Stones of Solace

Stones of Solace

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Stones of Solace, How To Earn 100% Achievements In Just 20 Minutes, In a Single Day.
By anrkyuk
Stones of Solace, how to earn 100% achievements in just 20 minutes, in a single day.
   
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Notes.
Stones of Solace has a total of 6 Steam achievements, none of which are missable. The game offers a total of 15 levels (or as the game calls them Idols) and it is designed in such a way that you are supposed to play the game for a few minutes each day with a new Idol (level) becoming available each new real world calendar day.

Example: You play the game for the first time on the 14th of October and you play Baby Butterfly, Idol Of Growth level, the next day on the 15th you will play the Snake, Idol of Litheness level and on the 16th the Millenary Cat, Herald of Eternity level.

A complete order of levels (Idols) is as follows...
Day 1 = Baby Butterfly, Idol Of Growth.
Day 2 = Snake, Idol of Litheness.
Day 3 = Millenary Cat, Herald of Eternity (Eternity achievement).
Day 4 = Octopus, Idol of Diligence.
Day 5 = Sun Fox, Idol of Warmth.
Day 6 = Claymore, Paragon of Trust (Trust achievement).
Day 7 = Frog, Idol of Harmony.
Day 8 = Eyeball, Idol of Clairvoyance.
Day 9 = Sunken Nymph, Eidolon of Peace (Peace achievement).
Day 10 = Monkey, Idol of Guile.
Day 11 = Otter, Idol of Coziness.
Day 12 = Baleen Fossil, Sanctuary of Memories (Memories achievement).
Day 13 = Big Bird, Idol of Glamour.
Day 14 = Night Owl, Idol of Wisdom.
Day 15 = Empty Hands, Essence of Intimacy (Intimacy achievement).

As such, if you play the game as designed, it will take you some 15 days, playing a couple of minutes a day to 100% Stones of Solace, there is however a way to access all the levels and 100% the game in the same real world day (without editing, hacking or cracking any game files) taking around 20 minutes in total.

Before I go on, please note that at the time of writing, Steam is still "learning about this game" so achievements will not yet count towards profile totals, I'm somewhat unsure of the "learning" process, but given the positive reviews, it should only be a matter of time until they count towards profile totals.
Achievement Guide.
If playing the game as intended, as already advised the 6 in game achievements will pop on the following levels...
Day 3 = Millenary Cat, Herald of Eternity (Eternity achievement).
Day 6 = Claymore, Paragon of Trust (Trust achievement).
Day 9 = Sunken Nymph, Eidolon of Peace (Peace achievement).
Day 12 = Baleen Fossil, Sanctuary of Memories (Memories achievement).
Day 15 = Empty Hands, Essence of Intimacy (Intimacy achievement).
As for the 6th achievement "Solace" this unlocks after unlocking the other 5 achievements.

PLEASE NOTE: Multiple people are reporting that the order of these is actually random and not preset.

For those who wish to earn 100% as speedily as possible the following method should be applied...

First, start the game and when the Baby Butterfly, Idol Of Growth appears on screen, click on it with the left mouse button and a bowl will appear with a number of items on the left that you can place in the bowl. Once the bowl has appeared, click the done button, then hit the "Esc" key on your keyboard a couple of times to exit back to your desktop.

Next, right click on the clock in the desktop taskbar (bottom right corner).


Then select "Adjust date/time" on the popup menu.


A new window will open, here change the "Set time automatically" option to off.


Then click the "Change" button below the text "Change date and time" text.


Another window will popup where you are able to manually set the date and time within Windows.


Now, assuming the date you first played is the 14th October, change the date to the 15th and press the "Change" button. Then load the game up and this time you should be playing the Snake, Idol of Litheness level, again repeat the same process of clicking the idol when it appears, clicking done when the bowl appears and then tapping "Esc" a few times to exit back to the desktop.

Now change the date within Windows to the 16th, rinse and repeat adding a day each time until you have played all 15 levels and unlocked all 6 achievements.

Assuming you start playing on the 14th of October the following is the sequence that you want to play...
14th Oct = Baby Butterfly, Idol Of Growth.
15th Oct = Snake, Idol of Litheness.
16th Oct = Millenary Cat, Herald of Eternity (Eternity achievement).
17th Oct = Octopus, Idol of Diligence.
18th Oct = Sun Fox, Idol of Warmth.
19th Oct = Claymore, Paragon of Trust (Trust achievement).
20th Oct = Frog, Idol of Harmony.
21st Oct = Eyeball, Idol of Clairvoyance.
22nd Oct = Sunken Nymph, Eidolon of Peace (Peace achievement).
23rd Oct = Monkey, Idol of Guile.
24th Oct = Otter, Idol of Coziness.
25th Oct = Baleen Fossil, Sanctuary of Memories (Memories achievement).
26th Oct = Big Bird, Idol of Glamour.
27th Oct = Night Owl, Idol of Wisdom.
28th Oct = Empty Hands, Essence of Intimacy (Intimacy & Solace achievements).

On a final note is a warning, while you're doing this (while your Windows clock is set manually and incorrectly) do not go browsing the web and make sure to enable "Set time automatically" once you have finished 100%'ing Stones of Solace. The reason for this is having a wrongly set date/time within Windows is a security hazard and may also cause websites not to function correctly.
Video Walkthrough.

Video contains...
@ 0:15 = Day 1, Baby Butterfly, Idol Of Growth.
@ 1:46 = Day 2, Snake, Idol of Litheness.
@ 2:21 = Day 3, Millenary Cat, Herald of Eternity (Eternity achievement).
@ 2:57 = Day 4, Octopus, Idol of Diligence.
@ 3:34 = Day 5, Sun Fox, Idol of Warmth.
@ 4:08 = Day 6, Claymore, Paragon of Trust (Trust achievement).
@ 4:42 = Day 7, Frog, Idol of Harmony.
@ 5:15 = Day 8, Eyeball, Idol of Clairvoyance.
@ 5:50 = Day 9, Sunken Nymph, Eidolon of Peace (Peace achievement).
@ 6:24 = Day 10, Monkey, Idol of Guile.
@ 6:58 = Day 11, Otter, Idol of Coziness.
@ 7:30 = Day 12, Baleen Fossil, Sanctuary of Memories (Memories achievement).
@ 8:02 = Day 13, Big Bird, Idol of Glamour.
@ 8:34 = Day 14, Night Owl, Idol of Wisdom.
@ 9:10 = Day 15, Empty Hands, Essence of Intimacy (Intimacy & Solace achievements).
Other 100% Achievement Guides.
I hope you found this guide of help, all comments, suggestions and criticism (constructive) is gratefully received.

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4 Comments
anrkyuk  [author] 21 Oct, 2021 @ 7:59am 
I've added a note to advise that the order is actually random and not preset.
Whispers of Winter 21 Oct, 2021 @ 4:08am 
Same here. The order is very different for me as well.
GrumpyArab 22 Feb, 2020 @ 5:23pm 
I agree with CausticValkyrie.
CausticValkyrie 3 Jan, 2020 @ 7:31am 
I'm pretty sure the order is random other than having the achievement idols pop up every 3 days. For example, I got the Empty Hands a week or so ago and my last idol was the Sunken Nymph. Another poster who compiled all the idols in one photo had the Millenary Cat as their last idol.