Hey there!

This game was one of those that grabbed couple of my evenings away from everything else =] It's quite interesting in the means of game mechanics and is truly a successful mix of several genres. On the other hand it is relatively short, so when I've finished the main story I've started to put some effort into teh achievements. And they won't unlock that easy, let me tell you, since the description gives very little to none information about the particular condition to unlock the achievement. Also there is a big chance that some of them are bugged and require couple of tries, since I wasn't awarded with Golden Scythe achievement, but obviously got all the Golden Tools and there are number of other examples. Since I don't have 100% achievements yet and the condition to unlock about half of them is far from my reach at the point of starting this guide, it will be a guide in progress, so that some people know how to unlock the ones I've discovered and some people help me to find the solution to the other half of the achievements. Developers were active in my discussion thread for some time, and I really hoped to ask them for a lil help on this matter, but sadly no activity can be seen for last couple of days.

Update: As of Haloween 2014 time, achievements are reported to be finally fixed thanks to the developer's patch. Hooray!

So, I will separate the achievements into one's that I'm pretty solid about and the ones with an uncertain (yet) conditions to unlock. Unfortunately I can't give you exact numbers, because I didn't count various criteria and didn't pay much attention to achievements anyway while I was playing the story, only started to dig into them after I was proclaimed a hero. Please be advised that there are spoilers throughout the guide, so if you'd like to come up to everything by yourself just stap right here.

Mother Teresa - Faith in humanity restored. This achievement requires you to serve any dish to a customer for free. Simply remove everything from their part of the trade and click on the Make Offer button.

No Deal! - It's survival of the fittest. And by the fittest I mean survivors who can afford those delicious meals that you are serving. So if the person is ordering a spaghetti and has only couple of Scraps to spare, you do tell him that this is not a Steam sale here and he can farm off. Make sure you do this good amount of times if you want to unlock this achievement. It appears that this achievement actually requires you to accept trades that are proposed in your favor (the scales thingie), many thanks to Dillan for insisting on getting help with this matter =]

Hoarder - You never know when you might need that again. I have to admit that I'm not 100% sure here, but I got this achievement unlocked after one of trades with the visiting customers and the only thing that he offered were Scraps. So my best guess is that this achievement requires you to accumulate a certain amount of scraps in total (because at the moment I finished the trade I had around 178 Scraps, while at some earlier point I had around 250. Thus it's not about certain amount at one time). My second guess will be that you should ask your customer for a good amount of Scraps in return at one time, cause the guy after whom the achievement popped up traded me like 15 or 20 Scraps. Lately I recieved couple of letters form other farmers who claim that they recevied Hoarder under different circumstances, after trades, when they actually sell scraps for exchange on something else. Also I heard that a friendly fellow who lives nearvy got this achievement after talking a walk in the forest and grabbing some resources on the way out. So to be honest I'm not sure about the criteria now, but in the end I think everyone will get this achievement eventually, probably it has something to do with simply accumulating enough items in your chest.



Now goes the pack of Golden Tools:

• Golden Shovel - You found the golden shovel. Golden Shovel will be the first Golden tool in the trio Shovel, Hammer and Axe, since you won't be able to obtain those three in any other order. The Shovel can be dug up on the small island, where your poor cow will be starving until you build a bridge upgrade. If I'm not mistaken I found it right here:

• Golden Hammer - You found the golden hammer. Now since you got yer Shovel it's time to make your way to the tiny cemetery in the forest. It's situated somewhat in the center of the map. It's the only place to find your zombie father (if you haven't completed the game yet), couple of gravestones and the purple flower that requires a Golden Scythe to cut it. The Hammer can be dug up from one of the squares in front of the small crypt. By the way, if you don't have a Golden Shovel yet, but dug in the right spot it will tell you that there is something deeper in the ground but the current shovel sucks.

• Golden Axe - You found the golden axe. Well the Axe has been lying just a couple of yards away from you all this time, tempting you, wishing your character can jump or swim. Now that you have yer Hammer getting the Axe should be a piece of cake.

• Golden Scythe - You found the golden scythe. Getting the Scythe itself requires zero attempt since this tool will be simply handed over to you by the Scientist to grab that purple flower at the cemetery (Scientist will appear at some point, even if you haven't build a lab table yet). But what it takes to unlock the achievement I have yet to find out, because it simply did not unlock for me. Achievement was bugged untill the Halloween 2014 patch, now it unlocks correctly.

Sitting Duck - It's like you are not even trying. The one thing that I'm sure about is that this achievement requires you to be hit by zombies in the forest. and thanks to one of the farmers we now know that you should be hit exactly 10 times! What is I'm less sure is whether it requires some amount of fights in total or some number in a row, cause at that particular time when I got this achievement I didn't really pay any attention, so I got smashed by zombies quite a lot in one run.

Golden Chicken - You found the golden chicken. Golden chicken can be found far north from your farmhouse, but it requires a Golden Axe to cut a big stump on your way.



Why did the chicken cross the road? - Because it was carried. So, now that you got the chicken simply carry it to the chicken hoop and you will unlock this secret achievement at a certain point when you will be crossing a road.

Gravedigger - There are no rules in an apocalypse. This achievement requires you to desecrate the memory of the honest people and dig up certain squares at the cemetery. I'm not sure which ones are counted towards the achievement, but I got mine when I finished this pattern (was using Golden Shovel, just fyi):



Diva - Looking fabulous takes effort. Now, if you want to succeed in this never-ending battle vs zombies you gotta do it with style! You can enter your farmhouse at any time and try some new looks or even change your gender if you think that customers are harassing you too much. What I did is enter the house, click on Randomize Look button couple of times, exit and repeat the procedure. Thanks to one stylish survivor, we know that you require exactly 10 attempts to unlock this achievement. I also heard a rumor, that you don't actually need to change your appearance, only visiting is required, but why would you spend your time on the fields with the same clothes everyday!



Fruit Ninja - The student has become the master. This achievement requires you to master all the recipes available in the game by training enough times to get three stars with all of them. The last ones can be tricky, because even if you manage to cut the ingredient it will fall out of the cauldron, but with some practice you will eventually get to this:



Please note that there is a video in the General tips section, where I'm showing how to get Pumpkin soup to 3 Stars. I can make more videos if you like, just ask me for a recipe, and I'll show how to make a perfect score.

Full Restaurant - This place is packed. There certainly will be a moment when you will decide to expand your little restaurant business, since there will be more and more customers telling their friends about the most delicious baked potato in the neighborhood. Unfortunately there is a limit to the amount of tables you can install in that old church. So make sure you bought all of them and simply wait until there will be no more room for the next customer in line. You will be able to tell that when clicking on the hungry person in front of the church instead of the trading window there will be a corresponding cloud with crossed chair above his or her head. A easy way to get all the sits occupied is to switch off your kitchen helpers, accept orders but don't cook anything, once the customer sits he or she will be there for eternity!



Daredevil - Next up: Jumping the shark. As it was recently discovered with a help of a fellow survivor this achievement requires you to make a longest possible trip through the forest without engaging in a zombie fight. As far as I can tell there is no difference which entrance you pick as your starting point and which - as your exit point. One of them can be found left from your farmhouse, another is the bottom right entrance on the map.



Architect - You are the new Michelangelo. The more friendly farmers share their experience, the more achievements will be unlocked, I'm pretty solid with that. I got this achievement couple of minutes ago, and I can tell that it must have something to do with placing a fence around your farm. I haven't made any mazes I simply put a fence around my territory (with gates, customers pass them freely, zombies sadly go around them). I actually locked myself from the zombies that appear to the left, so they have to destroy my fence in order to get into my farm. I will place couple of screenshots with my architecture skills and hope that it might help you to get this achievement. Please note that this achievement most likely requires zombies to appear, so if you built your defences during the daytime you should probably wait for the night to unlock this achievement. By the way, today's visitor who managed to get this achievement told me that the only true criteria for unlocking lies in leading zombies to the treadmill using your fence (even if you don't have access to zombie corn yet) and not in surrounding ureself with a wooden blockade.



Gatherer - The first humans would be proud. This achievement appeared to be bugged untill the Halloween 2014 patch. I got unlocked it automatically as I loaded one of my saves (where I had tons of everythings), so most likely it should unlock naturally on your playthrough.

Farmers Market - Get all the fruit. Now this description is at least awkward if not completely wrong. Thus, if you have seen the previous achievement, you know that Farmers Market requires you to have 50 of all available food, except for golden eggs. Namely: Corn, Wheat, Grape, Apple, Potato, Lettuce, Tomato, Pumpkin, Carrot, Sugar Beet, Gras(s), Eggs and Milk. Take note that if you have problems gathering enough of gras(s) / wheat due to hordes of cows / chickens (as I did for some time) you can place a fence to block those monsters from eating your hard earned crop.

Developer - Even us developers need a little encouragement from time to time :-) Absolutely no clue. There was a comment to this guide that has mysteriously disappeared (good that I remembered the approximate combination) with one of the survivors sharing the must be forbidden knowledge of sacred key combination which consists of three key elements that should be put together - Ctrl, Shift and F5. Thank you kind survivor for obtaining this information and paying the ultimate price! Please be advised that playing with this tool might be dangerous, cause there is an achievement reset button.



Oiled Machine - It doesn't get more efficient than this. Well this one is covered in mystery almost as hard as Developer achievement. Thanks to one of the clever survivor's comment we finally know the criteria for this achievement! All you need to do is have both of your stoves and three drink machines work at once (making it five machines in total). What i did was cooking two most advanced dishes (putting ingredients 1 by 1 at each of it, so that hey start boiling simultaneously) and then quickly start preparing apple juice, grape juice and milk. As soon as everything is turned on - achievement is yours. This one can be done solo by your character, just fyi.



Hunter - They picked the wrong person to mess with! I guess this achievement has been fixed recently, cause I've dealt with numberless amount of zombies in all ways possible some time ago without any result. And now I've tried it again and unlocked it after getting rid of a dozen or two brainhungry guys. So this one should be awarded naturally as you throw dem food into zombies' faces. UPD: It seems that there are still some enthusiastic farmers out there. George1, for example, says that getting rid of 5 zombies in 15 seconds should do the trick.

Savior - Your name will be remembered for generations. This one requires you to finish the main story or at least come to the very last moments of it. Savior unlocks as soon as you turn all the zombies back to common folks in the forest. Just make sure you don't miss anyone!



Hard Worker - To get anywhere in live, you have to work smart and work hard. My speculation about doing something faster then your old man in the tutorial proved to work, so tons of thanks goes to Mindestens for the screnshot he provided in the comments. You should cut the grass before your pa does and do it in the specific manner:



Since I had some problems with this achievement myself and there is a fellow survivor who is struggling to unlock it as well, I've made really quick video.


Full House - Your hospitality is outstanding. This achievement is pretty simple, but take note that it can be unlocked only in the endless mode, since in the story mode the 4th tent is occupied by the Scientist. Could take those workers a while to appear, but eventually you will get all four.



You get a plate - And you get a plate! And you get a plate! Everyone gets a plate! It appears that this achievement was bugged initially, just unlocked it after one of the survivors finished their meal and left to continue their adventure. Thus, I think you should unlock this one naturally on your playthrough. UPD: And another tip from George1 - serve dem 15 clients in a single day! You should clearly try that out =]

Hello there!

It's was really good to hear that the developer found some time to fix the broken achievements. Moreover a new one was added, since the latest patch came live close to the Halloween. So I'ma show you some pics in case you have troubles unlocking it.

Haloween 2014 - let's play a little game of hide and seek. As the description proposes, we should be seeking something that was hidden by the developer. And to be honest the last pumpkin took me a good 15 minutes of looking for it. Technically this achievement is quite simple - there are 10 Halloween pumpkins scattered around your farm, you need to find them and click on them 10 times in order to smash them. As far as I read, visiting the forest, your home or leaving the game resets the counter, so this should be done "in one seat", as they say. Do take note that whenever you smash a Halloween pumpkin, your character says the total amount smashed. That's really useful to keep track of them.

Tricky note: If you haven't managed to get this achievement in time, you could wait till next year since this achievement is annual (October 29 - November 1). Or if waiting is not in your blood, try switching your PC date to the above mentioned days and it should work as well. But be careful, especially if you are running some other software at the same time, because interfering with the current PC date might mess up something else. Thanks goes to Psycho ♥♥♥♥♥ and George1!

Pumpkin #1 - near the golden chicken statue at the north part of the map.



Pumpkin #2 - near the tents where your workers live, east side of the map.



Pumpkin #3 - at the very bottom part of the island with your first cow, south part of the map.



Pumpkin #4 - on the fence of your house.



Pumpkin #5 - now this one is really hidden, to the left of your restaurant, in the woods.



Pumpkin #6 - placed on one of the walls of your restaurant, looking good!



Pumpkin #7 - more or less hidden near the north-east entrance to the forest.



Pumpkin #8 - under one of the trees between your house and your restaurant.



Pumpkin #9 - hidden near the west entrance to the forest.



Pumpkin #10 - now this one was really PITA for me, near the east entrance to the forest.



Happy Halloween and stuff!

- Plants grow a bit faster if you talk to them;
- Maximum amount of queued actions is 26;
- There are 5 types of a businessmen in this game:

• a) Heartless son of a pitch who cares about nothing but money.

• b) Reasonable businessman that tries hard to run this little place and needs to pay his taxes.

• c) Man of honor and dignity that knows how it feels to survive a devastating plague that took away your family and asks only as much as he needs to survive himself.

• d) Most friendly person in the neighborhood. He admits that he was lucky enough to become a survivor, not a brainless zombie and he shares his care about other survivors. But to honor his family tradition (his father told him countless times that a hard work should be paid off, preferably with coins) he can not simply give something for free. So he's offering some of the tastiest spaghetti and juice just for a mere couple of scraps.

• e) Pure saint. A person who does not think about himself at all, leaving himself with a spoiled potato peel and a glass of dirty water for dinner, but serving the best dishes for others in need.

Of course you are free to choose which type is closer to your personality, but if you are looking to set up things faster I suggest you become something close to "b" ;]
- I made a quick pricelist, so it might help you to make some calculations or simply know how more scraps you would require from that poor hungry lad to afford yourself brand new watering can. It is in the Excel format and can be downloaded here https://www.dropbox.com/s/7273owmlv3p6mj3/FarmForYourLife_Pricelist.xls?dl=0 Here is a screenshot http://take.ms/fOlmB I am updating the prices of the items I missed in the Story, so most of them are already in the file;
- Also I made a quick video showing you how to handle that child who is throwing a pumpkin from the left, while you are trying to prepare best pumpkin soup ever. Funny thing is that I actually missed one pumpkin, and I always thought that should you miss at least half of the plant, you will have to start all over again.

This is the first guide I'm writing on the up-to-date game, that has a lot of active players. And it's really great to seek the truth together with other achievement hunters and folks who just want to share some knowledge or an idea about the possible conditions to unlock this or that achievement. I have to admit that this game have more to it that can be seen at the surface. So even after I restart couple of times, I keep enjoying the first 10-15 days when you have to do everything for yourself and steadily build up your farm. So, despite some nasty bug reports I've seen and heard, this game is still pretty awesome.