Gothic Playable Teaser

Gothic Playable Teaser

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Full Achievement Walkthrough
By Slick
A guide to unlocking all achievements in a single playthrough.
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Preamble
UPDATE 27.12.2021: Four (4) previously broken achievements got removed from the game. They never worked and there was no way to unlock them. I'm leaving the list here for posterity:

  • Hangover
  • The End of a Friendship
  • Whistleblower
  • The Colony's Expert


Trivial achievements are marked as [TRIVIAL] to indicate, that you don't have to go out of your way to unlock them, and that they should be come with the natural flow of the game.

All achievements can be unlocked in a single playthrough, and that is the purpose of this guide.

PLEASE SAVE YOUR GAME AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE
It is very unstable and your progress may become permanently STOPPED.
Sometimes even saving and reloading a game may stop your progress (!).
If you save often, you can always go back to a previous save, when everything worked correctly.
Collectibles
Achievements for collecting stuff.

The Numismatic Collector
Collect 10 coins.

Plant Lover
Collect 20 blueberries.

Expanding Treasury
Collect 15 ore nuggets.



Just pick up everything you come across and these should unlock naturally.
Miscellaneous tasks
Easy to Open
Open 3 locked chests. [TRIVIAL]

Should unlock naturally as you follow this guide and progress through the game.

Master Chef
Prepare three different cooking recipes.

While there are 3 recipes total in the teaser, this achievement currently unlocks after you prepare ANY 3 food items. It can be 3 of the same one, e.g. 3 scavenger sandwiches. After you get a recipe, locate a fire (one is at Diego's camp) and interact with it.

EDIT (21 October, 2021):
Originally posted by JS:
small Update to your guide: The achievement > Master Chef < unlocks only by cooking 3 different cooking recipes. I tried it out today.


Climb the ladder right next to Orry and turn around to see the cliff you must climb.
You can find the 1st seraphis and a Scavenger Sandwich recipe there.

Where you fight the snapper, use the grave as a reference point and follow the arrow.

Cape Dun Roast Beef recipe is located in the chest.

Nordmar Soup recipe is a reward for completing Sidequest: A Well Deserved Break. See: The Finnest Drink.

A Moment of Relax
Heed nature’s call.

You have to find 3 bowls and urinate in each of them. Urinating 3 times in the same one didn't work for me, although some people have reported that it worked for them.

Exchange Zone, behind a locked gate (you'll need a lockpick). See arrow.

On a rock near the bridge between the Exchange Zone and Beliar Temple.

On a rock shelf above the bridge leading to scavengers, the 2nd seraphis, and a rusty longsword. Hug left wall after passing through the gate Orry is guarding, and climb up.

A Wrong Step
Barely survive a fall.

You have to survive a long fall. Go to this ladder, near the Exchange Zone. Make sure your health is full, and run off the cliff next to the ladder. DON'T JUMP or you will certainly die. This achievement may require equipment, potions, or food that increase your maximum health.

Disgusting Boots
Crush 10 meatbugs. [TRIVIAL]

There's way more than 10, they're pretty much everywhere, and they don't fight back.

No Longer a Lamb
Kill 6 wolves. [TRIVIAL]

There is more than 6 wolves in the teaser. If you're having trouble, wait until you have a decent sword (the amulet and the ring make it even easier).

A Real Hunter
Kill 5 scavengers. [TRIVIAL]

Again, there is more than 5. If you're having trouble, wait until you have a decent sword (the amulet and the ring make it even easier).
The Walkthrough - Prologue
After watching the intro you gain control of the nameless hero. Move forward through the Exchange Zone, watching cutscenes, and pick up your first (broken) sword.
Now it Really Hurts
Get your first weapon.

You can't win the fight with snappers, so lose and watch more cutscenes. Once you wake up in Diego's camp, you will unlock:
Beginner's Luck
Survived the first night in the Colony.

Diego will give you a quest - find A Decent Sword.
From his camp you can go right, down the stone stairs, to reach Beliar Temple, or left to reach Exchange Zone.
Go down the left path. On the right side look out for a ladder leading to a chest (yellow arrow), which contains an Amulet of Enlightenment (+25 total vitality).


Go back on the main path (green arrow). You'll reach a ladder that will help you unlock A Wrong Step achievement (red arrow). To the left (yellow arrow) you can find a pack of wolves, guarding a wine bottle (Sidequest: A Well Deserved Break), and the note you need to give to Diego for the achievement Whistleblower.


You can ignore the wolves and come back later, when you feel more capable. For now, go down the Exchange Zone (green arrow) to find Cayden. He will offer you a Burned Longsword (10 Attack damage), a solution to the main quest, as a reward for his Sidequest: The Stolen Pendant.
Leave the Exchange Zone down the new path. You should see a stone staircase (green arrow) and a bridge (yellow arrow).


Go up the staircase to find Sarus and Berig. Once you defeat Sarus, SPARE HIS LIFE. He will give you His Dice Box and initiate a Sidequest: Medicines for Sarus.
Ignore Sarus and Cayden for now. Loot Berig's body (1/3) to find a Logbook and a Key.
On the bridge next to Sarus is another dead body that you can loot (2/3).


Go straight ahead (yellow arrow) to reach Beliar Temple. Right in front of you, next to a tree is another corpse (3/3).


Loot it to unlock the achievement:

Body Looter
Loot a human body 3 times.

From there you can go right up the stairs to reach Diego's Camp, straight ahead to reach Orry, who's guarding a gate and offers a sidequest, or left to reach Sarus and Berig's hidden stash. Go left first.


You can either walk off the stairs or go around them. Either way you'll find the stash there. Open it with Berig's key to find Cayden's Pendant and Secret Stash Note.
Backtrack to the bridge, and go back to Cayden. SAVE YOUR GAME.
Tell Cayden you didn't find the Pendant. Now cross the bridge again and immediately turn right.
Go through the hidden passage in the screenshot:


Open the locked door with Cayden's Pendant to unlock an achievement:

Unveiling the Truth
Investigate to the end a hidden mistery.

Cayden won't be happy that you lied to him and will attack you. RELOAD YOUR SAVE.

Open the secret stash before talking to Cayden again.

Inside you'll find a Longsword (20 attack damage) - the best weapon in the teaser, as well as a chest containing Hunter's Ring (+25 total stamina). Looting the ring unlocks another achievement:

Feel the Magic
Get your first magic item.

NOW you can go back to Cayden. Give him BOTH Cayden's Pendant and Sarus's Dice Set to earn his trust, as well as the (crappy) burned sword.

A Trustworthy Man
Build someone's trust in the Colony.

Equip the best sword you have and go back to the wolves you passed earlier. Get the wine and the note. Go back to Diego to finish the quest now, or go talk to Orry at the gate first. This guide assumes that you ignored Diego just for a little while longer.

Orry offers a Sidequest: Orry's Headache. To the right of him is a ladder. Climb it and turn around. You should see a cliff that you can climb.


On top of it you can find a Seraphis (to the left) and a recipe for a Scavenger Sandwich (to the right).

Give the Seraphis to Orry. Sidequest completed. He still won't let you through, though.

After a Long Night
Completed - Orry's Headache.

Finally go back to Diego and show him your new sword.

A New Weapon
Completed - A Decent Sword.

And give him the note you found near the wolves.

Now go with Diego and Orry will let you through.
The Walkthrough - Act I
Speak with Orry again to receive another Sidequest: A Well Deserved Break. Give him the wine you found earlier to instantly complete it.

The Finnest Drink
Completed - A Well Deserved Break.

Now you can continue down the valley with Diego (black arrow).


You'll reach Bloodwyn, who will give you another Quest: Some Meat as a Debt. You need a Wolf Tusk and a piece of Snapper Meat. You should already have a tusk.

Go back to the location in the last screenshot. Go across the bridge (yellow arrow) to find 2 scavengers, a Rusty Longsword (15 Attack damage), and a 2nd Seraphis.

Go back to Sarus, who should be sitting next to the bridge with the first lootable body. Give him the Seraphis (or 10 blueberries, but you should save them for healing yourself) to heal him and complete his sidequest. Giving him 1 blueberry is a waste, as he won't get healed that way.


You Won't Die Today
Completed - Medicines for Sarus.

Go back and this time follow the red arrow - climb up the rocks to reach an area with wolves, scavengers, and a snapper.

SAVE YOUR GAME in case you mess up ahead.

Lure a wolf to the snapper, either through hit-and-run tactics, or baiting them with meat. The snapper will claim its kill, earning you an achievement:

The Seed of Discord
Start a confrontation between creatures.

Kill the snapper to get its meat.

The Hardest Prey
Kill 1 snapper.

Also worth noting is that in this area there is a hidden chest with a recipe, as well as a bowl that you can urinate in (refer to the miscellaneous tasks section).
Take the lift (aka elevator) near the cliff to quickly ride down to Diego and Bloodwyn.
Give Bloodwyn the Wolf Tusk and the Snapper Meat.

Back in One Piece
Completed - Some Meat as a Debt.

Diego will instantly give you a new Quest: The Fire Signal and a Key to the tower.
Use the lift again and open the locked gate. Climb the broken tower and turn off the signal.
Speaking to Diego now ends the game. If you still have other achievements to get, now is the time for that. Once you're ready, speak to Diego and choose to finish his quest.

The Gates are Open
Completed - The Fire Signal.

Your New Home
Finish the game.

Congratulations! You have completed Gothic Playable Teaser!
Removed achievements
The 4 achievements that got removed from the game:

Hangover
[BROKEN] Collect 10 empty bottles.

The End of a Friendship
[BROKEN] Completed - The Stolen Pendant.

Whistleblower
[BROKEN] Deliver the note to Diego.

The Colony's Expert
[BROKEN] Collect all achievement.
66 Comments
PCMaker 18 Apr @ 6:46am 
thanks for the guide, there is still a bug:

if u kill Sarus and take his dice there is not dialog options to "show" it to Crayden and u lock urself out of the achievement, i restarted the fking game 2 times cuz i thought it was bugged... apparently sparing him AND recieving the dice from living Sarus is the only way to complete the trust achievement...
WINKOИER 2 Mar @ 6:04am 
Preamble is the most important part of the guide. Save often for real. I got to very end with two achievement locked. I couldn't finish the demo due to Diego being broken and not wanting to talk to me as well as having 70 nuggets without Expanding Treasury unlocked. Thankfully I was able to resolve both via reloading old saves. Good guide, thank you.
DuckMan 6 Jul, 2024 @ 10:57am 
Expanding Treasury solving: all you need is 1 lockpick (you can find it near the stash behind the temple). After Diego's speech go to the temple.
1/15 - on the stairs in the temple (+1)
7/15 - on the rorpse in the centre (+6)
DuckMan 6 Jul, 2024 @ 10:56am 
10/15 - Go back to Diego and take another exit (to exchange zone). After a small wooden bridge pick 3 pieces on the rock (+3)
16/15(! +6) - right here you also will find a ladder down to the locked chest (you'll need a lockpick) After looting this chest achivement will pop up
NosFraten 20 Oct, 2023 @ 5:59am 
Expanding Treasury seems to be unlocking at random if it's not unlocking when you picked up specifically 15 nuggets.. Try getting 14 nuggets by any means - chests, corpses, ground, but make sure you stop at 14. Pick up the 15th nugget off the ground - has to be off the ground. If it still doesn't unlock try loading earlier saves and repeat the process until you have 15 nuggets.
Adenetty 5 Sep, 2023 @ 3:17am 
For the gem "Expanding Treasury" achievement u have to pick up only the ones on the ground, do not take from anything else
Fifty Shades of Hacks 24 Aug, 2023 @ 4:41am 
ANYONE KNOWS how to unluck the 15 gems achievments ? its not unlocking
PBJellyInAJar 12 Aug, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Guess I must be very unlucky. I've attempted a few other times, what you've said, as well as following another guides walk-through to a tee and still with no unlock.. not sure of the problem or a fix.
Division 15 Jul, 2023 @ 10:38am 
I got the Expanding Treasury achievement by reloading my save where I am at the fight to Sarus. Opening chest and collecting ore nuggets seems to not void this achievement so it's all good.
evil morty 14 Jul, 2023 @ 7:08pm 
GUYS, when you reload your save, food and pissing work if its the same item/spot, I've achived this by accident by reloading a save lol xD