If you’re trying to unlock every achievement in The Piper of Dawn and complete the full collection, there are quite a few things to keep track of. The game has achievements tied to story progression, character and faction affection, workshop upgrades, orders, fishing, planting, card games, Oracles, the Creation Tree, collections, and multiple endings.
In this guide, I’ll go through the achievements category by category and explain what you need to do for each one. I’ll also cover the important requirements for the different character endings, story endings, secrets, and a few extra Easter eggs that aren’t necessarily required for the achievement list.
Warning: This guide contains major spoilers. If you want to discover the story and endings yourself, I recommend keeping this guide for later. Also, if you want to complete everything during your first playthrough, make sure you save at the Witch’s location and activate the final Creation Tree node related to the Witch Event.
The Piper of Dawn Achievements Guide – CGs, Platinum Trophy
The achievements are divided into several groups:
- 1–7: Story achievements
- 8–33: Character and faction affection
- 34–51: Workshop upgrades and construction
- 52–55: Orders and commission revenue
- 56–58: Fishing
- 59–62: Planting
- 63–72: Card games / Golden Cage
- 73–75: Oracles
- 76: Creation Tree
- 77: Complete collection / encyclopedia
- 78–91: Endings
Story Achievements 1–7
The first seven achievements are the easiest because they are tied directly to normal story progression.
You don’t need to do anything special for these. Simply continue playing through the main story and you should unlock achievements 1 through 7 naturally as you reach the required chapters and locations.
Affection Achievements 8–33
The next group of achievements is based on affection.
There are two main types:
- Personal character affection
- Faction affection
Personal Bonds
The personal affection characters include:
- Sissi
- Nana
- Jimo Li
- Greta
- Luna
- Aurora
The easiest way to increase character affection is by completing orders. Normally, simply submitting orders every day will gradually increase your affection.
If you want to speed things up, you can also:
- Double the number of orders.
- Use the Order Oracle for additional affection.
- Refresh specific factions when necessary.
- Give gifts through the Oracle system during the early stages.
- Later, use time and meditation.
- Give excess diamonds once you reach the appropriate point in the game.
Faction Affection
The faction-related groups include:
- Commercial Street
- Silver Key
- Diamond Sea
- Blackman Guard
- Goddess Believers
- Witch Followers
- Mother
The Diamond Sea achievement is particularly notable because it represents faction affection rather than a normal individual relationship.
For most factions, the main way to increase affection is simply completing their orders regularly.
Workshop and Construction Achievements 34–51
The next achievement group focuses on upgrading your workshop and expanding your various facilities.
Workshop Level Achievements
You need to reach the following workshop levels:
- Level 10
- Level 20
- Level 30
- Level 40
- Level 50
These should come naturally as you continue upgrading your workshop.
Alchemy Shop Construction
The Alchemy Shop has several construction milestones:
- 10 upgrades
- 15 upgrades
- 20 upgrades
If money becomes a problem, use the income methods discussed later in this guide.
Alchemy Shop Theme
For the theme-related achievement, expand the Alchemy Shop to 20×20.
After that, unlock the ability to purchase items with chips at Silver Key Star Snow to trigger the achievement.
Plantation Construction
The plantation achievements require expanding the underground area and building enough land and facilities.
There are four underground expansions to complete.
You also need to construct:
- 100 pieces of land
- 3 facilities
Normal upgrades that illuminate the trees can eventually increase your available building limit, so continue upgrading the area as you progress.
Orders and Revenue Achievements 52–55
This section covers achievements related to completing orders and earning money.
Orders
The major order milestones are:
- 100 orders
- 1,000 orders
You will naturally make progress toward these while working on faction affection, but there are ways to make the process faster.
How to Make Money Quickly
One useful method is using the Fishing Oracle together with the Order Oracle.
The Fishing Oracle requires the third rewind to obtain. Once you have it, you can repeatedly refresh your options and specifically focus on selling King Fish.
Since King Fish can sell for a large amount, this can generate a significant amount of money.
Another method becomes available later when your trade commissions are fully upgraded. Delivering high-value items through trade commissions can earn several hundred thousand currency.
Buying and selling firewood is another simple option.
There are also a few unusual money-related methods hidden around the game, so don’t worry too much if your income is slow early on.
Trade Commissions
There are four characters connected to the trade commission system, which means there are four shops to unlock as you progress.
As you level up, the game will notify you in the upper-left corner when you meet the requirements.
You also need to reach the appropriate character affection level before the corresponding shop becomes available.
Fishing Achievements 56–58
Fishing achievements require you to unlock the fishing system and eventually catch the special King Fish.
How to Unlock Fishing
Go to the plaza and talk to the Veteran.
This unlocks the fishing-related progression.
How to Catch the King Fish
The important thing to understand is that the King Fish does not simply appear by waiting.
You need to activate the Fishing Oracle effect.
Even if you wait for a long time without the Oracle effect, you won’t catch the King Fish through normal fishing.
You need to manually control the fishing process.
I recommend unlocking all available fishing locations before focusing on this achievement. The Oracle requires the fishing locations to be unlocked before you can select the appropriate fishing rod.
You can purchase a rod from the shop, or use one of the limited-edition rods provided by the Oracle. The Oracle version is free.
The required bait can be obtained as a faction affection reward.
Planting Achievements 59–62
The planting achievements are related to crops, plants, and firewood.
Interestingly, you can sometimes unlock the plant-related achievements surprisingly early.
Even though the genetic system becomes available later, your normal planting can already produce mutations.
If you don’t naturally unlock the required plants, you can deliberately cultivate them later once the necessary systems are available.
Humanoid Collection
The humanoid-related collection can be completed while farming alchemy materials or working toward the encyclopedia.
I wouldn’t recommend stopping your progression just to specifically farm these early on. You will naturally obtain many of them while completing the rest of the game’s collection.
Card Game and Golden Cage Achievements 63–72
The next group focuses on the Golden Cage card game.
The chip milestones include:
- 100 chips
- 1,000 chips
- 10,000 chips
Golden Cage Tips
Before seriously grinding Golden Cage, I recommend collecting as many cards as possible.
Cards can come from:
- Shop purchases
- Faction reputation rewards
Once you have a strong card collection, you can play more aggressively.
Raising your bets can make the opponent run out of chips faster. If the opponent builds up too many chips or the hand becomes inefficient, moving to the next hand can save time.
Hearts and Diamonds are useful choices if you’re specifically trying to accumulate chips quickly.
Oracle Achievements 73–75
The Oracle achievements are mostly collection achievements.
If you’re missing something, check your encyclopedia to see which Oracle type or faction you haven’t collected yet.
You will naturally reach around 100 collection attempts while working toward these achievements.
If you need additional attempts, you can purchase Oracle Seeds through Alchemy.
Each rewind unlocks a certain number of Oracles.
If you stop seeing new Oracles after a rewind, that generally means there aren’t any additional new Oracles available during that particular rewind.
Creation Tree Achievement 76
The Creation Tree achievement is straightforward.
Continue progressing through the game and light up the nodes as you level up.
Eventually, you will unlock the required Creation Tree progression.
Remember that the final node is also important for the Witch-related event, so don’t forget to activate it if you’re aiming for a complete first-playthrough achievement run.
Complete Encyclopedia Achievement 77
The complete encyclopedia is one of the bigger collection tasks in the game.
It includes several different categories.
Normal Items
Normal upgrades will eventually provide you with the necessary seeds.
Plant those seeds to obtain the corresponding crops.
Some broken wheels require fishing treasure chests and Wish Coins.
Wish Coins can be obtained from:
- The female lead
- Fishing treasure chests in the plaza
The female lead can also give you Parsnip, which is the crop that looks similar to a carrot.
Alchemy Potions
Alchemy potions are unlocked through the Creation Tree.
Continue lighting up the appropriate Creation Tree nodes and you’ll gradually gain access to the required crafting recipes.
Treasure
Fishing treasure chests are another part of the collection.
There is also a small chance to discover treasure while digging.
In general, you’ll find plenty of these while cleaning up the backyard and progressing through the game.
Oracles
The Oracle collection works the same way described in the Oracle achievement section above.
Continue unlocking Oracles across your rewinds and check the encyclopedia whenever you’re unsure what remains.
Alchemy Materials
The Complete Human Set option is particularly useful here.
You can repeatedly release human sets to obtain alchemy materials and gradually complete the collection.
Once you have most of the human sets, filling the remaining gaps becomes much easier.
As you naturally unlock alchemy potions and human sets, you’ll already be making significant progress toward the complete alchemy collection.
Finishing the final alchemy steps can also produce valuable items that increase your affection with the female lead.
Cards
Cards can be obtained through:
- Shop purchases
- Faction rewards
Keep collecting cards as you progress instead of waiting until the very end.
Fish
The fish collection follows the same fishing progression mentioned earlier.
You’ll need to work through the fishing system and catch the required fish, including the special King Fish.
Buildings
Every building that you unlock needs to be purchased to count toward the building encyclopedia.
Don’t forget that some buildings come from faction rewards.
The Starry Night Shop also sells additional buildings, so check it when you’re completing your collection.
Important Collection Items
For some collection requirements, you’ll need a fishing rod and bait.
For example, the Mushroom-related collection requirement can be obtained after purchasing the appropriate fishing equipment.
I personally wouldn’t rush the complete character collection. It is much easier to work toward it naturally while progressing through the game.
Endings and Achievements 78–91
The final achievements are connected to the game’s different endings.
These are divided into:
- Character endings
- Story endings
Because these contain major spoilers, make sure you’ve reached this section only if you’re ready to see the ending requirements.
Sissi’s Ending
Sissi’s ending is unlocked after visiting the ancestral home.
There is an important timing restriction here.
Sissi’s ending becomes unavailable after the final defeat in the main storyline.
So if you’re trying to collect every ending, make sure you handle this one before progressing too far.
Other Character Endings
The other individual endings can be unlocked before entering the final vortex.
Aurora’s Endings
Aurora has two individual endings.
Before playing the relevant Golden Cage section, I recommend making a save.
The important choices are:
- Take Aurora away
- Leave Aurora behind
Your choice determines which Aurora ending you receive.
Because there are two outcomes, saving beforehand makes it much easier to collect both without replaying a large section of the game.
Luna’s Endings
Luna also has two individual endings.
The relevant routes include:
- We, as normal people in the human world
- The day I crushed the Diamond Sea badge and became a god
You’ll need to follow the appropriate story choices to reach each outcome.
Witch’s Choice Story Ending
The Witch’s Choice is one of the main story endings.
You’ll need a relatively large amount of Alchemy materials.
The good news is that these materials become much easier to obtain during the later stages of the game, and you can also purchase them from the shop if necessary.
You’ll also need 100 pieces of firewood.
I recommend preparing the firewood ahead of time rather than waiting until the ending requirements are active.
Good Night Ending
The requirements for the Good Night ending have changed.
The current version no longer requires you to control affection in the same way as before.
Keep this in mind if you’re following an older guide, as some older information may no longer apply.
Important First-Playthrough Save
If you’re aiming for all achievements and endings in one playthrough, make sure you create a save at the Witch’s location.
You also need to activate the final Creation Tree node and trigger the Witch Event.
The Witch faction needs to reach Level 10 for this event.
This is one of the most important things to remember if you’re trying to avoid having to replay the entire game.
Extra Endings and Easter Eggs
Not every ending or special scene is necessarily tied to a Steam achievement.
There are several additional scenes and Easter eggs worth checking out after you’ve completed the main achievement list.
Greta Ending Variation
Greta can crush all the badges before entering the final event.
Jimo Li Ending Variation
Jimo Li can also crush all the badges before entering the final event.