Ways of transferring energy inside a city
Space whales
- Hot moves: Increase the average temperature of a planet by 5 degrees because you did too many aerobreaking manouvers.
- Biologic terraforming: As a space whale, make aerobreaking maneovers on a planet to increase its temperature, bring it to habitable temperatures and then settle in that planet
- Pulsar stone: Be a space whale and throw projectiles(stones) by rotating around yourself, then pulling your extremeties to your body center and increasing your rotation speed, but keeping the distance you hold the stone the same
- Biolithopanspermia: Fall to a planet/moon (aware stage) and seed it with life for the first time (with your microbiome)
- Anti rocket: Master all three ways of moving in space (from planet to orbit, inside asteroid belt/ring, between planets) without evolving rockets
- A taxi that doesn’t stop: Become a space whale by using geysers[1], (the orbit is normally around the gas giant) enter the orbit around your starting planet (which also has rings) for the first time
- Maximum space biomass: The space whales mined all asteroids possible, now no longer new asteroids are mined, it is whales eating other whales
- Biologic planet unification: As a space whale ecosystem, carry all the rocky mass in your solar system to form a single planet (it is possible to land that planet, but not possible to exit it once landed)
- Lithopanspermivore: Exclusively feed from life in asteroids
- Cosmic marine snow: Exclusively feed from life in asteroids but you aren’t a space whale
- Refueling orbit: Have an orbit that decays into a gas giant, but use the gas that you collecte from the gas giant to speed up enough
- Space centenarian: Make 100 gravity assists in one lifetime
- Technologic speedrunner: Become a space faring land species in a shorter amount of time than the time it took for the first space whale in your galaxy to evolve
- Biologic speedrunner: Your space whaleness came before the first space stage
- Fake meal: Use a fake meal to lure a space whale into running out of propellent, and now you can hunt it with projectiles
- Truly spacebourne: Reproduce outside the planet for the first time
- Its a macho, not a nacho: Eat a macho(dark matter candidate) (ascension or space whales)
- Spagetti fatality: As a space whale, fall into a black hole, don’t die in the accrecion disk.
- Inescapable hunter: Hunt a space whale in the void of space, not in a common orbit
- Anti sail: Evolve lasers in space and drive every solar sail user extinct because you can move them where they don’t want to move
- Every contact matters: Play as a disease, start from a planet and spread to a space whale species that doesn’t orbit or aerobreak that planet
- Empivore: Be a space whale and make energy from electric currents induced inside you as you move through a magnetic field
- Space dragon rider: Domesticate a space whale that can throw glowing hot rocks
- Global gibraltar: Control all the marine chokepoints in the planet
- Landiser: 90% of your land is reclaimed land (society stage)
- Strong telepathy: Evolve lifi
- Centricide: Increse the overton window in an axis to include two extremes but not something in the middle
- Maximum capitalism: Do zero regulation on the economy and also don’t have any other entities that can manipulate the economy like a goverment can
- Capitalism’s rebelling kid: As a megacorporation, become a country but embrace communism
- You spin my head right round: Design a dance very similar to break dance in dance editor
- Weight class: Form an ecumenopolis(constant cities) in a part of the planet, and have it sieged with catapults/trebulchets
- Ground furnace: Cook food by leaving it under the sun
- Traded vision: Obtain the map of 3/4ths of the planet not by sending explorers or traders or any units
- Lonely sumerian: Start the society stage, but no other cities popped up. Then make all of your population go into hibernation for a thousand years. Then wake up again, but still no cities have popped up (you have to interact with the nomads so that they are influenced with your ways[2])
- Geologic sleep: After you run out of fossil fuels, hibernate until more of them appear
- Universal reverse selfie*: Take a screenshot while falling to a black hole, capturing all of universe
- Starful nights: Have everyone sleep while looking at stars (society) (have transparent roofs or no roofs, have no light pollution, sleep at nights, do sleep)
- Roman resolve: Lose 100k soldiers because of a storm in the sea, twice, but win the war
- Battle for antanov: Lose an airport, but bombard its runways and prevent the enemy planes from landing
- Russian expansion: Expand your terratories by 1 belgium a year for 150 years
- A way to speak with noone to speak: Use the same lingua franca with a land you lost contact to
- Manuscriptesque: Fight a giant snail wearing armour and wielding sword
- A game of attrition: Do jousting but the mounts dont have legs
- Hardmode space: Make a space program during a radiation period*
- Sandcastleland: Make nests primerily from sand
- Not my problem anymore: Sell a city to a country while it is being sieged by another country
- Shared capital: Capture half of the capital of another country (which is divided by a river) and make the half you captured your capital
- Expensive civilian equipment: Capture tanks and use them as trucks
- Design from the sea: While fishing, catch a technological object and discover a technology that way
- Turtle bowling: Either throw a creature with a shell or you have the shell and be thrown
- Eusocial slave trade: Have a eusocial colony that has a population that is 90% captured from other colonies
- Pheromonic deprogramming: Cause a slave rebellion in a eusocial colony
- Queenbrain: The queen of your eusocial colony adds its subjects to itself and gets the “why haven’t we done this already” achievement
- Early global lipservice: Be eusocial and collect tribute from the whole planet in aware stage
- Mixing as many concepts as possible: Have guilds that are also companies, cults, universities and political parties at the same time in a hierarchical feudal society which is also a cast system with a high social mobility
- Doublethink: Your ideology/religion contains contradicting beliefs
- Didn’t anyone told you these things are dangerous?: Stand next to a whale carcass when it explodes
- Marsupilami: You have a prehensile tail which forms 3/4ths of your body length
- The feeder of tribe: Your eusocial queen can breastfeed 100 babies at the same time
- Sea unlocked: As a landlocked country, have a colonial empire that isn’t the smallest colonial empire in the planet. Use your neighbors ports or use rivers that go through another country/uninhabited land
- Urban dam: Build houses that seperate two bodies of water with different heights
- Medival ford: Discover fordism and use rivers as conveyor belts* in a factory before inventing any engines
- Hermitius the armored*: Use electroplating in aware stage
- Civilisation has suprises: Defeat a tank unit with spearman
- Azrael needs a salary too: Revive dead people who haven’t payed their taxes
- The down direction: Save a surrounded army by diggigng a tunnel
- Civil nukes: Equip your police force with dirty bombs
- Mechanical wires: In early society stage, long before the invention of telegraph, have an almost instantaneous communication in your lands by having ropes between cities and moving the ropes backwards and forwards and decoding the messages (like morse code) present in those movements
- Twilight bark: Establish communication between the different regions by your species or another species placed at regular intervals shouting at each other
- Baby ascension: Discover reversing aging and turn your whole society into babies (good old days) looked after by robots.
- Horisontal gospel transfer: Take an already existing book from another religion and consider it sacred for your religion as well
- Skating rink as far as the eye can see: Move by skiing on a snowball earth, migrate between hotspots where life exists (aware/awakening/society/industrial)
- I was a space whale in my previous reancarnation: Evolve powered flight on a planet which has a gravity of 10 g’s
- Explosive guest: Either stay in a part of the universe that is made from antimatter or have your spaceship be turned into antimatter(you went through a reversal gate or got cursed by an evil wisard) for 1 year
- 14: You have more carbon 14 than carbon 12 in your body (I don’t know if this is possible)
- Giant mountain: Climb a tree (cell stage)(probably a bad achievement)
- Last one standing: Be the last multicellular species after all the other ones went extict in a mass extinction
- Walking bank: Your citisens wear valuable metals equal to their body weight
- Alien Dna: Take alien Dna from a meteorite and add it to your own Dna using reverse transcriptase (aware)
- Kek tactics: Move in uninhabited land to make a suprise attack from behind in a practicaly 1 dimentional country, as in here*
- I have a dream: Stop segregation/discrimination
- Pressure cooker: Finance a feast for a periodic(festivals, olympics) or a non periodic(regime change, triumphs) event, and the food is prepeared in giant cauldrons which are actually pressure cookers
- Gastronomic extinction: All the population in a planet dies because they were next to a pressure cooker when it exploded
- A changed brain: Take a drug and change your species’s neurotransmitter
- Purple spice: You discovered a planet that uses acetite photosynthesis. It can support a lot more (10 times?) biomass, which means denser forests, more wildlife.
- Greenhouse planet: Make all farming indoors and solar powered
- Organic crowd: Make an ecumenopolis without leaving organic farming. Don’t discover gmo’s or 3d printing pizza using air[3] and fusion[4]
- Technologic kinetocilia: Build a long piezzoelectric rod, it makes electricity by elongating/bending because either its tempreature changes or (it is placed in a moon orbiting a gas giant) its moons shape changes
- Inhomefulisability[5]: An economic crash made 99% of your population homeless, sleeping in the streets. Some people try to enter the empty buildings, but they are driven out by policemen, who are also homeless but they hope if hey work hard enough they may one day earn enough money to buy a house
- Conquered the depths: Play as a microbe inside sediments and survive until the rock you are inside of sinks to the mantle
- Symbiosis with the dead: As a giant virus, have a cell inside you
- Dance with the devil: Play as a cell and use virus dna as a defense against giruses
- Wrong food: Have a famine where there are enough calories but not one of the other nutrients
- Dominomputer: Make a computer from dominos* but the dominos can get back up and the computer can be used more than once
- Trisolarian computer: Make a computer from your species like in the book 3 body problem
- This means super bad: A tornado hit your nuclear reactor, gaining the “radioactive” property
- Thrive the forest fire simulator: Play as a fire and spread from bushes to the leaves
- Angry gaia: Play as a planet and destroy the intelligent life appeared on you
- A totaly reasonably possible thing: We already know about natural nuclear reactors. Now, make a nuke(aware/awakening)
- Radiovenom: Use nuclear powder as venom or poison
- Ring landing: Make a naval landing to a city found on a richat structure
- Science and futurism: Become more technologicaly advanced than humans irl
- Casadastraphobia: Reverse the gravity of a planet (ascension)
- Nothing pulling below: Play as a creature inside an oneill cylinder and run very fast until you start to not feel gravity
- The fall of Isengard: Defeat an industrial nation as a pre industrial nation
- Medieval zoom victory:Achieve universal work from home(or rather people live at their workplaces) in society stage
- Extreme sapience: Enter aware stage still having an extremophile adaptation
- Survivor cell: Play as a microbe floating in air and fall into a geyser. But you are also an extremophile so you survive.
- Microbe x: In cell stage, use x and y nucleotides just like a,t,g,c
- Beaver thought experiment categorisation problem: Make a naval battle before stone tools or metalurgy
- Biologic society: Stay in society stage for so long that you start to build all your inventions instincually, taught to the next generations with genetic memory, not by teaching
- Open fields: Reach society stage when there aren’t long plants in your planet, only moss
- Vacillating autotroph: Switch from chemosynthesising around hydrothermal vents to photosynthesising twice
- Ate it up before the Americans arrived: Consume all the hydrocarbons in a planet with hydrocarbon oceans(cell stage)
- Poisoned by what you need: Be a microaerophile
- Starfish: Make something that has a 5-fold dihedral symmetry
Achievements about flags
- Peacefuly equipped: Put a peace symbol and a gun shape to your flag at the same time
- Biologic flag: Use an octopus on a flagpole as your flag
- Fire flag: In your planet, what color the fire burns represents different countries, fire is the flag
- Fiery announcement: Change the color of the fire in the unsuspecting enemy camp into your flag right before making an ambush
- Vexillologic chrononeme: If you draw the same flag bigger, than it is a different flag
- Incomprehensible flag: Have a 4 or more d flag, most of the time only its 2d or 3d shadow is portrayed
- Too big of a coincidence: See that the flag of an alien country looks exactly the same as a country in your planet in the wavelengths you can percieve, and think that this is a holy message and make a religion about it
- Incipit flag: The first few lines of your national anthem is your flag
- Braille flag: Make a braille flag
- Pheromonic flag: Make a pheromonic flag
- Signiture move: Design a choreographic flag in dance editor
- Unlimited diplomatic immunity: Copyright your flag so that no state can denounce or declare war on you
- Cursed chicken: Your species uses another species as fat reserves. Eat a chicken when you get hungry. When the chicken loses weight, remove it and and eat a different chicken, release the first chicken so that it can eat grass or crops
- Undergroundisised river: Build a bridge that is 1km wide(not long)
- It’s honest work: Do farming for a longer amount of time than not farming in aware stage (not counting multicellular and microbe stages)
- Yummy oil: Consume all fossil fuels in your planet in multicellular[6] or aware stages
- Resistant electronics: Use electronics and make 100% of your electronic architecture resistant to emp’s
- Depleting heavy water: Use 50% of heavy water in your planets oceans
- Napoleon’s dream: Blockade an island nation, they can’t do any trade
- Project tram ships: Build an overhead line for ships (do this for a trade route)
- Tilted ground: Build a city on a place with high slope (45 degrees?) and build buses that work like elevators. Transportation costs no energy, as long as there is net mass moved down the slope, which can be water, dirt, rocks or mined material if it was a mining town.
- Removing water for speed: In a submarine battle, detonate a nuke and fly planes in the vacuum that formed
- Somersaulting evolutionarily*: Flip your horisontal orientation (your back is now below, your stomach is above). Become bipedal in the transitional form. Change the place of your head from front to back, or vice versa.
- Aware of microbes: See a cell in aware/awakening stage (your ancester is a diatom. you normally produce lenses not connected to your body and use them as a telescope. decide to use the lenses as a microscope)
- Structural plant: Be a tree species that is just a trunk, photosynthesis is done by a symbiote plant
- Slaveception: The slaves you captured don’t want to work for you. Instead, they do their own raids and capture other slaves for themselves, and for you.
- Slavery with extra steps: Introduce power grid to a pre industrial planet but take a percentage of power they generate
- Prohibition went wrong: 80% of your population has distilators in their homes
- Furries: Have a political controversy involving furries
- Do a barrel roll: Do a barrel roll[7]
- Biologic monarchy restored: As a eusocial colony, lose your queen then steal another queen
- The usurper: Play as an ant queen and defeat 10 queens in pvp battle in another colony and take control of that colony
- Venus mantrap: Use a predatory sessile organism (preferably a large one) like a barbed wire in a defensive war
- Biologic dome: Venus flytrappers used to live on your houses. When an insect swarm moved through your city, the biomass of the plants increased so much that a green dome now covers your city. People are now trapped at their homes, noone can enter or exit the city.
- Cauliberry: Play as a plant and evolve a fruit that looks a lot like a cauliflower
- The battle for free will: Make a deal with a hive mind that it can incorporate your citisen which are unemployed to itself. Then have a war with that hivemind once it starts to have a large population and refuses to release people
- We are the world: Have people hold hands and divide the world into two
- Torches of Freedom: Play as a company and fill a discourse slot to increase your sales
- Biologic active support: Become a creatue with wings that can’t fly but also can’t walk if it stopped flapping its wings because it is very heavy
- Rainbow eucalyptus: Be a plant and paint yourself with 4 colors
- Computational warming: Move a lot of computers to a planet to solve its global cooling
- Debt is a normal part of my life: Your debt is 10 times your yearly gdp and you havent defaulted
- Satisfied tourists: Permenantly double your touristic income after hosting a sports event
- Negative ticket price: Pay people to join an event
- At the spotlight of the galaxy: Hold a galactic sports event in your ecumenopolis
- The show must go on: Contain 3 black holes or true vaccuum decays that were created in your ecumenopolis by terrorists, and don’t have any casualties
- How far we’ve come: Make the opening talk for galactic sports event next to a simple structure you designed in awakening/society with your own hands
- It was a giant leap: Make the first landing site in your moon or another planet a tourist destination after it was colonised
- This isn’t usually how knowledge is gained: Lose a university because it was eaten
- Nature must be hating you: Have a fire and a flood(water) at the same time in your city
- Reverse well: Keep a city dry with walls while the sea level rises 100 meters around it
- The world on fire: 10% of the calories in your planet gets turned into heat in one day
- Only material losses: Remove all your population from your capital before it gets sacked
- Bureaucratese: Have less than 50% intelligebility between a bureaucratic language and the natlang it is based on
- Arab spring: Have an attempted revolution the same revolution was attempted in 5 neighboring countries
- Exchanges completed: Every domesticated crop in your planet reached your country
- Tsunami catch: Catch a fish while being inside tsunami
- Hamsters dancing: Enter a simulation, and notice that because the laws of physics changed
- Maximalism: Demand from a country that they give all their lands to you
- Sharknado: Have a problem of with flying sea creatures
- The great awakening: Reach ascension in awakening stage because you meditated too much
- Consuming failed dreams: Be a herbivore on a rocky terrain with no vegetation, consuming the seeds that are carried here with wind
- Looking above: Make the drake equation before industrial stage
- Bird fisher: Fish birds by attaching a bait to a balloon
- Meta achiever: Get all the achievements about achievements
- Tree remover: As a group of birds, land on the branches of a tree, grab it, flap your wings as fast as possible and remove the tree from the ground
- Water diatom: Your shell/exoskeleton is made from ice
- Uh, disinterested? Copy your predetors look and try not to look suspicious while it dances for you and wants to mate with you
- Xenomorph fruit: Your fruits look like another plants fruits and sprout after being eaten by an animal, consuming them from the inside
- Avoider: Don’t get an achievement 95% of people who played the game as long as you did get
- Again: Earn the achievement last earned by any other player who was connected to the internet
- Summerween trickster: The organic material inside your landfills is subjected to high levels of radiation. It goes through rapid abiogenesis and becomes a marvel monster
- King Jellybean: Hide the scandalous behaviour of your local hero
- Cutting ties with the past: Start a negative rumor (in discourse slots) about a former folk hero who supported a rivaling ideology (increasing the support for your ideology)
- Abiotic nitrogen: Make it to society stage in a planet where no living creature can fixate nitrogen
- Oqurüm: Create a literature consisting of one word before your civilisation collapses
- Fragile knowledge: Make it to space stage while your written records can still be destroyed by bookworms or caterpillars, you don’t have any digital copies, the blueprint of the spacecraft is drawan on a paper or a fiber
- Unaware predetor: Be a predator that focuses on seeing sudden movements and walk next to potential preys that are stationary (it looks invisible to the player) that could fill your hunger bar completaly(it is at 50% or less)
- Anti pnemonia lungs: Breathe in an atmosphere that is 50% water
- Hypersoy: Domesticate or create an autotroph that synthesises more protein than energy storing molecules
- Endorsementory instant runoff: Have a democracy where there aren’t candidates, people vote for their favorite ministers and they endorse each other until one of them get more than 50 percent of votes directly or indirectly
- The line of diminishing returns: Store water above* the slope break
- Sabine women: Find a city but all the population belongs to a single gender. Steal people from neighboring cities so that your city can exist for more than 1 generation
- Noah: Start building huge ships when you understand that your land will remain below the rising waters
- Joan of Arc: Declare someone a saint after they were exacuted by the enemy
- Douglas MacArthur set loose: Use 30 nukes in a war
- Hittite: Add every god of your neighbors to your pantheon
- Nobody expects the spanish inquisition: You might say “I don’t have an inquisition”. You have now.
- Extremely heretical: Get excomunicated 5 times by the religious leader of your country’s religion
- Tree cutter: Double the rate of erosion in your planet
- Chunks would load when I gave the word: Lose a god tool after obtaining one
- Archeologic prank: Create forged artifacts and bury them as a time capsule. Then switch to observation mode and observe future archeologists being confused.
- Less cooperation with technology: Be capitalist while being eusocial, different members of the same hive compete
- The only thing I need to read is *removes safety *: Have more gun ownership than literacy
- Protect the planet from cold: Promote non electric cars because an ice age is coming
- Talos: Create an automaton soldier/worker before industrial era
- Sanctified subspace: Assign a patron saint for ftl
- Space fountain: Build a fountain that shoots water into space
- Temperature dam: Make energy from the temperature between the water in two dams, one heated by the sun and the other one beimg shaded
- More accessability for ships: Lift ships like in panama canal over a river cataract
- Cannon building: Find the location of a skyscraper that slowly sank to the mud until it was completely submerged. Play in organism mode and approach the building as the ground is being digged, revealing it. Open the door in the ceiling and your creature is ejected into space, because the building was filled with water and the air in it was compressed like a pneumatic potato cannon.
- Ufo city: The region where you built your city had a lot of hydrogen or helium emanating from the ground. So you filled balloons and connected them to your buildings like a construction material (negative weight). But you did that a way too much. The bedrock under the city is plate shaped. Your whole city is lifted from the ground, and it is now being moved by the wings to who knows where.
- Happy birthday: Get a solar system as a present for the birthday of your civilisation
- Municipal terraforming: Color your cities either black or white to change its albedo
- Automatic night lights: Dye your cities with a phosphorescent material
- Mystery disease for city belgiums: Go back to hunter gathering because the cities are painted with uranium for lighting, and you don’t have enough melanin to survive that
- Speedrun ecumenopolis: Bring cities with oneill cylinders and place them to the ground like sods
- Emergency ice ship: Your land units are in a frozen lake which is being inundated (either they are trying to drown you in a war or it is an accident) with the water from a higher lake. Break the ice in the shape of a circle (it is the fastest shape to make) so that you’ll have a circular ship made from ice
- Making the ice go on top of itself: Add wheels or skates to a layer of ice and make it move on top of another layer of ice
- Macro iglo: Intentionally get the “that’s a cool dome” achievement and use it to survive either an event of intense radiation[8] or cold[9]
- Superphone: Take the representatives of a pre ftl species and let them telephone home with ftl
- Nature’s sweet sweat: After all your oceans boiled[10], but you survived on the surface (either in refrigrated bunkers or by turning yourself into robots), change the climate and have the first water rain that reaches the surface after a long time
- Hacked species: Find the central computer of a hive mind(of robots or networked[11] biologic creatures) and brainwash it and make it serve you
- Ice block expedition*: In society stage, get an ice chunk[12] and carry it with caravans through the desert to the same climate[13] in the other hemisphere (crossing equator)
- Diatom eye clothes: Evolve sunglasses
- Ending knowledge ownage[14]: Buy every informational property in the galaxy (the easiest way to do it is with an economic god tool) and copyleft them
- A god, only slower: Do everthing every god tool does at least once before you get any of the god tools or enter a cheat code
- Terminus drone: Take down (a drone that stays in the air by using antigravity) by using chemical explosives or chemically propelled ammo
- Mechano-optic: Focus suns light with mirrors and lenses and concentrate them to fiberoptic cables. Use that light for heating. Don’t use any electricity, convert the light to conveyor belt movement or ac hydraulics by using an industrial sized light mill
- Icebox: 90% of your population stores food in low temperature, but you haven’t invented refrigiration yet, people bring new ice as the previous ones melt
- Life saving wind: Store oxygen in your city while an anaerobic wind blows
- Active suppot dome: Make a laminar flow dome* on a city. It lets people walk through but you can have a different atmosphere on the inside.
- Acid bomb: When surrounded by hostile creatures, rotate around yourself* and release a liquid which gives hp damage
- Universal unbeliverising: Promote atheism or nihilism in the hopes that religions or ideologies other than yours lose more followers than you
- Holywoodocracy: The party whose films are most watched or liked becomes the ruling party. The contents of the films are generally arguments and propaganda, though thats not necessary
- Omnicracy: Have all the “cracy” types in a single playthrough
assume this is possible ↩︎
if they aren’t in a spot where civilisation starts ↩︎
as a material source ↩︎
as an energy source ↩︎
the inability of becoming a home owner. the opposite of homeless is homeful, right? ↩︎
as in “petroleum plant” achievement ↩︎
rotate around yourself. but the description reads do a barrel roll ↩︎
like a gamma ray burst ↩︎
as in the case of “I miss the sun” achievement ↩︎
like venus ↩︎
like in the movie transcendence ↩︎
a source of water and cold temperature ↩︎
it is possible to find ice ↩︎
(archaic, rare) ownership ↩︎