Achievements Guide — All 50 Steam Achievements and How to Get Them

Dragonwilds tracks 50 achievements on its Steam log — a mix of tutorial milestones, mechanic trick shots, region quest lines, boss kills and the level-99 grind. Most unlock naturally; a handful hide behind specific spell combos that deserve warning. This guide walks the full list by family, with the fast routes to the tricky entries.

The tutorial milestones (unmissable)

The opening achievements track the game's first hours — nearly everyone unlocks these:

• Swift Pick — mine an ore.
• One Misthalin Star — cook a food item.
• Chop Chop — chop down a tree.
• Stab, Slash, Crush! — construct a weapon.
• Crafting to Your Own Rune — craft a rune.
• Sheltered — build a base and claim a bed.

If you've read the getting started guide, you've already done all six before your first dragon sighting.

The mechanic trick shots (the real achievements)

This family is where completionists sweat — each requires a specific spell interaction, and several are famously rare (their global percentages are tiny):

• Not today! — parry an attack. Timing lesson: the parry window is generous once you've watched an attack twice.
• Singed! — hit an enemy with fire magic.
• Strike True — hit an enemy with a Trick Shot.
• Honed Edge — enchant a weapon (the Mystic Forge's first visit pays).
• I'll Just Watch — have a confused enemy defeat another enemy. Cast Confuse in any two-enemy pack and spectate politely.
• Master Huntsman — hit an enemy trapped in a Snare with an enhanced arrow. The ranger-mage combo shot: root, then loose.
• It's all Mine! — break 4 ore deposits with one Rocksplosion. Find a clustered node field — the desert's and Ghornfell's vein clusters are built for it.
• You Axed for It — cut down 3 trees with one Axtral Projection. Same trick, forest edition: dense treelines, one cast.
• Mend it like... — repair 3 items with one Magical Mending. Enter a fight with three damaged equipment slots; the AoE mend closes them together.
• Eye can see my house from here! — build while using Eye of Oculus. The build-mode flight spell; place anything mid-vision.
• No Runefunds! — cast Runes to Rune Essence. The economy's return valve, unlocked by being over-stocked.
• Gotta Patch 'Em All — harvest 24 plots with a single Uproot. The 1.0 farming endgame: max plots, one cast.
• Frenzied — cast Fishnado on a frenzied fishing spot. The rarest fishing entry; wait for a frenzy, then go to town.
• Sharp and Shiny — have your weapon both magic-enchanted and whetstone-honed at once.
• All Buffed Up — hold a food, infusion and potion buff simultaneously. Stack before any boss attempt and it lands itself.

The quest and region family

• Helping around the farm — complete 3 secondary quests in Brynmoor.
• Bark at the Moon — complete 3 secondary quests in Ghornfell.
• Don't fear the Reaper — complete 3 secondary quests in Fellhollow.
• Mages & Knights & Demons, oh my! — complete 3 secondary quests in Dowdun Reach.
• Icthlarin's Bigger Helper — complete 3 secondary quests in Umbral Sands.

Each pairs perfectly with the side quests hub — three per region is a light evening each.

The boss and medal family

• Dragon Slayer — defeat Velgar (guide).
• Withering Heights — defeat Imaru (guide).
• Black Knight's Fortress — defeat the Black Knight Titan (guide).
• Scorching Sands — defeat Umbral Sands' boss.
• Regicide — defeat Queen Kuldra. The 100% log's final wall (guide).
• Medal Winner — your first gold medal; Medal Collector — gold on every course. The minigame completionist's track.

Plus the comedy entries nobody plans:

• Doric's Fire Fried Chicken — kill a chicken with a fireball. Doric would like a word.
• One/two Misthalin Stars family — cooking milestones, ending in Two Misthalin Stars (make an iconic meal).

The level-99 grind

The final family — the true RuneScape heritage:

• Melee Master — Attack 99
• Dionysius' Disciple — Magic 99
• Thrill of the Hunt — Ranged 99
• Everything is Oresome — Mining 99
• Everything is Treemendous — Woodcutting 99
• The School of Jewels — Artisan 99

No shortcuts: these are the long-game achievements that reward months of natural play. Train them the way the game intends — by doing everything, constantly. The skills guide explains why the portfolio approach wins anyway.

Completion order that works

1. Natural play through the campaign — tutorial set, region quest sets, boss kills land on the way.
2. Trick-shot cleanup — one session with Confuse, Snare+bow, Rocksplosion at a node cluster, and the mend trick.
3. Medals and minigames — the course circuit.
4. The 99s — the long road; play, don't grind.

Frequently asked questions

Are any achievements missable? No — the log is fully retroactive. Missed trick shots wait patiently.

What's the rarest achievement? Regicide — the Queen's head is the rarest trophy in the game, with only a sliver of players claiming it.

Do achievements have rewards beyond the log? Completion satisfaction, mostly — Dragonwilds keeps its rewards in the world, not the meta-shop. The log is the receipt.