experience during your playthrough like a phone booth ringing by its own or the alarm of a car going off when you get close.

No Place for Children
Meet Lily


Meeting Lily is an event that will eventually happen as you walk around the world. She appears in front of you for a few seconds just like an old jumpscare.

Pneumatic Technology
Use a Pneumolift


The closest one is located in section D7, on the left of the Weather Station Prigorskaya. If you don’t see it on the map, you might have a question mark instead and so you have to discover it by going there. This one is not fixed yet so you need to inspect it and it will tell you what materials you need, it’s different every time.

Fishing for Artifacts
Get your first artifact from an anomaly


Throw a Trap, see Mother of Ruptures achievement for more info, at one of the orbs that wanders around the anomalies, these orbs won’t appear and disappear, but not around all anomalies you can find the orbs. They're usually in large fields of anomalies.

Athlete ♥♥♥ Fisher
Get 10 artifacts from an anomaly


Repeat the process for the previous achievement for 10 times. Traps don't disappear after throwing them unless you catch an anomaly, this means you can pick it up again if you miss the orb. Its better to craft more than 10, because you're probably going to miss a few and loose the trap in the foliage.

Pocket Teleportation
Use the Teleporter artifact


Equip the artifact and use it, you will get teleported to a complete random spot on the map. This artifact is lootable from the Blindman

Miscellaneous < Repair & Various >

Need a Repairman?
Fix any workbench in the game


If you're going straight for the objectives the first workbench you will find is at Oasis, there are 3 and these might be the first one you want to fix because they're located at your safehouse.

Personal Workshop
Repair and upgrade all the workbenches in your room


There are 3 workbenches you'll need to fix and upgrade (only 1 upgrade though), each requires of different materials so it will just take some time to get everything.

Repair Artist
Fix all the workbenches outside your room


There are 10 workbenches outside the camps. Inside camps there are only 3 Although there is another camp similar to Oasis in section D2, Severnaya, the workbenches there are the same so fixing them all in Oasis means that the other 3 workbenches in the Severnaya camp will be also fixed.

Lift Operator
Restore all the pneumolift lines to working order


Repair all pneumolift lines, only requires to repair 1 pneumolift per line and each line has 2 pneumolifts, there are 3 lanes in total.

Molecular Teleportation
Repair all the monoliths in the game


There are 5 monoliths outside Oasis, they have the diamond-ish shaped icon on the map.

Geolocation
Repair all the retranslators in the game


There are 4 retranslators, they have the antenna icon on the map.

Safe Cracker
Open a lvl. 2 or higher locked container


In order to do this you will have to unlock the Skill: Nimble Fingers

Each level you gain allows you to choose from 3 different skills and everytime you will be given a random set of skills to choose from.




Survivor
Survive 10 hours of real time without dying.


You can just stay at a safe place with lots of food and water if you want to do it the easy way.

Ideal Equipment
Equip armor, backpack, and weapon purple quality or higher


Weapons: Epic weapons are quite easy to find.
Armor: Epic armors are not likely to spawn around the world for you to equip right away but you do find some blueprints for them, playing with a common armor is perfectly fine until you can make XZ4 Fiber, which is quite advanced and its required for some Epic armors.
Backpack: This is one of the last piece of epic equipment you will find, for the epic backpack you will need to beat a boss that drops a certain item required for the backpack. See Beast’s Lair achievement for tips on how to beat it.

Gourmet
Eat 30 different crafted dishes


There are more than 30 blueprints for food, throughout your playthrough you will find enough for the achievement. The traders also sell some blueprints. I had some problems with this achievement and had to cook again some of the recipes a few times so if this is your case as well, just keep track of all the recipes you cook on a separate note so you can confirm that you found enough and keep cooking them and at some point you'll get it. I thought I was just being retarded by missing the same recipe everytime but it is kinda buggy so keep that in mind.

Mixologist
Drink 9 different crafted drinks


Drinks blueprints took me a bit longer to get than food blueprints, these blueprints are more rare but still there are probably a few more than what you’re required for this achievement. As someone posted on a discussion when having some problems finding 9 recipes, another guy answered with the list of drinks you can find and how you can find them:

Originally posted by Landrezon:

1 - Herbal tea - Lighthouse (F8), in the upper room.
2 - Cocktail "Screw" - Garages (B4), a sheet under the box on the rack. a small storage unit with a lot of clutter.
3 - Apple Shake - Oasis (C6), sold to a merchant.
4 - Soothing drink - Oasis (C6), sold by the merchant.
5 - Mojito - Oasis (C6), sold by the merchant.
6 - Cocktail "Bloody Igor" - Engineer, 5 rank.
7 - Fruit Tea - Ecologist, 5 rank.
8 - Mulled Wine - Scientist, 5 rank.
9 - Grape Morning Cocktail - Farm (E3), northeast corner house, on the top shelf, keep in mind its a blueprint so you might want to look for a paper.

Junkyard
Sell stuff to item traders for more than 20,000 parts


You will probably get this achievement before you complete the storyline, but if you want to boost it then just sell all the weapons you don’t use, there are plenty of weapons so you won’t run out of them at any point in the game. Sticking to 2 or 3 of your favourite weapons is enough.

For these next 3 achievements related to the collectibles check the Introduction section for a link to a collectibles guide.

Pack-Rat
Collect all the tokens of Granichny


Poster Collector
Collect all the posters of Granichny


What Kind of Weird Stuff...
Collect all the relics of Granichny

That's all, Folks!

Congratulations! If you got this achievement that means you're done with this game.

That’s All, Folks
Earn all the achievements in DESOLATE


At this point you're the master survivalist of Granichny, even though it might not be even real, you made an statement. An statement against the New Light Order, against authority brutality and censorship, let the whole island know who's in charge now, no one can stop you, no one can face your strength. Eleanora would be proud. A round for all the locals in Granichny is on the house!


Thank you for reading, I hope this guide helped you enough and all the feedback will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to leave any questions about any achievement for a more elaborate explanation or clarification.

[Nate]

Zydhar I'm sure you've figured this out by now, but those aren't actually raiders. Just leave the area for a bit and the quest should either update, or go back and the raiders should have respawned and you can get up to the 4 kills you need.

[Zydhar]

hey there
dunno if anyone still lingers here but i have troubles liberating one of the locations. I think it's the next after the farm, where there are 4 Raiders to be killed bu t some hide in a shed proteced by a keycard lock and i can't seem to find said keycard. I would really apreciate your help.

[Cooconuts]

Nope afaik

[krz]

Any missable achievements?

[Cooconuts]

Hi Kinder, as OCK mentioned yeah you can kill the bosses as many times as you want on the same playthrough. And I'm sorry OCK but I don't have any save file, it took me some time to get it too because some recipes weren't working for some reason and I had to cook many more than one or two times, so I guess keep trying until it pops up, unless someone found something that could help people in your situation

[K]

u can kill the boss again with same save file and it still count just like catching 10 artifacts.

btw do u still have save before u get gourmet?

[Kinder]

Hi,

Great guide. I have a question about 2 archivements:

Visit with a Sadist - Kill the Butcher 5 times
Guide - Kill the Blindman 5 times

I need to kill 5 times in 5 diferentes new games?

Or i can save the game before kill this bosees and load the game 4 times more?

Thanks

[K]

i cant figure out gourmet achievemen haha

[Cooconuts]

I'm glad it was helpful for you anika! But I'm afraid I can't remember where else to get the rest of the recipes. Although I saw someone mention that there slight differences in the recipes you can buy at merchants in different camps so maybe you can check them all in case you're missing them somewhere there? If anyone can help with this I'll add that piece of info on the achievement too for future visitors

[anika2902]

Hey, thank you very much for the guide, it helped me so much to complete the achievements. But im still missing 3 recipes and I dont know which ones or where to find them, any idea about them or has anybody the same problem?