This is a guide for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl achievements. Currently, achievements are only available for the Legend of the Zone Trilogy on consoles. However, we have prepared this guide in advance, hoping that GSC will release an achievements patch in the future. We trust in GSC.
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If you haven’t played the Trilogy before, this is your chance to enjoy atmonoosphere and lore.
Do not focus on unlocking achievements.
Explore, loot, shoot and have fun!
Tips regarding Shadow of Chornobyl achievements:
- Consider using manual saves. This could help you roll back to an earlier point in case of issues with the game or if you want to unlock missed achievements.
- After you disable the Brain Scorcher, you will reach a point of no return. Therefore, before proceeding with the main story, it’s a good idea to save your game and go back to unlock missed achievements.
Access is granted only after unlocking all achievements.
Follow our guide to do so!
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Difficulty levels
Sidorovich’s apprenticeFinish the game on Novice difficulty.
Check S.U.R.V.I.V.E.D. achievement.
Finish the game on Stalker difficulty.
Check S.U.R.V.I.V.E.D. achievement.
Finish the game on Veteran or Master difficulty.
You can play the entire game on the Novice difficulty, and just before the Wish Granter, change the difficulty to Veteran or Master. After making your wish you will earn the achievement.
Lore achievements
You’re finally awake…Do not think too much, act!
Start the playtrough.
You found Strelok’s hideout, the search continues.
Lore-related achievement, cannot be skipped.
Reach the Strelok hideout.
The venture to Yantar was worthy. Your brain is protected now!
Escort Kruglov/ Semenov to the Scientist Bunker after the completing the measurements.
The guide has shown you where to go.
After obtaining the documents from X-16, give them to the Barkeep and head to the Cordon.
You will find the Guide in the house where you helped the stalker Fox at the beginning of the game.
Find Doctor who will tell you the truth.
The Doctor will be waiting for you at Strelok’s hideout after you receive the information from the Fox. (check Get out of here, Stalker achievement)
Now you’re onto something.
Pick up the decoder in the hotel in Pripyat after obtaining the key from the Doctor at Strelok’s hideout.
You get what you deserve.
Reach the Wish Granter and make a wish.
Decoder opened the secret Sarcophagus doors for you.
After shutting down the Brain Scorcher and going to Pripyat, get the decoder and in the Sarcophagus, instead of going to the Wish Granter, on the same floor, right after climbing the stairs, turn right and follow the corridor. When you notice a room with a spinning light on the left, head there and climb the ladder. Open the door with the decoder (you don’t have to fight the Monolith, you can just wait them out). You should get it as soon as the door opens.
You have seen the Monolith, but did not succumb to the call.
In the end of the conversation with representative of O-Consciousness, select either of two choices.
If you refuse to join O-Consciousness, you will still need to pass through the teleporter sequence, after which you will receive the achievement.
Could be сombined with I’m all but certain it was… achievement.
(check the achievement below)
Meet Sidorovich for the last time.
During the conversation with representative of O-Consciousness, make sure to REFUSE joining the C-Consciousness.
You will then be dropped at the rear side of the plant. Following teleports, one will eventually briefly take you to Sidorovich and then back to the plant at which point you should get the achievement.
This is how it ends.
Complete the game.
Cumulative achievements
Bread-expertYou have eaten 25 breads.
Bread is often found on the bodies of dead stalkers. You’re most likely to find them on the Cordon/ Garbage.
Save, eat bread, reload the save, repeat.
You have drunk 25 bottles of Cossacks. Hope the time was well-spent.
The easiest way to unclock it is to go to the Dark Valley. At the Bandit Base, on the way to the captive Duty member, there is a room with 2 crates of vodka containing around 30 bottles.
Please, drink responsibly!
Kill 500 stalkers.
Cumulative across the playtrough, so probably you will unlock it somewhere near the game end.
Rip and Tear, untill it is done!
Kill 250 mutants.
Cumulative across the playtrough. Could be farmed by exploring locations.
Poor creatures.
You have sold 20 dog tails.
On the Cordon and the Garbage, there are plenty of blind dogs. Collect at least five, then save your game and sell them to any random stalker. Repeat this process until unlocked.
Kill each mutant at least once.
Mutants of the Zone:
- Blind dog (could be found on any location)
- Pseudodog (could be found in X-18 laboratory, Agroprom, Rostok, Wild Territory)
- Flash (could be found on any location)
- Boar (could be found on any location)
- Bloodsucker (could be found in Bloodsucker village which is near Military Warehouses or X-16 laboratory)
- Snork (could be found in almost every X laboratory or Jantar lake)
- Pseudogiant (could be found in X-18 labotary, in the sewers after leaving X-16)
- Controller (could be found in Agroprom Undergroundin or X-16 laboratory)
- Poltergeist (could be found in X-16 and X-18 laboratories)
- Rodent (could be found in X-16 and X-18 laboratories, Wild Territory)
Secondary achievements
The worst stalker in the ZoneThe Zone has no place for empathy. Tolik has learned it the hard way.
After the beginning of the game, follow the road out of the rookie village. Turn left, and you will eventually come across a train car with a yellow dot on the map. This is Tolik. After you talk to him, shoot him to get the achievement.
Save before murdering him, so you can later reload and help him instead, which will unlock “A decent start” achievement.
Poor guy didn’t see it coming.
You helped Tolik and saved him. Who knows, maybe someone will show mercy to you?
Same as The worst stalker in the Zone achievement, but give medkit to Tolik instead of killing him.
You’ve saved Yurik and proven that the Zone is not a place where the strongest rule.
Save the stalker Yurik, who is being searched by bandits when you first come to the Garbage. We advice you to save before attempting to rescue him, because one of the bandits almost always deliberately kills Yurik after shots are fired.
Rock, paper, scissors, gun.
Do not allow bandits to defeat Bes and his men.
After saving Yurik, he leads you to the Bes group. Talk to Bes and agree to repel the bandit attack.
Even the Zone remembers deserters.
In Agroprom in North West corner is a swamp. When you approach it beware of high radiation and make a save.
There is a train cart. Inside is a friendly Military. Just talk to him.
Only for 800?
After completing the story mission in the Dark Valley, to the right of the point of transition to the Cordon, there will be a farm. Go there, one of the NPCs will offer to buy a weapon from him for 800 rubles. You have to agree.
800 currency is 800 currency
Good Ol’ Days!
Just enter the small room with the photo of the game developers on the wall. The room is located in X-18 laboratory, where you meet Pseudogiant during the main story quest.
You managed to save professor Kruglov and did not let the Zone extinguish his light.
Rescue Professor Kruglov in the Wild Territory from a group of Wolfhound. Then, escort him to the transition point to Yantar. There you must conduct measurements together with Kruglov, and then safely escort him alive to the Scientist Bunker.
Anything for the Science!
This village gave you shelter, and you have not forgotten this.
At some point when you return to Rookie Village, Wolf (the guy who gave you your first mission) will be relaced with Fanatic.
Fanatic will task you with eliminating Mercenary forces (6) camping where Tolik was – just North-East from the Rookie Village. When you kill them, return to Fanatic and you’ll get your achievement.
Do it is just after collecting documents in X-18. Sidorovich will lead you out of Dark Valley and ask you to come by and show him the documents.
The champion of the Arena.
You need to complete all stages of the Arena in the Bar. The stages are unlocked as you increase your rank (could be checked in your PDA).
Rounds 4, 5, 6 are for rank level (400 points). Rounds 7 and 8 are for rank level (600 points). You can get these ranks quicker by killing as many enemies, mutants, and completing quests as possible.
Most likely, you will unlock the last stages after completing X-16.
Choose your side in this conflict.
After collecting documents from X-16 laboratory, you need to complete one of the quest chains for any faction, although joining the factions is not mandatory:
For Duty: Complete Voronin’s quest chain at the Bulldog-6 and obtain the unique sniper rifle TRS-301. After this, you will be accepted into the faction.
Alternatively, you can help the Skull group destroy the Freedom Base at the Army Warehouses.For Freedom: Upon your first visit to the Army Warehouses, betray the Duty faction to Lukash, then find the informant (approach the meeting discreetly to avoid quest failure). After this, help defend the Barrier from Monolith squads. Following these actions, you will be accepted into Freedom.
No doors can stand between you and your goal. Even ones that lead nowhere.
At the Radar, at the crossroads of roads leading to the Brain Scorcher and Pripyat, there is a hole in the fence where the bodies of dead scientists. Next to them, behind the fence, there is a staircase leading to a small platform with a door that you need to open. The code for is 1287975.
Anomalies & artifacts achievements
GarlandFill all 5 slots with artifacts.
Just equip 5 artifacts. Could be the same ones.
Die from 5 different anomalies.
You just need to die from 5 different anomalies. Death from radiation also counts. You could achieve this in the Garbage or Agroprom.
Boltman, boltman…
Equip all beach-themed artifacts. And do not forget the lights!
Not quite an obvious achievement.
You have to find and equip all artifacts whose names are somehow related to “beach themes”. These are:
- Jellyfish (Can be found on the Cordon, in the pit behind the rookie village. Also, many of these are in Agroprom)
- Sparkler (Born in electro-anomalies only from 00:00 to 04:59. Can be found on the Cordon in the tunnel or in Agroprom underground. Check anomalies frequently)
- Urchin (Guaranteed to be found in the Agroprom Underground, where first encounter of bloodsuckers happen)
- Goldfish (Guaranteed to be found in Yantar. Just before entering X-16, do not go down the stairs but go up a couple of floors where you can find the artifact on the stairs)
- Night Star (Guaranteed to be found at the Monolith Base in the Palace of Culture Energetik, in containers near the Monolith “Antenna”. There is a very small chance of spawning in Agroprom (check “Hiker” achievement).
All other spawn locations are in Pripyat and at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP).
You can also obtain it from the quest of the stalker Baldy (he is in the Bar 100 rads) by killing the stalker Umnik in the Army Warehouses, or by following a lead to the “Stash of Smoked” in X-18)
Equip all endurance artifacts.
You need to find 3 artifacts that boost Endurance and equip them. Each artifact only spawns between 00:00 and 04:59. These are:
- Sparkler (Born in electro-anomalies only from 00:00 to 04:59. Can be found on the Cordon in the tunnel or in Agroprom underground. Check anomalies frequently)
- Flash (Can also be found in the tunnel on the Cordon or in anomalies in the Agroprom Underground)
- Moonlight (No guaranteed spawn location. Can be found in the same anomalies as Sparkler and Flash. Can be found in one of the stashes at the end of X-16, or obtained from the Barkeep’s quest to kill the stalker named Sparrow (the most preferred option))
Find each common and rare artifact in the Zone.
One of the most tedious achievements in the game. You need to find 14 out of 27 artifacts in total. These are:
- Slime (Spawns in chemical anomalies in the Wild Territory)
- Slug (Guaranteed to be found in X-18 in the corner of the pool with a chemical anomaly, which is on a floor with snorks)
- Jellyfish (Guaranteed to spawn in the pit near the rookie village)
- Stone Flower (Guaranteed to be found at the Elevator in the Cordon, though it is difficult to retrieve from there. Easier to find in the trash heaps in the Garbage)
- Sparkler (Born in electro-anomalies only from 00:00 to 04:59. Can be found on the Cordon in the tunnel or in Agroprom underground. Check anomalies frequently)
- Flash (Can also be found in the tunnel on the Cordon or in anomalies in the Agroprom Underground)
- Stone Blood (Guaranteed to be found on the locomotive in the Cordon, if you walk right along the railway to the end. Also found in the trash heaps in the Garbage)
- Meat Chunk (Guaranteed to be found on top of the southern trash heap in the Garbage)
- Droplets (Highly likely to be found in the tunnel with Burners in the Wild Territory or in X-16)
- Fireball (Guaranteed to be found in Strelok’s stash or in the tunnel with Burners in the Wild Territory/X-16)
- Thorn (Can only be found in some stashes or on stalker bodies starting from the Wild Territory. Does not physically spawn in the world. Better to search stashes, so check all stash marks on the map)
- Crystal Thorn (Can only be found in some stashes or on stalker bodies starting from the Wild Territory. Does not physically spawn in the world. Better to search stashes, so check all stash marks on the map)
- Twist (Guaranteed to be found in the trash heaps in the Garbage)
- Gravi (Guaranteed to be found in the trash heaps in the Garbage)
Unique armor & weapons related achievements
Mole’s weaponBecome the owner of unique Walker 9 x 18 pistol.
You can find the pistol on the stalker Mole, who leads you to the entrance of the Agroprom Underground. If you enter the Underground, Mole will disappear from the game. The easiest way is to save your game, kill Mole, take his pistol, and after unlocking the achievement, reload your save to avoid ruining your relationship with the loners.
Threaded SPSA-14 is yours. To scare and protect!
The shotgun drops from the bandit Poker, who moves along the route Dark Valley – Garbage – Agroprom – Agroprom Underground after Borov’s death. The easiest way to kill him is in the Agroprom Underground when you go there to meet the Doctor. You can also take a quest from Voronin to kill Poker.
Find the beautiful Martha.
First, you need to save Bullet’s Duty partner when you first arrive in the Dark Valley. After saving him, you can proceed the same way as with Mole a.k.a save, kill, pick up the gun, unlock the achievent, reload the save.
After being rescued, Bullet and his friend will go to the Duty outpost in the Garbage, where they will stay.
You found the Ghost suit and honored his legacy.
Lore-related trophy. You can take the armor off the stalker Ghost right at the end of X-16, after the battle with the Controller.
Tourist suit is yours. Now you can go for a walk and enjoy nearby anomalies.
Tedious trophy. You need to obtain the Tourist Suit. Sidorovich gives it as a reward for the quest Bring the Night Star artifact.
The quest appears only after you bring the documents from X-18 to Sidorovich.
The Night Star artifact can only be guaranteed to find in Pripyat or obtained from the quest given by the stalker Boldy in the Bar to kill the stalker Smartass at the Army Warehouses. Alternatively, you can find it in a stash in X-18 following the lead for Stash of the Smoked achievement.
You can also try to find one in this area at Agroprom.
Don’t forget that the Night Star will also be useful for Party on the beach achievement.
Find Fang exoskeleton.
After exiting X-16, you will find a corpse in the tunnel ahead of you.
Before searching it, make sure to save your game due to lead not spawning 100% of the times.
Your task is to obtain a lead on the stash Fang’s goodies, which is located in Pripyat. Once you receive the lead, save your game and continue playing. In Pripyat, retrieve the armor from the stash to achieve the trophy.
Get Monolith finest weapon.
Guaranteed to receive it after entering the Sarcophagus from the very first enemy.
Closure
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