This Emberward Beginner Guide includes: Achievements that require a specific strategy or setup. Achievements that can be missed if you’re not aiming for them directly.
This guide does not include: Automatic or progress-based achievements. Pure grind or skill-check achievements. Achievements awarded simply by playing the game normally.
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Emberward Beginner Guide – 100% Achievement Walkthrough
This Isn’t Even My Final Form!, System Optimization
Goal: Play as Tiny.
- Create a 3×3 tower using individual 1×1 rune blocks.
- On the following map, reserve a 3×3 space, collect blocks with matching runes, and place them. Once the grid is filled, place the tower.
Monopoly
Goal: Carry the max 150 gold to the next level with Silas.
- Use Demon Flame on Misty Forest. Don’t build towers — let the flame handle enemies while you stack gold.
Spawn Camping
Goal: Kill enemies at spawn points.
- Use Scrap Master. After a few levels, stand near a spawn zone and shoot as enemies appear.
Swift Victory
Goal: Defeat boss quickly.
- Play Scrap Master with Demon Flame on Misty Forest. Let the flame clear waves while you focus-fire the boss. Can be done by round 2 of 6.
Seriously, That’s Not How You Play This Game…
Goal: Win without building towers.
- Use Scrap Master with Demon Flame or high DPS. You can also place towers on existing environmental blocks.
Companion Block
Goal: Collect 1×1 blocks.
- Play as Tiny. Use workshops to convert to 1×1, destroy larger leftovers, and collect 1×1 rewards.
Block Mesa
Goal: Place a full 13×13 block area.
- Play Chunk and repeatedly restart Desert Ruins until you get a map with a 13×13 open space.
Ancient Blessing
Goal: Win two rounds with no towers.
- Use Scrap Master. Towers unlock after wave 2, so rely on Demon Flame or innate damage early on.
The Floor Is Lava
Goal: Build Lava Towers in infinite mode.
- Build as many as possible in a long-run infinite game.
Elementalist
Goal: Avoid using Scrap towers.
- Do not place any tower associated with the scrap rune.
Block Harvester
Goal: Use the Joker’s mechanic to harvest blocks.
- Form lines to make blocks disappear and spawn present boxes with towers.
All You Can Eat
Goal: Collect all three scrap relics.
- Best done with Scrap Master, or during a daily challenge with a scrap tank loadout.
It’s Super Effective!
Goal: Chain Lightning Ball Towers for max output.
- Place 15 Lightning Ball Towers side-by-side.
- Place a separate one with extended range to hit the row. Requires several range upgrades.
Just Want To Watch The World Burn
Goal: Buff Flamethrowers with range upgrades.
- Use Tana for card control.
- Reroll until you get Flamethrower and Rusty Telescope relic.
- Collect 3 Flamethrowers with boosted range via cards and runes.
All Your Base Belong To Me
Goal: Destroy enemy towers before activation.
- Use Fireball Towers. Monitor upcoming enemy towers and build burst-DPS accordingly.
The Perfect Toolbox
Goal: Build one tower of each of the 8 tower shapes.
- Two shapes only have one tower type: Barrage and Scythe.
- Big RNG achievement. Play Belloc to accumulate market currency for rerolls.
- Starting with Chunk gives an early 2×2 tower, but doesn’t help with rarer shapes.
Wait, That’s Illegal
Goal: Apply permanent overcharge using Tana.
- In Sealed Citadel, wait for the overcharge tower to activate.
- Use Tana’s retrieval card on an overcharged tower to gain a permanent overcharge effect.
- Set up 5 towers nearby and apply this once per round.
- You can restart Citadel until you get the map with the overcharge tower.
The Chosen One
Goal: Max out a Giant Dice Tower’s fire rate and damage.
- Build one, reroll until you get a 20 roll.
- Then upgrade to the max. Repeat runs as needed.
Mining Time
Goal: Hit enemies frozen by Golden Statue.
- Place Golden Statue early.
- Design maps so enemies remain in range.
- Ensure DPS towers target frozen enemies.
Lengthen The Corridor!, Labyrinth Designer, World Wonder
Goal: Build a maze over 1000 in length.
- Use Misty Forest.
- Prioritize 1×4 and 1×5 blocks and Inspiration Runes.
- Collect Cartographer’s Manual.
- On the final mission, build around the entire map perimeter. Doesn’t need to be perfect.
…What Tower?
Goal: Win without spending gold on towers.
- Use Wood Elf’s Charm for free tower placements.
- Best done with Tiny and Demon Flame in Misty Forest.
- Reroll until the charm appears.
Advanced Circuitry
Goal: Another maze achievement.
- Use same tactic as above: big blocks, long corridors, and Inspiration Runes.
Back And Forth And Back And Forth
Goal: Force enemy pathing to use all 3 cart connections.
- Some maps have triple-linked carts.
- Design the maze to force enemies across all three.
Welcome To My Backyard
Goal: Lead boss into a specific area.
- Use Shard of Malice Tier 3, which removes walls on some maps.
- Lure the boss behind the flame area.
- Requires precise map design and controlled damage output.
This guide will be updated once the final two achievements become available.