This guide will be showing you the full steps on how to get all available achievements in The Gunk. As of the moment, there’s a total of 17 achievements that you can obtain in the game.
Story-Related Achievements
First Gunk
Cleared the first Gunk
Land the Ship
Landed the Dust Bunny
Go Camping
Set up Camp
Mega Gunk
Cleared the Gunk Tower
Charged Up
Defeated the Gunk Beast
Try Some Gardening
Found the Garden
Friends After All
Got out of the Wasteland
What’s so bad about Wilderness?
Saved the day
Upgrades-Related Achievements
Give me Five
Installed five upgrades
All In
Installed all upgrades
Rather self-explanatory. For the first one, you have to get five upgrades, for the second one you have to get all upgrades.
Upgrades are unlocked upon scanning objects (read section [Scanning] for more information).
The tricky thing is that you have to get a lot of materials to get all the upgrades, so make sure to search every corner for them.
If you still don’t have the achievement when you get to the Gardener’s room for the second time, you have to place a signal beacon and do some backtracking.
Scanning Achievements
Learning on the Go
Scanned fifteen objects
Space Archaeologist
Filled the encyclopedia
You will easily get the first achievement while playing, for the second one you have to scan all the unique objects in the game. The list is shown below.
A little trick: if you press RMB, the new objects to scan have a green icon (scanned ones have a pink icon).
Object list in chronological order
Luminescent shards
Gunk
Energy fissure
Luminescent crystal
Becks
Curt
Mycelium coil
Workbench
Hydroponics wall
Royal pan
Red cap
Lump fruit
Sperrylite analogue
Squid lantern
Brine anvil
Angel kernel
Rhiza twine
Fowl’s tongue
Tape trunk
Lunar stool
Gunk dripper
Wing beet
Whale jaw
Jeweled apple
Gunk critter
Fungal peppers
Smoke shard
Hog fungus
Tail hive
Inscribed tablet
Ruin gateway
The Gardener’s principle
Signal beacon
Portable stove
Photosensitive trigger
Mulligan melon
Rubble
Switch chain
The Gardener’s tribute
The Gardener’s opus
Hatch
Ancient control panel
Ruin swing bridge
Ruin lift
Inscription
Ruin console
Gunk spitter
Gunk beast
Heri
Lock mechanism
Turbine
Vegetation nursery
Ruin booth
Laboratory counter
Ruin cart
Chair
Environment control panel
The Gardener
Two Birds With One Achievement
Threw one on another
For this one, you just have to throw one [Gunk critter] into another. Easy peasy.
Charge Off
Make one charge off a cliff
For this one, you need to stand at the edge of the cliff while fighting with [Gunk critters], so eventually, one of them charges into you and falls down.
NB! Make sure to stay not too close to the edge, so you don’t get pushed away and die.
Slip One Past
Grabbed an unaware Gunk Spitter
For this achievement, you need to sneak to a [Gunk spitter], grab it with your glove and pull it.
Don’t worry if the [Gunk spitter] notices you before you can get to it! Just catch its projectile with your glove, throw it back, then quickly hide and continue sneaking.
Three’s a Crowd
Blasted three to smithereens
For this one, you will need the [Power pulse] upgrade. After getting it you just have to shoot three [Gunk critters] with your [E] button rather quickly.
Take Charge
Made one charge into another
In [Chapter 7: Alone] there are some [Gunk beasts] patrolling the territory. You have to aggro at least two of them, and then carefully kite them to make sure one of them charges into another.