The Herbalist

The Herbalist

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100% Achievements Guide
By PRO100_Sasha
Simple, clear and detailed guide on how to achieve all achievements. It will take only couple of hours to do so.
Disclaimer: this guide is translated copy of my own russian guide, just translated to english, also by me. Pardon my grammar if something wrong with it.
Так что, русские товарищи, вам тут нечего делать. Ну, кроме как покровоточить глазами на корявый английский.
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Progress-related achievements.
Beginner’s training
Read game introduction without skipping


Simple as description: you have to complete game introduction that will launch at start of a new game without skipping. Can be done not on first playtrough, i.e if was skipped – in that case game will ask you to launch introduction.


Student
Become a Herbalist Student.


You have to brew all level 1 potions. Potions are created when combining any of 4 "good" herbs with pots. At the start of each game 4 random herbs will became "good" and 4 another "bad"; trying brew potion with "bad" herb will result in dirty pot and waste of herb. You don't have to drink potions in order to get the achievement. All level 1 potions contains one "good" herb. So it's 4 in total.
When you brew all level 1 potions and go to forest, first CG will unlock.


Herbalist
Become a village Herbalist


You have to brew all potions of two levels. Potion can only be level-upped with another potion. Level of potion equals to count of herbs it have. Usually achievement obtained by brewing all level 1 and 2 potions, but you can skip second level and make third: that will still cause the rank to up by one level. All level 2 potions are created by combining two different herbs. So it's 6 in total.
When you brew all level 2 potions and open up craft window, second CG will unlock.


Alchemist
Become a famous Alchemist.


You have to brew all potions of three levels. Usually achievement obtained by brewing all potions from level 1 to 3, but you can skip third level and brew level 4. All third level potions contains 3 different herbs. So it's 4 in total.
When you brew all level 3 potions and go to forest, third CG will unlock.


Potion Master
Become a Potion Master.


You have to brew all 27 potions. Onto the next day you will obtain a scroll with description of making quest-related item. All level 4 potions contains two herbs of one type and two herbs of another, different types (excluding one with all four herbs). So it's 13 in total.
When you brew all level 4 potions, fourth CG will unlock.

Game Over?
Find out where is Grandma.


You have to use main quest item. It craft recipe will be given to you after you achieve Potion Master rank, but you don't need to have recipe, it's just a hint. To craft this item, you need to do this:
Dig up amber and clay with shovel.
Melt amber with water element potion and dissolve clay with earth element potion (element potions are all level 3 potions).
Mix yellow and orange herbs, and created powder throw into melted amber – that will creare a paint.
Dissolved clay (clay dish) burn with fire element potion – you will create a dish.
Dye dish with paint.
Mix clairvoyance potion (level 2, has label with eye) with apple – you will create eyeball.
Throw eyeball on dish.

Use item obtained.

Unlocks sixteenth CG.


Subborn
Finish the game in one go


Simple as description. Finish the game without exiting it.


How I spent this summer
Become reminiscent


Open window with CG (star inset in recipes book) when you have all CGs unlocked; CG list:
1-4 – unlocks when brewing all potions of respective level.
4-8 – unlocks when drinking level 4 potions (anthropomorphous, invinsible, tentacles and sleep respectively).
9 – "hunger-strike": don't eat anything five days in a row.
10 – "satiety": automatically eat an apple when waking up ten days in a row.
11 – fail potion brewing 20 times.
12 – play with cat 20 days in a row.
13 – use magic powder (air element potion+thin blue mushroom) and then go sleep.
14 – ten days (overall, not in a row) search for items in barn.
15 – cook all food.
16 – complete the game (find grandma).


Chubby cheeks
Never let Slavya go hungry


Complete the game with each day automatically eating apple on waking up. Easy to do with fast run and completing without Master rank simultaneously.


Quickie
Finish the game in less than 2 weeks


You have to finish the game in 13 in-game days or less. Very hard to complete without second achievement in this guide. Main strategy: always eat apple each morning, so on 10th day satiety event will proc and give you a good 200 amount of energy. I complete this achievement myself at the end of that day. First few days is better to farm for amber, clay and money by digging with shovel. Always find money for an apple (by gathering herbs for example), it will simplify completing fast run.


Shortcut
Unspell Grandma without becoming a Potion Master


You have to complete the game without achieving Potion Master rank. Easy to do with past two achievements in this guide.
Crafting-related achievements
Something went wrong
Make something unplanned


Fail potion brew. Will be completed with ~98% probability when brewing first potions. You can fail a brew when putting "bad" herb into a pot, mixing level 3 potion with another potion or mixing level 1 potion with thoose level 2 that already contains herb that is in level 1 one. 100% will be unlocked with progression of "Dummy!" and "Ka-boom!".


Evil witch
Make a Poison


Simple as description. It's a level 4 potion, green, with skull. And achievement will proc. Hard to miss. 100% will be unlocked with progression of rank.


Moidodyr
Wash up all the dishes.


Wash up ten pots or pans at one day.


Ka-boom!
Learning from past mistakes


Fail potion brew 20 times. Unlocks eleventh CG.


Supplies for winter
Marinate some pickles, sugar up some jam


Bake at least once food that can be long-term storaged: dried mushrooms, saline mushrooms, jam, compote. Need only to craft, no need to keep them. For recipes look in next achievement in this guide.


Master chef
Ready for marriage.


Bake at least once all 12 existing in-game food. All food can be split into three categories: eggs-based, apple-based and mushroom-based. Let's take a close look at each other separately.
All eggs-based food is fried on pan. You have to fry all 4 ingredients that contains eggs in it: eggs itself, batter (eggs+milk), pancake batter (eggs+flour), dough (eggs+milk+flour). You will get fried eggs, omelette, pancakes and fritters respectively.
Apple-based recipes: compote (apple+pot), cider (compote+sugar), jam (sugar+apple), apple patty (dough+apple).
In mushroom-based recipes mushroom roles determines randomly at the start of each run, just like herbs. And also determines their drop rates (also like herbs). Furthermore, one of mushrooms will drop at low rate and one at high. One meadow will not have more than one mushroom, and may never have one, so you will walk much in order to get mushrooms. Recipes: dried mushrooms (fire element potion+mushroom1), mushroom patty (dough+mushroom2), saline mushrooms (pickle(salt+pot)+mushroom3), fried mushrooms (pan+mushroom4).
Unlocks fifteenth CG.


Maslenitsa
Pancakes! Pancakes everywhere!


Bake 5 pancakes (pancake batter(eggs+flour)+pan). Not necessary to have five in your inventory simultaneously, you just have to bake five of them through game.


Dummy!
Practice makes perfect


Fail potion brew the same way 9 times.


Inventor
Craft a magical artifact


Craft main quest item. For recipe look previous guide part, achievement "Game Over?"
Collecting-related achievements
Young adventurer’s starter kit
HP, SP... Ready for action!


Have in your inventory both healing potion ("+" label) and mana potion (star label). 100% will be unlocked through game progression since it's both level 1 potions and you will need to mix them in order to get one of level 2 potions.


Third-a-dozen
Stock up on eggs


Have in your inventory four item "eggs" (it icon has three eggs, so it's dozen in total) simultaneously.


Got Milk?
Stock up on milk


Have in your inventory five milk jars simultaneously.

Natural hazard
Have every element potion in the inventory


Simple as desctiption. Have in your inventory all four element potions simultaneously. Element potions are all level 3 potions.


Candle factory
Prepare light decorations for the hut


Have in your inventory five candles simultaneously. Candles sometimes drop in the barn, behind old containers.


Lazy wife
Think about washing up old utensils


Have in your inventory five dirty pans simultaneously. Pans drops with 1/17 rate when digging with shovel.


Slavya's Moving Lab
Have every potion in the inventory


Simple as description. Have in your inventory all 27 potions simultaneously. Better not to drink potions until you get that achievement. And when you get – drink all of them and then gain "Taster".


A penny saved is a penny gained
Gather 1000 coins


Simple as description. Best ways to farm money is selling herbs (1 herb=5 energy=1 coin), jam (10 coins of pure profit), mushroom patty (9 coins; but you need to be lucky enough for mushroom that is in patty recipe). Any potions is not-profitable to craft with somewhat exclusion buff potions (with pedobear and plant on labels – first will reduce herb gathering energy lost by 40%, second will reduce moving to next meadow enegry lost by 50%) – if you going to "Wonder woman" it would be a nice idea to buff Slavya with it and then gather lots of herbs.
Feeding Slavya with apple each moring is profitably mathematically since you will get 75 energy (equivalent of 15 coins in herbs) for 8 coins. But proc "hunger-strike" event is still necessary and profitable.
Day in a nutshell: gather all herbs on initial meadow, sell herbs, buy apple(s) if need, for rest of energy something from: look for items in barn, bake pattys, omelette/pancakes (if bad luck on mushroom necessary for patty) or jam, dig (worst scenario), wash pan if it's dirty.

Mushroomer
Have every mushroom in the inventory


Kinda confusing description. You need to fill your inventory with mushrooms (yes, every single slot in inventory should be filled with mushroom). Annoying achievement, better to do it at the end of the game, before start new or quit, because you'll need lots of apples or patience, and also all your inventory will be converted to coins.


Wonder Woman
Six-six-six!


Collect maximum amount of energy: 666. Easier to do when "satiety" event procs, but you can easily craft enough food even without it. Consider that Slavya cannot eat much of same food per day if it's not a liquid. Most of energy will give to you mushroom-based dishs and cider. You can also gain energy from potions, but mostly they only one-time use.
Using-related achievements
Playgirl
Become taller due to bunny ears


Use speed up potion (level 1, with arrow label). After drinking Slavya won't go to shop on that day.


Superhero
Get the power


Use power potion (level 2, with pedobear label). Drinking potion gives you buff: gathering in forest is 40% cheaper on energy (3 instead of 5).


Ice fairy
4+4=(9)!


Use genius potion (level 2, with cirno label – "nine in circle"). Drinking potion will definetly and permamently stop taster from being such a dummy.


Catgirl
Learn how to be a cat


Use anthropomorphous potion (level 4, has cat ears). After drinking Slavya won't go to shop on that day. Unlock fifth CG.


The Emperor's New Clothes
Create the Invisibility Potion


Unlike description says you have to use potion. It's 4 level, with star in a bootle. Unlocks sixth CG.


Frisky tentacles
Summon a tentacle monster


USe tentacle potion (level 4, impossible not to reconize). Potion itself won't waste. Unlocks seventh CG.


Siesta
See magic dreams


Use dream potion (level 4, looks like night sky). Unlocks eighth CG.


Tea ceremony
Enjoy some chamomile tea


Use chamomile (white flower).


Pans and cakes!
Eat some fresh pastry


Eat fritters (dough(eggs+flour+milk)+pan).


Puni-puni
Wash the dishes


Use sponge (with right mouse button).


Ev chistr 'ta Laou!
Quench your thirst


Drink cider (compote(pot+apple)+sugar).


Alice in the Wonderland
Fall into a fairytale


Use magic powder (thin blue mushroom+air element potion) and then go sleep. Unlock thirteenth CG top one


Ace of spades
See the light


Use providence potion (clairvoyance potion (with eye label)+amanita(red mushroom with white dots)).


Herbivore
Feel like a goat


Use every herb at least once.


Taster
Feel like a lab rat


Use every potion at least once.


Clumsy
Juggle some eggs


Use eggs (with right mouse button) until you win (odds of breaking eggs when use is 20%).

Foodie
Taste all the food


Simple as description. Eat all food and drink all drinks at least once.
Other achievements
Leisure time
All work and no play makes Slavya a dull girl


Play with cat 19 times (overall).


Apple diet
Keep silly useless customs


Automatically eat apple at each morning ten days in a row (procs on tenth morning). Unlocks tenth CG and gives 200 enegry. One-time event.


Call of Cthulhu
Experience hallucinations from hunger


Don't eat five days (procs on sixth morning). Unlocks nineth CG and feeds (+75 enegry). One-time even. Best to do at the beginning of the game to farm money for apples and sponge.


Had it coming
Piss off your pet


Play with annoyed cat. Cat has three moods: playful, normal, annoying. For one day mood will be increased (from annoyed to normal, from normal to playful), for each game mood will be decreased. Game with playful cat will give you 10 energy, with normal 5 energy, with annoyed -5 energy.


Forest’s gifts
Stock up on herbs


Gather 21 herbs in one day. Mushroom don't count. Easier to do when you at least Student, because one meadow will contain more than 20 herbs uncommonly, and on walking you will not have enough energy (except you eat or drink something).


The English Channel
Dig!


Dig with shovel 51 times.


Tangled
See the need to clean up at the barn


10 days try to find items behind old containers (overall). Unlock fourteenth CG. Number of days searched will count, not items moved.


Cats play!
Care about your pet


Play with cat 20 days in a row. Days will count. Unlocks twelfth CG.


Uneconomical economy
Consider buying an apple useless and return it to the shop


Simple as description. In fact, sell apple.


Nobody loves an old legless cat
Ignore the cat


Don't play with cat 6 days (procs on seventh).


Potions? What potions?
Put the potion-making off


Don't mix potions five first (exacly first) game days.


Merchant
Rich life


Sell items for 1000 coins overall. Will unlock no later than "A penny saved is a penny gained".


Treasure seeker
Earn some money digging


Get 95 coins from selling items that digged with shovel (overall).


A walk in the forest
Go to the forest to gather herbs and forget about them


Walk to next meadow 10 times in a row and exit the forest without gathering anything, then go sleep. Will proc on next day.


Carried away
Empty out the shop


Buy out all shop items. Items will restock on every morning. You need 149 coins to do that (less if you will sell items back – they won't go back to shop).


Potion seller
Widen shop's assortment with potions


Not very exact description. You need to sell 10 potions in one visit. Any potions, even ten same of level 1.


Hermit
Stay at home


Don't leave house ten days in a row (proc on morning of 11th). Going to "pawnshop" won't count. Better either gain enough apples and items to craft or do "hunger-strike" at the same time. Also you can farm resources in the barn. Better to do at the beggining of the game, since you will need food ingredients, pan, amber and coal anyway.
46 Comments
PRO100_Sasha  [author] Mar 23, 2021 @ 1:30am 
okay
Psychopath Mar 23, 2021 @ 1:10am 
Walk to next meadow 10 times in a row an exit the forest without gathering anything.
Something like that.
PRO100_Sasha  [author] Mar 23, 2021 @ 12:20am 
How would you've worded that in order to avoid misunderstanding?
Psychopath Mar 22, 2021 @ 10:36pm 
Thanks, Kittysunlover for clearing that out. I did the same mistake... :serioussam:
I guess the wording of this guide does the trcik.
ViSuRa Jul 20, 2020 @ 11:26am 
Cutscene/CG 18 corresponds to drinking the Potion of Flight where the cat drinks it and becomes invisible.
Kittysunlover Aug 25, 2019 @ 6:01pm 
Adding a clarification for A Walk in the Forest: Use the "Go Further" button ten times on the same day, without gathering any herbs. I initially parsed this as "go further" once on ten separate days - didn't work! Felt really silly when I finally figured it out. XD
tzxAzrael Aug 26, 2018 @ 11:35pm 
in the current update, unmodded, there are 18 spots for "scenes". 1-16 as described above, 17 is the "playgirl" scene where she turns into a bunny. 18 doesn't seem to have a scene set yet?
PRO100_Sasha  [author] Jun 26, 2018 @ 8:10pm 
You're probably subscribed to some mod for this game. Either that or game got silencly updated after creation of this guide (which is not likely since I watch for developers and they made no updates to the game itself, only a few mods). I don't know anything about mods themselfs tbh, I played them roughly and long time ago.
Try to read mod's page and discussions... if Russian isn't much of a problem to you.
purplepenguinjen Jun 26, 2018 @ 8:04pm 
Does anyone know how to get cutscene 18?
Sharkzy Mar 1, 2018 @ 8:29am 
谢谢,你的攻略很有用!/ Thank you very much, your guide is so helpful!:steamhappy: