Count Lucanor Achievements

Enlightening your way to get those acheivements.
Spoiler warning.

Disclaimer

This guide is meant for players aiming for the missable achievements,
after having cleared the game at least once.

You can use this guide if you are the playing the game for the first time;
but some aspects might be spoilers; you have been warned.

I have arranged the achievements in the earliest possible chronological order that you can get them.

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Prologue - Bread is The Staff of Life

Bread is The Staff of Life



At the start of the game, go back into the house and get the bread from the table.

Prologue - The Explorer

The Explorer



Before you leave the area where the home is, walk around the woods and open the chest at the corner.

Prologue - Animal Friend

Animal Friend



When you first see the donkey, loop around it to get to the apple tree, grab some apples and give one apple to the donkey.

Prologue - Who is that person?

Who is that person?



Instead of going along the obvious path during daytime at the start of the game, when you see a raven perched on a large stone, head upwards from it to reach the castle wall and see a mysterious person.

Prologue - A Known Tomb / Outdoor Picnic

A Known Tomb
Ignore the goat herder's request for food & simply inspect the gravestone at the top.

(Its recommended that you immediately restart the game after getting this achievement and go for the alternative by sharing with the goat herder)


Outdoor Picnic
Give the goat herder your only slice of cheese at the moment.

Prologue - Bloody Home

Bloody Home



At the start of nightime, instead of following the kobold, backtrack all the way home first.

Be careful, there are enemies in the area where the woman and pig was during the daytime.

Things you are highly recommended to do before entering the castle for future achievements:
- Give the cane to the old lady
- Give coins to the merchant
- Give cheese to the goat herder.

In The Castle - Save Soul

Save soul
Save the game for the first time, each save uses 1 coin.

In The Castle - Golden Donkeycorn

Golden donkeycorn
- Must have given apple to donkey in Prologue.
- Have the donkey appear in the castle corridor, then feed it an apple.

Recommendation for future achievement:
- Do not leave the donkey in darkness, put at least one candle to have light around it.

In The Castle - Another Way

Achievement requires you to be able to enter Green Doors

Another way

When you first get the Green Key, do not enter the Green Door on the Eastern Corridor,
but enter the Green Door that's inside the Blue Door room on the North-Eastern Corridor,
beside the staircase that leads to second floor.

In The Castle - Burning Man

Achievement requires you to be able to enter Green Doors

Burning Man



- Do not use bucket of water in the fire room.
- Successfully open the chest before you die from the flames.

In The Castle - An Interesting Clue

Achievement requires you to be able to enter Green Doors

An interesting clue

At some point in the Green Door of the Western Corridor, you will find a board.
Use it over the gap in the Blue Door room of te Northwestern Corridor.

In The Castle - A Red Light

Achievement requires you to be able to enter Red Doors

A red light

When you get the Red Key, you must equip the Snake Ring before you enter the Red Door on the Western Corridor for the first time.

In The Castle - Choose someone's death

Save your game before trying these achievements.

Do not save after these achievements,
but reload so that nobody is dead.

Ham Day
When given the choice, pick the right goat (your right, see icon for goat color), leave the garden and return.

Let her be dead
When given the choice, pick the left goat (see icon for goat color), leave the garden and return.

Grotesque party
When given the choice, pick both goats, leave the garden and return.

In The Castle - Animal Trap

Animal trap

- Must have ladder from library. (Red Door on Southwest Corridor)
- Must have cornfeed from merchant.
- Go to the Cage Room on the Eastern Corridor (Blue Door), pour cornfeed on the floor around the chest, go to the garden and talk to Einsbein, then go back to the Cage Room and use the switch.

In The Castle - Lucrezia's Toy

Lucrezia's Toy

- Get all letters from all possible rooms on the first floor of the castle.
- Talk to Giulia at the castle entrance first, do not go straight to Kobold to solve name.

- After getting all the letters, when you talk to Giulia and get the notes about the order of the letters, you have to use it with the fountain map.

- After that, talk to her a second time and she'll mention the book in the library. The book won't appear in the library until she mentions it.

- Get the book from the left bookshelf in the middle of the library (Red Door Southwest Corridor)
- Give book to Giulia at the castle entrance
- Use 888 ticket on the chest in the garden.

Highly recommended to do this for future achievements

In The Castle - A Weird Name

A Weird Name
Explore the letter rooms as normal, and either of these two options:
- never buy the gold key to explore the rooms on the 2nd floor,
- buy the gold key to explore the rooms on the 2nd floor, after you have found most of the letters.

In The Castle - Hide & Seek

Warning:
There is a time limit for this achievement, and you cannot get A Weird Name in the same attempt.
You can reload from an earlier save (when you first arrive in the Garden) to get both of them.

Hide and seek

Prioritize buying the gold key above everything else.
- Give apple to donkey in prologue.
- Give coins to merchant in prologue.
- Give cheese to goat herder in prolgue.
- Explore Blue Door rooms for Gold Coin and food items, but do not open the Letter Chest yet.
- Check the garden for old lady, talk to her and receive Green Key.
- Explore Green Door rooms for Gold Coin / food items, don't open the Letter Chest yet.
- Check the garden for goat herder, talk to him and receive Red Key.
- Explore Red Door rooms for Gold Coin / food items; don't open the Letter Chest yet.
- Delay spending Gold Coin on saving until you get the Gold Key.
- Give all the apples you find to the donkey in the castle corridor, (I found two), and collect the gold.
- Buy the Gold key from the merchant.
- Enter the first room on the second floor and inspect the mirror.
- Use the mirror you found on the mirror on the wall.
- Now collect the letters one by one.

- Collect one letter, then go back to the garden and look at the windows + clock. Basically you are
waiting for the two guards on the sides of the clock to be facing each other, as well as the rightmost window to be lit. This is alluded to in one of the notes or conversations from the game.

- If this doesn't happen, repeat with another letter until you see the guards facing each other + rightmost window lit up.

- Then go to the kobold's room and hide behind the curtain.

Even when the game tells you to go and solve the Kobold's name after this, you are still highly recommended to get all letters and open the garden chest for future achievements.

In The Depths - Delicious

Player caution: The final time you are allowed to save your game is when you return to the NPC beside the raven after watering the bean with blood.

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Delicious

Use the worm on the large cake.

In The Depths - Crown Jewel

Crown Jewel

Catch the butterfly with the butterfly net.

Made much easier if you enter the house, use the worm on the large cake, and exiting the house without eating the slice of cake or talking to the mother.

Endings - Finding Resolutions

Ending: The Kobold's Trick

Immediately sit on the throne.

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I don't believe a thing

Use Snake Ring in the throne room.
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Ending: The Pact With The Kobold



- Use Snake Ring in the throne room.
- Talk with the Kobold again.
- Sit on the throne.
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Could it all have been just a dream?

Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
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♥♥♥♥ happens



- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Head all the way home.
- Give an apple to the donkey.
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Ending: Poor but happy



- Use Snake Ring in the throne room.
- Talk with the Kobold again.
- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Go all the way home and talk to mother.
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Now you are rich.



- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Use crowbar on the grate by the castle wall during daytime.
- Use butterfly jewel to enter the inner chamber.
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From Apprentice To Master



- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Use crowbar on the grate by the castle wall during daytime.
- Use butterfly jewel to enter the inner chamber.
- Talk with the person that appears on your way out.
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Ending: Wealth without answers




- DO NOT use Snake Ring in the throne room.
- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Use crowbar on the grate by the castle wall during daytime.
- Use butterfly jewel to enter the inner chamber.
- Go all the way home and talk to mother.
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Ending: A Prosperous Future




- Use Snake Ring in the throne room.
- Talk with the Kobold again.
- Leave the castle by using the door behind the throne.
- Use crowbar on the grate by the castle wall during daytime.
- Use butterfly jewel to enter the inner chamber.
- Go all the way home and talk to mother.

[aquatorrent]

Poor but happy doesnt require you to use snake ring in the throne room.

[땃쥐]

Perfect Guide

[[WFF] ŻaboX]

Great guide! To further add to the hide & seek achievement - only entering a letter room you haven't been in before triggers the clock to move. Revisiting previously entered rooms doesn't move the clock so there's no reason to not collect everything inside. Furthermore, second floor rooms don't trigger the clock as they don't contain letters.
As for when the kobold is in his room - 3:30

[DrDeath8520]

For future achievement hunters: If you miss getting the crowbar (didn't eat cheese with Goatherd) Miss Rat will have opened the treasure room grate if you feed her a cheese instead (evidenced by her red ribbon inside the passageway).

And for Hide and Seek, don't give gold to the merchant: The return gift is worthless anyway, and you get to keep the extra gold for the gold key.

[Inspector Butters]

still thinking every night why the damn goat

[Royyst3r]

Never mind i figured out that you had to put candles around the donkey otherwise it does not spawn in the end. so i need to redo the game XD.

[Royyst3r]

For whatever reason the donkey that i need to give an apple for the achievement never spawns for me. Do i have to do something to make him spawn?

[GrayWolfZ]

Thanks for you guide!

[shade00]

i dont think i ever saw the clock guards facing each other on mine, yet i was still able to open the garden chest and unlock every achivement , so doing that might not be required.

[DK]

Thanks for the great guide! Although I couldn't get following the hide & seek - it's not "collecting the letters" moves the clock, it's "entering the room" moves it. So if you enter too many rooms even without collecting letters, it could pass the right time (which two toy soldiers looking at each other) so you need to restart. anyway in overall, it was really helpful. thanks again!!