How many achievements does Sandustry have, and what are they?
Sixteen entries, listed as written. The four gold ones are stockpile checks, and that wording decides how you play them.
Quick answer
Sixteen. Steam's public achievement page lists sixteen entries with the developer's own one-line descriptions, and none of them is hidden. Four are gold thresholds — 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 — and all four are worded as gold you hold in your collectors at once, so they check a stockpile at a moment in time rather than a lifetime total. Eight are first-time milestones, and three are completion goals: one of each unique creature, the whole Aura circle filled, and every node in the tech tree researched.
The sixteen, as written
- Promotion Protocol — earn your first factory promotion.
- Flux It Up — mine your first Fluxite.
- Gold in the Bin — hold 1,000 Gold in your collectors at once.
- Ancient Technology — recover an alien artifact from the dunes.
- First Bloom — grow your first flower in a Planter Box.
- Void Touched — investigate an anomaly.
- Critter Catcher — capture your first critter with the Corraller.
- First Spark — charge your first unit of Energy.
- Quartermaster — hold 10,000 Gold in your collectors at once.
- Stratacore Secured — neutralize your first Strataform event.
- Conservatory Curator — capture one of each unique creature.
- Aura Extractor — unlock Aura Extraction through the Swarm Console.
- Full Circle — fill the whole Aura circle so the next factory tier becomes available.
- Final Schematic — research every node in the tech tree.
- Vaultkeeper — hold 100,000 Gold in your collectors at once.
- Heliodyne Tycoon — hold 1,000,000 Gold in your collectors at once.
Steps
- Open Steam's public achievement page for the game if you want to check the list yourself. It needs no sign-in and hides nothing.
- Read the four gold entries as stockpile checks. The wording is gold held in your collectors at once, so spending down and earning back does not accumulate towards them.
- Treat the eight first-time entries as one-offs: first promotion, first Fluxite, first artifact, first flower, first anomaly investigated, first critter, first Energy charged, first Strataform event neutralized.
- Treat three as completion goals: Conservatory Curator, Full Circle and Final Schematic.
- Do not read Full Circle as naming Tier 5. Its text says the next factory tier becomes available and names no number.
Requirements / limits
- This is a list as of 23 August 2026. Early Access lists grow, and no source states this one is final.
- The descriptions are the developer's own text as Steam publishes it. No route, order or difficulty is published for any of them.
- Global unlock percentages are not reproduced here. They move constantly and no claim on this page depends on them.
- Aura Extractor names the Swarm Console as where Aura Extraction is unlocked. That is achievement text, not a documented procedure.
- The developer states that achievements keep working when the no-overlay GPU launch option is set, which matters to the players most likely to be using it.
Common mistakes
- Chasing the gold achievements by lifetime earnings. The text says held at once.
- Assuming Full Circle is the Tier 5 unlock because Tier 5 also involves the Anomaly. The achievement names no tier.
- Expecting a developer achievement guide. None is published.
Still unverified
- Will more achievements be added during Early Access?Not verifiedNo source states the list is complete, which is why this page carries the date it was counted.
- Which factory tier does Full Circle unlock?Not verifiedIts text names no tier, and no published source maps the tier ladder end to end.
- Do the gold achievements count collectors only, or any stored gold?Not verifiedThe text says in your collectors. Nothing published defines the boundary further.