The Crust 1.0 Achievements Guide: 100% Unlock Walkthrough

Steam Achievement System & Global Unlock Landscape

The Crust features 28 official Steam achievements that trace the growth of your lunar enterprise from a crashed exploratory lander to a self-sufficient industrial megabase. Unlock rates span a wide difficulty gradient: basic introductory actions like landing and early mining achieve over 70 percent completion, whereas complex late-game financial and defense milestones sit below 5 percent.

Following Hotfix 1.0.11, achievement tracking is tightly coupled with the online leaderboard system. Any game modified with third-party tools or altered configuration files is flagged as modified, disqualifying the run from both global leaderboard rankings and Steam achievement unlocks.

Achievement Name	Global Unlock Rate	Achievement Category	Core Objective & Unlock Trigger
Now the Fun Begins	74.6%	Onboarding / Story	Complete the prologue and initiate base operations on the Moon
A Single Spark	70.3%	Power Infrastructure	Construct and connect your first solar panel to the energy grid
One Year of Solitude	57.9%	Time / Survival	Survive one full in-game year without failing
Diggy Diggy Hole	51.1%	Excavation	Extract regolith and clear subterranean tiles for underground facilities
Ore In My Veins	36.1%	Smelting / Industry	Process raw iron and silicon into refined ingots using the Smelter
Lost and Found	35.2%	Surface Exploration	Locate and recover your first abandoned lunar rover or expedition wreck
Charlie on our six	32.1%	Story Campaign	Successfully navigate the early narrative encounter with rival survey drones
American Dream	31.9%	Trade Contracts	Fulfill your first commercial delivery contract with an Earth conglomerate
Smart Moves, Concrete Gains	29.3%	Infrastructure	Pave your first high-speed concrete road network connecting logistics bays
Mad Miner	21.2%	Industrial Extraction	Extract a cumulative total of 100,000 units of lunar regolith
Stable Basis	15.1%	Life Support	Maintain stable oxygen, water, and food supplies for 10 colonists
Lunar Truck Simulator	12.9%	Surface Transport	Automate transport truck logistics delivering resources between remote outposts
Plugged In	11.7%	Subterranean Power	Wire a subterranean battery substation powering a deep mining facility
I need a Private Jet	10.0%	Heavy Vehicles	Construct and deploy the heavy Cargo Shuttle in the Expedition Center
Heroes Never Die	7.5%	Colonist Welfare	Cure an critically ill specialist colonist in the Medical Center
Lock and Loaded	5.3%	Defense Systems	Construct and arm the primary surface defense laser turret
Hydrogen Tycoon	5.1%	Gas Extraction	Extract and store a massive reserve of refined Hydrogen gas
Ice Breaker	4.4%	Resource Harvesting	Extract ice deposits from permanently shadowed craters using the Melter
One shot - One asteroid!	4.1%	Planetary Defense	Intercept an incoming asteroid before impact using the Anti-Meteorite Laser
Villy Gates	3.2%	Financial Valuation	Reach a top-tier colony corporate valuation in CRUST credits
Houston, YOU have a problem	2.9%	Narrative Climax	Overcome the major mid-game corporate sabotage crisis
Signal in a Bottle	2.8%	Deep Space Comms	Construct the Deep Space Relay Array and establish contact with deep probes
Silent Assassin	1.8%	Specialized Tech	Complete an espionage mission without alerting rival faction sensors
Jeff Bazzos	1.2%	Trade Empire	Fulfill 50 high-priority Earth trade contracts with 100% on-time rating
Ilon Maks	0.5%	Megaproject Scale	Construct the Space Elevator anchor or complete the final orbital launcher
Average Crust Enjoyer	0.3%	Endgame Mastery	Complete all storyline research nodes across all four scientific disciplines
The Crust	0.1%	Ultimate Completionist	Complete the entire main campaign on the highest difficulty setting
My mom’s friend’s son	0.1%	Economic Domination	Achieve top-tier global capitalization while maintaining maximum colonist morale

Phase-by-Phase Achievement Walkthrough

To earn 100% achievement completion efficiently, divide your campaign objectives into four focused operational phases:

Phase 1: Early Onboarding & Surface Foundations (75% to 30% Unlocks)

• Now the Fun Begins & A Single Spark: Prioritize building your starter solar arrays immediately upon landing. Wire connections directly to the subterranean command bunker.
• Diggy Diggy Hole & Ore In My Veins: Carve out initial underground chambers. Place your initial Smelting Furnace directly adjacent to the elevator shaft to minimize conveyor transit time.
• Lost and Found: Dispatch your scout rover across nearby crater sectors to locate abandoned equipment pods. Salvaging early components awards free microcircuits and rare alloys.
• Smart Moves, Concrete Gains: Lay concrete road corridors between your surface landing pad and the Expedition Center. Concrete increases rover transit speed by 40 percent.

Phase 2: Logistics Automation & Colonist Welfare (30% to 10% Unlocks)

• Mad Miner & Lunar Truck Simulator: Establish automated truck routes. Equip transport trucks with high-capacity cargo beds and set loading filters to prevent trucks from idling with mixed inventories.
• Stable Basis & Heroes Never Die: Before accepting colonist immigration capsules, verify that your base maintains a 5-day buffer of Oxygen, Water, and Organic Rations. Construct the Medical Center early; treating sick colonists promptly prevents morale penalties from cascading into strikes.
• Plugged In: Lunar nights last approximately 14 days. Construct high-capacity underground battery arrays and link them via high-voltage switches. Remember that Update 1.0.9 made underground batteries immune to Solar Flare events.

Phase 3: Advanced Resource Extraction & Planetary Defense (10% to 3% Unlocks)

• Ice Breaker & Hydrogen Tycoon: Locate permanently shadowed crater basins containing surface ice. Deploy Ice Melters and route the resulting water to Electrolysis Plants to produce pure Oxygen and Hydrogen fuel.
• One shot - One asteroid!: In late mid-game, meteor strikes threaten surface infrastructure. Construct the Anti-Meteorite Laser Cannon on high crater ridges and ensure it connects to a dedicated battery bank with at least 500 kW of stored reserve power to guarantee firing readiness.
• Villy Gates: Focus on high-margin Earth export contracts. Processing raw regolith into advanced electronics and refined alloys yields triple the profit of raw ore shipments.

Phase 4: Corporate Supremacy & Endgame Milestones (3% to 0.1% Unlocks)

• Jeff Bazzos & Ilon Maks: Construct the automated Cargo Dock introduced in Update 1.0.12. Utilize the large 9800-unit transport capsules to fulfill bulk corporate orders in a single launch cycle.
• Average Crust Enjoyer: Maintain dedicated Science Labs staffed by high-morale researchers. Earn Science Points through faction missions and research partnerships to clear the entire technology tree.
• The Crust & My mom’s friend’s son: The final milestone requires flawless balance: keeping your base capitalization rising while maintaining high colonist happiness. Implement comfortable housing, decorative gardens, and high-quality meals in the Kitchen.

For early survival priorities, consult our beginner guide. For surviving the 14-day lunar night, review the power grid guide. For automated transport layout, see the roads and logistics guide.

Methodology & Data Sources: Achievement names, global unlock percentages, and unlock triggers are verified directly against the Steam Community global statistics database for The Crust (Steam AppID 1465470).