Welcome to the 100% Achievement Guide to Herdling. This guide is complete with information that should help you net all 31 achievements. However, it will be best for you to enjoy the game without guides for your first try to experience the gameplay and story of the game. It is definitely a game worth trying without guides!
For more elaborate achievements that require more image or video references such as "The Herd is Gathered", "Collector" & "Maximum Zoomies", they are placed in a separate section.
Good luck with the achievements and have fun!

[Update Log]
24 August 2025 - Guide is created
24 August 2025 - Updated the "Maximum Zoomies" section
25 August 2025 - Updated the "Collector" & "The Herd is Gathered" sections
27 August 2025 - Updated video references into the "Collector" & "The Herd is Gathered" sections
27 August 2025 - Updated miscellaneous videos relating to Herdling Full 100% Achievement Gameplay and Herdling 100% Achievements Guide Creation in the Conclusion section

Making Friends
You will get this achievement when you tame 3 Calicorns, which is unmissable, in Chapter 1: The City. Feel free to refer to the locations of all 12 Tamable Calicorns in the “The Herd is Gathered” achievement section.

Chapter II: Countryside
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Countryside. The title of the game will appear as you arrive at the location, triggering this achievement.

Sparks Flying
The very first campfire you will arrive at will be the abandoned train station in the Countryside Chapter. You will need to find two bundles of firewood and after which, you can light up the campfire, which will trigger this achievement.

Chapter III: Autum Forest
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Autumn Forest.

Can I Keep That Rock?
The very first decoration item you will come across will be the Calicorn statue in the first half of the Autumn Forest Chapter. You can pick up the decoration item and go ahead to place it on one of the horns of any of the Calicorn you are herding, which will trigger this achievement.

Close Call
You will come across a large Calicorn at the edge of a cliff nearing the end of the first half of the Autumn Forest Chapter. Upon moving near it, there will be quick-time event where there will be a landslide and the Calicorn will be in trouble. Once you have rescued the Calicorn, the achievement will be triggered.

Can't Get Enough Pets!
You will need to tame 10 different Calicorns. After which, you can pet each Calicorn once and upon petting the 10th Calicorn, the achievement will be triggered. To pet a Calicorn, simply move to a Calicorn, and there should an action prompt to “Pet” it.
Do note that you must do it on 10 unique Calicorns for the achievement to count. Feel free to refer to the locations of all 12 Tamable Calicorns in the “The Herd is Gathered” achievement section.

Ready for Bed
The best time to attain this achievement is when you are at the first Campfire of the game. As such, you can do this alongside the “Sparks Flying” achievement. You will have to ensure that all Calicorns are asleep before you, yourself sleep at the Campfire.
To identify if a Calicorn is awake or sleeping, you can tell from below where a Calicorn is lying down or resting on an upright position. The ones that are awake will still move around most of the time. If not, they may likely still be dirty and need some cleaning. To make all Calicorns asleep, you will have to clean them and/or pet them. You can tell if they are about to go to sleep when they move away from you upon you cleaning and/or petting them.
The reason why you want to do this achievement early is that at the starting point of the game, there are fewer Calicorns and thus it is easier to ensure all Calicorns in your herd are effectively sleeping. Upon all Calicorns being asleep, the achievement will be triggered.

Fabulous
You will get this achievement when you decorate a harness onto a Calicorn. The very first harness you can find is right before the 2nd half of the Autum Forest Chapter before you first encounter the giant birds. Do note that the harness is different from a decoration item. You will know it is a harness as the entire horn structure will be toggled for the decoration of the harness instead of one side of the horn.
There are a total of 6 harnesses in the game, which act as another form of collectibles, which can also be miss-able. As such, the achievements tied to the harnesses such as “Fabulous”, “Highly Decorated” and “Collector” will require you to decorate and collect all the harnesses available. Feel free to refer to the locations of all 6 Harnesses in the “Collector” achievement section.

Chapter IV: Foothills
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Foothills.

Fetch
The very first ball you can find is right before the 2nd half of the Autum Forest Chapter before you first encounter the giant birds. The ball should be near one of the firewood bundles. Once you grabbed the ball, you can just hold and throw it. This is like playing tag with a puppy. The Calicorn will run after the ball and place it on the ground near you. Do this 3 times, and the achievement will be triggered.

Revelation
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the cave area near the beginning of the Foothills Chapter. Usually, the paintings will be required to unlock new areas for the story to proceed. A good inkling of where a painting may lie will be tiny semi-circular rock formation on the ground with an empty rock slab nearby.
Simply just walk near the formation and yellow flowers will start to appear. You can then either run around or control the herd to collect the yellow flowers. After which, the toggle to activate the painting will appear. Once you activated the painting, a colored painting will appear on the slab. The achievement will pretty much be available upon the first painting revealed in the game.

Chapter V: Mountain Range
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Mountain Range.

Tidy Up!
Like “Ready for Bed”, the best time to attain this achievement is when you are at the first Campfire of the game. I might be wrong on this part, and you may have to have a certain number of Calicorns for the achievement to take effect.
But the idea is the same. Instead of ensuring all the Calicorns in your herd are asleep at the Campfire, you must clean everyone up. Upon all the Calicorns being cleaned, the achievement should trigger.

A Good Bunch
You will get this achievement when you tame 10 Calicorns. If memory serves, you should be able to obtain this achievement by the time you arrive at the mid chapter for Foothills or Mountain Range. Feel free to refer to the locations of all 12 Tamable Calicorns in the “The Herd is Gathered” achievement section.

Chapter VI: Glacier Valley
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Glacier Valley.

Caretaker
You can obtain this achievement pretty early in the game, as early as the Countryside Chapter, right before the abandoned train station. You should be able to find spikes as well as berries around the rail tracks after a bridge. The game also will pinpoint you to guide you on the slowing down or stopping mechanic.
The entire area will have quite a few of the mentioned spikes and berries where you can deliberately injure the Calicorns and heal them with the fruits after. Do note that the spikes will break apart as well as not respawning, and you need to find new spikes to do it. No worries though as there is an abundance of them. Upon doing this cycle 10 times, the achievement will trigger.

A New Friend
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when are nearing the end of the Glacier Valley Chapter. A giant bird will be injured, blocking the only path available out of the valley. You will need to enter the path near the bird and collect a berry. After which, you can heal the bird, making the bird friendly to you thereafter, and flying away, triggering the achievement.

Chapter VII: Snowbound Pass
This is a story achievement that can be obtained when you first arrive at the Snowbound Pass.

A New Home
This is unmissable as after you clear the game story, you should receive this achievement. Best not to skip the credits scenes just to be safe.

Stealthy
This achievement is obtainable at the Autum Forest Chapter. The 2nd half of the chapter will pit you against the giant birds, and you will need to get through their territories. Both you and the Calicorns must not hit the nest-like or relic objects.
Hitting them 3 times will alert the big bad birds and they will swoop them and attack your herd. That will fail the achievement. As such, avoid hitting any of the nests/relics. Do note you will hit the very first nest and that may be telegraphed and will not actually count into the 3-hit counter. Upon leaving the Autumn Forest, you should receive this achievement.

Herdcore
For this achievement, in all honesty, you must ensure all your Calicorns are alive by the end of the game. Do note that the count is based on how many Calicorns you can find, so if you did not get all 12 Calicorns in your run, as long as the Calicorns you found are the same as when the game ends, you will get this achievement alongside “A New Home”.
While I did not specifically test it, there are likely two ways you may lose your Calicorns for good. The first being failure to rescue a Calicorn when it is about to fall from a cliff or crevasse. The second being that you let an injured Calicorn get injured even further, thus essentially killing it.

Walking on Thin Ice
This is one of the 3 achievements where you must dodge everything essentially, alongside “Stealthy” and “Careful Pedestrian”. In the Glacier Valley Chapter, a whole bunch of cracks will form on the ground all sudden while you make your past the valley.
There will be a lot of them! As such, do not rush during this chapter and be ready to drift accordingly. If you do not even hit the cracks, you are definitely safe, and by the end of the chapter, the achievement is yours for the taking.

Highly Decorated
As mentioned in “Fabulous”, there are a total of 6 harnesses in the game. For this achievement, you will need to pick up and decorate 5 of your Calicorns with the harnesses. Feel free to refer to the locations of all 6 Harnesses in the “Collector” achievement section.

What the Duck
This achievement might be miss-able if you do not take notice of the environment in the game. Luckily, a good hint is that this is obtainable in the Autum Forest Chapter. You can get this achievement relatively early in the Autum Forest Chapter when you are crossing the river. Simply go near the 2 ducks chilling by the rocks and the achievement will trigger. This is also the only place you can get this achievement.

Careful Pedestrian
This achievement might take you a couple of tries. But luckily, this can be done only in the 1st Chapter which is the City. Throughout the City, there are a whole bunch of cones either scattered around or carefully placed.
By the end of the chapter, you will have 3 Calicorns and the image below is the final hurdle when you must carefully navigate your herd without touching the cones. This applies to your character as well. Once you get past the City, and all cones are still intact, the achievement will be yours.
If you have failed at any point, you can reload the game and start from a checkpoint. That will still count for this achievement. But doing so, will lock you out of “The Herd is Gathered” achievement. As such, you can replay a fresh file upon completing this achievement if you have reloaded.

Road Rage
You can easily obtain this achievement in the 1st Chapter in the City. Unlike “Careful Pedestrian”, the cars that are in the city are yours for the taking. You will want to hit and crash the cars with the help of the Calicorns in your herd.
Ensure that cars are wrecked. You can tell if they are wrecked if the windows are busted. In addition, be careful of cars that are nearby cones. You can skip those cars and go for ones that are in the clear instead. Once you have wreck 10 cars, the achievement will trigger.

The Herdling
Not much to be explained for this one. Once you obtained the other 30 achievements, this achievement will trigger automatically.

The Herd is Gathered
You will get this achievement when you have managed to tame all 12 Calicorns, which is unfortunately miss-able. If you did it right, by the time you are nearing the end of the Mountain Range Chapter, you should have obtained this achievement.
The important thing to note is that you must do this in a single run. As such, you cannot reload the game. For me, this is one of the final achievements I got for this game as I have reloaded the game. Apparently, if you reload the game, it may bug this achievement. Do refer to the locations of all 12 Tamable Calicorns below.
Calicorn 1 - Right at the start of the City chapter at the abandoned playground area, the Calicorn will be stuck with a bucket. You simply need to wait for a couple of seconds before it rams itself to the nearby tree eventually, and you can grab the stick as well as take off the bucket to tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 2 - In the City chapter, you will arrive at a spot with many cans around. There should a Calicorn lying near the mattress, and will start ramming out, knocking a couple of cans away. After which, you can tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 3 - Also in the City chapter, this Calicorn is nearby the 2nd Calicorn. You will need to climb up the tiny ledge at the side of a locked gate. Once you pushed and opened the gate, the other 2 Calicorns in your herd will go towards the resting Calicorn at the mattress. After a couple of seconds, the Calicorn will move out and you can tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 4 - In the Countryside Chapter, you will have to push the tram to the end of the rail route and climb over it which will lead you to another blocked area that separates you with the other 3 Calicorns in your herd. You will see an injured Calicorn. Simply climb up the ledge nearby and grab a berry and feed it to the injured Calicorn. After it recovers, you can tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 5 - Nearby Calicorn 4, you can move towards where several trains are parked. One of the train will have a tiny hole at the bottom with another injured Calicorn. Instead of feeding it directly, you will have to drop the fruit that you can pick up nearby on the ground near the Calicorn. This will ensure the Calicorn go out of its hiding spot and munch on the berry, healing it and enabling you to tame it after.
Calicorn 6 - Near the beginning of the Autumn Forest chapter, upon traversing the forest for a bit and reaching the roadside, there is a blocked path by a huge log and several other metal pipes. There is a Calicorn on the other end that will actually assist you with pushing the metal pipes away. On your end, you and your Calicorn friends will push the giant log, paving a new path forward. You can then tame the Calicorn as well.
Calicorn 7 - After traversing the forest for a bit, you will eventually come across a giant Calicorn sitting by the edge of the cliff. There will be a quick-time event when you are near the cliff where the Calicorn will fall off towards the edge of the cliff. You will have to use the action button and pull it back up. After which, you can grab a berry nearby and feed it. Upon recovering, you can tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 8 - At the mid-point of the Autumn Forest chapter, after you rest at the Calicorn shrine and have a dream or rather a nightmare of the giant birds, you will actually encounter one that swooped down from the skies to injure the escaping Calicorn. Simply grab a berry nearby and heal it. After which, you can tame it as always.
Calicorn 9 - At the start of the Foothills chapter, you will come across a boat that you will need to bring to your end so as to traverse through the river. When the boat does arrive at your end, there is another wild Calicorn for you to tame.
Calicorn 10 - Potentially nearing to end of the Foothills chapter, you will come across a highlands area, likely near a painting or resting spot. You simply need to go up the path near the edge as you do need to find the seed statue to unlock the yellow flowers to trigger the painting to progress the story. Near the seed statue, the Calicorn will be chilling there. Simply tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 11 - Near the mid-point of the Mountain Range chapter, you will arrive near the giant bird territories with nests/relics again. Similar to the very first giant bird encounter, an injured Calicorn will panick and run towards your herd, but also destroying one of the nests/relics on its way. Grab a fruit and heal it, so you can tame the Calicorn.
Calicorn 12 - At the end of the giant bird territories with all the pesky nests/relics, you will encounter that the exit is close to fully blocked by the nests/relics. You do have to cross it. But doing so, will trigger a scripted story event where you and your herd or Calicorns must escape the relentless assault from the giant birds. At the end of the gauntlet, one of the giant birds will manage to knock you out.
When you are awake, you can go ahead and find all your lost companions scattered around the field. At this point, you are nearing the end of the Mounain Range chapter. You can progress as per normal, but eventually you will come across two giant spire like structures. The final Calicorn is at the left one.
Upon approaching near the structure, you will encounter a spectral Calicorn, prompting you to follow it. After awhile, it will lead you to a giant injured Calicorn. As per usual, grab a fruit nearby and feed it to heal it. You can tame the final tamable Calicorn in the game, making your tamed herd a total of 12 Calicorns.
Here is a video for reference on the locations for the Calicorns.

Collector
The collectible achievement for this game. As mentioned, there are a total of 6 harnesses in the game. Kindly refer to the below for the locations for the harnesses.
Harness 1 - Near the mid-end chapter of Autumn Forest around the giant Calicorn shrine before you have your first encounter with the giant birds
Harness 2 - Near the end of the large fields area in the Mountain Range chapter
Harness 3 - At the hilltop at the area where you scared the giant birds away with the push of the Calicorn shrine
Harness 4 - In the area after the scripted chase scene in the Glacier Valley chapter
Harness 5 - At the area around the Final Calicorn that you can tame which is where you need to push the stone slab to form a bridge path to reach the Harness in the Glacier Valley chapter
Harness 6 - Nearing the end of the Glacier Valley chapter right after you saved the giant bird from freezing
Here is a video for reference on the locations for the Harnesses.

Maximum Zoomies
For me, this is the toughest achievement for this game. You literally must chase after a very fast train and barely make it to the back of the train before you enter the train tunnels in the mid chapter for Countryside. It took me almost hour to get this one.
There are a few tips you can try to make your attempts easier. Firstly, the train only appears a bit before the large blue flower field. As such, before that, you do not need to rush.
Secondly, the most important thing is to conserve enough energy to be able to do two more stampedes at the final spurt. You will also need to line up for the timing of when to use the stampede. Usually about 3 seconds before you use the next stampede as the speed does not stack even if you layer multiple stampedes back-to-back.
And lastly, you can also give a tiny boost by sprinting (Pressing shift) to yourself, and thus the herd. Any amount of boost will help in this case.
Feel free to refer to the below for an idea of how you clear this achievement. You do likely have to take a couple of tries, so don’t give up! That will still count for this achievement. But doing so, will lock you out of “The Herd is Gathered” achievement.
Additionally, as mentioned in the “Careful Pedestrian” achievement, if you have reloaded the game (which you likely may have for this achievement), you will be locked out of “The Herd is Gathered” achievement. As such, you should ensure that you obtained both “Careful Pedestrian” and “Maximum Zoomies”, and likely restart a fresh game, so that you do not need to replay the entire game.

Herdling is a beautiful game with great music, atmosphere and environment with subtle storytelling. It relates to real world experience of shepherding animals like goats, sheep or yaks, from the trials and tribulations to the beauty of herding such majestic animals. Although there are some buggy or glitchy moments (Such as the way some achievements may work), the overall game is simply an awesome experience overall.

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