Wild West Pioneers quest order and achievements

Traced through its achievements, the Early Access story runs through 16 main quests, from Residents’ Needs to Where Is My Father, and the game has 89 achievements on Steam. One of them marks the end of the Early Access content. About eight in ten players have finished the first quest; the later ones are still rare.

The main quests, in order

The first four come up in this order, with Margaret’s search starting while Growing Family is still open. From Debt onward, Steam numbers the quest achievements in sequence, and the share of players holding each one falls in that same order, so until more players get that far it is the best guide to what comes next. Quest details may differ in your game. Blocked Passage asks you to gather 20 settlers, a change made during the playtest.

How the first stretch plays is in your first two hours; the gold for Bill is on gold and the debt, and Margaret is found with the scouts. After Where Is My Father there is one more achievement, Father's friend is my friend, for reaching the end of what Early Access currently holds. The story beyond the debt, quest by quest, is on the main story after the debt.

Achievements you can miss on day one

Most achievements come with the story. These don’t, and the first one closes when your first in-game day ends.

Choices that split achievements

A few pairs describe two ways through the same situation. The game does not say whether you can come back for the other side, so keep a save from just before each of these and take the second path from there.

• The native tribe asks for help against the bandits. Bandit Removal Service (help the native tribe with the bandits) or Not in My Quest Log (don't help the native tribe with the bandits).
• Tracking down the ex-bandit: the right one or the wrong one. The Good, the Bad, and the Reformed (find proper ex-bandit) or Not the Bandit You’re Looking For (find wrong ex-bandit).
• Dealing with the bandits: guns or poison. Kids with Guns (kill the bandits with guns) or Don't you know that you're toxic? (poison bandits).
• The rogue moonshiners: destroy the operation, or go behind the priest's back and take the alcohol. Holier-than-thou (destroy the rogue moonshining operation) or From behind (go behind the priest's back and steal all the alcohol).

Jesse, your right-hand man, has a pair too: Source: Trust me, Partner for asking his advice and Hold my whiskey for turning it down. These two are not either-or: their shares add up to more than 100%, so at least 11% of players hold both. Ask him once and turn him down once.

Five ways out of jail

Getting locked up is an achievement of its own (Behind Bars), and so is each way out: three for escaping prison, two for the government prison.

• I mean, they were right there. Escape from prison by stealing the keys.
• Playing With Fire Escape from prison using fire.
• Divide and Conquer Escape from prison by exploiting the conflicts among the criminals.
• Below the Law Escape from the government prison through the underground passage.
• Through the Front Door Escape from the government prison through the door.

The most common way out so far is escaping by stealing the keys, held by 30% of players; next is escaping using fire, at 4%. If you want every way out, save before you break free. The first cell is part of the Moonshine Scandal side quest; how to get out of the Bandits’ Jail walks through all three routes.

Side quests with achievements

17 side quests carry an achievement. The buried treasure is not among them by name, but finding it earns X marks the spot; the shovel page covers it. Where the others tend to stall, and what gets them moving, is on side quests: where you get stuck.

Every achievement

All 89, most-held first. The shares are Steam’s global figures and shift daily while the player base grows, so read them as how far people have got, not as difficulty. None of them is hidden.

Related

Your first two hours, journey points and ideas, residents’ needs and whims for the happiness achievements, and gold and the debt.