Solar Ash - 100% Achievement Guide

NO missable Achievements

Story & Bosses

Image	Achievement	Description
	Wyrmslayer City Slicker Tripod Toppled	Destroy the Remnant in the Crater Destroy the Remnant in the Broken Capital Destroy the Remnant in Ironroot Basin
	Head In The Clouds Disarmed Towers of Power	Destroy the Remnant in the Eternal Garden Destroy the Remnant in the Mirrorsea Destroy the Remnant in the Luminous Peak

Defeat the boss of each area.

Image	Achievement	Description
	Your Eyes Are Open Urban Explorer Rooting For You!	Activate Cyd Locate Cyd in the Broken Capital Locate Cyd in Ironroot Basin
	So Mush More Beach Day A Lava-ly Time	Locate Cyd in the Eternal Garden Locate Cyd in the Mirrorsea Locate Cyd in The Luminous Peak

Cyd is placed in very obvious spots. No chance of missing her.

Image	Achievement	Description
	All Systems Go	Fully power the Starseed
	Return to Forever	Activate the Starseed
	Moving Forward	Destroy the Starseed and free Echo

The Starseed gets fully powered by the time you've defeated the last Remnant.
Activating / destroying it triggers the 2 endings of the game.
Once you've seen either of the endings, you can simply reload the save from the main menu and go for the other one.
There aren't any conditions for un-/locking either of the endings.

NPC Quests

Image	Achievement	Description
	The Aggrieved Stranger Crust Station Vacation Ahrric's Pilgrimage	Complete Lyris' Quest Complete Ames' Quest Complete Ahrric's Quest
	A Helping Hand	Complete all NPC quests

All 3 NPCs are forced encounters during your playthrough.
All 3 quests are just about exploring & talking.
The dialogue options do NOT matter.

Simply find Lyris, the shipwrecks of Ames' crew, and Ahrric's elders at the locations they are describing to you and these achievements will unlock.

Lyris' quest takes place in the Broken Capital and the Ironroot Basin.
Ames' quest only takes place in the Mirrorsea.
Ahrric's quest takes place in the Eternal Garden and Luminous Peak.

If you need any further help with these questlines anyway, refer to these video guides by Gamer Guru:

Combat & Gameplay

Image	Achievement	Description
	Speedy Slayer	Kill 5 enemies in under 5 seconds
	Aerial Assailant	Kill 3 enemies without touching the ground

Can be done easily in the Broken Capital. From one of the rooftops with the Goo-Eyes, hop down to the neighboring building with 6 of the white enemies directly next to each other and kill 3 of them during a jump attack, then 2 more with 5 seconds.

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Image	Achievement	Description
	Pretty Fly	Remain airborne for 10 seconds

Can be done easily in the Mirrorsea.
There's a hole / tunnel inbetween the two areas on top of the cloudy tower, which shifts your gravity while going through it, so you can get infinite air time, if you want to.

Collectibles

Image	Achievement	Description
	Plasma Drive Plasma Overdrive Universal Donor	Collect 1000 Plasma Collect 5000 Plasma Collect 10000 Plasma

Hands down, ignore these 3.

You'll probably collect up to ~3x that amount during your first playthrough.
Just destroy the red crystals you come across for 150 plasma each.
You can speed this up, by collecting all Voidrunner Stashes in the Broken Capital to unlock a suit, which doubles your plasma income.

Image	Achievement	Description
	Hobbyist Archaeologist Reliquarian	Collect 1 Voidrunner Stash Collect all Voidrunner Stashes

Unlocking all Voidrunner Stashes in a given area unlocks a suit with a special ability. If you don't have the suit, you don't have all stashes within that area.
Cyd can scan the area and tell you exactly how many stashes you're missing.
You can also check this on your map. Once you've found the first stash of an area, there'll be a small white armor-icon the left of that area with the stash's log.
Once you've found all stashes for that area, the icon will turn yellow.

Nearby Stashes are hinted at by this icon ->

The suit of the final area - the Luminous Peak - has the ability to show the remaining stashes' exact locations upon scanning the area.

But you might as well refer to this text and screenshots based guide by PowerPyx: https://www.powerpyx.com/solar-ash-collectibles-guide-voidrunner-stashes-lost-journals/

Or this video guide by PS5Trophies:

Image	Achievement	Description
	A Veruki's Tale There and Back Again	Find 5 of Tarragon Danderpaw's lost journals Find all of Tarragon Danderpaws' lost journals

The lost journals are a lot harder to find than the void stashes.
Finding all stashes by yourself is pretty reasonable, but missing a few journals is pretty likely, as there's no way to know the amount per area and them not having huge shiny lights to mark their locations from afar.

For a text and screenshots based guide of their locations, refer to PowerPyx's guide linked just above for the stashes, or this video guide by PS5Trophies:

Hardcore / Sub 3 Hours

Image	Achievement	Description
	Rei-gn Supreme	Attain 100% completion on a save file

This achievement requires 3 things:
- Find all Voidrunner Stashes
- Complete all NPC quests
- Chose to destroy the Starseed.

The journals aren't required for this one.

Attaining 100% on ANY save file, unlocks a new suit, with ALL abilites at once, for EVERY save file!

Image	Achievement	Description
	Glutton For Punishment	Complete the game on Hardcore Mode
	VoidSprinter	Complete the game in under 3 hours

MAKE SURE TO EQUIP THE "ABSOLUTION" SUIT IMMEDIATELY AFTER DESTROYING THE FIRST REMNANT! ... If you've unlocked it via the 100% completion on a save file achievement above.

Both of these CAN be unlocked at the same time, if you have the skill and do this on a good day.
Personally, I've completed hardcore in ~3:30h, so I had to do 3 playthroughs total.
But after I've honed my skills in the hardcore run, I've completed a Novice difficulty run in just ~1:30h, so there's LOTS of time for errors.

Both runs require you to Destroy the Starseed at the end.

Opposed to most games with a "HardCORE" difficulty, this one is NOT perma-death.
All Hardcore does is to MASSIVELY shorten the timeframes for eye-stabbing and Remnant takedowns, as well as teleporting you back to the last checkpoint upon receiving any kind of damage.

[Moistya]

Thanks for the guide!! helped heaps trying to finish the entire game. Managed to finish hardcore in 2 hours 43 minutes, big dubs

[FutzMonitor]

Almost knocked out Glutton for Pain and the Voidsprint achievement but went 11mins over ;-;. Fuck the Withered Eye. The boss arena feels way too small for that fight.

[KingKurai]

Dang, hardcore is.. hard!

[HrtAttK]

Thanks for putting this together as someone coming late the game and enjoying it.