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Achievement tricks and workarounds
By Vhac
A guide to speeding up the achievements significantly and workarounds to some bugs.
   
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Category: Achievements
Languages: English
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3 Jun, 2024 @ 4:46am
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
Unlocking All Perks 
Multiplying sessions 
Losing perks - Workaround 
Landscape Winner Achievement - Workaround 
Closing out 
To the developers 
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Introduction
I will start this brief guide by outlining why I'm making it, because I'll be highlighting what's evidently unintended by the developers.
I really quite like the game and have enjoyed my time with it. I like the changes made to the Dorfromantik formula and would even go so far as to say I prefer Pan'Orama.
But I also enjoy collecting achievements and Pan'Orama does not respect my time when it comes to achievements (Dorfromantik had the same issue).
The tricks I will outline is the result of my frustration at the prospect of spending tens, if not hundreds, of hours doing the same thing over and over again working towards unlocks and achievements. My mind starts wondering if there are any way to cheese or cheat the system.
And I found a few...
Unlocking All Perks
Why:
Playing challenge mode it became immediately obvious that actually winning wasn't possible without first gathering a good deal of perks. Something that would take a very long time. At first I contemplated restarting the game after building the first monument, continuously farming the first one until I had everything unlocked and a real shot at actually winning.
Even this would take a long time, so I got curious on how earning perks actually worked and discovered a trick...

Trick:
Perks are earned when you build a monument and saved immediately to your account.
This can be exploited because we have an Undo-button.

- After building a monument and choosing your Perks, hit the Undo-button. The last tile will be returned to you and the monument ready to be built again immediately. Simply place down the tile again and the monument will grant you a new choice of Perks. All Perks chosen this way is saved.
Multiplying sessions
Why:
As we all know, playing a game of Pan'Orama will easily take an hour and A LOT more if you are actually doing well. This is not an issue, unless you want the achievements.
When I looked over the achievements and saw that they were to finish 60 sessions, 30 with a score above 4550 points and 5 wins, I got a little bit annoyed. That's a lot of time invested.
I fully intended to use a trick I discovered in Dorfromantik, which had the same egregious time requirements on its achievements.
But I found a better way in Pan'Orama.

Trick:
Sessions are counted for the achievements when the end screen pops up, be that "Game Over" or "Congratulations".
The trick I used to count my sessions multiple times in Dorfromantik was simple. Make a copy of the save before you finish the session.
Finish the session, delete the save and replace it with the copy, open up the game and you can finish the same session again. Delete that save and replace it again, as many times as you like.
I set it up at my first win, made the copy and finished the session, but this was after my discovering the Perk trick, so I got curious...

- After you finish a session by building the final monument, click continue and undo the last move. It will return the last tile and remove the monument, leaving it ready to be built again. Every time you build the final monument, you win the game and it counts as a finished session.
Losing perks - Workaround
Why:
Game has a tendency to crash once the map starts getting big and for whatever reason, this can sometimes disable your perks. This is annoying on its own of cause, but doubly so since it likely means that it's no longer possible to win the session. Hours of progress made worthless because of a crash.

Workaround:
After discovering the trick to unlocking all Perks and finally getting a real shot at winning Challenge mode, I gave it a good think and planned my approach to structures. I came to the conclusion that the best use of monuments were to set them up early, but not actually finish them until later.
My game crashed and I lost all my perks, but since I had unfinished monuments and a trick to unlocking all Perks...

- Keep a monument ready to build until the very end of the game, never actually build it unless you absolutely need to. If your game crashes and you lose your perks*, apply the unlocking all Perks trick described above. Make sure to undo the monument again after you've reclaimed your Perks, so it's ready again in case of another crash.

*it can be difficult to tell if you've lost the perks or not. The easiest way to see is completing a quest. Without Perks it will award about 25 points and with Perks it will award about 50 points.
Landscape Winner Achievement - Workaround
Why:
I won my first session on Challenge Mode, applied the Multiplying Sessions trick to wrap up the last achievements and discovered that I hadn't gotten the Landscape Winner achievement. I was 73/73 and had won, so I had obviously unlocked all structures. It was clearly not working.

Workaround:
I went online to look for clues on how to unlock it. I didn't find any answers, only other people experiencing the same or similar issues with Landscape Winner. Originally I thought the issue might've been me playing on Challenge Mode, but these people had issues on Standard Mode too. Made me think, with the other tricks you could do with the Undo-button, might be there were other unintended interactions...

- Landscape Winner (Unlocking all structures), can be achieved in Creative Mode.
Closing out
I'm in two minds about making this guide.
On one hand, the tricks are exploits, bugs used to expedite/remove the the grind. It's cheating, plain and simple... and I'm sharing how to do it.
On the other hand, the achievements and the Perk grind simply does not respect my time. A bit of napkin math and it'll take about 60 hours assuming 7h for each of the 5 wins, 1h for each of the 30x 4550pt games and no time for the 60 games with no requirements (deliberately lose immediately).
This is of cause low-balling it massively, every failed attempt to win will add a few hours to the counter.
I deliberately used the words tricks and workarounds, because I feel the exploits are justified with the current requirements. I don't like cheating, but I also don't think the time investment asked of me to unlock the perks, achievements and masteries is fair.
To the developers
I hope you will see this guide for what it is, criticism of the perk and achievement system as well as a bug report. I do sincerely hope that you'll take both under consideration. By all means fix the bugs I'm exploiting, but please address the perks and achievements that made me seek them out in the first place.
11 Comments
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CheeseSlice 26 May @ 6:30am 
I absolutely agree with this game not respecting your time, and I seem to play the game much slower than all the other people commenting in these forums, so that time sink is doubly worse for me.
krsp 10 Mar @ 1:01pm 
I wonder if achievements related to perks were removed? I don't see any with that wording in March 2025. I was lucky to intuit stacking double-point structures (and I have played a lot of Dorfromantik) so completed all the achievements unrelated to number of sessions in my first playthrough. That, of course, was a long game. I am an achievement collector and know I am capable of getting them here, but had no desire to grind. Your assertion that these achievements do not respect the players' time is spot-on. I really appreciate this guide, and am of similar mind for disliking cheating but making a tricks and workarounds distinction. Thank you, and cheers :)
Sonic 24 Jul, 2024 @ 3:48am 
Wow thank you for writing your soul out i appreciate it. Im not sure what im doing wrong but i am usually losing the game at 50/73 which is what frustrated me till the point of thinking its impossible to win but i will try ur strategy and update on the outcome soon!
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:26am 
Part 7
- Don't underestimate Airships. For the most part, they are not great, but try to get one early on. They are extremely useful for placing multiplier buildings further out or filling building slots before you can actually reach them.

I cannot tell you if normal or challenge mode is the way to go as I only really played challenge. But I'd say that once I had all the perks, it wasn't overly difficult to reach the end, not exactly easy (look at all those tips I had to develop!) but certainly doable.
Best of luck to you!
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:26am 
Part 6
- Multiplier buildings. The real money makers and likely the area where you, like me, have the most to gain. I saw a massive change after I started to really respect the area around them, before you even place them down, prepare for them. What I mean is, establish those biomes, once you have a good setup and is sure that foreign tiles won't creep into the multiplier area, you can pick and place down the buildings. If you really want to maximize them (and why wouldn't you) make a spike out from your biome and place it as far out as you can. You can lose A LOT of points by simply placing it to close to the general board. Simply put, the multiplier buildings does absolutely nothing for tiles already placed, you'll want to place it somewhere you can really maximize the amount of slots.
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:26am 
Part 5
- Upgrade buildings. Treat them like the wonders, but don't hold on to them after the area is full. Like the wonders, by the time you can complete the building, the area around it will probably only be half-full. You're in no hurry, fill the area before completing it, but don't bother saving them for an emergency, they likely won't make that much of a difference.
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:25am 
Part 4
- Save the wonders. When you get the wonders, place them in good spots and complete all but the last tile. Save it for when you really need it. Wonders upgrades a ton of tiles in a massive area around them, chances are that when you place down the wonder and can complete it, you'd be wasting a lot of the potential upgrades. Better to save it, build around and out, fill that massive area with tiles before triggering it. As an added bonus, it gives you a certain peace of mind knowing that you have that wonder ready and waiting, in case of an emergency. It's hard to quantify, but it felt much easier to leave gaps to perfect later, you won't stress over the tiles knowing that you can claim a ton at a whim.
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:25am 
Part 3
- Don't mind the gaps. As long as you have a good deal of tiles to spare, don't be afraid to leave gaps on your board, it's better to leave a gap and return later with a perfect tile than to place down an imperfect one just to fill the slot. Be reasonable about it of cause, can't perfect every tile, but we can certainly strive to do so.
- Flower tiles. Probably don't need to tell you, but they are extremely valuable to fill those gaps we left earlier and since they are essentially jokers that goes with everything, they absolutely shine around the split tiles, especially the 3-split ones. Make sure you don't waste them.
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:25am 
Part 2
- Build biomes and mind the border. I found it immensely helpful to structure my board, makes it easy to keep track of where to place the tiles. What I mean is that you should try to build the types of tiles in separate directions, trees goes south, rocks goes southeast, fields on the west and water on the east. Whenever you get a split tile, you just try to put in in between the biomes. When you then get split tiles that doesn't fit on the borders, you make small islands in one of the biomes and reserve that area to that specific split. It's difficult to build like this at the start since your board is so small, but keep it as the goal. I had good experiences keeping trees and rocks next to each other and the same with fields and houses.
Vhac  [author] 24 Jul, 2024 @ 2:24am 
Part 1 - It was WAY to long for a single comment.

Depends what you're looking for, a trick to just skip to the end then I'm sorry, I don't.
But I can say that unlocking all the perks makes a world of difference, my experience was that it was downright impossible until I started unlocking a good deal of perks. I simply couldn't earn enough points to keep it going. You could use the "Unlocking All Perks" trick to cut down on the grind here.

Aside from that I do have a few tips that might help: