Besiege: WIP – Fragments Guide/Anniversary New Achievements

As of the 10 year anniversary update, new achievements were added to Besiege – To earn fragments, you have to either complete extra steps within levels, or beat them in a certain way. Some of these can be tricky to do – This guide isn’t comprehensive instructions, but is more like detailed hints, and is meant to help those who are having trouble and or stuck.

Use the search function to find achievements by name. I’ve listed them sequentially and categorised them by their level set.

Fragments make a noise which sounds like glass being slid together when they appear after you meet the requirements to make them spawn, and you have to collect them by touching them with any part of your machine.

Big, big shout out to Spiderling Games for giving us more challenges and making the game more fun!

PLEASE NOTE – I’m still missing one (Mortissimo) as of 1st February ‘25! But I’ve figured out the rest, including those in the DLC (will finish this guide later when I have time). Also, I already had some of these as old versions of the achievements before the anniversary update was released, so some of my hints for them might be wrong – Once you get a fragment, a shadow of it will appear if you complete the objective for it again, which makes it harder to get twice.

In addition, I made a very versatile solution which beats all 70 levels of the game in July ‘24, which still works as of Feb ‘25. The video of me doing this can be found below, and the machine itself can be found among my workshop if you go look for it – It’s this machine which I used to collect most of the trickier fragments from the later levels. But it’s probably more rewarding if you build something yourself which suits you and your own control scheme.

Zone 4 – Old Howl Battlefield
How? : Destroy all the bombs, and then complete the level.

Advice: Either have a machine which shoots, or make one that doesn’t use wooden parts. Even crossbows can destroy bombs.

Zone 6 – Queen’s Fodder
How? : Beat this level without using fire or explosives.

Advice: Just build a simple car, and mow ‘em down with it.

Zone 8 – Standing Stone
How? : Hit a sheep with the laser which the stone shoots you with.

Advice: Sheep like to cluster around your contraption, so build something fireproof and slow moving. Did you know you can using steering blocks as powered axles? Chain them with multiple axles to make them spin faster.

Zone 11 – Lyre Peak
How? : Destroy the monument, then collect the fragment.

Advice: The fragment spawns atop the hill after destroying the monument entirely. Maybe shoot it. Then either build something that can crawl up the hill, or use a flying machine and align yourself with the wind.

Zone 14 – Solomon’s Flock
How? : Find and destroy the imposter in Solomon’s Flock.

Advice: There’s a fake sheep on the upper tier of the level.

Zone 17 – The Duke’s Plea
How? : Kill every NPC in this level, except for the guy holding the scroll.

Advice: It should be easy to avoid him. Move around him. Or use crossbows if you can figure out how to aim them. The fragment spawns by the cart with the gold bars in it.

Zone 19 – Scouts of Tolbrynd
How? : Destroy every scout balloon.

Advice: Just fly into them. The fragment appears floating when you burst the last balloon.

Zone 21 – The Duke’s Dear Freighters
How? : Destroy all the crates in this level, then collect the fragment.

Advice: There’s a crate hidden in the fog by one of the mountains. Watch that debris from the freighters may hide crates. Finding a way to take out the explosive cows as well may make this easier. Two crates are carried by the freighters.

Zone 22 – Grand Crystal
How? : Make the monks in this level play a secret melody.

This is the only fragment I’ve not got yet (01/02/25), so if anyone figures this out before I manage to, feel free to tell me and I’ll credit you!

What I know:

One of the NPCs has four coloured notes above his head.

The other NPCs have single coloured notes over them.

NPCs in this level sing when you run them over (but not if you shoot or burn them). Running individual NPCs with a red, blue, green, then blue note above their heads doesn’t seem to do anything, maybe because I’m not doing it fast enough? But they run away and scatter, and so this is difficult to do.

There are four NPCs next to each other in the circle who have the note sequence which is displayed by the NPC with the scroll, but killing them at the same time also didn’t do anything, unless I got it wrong. Feel free to try!

Zone 25 – Midland Patrol
How? : Kill all NPCs on this level without destroying any tents.

Advice: They’ll spawn from the tents when you get close enough, but there is a limit. They can’t shoot you, so use a blimp to make them spawn. Get them to follow you away from the tents. How you then kill them is up to you.

How I did it: My machine is a blimp that carries a “tank” of sorts, I hovered the blimp over each tent until the NPCs stopped spawning, lead them away, then dropped the “tank” to run them all down.

Zone 31 – Argus’ Grounds
How? : Find a way to retrieve the fragment.

Hint 1: Spoiler image below, hover over the black rectangle to see it:
See this skull here? The fragment is inside the eye socket.

Hint 2: The skull is destructible.

How I did it: My blimp has an arm which can lift the sword. I smashed the skull with it, then used my winch to collect the fragment.

Zone 35 – Aras’ Refuge
How? : Kill every hostile NPC on the floating islands in this level. You do not need to kill the peasants or the cows on the ground.

Advice: As it says on the tin, good luck! These NPCs shoot at you. Bad news if you use a blimp! But you may still be able to bomb them from high up, if you can figure out how to do this accurately. The fragment spawns next to the last NPC you kill, but bear in mind that it might fall to the ground and be difficult to find. Take out the balloons first, and save the NPCs on the larger island until last.

How I did it: As above, my blimp drops a tank with 8 cannon shots which can aim accurately, which I used to take out both freighters, then I shot the tower until it fell. I climbed the blimp higher than the NPCs can shoot – The balloons cannot be destroyed with cannons or crossbows, but they can still burn and be bombed. My blimp also has 8 bombs which drop accurately. I used those to take out all remaining NPCs after taking out the balloons first.

Zone 36 – Frozen Path
How? : Smash all crates on this level.

Advice: If you’ve figured out how to make a machine which can move against the strong winds in this level with enough controllability, it should be easy. The crates are scattered throughout.

Zone 37 – The Awakening Bells
How? : Ring all three bells at once.

Advice: Plenty of ways to skin a cat, is the saying. A simple way of doing this is to build a “forked” scaffold on top of a wheeled vehicle which lines up against the three bells, then drive against them. Other people have attached winches to each bell with grabbers, and pull them. Or you could build a giant blimp bomb!

Zone 41 – Mountain Barrier
How? : Complete this level without explosives.

Advice: Bulldozer! Remember my hint about steering axles if you want to build something which doesn’t use wheels? Or protect wheels with armour, build a tank-like thing that you can use to smash through it. The little keep on the right side of the level is vulnerable to cannon fire, and can also collapse onto the wall to win the level that way.

Zone 42 – Relict Frost
How? : Break the fragment out of the ice in this level, then collect it.

Advice: After you’ve moved the Relict, the fragment is in one of the ice crystals that the Relict was resting on.

Zone 45 – Penitent Tower
How? : Get the axe throwers to hit one of the dummy targets.

Advice: A slow moving vehicle that’s immune to axes may be good for this – Park it near one of the targets until they hit it, but don’t destroy them all. And don’t let other NPCs destroy them – Perhaps get rid of the melee NPCs first before going near the targets. Despite the achievement description, only one target needs to be hit for the fragment to spawn.

Coming within the next day or two! (01/02/25)

Also comin’ soon! Watch this space. I’ve done them all, but I’ma need to write in depth hints with many screenshots, they’re quite tricky.

Oh what the heck, you get this quick preview screenshot: