Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

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100% Achievements Guide [SPOILER]
By SwissFire
The guide contains an extensive list of all achievements that can be earned in the game and guiding maps to save time. For some achievements I also added some advice on achieving them based on my personal experience.

I tried to describe moments that caused me or may cause you difficulties. If you find an error or have questions, feel free to ask in the comments.
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General Achievements
These Achievements are earned during a normal playthrough without the need of special requirements or attention. At the end will be a map indicating where to find the different dinosaur remnants.

Daddy, I drew a dino!
Draw a dino in the flashback sequence.
Truly passionate
Complete tutorial minigames.
Searching like a boss
Inspect rocks with fossils.
True predator
Complete T-Rex skeleton.
Let the adventure begin
Finish Prologue part of the game.
Bird mimic
Discover remnants of Ornithomimus.
Is it a bird? Is it a lizard? No, it's an ornithomimus!
Assemble Ornithomimus skeleton.
Swift running lizard
Discover remnants of Dromaeosaurus.
The cutest one
Assemble Dromaeosaurus skeleton.
King of the tyrant lizards
Discover remnants of T-Rex
The One True King
Assemble T-Rex skeleton.
Three-horned face
Discover remnants of Triceratops.
The famous one
Assemble Triceratops skeleton.*
Long headed
Discover remnants of Edmontonia.
Dino with a long skull
Assemble Edmontonia skeleton.
Lizard from Edmonton
Discover remnants of Edmontosaurus.
T-rex's lunch
Assemble Edmontosaurus skeleton.
Dreadful lizard
Discover remnants of Gorgosaurus.
Count my teeth...
Assemble Gorgosaurus skeleton.
Near crested lizard
Discover remnants of Parasaurolophus.
The rare one
Assemble Parasaurolophus skeleton.
Horned roof
Discover remnants of Stegoceras.
Short paws, but not t-rex
Assemble Stegoceras skeleton.
Spiked lizard
Discover remnants of Styracosaurus.
As seen on TV
Assemble Styracosaurus skeleton.
Helmeted lizard
Discover remnants of Corythosaurus.
Heavyweight
Assemble Corythosaurus skeleton.
Toothless wing
Discover remnants of Pteranodon.
Fly high!
Assemble Pteranodon skeleton.
There's plenty of them!
Find and excavate 1 skeleton of each dinosaur species.**
Master Fossil Hunter
Find and excavate all dinosaur skeletons available in the game.**
Paleo Soul
Assemble all the skeletons available in the game.**
I can go anywhere
Unlock access to all the locations.
Sophisticated dinosaur
Unlock the State Museum.
Perfect management
Unlock the National Museum.

* One full Triceratops skeleton is distributed across 2 excavations sites.
** The Utahraptor from the Raptor DLC is not required for these achievements.

Excavation Site Maps
Quarry
  • red - Dromaeosaurus (initial digsite has 2)
  • green - Ornithomimus
Dinosaur Canyon
  • green - T-Rex + Triceratops (Triceratops is not complete)
  • red - Triceratops
  • orange - Edmontonia
  • blue - Edmontosaurus
  • teal - Pteranodon
  • yellow - Utahraptor (DLC required)
Grizzlies East Mountains
  • red - Gorgosaurus
  • green - Styracosaurus
  • orange - Parasaurolophus
  • blue - Stegoceras
  • teal - Corythosaurus
Missables
These Achievements can be missed during a playthrough or can only be earned during two different ones.

Patience you must have
Clean all fossils manually.*
Lazy bones
Have an employee clean all the fossils in the Prologue for you.
All by myself
Perform manual cleaning of all bones of every dinosaur skeleton at least once.

To unlock the "All by myself" achievement, you must clean all bones of every species in a single playthrough. If there are multiple sets of skeletons for one species, manual cleaning is required only once for each set of bones. (This does not need to be done within one savefile, but is tracked across multiple)

* For this achievement only the fossils in the Prologue need to be cleaned manually. (confirmed)
Quarry
The following Achievements are bound to the Quarry map.

Great Explorer - Quarry
Set up all possible excavation sites in Quarry.
Dinosaur Canyon
The following Achievements are bound to the Dinosaur Canyon map. For the Points-of-Interest Achievements a map is provided at the end of this section.

Great Explorer - Dinosaur Canyon
Set up all possible excavation sites in Dinosaur Canyon.
Looks like we got a connection!
Get close to the antenna in Dinosaur Canyon.
What a wonderful world!
Visit a viewpoint #1 in Dinosaur Canyon.
#whataview
Visit a viewpoint #2 in Dinosaur Canyon.
Honey, I'm home
Enter all the houses in Dinosaur Canyon.*
Everything is soaking wet
Go under all the waterfalls in Dinosaur Canyon.*
Almost like on Mars
Find the Mars rover.

* You probably do not have to visit the points-of-interest within one session however I would advise to do so if you are not sure whether you visited every PoI or which one is missing.

The Mars Rover can be found inside the blue container at the construction side at the very end of the road you get on by turning left from the hub. In order to get around the fence you can go to the right from the closed entry gate and jump down the small hill. You have to be inside the container for the achievement to trigger.

Point-of-Interests Map
Grizzlies East Mountains
The following Achievements are bound to the Grizzlies East Mountains map. For the Points-of-Interest Achievements a map is provided at the end of this section.

Great Explorer - Grizzlies East Mountains
Set up all possible excavation sites in Grizzlies East Mountains.
Just relax
Enter the bower on an island in the Grizzlies East Mountains.
How much is it?!
Enter each petrol station in the Grizzlies East Mountains.*
I found all the antennas!
Get close to all the antennas in the Grizzlies East Mountains.*

* You probably do not have to visit the points-of-interest within one session however I would advise to do so if you are not sure whether you visited every PoI or which one is missing.

Point-of-Interests Map
Grandpa's Garage
This section contains the achievements that can only be earned when at Grandpa's Garage.

Pimp my ride
Change the color of 1 car.
Woodwork addicted
Assemble all wooden dino figurines for a second time
Pimp my tool
Change the color of 1 tool.
Bookworm
Unlock and read all the newspaper

After you excavated each dinosaur remnant at least once and got to the National Museum, interact with the newspapers on the desk in the "office room" and skip through all of them.

I know how to use it
Use every table in the garage

The tables to interact with are the office table with the newspapers on it, the small table with the blank paper, the table with the wooden dino figurines, and the table in the garage at which one can color their tools.
Miscellaneous
This section contains all achievements that are not instantly earned by just playing the game but do require tasks the player has to accomplish.

Trust me, I'm interior decorator
Change floor, wall and ceiling material.

This achievement can be either earned during the prologue or in the main game.

Bronze Shovel
Use a digging tool 250 times.
Silver Shovel
Use a digging tool 500 times.
Golden Shovel
Use a digging tool 1000 times.
Rockbreaker bronze
Destroy 100 rocks.
Rockbreaker silver
Destroy 200 rocks.
Rockbreaker gold
Destroy 500 rocks.

For the "Rockbreaker" Achievements the rocks blocking the street as well as rocks that can be dug up and do not contain any fossil count towards it.

It's a good start
Clean 25 bone sets manually.
My best friend brush
Clean 50 bone sets manually.
Get your hands dirty
Clean 75 bone sets manually.
Landscape Hunter
Take a photo with a flying drone in one of avaialable locations.
#MuseumSelfie
Take a photo with a flying drone in the museum.
It can't get any better!
Get all your tools to the max level.
I work with the bestl
Max out the Employees Tree level.

Both achievements for maxing out the respective Skill-Trees are a little bit misleading:
Even though the "It can't get any better!" achievement is telling to get all tools to max level, what it actually requires is to complete the whole tech tree within the player's skills (so also swimming etc.).
For the "I work with the best!" achievement you do not need to obtain all the skills at one time (which is also not possible) but each skill has to be obtained once. So you need to reset the tree at least once in order to enable this achievement.

Look at these beauties!
Showcase 50% of available dinosaur skeletons at museum exhibition.
It's getting crowded!
Showcase 75% of available dinosaur skeletons at museum exhibition.
You really outdid yourself!
Showcase 100% of available dinosaur skeletons at museum exhibition.

For these achievements the Utahraptor DLC is not required.

New life
Place all dinosaur eggs on exposition
Botanical Discoveries
Find all unique plants.
Eagle Eye
Find all the small fossils.
Show your story
Place all small fossils in glass cases in the museum.

The eggs have to be cleaned in the museum and then placed in it in order for them to count towards the achievement.
For maps containing all the spots for the Fossil Collectibles, please refer to the following guide (thanks to DragonStryder for giving me the permission to link his guide here):
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809255889
Excavation at Night
Arrive at the excavation site in the night.

In order to change the time you can go to the "Travel" tab on your notepad, then go to "Change day" on any map you want to travel too and then click on the "+" on the top right of the tablets screen. This will change the time of day.

Never ending exploration
Drive until the fuel runs out.
Have you checked fuel prices?
Fill 25 fuel canisters.

The "Have you checked fuel prices?" achievement is misleading and even though it asks for fuel canisters to be filled, it is actually enabled by topping up cars and the underwater pump. The most probable explanation on how this achievement is enabled is that there exists a cumulative counter that enables the achievement when the equivalent of 25 fuel canisters (1250l) has been used. Furthermore, it is not required to do this in one playthrough, but can be achieved over several runs. An easy way to get this achievement is to not get any fuel consumption upgrades and drive around the map finding all digsites and collectibles. You can also run your truck into a wall and just drive until your fuel tank is empty. Place your fuel canisters next to your car (or drive into the wall at the starting hub next to the big fuel tank) and top up your car when it is empty. (Using underwater pumps or generators for this achievement are way slower to get this achievement)
Museum Workshop
The following achievements are dependent on the player publishing their museum to the Steam workshop and others to visit these. In order for a visit to count towards this achievement, another player needs to subscribe to your museum and visit it in-game via the Workshop tab in the main menu.
Important to note is that the amount of visitors is not cumulative and must be achieved on one uploaded museum and does not count all visitors you got across several uploaded ones.

I'm proud of my work
Share your museum to Steam Workshop.
Museum of the Year I
Gain 3 visitors via Steam Workshop.
Museum of the Year II
Gain 6 visitors via Steam Workshop.
Museum of the Year III
Gain 10 visitors via Steam Workshop.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3099889315
Feel free to post your museum's workshop link in the comments. If you do so, please, visit also the ones that were posted before you so everyone can get the achievement :)

(The following table contains all the links that were posted in the comments. I'll try to keep the table as up to date as I can. Once a museum reaches 10 subscribers it will be removed from the table - the creator can also request the museum being removed from the list.)
IMPORTANT: There can only be 9 previews for the museums. So links that do not show any preview, are also working and are not faulty.


Community Workshop Museums
Bugged Achievements
There are currently no bugged achievements in the game. :)

If you ever find a bugged achievement or have some considerations on achievements, please state so in the comments.
153 Comments
Claire0blood 27 Aug @ 3:39pm 
Plzz visit my museum to help me to get the achievement. Visit 4 Visit.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3557197710
Lynn 26 Aug @ 10:43pm 
Please stop on by my museum and I'll visit yours.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3550464791
Auravain 18 Jul @ 1:01pm 
Hi,

Pls visit my museum to help me to get the achievement ‭❤

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3528929864
yukeゆけ 17 Jul @ 8:48am 
this is my museum

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3527269367

pls someone help me get steam achievement,i will appreciate it !
Mythkeeper 11 Jul @ 6:20am 
Thank you all for your help – I finally got the achievement!
Much appreciated to everyone who visited and subscribed to my museum. If anyone still needs help with this achievement, feel free to leave your link here and I’ll return the favor.
Have a great day and happy gaming!
Mythkeeper 11 May @ 10:39pm 
Hi,

please Visit my Museum
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3480254809

Thanks to Visitors and the Autor from this Guide
animeden 27 Apr @ 3:39pm 
hi, please visit my museum, thanks)
also thanks to the autor of this guid, you do a greate job)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3471852418
SwissFire  [author] 9 Apr @ 11:57am 
@FabulousSloth maybe you can send an image/screenshot in the official discord channel so it is easier to help you
Marvaktor 9 Apr @ 10:41am 
Just got the last achievement for the museum, thank you all :)
FabulousSloth 9 Apr @ 9:34am 
I’m looking there in the quarry and I can’t find anything.