Fossil Hunters - Achievement Guide

A guide for how to obtain all of the achievements in Fossil Hunters

Skeletons

Researcher
Make a skeleton

Assistant Professor
Make 10 skeletons

Professor
Make 50 skeletons

Master Paleontologist
Make 100 skeletons

Big Time
Build 15 big skeletons

Submit 15 skeletons with 5-9 fossils.

Massive
Build 10 huge skeletons

Submit 10 skeletons with 10-14 fossils.

Colossal Fossils
Build 5 colossal skeletons

Submit 5 skeletons with 15+ fossils.

Perfectionist
Submit 50 clean & pristine skeletons

Before submitting a skeleton make sure you've used your brush on each fossil. A sparkle effect will appear if the fossil is clean.

Good Enough
Submit a skeleton with every piece damaged

This can be done on level 4. Get 2 skull or tail fossils and let a crawler hit each once, put them together and submit it.

The key to discovery
Unlock a schematic door

This is the first schematic you'll run into on level 1, put the fossils together in the right place to complete it.

Schematic Master
Unlock all schematic doors

The last three schematics are on level 28. You can't miss any since you have to complete all for each level to be able to proceed.

Employee of the Month
Complete all the Collector's requests

• 2 skulls
  
• 5 Spines
  
• 4 Claws
  
• 2 Tails
  
• 10 Pieces
  
• 6 Claws
  
• 1 Wing and 5 Pieces
  
• 2 Claws, 2 Heads, 2 Tails
  
• 1 Wing and 2 Tails
  
• 15 Pieces
  
• 1 Carnivore Skull and 7 Spines
  
• 3 Skulls
  
• 10 Pieces, No Skulls and No Tails
  
• 1 Fin and 5 Pieces
  
• 10 Spines
  
• 1 Wing and 1 Carnivore Skull
  
• 6 Claws 2 Skulls
  
• 10 Pieces, 1 Wing, 1 Fin
  
• 2 Big Bodies
  
• One of each Skull

Fossils

Smashing!
Have a fossil smashed by a cave-in

Dig away enough for the cave to collapse, let a fossil get destroyed by the cave-in.

You've got bones in your teeth
Have a fossil eaten by a crawler

This can be done on level 4. Grab a fossil and put it next to a crawler, let it destroy the fossil.

Mossil
Have a fossil covered in moss

This can be done on level 8. Grab a fossil and let it get hit by a mushroom, wait for it to get covered in moss.

They mean well
Have a fossil smashed by a lavamander

This can be done on level 15. Grab a fossil and put it in front of a lavamander, let it walk over it to destroy it.

I guess it didn't belong in a museum
Get all destruction achievements

Once you've unlocked all of the above you should unlock this one.

Butterfingers
Drop 50 fossils in pits

Grab a fossil and push it of the edge into the pit 50 times.

Interactables

Hoarder
Bring 20 new objects into the lab

You can put objects from the levels in the elevator and bring them to the lab, purchase from the shopkeepers in the lab or open packages gained by completing quests.

Interior Decorator
Rearrange the furniture in the lab

Grab things in your lab and move them around.

Overcapacity
Transport 12 or more items with the elevator

Put 12 objects in the elevator, preferably smaller once like gems and lamps because it's easier to fit. Use the elevator to move everything to another level.

Are you afraid of the dark?
Use 20 lamps

Pick up and use 20 lamps, not sure if it has to be different once or if you can reuse one.

Supportive Personality
Use 20 supports

Place down and deploy 20 supports.

Abridged Edition
Use 20 bridges

Pick up and drop 20 bridges by the edge where it can connect with the ground at the start and end.

Explosive
Use 20 dynamite barrels

Detonate 20 barrels of dynamite.

Special Sammy
Pick up the Sammy rock and bring it to the elevator

There's a big rock with Sammy written on it on level 1 but you'll need a bridge to be able to transport it to the elevator. Bridges are first found on level 17

Collectibles

It belongs in a museum
Collect a golden idol

Curator
Collect all golden idols

Hope that wasn't valuable
Drop a golden idol in a pit

Bring a golden idol to any level and drop it over the edge.

I knew I left that somewhere
Pick up an idol from the treasure hoard

Bring a golden idol down to level 29.

I'm starting a scrapbook
Collect all Digsite journal entries

You must be a fun guy
Collect all Mushroom Caverns journal entries

Hot takes
Collect all Magma Chamber journal entries

Spaced out
Collect all Abyss journal entries

Historian
Collect all journal entries

Once you've unlocked all of the above you should unlock this one.

Shopkeepers

You made a friend!
Unlock the lamp shopkeep

Oh deer!
Unlock the support shopkeep

Get over it
Unlock the bridge shopkeep

Business is booming!
Unlock the dynamite shopkeep

Character

Long jump
Leap the maximum distance

Press the button/keybind you use for the dodge/leap ability.

It's a long way down
Die in a pit 100 times

Go to any level and walk off the edge 100 times but spend your gold first as you'll lose 50 gold for each death.

The Squad
Play as each of the Fossil Hunters

Just pick another character each time you start up the game.

Narrow Escape
Prevent a death with a dodge roll

Dig away enough for the cave to collapse then use your dodge roll at the last second to avoid death

It's over 9000
Have all three power-ups active at once

It's easiest to get this on level 29 because you have all three power-ups next to each other.

Miscellaneous

Where did everybody go?
Have your multiplayer friends drop out

You can do this solo, you just need to join with both keyboard and controller. Once you're in the game pause the game with one of the characters, go down in the menu and press "Drop out".

Fossil Hunter
Finish the game

When you complete the final map which is level 29 you should get this achievement.

The ultimate Fossil Hunter
Collect all other achievements

Collect the other 46 achievement then you should get this achievement.

[Chmu]

I think I threw the Sammy rock in the pit... what should I do?