Tunic 100% guide

Required: open the gun chest in the Quarry before you ever pick up the sword. The achievement unlocks when you take the gun.

Start a new game in a separate save slot. Do not use New Game+. The whole route takes about 5 minutes once you know it. Allow longer on your first attempt.

1. Up the stairs from the beach, the stick is in the chest in the doorway left of the first stairs, behind a mailbox. Put it on a button. Never touch the sword on this save. Stay away from the East Forest Hero's Grave and the West Garden, because a second sword sits in a West Garden chest.
2. Enter the free fire bomb code: L U R D R U R D R U R D L. It works from the start without manual page 17, but only once, so equip the bomb and don't waste it. As a backup, the free explosive bomb code D R U R U L U L D L D R works the same way.
3. Now open Options > Accessibility. Turn on No Fail Mode and No Stamina Restrictions. Auto-Open Sequence Assistance, which lets you queue a whole code, only appears after you have entered a code once. Turn it on too if it's there.
4. Head east from the stick cave through the tall grass to a wall of bushes. Throw the fire bomb at them.
5. Straight ahead is a silver door with engraved lines. Stand in front of it and enter D L U R U L. If nothing happens, try its mirror, D R U L U R. A wrong code costs nothing. Open the card chest that appears; the card shows as ??? in the card menu. Equip it in the empty card slot. It sets your stick on fire and drops you to 1 HP, which No Fail Mode makes harmless. Hit a bush to check that it ignites.
6. Go slightly west of the door and take the ladder up. At the top, take the next ladder up on your right. Ignore the hidden tree path there, which only leads to a side chest. Take the third ladder up to a metal signpost. Go up the stairs and burn through the bush wall with your stick. This is the East Forest entrance.
7. Don't take the staircase with the lever shortcut. Instead, take the hidden path just to its right and follow it north toward the Fortress of the Eastern Vault. At the junction with Blue Slimes, keep going north rather than east. Interact with the end of the bridge to lower it.
8. Take the ladders up the snowy mountain to the Mountain Door. Ignore the door and the pages on its steps.
9. Just right of the door, behind the rocks, is a gap in the stone wall with a hidden staircase down into the back of the Quarry.
10. Take the spiral staircase down to the west, head south, then go around east to a second spiral staircase down. Walk the southern road down about five ramps, avoiding the pink miasma and crystals. A slightly hidden path heads west behind the miasma. Past three Scavenger snipers is the firing range, and the gun chest sits on the small metal platform at the left. The achievement can pop as you reach the chest, even if sniper fire interrupts the pickup.

You can delete this save afterwards. Do not reuse it for the main run.

The chest in the doorway to the left of the first set of stairs holds the stick. The achievement unlocks when you open it.

Open the first golden door and let an enemy beyond it kill you. Then walk up to the blue fox spirit to complete the resurrection sequence. The achievement unlocks as that sequence finishes, not just on respawning. Don't rely on the scripted Heir fight for this. Make sure the achievement has unlocked before you turn on No Fail Mode.

Secret Treasure #9. Stand on the golden warp pad on the starting beach and enter R D L U L L D R R D D. The chest appears and the achievement unlocks when you open it.

While you are on the pad, hold the interact button to pray. This warps you to the spirit version of the pad and gives you manual pages 2-3.

Cut or burn 1,000 blades of grass. The count carries over through the save, and stick, sword and fire all count. Large clumps count as many blades. Slash every patch you pass and it will unlock on its own during the route.

This is the start of a whole-game requirement. Every Effigy you find goes into your inventory. Do not use them. You need 10 in your inventory at the same time, and the achievement unlocks when the tenth goes in. There are 12, all in chests, so you have two spare. The route marks each one as it comes up. The first two are in the Overworld:

• Effigy (western bridge): at the far south of the Overworld, go down the long stairs and the bridge toward the Ruined Atoll. The chest is next to a blue Rudeling, just south of the Envoy that guards a key. That key opens the Old House; grab it now.
• Effigy (above the first locked door): do the key and the pages 10-11 house first (see Mr Mayor). From the route past that building, climb the ladders to the north and walk west through the big trees. The path is hidden. The chest is on the ledge above the locked door.

Hold interact on any black obelisk until it lights up and sinks. You need to do this to progress, so it comes naturally early on.

Offerings (Tooth, Feather, Flower, Ash, Mushroom and the Effigy Statue stat items) come from chests. Rest at a fox shrine and use the offering slot in your inventory. The upgrade also costs gold. The achievement unlocks on your first offering. The Effigy Statue offering is a different item from the moneybank Effigies.

Coins to grab in the Overworld now:

• Gold coin: near the Old House, two fox statues stand on spiral staircases. At the foot of the staircase around the headless statue, a cluster of trees hides a set of stairs leading down into an underground changing room. The chest is just past the entrance.
• Gold coin: go down the ladder to the beach south of the Old House. At its base, a secret passage runs behind the waterfall on the right to the next stretch of beach. Pick up pages 32-33 from the ground there first, then continue a short way east to the chest, hidden under the bridge overhead.

Secret Treasure #1. This needs a different key from the Old House key that the southern Envoy guards. The key for this house lies on the ground west of the first shrine, near the western windmill. It opens the locked house you reach by going up the stairs after the first bridge, door on the right, on the way toward the East Forest. Pages 10-11 are inside. In the same room, trace the groove in the wall with the Holy Cross: R U L U R D R U L D L U R U L D. A passage opens to the chest. The achievement unlocks when you open it.

Secret Treasure #3. The code is drawn by the notches on the sails of the western windmill. Stand in front of the windmill and enter D L L U U R R L D R U D. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest.

Fairies you can free at any time in the Overworld. Enter each code at its clue:

1. Fairy (eastern Overworld): on the eastern side of the Overworld, near the entrance to the Fortress of the Eastern Vault. Code: U L D L D L D L U R D R R D R.
2. Fairy (south beach island): the small island off the south beach, next to the bridge to the Ruined Atoll. Code: U R D L D L D L D L U.
3. Fairy (moss): the stone wall below the West Belltower. The moss and cracks trace the path. Code: U R U L D L U L U R D R D R U L U R D R D.
4. Fairy (caustic light): the room under the far eastern bridge, where the pool throws a pattern on the wall. Code: R U L U R D R U R D L D R.
5. Fairy (compass): the compass plaque south of the Fortress entrance. Code: L R D U U D R L U R D L U D R L.
6. Fairy (patrol): the waterfall cave in the northeast. Go through the secret passage in its top-left corner. A lone enemy walks a pattern; copy it without alerting it. Code: D D R U R D L D R U R D D.
7. Fairy (fountain tiles): from the Old House warp pad, head east down the steps to the fountain. Follow the directions of the numbered tile groups 1 to 6 on the grass around it. Code: D L L D U R D.

Free one fairy. The achievement unlocks with your first freed fairy, so any of the seven above will do it.

The sword is at the Hero's Grave on the path through the East Forest. The achievement unlocks when you pick it up. Don't equip the ??? fire card on this save; with it equipped, the sword reportedly does no damage to bells or the Garden Knight.

With the sword equipped, move forward and press roll and sword attack at the same time. The fox rolls and then stabs forward. The achievement unlocks the first time the rolling stab comes out, and it doesn't need an enemy. Do this right after picking up the sword.

Climb the East Belltower and ring the bell. The achievement unlocks when it rings. Pages 12-13 are in the belltower.

Collect while in the East Forest:

• Pages 14-15: at the East Forest teleporter.
• Pages 28-29: the lake island near the East Forest entrance. Cut the small trees with the sword to reach it.
• Effigy (Hero's Grave path): after taking the sword, cut the bushes at the top of the stairs in front of the Hero's Grave and go behind the wall to the chest.
• Gold coin: enter the building just south of the East Forest shrine and take the ladders down to the lower forest. Head west to the spider platform. There are two chests there: the coin is in the lower one, while the other is part of Regal Weasel. Take the hidden path behind the trees on the east side of the platform, south of the stone bridge, along the water's edge.

The Guard Captain here only drops gems. The Old House key is in the Overworld: head down from the central Overworld toward the southern beach and look for the Envoy, a green-cloaked enemy with a spear and shield. The key lies on the ground beside it. You can grab the key and skip the fight, but beating the Envoy is fine too. The western bridge Effigy is just south of it, so if you already took that chest, you've been here.

Secret Treasure #8. The wind chimes outside the Old House play a melody, and page 34 is the decoder. Enter U D R U D L U D L R D L R U at the chimes. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest.

Equip a gold coin and use it next to a well. Any well works. There is one in the Overworld near the start, by the big staircase across the bridge. There is another in the West Garden, just north of its first fox shrine. The achievement unlocks on your first wish.

Make 15 wishes in total. They don't need to go into the same well or in one visit. Throw coins as you find them; each threshold (3, 6, 10 and 15) also opens an extra card slot. The achievement unlocks on the 15th wish. Only 10 chest coins exist before the first Heir encounter, so this finishes in the Spirit World. If you end at 14, the easiest coins to miss are behind the West Garden switch wall and the Cathedral birdcage wall.

Defeat the Garden Knight, then climb the West Belltower and ring the bell. The achievement unlocks when it rings. With both bells rung, the golden doors of the Sealed Temple open.

Defeat the Siege Engine. Use the pink item it drops on the platform to make the red key appear. The achievement unlocks when you take the red key.

Before you leave, lower the bridge and take the ladders up the snowy mountain. Pages 20-21 are on the steps in front of the Mountain Door. The door itself stays shut until you have the Golden Path code, near the end of this guide.

• Fairy (Quarry rocks): the three stacked snowy rocks at the top of the Quarry, through the back passage right of the Mountain Door. Trace around the rocks. Code: U R D L U R U L D L U R R D.

Defeat the Librarian. The green key appears on its body, and the achievement unlocks when you take it.

Secret Treasure #6. You now have the Wand, Dagger and Orb, which it needs. From the East Forest teleporter, go south through the trees and down three ladders. A hook sits on the ground with a slime on the ledge above it, guarding a chest. Put the Magic Wand, Magic Dagger and Magic Orb on buttons. Lock on to the slime, then press the Wand and Dagger buttons at the same time to fire a freezing projectile. While the slime is frozen, immediately grapple up to it with the Orb and kill it. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest. If you kill the slime before it's frozen, rest at the nearby shrine to respawn it.

Freeze yourself with an ice bomb. Stand right next to a wall and throw it at the wall so you are inside the blast. The wand-and-dagger ice spell does not count. Page 17 has a free ice bomb code: L D R U R D R U R D R U L. It only works once, so use that bomb here. The achievement unlocks when you freeze.

Throw 10 bombs of one type (all fire, all ice, or all explosive). The achievement usually unlocks around the tenth throw, when a +1 appears on that bomb in your inventory. The exact moment can vary. If it hasn't unlocked after ten throws of one type, keep throwing that same bomb type until the permanent +1 appears on it in your inventory. If you run out first, rest at a fox shrine to replenish the bonus bomb of that type, then throw it. Buy a stack from a shop and throw them at enemies, or use the free bomb codes from page 17.

• Fairy (Hourglass cave): under the bridge to the Ruined Atoll, copy the wall pattern at the back of the room behind the Hourglass chest to open a passage. Inside is a climbable pillar, and your climbing path is the code: L U R U R D R U R U L L L U R U.
• Fairy (golden cube): two spiral-stair fox statues stand in the Overworld. Bomb the wall by the statue with a head to open a room with a floating golden cube, then copy its moves. Code: R R R R U U U U R R R U U U R R U U R U.

Clear the Rooted Ziggurat and defeat the Boss Scavenger. The achievement unlocks when you take the blue key.

Place the three keys in the slots around the floating hexagon in the Sealed Temple. The achievement unlocks when the third key goes in.

Go down to the arena under the Cathedral and clear all its altar fights. The prize is the Hero's Laurels, which turns your roll into a dash that can cross gaps. The achievement unlocks when you take it.

Secret Treasure #10. The Ruined Atoll map has an arrow pointing off its edge. Dash across the gap there to a small island with a buried statue. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest in front of it.

Secret Treasure #11. In the Eastern Vault, dash left across the rubble below the Hero's Grave steps into a cave with a broom. Destroy all four leaf piles. The fourth is hidden, so turn the camera. The chest appears in the middle, and the achievement unlocks when you open it.

Pray at all six Hero's Graves. Each one sends you over a dash gap to a stat item. The graves are in:

• the Old Burying Ground
• the East Forest
• the Eastern Vault
• the West Garden
• the Great Library (two Stone Golems guard it)
• the Quarry Monastery

The achievement unlocks at the sixth grave. From then on, interacting with the bed in the Old House swaps between day and night.

Secret Treasure #12. It needs the dash and your restored body. In the teleporter hub, take the side of the southern pad and dash west along the hidden path. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest.

Secret Treasure #2. Sleep in the Old House bed until it is night.

1. Enter the Cathedral and take the library room on the left, with the bone ladder. Push the wall behind the ladder to open a hallway and a chest. This is the same wall as the Cathedral library Effigy.
2. Push the wall behind that chest to open another passage, then cross the spirit bridge.
3. Trace the code drawn on the wall. The code is 22 inputs: L U L U R U L U R D R R U R D L D R D L D L. If it doesn't take, trace the drawing on the wall itself, which is the authoritative version.
4. A balcony path opens, but the night bridge of light blocks the chest. Go back to the Old House and sleep until it is day.
5. Climb the hidden ladder to the right of the Cathedral entrance to reach the chest.

The achievement unlocks when you open the chest.

Secret Treasure #5, in the southern Swamp. Do it by day. Get past the gate (dash over the pillars or take the wooden ladder past the eastern gate). Push the four golden skulls into the small pool in front of the grave with a skull on top. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest that appears.

• Fairy (spirit fox): this needs the Hero's Laurels and night. Fast travel to the East Forest and dash up the pillars to the upper area, where a fox spirit patrols. Copy its walk. Code: U D U D L R L R D L U R.

That makes all 20 fairies. If the count at the Secret Gathering Place is short, use the fairy-finder code (U L U R D R) in each area until the guiding lights point to the one you missed.

Secret Treasure #7. With all 20 fairies freed, re-enter the Secret Gathering Place. The chest appears, and the achievement unlocks when you open it.

Return to the teleporter hub, take the central pad, and fight the Heir. She has two phases, and the second one drains you. Wear the Scavenger's Mask and turn on No Fail Mode if you need it. The achievement unlocks when she is defeated and the ending plays.

After the credits, choose Retry. This puts you back just before the fight with all your progress. Do not pick New Game+ here.

Safety net: if you ever reach the Heir with a full manual, you can attack her instead of presenting the manual, and this is reported to still award Game Over. Doing the fight with page 1 missing avoids relying on that.

Go to the Mountain Door at the top of the snowy mountain and enter the Golden Path. It is 100 inputs, written here in groups of four (U = up, D = down, L = left, R = right):

ULDL ULDL URUR ULUR DRUL ULUR ULDL URUU LURD RDRU RDLD RURR DRUR DRUR RDLD LDRD RDLL DRDL DRUR DRUR RDDL URUL DLUL ULUR RULU

Beams of light fill the door's grooves and it breaks open. Behind it are the front cover and page 1. The achievement unlocks when your manual is complete.

Secret Treasure #4. Page 1, which you now have, holds the clue and shows the exact spot. Go to the tiny island off the southwest beach by the Ruined Atoll bridge and stand in the puddle where the sand meets the grass. Set Master Volume to 0% in Options > Audio and wait 60 seconds. Then enter D, R eleven times, and L twelve times. The achievement unlocks when you open the chest. Turn the volume back up afterwards.