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Completionist Guide - 100% Achievements
By Ghoowy
Detailed guide explaining how to get every achievements in Have a Nice Death.
Not much is described about narrative quests because you can't impact their progression much, you just have to talk to every NPC you find as much as you can.

Most achievements are not too hard to get, but some take a lot of grinding in the current state of the game.

- You can get most achievements in any Breakdown level (including Self-Fulfillment).
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 150+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 200+

Guide written and published on 16/04/2023, will be updated as soon as an update fixes bugged achievements.
Updated on 28/05/2023.

Any tips the community is willing to share in the comments is appreciated!

Quick note: I'm not a dev, if you have an issue or bug with the game, you should try to report it on the official Discord server. :)
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Category: Achievements, Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Walkthroughs
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Guide Index
Overview
Simple Formality 
Burnout 
Cash = Money 
Turning a Profit! 
Scythe Swap 
#CancelYourBoss 
Koffee? 
Disciplinary Action 
Not Here to Suffer 
#CancelBrad 
The Calm before the Storm 
Welcome to the Afterlife! 
A Koffee a Day 
A Victory for One is a Victory for All! 
April Ghouls! 
Petrifying Pumpkin 
The Gift of Giving 
Word on the Street 
The Best Intern 
One Style, One Vision 
Jacob’s Masterpiece 
A Well-Stocked Tool Rack 
You Call It Hell, I Call It Death, Inc. 
R&D Sponsor 
Insubmersible 
Save Time 
Actually, That Was a Piece of Cake! 
Field Experience Indispensable 
Thanager Trasher 
Finally, Vacation Time! 
A Well-Stocked Wardrobe 
I’M HAVING A BREAKDOWN! 
Chunky Pitbook 
Oh Shoo, O’Shah 
Deal 
Get in Line! 
Look at the Chubby Lil Pitbook! 
Thanks! 
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Simple Formality
Gain a curse.

You'll find O’Shah, the NPC who gives curses, at the end of the first floor, every run.
Burnout
Die once.

You won't need any advice for that one, just play, you should get it quickly ;)
Cash = Money
Unlock your first item at Joe’s.

Buy an item to the NPC called Joe (see screenshot).
Ingots are valuable, try to only buy an item when you have the maximum discount.
Turning a Profit!
Reach the maximum discount level on an item at Joe’s.

Just play normally, most discounts are unlocked by playing normally.
Scythe Swap
Equip a different scythe.

When unlocked, various scythes will be available to choose at the beginning of each run.
#CancelYourBoss
Defeat a game boss for the first time.

Just play, you’ll get it quickly, just gotta kill Brad once.
Koffee?
Visit the break room.

Break rooms are found right after beating any boss (called Sorrows).
Disciplinary Action
Defeat a Thanager.

Thanagers are mini-bosses found in any Department, found like any other floor, via the elevator at the end of a floor.
Not Here to Suffer
Play in easy mode.

You can change the difficulty here (see screenshot).
You’ll find “Self-Fulfillment”, which is the easy mode’s name.
#CancelBrad
Defeat Barnaby Proudfoot.

Alternative (hard) version of Brad.
Appears randomly instead of regular Brad after buying the spell “Boulderain” at Joe's.
The Calm before the Storm
Visit the relaxation room.

Randomly appears at any stage of a run (except in Hall of Eternity), just be patient.
Welcome to the Afterlife!
See all Patrick’s dialogs during the guided tour.

Just talk to every NPC everytime you can, even if they don’t have an exclamation mark above their head, you’ll eventually get it, as well as most narrative quest (see below achievements).
A Koffee a Day
Finish the koffee competition narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC.
A Victory for One is a Victory for All!
Finish the strike narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC.
April Ghouls!
Finish the April Ghouls narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC.
Petrifying Pumpkin
Finish the Halloween narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC while having "Spooky Pumpkins" decoration equipped (bought from Muriel).
The Gift of Giving
Finish the Christmas narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC while having "Toys, toys everywhere" decoration equipped (bought from Muriel).
Word on the Street
Finish the rumor narrative quest.

Keep talking to every NPC.
The Best Intern
Speak to Pump Quinn (very) often.

Talk to Pump Quinn between every run, it should unlock after beating Major Pliskhan.
One Style, One Vision
Buy your first item from Muriel.

Enter the door marked "VIP" in CEO's Office (lobby), go left, you'll find Muriel.
Jacob’s Masterpiece
Reach the maximum upgrade level for a weapon.

To upgrade a weapon, find a Control Room floor (available from the 2nd Department), Jonas will be in there. Upgrade 3 times any weapon.
A Well-Stocked Tool Rack
Unlock all the scythes.

The Scythe, Diss Scythe, Sickles and Twinsie are unlocked by default.

You can unlock the other scythes at Joe's, but it's expensive and some are locked, here are the requirements for unlocking them and getting the maximum discount:

Selenite
- Unlocked by default ;
- Max discount: Start a run in "Self-Fulfillment" mode.

Parasol 1.0
- Unlocks by beating Major Pliskhan ;
- Max discount: kill 1000 enemies.

Billhooks
- Unlocks by beating Time twice.
- Max discount: kill 100 Sorrows.
You Call It Hell, I Call It Death, Inc.
Defeat Major Pliskhan.

Mordern Warfare Department’s final boss.
R&D Sponsor
Transform a scythe to the maximum level.

To transform a scythe, find a Control Room floor (available from the 2nd Department), Orville will be in there. Transform 2 times any scythe.
Insubmersible
Defeat Ms. Catherine Imamura.

Natural Disasters Department’s last boss.
Beat Major Pliskhan to unlock this Department.
Save Time
Waste Time.

Inevitable Time Department’s last boss.
Beat Major Pliskhan to unlock this Department.
Actually, That Was a Piece of Cake!
Complete a run with a difficulty level.

Any Breakdown level will work, so you’ll unlock this achievement at Breakdown 1, which you unlock by beating the game on normal difficulty (Imminent Breakdown).
Field Experience Indispensable
Reach Level 20 with your experience.

Just play, you’ll passively gain experience and level up.
Thanager Trasher
Defeat all the Thanagers.

Full list of Thanagers and in which Department you'll find them:
(each Department can only spawn 1 Thanager each run)

Hall of Eternity
- Will Hung
- Leon Clean
- Pump Quinn Omega

Industrial Pollution
- Slyma
- X4-H
- Richard John Barron

Physical Illness
- Denzel "King" Dengue

Addictions
- Lambert Heisenberg

Toxic Food Processing
- Pierce Görske
- Candice

Modern Warfare
- Ms. Camille Flage

Natural Disasters
- Horace Sinistrocirrus

Inevitable Time
- The "Bridgets"
Finally, Vacation Time!
Finish the game.

Beat Life.

To reach her, you need to beat Time and have the 3 medallion pieces, which are in the Rift Lockers, found here:
- Restroom - Requires 3 golden animas to open ;
- Shop - Requires 1 Prismium to open ;
- Right before any Thanager - No requirement to open.

The third one will make every Thanagers and Sorrows stronger, so it’s better to take it right before The "Bridgets", since it doesn’t give you any bonus, no need to have it for the whole run.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2952860627
A Well-Stocked Wardrobe
Unlock all the Cloak’s weapons.

Cloak’s weapons are the cooldown base weapons without mana cost. Unlock them at Joe’s.
I’M HAVING A BREAKDOWN!
Complete a run on maximum difficulty.

Maximum difficulty is Breakdown XV (15), so you’ll have to beat every Breakdowns before in order to unlock this last one.
You don’t need to beat Life, just beating Time without taking the medallion pieces will count as a win for any Breakdown level.
Chunky Pitbook
Unlock all spells.

Spells are mana based weapons, unlock them at Joe’s.
Oh Shoo, O’Shah
Unlock all the curses in the encyclopedia.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954189623
Deal
Unlock all the items at Joe’s.

Unlock every spell and Cloak’s weapon.
Get in Line!
Max out the soul counter.

Just keep playing, the sould counter will increase faster and faster, you'll get it eventually (estimated 10-20 hours).
Look at the Chubby Lil Pitbook!
Unlock all the descriptions in the Employee Handbook.

You only need the first paragraph of each description, don't need all 3.
It includes every item/character/place etc from every tab contained in the Employee Handbook.
Thanks!
Thanks to any fellow completionist or any player who helped me finding some information, especially Bubba_Squid!
Thanks to Pizzahog01 who created the Oh Shoo, O'Shah specific achievement guide I shared.
Thanks to RobotGodzilla who created the Artifact Location guide I shared.
Thanks to JerichoDukes who created a 100% Guide for Hades, on which I based the layout and organization of this guide.
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心心念念 12 Mar, 2024 @ 12:45am 
I've the last item that always shows 'unlocked' at Joe's.But I don't know what's it and how to unlock. I've passed the lever 15.

And, I've two employees unlocked who between Patrick and Jacob in 'Employee Handbook'.I can't find them anywhere.

Is there anyone has idea about these two achievements? Thanks.
GrimaceTheGrey 31 Dec, 2023 @ 10:53pm 
Anyone have any issues with the narrative achievements not unlocking? I'm relatively sure I have finished the Halloween one (Muriel is selling the extra decorations) but no achievement yet. Also my April fools one, not one NPC has mentioned it for awhile and and no achievement.
Shem 14 Jul, 2023 @ 1:37pm 
there is an issue about til ya make it, so rare one is less than 0,3 % ?? i meant on more than 300 reset for it i still didn't get it, it should have been another color than green
Screaming Murkrow 24 Jun, 2023 @ 11:21am 
I think my Deal! achievement is bugged, I've bought everything but their is still one locked item that just says "Not Available".
Ghoowy  [author] 1 Jun, 2023 @ 8:39am 
Well ask on the official Discord :)
Muzungu,TheKingOfDogSufferers 1 Jun, 2023 @ 5:12am 
i think it might be bugged for me. i even stored 20 curse reroll through the contracts and it still doesnt spawn when i saw literally the other rank 3 curses
Ghoowy  [author] 1 Jun, 2023 @ 2:26am 
Oh yeah it's a rare one, just gotta be lucky :)
Muzungu,TheKingOfDogSufferers 31 May, 2023 @ 1:12pm 
its the fake it til ya make it. idk it doesnt spawn even if i make a new save file
Ghoowy  [author] 31 May, 2023 @ 12:12pm 
Which one?
Muzungu,TheKingOfDogSufferers 31 May, 2023 @ 11:14am 
I'm currently missing a red curse rank 3 for the Oh Shoo, O'Shah achievement. It just never spawns for me idk why. I got a save file from someone else and continued collecting the curses there & it got filled but the achievement doesn't pop rip.