The Witch’s Cauldron: 100% Achievement Guide

This is the translation of my Russian achievements guide into English. Please note that some information (certain terms, exact titles of the characters and the wording of their requests) in this guide may be inconsistent with what you’ve seen in the game as I played the Russian version. The names of the potions though will be correct at all times as I’ve checked them in the English version of the game. I’ll try to update this guide over time to correct any inaccuracies and to add more details.

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.

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

The witch moves to another town. This ending occurs if you just do your job long enough: don’t meddle in politics (more about this in the description of the achievement Neutrality) and serve a certain number of visitors. This ending will happen one night on its own without any special effort.

According to the developer, the Moving ending activates when the player runs out of story cards.

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 Arcane Circle. This ending is achieved in four steps:

1) On the first step, when the Blind Man says he came attracted by the smell and asks 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 Arcane Circle. Serve Kombucha to several visitors (you can do it in more than one day). Does not affect the Dread and Fame bars.

4) And again you will receive a letter from the Arcane 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. The effect gained from joining the Arcane Circle is retained for all cycles, either after moving to another town or after death.

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 asking you to brew something or solve his riddle.

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, thus 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 Archbishop, and the Bandits. The quests of the agents of each of these powers are marked with a special icon:

The King — crown

The Archbishop — 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. Simply refuse to fulfill the request, give not what they want from you.
The King’s messenger wants the Perception Potion, the nun wants the Potion of Numbness, the Bandit Leader wants the Pickmeup Potion.

Power play
Meddle in politics. Pay the price

For this ending, you need to help the King in his confrontation with the Archbishop, 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 Archbishop. If you did not help the king’s bastard find the ancient chalice in the current cycle, 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 Archbishop. Give him any booze to discredit the Archbishop 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 Archbishop, 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 Archbishop.

In order to gain the bastard’s support, you should get the quest to find the ancient chalice (it triggers randomly):
1) The King’s messenger says that his master is tired of unwanted attention and wants to disguise himself — Chameleon Potion
2) The royal healer says that the bastard of the former king wants to confirm the purity of blood and he has to find in the chronicles how to do it — Perception Potion
3) The bastard says he needs to find out to whom one of the former kings has given the ancient chalice — Perception Potion

If the conflict starts after this quest, you will later be visited by the king’s bastard (the man in the metal mask) who will ask you to help depose the Archbishop. Give him any booze to discredit the Archbishop 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 Archishop against each other, and then fulfill all requests of the bandits.

White hat
Find faith in your heart

For this ending you need to help the Archbishop in his confrontation with the King. The Archbishop’s messengers quests are marked with a mitre and crossed rods icon (as in the achievement picture). At some point the Archbishop’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 do not get the quest to help cure the Archbishop’s sister before the start of the conflict between the Archbishop and the King. If you first cure the Archbishop’s sister and later support the Archbishop 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 Archbishop’s sister before the conflict between the King and the Archbishop, and later to side with the Archbishop in his confrontation with the King. However, this ending can happen even if you have not gotten the quest to heal the sister in the current cycle. If you cannot achieve the White hat ending because of this, try resetting the game progress and attempt a new playthrough avoiding to engage in the conflicts of influential powers until you get the right conflict starter quest (and be sure NOT to fulfill the request to heal the Archbishop’s sister if this quest triggers).

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.

For now, I can only state the right order of potions in this quest line. Later I will add fragments of what the vision says after each new dream to recognize each stage of this quest line easily and select the right potion.

1) Potion of Oblivion
2) Pickmeup Potion
3) Potion of Irresistible Laughter
4) Perception Potion

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 mushroom circle

An innkeeper asks for help to get rid of mushroom circle. Achieved in two steps:

1) Perception Potion
2) Mushroom Soup

When pigs fly
Make the pig fly

A peasant who raises a pig for a contest asks for help to kill 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 simpleton to help prank someone (or cheer people up), give him the Poisonous Decoction.

Soul music
Kickstart the bard’s career

A bard asks for something to get the audience to notice him and not be stingy with coins. Achieved in two steps:

1) The Bard — Love Potion or Potion of Irresistible Laughter
2) The tavern keeper who asks 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. (I will later add correct wording for the parts of this quest line.)

1) The monster hunter (give something to eat) — you can give any food
2) The vampire (make life colorful again) — Сaleidoscopic Booze
3) The monster hunter (catch the enemy in the barn) — Perception Potion or Love Potion
4) The vampire (another bottle of exhilarating poison) — Potion of Irresistible Laughter
5) The monster hunter (help study the tablet) — 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) Potion of Numbness or Healing Elixir
2) Healing Elixir
3) Potion of Strength
4) Rejuvenation Potion

Fhtagn!
Help to rouse the deep one

Three times give the Pickmeup Potion to the cultists who ask for a remedy to wake 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) Speed Elixir
2) Potion of Numbness or Sleep Potion
3) 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) Cure for father — Healing Elixir
2) Teach a guy a lesson — you can give any potion to continue the quest line
3) Exchange recipes — you can give any food to continue the quest line
4) Going to the forest, need something? — Perception Potion (gives 45 coins, other potion — 15 coins)
According to the developer, the next visit of the girl is triggered when Dread or Fame bar is burning.
5) The girl will tell you what potion she needs
6) Rise above all — 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 in stealing 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 in stealing 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 (loosing her temper completely) — 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 in human voice. Achieved in two steps:

1) The children — Voice-changing Elixir
2) The cow — Voice-changing Elixir or Chameleon 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) Headache — Healing Elixir
2) Shadows — Perception Potion
3) Thieving pixies — Sleep Potion

Scarecrow genocide
Destroy all scarecrows in the neighborhood

Give the Hot Stuff (or any other booze) to a warrior 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 tired from the suitors. Later you uncover a conflict between two women over a rooster. Achieved in three steps:

1) Bad-looking woman (tired from the suitors) — Green Tea
2) Good-looking woman (give something refreshing) — Pickmeup Potion
3) Bad-looking woman (I’ll steal the rooster and break the spell) — Potion of Oblivion

Vampire slayer
Help the guard become a vampire slayer

The witch is visited by a monster hunter and a vampire. (I will later add correct wording for the parts of this quest line.)

1) The monster hunter (give something to eat) — Potion of Oblivion
2) The vampire (make life colorful again) — Potion of Oblivion
3) The guard (a vampire is on the loose) — Potion of Strength

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

This achievement unlocks on the card with the following event: the monarch handed the bastard an ancient chalice to drink holy water 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 the counselor, is obsessed with a nonexistent family chalice and she can only be saved if forgets about it. If you side with the counselor by erasing the baroness’s memory and later poisoning the baron, the chalice will be eventually melt by the counselor. Support the baroness by not wiping her memory or giving her harmful potions in the first stage of the quest (I gave Perception Potion), after which you will be visited by the baroness herself — two times give her Perception Potion. This way the chalice should be preserved at the end of this quest line. If you support the baron by erasing his cousin’s memory and then giving him Voice-changing Elixir, at the end of the quest the chalice will be thrown into the sea.

Help the former king’s bastard find the chalice

1) The King’s messenger says that his master is tired of unwanted attention and wants to disguise himself — Chameleon Potion
2) The royal healer says that the bastard of the former king wants to confirm the purity of blood and he has to find in the chronicles how to do it — Perception Potion
3) The bastard says he needs to find out to whom one of the former kings has given the ancient 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.

The peasant tells that he sheltered pilgrims beaten on the road, you need to heal them.