DREADMOOR has plenty of achievements to unlock as you explore its dangerous waters, repair your boat, complete story missions, and discover different fish species. Some achievements come naturally as you progress through the story, while others require you to spend extra time fishing, collecting materials, crafting equipment, or travelling across the map.
If you’re trying to complete the achievement list, it’s worth keeping track of your progress from the beginning. Several achievements require you to repeat activities multiple times, such as refuelling your boat, catching different types of fish, and cleaning its hull. You can make progress towards these while completing your regular objectives.
In this guide, I’ll cover the known DREADMOOR achievements, including their unlock requirements and any useful tips provided. I’ve grouped them into Story, Fishing Tasks, Boat Tasks, Fighting, Crafting, and Extra achievements so you can find what you’re missing more easily.
DREADMOOR Achievements Guide – How to Unlock Achievement
The supplied achievement information states that DREADMOOR has 44 achievements. However, the list currently contains 45 named achievements across its six categories. The exact total may need confirmation.
Most achievements are connected to normal gameplay, but some require specific actions. For example, you’ll need to catch 100 predatory fish for one achievement, travel 150 km by boat for another, and craft every available bait type for a separate challenge.
Story Achievements
Story achievements are mainly unlocked by completing missions and performing important actions during your journey. Some are tied to specific locations or interactions, so follow the walkthrough objectives carefully.
Here are all the known story achievements:
1. Broken Heart
Requirement: Stop the heart of the Crab House.
You can unlock this achievement during the opening section of the game. Use your Hook Gun to grapple onto the crane outside the Crab House and rotate it.
2. Captain of Your Own Ship
Requirement: Give the old boat a new life.
Repair the engine at the back of your boat using Metal Plates. You’ll complete this during the early boat preparation section.
3. Water Finds a Way
Requirement: Open the first river gate.
You’ll encounter a sluice gate puzzle while sailing towards the Angler Brothers’ cabin. Use the control panel and select these symbols:
- Fork
- Three Circles
Once the puzzle is completed and the gate opens, you’ll receive the achievement.
4. Full Tank
Requirement: Refuel your boat, paying with lunch.
Feed the Fuel Larva with Snappers processed into Fish Meat, then use the fuel pump to refill your boat. This achievement unlocks the first time you refuel it using this method.
5. A Matter of Distillation
Requirement: Return John the Fifth’s source of inspiration.
Repair the moonshine still beside John the Fifth’s shop. You’ll need to collect the required materials before you can fix it.
6. No Polyps, No Leaks
Requirement: Get your boat back in shape.
Clean the polyps from the bottom of your boat using the Water Cannon inside the Dry Dock. Then repair the damaged sides using Bug Slime.
7. Easy There, Beaver
Requirement: Convince the master of the channel to let you pass.
The achievement is listed under story progression, but the exact unlock steps have not yet been provided.
8. Hymn to Ugliness
Requirement: Create a work worthy of the Flesh Weaver.
The exact steps for unlocking this achievement are not yet confirmed.
9. Don’t Bite the Hand That Fuels You
Requirement: Cure the Fuel Larva.
You’ll need to complete the relevant story objective involving the Fuel Larva. The supplied achievement information doesn’t include the exact curing steps.
10. Across the Throat
Requirement: Force the old gates to let you through.
This achievement is connected to story progression involving the old gates. The exact interaction required has not yet been documented.
11. Breathe Deep
Requirement: Clear the Drying Fort room of Blight fumes.
Complete the objective involving the Blight fumes inside the Drying Fort.
12. Family Archive
Requirement: Learn what happened at the Observatory.
Progress through the relevant story section and discover the events connected to the Observatory.
13. Songs Among the Bones
Requirement: Restore the voice of Bone Reef.
Complete the story objective involving the restoration of Bone Reef’s voice.
14. Special Recipe
Requirement: Prepare a batch of Essence for Sludge Bet.
Complete the required preparation task and make a batch of Essence for Sludge Bet.
15. Dam Sweet Revenge
Requirement: Show who truly rules these swamps.
This achievement is tied to a later story objective. Its exact unlock instructions are not yet available.
Fishing Achievements
Fishing achievements require you to catch different fish species and reach specific catch totals. Some are easy to unlock during normal progression, while others require quite a bit of fishing.
My advice is to keep catching fish whenever you visit a fishing spot. You’ll gradually work towards several of these achievements without needing to dedicate an entire trip to grinding them.
16. Snap, Crackle, Catch!
Requirement: Catch your first fish.
Simply catch your first fish during the fishing introduction at the Trading Post.
17. Wrong Kind of Fish
Requirement: Catch your first mutated fish.
Find a mutated fish and successfully catch it. This achievement unlocks with your first mutated catch.
18. Out of Spec
Requirement: Catch 30 mutated fish.
Continue fishing for mutated species until you’ve caught 30 in total.
19. Live Bait
Requirement: Catch 10 predatory fish.
Catch 10 predatory fish to unlock this achievement.
20. Who Eats Whom
Requirement: Catch 30 predatory fish.
You’ll need to catch 30 predatory fish in total. Keep targeting predatory fishing schools as you explore different waterways.
21. Higher Up the Food Chain
Requirement: Catch 100 predatory fish.
This is a longer fishing challenge. Keep catching predatory fish until your total reaches 100.
22. Quiet Hunt
Requirement: Catch 10 peaceful fish.
Catch 10 peaceful fish to complete this achievement.
23. Patience and Bait
Requirement: Catch 50 peaceful fish.
Continue fishing for peaceful species until you’ve caught 50.
24. No Place for Peace
Requirement: Catch 150 peaceful fish.
This achievement requires 150 peaceful fish catches, so you’ll need to spend a good amount of time at peaceful fishing spots.
25. Make Ahab Jealous
Requirement: Catch a 3-star fish for the first time.
Catch any fish with a 3-star rating. The species doesn’t matter, as the achievement can be unlocked with any type of fish. The 3-star catch is random, so keep fishing until you get one.
26. Get over here!
Requirement: Collect 30 bugs with the Hook Gun.
Use your Hook Gun to grapple and collect 30 blue beetle bugs. You can work towards this while gathering materials around the world.
27. Finders Keepers
Requirement: Collect 50 floating resource objects with the Hook Gun.
Use the Hook Gun to retrieve 50 different floating supply objects from the water. Collecting supplies during regular boat journeys will help you make progress towards this achievement.
Boat Achievements
Boat achievements focus on travelling, refuelling, upgrading, and maintaining your vessel. Some require repeated actions, so it’s worth making progress on them whenever you’re already working on boat repairs or collecting materials.
28. Top It Off
Requirement: Refuel your boat 5 times.
Use the Fuel Larva and pump to refuel your boat a total of five times.
29. Regular Customer
Requirement: Refuel your boat 20 times.
Continue using the Fuel Larva and pump until you’ve refuelled your boat 20 times.
30. Larva on Overtime
Requirement: Refuel your boat 50 times.
This is the longest refuelling challenge. You’ll need to complete 50 refuelling sessions using the Fuel Larva and pump.
31. Handy with Tools
Requirement: Craft and install an upgraded engine.
Craft an upgraded engine and install it on your boat. The supplied achievement information doesn’t provide the full material requirements.
32. Custom Build
Requirement: Have four self-crafted modules installed on your boat at the same time.
Craft four boat modules and make sure all four are installed simultaneously. Simply crafting the modules isn’t enough; they need to be fitted to your boat.
33. Breaking In
Requirement: Travel 10 km by boat.
Sail a total distance of 10 km. The distance still counts if you leave the boat and board it again later.
34. Foam Under the Keel
Requirement: Travel 50 km by boat.
Continue sailing until you’ve travelled 50 km in total.
35. Swamp Wolf
Requirement: Travel 150 km by boat.
This achievement requires a total of 150 km of boat travel. You can gradually work towards it while exploring the map and completing other objectives.
36. Clean Bottom
Requirement: Completely clean the hull bottom of polyps five times.
Use the Water Cannon inside the Dry Dock to completely clean the bottom of your boat. Repeat this process five times to unlock the achievement.
Fighting Achievement
There is currently one listed achievement under the Fighting category.
37. Wolf Medallion
Requirement: Kill a ghoul for the first time.
Defeat your first ghoul to unlock this achievement. The exact location and encounter instructions aren’t included in the supplied achievement information.
Crafting Achievements
Crafting achievements are tied to using your Workbench, processing fish, cutting coral, and making different bait types.
You’ll naturally make progress towards some of these while gathering materials for boat upgrades and fishing objectives.
38. By the Blueprint
Requirement: Craft items from 10 different recipes for the first time.
Use a Workbench to craft items from 10 different recipes. Make sure you’re crafting different recipes rather than repeatedly making the same item.
39. Coral Lumberjack
Requirement: Chop down 50 coral growths.
Equip your Axe and chop a total of 50 coral growths to unlock this achievement.
40. Waste Not
Requirement: Process 100 fish in the Grinder.
Take fish to a Grinder and process them into materials. Any fish type counts, so you don’t need to focus on a particular species.
41. Whatever Bites
Requirement: Craft one bait of every available type.
Visit a Workbench and craft at least one of each available bait type. Make sure you don’t miss any bait recipes as you unlock more fishing equipment.
Extra Achievements
These achievements are separate from the main story, fishing, boat, and crafting challenges. Some are connected to Early Access, while others involve opening locked doors.
42. The Early Fish Gets the Worm
Requirement: You were first to take the bait. Looks like we’re hooked on each other!
This achievement is awarded for opening the game during Early Access.
43. Key Specialist
Requirement: Open a door you do not have a key for.
The achievement is listed as requiring you to open a door without having its key. The exact method hasn’t been provided.
44. Other People’s Secrets
Requirement: Pick 10 different locks with Lockpicks.
Find locked objects or doors and use Lockpicks to open 10 different locks.
Tips for Completing All DREADMOOR Achievements
If you’re aiming to unlock as many achievements as possible, it’s worth combining several challenges instead of completing them one at a time.
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Collect supplies while sailing: Use your Hook Gun to retrieve floating resources whenever you see them. This helps with Finders Keepers.
- Collect bugs during exploration: Grapple blue beetles with the Hook Gun to work towards Get over here!
- Keep fishing regularly: Catching different species contributes towards the peaceful, predatory, and mutated fish achievements.
- Don’t sell every fish: Keep quest fish and materials needed for crafting before selling extra catches.
- Refuel when needed: Every refuelling session contributes towards the three refuelling achievements.
- Use boat journeys efficiently: Exploring new areas and travelling between objectives helps build your total sailing distance.
- Craft different recipes: Try new Workbench recipes as they become available rather than crafting the same item repeatedly.
- Clean your boat regularly: The Dry Dock is important for boat maintenance and the Clean Bottom achievement.
- Keep spare materials: Boat modules, bait, and other crafted equipment can help with multiple objectives.
Some achievements still need more detailed unlock instructions, particularly those tied to later story missions. I’ll update the guide as their exact requirements become available.