Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley

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Fector's Challenge Achievement (5k+ Visitors!!)
By Enid
This is a guide on how to get the Fector's Challenge Achievement
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Introduction
Hi, I'm Cosmic
I'm an Achievement Hunter/Completionist and I saw that not many people have this achievement so I thought I would help people who are stuck.

So far I've found two options on how to get this achievement.
1. A Difficult Grind
2. Mods

I'll cover how to do both in this guide
A Difficult Grind
In the pub in town there is an Arcade Machine for the game 'Journey of the Prairie King'.
To get this achievement you have to beat it without dying

This can be very difficult, mostly relying on being lucky with coins and power-ups.
Beating each level shouldn't be too much of a struggle but doing it no hit is mostly a test of perserverance, skill and luck.

Outlaws are pretty easy to kill no hit, just keep your distance and avoid their bullets, which should be easy if you've played Bullet-hell games before.
With Fector, it is easiest if you have either the Sherrif Star or the Machine Gun when you start it.
He starts shooting instantly, so the best strategy is activate the power-up (sherrif star or machine gun) stand in the centre and shoot down at him. He normally wont last long if you do this

Here's a video example: (Fector is at about 19:20)
Mods
Modding the game isn't too difficult.
It's as simple as downloading SMAPI and running it: https://smapi.io/
Once installed, you can find mods online on websites such as Nexus Mods.
Here's one for The Prairie King that i found: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/5816

There should be a guide for setting up SMAPI but to make sure achievements work, after the string SMAPI asks you to put in Launch Options, make sure to put %command% at the end of it so that achievements work with mods.
Example: "C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\StardewModdingAPI.exe" %command%

I don't think this is how it should be done however it makes it easier for those who don't want the challenge
A Third Way
Credit: josh

Play the arcade game up to stage 2-2 (not difficult with good RNG)
Leave the arcade game and sleep a day

You can then go back to the game and keep trying to advance to Fector

Each time you die you can just reload your save file to start the day again

Thanks to TheK9Master :

Here's a spot where Fector can't hit you (potentially bug or is just how his attacks work?)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/ugc/1820015997355562836/F507C8029F44C32825B9B50B0E4076BB9B0E3155/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
Thanks
Thankyou for reading my guide,
I hope it was helpful.

Please leave feedback in the comments, and rate it if you found it useful
~ Cosmic
7 Comments
Stylish Notions 16 Aug, 2022 @ 8:38pm 
thank you so much omg you don't understand how mad i was trying to get this achievement all in just 1 run
bovine intervention 26 Dec, 2021 @ 3:09pm 
the way i got is that when you beat you get the arcade cabinet as furniture, so i just placed it next to my bed and save scummed each level until i got it.
LuVenBen 26 Dec, 2021 @ 7:04am 
why am i hearing "apple"?
TheK9Master 23 Dec, 2021 @ 5:50pm 
I got it using the Third method and found almost a glitched spot where he can't get you. https://youtu.be/0HOVXyAzPMM (My experience).

What I did personally was every other level or so I'd exit, Sleep a day to save my progress (all without dying or if I died I'd exit to the Stardew menu and reload), and continue until I reached the boss level where I again slept a day after reaching, then basically just did this.
I also found strafing like in a FPS game helps in different ways of trying to beat him because he aims for where you're going to be most of the time and not where you are .
TheK9Master 22 Dec, 2021 @ 6:25pm 
me an all the other achievement hunters/completionists like -> :3 :bulletkin:
pøppy- 21 Dec, 2021 @ 8:32am 
the guy below is very smart
josh597bru 13 Dec, 2021 @ 10:01am 
You could also just get to stage 2-2 (which is not hard) with good rng and then leave the arcade game and sleep a day, then go back to the game and keep trying to advance to fector, if you do die then you can just reload that day.