Monster Train Basic Achievements Guide for New Players – July 2021

Introduction

 
Hello and welcome to my first ever guide 🙂 
 
This will help you acquire all the achievements to fully complete Monster Train 
 
I’ve linked my run summary and challenge to the hardest achievements to get. 
**However since last update, many links have been broken, if you can please post in the comments for new ones, i’ll update the guide from time to time ** 
 
**Note from community member: A Big Hairy Monster 
 
Multiplayer Custom Challenges count towards achievements. This means you can make the covenant achievements VERY easy to acquire without needing to grind repetitively and hope for the luck of the draw. 
 
 

Progression based achievements

 
 
Level Up! 
Level up any clan. 
 
The achievements below can be obtained by playing until you meet the criteria required to unlock the 3 additional races (playing spells, units, killing ennemies, etc.) 
 
 
Into the Deep Sea 
Unlock The Stygian Guard. 
 
 
Diabolical Automation 
Unlock The Umbra. 
 
 
Guided by Candles 
Unlock The Melting Remnant. 
 
Then you will have to play each of the races until you reach level 5 and 10 respectively, higher score means more XP, don’t worry you will max easily reach level 10 with all of them by just playing. 
 
 
The Breaker of Horns 
Reach Level 5 on The Hellhorned. 
 
 
Hellhorned Dominance 
Reach Level 10 on The Hellhorned. 
 
 
A Semblance of Sentience 
Reach Level 5 on The Awoken. 
 
 
Fully Awakened 
Reach Level 10 on The Awoken. 
 
 
Guardian of the Styx 
Reach Level 5 on The Stygian Guard. 
 
 
Stygian Defender 
Reach Level 10 on The Stygian Guard. 
 
 
A Wisp Reanimated 
Reach Level 5 on The Umbra. 
 
 
Penultimate 
Reach Level 10 on The Umbra. 
 
 
A Vicarious Remnant 
Reach Level 5 on The Melting Remnant. 
 
 
An Endless Flicker 
Reach Level 10 on The Melting Remnant. 
 
 
Igniter of Pyre, Savior of Hell 
Achieve max level on all clans. 
 
From now you should start climbing the covenant ladder, covenant are modifier that add stackable difficulties to your runs, levelling covenants require you to beat the highest available to you. 
 
 
The Long Journey Begins 
Win a run at Covenant 5. 
 
 
The Devil is in the Details 
Win a run at Covenant 10. 
 
 
Hell Hath No Fury 
Win a run at Covenant 15. 
 
 
We Were Born of Monsters 
Win a run at Covenant 25. 
 
For the last convenant achievements, luck and skill are required in order to succeed, I have linked my ”deeplink” for every clan at covenant 25 to give you an idea of how I did it. Just copy paste it into your windows file explorer and the game should start at the challenge section. You can also start a challenge with favorable modifiers to help you with you run.This method WILL net you the achievements, and you don’t need to have those levels unlocked to create the challenge, It doesn’t count towards unlocks/progression though. 
 
 
The Hellhorned 
Win a run with all covenants enabled on The Hellhorned. 
monstertrain://runresult/dd3f9a11-3a26-4121-9749-1115ac3ec6f3 
monstertrain://challenge/AcceptedAbsenceObserve 
 
 
The Awoken 
Win a run with all covenants enabled on The Awoken. 
monstertrain://runresult/f5957336-dd64-46cd-a064-80fdb326d6b2 
monstertrain://challenge/SkillsEntitledTrends 
 
 
The Stygian Guard 
Win a run with all covenants enabled on The Stygian Guard. 
monstertrain://runresult/d959edfd-2ce5-48a0-9e59-ae9a05fffe83 
monstertrain://challenge/CentreAtlasDrink 
 
 
The Umbra 
Win a run with all covenants enabled on The Umbra. 
monstertrain://runresult/cbe6aa71-0dc4-4c03-884b-3029f20b67d1 
monstertrain://challenge/ExemptDanceIsland 
 
 
The Melting Remnant 
Win a run with all covenants enabled on The Melting Remnant. 
monstertrain://runresult/9ba49bb3-99a6-4f17-9aa2-ffd6baecd102 
monstertrain://challenge/NickelMichaelPrevious 
 
 

Boss related achievements

 
The achievements below can be obtained by doing a full successful run or before they enter their combat phase, custom challenges modifier can help you get the ”before combat phase” achievements more easily as you can get advantages you wouldn’t be able to have in normal runs. 
 
 
Early Survivor 
Defeat the first boss. 
 
 
Angel Hunter 
Defeat Fel. 
 
 
Seraph the Defeated 
Defeat Seraph. 
 
 
Dead-alus 
Defeat Daedalus before his combat phase. 
 
 
Li-Fel-less 
Defeat Fel before her combat phase. 
 
 
Sans Seraph 
Defeat Seraph before his combat phase. 
 
 
Ta-Ta Talos 
Defeat Talos before her combat phase. 
 
 
Archpocalypse 
Defeat Archus before his combat phase. 
 
 

Specifics achievements

 
 
The Ragtag Bunch 
Win a run with 10 or fewer cards at the end of the run. 
 
Easiest way to farm it would be to do a custom challenge with the ”Yeetpocalypse” modifier 
 
 
 
A Cramped Train 
Win a run with at least 40 cards at the end of the run. 
 
Easiest way to farm it would be to do a custom challenge with the ”Two for one” modifier 
 
 
 
Only Determination 
Win a run without collecting any artifacts. 
note: The red, yellow or blue crystals don’t count as artifacts since they can’t be skipped 
 
 
All Brain, No Brawn 
Have a spell deal at least 120 damage in one hit. 
 
Very easy to get with the Stygian guard clan and this upgrade path. 
Spell weakness stacks as double base damage from first spell casted on target. 
 
 
 
Hell’s Finest 
Have a monster deal at least 60 damage in one hit. 
 
Almost unmissable if you aim to get all other achievements. 
Hellhorned have to best monsters to get higher attack value with rage or basic high stats 
The demon fiend upgraded with 5 rage or + 10 attack is the most common way I can think of. 
 
 
 
Buy Something, Won’t You? 
 
Click on the unit’s seller until the achievement pops 
 
 
Creators of Hell 
View the credits. 
 
 
My Game, My Rules 
Create a Custom Challenge. 
 
 
S-imp-le! 
Play an Imp card. 
*Imp cards are from the hellhorned clan* 
 
 
Upgraded Champion 
Upgrade your Champion twice. 
 
 
You Died! 
Lose a run. 
 
 
Thief! Stop! 
 
The most random achievement to get in the game, you need to enter a cavern and get the ‘petty thief” card then keep playing your run and enter another cavern that will ask you to sacrifice life for money, with ”petty thief” in hand, you will have a third option to discard it and gain money, the achievement will unlock at the same time. 
 
From user Holdmyshoulders 
monstertrain://challenge/ProveDriedEnsemble 
 
 
Dante’s Inferno 
 
Enter a cavern where you will be asked to get 3 candles card that damage your pyre unless played, survive long enough for Dante to come reward you with his cloak and his card. 
 
For those who are trully unlucky, you can get him in the run below. 
monstertrain://runresult/a59155a9-4008-41ea-a283-108739be7421 
monstertrain://challenge/UnclePixelSlave 
 
 
It’s a Secret… 
 
Enter a cavern where you will see fallen soliders, you will have to choice to get a fallen shield, sword or skull. Pick the shield or the sword and keep playing the run until a peace flower will be offered to you, pick it and the achievement will pop. 
 
From user fori 
 
monstertrain://challenge/SevenFallingBetween 
 
 

Daily Challenge Achievements

 
 
Is That a Challenge? 
Start a Daily Challenge. 
 
 
Trainee of the Pyre 
Score at least 30,000 points in a Daily Challenge. 
 
 
Apprentice of the Pyre 
Score at least 40,000 points in a Daily Challenge. 
 
 
Master of the Pyre 
Score at least 50,000 points in a Daily Challenge. 
 
Theses achievements must be done in the multiplayer daily challenge 
 
Score is based on 3 factors, whether or not you active the difficulty bonus of the round, how much damage your Pyre took and the most important how fast did you beat the boss on said round. 
 
The 30k and 40k can be fairly easy depending of the days, as the daily challenges have a random modifier aspect, However for the 50K it sometimes can be tricky, near impossible depending on the mutators. 
 
A work around I found is to wait for a day where most of the top scores are above 50K to 53K. 
Have a friend attempt the daily challenge (it doesn’t matter if he fails or succeed as long as his score is above 0 so it can be submitted) 
 
He will then gain access to the top players run summary, select one and ask him to send you a screenshot, which should look like this: 
 
 
The units, artifacts and spell appears in the chronogical order they were obtained, helping you to choose the correct path between rounds. 
 
From now start the daily challenge and try to mimic as faithfully as possible their deck, it can be retried as many times as you want, you just won’t be able to submit the score on the leaderboard. 
 
All bonus difficulty must be activated and bosses must be dealt with on the lower floor possible, even before the boss phase if possible, you can save scum before you slay the boss if you feel like you haven’t optimised your run. 
 
 

Wild mutations free DLC update achievements

 
 
On your Own 
Win a run without a Champion. 
 
Use the ”fallen champion” mutator to remove your champion on your run 
 
 
20/20 vision 
Win a run with googly eyes enabled. 
 
 
How to deckbuilder 
Win a run with 0 cards at the end of the run. 
 
The first artifact is the one that dazes enemies when they enter the pyre room. 
 
Heaven’s Gold at level 7 in the caverns. 
 
picking up an Ice Tornado after the first fight and giving it two +10s to smooth out the spikes challenge and fight 7. 
 
Otherwise get rid as much cards as possible everywhere else, don’t take any other card rewards. 
 
monstertrain://challenge/InstantTurnedOrigins 
monstertrain://runresult/6734741a-7684-44d3-a1ff-2f9ee0ba0bfd