Kingdom Come: Deliverance II 100% guide

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II currently has 83 Xbox achievements worth 1,630G on the shared Xbox Series X|S and Windows Xbox Play Anywhere list. The base game has 48 achievements for 1,000G. The add-on groups are:

• Hardcore Mode: 2 achievements, 100G.
• Horse Races: 2 achievements, 20G.
• Brushes with Death: 11 achievements, 160G.
• Legacy of the Forge: 11 achievements, 160G.
• Mysteria Ecclesiae: 9 achievements, 190G.

Everything is single-player. There are no online, co-op, server, or boosting requirements. There is no New Game+ achievement and no alternate-ending achievement. Full 1,630G requires the three paid story expansions. Hardcore Mode and Horse Races are free title updates; Horse Races arrived with Patch 1.3.

Many achievements are missable. They are tied to one-time quest choices, timed side quests, and the two regional progression locks. This route calls each one out before it matters.

As of 2026-10-04, no achievements are CURRENTLY CONFIRMED UNOBTAINABLE or CURRENTLY CONFIRMED DISCONTINUED. HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG / PATCHED: TrueAchievements reported the two Hardcore Mode achievements as broken on Xbox in April 2025 and fixed in May 2025. Both Hardcore achievements are currently obtainable.

Use two playthroughs:

• Playthrough 1 is a thorough Standard run covering the base game, Horse Races, Brushes with Death, Legacy of the Forge, and Mysteria Ecclesiae.
• Playthrough 2 is a main-story-only Hardcore run with all ten negative perks enabled from character creation. Those settings let both Hardcore achievements unlock together.

The first run has two major progression locks:

• During For Victory!, the game shows a full-screen warning before the evening talk with Hans, before the story moves beyond the first region.
• Later, Oratores gives another full-screen warning before the Kuttenberg endgame.

Free roam continues after Judgment Day, but it cannot restore side quests, NPC states, or one-time story choices you have already lost.

Lent covers the entire Standard run. Protect it from the opening minute until the story is finished:

• Keep General > Meat Eaten at 0.
• Keep Combat > Animals Killed at 0.
• Eat bread, fruit, vegetables, cheese, honey, soups, potions, and other non-meat food. Eating from cooking pots is allowed.
• Mutt may hunt and kill animals for you without breaking Lent. Butchering carcasses and buying meat to feed Mutt are also allowed; just never eat the meat yourself.
• Avoid trampling rabbits or other wildlife with your horse.
• Never use a weapon on an animal. When wolves or dogs attack, fight with fists and kicks only. Parry the lunge, then press attack immediately to counter with a kick. Wolves beaten this way retreat instead of dying. You can also send Mutt at them once you have him.
• Check both statistics after every animal encounter. Also check them roughly every hour, because phantom animal kills are a known bug. The meadow above Bozhena's hut, where you gather herbs early in the game, is a reported trouble spot.
• If either statistic rises above 0, reload immediately.
• Godwin's playable sections count toward the same statistics.
• Do not attempt Overkill until the story is finished and Lent has unlocked.

Known Lent hazards on this route:

• Mutt quest: wolf packs guard several clues. Use fists and kicks, or take a route that avoids the wolf dens.
• Forbidden Fruit, wolf at the Ruined Building near Troskowitz: use fists. It flees at low health.
• Forbidden Fruit, dog: Ignatius asks you to poison a dog. Talk to Bonnie and choose "I asked you first" → "I don't want to kill him".
• Lackey: three wolves near Vostatek's tree. Use fists.
• Troubadours: Vostatek wants sheep liver. Buy sheep guts from the Troskowitz butcher instead of killing a sheep.
• Miri Fajta: three wolves outside the Apollonia hideout. Use fists; they flee.
• The Executioner's Pride: buy the hare pelt from the Kuttenberg or Pschitoky butcher.
• The Peasants' Revolt: four wolves attack after you treat Otter. Use fists.

Never report Miller Kreyzl to the Troskowitz bailiff. Doing so breaks the Forbidden Fruit chain needed for Boneworks and can cut off Melee at the Mill. In Kuttenberg, never complete Civic Duty by reporting the Hole in the Wall thieves to the bailiff, because that blocks the Chenyek questline leading to Remember, Remember….

Accept timed side quests only when you are ready to finish them, because time passing can fail a quest. Make a manual save before major missables, and keep a separate manual save before each point of no return.

There is no chapter-select or mission-replay menu. Instead, the base game creates protected story saves at the start of main quests. These help with one-quest mistakes, but they are not a substitute for a careful completion run. Whole-playthrough requirements such as Lent and the content-completion requirement are safest on one continuous save.

For Been There, Done That, complete every unique main quest, side quest, and task you encounter rather than planning to grind a fixed number later. Tasks count, and so do DLC and free-update quests. There is no official number, and the trigger seems to vary with version and the content each save has seen. Reported unlocks fall between roughly 99 and 113 completed quests, and some saves sat at 103–104 without unlocking. One base-game save only unlocked at 113. Don't treat any single number as safe: route every unique quest and task you can, and use 112 to 113 unique completions only as the high end of what has been observed.

The current non-DLC quest catalog is reported as 126 quests: 32 main quests, 40 side quests and 54 tasks. Two of them, Civic Duty and The Spark, are alternatives, so 125 can be completed on one save. The free Horse Races update adds 3 more, and the three story expansions add 33 one-time quests. The complete list is in the Been There, Done That Quest Ledger at the end of this guide. Failed quests give no credit but do not block the unlock by themselves.

There is no in-game counter for the achievement. Track progress two ways:

• Journal → Done: lists each completed quest once. This is the safe count.
• Statistics → Quests: also counts repeat completions and shows your failed count, so treat it as an upper reading.

Repeat completions of repeatable jobs are not proven to count. Do each repeatable once and don't plan around grinding them.

Play the opening normally until the sparring session with Hans Capon. If a save is available before the practice fight, make one. You need to win this spar.

Continue through Fortuna and Laboratores. Use the alchemy tutorial normally. Nothing here requires a risky detour for Lent.

Once Henry can roam freely, do the important Trosky work before committing to the wedding. This window is ideal for rebuilding money, skills, equipment, and side-quest coverage.

Most importantly, earn 150 Groschen yourself and repay Bozhena before you start Wedding Crashers. During Back in the Saddle, Hans gives Henry 150 Groschen, but Henry still has to pay Bozhena himself. Xbox and Steam players report that paying her later can fail to unlock A Knight's Word, so paying early is the safest route.

Also complete Bad Blood, the quest involving Bozhena's family, with a good ending before leaving for Kuttenberg. A good ending means Pavlena survives and Jakesh is either killed or reconciled. If Bad Blood is ignored or ends badly, Bozhena hangs herself and A Knight's Word is lost. Bad Blood also fails outright if it is still open when Henry leaves Trosky.

Use this window to clear the rest of the Trosky side content for Been There, Done That. Several pieces have ordering rules:

• The wedding route: Six side quests feed into the wedding: Radovan's chain (The Blacksmith's Son, then The Jaunt, then The Hermit) and Miller Kreyzl's chain (Materia Prima, then Forbidden Fruit, then Opus Magnum). Finish the whole Radovan chain first. Then attend the wedding with Kreyzl and Enneleyn rather than Radovan; this is the recommended route. Attending with Radovan does not make Opus Magnum impossible: some wedding-preparation steps are simply skipped, and the quest can still be finished afterward. Never report or kill Kreyzl.
• The Jaunt: this is timed. If you are told to return the next morning, arrive before noon or the hunting party leaves without you. Capture Gules alive. If he dies, his four follow-up tasks (Canker, Handsome Charlie, Johnny the Gob, Casper) are lost. Do those four tasks with a day or two between each.
• The Hermit: A Sinful Soul exists only during this quest. Don't kill the hermit, and exhaust his dialogue.
• Invaders: engage the Cuman conflict at the Troskowitz tavern when it appears. Reports say ignoring it can fail the quest.
• Combat Training I and II: do both with Tomcat at the Nomads' Camp here in Trosky. You need a sword for the second; Radovan sells one.
• Chains that unlock further quests: Mutt opens the shepherd chain (Sheep among Wolves, The Lost Sheep, Carrot on a Stick, Hunting the Werewolf). Lackey opens Bird of Prey and the lute help needed for Troubadours. Miri Fajta plus all three Radovan quests open The Voivode's Curse.
• Starters with no marker: seek these out, because they have no quest-tipster marker. Magic Horseshoes comes from Guildsman Janek, the Semine saddler. Horses for Courses comes from Bibrek or Mikolai at the Nomads' Camp. The Axe from the Lake comes from Zdenyek in Tachov. The Best for Last is the final brawling task. The Lion's Crest comes from Scribe Gaibl, only if your edition includes it, and needs a spade.

Clear local side quests as they appear. Ask innkeepers for work and follow quest markers before advancing the story.

For the village feud, complete Frogs and Mice one at a time: fully finish one before accepting the other. Truce itself appears to need only one of them, but both count for Been There, Done That, so this route does both before the pasture showdown. Don't get caught, don't use violence, and don't snitch during either quest. Any of them still unfinished will fail once the pasture event starts.

When Battle of Frogs and Mice begins, do not rush to the pasture.

Proceed to Wedding Crashers only after the early missables above are safe. At the wedding, complete Thrush's dice chain while the guests are available. If someone is temporarily dancing or occupied, advance a nearby wedding objective and check again.

Continue the main story through For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Brushes with Death becomes available after For Whom the Bell Tolls. Start it now so the early Trosky chapters are done before leaving the region. Make a manual save before each conversation that can affect an achievement.

In A Sketchy Situation, unlock the shield-painting system. Don't worry about finishing the shield achievements yet; one requires a post-game emblem.

In Source of Inspiration, complete every request from Kvyetoslava and prepare carefully for the performance.

Before advancing deeper into the Trosky main story, visit the Nomads' Camp and start Horses for Courses. It has no quest marker. Bibrek the Archer and Horse Handler Mikolai each send you to the other.

1. Complete Bibrek's three mounted-archery circuits.
2. Complete Mikolai's three horse races. Upgrading Pebbles helps.
3. Judge their dispute at the altar near the camp. The verdict favoring both sports needs Scholarship 12. Stay neutral in the dispute.

After the verdict, repeatable racing and archery open up. Keep entering competitions.

After For Whom the Bell Tolls, Father Nicodemus is available at the top of the east tower in Trosky Castle. Do his short pilgrimage before the first-region lock.

During the trip to Nebakov, don't leave as soon as the main objective is complete. There is a hidden story truth in the fortress jail.

Silence is Golden starts in this quest. At the end of Back in the Saddle, when von Bergow asks whether you noticed anything suspicious, answer "I don't know of anything." Don't mention that young Semine left the wedding. Mentioning it forces a Speech 20 check later.

The real Lord of Nebakov is also hidden here, for Old Raven below. That is a separate missable; it is not known to be required for Silence is Golden.

Hans gives Henry 150 Groschen during this quest. A Knight's Word should already be unlocked by now.

Demons of Trosky opens from Back in the Saddle onward. It is permanently lost once you talk to Hans in the evening during For Victory!, because the castle doors lock for the feast. Do it now:

1. In Trosky Castle, find Chamberlain Ulrich. He moves between the maiden kitchen, the maiden halls, and the western dining halls. Ask whether there is anything you can do to help around the castle.
2. Talk to Bertha, the blacksmith, and Manyeta.
3. Take either holy water or magic water; the choice doesn't matter.
4. At night, douse 5 fireplaces in the western wing and 5 in the maiden wing. In the maiden kitchen, the stove counts as a fireplace.
5. Report back to Ulrich during the day.

Once Back in the Saddle lets Henry leave the castle, also recover the book for Opus Magnum from outside the Trosky Castle walls and finish that quest at the Lair.

Stop before the final report to von Bergow in Necessary Evil. The game shows no warning here. This is a self-imposed checkpoint, because the report is where the Semine decision is made. The formal full-screen warning comes later, in For Victory!, before the evening talk with Hans.

Treat this point as the Trosky point of no return. Trosky stays revisitable after Storm: the caravan coachman takes Henry between regions for 200 Groschen each way, from southeast of Troskowitz in Trosky and west of Suchdol on the main road in Kuttenberg. But completion references treat Necessary Evil as the regional cut-off, so finish Trosky side content here.

The known direct losses on this route are:

• Demons of Trosky. It is reported to be impossible by the end of Necessary Evil in some cases, even though the formal lock is the For Victory! talk with Hans.
• Bad Blood, if it is still unfinished when Henry leaves Trosky.
• The four Gules tasks, if Semine is raided or Gules dies. Conceal Semine in the report below.

Before you continue:

1. In Journal → Done, confirm that Demons of Trosky and Bad Blood are complete. Bad Blood must have the good ending, with Bozhena alive.
2. Confirm that A Knight's Word is unlocked.
3. Confirm Opus Magnum is finished.
4. Finish as much of the remaining Trosky content as you can: Trosky Castle side content, the village chains, the brawling chains for Henry the Bruiser, Mutt, the village feud, the early Brushes with Death chapters, and the Horse Races work. Most leftovers can be finished later via the caravan, but don't count on it.
5. Make a manual save.

During the prisoner interrogation and report to von Bergow, choose the route that keeps Semine's involvement concealed and avoids the raid.

Continue the story. Do not eat meat from feast tables just because the game places it in front of you. Keep checking the Lent statistics.

During For Victory!, the full-screen point-of-no-return warning appears before the evening talk with Hans. Make sure Demons of Trosky is already done before that talk.

During the siege sequence, the battlements teach Henry to drop loose stones or boulders on attackers below. Do it immediately rather than relying on the later fallback opportunity in So It Begins….

Storm closes the first map's story. Henry gains access to firearms around this point, but leave the rabbit kill until Lent has unlocked.

After The Sword and the Quill gives you freedom in Kuttenberg, avoid stacking multiple timed quests.

Mysteria Ecclesiae becomes available on the second day of The Sword and the Quill, but entering the monastery locks you inside for a long sequence. Serious crimes before the monastery lockdown get Henry expelled and fail the expansion. This route delays it until the wider map is stable and no timed base quest is active.

Your first major priority is Henry's recovered sword.

Continue through Speak of the Devil. After this point, most of the Kuttenberg side systems you need are open. Spend a long cleanup window here before pushing the middle act.

For Been There, Done That, exhaust innkeeper rumors, complete unique quest and task markers, and finish accepted jobs before taking new timed work. DLC and free-update quests count toward completion, so doing all three story expansions on this save adds useful credit.

Several Kuttenberg tasks exist only during a specific window and give no failure notice if you miss them:

• Arrow-head: right after Speak of the Devil, meet Karel on the road from Devil's Den to Grund. It is time-limited, and Karel later dies.
• The Collector and Spoils of War: during The Devil's Pack. Matthew is on the Miskowitz–Suchdol road; Captain Puta is in Sigismund's Camp.
• Master Schindel's Toys: only during Into the Underworld. Talk to Adam at the bathhouse.
• Rosa's Book: only during Taking French Leave. Do Attila, from Groom Hashtal at Maleshov, immediately afterward.
• Like Old Times and The Stalker: only during The Lion's Den. The Stalker also needs the "A girl from the baths will help" choice while dealing with Chertan's death.
• Under the Straw Hat: only during In Vino Veritas, by choosing the vineyard job route.

Other Kuttenberg quests have special rules:

• Ransom: do this early. Jan of Suchotlesky appears in a roadside ambush east of Bylany's fast-travel point, by the river on the road toward Danemark. If you miss that, he is injured upstairs in the Old Kutna Wagoners' Inn. Treat his injuries to begin the quest. Warning: Goliath must stay alive for The Spark and Remember, Remember…. If Goliath dies during Ransom, Chenyek can cancel The Spark. The safest route is not to recruit Goliath for the Ransom battle. If you do recruit him, he must survive the fight; reload if he dies.
• Bellatores: follow Jan Posy from Bylany immediately on horseback, or the quest fails. It leads to Skeleton in the Closet.
• All's Fair…: give Pavel in Wysoka all the stolen items, and don't report him. A few in-game days later, talk to Captain Frenzl in the Suchdol courtyard ("I hear you're looking for a thief") to start Seeking Justice. No marker may appear.
• Tragedy in Danemark: do it as soon as Miller Hermann offers it, and don't clear the Danemark mill bandits before the family is freed.
• Hole in the Wall chain: Feast for the Poor → The Thieves' Code → Beyond the Grave → The German's Treasure → The Spark. Never take the Civic Duty alternative.
• Victimised: needs Damsel in Distress at the Rabstein Mill between Bylany and Old Lhota, plus Taking French Leave.
• Starters with no marker: Lost Honour comes from a roadside encounter on the Miskowitz–Horschan road. The Reliquary comes from the Humble Knight near Sedletz. Nail in the Coffin comes from Gravedigger Frantishek in the Kuttenberg cemetery at night, after beating every regional fighter. X Marks the Spot comes from Krizhan in Pschitoky. Hammer and Tongs comes from Zdimir in Grund.

Horse Races added a cross-region achievement that requires helping three death-related professions. Never report Miller Kreyzl to the bailiff, and don't kill any of the quest-givers involved.

1. Forbidden Fruit (Trosky, through Miller Kreyzl's chain): fully help Gravedigger Ignatius. For Lent, use fists on the wolf at the Ruined Building. When Ignatius wants the dog poisoned, talk to Bonnie and choose "I asked you first" → "I don't want to kill him".
2. Thou Art But Dust (Kuttenberg): help Brother Morticius, the ossuary guardian at Sedletz.
3. The Executioner's Pride (Kuttenberg): after Speak of the Devil, ask innkeeper Mole at the Hole in the Wall for rumors. Then help Executioner Heinz outside the east wall. Buy the hare pelt from a butcher rather than hunting one.

Complete the first two before handing in The Executioner's Pride. Every documented unlock happens when The Executioner's Pride is turned in last. It is unverified whether the achievement credits retroactively in any other order, so keep The Executioner's Pride as the final hand-in.

Work through city side quests now while the world state is uncomplicated.

Complete The Devil's Pack before pushing too far into the central Kuttenberg story. Search every marked lead until all of Dry Devil's former companions are accounted for, alive or dead.

After Speak of the Devil, Kubyenka's Popinjay shoot at Devil's Den is available. The Popinjay Shoot side task also works. The current Xbox description requires winning the competition on the highest difficulty.

Keep raising Thievery through legitimate lockpicking and training. You can usually attempt a Very Hard lock at around Thievery 15. Potions such as Quickfinger and perks help if the prompt is still unavailable.

Resume Voyta's questline in Kuttenberg. During Man Proposes, Libor gives you Madman's broken sword. Keep it.

Visit Vojtech's grave as directed. Clean it and pray at it, but don't dig it up yet; it must stay intact for the final skull return.

Continue to Stained Honour and make a manual save after your first talk with the bailiff, before the illegal objective.

This chapter gives the Mandrake Decoction recipe and its special ingredients. Henry quality requires Alchemy 16 and the Secret of Secrets perk. A "Strong" decoction does not count.

Before completing Unveiling, confirm God Disposes and Confessor are done.

During the statue sequence, free Chrudosh rather than paying your way through. Deal with the bandits unseen at night; if Chrudosh watches you kill them, he flees.

Start Legacy of the Forge at the ruined Kuttenberg forge once its quest is available. The expansion mixes a six-quest main story (Adept, The Master's Game, Klaus' Introduction, Martin's Dream, Old Plans, The Last Step), one-time tasks such as Magdalena's Axe, rotating Guild Activities, and property prestige. Some guides count Magdalena's Axe as a seventh story quest.

Do it before Oratores. Some guild activity chains use locations that the endgame affects, and reports show the final Silent Partner investigation can fail to appear while Oratores is active. The special guild activity variants are one-time events. A failed one doesn't come back, so keep a dedicated manual save before each one.

During Adept, prepare for the guild trial.

Legacy of the Forge also has one-time tasks that count for Been There, Done That:

• Magdalena's Axe, between Adept and The Master's Game.
• Herald of Kuttenberg, from councilman Fridusch Kumel near the tournament area; donate when asked.
• Forge Waffenrock, after Herald of Kuttenberg; buy it from Master Tuchmacher near the Town Hall.
• Fragile Delivery, from Magdalena. Deliver eggs to a church, then donate at least 1,000 Groschen. This opens the Alms jobs.
• Sculptor Without a Future, from Mole at the Hole in the Wall. This opens the Sinners of Kuttenberg thieving jobs.
• A Pleasant Pastime, from Master Gottfried on the town square. This opens the Kuttenberg Sharpshooters archery jobs.

Also complete each repeatable job family at least once: Blacksmith's Commission, In the Service of the Guild, Alms, Friendly Bout with Master Mathias, Sinners of Kuttenberg, and Kuttenberg Sharpshooters.

Both journeymen need workshops in the forge's Garden reconstruction menu. Buy each as soon as your Forge Prestige allows:

• Armourer's shelter: Prestige 8, 2,200 Groschen. Standa needs it to craft.
• Foundryman's shelter: Prestige 9, 2,200 Groschen. You need it before Pushko can be recruited in Old Plans.

Klaus' Introduction starts automatically after The Master's Game. Klaus Eichner, at the weaponsmith's shop in central Kuttenberg, sends Henry to recover two stolen guild documents from a bandit camp on the Prague road.

The documents are in a locked chest at the back of the camp. Lockpick it, or take the key from one of the bandits. The same chest holds Sketch for armourer III. Take everything from the chest.

Never read any journeyman sketch; you hand it to the journeyman instead. If you happen to find Sketch for armourer II here, take it as well. Some guides say the Klaus' Introduction and Ragman's Dream sketches can be swapped, so loot every sketch from both sources.

Completing this quest opens Guild Activities.

Continue the expansion's early story until Martin's Dream sends you to Standa and the guard called Leech. Prepare Pebbles or another fast horse with good stamina, remove speed-reducing tack, and use a horse-performance potion if you like.

After Klaus' Introduction opens Guild Activities, cycle investigations, archery jobs, thievery jobs, deliveries, and alms while raising Forge Prestige. The ordinary jobs repeat, but the special achievement variants appear only once and are easy to mishandle. Save before each one.

Also search achievement-related chests thoroughly and collect every item named as a sketch. Innovator requires eight journeyman sketches, five for Standa and three for Pushko. Four of the special variants below are their best known sources. As of 2026-10-04, community evidence says not every listed sketch location is guaranteed: some placements, especially Sketch for armourer II and III, may vary or involve RNG. If you miss one, the only fallback is a rare random drop from the objective chests of ordinary In the Service of the Guild and Sinners of Kuttenberg jobs. Players have spent from 1.5 to over 20 hours farming a missed sketch this way, and Sketch for armourer V is reported as the rarest. Never read a journeyman sketch.

Give armourer sketches to Standa as you get them. Hold caster sketches until Pushko has joined the forge in Old Plans.

Guild activity problems to know about:

• Some players report that the Ragman's thieving contracts, or Bushek's Warlock's Riddle case, never appear.
• No verified fix exists. Anecdotal suggestions: visit Mole at the Hole in the Wall around noon; accept any outstanding base-game Thieves' Guild quests from Mole, Rat, and Chenyek, then wait a day; or travel to Trosky and back.
• Don't report the thieves through Civic Duty.
• A stuck thieving contract can be cancelled with Mole for a small reputation loss.

Keep doing story quests and guild work until the reconstruction menu has opened every property area. Spend the money needed to fill every upgrade slot in the living space, house, forge, and property, instead of only buying cosmetic favorites. The Armourer's shelter and the Foundryman's shelter count as slots too.

Build Forge Prestige until Old Plans becomes available. The quest pauses until Forge Prestige 13. Make sure the Foundryman's shelter (Prestige 9, 2,200 Groschen) is already built before you reach the step "Talk to Pushko about the casting", because Pushko's recruitment needs it.

1. The gunsmith Eldris reports that Pushko is missing. Find Pushko at the edge of the forest west of Grund.
2. Recover Pushko's horse from the woodcutters' camp to the south. You can pay 1,000 Groschen, persuade or intimidate the foreman, bet 500, or steal it.
3. Bring the horse back to Pushko, then return to Kuttenberg.
4. Save before the casting conversation. At "Talk to Pushko about the casting", choose "Come and work for me". Otherwise Henry pays for the casting and Pushko does not become a journeyman. It is not established whether he can join later.
5. Pushko arrives at the forge by the end of that day and needs about a day to settle in. Then give him your caster sketches.

Mysteria Ecclesiae opens on the second day of The Sword and the Quill. The start marker is in Suchdol, or in Kuttenberg after the story. This route plays it here, where it is safest for completion: the Kuttenberg map is open, the Legacy chains are complete, and no base timed quest should be active.

Once you enter the monastery, expect to stay inside for several hours. Make a permanent manual save before going in. The DLC doesn't provide the base story's convenient permanent quest-start saves.

Rules for the whole expansion:

• Avoid serious crimes before the lockdown. They get Henry expelled and fail the DLC.
• After the lockdown begins, never let the patrolling knights catch Henry and escort him back to the infirmary. If that happens, reload immediately.
• Being chased is fine.
• The scripted escort during Seek and You Shall Find does not count against you.

High Charisma, Speech, and Scholarship make the monastery's dialogue checks easier.

Several optional tasks here appear and disappear quickly. Follow the order below.

During Anamnesis, help the people around the infirmary before rushing the main objective.

1. Maddening Pain first. Find Maddie outside the infirmary after your first talk with Albich. Don't diagnose her through a skill check, and don't give her a digestive potion. Ask Albich ("A girl is sick" → "How can I help Maddie?") for the anti-inflammatory recipe. Brew it and give it to her. This is the first of the three credits for Do Good to All People.
2. When the monastery tour reaches the library, find the white cat on the bookshelf and interact with it. This is the first Feline Affection interaction. Return during later quest states for more, as described under Cat Checkpoints.
3. Optionally, resolve the argument between the knights and recover their missing purse. This is unique content, but it isn't a documented Do Good credit.

Near the end of Anamnesis, you find Brother Vojtech in a hidden room in the cellar.

Do Good to All People needs three credits. Maddening Pain is already done. The other two have narrow windows.

Immediately after Anamnesis — Monk Vincent: go to the monks' cells on the floor above the library and find Brother Vincent, the monk suffering night terrors. Bring a normal Chamomile brew and use the full tested sequence:

1. Give him the Chamomile brew.
2. Pass the calming dialogue and its skill checks. Expect Speech around 23 and Scholarship around 21.
3. Pray with him.
4. Before ending the conversation, ask "Do you feel better now?".

This is not clearly marked as a task and is easy to miss.

After Anamnesis — Our Old Bread (also called Our Daily Bread): get it from Zacharias and Denes in the infirmary. Complete every optional objective, including the supplies and 8 crayfish. The crayfish objective is also where you earn Ostraconophobia.

Also take the other two monastery tasks right after Anamnesis: Foreseeing Evil from Crispin, and The Last Wish from Athanasius or Constantine. They aren't documented Do Good credits, but all five monastery tasks count for Been There, Done That and are lost once the DLC ends. The five are Maddening Pain, Foreseeing Evil, The Last Wish, Prevention, and Our Daily Bread. Helping the librarian without forcing a hostile skill-check route is also useful.

During Our Old Bread, you get an optional objective to find a book about crayfish. Loot it from the Monastery Library and read it to unlock the Catch crayfish objective. Make a Saviour Schnapps save or a manual save at the pond before touching any crayfish.

During Silent Witnesses, Zacharias asks for a breathing mask, which starts the optional Prevention task. Finish it before you enter the crypt; otherwise the task disappears.

1. Gather leather or pig skin, rope, and mint or sage.
2. Get the aromatic oil recipe from the librarian and collect its ingredients.
3. Brew the aromatic oil at the monastery's alchemy station.

Only the library cat counts. It accepts one qualifying interaction per main DLC quest. Side tasks such as Maddening Pain don't create a new qualifying state, and clicking repeatedly within the same quest doesn't count.

Interact once during Anamnesis, at the library tour. After that, return to the library after every main DLC quest transition until the achievement pops. Windows tested by players include the period after Anamnesis once the monastery is locked down, and The Time Has Come, at the forge-documents objective.

Follow the investigation involving Bavor and the old grave. The scripted escort during this quest does not break Quiet as a Church Mouse.

When you get the objective to inspect the recovered bodies in the barn, examine them carefully rather than choosing only the minimum story clues.

Finish the remaining investigation and the final confrontation while keeping the no-capture rule. During the forge-documents objective, visit the library cat if Feline Affection still needs an interaction. If a patrolling knight ever escorts Henry back to the infirmary, reload a save from before the capture.

Progress the main story through Into the Underworld and Via Argentum. During Into the Underworld, take Master Schindel's Toys from Adam at the bathhouse. It only exists during that quest. Once Chenyek at the Hole in the Wall can start the Guild chain, complete Feast for the Poor and The Thieves' Code. Never report the Hole in the Wall thieves to the Kuttenberg bailiff through Civic Duty; doing so blocks this chain. At the end of The Thieves' Code, hand over the symbols sheet rather than keeping it, so the next quest can proceed.

After Via Argentum and some in-game time, a messenger can call Henry back for The Spark. Make a manual save when you reach the mine section.

When Rosa asks Henry to recover her book during Taking French Leave, agree; this starts the Rosa's Book task. The book is inside Maleshov Fortress and must be taken before you leave. After Taking French Leave, take Attila from Groom Hashtal at Maleshov straight away. Its later cut-off is unknown.

The story soon shifts to Godwin during the defense of Raborsch. When the optional objective to protect his brother appears, stay close to Christopher Oderin rather than chasing distant enemies.

This quest has one of the most important story-specific achievement branches. Make a manual save before the commander's murder investigation.

Two tasks exist only during The Lion's Den: Like Old Times, from Hans Capon, and The Stalker, from Katherine in Sigismund's Camp. Complete both before the quest ends. The Stalker has a dialogue gate: while dealing with Chertan's death, choose "A girl from the baths will help." This creates an optional objective to ask Katherine for help, and speaking to Katherine through that objective starts The Stalker.

There are three commanders: Chertan, Grozav, and Katz. Chertan dies during the quest. Search the crime scene thoroughly, including the powder evidence, and search the relevant tents so Henry has the evidence to frame Grozav.

Bring a loaded firearm and quiet equipment. At Maleshov, Dry Devil proposes burning the village.

Stop when Oratores shows the full-screen warning before the return to the Ruthard Palace endgame sequence.

Before accepting the lock:

• Verify General > Meat Eaten is 0.
• Verify Combat > Animals Killed is 0.
• Verify Reforged is unlocked. The sword is removed at the end of the story.
• Verify Henry the Matchmaker is unlocked. Sigismund's Camp disappears at Oratores.
• Verify all Trosky missables and all current Kuttenberg side quests are complete.
• Verify Legacy of the Forge's special guild achievements are complete.
• Verify Brushes with Death and Mysteria Ecclesiae are complete, apart from the post-story shield work.
• Complete every remaining unique side quest and task shown by innkeeper leads and map markers.
• Make a permanent manual save.

These quests are lost at the Oratores lock, because Sigismund's Camp is removed and Suchdol changes state. Confirm each one in Journal → Done:

• Spoils of War
• Ransom
• Lost Honour
• Absolver
• Hush, My Darling…
• The Thunderstone, and Primum Nil Nocere inside it
• The White Roebuck
• Bellatores, and Skeleton in the Closet after it
• Seeking Justice
• The Fifth Commandment

Most other Kuttenberg city and village quests, the remaining Trosky entries (via the caravan), and Brushes with Death stay available in post-story free roam. Failed quests are never restored by revisiting; the only recovery is an earlier manual save.

Continue once the checklist is clean.

The church council is highly missable. Save before entering the council as Godwin, and consider drinking Godwin's schnapps first.

On the way in:

1. Do not buy or discuss suspicious street goods.
2. When Jerome Naaz first meets Godwin, choose the bow, then evade his question. Skip the optional reply while following him.
3. With Giuseppe Cabrini, give the cordial Italian greeting. Ask how life is there, why he stayed, and how many guards he commands, then say goodbye and enter the council.

Inside the council:

1. After the opening cutscene, choose the formal continuation and say the Pope has not reached a decision.
2. Immediately drink once from the wine keg on the left so Godwin stays drunk enough to speak convincing Italian.
3. Don't ask extra questions, and avoid any option that gives negative reputation.

Hear only the three relevant sides:

• Albich: ask him to remind you, keep quiet when prompted, ask his view of the dispute, then leave.
• Father Anthony: ask what the Brotherhood demands, say you understand, then leave.
• Abbot Jan: ask what the monastery demands, say you understand, then leave.

Then speak to Janosh Usher, begin the closing speech without delay, support Albich's position on Sedletz, and calm the room.

Late in the escape sequence, don't simply follow the quickest route out. Henry can confront Markvart von Aulitz during this quest.

Finish the last main quest. Don't eat meat or kill any animal during the finale. Keep the Lent statistics clean until the ending has fully registered.

Return to free roam after the story. Save before cleanup that damages reputation or costs a lot, so you can reload afterward.

These achievements are easiest after the story, because failure no longer threatens the route.

If Groschen Must Flow is still locked, buy useful goods or services until cumulative spending passes the required total. Selling items back doesn't erase earlier spending.

If Jack of All Trades is still locked, get one more success at each of these:

• dice game
• lockpicking
• pickpocketing
• potion brewing
• forging
• sharpening
• archery contest

A clean success in each removes any doubt about tutorials or aborted attempts.

If you skipped Shiny at the wedding, find a Kuttenberg dice player who stakes a gold badge, such as the upstairs player at the Iron Eagle. Save, then win the wager.

Return to Voyta's shield-painting system with a round or circular shield, a heater shield, a knight shield, and a pavise available.

Start a completely new game in Hardcore Mode. At character creation, enable all ten negative perks. Don't leave any off planning to add it later; the all-negative-perk requirement is fixed from the start of the run.

This playthrough can be a main-story sprint. You already know the maps, story solutions, and dangerous fights from the Standard run. That matters, because Hardcore removes fast travel, the normal compass and map-position aid, and several HUD conveniences.

There's no achievement reason to repeat side content. Keep reliable food, repair gear before forced sequences, save whenever the mode allows, and choose familiar safe story routes.

HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG / PATCHED: both achievements are currently obtainable on Xbox.

Play the main quests through Judgment Day without changing the Hardcore settings.

All 32 main quests count and complete through normal story progression. In Trosky: Last Rites (the prologue), Easy Riders, Fortuna, Laboratores, Wedding Crashers, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Back in the Saddle, Necessary Evil, For Victory!, Divine Messenger, The Finger of God, and Storm. In Kuttenberg: The Sword and the Quill, Speak of the Devil, The Devil's Pack, Into the Underworld, Via Argentum, Taking French Leave, The King's Gambit, The Feast, Exodus, The Lion's Den, Dancing with the Devil, Oratores, The Italian Job, Civitas Pragensis, So It Begins…, Besieged, Hunger and Despair, Reckoning, Last Rites (a second quest with the same name, late in the story), and Judgment Day.

• Frogs: Old Olbram, Zhelejov. Do it before Mice, and finish it before Battle of the Frogs and Mice starts.
• Mice: Innkeeper Prochek, Tachov. Start it after Frogs is finished.
• Battle of the Frogs and Mice: after Frogs and Mice; use the bailiff route for Truce.
• Combat Training I: Tomcat, Nomads' Camp.
• Combat Training II: Tomcat, after Combat Training I; needs a sword. Doing it here removes the Kuttenberg version.
• Materia Prima: Miller Kreyzl, Lower Semine Mill. Never report Kreyzl.
• Forbidden Fruit: after Materia Prima. Use fists on the wolf, and spare the dog through Bonnie.
• Opus Magnum: after Forbidden Fruit. Attending the wedding with Kreyzl and Enneleyn is recommended; attending with Radovan skips some wedding-preparation steps but doesn't lose the quest.
• The Blacksmith's Son: Radovan, Tachov.
• The Jaunt: after The Blacksmith's Son. It has a timed start, and you must capture Gules alive.
• The Hermit: after The Jaunt. Don't kill the hermit.
• Mutt: Siegfried near Tachov.
• Lackey: near Vidlak Pond. Use fists on the three wolves.
• Bad Blood: Bozhena's hut. Lost if unfinished when Henry leaves Trosky; needs a good ending.
• Invaders: the Troskowitz tavern conflict. Engage it when it appears.
• Miri Fajta: the Voivode, Nomads' Camp. Use fists on the wolves at Apollonia.
• Troubadours: Zhelejov Wagoners' Inn. Buy sheep guts instead of killing a sheep.

• Demons of Trosky: Chamberlain Ulrich, Trosky Castle, from Back in the Saddle. Lost at the For Victory! talk with Hans.
• A Sinful Soul: only during The Hermit.
• Bird of Prey: Vostatek, after Lackey.
• The Axe from the Lake: Zdenyek, Tachov. It has no marker.
• Sheep among Wolves: after Mutt.
• The Lost Sheep: after Sheep among Wolves.
• Carrot on a Stick: after The Lost Sheep.
• Hunting the Werewolf: after Carrot on a Stick.
• Canker: Gules, Semine, after capturing him alive in The Jaunt. Lost if Semine is raided or Gules dies.
• Handsome Charlie: Gules, after Canker; same risk.
• Johnny the Gob: Gules, after Handsome Charlie; same risk.
• Casper: Gules, after Johnny the Gob; same risk.
• The Voivode's Curse: Aranka, Nomads' Camp, after Miri Fajta and all three Radovan quests.
• Wine, Women and Blood: Zhelejov Wagoners' Inn.
• Melee at the Mill: Lower Semine Mill.
• More Melee at the Mill: after Melee at the Mill. Repeatable; complete it once.
• The Best for Last: after the fistfight tasks. It has no marker.
• Pilgrimage: Father Nicodemus, or a Kuttenberg priest. Repeatable; complete it once.
• The Lion's Crest: Scribe Gaibl. Only if your edition includes it; needs a spade.

• Magic Horseshoes: Guildsman Janek, the Semine saddler. It has no marker.
• Horses for Courses: Bibrek or Mikolai, Nomads' Camp. It has no marker. Complete all three archery circuits, all three races, and the verdict.
• The Executioner's Pride: Mole at the Hole in the Wall, then Executioner Heinz, after Speak of the Devil. Finish it last of the Boneworks trio.

• Spoils of War: Captain Puta, Sigismund's Camp. Lost at Oratores.
• The Fifth Commandment: Katherine. Lost at Oratores.
• Ars Dimicatoria: Menhart, Kuttenberg.
• Kuttenberg Tournament: Menhart, after Ars Dimicatoria.
• Feast for the Poor: Chenyek, Hole in the Wall.
• The Spark: Chenyek, at the end of the Hole in the Wall chain. Never take Civic Duty.
• A Good Scrub: Betty, the Kingfisher bathhouse.
• Ill Repute: Betty, after A Good Scrub.
• Yackers 'n' Fash: Foreman Vlach, Black Horse tavern.
• Striped Tonies: Vlach, after Yackers 'n' Fash. Timed once started.
• In Vino Veritas: Casper the vintner. Take the vineyard job route.
• Post Scriptum: Kvyetoslav, at the inn west of Kuttenberg.
• Victimised: Margaret, Pschitoky, after Taking French Leave and Damsel in Distress.
• The Magic Arrow: Pasha, Devil's Den.
• Bellatores: Jan Posy, Bylany. Follow him immediately on horseback. Lost at Oratores.
• Ransom: Jan of Suchotlesky, from the roadside ambush east of Bylany or the upstairs room of the Old Kutna Wagoners' Inn. Lost at Oratores. Don't recruit Goliath for the battle; if you do, he must survive, or Chenyek can cancel The Spark.
• Lost Honour: Sir Jezhek, roadside on the Miskowitz–Horschan road. It has no marker. Lost at Oratores.
• Hush, My Darling…: Martha, Miskowitz. Timed. Lost at Oratores.
• Dragon's Lair: Monk Slava, Bylany.
• The Heirloom: Svatava Mikush, at the huntsman's lodge.
• The Thunderstone: Kona, Grund. Lost at Oratores.
• Thou Art But Dust…: Brother Morticius, Sedletz.
• The Mouth of Hell: Father Marian, Old Kutna.
• All's Fair…: Pavel, Wysoka. Give him all the stolen items, and don't report him.

• Arrow-head: Karel, on the road from Devil's Den to Grund, right after Speak of the Devil. Time-limited.
• The Collector: Matthew, on the Miskowitz–Suchdol road, during The Devil's Pack.
• Under the Straw Hat: only during In Vino Veritas.
• Master Schindel's Toys: Adam at the bathhouse, only during Into the Underworld.
• Rosa's Book: Rosa, only during Taking French Leave.
• Attila: Groom Hashtal, Maleshov, right after Taking French Leave.
• Like Old Times: Hans Capon, only during The Lion's Den.
• The Stalker: Katherine, Sigismund's Camp, only during The Lion's Den. Choose "A girl from the baths will help" during the Chertan investigation to unlock it.
• The Thieves' Code: Hole in the Wall, after Feast for the Poor.
• Beyond the Grave: Rat, after The Thieves' Code.
• The German's Treasure: Rat, after Beyond the Grave.
• Last Will: Menhart, after Ars Dimicatoria.
• Mark of the Brotherhood: Menhart, after Ars Dimicatoria.
• Warding Off Evil: Johann Parler, Emperor Charles tavern.
• High Toll: Franz Geldstück, Iron Eagle.
• Popinjay Shoot: Vlach, the morning after Striped Tonies.
• Skeleton in the Closet: Jan Posy, Ruins of Zimburg, after Bellatores. Lost at Oratores.
• Absolver: Thomas of Kolin, Sigismund's Camp. Lost at Oratores.
• Primum Nil Nocere: Peter, Suchdol, during The Thunderstone. Lost at Oratores.
• Damsel in Distress: Rabstein Mill, between Bylany and Old Lhota. It has no marker.
• Tragedy in Danemark: Miller Hermann, Danemark. Do it when first offered, and don't clear the mill bandits before the family is freed.
• The Reliquary: the Humble Knight near Sedletz. It has no marker.
• The White Roebuck: Huntsman Dobrosh, Suchdol. Lost at Oratores.
• Seeking Justice: Captain Frenzl, Suchdol courtyard, a few days after All's Fair…. It may have no marker. Lost at Oratores.
• Hammer and Tongs: Zdimir, Grund. It has no marker.
• Something Rotten…: Innkeeper Grosch, Grund.
• X Marks the Spot: Krizhan, Pschitoky. It has no marker.
• The Peasants' Revolt: Kubyenka, Devil's Den. Use fists on the wolves.
• Enough!: Innkeeper Zdeslav, Miskowitz.
• Fight Dirty: Thomlin Bruthans, Horschan.
• A Moment of Fame: Tobias, Horschan, after Fight Dirty.
• Teeth in the Bag: Mole, Hole in the Wall.
• More Teeth in the Bag: Mole, after Teeth in the Bag. Repeatable; complete it once.
• Nail in the Coffin: Gravedigger Frantishek, Kuttenberg cemetery at night, after every regional fighter. It has no marker.
• Civic Duty: the bailiff. Excluded, because it is the alternative to The Spark and fails when you choose The Spark.

• Brushes with Death, 10 quests: A Sketchy Situation, Source of Inspiration, Chiaroscuro, Portrait in Red, The Night-Mare, Man Proposes, Stained Honour, God Disposes, Root of Evil, and Unveiling. All stay completable after the story.
• Legacy of the Forge story, 6 quests: Adept, The Master's Game, Klaus' Introduction, Martin's Dream, Old Plans, and The Last Step.
• Legacy of the Forge one-time tasks, 6 quests: Magdalena's Axe, Herald of Kuttenberg, Forge Waffenrock, Fragile Delivery, Sculptor Without a Future, and A Pleasant Pastime.
• Legacy of the Forge repeatable jobs: Blacksmith's Commission, In the Service of the Guild, Alms, Friendly Bout, Sinners of Kuttenberg, and Kuttenberg Sharpshooters. Complete each once.
• Mysteria Ecclesiae story, 6 quests: The Royal Physician, Anamnesis, Silent Witnesses, To Dust You Shan't Return, Seek and You Shall Find, and The Time Has Come.
• Mysteria Ecclesiae tasks, 5 quests, all lost when the expansion ends: Maddening Pain, Foreseeing Evil, The Last Wish, Prevention, and Our Daily Bread (also called Our Old Bread).