The Witch's Cauldron Achievement Guide

How to get all the achievements in The Witch's Cauldron.

Introduction

Try to get the The Circle ending as soon as possible. This will help you a lot in the future, as you won't be losing due to the Dread/Fame meters anymore. After achieving The Circle ending, you will have the permanent ability to adjust the Dread/Fame value by 10-15 points up or down for 40 coins (30 coins if you wear toad skin). This ability is retained between all cycles, regardless of the method of transition: moving or death. The meter value is adjusted at night, so as long as you have enough gold during the day, don't worry if the meter drops to minimum or rises to maximum. Keep in mind, however, that you can change only one value per night.

Basic Achievements

Clap! Clap!
You brewed your first potion

Brew any potion for the first time.




Way to go
Unlock your first potion

Brew a potion for the first time unlocking a new recipe.




Potion maker
Unlock all magical potions

Unlock all potion recipes.




The cook
Time to open a tavern with all these recipes

Unlock all cooking recipes.

Past Lifetimes

The loop
Show must go on, even if no one’s watching

The witch moves to another town. This ending occurs if you simply do your job long enough: don't meddle in politics and don't die. This ending will happen either on the 30th day or when you run out of important or story cards for whatever reason.

Torches and pitchforks
They won’t live in fear no more

Increase the value of the Dread bar to the maximum.




Robbery victim
Get too kind for your own good

Decrease the value of the Dread bar to the minimum.




The pyre
Just reward for a witch most notorious

Increase the value of the Fame bar to the maximum.




The fraud
Be a good-for-nothing witch

Decrease the value of the Dread bar to the minimum.




The circle
Not your ordinary support group

You are visited by a man with a blindfold and the symbol of Ouroboros on his chest. With the help of this visitor you can join The Circle. This ending is achieved in four steps:


1) On the first step, when the Blind Man asks you to brew something for him, you can probably give any potion. I tried Healing Elixir and Perception Potion.

2) On the second visit the Blind Man comes with a riddle. You need to brew Kombucha for him: Amanita + Nightshade + Nettle leaf.

3) The following night you will receive a letter from The Circle. Serve Kombucha to several visitors (you can do it in more than one day).

4) And again you will receive a letter from The Circle. This time you'll be tasked to collect 150 gold. When you have the required amount, the following night the ending event will occur.

If the Blind Man first arrives after the witch has already been visited by the Inquisitor, he right away tells what you need to mix without any riddles.

Neutrality
Don’t meddle with powers that be

This achievement is not connected to any ending, but it is directly related to the political aspect of the game, so I'm putting it here, before the political endings.

Occasionally the witch will be visited by messengers from influential people or by those people themselves. There are three main powers in the game: the King, the Bishop, and the Bandits. The quests of the agents of each of these powers are marked with a special icon:


The King — crown




The Bishop — mitre and crossed rods




The Bandits — crossed daggers



At some point a representative of one of the major powers will ask for your help in a conflict with the other powers. Screenshots of the conflict starters:



First agree to help: the King's messenger — Perception Potion, the nun — Potion of Numbness, the Bandit Leader — Pickmeup Potion. Then fail the final quest of the conflict: King route — get the bishop drunk, Bishop route — trick the King, Bandits route — poison the King (Green Tea will do).

Power play
Meddle in politics. Pay the price

For this ending, you need to help the King in his confrontation with the Bishop, without having the former king's bastard as a protector. Complete the quests of the King's men (marked with the crown icon), and at some point the King's messenger will directly ask for your help in the conflict with the Bishop. If you haven't helped the king's bastard find the ancient chalice in the current cycle (haven't gotten this quest or failed it), you will later be visited by the same man as the first time (the bald man in red clothes and sunglasses) and he will ask you to help depose the Bishop. Give him any booze to discredit the Bishop and you'll get this ending.

Friends in high places
It’s Lady Witch for you, peasant!

For this ending you need to help the King in his confrontation with the Bishop, having first secured the support of the former king's bastard. Complete the quests of the King's men (marked with the crown icon), and at some point the King's messenger will directly ask for your help in the conflict with the Bishop.

To gain the bastard's support, you have to meet the conditions of the "Story of the chalice" achievement (described separately).

If the conflict starts after you've helped the king's bastard (the man in the metal mask) to find the chalice, you will later be visited by the bastard who will ask you to help depose the Bishop. Give him any booze to discredit the Bishop and you'll get this ending.

Revolt
The king is dead! Long live the king!

For this ending you must help the Bandit Leader to kill the King. The bandits quests are marked with the crossed daggers icon. Complete the quests of the bandits, support their leader when he comes with a proposal to set the King and the Bishop against each other (give him Pickmeup Potion on the first step of the conflict), and then fulfill all requests of the bandits.

White hat
Find faith in your heart

For this ending you need to help the Bishop in his confrontation with the King. The Bishop's messengers quests are marked with a mitre and crossed rods icon (as in the achievement picture). At some point the Bishop's messenger will explicitly ask you to go against the King. Agree to help and further fulfill all requests. At the last stage, when the nun talks about the Easter service, you need to give the Mindblowing Potion. This ending can only be achieved if in the current cycle you did not complete the quest to help cure the Bishop's sister before the conflict between the Bishop and the King (did not get this quest or failed it). If you first cure the Bishop's sister and later support the Bishop in his conflict with the King, you'll get the Sackcloth ending.

Sackcloth
Force the bishop to rethink life, God and everything

This ending requires you to help cure the Bishop's sister before the conflict between the King and the Bishop, and later to side with the Bishop in his confrontation with the King. However, this ending can happen even if you did not get the quest to heal the sister in the current cycle (it seems, this problem has been already fixed). If you cannot achieve the White hat ending because of this, try resetting the game progress and attempt a new playthrough.

True Ending

Freedom
Break the pact

One night the witch will have a dream and in the morning she will be visited by a vision of her young self. If given the right potion, the witch will have another dream the next night and the vision will come again in the morning.

1) The past doesn't let me go — Potion of Oblivion
2) It all seems like a dream now — Pickmeup Potion
3) Laugh at me like that? — Potion of Irresistible Laughter
4) And you're happy now. Happy, right? — Perception Potion

Visitors Quests [1]

Underground river
Flood the mines

Give the old miner the Hexing Potion or the Clumsiness Potion.





Total oblivion
Save the oak grove once and for all

A hermit asks for help to save a sacred oak tree. Achieved in two steps:

1) Healing Elixir
2) Potion of Oblivion


Fairy ring
Get rid of the mushroom circle

An innkeeper asks for help to get rid of a fairy ring. Achieved in two steps:

1) Perception Potion
2) Mushroom Soup

When pigs fly
Make the pig fly

A peasant who raises a prize pig asks for help to get rid of a pig from a neighboring village. Give him the Potion of Flight.




The fool
He brought it upon himself

For any request from the village fool to help prank someone (or make people laugh) give him the Poisonous Decoction.




Soul music
Kickstart the bard’s career

A bard asks for something to make the folks more appreciative of his talents and easily parting with their money. Achieved in two steps:

1) The bard — Love Potion or Potion of Irresistible Laughter
2) The tavern keeper who wants to get rid of the bard — Pickmeup Potion

The rainbow drakkar
Help two friends find the rainbow drakkar

The witch is in turns visited by a monster hunter and a vampire.

1) Hunter Jan (I'm starving all right) — you can give any food
2) Vampire Michael (help me feel alive again) — Сaleidoscopic Booze
3) Hunter Jan (set up an ambush) — Perception Potion or Love Potion
4) Vampire Michael (another bottle of a blithesome poison) — Potion of Irresistible Laughter
5) Hunter Jan (help decipher the scripture) — Perception Potion

Elixir of life
Bring the dead back to life

The witch will be several times visited by a royal healer asking for help. His requests are pretty straightforward. Achieved in four steps:



1) Amputating the bad parts — Potion of Numbness or Healing Elixir
2) Actual healing potion — Healing Elixir
3) You can make people stronger — Potion of Strength
4) Solve the problem of rejuvenation — Rejuvenation Potion

Fhtagn!
Help to rouse the deep one

Three times give the Pickmeup Potion to the cultists who ask for a medication to awaken their master.




Death and taxes
Nothing is certain but them

Give the Poisonous Decoction to the tax collector.





Trick-or-treat
Turn the demon into a lantern

A retired chaplain asks for help to escape a demon. Achieved in three steps:




1) A vile demon came for my soul — Speed Elixir
2) What if I dress up like a lady — Potion of Numbness or Sleep Potion
3) A drinking contest — Potion of Oblivion or Mindblowing Potion

Trap for a butterfly
Spoil the innocent girl

The witch is visited by a girl in a white dress with red flowers. Achieved in six steps:



1) A medicine for her father — Healing Elixir
2) Teach the guy a lesson — Hexing Potion
3) Let's swap some recipes — Mushroom Soup
4) Going to the woods, can look for some herbs — Perception Potion (gives 45 coins, other potion — 15 coins)
The next visit of the girl is triggered when the Dread or Fame bar is burning.
5) The girl will tell you what potion she needs
6) To be above everyone and everything — Potion of Flight

Your strongest potion
You supplied the knight with your strongest potions

An old knight asks for help to participate in a tournament. Achieved in two steps:

1) Rejuvenation Potion or Potion of Strength
2) Rejuvenation Potion or Potion of Strength

Heartbroken
Dead men tell no tales

A woman asks for help to steal her neighbor's husband. Give her the Love Potion and then give the Love Potion each time when the wife and this woman will in turns come to you.



Love affairs
Break the triangle

A woman asks for help to steal her neighbor's husband. Give her the Love Potion, after which the wife will come — give her the Rejection Potion and repeat the same in rounds. Do not miss the visit of the wife in the third round:

1) The neighbor — Love Potion
2) The wife — Rejection Potion
3) The neighbor — Love Potion
4) The wife — Rejection Potion
5) The neighbor — Love Potion
6) The wife (My husband's soul belongs to me!) — Speed Elixir or Perception Potion
7) The husband who wants to stop this — Potion of Oblivion (Poisonous Decoction will also solve the problem but I'm not sure that the achievement can be unlocked this way)

Mrs Cow
Meet the cow and help her

Children ask for a potion to make a cow speak. Achieved in three steps:

1) The children — Voice-changing Elixir
2) The cow — Chameleon Potion
3) The children want to find their cow — Perception Potion

Drunken pixies
Make a deal with the pixies

A brewer (a man with a red beard and a keg under his arm) comes to the witch with a request. Achieved in three steps:



1) Splitting headache — Healing Elixir
2) Forest berry that's very good for the eyes — Perception Potion
3) Pixies stealing beer — Sleep Potion

Scarecrow genocide
Destroy all scarecrows in the neighborhood

Give the Hot Stuff (or any other booze) to the knight-errant who wants to defeat a live scarecrow.




Art is an explosion!
Help create the masterpiece

An artist asks for help to make his paintings better. Achieved in three steps:

1) Beauty Potion
2) Beauty Potion
3) Love Potion

Prince Rooster
Save the golden rooster

The witch is visited by a bad-looking woman who complains that she is sick and tired of suitors. Later you uncover a conflict between two women over a rooster. Achieved in three steps:


1) Bad-looking woman (sick and tired of suitors) — Green Tea
2) Good-looking woman (make me some refreshments) — Pickmeup Potion
3) Bad-looking woman (steal the rooster and dispel the evil charm) — Potion of Oblivion

Vampire slayer
Help the guard become a vampire slayer

The witch is visited by a monster hunter and a vampire.




1) Hunter Jan (I'm starving all right) — Potion of Oblivion
2) Vampire Michael (help me feel alive again) — Potion of Oblivion
3) The guard (a bloodsucking beast is on the loose) — Potion of Strength

Visitors Quests [2]

Story of the chalice
Uncover the whole story of the ancient chalice

This achievement unlocks on the card with the following event: the King had publicly revealed an ancient chalice, created by the Holy Pilgrims, and the King's brother had taken a sip from it. There are two quest lines with the ancient chalice that have to be completed.

A power struggle between two nobles

A young baron says that his cousin, according to his advisor, is obsessed with a nonexistent family chalice and the only way to save the baroness is to make her forget the whole thing. You need to preserve the chalice. Support the baroness by not wiping her memory or giving her harmful potions at the first stage of the quest (I gave the Perception Potion), after which you will be visited by the baroness herself — two times give her the Perception Potion.

If you support the baron by erasing his cousin's memory and then giving him the Voice-changing Elixir, at the end of the quest the chalice will be thrown into the sea. If you side with the advisor by erasing the baroness's memory and later poisoning the baron, the chalice will be eventually melted down. Make sure to preserve the chalice.

Help the former king's bastard find the chalice

1) The King's messenger says that his lord got weary with excessive attention and wants to disguise himself — Chameleon Potion
2) The royal healer says that the late king's bastard wants to prove his claim and the healer needs to study the ancient texts in the royal archive — Perception Potion
3) The bastard says he needs to find out to whom one of the mad kings has given the ancient enchanted chalice — Perception Potion

There is one more quest with the chalice in the game, but I'm not sure if it is necessary for the achievement.

A peasant tells that he sheltered a group of beaten up pilgrims, you need to heal them.


Hell's bells
Help a succubus break her pact

The witch is visited by a man who complains that he is being tortured by a succubus and asks to make him able to endure it. Achieved in three steps:



1) The first visit of the man — Potion of Strength
2) The man wants to get rid of the succubus — Potion of Strength
3) The succubus — Chameleon Potion


Eternal starshine
Participate in creating wondrous lights

At the start of a new round put on the astrologer's robe (blue outfit with white stars, you can unlock it with the "Power Struggle" ending or buy in the shop). The first visitor will be a painter who tells you about stardust. Give him the Potion of Numbness.


Cornucopia
Help a cook to get her revenge

At the start of a new round put on the sweet enchantress' dress (purple outfit with sweet decorations, can be bought in the shop). The first visitor will be a one-eyed lady with a ladle. She will come three times, give her:


1) Meat Soup
2) Hot Spice
3) Triple Decoction

After that you will receive a letter from her and in the next round she will start visiting you again. Now she will come four times, give her:

1) Nutritious Soup
2) Hideous Liquid
3) Viral Chowder
4) Surprise Mushrooms

Networking [1]

Networking
Meet all characters in the game

Cumulative achievement. There are 55 visitors in the game. If you are missing some visitors for the achievement, try to look through the descriptions of all achievements related to visitors (including the endings), perhaps this will help you understand who has not yet arrived. Visitors that can be accidentally missed:

- Stranger in black - a man wearing a black top hat and a cloak. In order to trigger his visit you must still have some undiscovered potion recipes and fear level at 80%.
- Blacksmith. Sometimes the witch is visited by a man who complains of the local blacksmith beating him up, and asks for something non-lethal against his offender. Give him the Hexing Potion and later you will be visited by the blacksmith himself. However, the blacksmith sometimes doesn't show up and you may need to try again.
- Inquisitor - comes if you your fame level is very high and the fame bar is burning.
- Cook - comes only if you are wearing the sweet enchantress' dress.

HOW TO KNOW EXACTLY WHICH OF THE VISITORS HAS NOT YET ARRIVED.

The list of people you have already met is stored in a separate save file:

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Harvey Games\Cauldron\Saves\UnlockedVillager.sav

If you want to know exactly who hasn't visited you yet, you can consult that file. Open it in Notepad, copy the list of your visitors from there, paste it into Excel, and sort it alphabetically for easy reference. See the full list of visitors for checking up:

Bandit	BanditTop	Barman	Baron	Baroness
Bastard	Bishop	Blacksmith	Blindman	Cat
Chaplain	Children	Citizen_Female_1	Citizen_Female_2	Citizen_Male_0
Citizen_Male_1	Citizen_Male_2	Citizen_Male_4	Citizen_spectacles	Count
Cow	Culinar	Cultist	Cultist1	Cultist2
DarkStranger	Doctor	Druid	Fool	Hunter
Innkeeper	Inquisition	Knight	Mary	Miner
Musician	Nun	Painter	Philosopher	Soldier
SoldierLow	Succub	Tax_Collector	Vampire	VampireHunter
Villager_female	Villager_female_2	Villager_male	Villager_male_1	Villager_male_2
Villager_rich	Villager_whacky	Warrior	WitchMemory	Woodcarver

Below you can see the screenshots of all the visitors and their names as they are labeled in the save file. Some visitors come with different quests, so the text on the screenshot may not match what you encounter in the game. Pay attention to their clothing. Male villagers come with different quests but if the clothes are the same it's one and the same character, not different ones. For example, a villager wearing a light green shirt comes to complain about the blacksmith and also to ask for a medicine for his livestock. Most visitors come at random but some of the characters require special conditions.

Bandit


BanditTop


Barman

- When you are visited by the singer (Musician), give him the Love Potion to trigger the visit of the barman.

Baron


Baroness

- When you are visited by the baron (Baron), give him the Perception Potion to trigger the visit of the baroness.

Bastard

- To trigger the visit of the bastard you must complete two quest lines. See the description of the "Story of the chalice" achievement.

Bishop

- Aim for the "White hat" or the "Sackcloth" ending.

Blacksmith

- When you are visited by a man who complains of the local blacksmith beating him up (Villager_male_2), give him the Hexing Potion and later you will be visited by the blacksmith himself. However, the blacksmith sometimes doesn't show up and you may need to try again.

Blindman


Cat


Chaplain


Children


Citizen_Female_1


Citizen_Female_2


Citizen_Male_0


Citizen_Male_1


Citizen_Male_2


Citizen_Male_4


Citizen_spectacles


Count


Cow

- When you are visited by the children who want to make a cow speak, give them the Voice-changing Elixir to trigger the visit of the cow.

Culinar

- To trigger the visit of the cook you need to wear the sweet enchantress' dress.

Cultist


Cultist1

- This cultist comes after you gave the Pickmeup Potion to awaken their "master" for the first time.

Cultist2

- This cultist comes after you gave the Pickmeup Potion to awaken the cultists' master for the second time.

DarkStranger

- This visitor can be accidentally missed, but he is very easy to attract at the beginning of the game. To trigger his visit you must still have some undiscovered potion recipes and a high level of fear (80% or higher).

Doctor


Druid


Fool

Networking [2]

Hunter


Innkeeper


Inquisition

- To trigger the visit of the inquisitor you need to have a very high level of fame, the fame bar has to be burning.

Knight


Mary


Miner


Musician


Nun


Painter

- This character comes at random, but you can attract him on the very first day of a cycle if you put on the astrologer's robe.

Philosopher

- Looks similar to the villager who asks for a medicine to treat his livestock and complains about the blacksmith (Villager_male_2), but has to come with this particular quest.

Soldier

- This character comes at random, but you can attract him through the vampire quest. Give the Potion of Oblivion to the monster hunter (VampireHunter) and then to the vampire, and you will be visited by this guard.

SoldierLow


Succub

- To trigger the visit of this character two times give the Potion of Strength to the villager who tells you about the succubus.

Tax_Collector


Vampire


VampireHunter


Villager_female

- When you are visited by a bad-looking female villager (Villager_whacky), give her the Green Tea or the Chameleon Potion to trigger the visit of this character.

Villager_female_2

- When you get the living scarecrow event you will first be visited by a male villager asking for something to put the scarecrow to sleep. Do just the opposite — give him the Pickmeup Potion. Then a warrior intending to kill the scarecrow shows up — give him the Hot Stuff. After that wait for this character to arrive.

Villager_male


Villager_male_1


Villager_male_2


Villager_rich


Villager_whacky


Warrior

- The living scarecrow event. Do not help the villager who wants to put the scarecrow to sleep, give him the Pickmeup Potion. After that wait for this character.

WitchMemory


Woodcarver

Witch's Outfits

After you for the first time achieve one of the endings that unlocks a new outfit, the skin shop will appear on the cycle ending screen. The skins can be unlocked by getting certain endings or by purchasing them in the shop, provided that you have enough gold when you finish the round. At the start of a new round you can choose an outfit from the wardrobe. Different skins apply different effects.

Skin of toad
Unlock toad skin

Achieve "The Circle" ending.




Stargazer
Unlock astrologer's robe

Achieve the "Power play" ending or buy this skin in the shop.




High society
Unlock royal witch's attire

Achieve the "Friends in high places" ending or buy this skin in the shop.




Black hat
Unlock brigand rags

Achieve the "Revolt" ending or buy this skin in the shop.




Witch doctor
Unlock healer's garb

Achieve the "White hat" ending or buy this skin in the shop.




Truthseeker
Unlock inquisitor's outfit

Achieve the "Sackcloth" ending or buy this skin in the shop.




Breadcrumbs
Unlock sweet enchantress' dress

Unlock all cooking recipes, then finish the round with a Dread/Fame ending or by moving to another town. Can be purchased in the shop.



Hot stuff
Unlock flaming attire

Buy this skin in the shop. This outfit cannot be unlocked by getting a certain ending.



Pumpkin head
Unlock pumpkin gown

Buy this skin in the shop. This outfit cannot be unlocked by getting a certain ending.



Weaver
Unlock spider witch costume

Buy this skin in the shop. This outfit cannot be unlocked by getting a certain ending.



She's a fungi!
Unlock mushroom costume

Buy this skin in the shop. This outfit cannot be unlocked by getting a certain ending.

Potion Making

Total recall
Survive 20 days without your magic book

At the start of a new round put on the royal witch's attire (yellow outfit with a feather, you can unlock it with the "Friends in high places" ending or buy in the shop). This will apply a modifier that hides your recipe book. Survive for 20 days.

You can find the screenshots of all pages of the book in this guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3363604466
Resourceful
Survive 20 days with low supply of ingredients

At the start of a new round put on the healer's garb (grey and purple outfit with fur mantle, you can unlock it with the "White hat" ending or buy in the shop). Survive for 20 days.



Сumulative achievements

All achievements that require you to use N special potions in a single round are easy to complete with the help of a cultist who wants to awaken his master. Give him the potion needed for the achievement day after day. He will persistently visit you hoping to get the Pickmeup Potion. To get the achievement faster give the necessary potion to other visitors as well, but wear the toad skin and help those who offer money in order to earn enough for balancing dread/fame bars.

Wingspan
Use 10 potions of flight in a single cycle






Skyward
Use 25 potions of flight in a single cycle






Happy Happy Joy Joy
Use 10 potions of irresistible laughter in a single cycle






Matchmaker
Use 10 love potions in a single cycle






Angel of love
Use 25 love potions in a single cycle






Amnesia
Use 10 potions of oblivion in a single cycle






Oblivion
Use 25 potions of oblivion in a single cycle






An eye for detail
Use 10 perception potions in a single cycle






Toxic witch
Use 10 poisonous decoctions in a single cycle






Poisoner
Use 25 poisonous decoctions in a single cycle

[Smaragdauge]

About the Achievement "Mrs. Cow". The 2nd Part is when the cow wants help, either taking their voice or hiding them. When using the voice changing potion, I didnt get the achievement.
When I used the chameleon potion instead, I dont get the achievemnet as well. BUT I get a 3 quest, where the children ask me to find their cow. I gave them a perception potion. And after that I got the achievement :D (Btw, your guide is very helpful, thanks for your work <3)

[tefnut777]

You're welcome!

[Cerys]

thank you so much!!!