Steam Achievements

Achievements / trophies are available on PC, on PlayStation, and on Xbox.

General Achievements

Master Engineer

Play the game for 150+ hours.

Number 5 is alive

Connect your suit to power with less than 1% power remaining, in Survival Mode.

Crayon Box

Build and fly (that is, sit in the cockpit of) a ship painted with more than 20 colors.

Personality Crisis

Change your astronaut's suit color or suit skin in a Medical Room twenty times in 10 minutes.

Millionaire Club

Get 1,000,000 Space credits and join the club of the wealthiest people in the galaxy.

Spoiler
The legit way is completing Economy Contracts, or Player Trading in multiplayer, which takes a while. Cheating is easy in singleplayer through the Admin Screen.

Scenario Achievements

The Story Begins

Finish The First Jump Scenario. It's short and linear, just follow the story.

Engineering Degree

Finish all tasks of the Learning to Survive Scenario. The tasks are marked with beacons.

Spoiler
When you move further along the scenario, you will go out of range of some of the task beacons and may miss them. Simply backtrace to the ones that you can still see until you get into range of the missing beacons again. To track whether you have completed 11 tasks, back up each beacon with an (infinite range) GPS marker of your own.

Promoted Engineer

Complete the final objective of the Learning to Survive Scenario. After completing all scenario tasks (in other words, you have completed the "Engineering Degree" achievement), you'll get the necessary instructions for the final objective automatically.

Spoiler
You'll be given coordinates. Destroy (that means, power down) an armed NPC base on a planet and then destroy an armed NPC ship in space to gain this achievement. You can take as much time as you need to prepare, for example, to build RC fighter drones.

It Takes But One

Complete all Learning to Survive Scenario objectives without dying.

Spoiler
Take as much time as you need to prepare. If you build RC drones to fight, you won't die.

Planetesphobia

Disable the final Learning to Survive Scenario objective without entering the planet's atmosphere.

Spoiler
Make sure to stay out of the gravity field of the planet. The atmosphere of the target planet starts at 50 km above the final objective. Build drones, decoys, or guided missiles, and remote control them to spy on and destroy the planetary objective's defense from above.

Playing it cool

Complete the Frostbite Scenario (paid DLC). This is a long and difficult scenario for advanced players.

Building Achievements

The Bigger They Are

Build more than 1,000,000 Kg of cubes.

The Harder They Fall

Destroy more than 1,000,000 Kg of cubes.

Going Green

Build 25 Solar Panels while playing in Survival Mode.

Multiplayer Achievements

(See also the "Joint Operation" achievement.)

Lost In Space

Spend more than 1 hour out of sight of other players on a Multiplayer server.

Spoiler
This achievement can also be completed in a single-player game that is set to one of the online modes in its World Settings.

Smile And Wave

Wave to an enemy that is also waving back within 5 meters looking at you in Survival Mode.

Win-Win

Make peace with another faction on a Multiplayer server.

The friend of the factions

Befriend three factions on a Multiplayer server. Earning trust always pays well in the future. ;-)

Declare War

Declare war on another faction on a Multiplayer server.

Spoiler
When they accept your war declaration, be careful, that will make them enemies and their turrets will automatically attack you.

Lock And Load

Kill a player from an enemy faction with a rifle on a Multiplayer server.

I've Got Present For You

Detonate a warhead that kills you and another player on a Multiplayer server.

Exploration Achievements

Monolith

Get within a 5 meter radius of the Monolith. The Monolith has to be in the world at loading time, this means that this achievement is only accomplishable in the following Original Content games: Earth Planet, Mars Planet, Alien Planet, Moon Base. There is no monolith in the "Star System" Sandbox Game.

Spoiler
The monolith is on planet Mars in a location that stands out on the surface and is notable from orbit. You can cheat by finding the monolith in the Entity List on the Admin Screen. There is a second (unrelated?) monolith on the Moon as well.

Explorer

Visit all planets and moons in Survival Mode. This achievement can be accomplished in the "Star System" Sandbox Game.

Giant Leap For Humankind

Walk 1969 meters on a Moon.

Spoiler
The counter pauses while you run, fly, or use the jetpack. The number commemorates the year of the US moon landing.

Death Wish

Spend 5 hours bombarded by Meteors in Armageddon Mode in Survival Mode. To attempt to accomplish this, create a new game, go to the World Settings, and set Environment Hostility to Armageddon.

Never Surrender Scenario Achievements

I See Dead Drones

Survive 10 waves of drones in the Never Surrender Scenario.

Bring It On

Scenario 30 waves of drones in the Never Surrender Scenario.

I'm Doing My Part

Survive 100 waves of drones in the Never Surrender Scenario.

Scrap Delivery

Destroy 1000 pirate drones in the Never Surrender Scenario.

Joint Operation

Survive 10 waves together with at least 1 other player in a multiplayer Never Surrender Scenario.

Known Issues

• Explorer and Death Wish Achievements Unobtainable on Xbox One - fixed in May 15, 2020 update.