Fieldguide
Quick reference
Choose one unlock objective and bring the equipment it needs. Survivor is available initially; several other survivors depend on a specific achievement, crafting action or encounter rather than simply finding strong loot.
- Sheriff
- Win a run.
- Bananaperson
- Find the banana costume at base.
- Chicken
- Craft three different legendary items; finding them is not the same objective.
- Astronaut
- Find and defend the shuttle.
- Death
- Make contact with the encounter in normal mode.
What to do
- Unlock Item Workbench before planning Chicken's crafting objective.
- For Death, use the normal-mode encounter route and make contact, rather than relying on a distant sighting.
- Read the achievement condition before extending a map or spending ingredients on the attempt.
- Choose one character objective so the route, purchases and crafting ingredients serve the same attempt.
Useful equipment and guides
ChickenCrafting objective and the Mechanical Egg starting mechanic.DeathEncounter instructions, mode qualifications and the Scythe tradeoff.
AstronautShuttle unlock notes and armor-to-critical mechanics.VampireA bat-swarm character associated with the Shady Merchant.
Finding the Shady MerchantWhere the merchant can appear under the 1.0 rules.Unlock objectives
A crafting unlock needs workbench access and ingredients. A long encounter attempt needs equipment that can survive the extra time. Combining both while learning a new weapon can turn one manageable goal into several competing ones.
Survivor is available from the start.
| Character | Unlock objective |
|---|---|
| Survivor | Available from the start. |
| Bananaperson | Find the banana costume at base. |
| Sheriff | Win a run. |
| Chicken | Craft three different legendary items. |
| Astronaut | Find and defend the shuttle in the Canyon biome. |
| Death | Make contact in the normal-run Reaper encounter and survive. |
| Penny | Use three Rubber Ball copies in the backpack. |
| The Carver | Find and carve a Fresh Pumpkin. |
| Santa | Defeat the Snowy Peaks boss. |
| Surfer | Reach six dashes’ worth of stamina. |
| Bushy | Complete the rifle-kill achievement. |
| Vampire | Trigger life steal after obtaining Syringe from Shady Merchant. |
| President Knabe | Enter erstknacktsdannknallts through the main-menu key icon. |
Finding legendary gear does not satisfy a crafting objective. For Death, make contact during the encounter in normal mode.
For Astronaut, look for the shuttle encounter when choosing routes.
Vampire and later unlocks
Buy Syringe from Shady Merchant, mark a weapon with it and trigger life steal to unlock Vampire. Use the individual character profiles to plan equipment and encounter objectives.
Read the achievement condition before spending resources or extending a dangerous map. Check progress afterward. If an older instruction fails, recheck that condition before repeating the risk.
Change characters at the campfire in the center of the base. The Costume Shop is a separate route encounter for buying signature items from characters you are not currently playing.
Costume Shop prerequisite
The Multiple Personalities achievement requires two character items in the backpack. Keep the signature item of your selected character while obtaining another. Carving Fresh Pumpkin with Knife is one route to another character item; starting as Bananaperson lets you keep Special Banana alongside it. Unlocking The Carver on a Survivor run does not by itself put two character items together.
After meeting the prerequisite, buy the Costume Shop unlock at the base workbench with duct tape. Then look for the shop on the journey’s route. Buying the unlock does not create a Costume Shop building at base.
