KeeperRL: 100% Achievements Guide

Completed the tutorial

You have completed the tutorial and are ready to get your ass handed to you for real!

Self-explanatory. Takes about 10 minutes and it will hold your hand through the process. If you have skipped it, the option will be there when you hit ‘Start new game’.

Mined iron ore

Time to put the forge to work.

Iron and stone are readily available in the first two z-levels above ground in the mountain. Also fairly prevalent from 3 z-levels below ground to around 14-24 z-levels down.

Mined adamantium ore

Make some new, shiny slaughter toys!

Adamantine can occur starting about 14 z-levels below ground. If you encounter adamantine nodes closely surrounding a question mark, maybe ignore it until you are better prepared.

Mined adoxium ore

Adoxie would be proud of you.

Metals such as adoxium and infernite can be found starting 24 z-levels below ground.

Mined infernite ore

This one’s gonna burn!

For acquisition, see ‘Adoxium ore’. Hauling the ore will not burn you, nor will hauling any equipment made from it. You WILL need fire resistance (30%) to be able to equip any weapons made from it.

Conquered a lesser villain

You are on the right path to becoming a respectable Keeper.

Lesser villains are the yellow-boxed encounters on the world map. Go there and slaughter/capture all. You’ll know you have them all when a text box will pop advising said tribe as been conquered. conquered lesser and main villains are the only way to remove the fog-of-war from the world map.

Conquered a main villain

Your enemies have every reason to expect all the worst from you.

Rather than being yellow-boxed like the lesser villains, they’re red-boxed. FYI: Player keeps are purple-boxed.

Captured a prisoner

You managed to enslave an enemy to use for your evil deeds.

While in combat, if you hover an enemy you’ll see the option to click to capture. If the enemy is right beside your controlled leader, instead of attacking, you can right-click to open an option menu to then capture.

Captured enemies will have an ‘Unconscious’ timer, usually around 300 turns. You must wipe the tribe, leave the map and ‘recruit’ them before the timer is up, or they’ll die.

You’ll need a prison area to recruit them, which will require iron ore.

Converted a prisoner

You have successfully grown your army using enslaved enemies.

Place a torture table and drag your prisoner to the torture table. Your minions will beat the prisoner until they either submit or die.

Prisoners who submit can join your army, gain experience and fight, but will count towards your population total. Prisoners do not count towards your population total, but cannot gain experience or fight in combat. Prisoners can haul, craft, build, etc. So keep your good crafters in chains.

Rode a dragon

You mounted the most majestic creature in the game.

Dragons can be captured and ridden as mounts as prisoners.

This one was bugged for me and didn’t unlock until every single one of my minions were on dragons of each kind. Your mileage may vary.

Won the game

You have seized ultimate victory by vanquishing all rivals and asserting your dominion.

Conquered all the main villains. Take it slow, pace yourself, and pay attention to the EXP in the preview; the larger the number, the more difficult the fight. If you feel like you’re hitting a brick wall, archers are always good – try and find a 50 skill forger and gun for adamtium. You can focus on a few well experienced minions, or swam with numbers (and lots and lots of archers). Enslave dryads and elven archers early.

Won the game with low health

You have narrowly achieved victory while having less than 5% health.

It’s a bit of a tricky one and requires some finagling. I played as a lich and ran through the map, killing off everyone but leaving one of the beginning main villains alive. Once I was sure I was powerful enough to one-shot the weaker–and now last remaining–main villain with my keeper, I began preparations.

I took a poison potion and passed turns until I was below 5% health. I then used a potion of permanent poison resistance, which removed the debuff (it’s what I had on hand; anything that will remove the poison will work; just make sure it doesn’t heal you). I then used a potion of invisibility to get the jump on the villain, ensuring I ended things with one or two cracks of the fiery whip. If you mess up, you have your phylactery to fall back on.

For my run, the Elementarist was my choice – just equip a ring of fire immunity when facing them and try not to kill them when they invade your base. Instead, give them the run-around, and after enough turns, they’ll eventually leave and never return. If you pay them off, they’ll keep returning, asking for more money.

Retired a dungeon

Your fortress has been immortalized and is awaiting daredevils who’d like to try conquering it.

After you have won the game you’ll have the option to retire the dungeon and upload it to the Steam Workshop. Do so, and get the achievement.

Killed by a pig

Now that is embarrassing.

Start a new run, immediately unequip everything, walk towards the village, find a pig, hit it, pass the turn, and die.

Solved the sokoban puzzle

Pushing around boulders like a boss!

In one of the ‘Unknowns’ that will spawn on the world map, they have a chance to generate a walled staircase usually situated surrounding water. Enter it to find a Sokoban puzzle – push the boulders to solve it and enter the next room to find a chest.

Discovered Adoxie’s cult hidden stash

He trully is coming.

The ‘Guard Post’ lesser villain has a chance of spawning a bookcase on the top floor. You can click on it and smash it like a door, revealing a hidden staircase leading up to two chests that include ‘Religious Pamphlets’.

Discovered an assassin’s secret stash

Time to stab someone.

In the ‘Cottages’ that spawn on the world map, if you enter the homes and smash the tables, there’s a chance a staircase leading down will be revealed. Enter to find a chest.

Discovered an artisan’s hidden stash

Time to craft something beautiful and sharp!

In the ‘Blacksmith’ that may spawn on the world map, if you enter the home and smash the anvils, there’s a chance a staircase leading down will be revealed. Enter to find a chest.

Discovered the Black Market

Don’t spend all your gold!

When you first start your run, bandits will spawn somewhere on your home map. Kill them and loot a key that they will drop. Later, when you’re ready, take on the ‘Adoxie Priest’ main villain. Along the way, you’ll discover a deactivated portal in the dungeon. Use the key next to the portal and it will activate; enter, and you’ll discover a new trading ally.

Killed a kraken

Its tentacles were no match for you.

While mining on your home map, you may encounter purple water. These are enchanted pools. Each turn, there’s a slight chance of a Kraken spawning in one of these pools – even if it’s only a single tile large. They will eventually respawn, even if they are killed. Note: I’ve had Kraken spawn in non-enchanted pools, but they never respawn when killed.

Kraken tentacles will drag you into the water and drown you. Best dealt with from afar, or with levitation. Don’t bother with the tentacles unless they’re blocking your view from the Kraken itself, as they’ll just infinitely respawn until the head is dealt with.

Killed or captured a minotaur

Have you used your thread?

In the ‘Knights’ main villain map, their stronghold has a chance of spawning stairs leading down to a labyrinth. The Minotaur spawns here. Just bash it until it’s dead.

Killed or captured a ki-rin

Or was it just a giraffe?

Instead of spelunking on your home map, if you instead build stairs upwards in the mountain, eventually, you’ll reach the summit (around -10 z-levels for me). Ki-rin can be found here.

Killed or captured a black dragon

Slayed the formidable Black Dragon, claiming your place as a legendary dragon slayer.

While mining on your home map, about 14-24 levels down, you may encounter a black dragon living in an old dwarven fortress. Dragons, in general, are weak to ranged. Black dragons will blind you, so bring someone who can heal blindness or potions of telepathy. Or, bring your beefiest guy right up into its face and contentiously bash in its general vicinity until it’s dead.

Killed or captured a fire demon

Defeated the fearsome fire demon, vanquishing this ancient evil and proving your valor in the fiery depths of battle.

During your spelunking, you may have encountered some golden thrones that, when sat on, summon goblins. Well, this guy is why.

A about 14-24 levels down, you may encounter a tribe of goblins being lead by the fire demon. Bring fire resist and archers. Be sure to loot the whip that he drops.

Classic | Wizard

Successfully started a succubus breeding program

Sexy times!

You’ll need to unlock the following technologies:

• Demon Srhines
• Advanced Alchemy > Human and/or Beast Mutation

You’ll need two demon shrines to attract a succubus; then, your succubus will ‘make love’ to one of your minions while they sleep. This process is automatic. Once they are pregnant (it’ll be a buff on a timer), you’ll have the option to recruit either a legendary human or beast, which costs 100g. Recruit one to unlock. (Note: if they later die, you’ll never be able to recruit them again in that run. You get four legendary humans and four legendary beasts max, ever.)

Undead

Saved by a phylactery

You completed the ultimate step towards lichdom!

As a necromancer, spend 500g to build a phylactery and enable ‘phylactery’ in the Activity tab. Once your keeper or minion has bounded to a phylactery, go ahead and get them killed. They’ll teleport back to the phylactery fully healed, limbs included, but the phylactery will be destroyed. So long as you build another one, this process is repeatable.

Greenskins

Polymorphed into a chicken

Bawk bawk BUGAAAAAWK!

First of all, the keeper polymorph potion doesn’t trigger this, so don’t waste five hours like I did. Instead, you unlock this via ‘chickenmancy’, a spell school unique to the Greenskin faction.

To be able to recruit the Goblin chickenmancer, you’ll first have to find the ‘Goblin Matriarchs’, goblins who function similarly to succubi. They can be found while spelunking in your home map, surrounded by many, many Kraken. Prepare twice as many archers. Luckily, the matriarchs will be locked in a sealed room, so they’re safe – giving you time to deal with the many Kraken surrounding them slowly.

Hermit

Won the game as a solo Keeper

You punished your enemies without any help!

This is more about patience than tactic. Cyclops is the only faction that cannot recruit, capture, or start off with any minions. You get one chance, and you’re always in danger.

Take things slow, only fight battles that you can be sure to win. My recommendation is to focus on unlocking Iron working first, then jewellery, then alchemy, then traps. Speed potions, levitation, healing, poison and fire resistance are mandatory. When dealing with elves and dryads, throwing a hand torch to burn the forest down is a very viable strategy.

Corrupted Church

Absolved of a mortal sin

You have absolved a minion from their mortal sin. May they resist future temptations!

Unlock the ‘Big temptations’ technology, hire a gigolo/courtesan, wait until they copulate with a member of your congregation, and then wait for said sinner to confess their ‘mortal sin’ at a confession booth.

Held a Black Mass

You have dedicated the souls of you and your minions to the Evil God Adoxie.

You’ll need to unlock the following technologies: Luxury > Dark crafts > Worship of Adoxie. Craft the ‘Liturgical book of the Evil God Adoxie’, equip it to your keeper, and hold a mass.

Tricked Death

At the end of the ‘Adoxie Priest’ main villain dungeon, you’ll see an Adoxie statue. Click it as if you were bashing a door, and it will break to reveal a staircase leading down. Enter, and you will see Death.

If you have not already done so, purchase the ‘Amulet of Life Saving’, which you can get from the ‘Black Market’ for 2,000g. With the ‘Amulet of Life Saving’ equipped, right-click and talk to Death. He will attempt to insta-kill you, but instead of dying, you will spawn ‘Somewhere very hot’, unlocking the achievement.

For future runs, you can use an invisibility potion to sneak past him, but that’s no fun – and also doesn’t unlock the achievement.

Killed by the Evil God Adoxie

After tricking Death, you’ll be teleported to ‘Somewhere very hot’. You’ll encounter hostile spirits and two bosses that you’ll have to solo, the first being Diablo and the second being Adoxie. When first entering Adoxie’s chamber, you’ll see a statue. Bash the statue until Adoxie comes to life.

It won’t immediately attack until you strike it first (even evil incarnate has some chivalry), so you have three choices: first, strike it, and then pass turns until it kills you, unlocking the achievement; second, fight it, kill it, loot it for a rare gear enchantment; three, don’t strike it, and instead simply push it out of the way to gain access to the staircase. If you want the achievement, go for the first option.

Note: If you are playing as a lich, do NOT have your phylactery active when it kills you. It won’t count – you need to die-die.

Reached the land Down Under

After defeating/dying to/pushing aside the Evil God Adoxie and heading up the staircase, you’ll find yourself in the most evil and vile lands of yet – Australia. Nothing else to do here except kill the natives and leave. Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!

Zombies

Not, Undead; Zombies. Totally different.

When fighting the ‘Zombies’ main villain, you can find a ‘Rotten Scroll’ either within the coffins or hidden behind a fake wall. Loot it, read it, aaarrrggghhh.

Greenskins

While playing one of the ‘nice guys’, the Goblin King may spawn as a main villain (I’ve confirmed Castle; spawns for Corrupted Church, but they can’t torture, making the next part moot). Capture him, and torture him. Regardless if he submits or dies, you’ll unlock the Greenskin faction.

Note: If he submits but he can’t fully realise his EXP due to luxury requirements, you MUST fulfil those requirements before it’ll unlock.

Hermit

Along the way you may have found some ‘magic’ mushrooms. Keep hold of them. When you attack the Cyclopes main villain, he may drop a strange scroll. This strange scroll can only be read when you’re high, so take the magic mushrooms, read the scroll, and realise your full potential and your place in the universe.