Achievements

Five nights at thrive’s: Create a religion which believes that animatronics house the soul of the dead.

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the grim darkness of the far future: make your once great empire an over zealous dying kingdom
child soldiers: you know what to do
all tommorrows: come across a race incredibly powerful compared to yours and get destroyed and/or reprogramed to be their slaves

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  • Freddy tombs: Have “animatronic encasement” as your type of disposing the dead
  • Galactic battery drainer: Make a living by buying planets, cooling their cores and selling them afterwards
  • Thats a lot of copies: Have 16 n chromosomes
  • Invisible australia: Do coast hopping and map all the coasts of an internal sea, but you missed an australia sized island in it
  • Diversified god: Import 3 gods from other religions all being the same god in a previous religion before they evolved differently
  • Eu4 moment: Release a vassal that has more than 50% of your land area
  • A sentence never formed before: Carry a temple in ftl
  • Famous: Be featured in the front cover of a galactic “times magazine” when you have 10 colonies or less
  • Swift electrifier: Complete the electrification of your country 5 years after the discovery of electricity
  • Tesla’s dream: Don’t use wires to carry electricity
  • Starting… any time now…: Find an ancient technology, start it and its minutes of alien dial up sound
  • Bridgeception: Build a bridge that goes over one or multiple bridges (like the tally mark for 5)
  • Maybe the real god was the friends we made along the way: Check the olympus mountain of your religion and find no ascended beings. But keep having your praxis(going to church, charity etc.)
  • No galaxy challenge: Have your starting galaxy collide with another galaxy and your solar system ejected. Start space stage in the intergalactic void.
  • Brand new galaxy: Carry your solar system to another galaxy using ftl after you were dragged in a war you would lose
  • A building that goes through a black hole: Make an active support structure using ftl
  • Secular ascension: Mine the whole galaxy until it is comprised of only black holes and oneill cylinders
  • Vorash supernova: Destroy a spacefleet by making the star of the solar system it is in explode
  • Vorash hyperdrive: Use a supernova to go faster/farther than you normally can
  • Why isn’t this vacuum: Exit ftl travel inside a star
  • Robot disease: Put “quarantine” and “social distancing” measures for computers
  • Stored air: Evolve to carry snow which is frozen air in your planet
  • Dry ice eater: Be a plant which gets most of its carbon from dry ice
  • Matrix planet: Darken the skies to deny a planet solar energy
  • Raid on area 51: Have the existance of aliens become public knowledge after a raid on a secret military base
  • Kharijite: Attempt to assasinate the heads of two factions in a civil war that are fighting each other as a neutral third party, but succeed in only one of them, inadvertently helping one faction[1]
  • Migrater faction: Start fighting in a civil war and lose foothold in that country, move to another country in this multi-countric civil war and lose foothold in that country as well, move to a third country and then have a peace agreement, now you can focus on building your country according to your ideology
  • Lets forget what just happened: After it looked like the angry crowds will topple the government, run away to another country and be a government in exile, but those who remained were able to crush the protestors, so come back
  • Eventful dedrivisation: Ban all non self driving cars in a touristic/migration season when all of the roads are filled with cars and all of them stopped. Modify them and start moving all of them at the same time.
  • Misinformed vandalism: Have an angry group of climate activists enter a fusion plant and cause damage, because it is “radioactive”
  • Well we’re screwed: Go to another universe to escape heat death, but it also had its big bang at the same time so it is also dead
  • Don’t eat the glowing green rock: Die from radiation poisoning in aware stage
  • Nuclear spring: Swim inside an oklo mine
  • Boiling frog: Swim in a water that is slowly heating, and don’t notice it until it starts boiling
  • Beringian: Go to a landmass where the route to the south is blocked with ice sheets[2]
  • Common collapse: Have 10 collapses like the bronze age collapse in society stage
  • Land chemosynthesisier: Make chemosynthesis around hydrothermal vents in land
  • Island patch: Live in caves and have the cave enterence be closed, but survive for 100 million years with no connection to the light powered life

  1. these ones can also be achievements: be one of the sides in that conflict or be a succesful kharijite ↩︎

  2. you cant fly ↩︎

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Into Hellfire: in a war in industrial stage, throw napalm bombs in enemy cities.
Is the end of an Empire: conquer the last city of an empire that had a significant size.
How do you did it?: achieve a joke achievement.

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  • Revenge of the dinosauria: After your branch of life suffered greatly from an asteroid impact, hit an asteroid with a dart mission
  • Gut bacteria for mammary glands: Feed your offspring cheese (aware)
  • Terra invicta: Steal technology from the aliens that are attacking you before you discover ftl
  • Inspiring trajectories: Discover orbital dynamics by observing space whale orbits
  • Premade bioship: Make a spaceship by domesticating a space whale
  • The drowning man will always try and drag someone down with him: As a space whale, get low on gasses and attack another space whale to survive, but accidentaly puncture it so it doesn’t have air either
  • Tumorivore: Be a creature that specialises on entering the bodies of space whales that land in your planet and eating their tumors
  • Living planet: As a space whale, become so large that you start to feel the affects of gravity
  • Orphaned amoeba: Have the space whale your empire adopted pass away due to old age (fills a discourse slot, results in sadness)
  • Didn’t forget the favour: Find a lost space whale and raise it until it can join the rest of the migrating space whales. Later, be saved with the deus ex machina intervention of space whales in an alien invasion scenerio
  • Galactic invasive species: Spread a space creature to the last uninhabited star system using ftl
  • Sapient spaceship: Be a spacewhale, develop intelligence and decide to go to other stars (space stage analog)
  • Pro life: Only use living vehicles, even in space
  • Pro machine: Don’t domesticate any creatures, only use cars and machines
  • PRO DEATH! muhahahaha: Eat 2 out of 3 eggs you create
  • Self determining fetuses: Uplift unborn babies in an abortion debate, no i dont know what uplifting would mean in this context
  • Selfish taste: Discover artificial flavoring and watch as cannibalistic flavor becomes the most popular
  • Exclusive cannibal: Get energy only from eating your own species[1][2]
  • Cancerous reproduction: Don’t have a reproducion method. A part of your body has to mutate and declare its independence from you every generation.
  • Dirt eater: Eat 30 tonnes of dirt
  • Multi point pen: Move through water or dirt while you have a hole inside you
  • Vomit rocket: Exocytose ingested material instead of mucilage for speed
  • Mucilivore: Feed exclusively from mucilage
  • The suprise factor: Hit a cell which would normally eat you at mucilagic speeds and don’t be eaten
  • Harmless red lines: Have 20 errors when you exit the game but nothing crashed
  • Frequent stopper: Stop the game a thousand times
  • A deadly hug: Cover a creature a lot bigger than you completely or partially like a carpet and excrete digestion enzymes on it, giving it damage and filling your hunger bar
  • Late adopter: Be hunted by a creature which was unicellular when you had a brain or vice verca
  • Antarctica is not the end: Be a land creature and don’t go extinct when the only continent in your planet moves to the poles and gets covered with ice
  • Just a rock… nothing to see here: When your spaceship gets low on batteries, make it look like an asteroid and go close to a star controlled by a civ you are at war with
  • Voltron: Make symbiosis with other creatures where more than one creature takes part in movement
  • A temporary union to create a consciousness: Have your cells stop being multicelluar and reproduce on their own every generation even after you developed a brain
  • Movey hair: Evolve hair from flagella, not from skin
  • Unoriginal effort: Translate a literature sized “large” to your language but your translators actually wrote new books based on the ones that are supposed to be translated so that they’ll fit into your culture better. As a result, get all the science, theologic arguements, revolutionary ideas etc. but receive little cultural influence which would have resulted in culture synthesis, merger or replacement.
  • Selfie for the future: Draw your face very accurately to a cave wall (aware/awakening) and later discover it (society/industrial/space)
  • Almost skynet: Shut down an internet after it was 90% infected by a virus
  • Allergy hell: Have a society where 90% of deaths are caused by allergies
  • Easter island statue wrestling: Have a sport where you move a giant head statue with ropes and try to make the other teams statue fall to the ground

  1. that is just you, the others in your species would eat other things too ↩︎

  2. side note, this is a succesful playthrough, but how would it affect the population size? ↩︎

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Space whales

Stop messing with thrive: hack the game to have space whales.
Hello: say hi to another space civ.

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Tabby’s star: Use 20% of your stars energy
Overpowered primitives: Make a dyson swarm as a space whale
Whale knitting: Build a skyhook before industrial stage
Active biomass: Heat your planet by 1 degrees just with the body heat you produce (cell stage?)
Should have resisted shiny tide pods: As a transparent creature, eat bioluminescent algea, shine brightly and be eaten by a bigger creature which easily found you
Completed without one cycle: Have (the drift velocity of the electrons in your wires or the mechanical circuit conveyor belt speed or the speed of the fuel that is being pumped) times (the time between when you first built the infrastructure and when you completed industrial stage) be less than (the distance between your cities times two) for any two of your cities
Damn it we should’ve had an epic battle: Defeat a secret organisation, but nobody notices, and conspiricy theories remain unchanged, and so strong in fact, that some of the theorists sympatethic to the cause, disappointed at its nonexistance, decide to create it
Evolved hammering: Do metalurgy on your bones that aren’t covered with other tissues (aware)
2d cheetah: Have two legs in front of each other
The millenium bunker: Store enough food to feed your population for a thousand years
Medieval katrina: Be hit with a hurricane in society stage
Polandball: Have every country in your planet use circular flags with faces on them like Trappist-1e’s profile picture

And how would a space whale with no arms make a Dyson sphere?

Well, that would be really impossible. How are you even going to get it in orbit?

the achievemnts here dont really have to be possible/realistic
most of them are guaranteed not to be added so why not have fun with some whacky achievement ideas?

8 posts were merged into an existing topic: Space whales

@hhyyrylainen, can you move the posts above to space whale thread (again)?

Achievements
  • Weaponising greenhouse effect: Hunt other space whales by getting inside their umbra and reflecting the infrared light they emit in their high surface area region back at them, heating them
  • Mating orbit: As a space whale, have external fertilization and viviparity, release your male gametes to the mating orbit
  • Mating asteroid: Don’t make mating calls with light and get noticed by predetors, have everyone in your species land in an asteroid and listen to the sounds that travel through the asteroid
  • Democracy ritual: Vote, but there is only one person to vote
  • Fahrenheit 451: Destroy all books and records of a previous culture
  • Fenshu kengru: Desroy all books so that an ordinary person wouldn’t know it and be infuenced, but keep one copy of all of them in the imperial library so that they aren’t lost forever and you can reprint and distribute them if you change your mind
  • Farmers industry: Have 90% of your population be farmers in industrial stage
  • Schism achievement: Heal a schism with a sect, while there was a sect that was closer to you that you are still enemies with
  • No trade: Have no trade between any cities in a populated planet
  • Encircled by flames: Have flames around you in every direction (during a forest fire or war)
  • Blue peacock: Use small animals to heat a device
  • Syke: Leak wrong information that you placed blue peacock mines in the ground and that is why you aren’t advancing, and the enemy forces retreat thinking the area is going to blow up
  • Rocketing plane: Have a plane of yours stay 1 minute above the atmosphere[1]
  • Battleship game: Have detailed maps of a country far away(you are at war) and send projectiles with giant cannons or trebuchets before you invent the first self propelling missile
  • Puppeteering beach: Have a sea where people swim, but there isn’t a beach, there is a high cliff, so people are lowered to the water with ropes tied around their wraists and that is also how they get back up (a project that works like a building that increases happiness)
  • Escaping ancient: Find an escape pod 100 thousand years after it was thrown into the void, and reanimate the person inside
  • Planet swarm: Send a relativistic kill vehicle to destroy them before they can attack you first, and watch in horror as the missile goes through a gap that formed in the planet without hitting it, and then the planet turns into trillions of spaceships, all moving towards you
  • Jumpy dna: Play as a dna segment and move between 10 species via viruses
  • Transposon resurrection: Play as a dna segment and stay dormant for 1 million years in an organism, then become a virus
  • Likes molecules: Stay too long in molecular stage and have another proto life become the first cell
  • Outwards immune system: Collect dna samples from a creature that hunts you and develop a bioweapon against them (aware)
  • Religious robin hood: House arrest martin luther so that he couldn’t purchase theologic articles hidden behind a paywall and give it to the people
  • Counter crusade: Have two crusade armies of different lands fight each other
  • Diproton: Increase the strenght of the strong force by 2%, and now protons merge into diprotons (ascension)
  • Cosmic necklace: Play as a life composed of cosmic strings and magnetic monopoles evolving in the heart of stars
  • Explosive reactor: Don’t discover fusion but make hydrogen bombs explode in water and use the hot water to turn a turbine
  • Cold ray: A civilian spaceship is in a collision course with a star, but you send a ray that makes the photons interact with matter less, cooling the stars surface and the spaceship slows down in the star without heating up
  • Shiny umbrella to protect from shiny explosion: In a rogue planet drifting in space, be behind a star while its companion white dwarf goes through type 1 supernova
  • Frost Walker: Run on a supercooled lake, the place your feet touches becoming solid
  • Mystery disease: Have your population have a disease as deadly as covid 19, but don’t notice it
  • Signature voting: Have a society where the goverment is replaced if another party collects more signatures, this is like voting but no fixed time intervals, possibly low turnout and new goverment immediately after a scandal. To stay in power, a party has to keep collecting more signatures than the other party which just decided that its a good time to test their public support.
  • Stomach teeth: Swallow your food whole, and have teeth in your stomach

  1. the air with the density that it can fly in ↩︎

No need to ping them when im here

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I do wonder though why people don’t just ping @moderators and whoever is closest can take care of it, instead of always specifically pinging me?

well, then we think about the moderators of thrive, we think about u
u just the symbol of the mods here

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Well my first post is here.

  • Boltzmann Brain: Start the Awakening Stage in space by skipping the previous stages.

  • Quantum Immortality: Never die until the Ascension stage.

  • Enemy in reflection: Encounter a species identical to yours and kill it.

  • Birds of a feather flock together: Meet a species identical to your species and have a mutually beneficial interaction with it (symbiosis or trade).

  • Uplifted Animal: Using the technology of their civilization, uplift another species that has not reached the Awakening Stage to the Awakening Stage.

  • Uplift Everyone!: Help ALL species on your planet reach the Awakening Stage.

  • Cyberocracy: Give AI control over all areas of civilization management.

  • AI takeover: An overintelligent AI is taking over your civilization.

  • Friendlynator: Don’t let the AI rebel.

  • Machine life is life too:: Continue playing as a superintelligent AI civilization.

  • друг: (Aware Stage) All creatures should run away from you just by looking at you.
    (At the Awakening Stage and beyond) Every civilization should be afraid of your civilization.

  • Von Neumann probe: Give AI control the right to solve all the space issues of civilization.

  • Nature is cruel: Lay your eggs in a still living organism.

  • Biomechanoid: start playing as a species in which biology and machine are intertwined. (new body parts unlocked!)

  • Mechanoids: Start playing as a society of highly sophisticated glider-flying nanocomputers striving to create the most advanced mechanoid (a reference that veеееry few people will understand).

  • Aphids: Your species’ reproductive strategy should be multi-stage and include sexual and asexual reproduction.

  • Early to the party: In the entire universe, you are the only sentient species.

  • Late to the party: After going into space, you automatically become a subordinate of another civilization, because other civilizations have long captured all the territories in the universe.

  • Ragnarok: Lose after completing the Ascension Gate.

  • An Unattainable Ideal: The attempt to reach Ascension Gate was a failure.

  • Pantheon/Polytheism: Help other civilizations reach the Ascension Gate.

  • Monotheism: Destroy a civilization attempting to reach the Ascension Gate.

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Welcome to the forums!

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How do I make the thing with the text in it that others here use

with the hide details option

Summary

Ok here is mine

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Spacecraft gun: Have a carrier spacecraft that shoots out small spacecraft. (Space stage)

Eat the sun: Develop chloroplasts. (Microbe stage)

EAT THE SUN: Become a cosmic horror and eat a star (Ascension stage)

Praise the sun!: Have a cult that praises the sun be a majority of your population (Society stage)

Who needs a sun?: Evolve on a rogue planet or a blanet. (Any stage)

The Eternal Star: Fuel a star to keep it from expanding or exploding for at least 2x its original lifespan. (Space stage)

Jail the sun: Construct a Dyson sphere after its flares kill one of your species (Space stage)

Space Whaler: End the dreams of children and murder a Space Whale (Industrial stage-Space stage)

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