Some achievements based around colonial organisms
Colonial: Become a colonial organism as a multicellular being
Very Colonial: Become a colonial organism as an already colonial organism (as a fusion of colonies)
Too Colonial: Become a colonial organism as a fusion of colonies (so a fusion of fusions of colonies)
That’s not what colonialism means!: Become a colonial organism in the industrial/space stage (through genetic engineering)
Phallic symbol: build a giant monument (minimum size 800 meters longest dimension, in society stage.)
Bigger phallic symbol: as above (minimum size 10 kilometers largest dimension )
Now That’s a phallic symbol that you won’t be able to keep in your pocket- sorry, that will drain your pocketbook: as above, minimum size 100 kilometers longest dimension, in society stage. (On earth the great wall is the only structure that large,.)
The biggest/the tower of babel: get to space with your phallic symbol in society stage. That’s a preindustrial space elevators.
The sun never sets on the (whatever) empire: have the largest empire on a tidally locked world, but only on the night side. (No one said it had to rise)
Designer Genome: Species started by a higher species doing (Artificial life), (The species would have to be in any stage that can create artificial life)
Burn it with fire!: Become a species that spreads via spreading its biomass, and has mouths and or eyes resembling an animals.
“Wait, no, that shouldn’t be possible”-Every thrive dev: Be a spacefaring previously underwater (No longer underwater because your in space, duh.) species.
Sequence Breaking Achievements
A bit late now: Become multicellular as an aware cell
Let’s give it some thought: Gain awareness as a technological species
Beeware: Become sapient as a society-forming species
The conspiracy theorists will throw a fit: Build a city as an industrial species
The sky isn’t the limit to your ingenuity: Create industrial tech as a space-fairing species
Way round wrong: Get all of the sequence break achievements
Oof: End the aware stage as a brachiating humanoid
Oh come on!: End the aware stage as a non-brachiating humanoid
Nice save: End the aware stage as a brachiating non-humanoid
nobody expects the__inquisition: In society stage, creates a theocracy
Aloha: In society stage, creates an island nation
You are alone: In space stage, fail to find other civilization near.
The center of life: become the key species in every food chain
Grow pain: become the biggest animal physically possible
Remains of mushroom war - Reach the space stage after a nuclear war.
The last dread - In the ascended stage, meet another asended
Is there a patron saint of ballistics yet: create artillery
artillery only challenge: win a war using only artillery
Grinding it out - reach a population of 1 billion in microbe stage
Do you have anything better to do - reach a population of 10 billion.
I’m concerned for your health right now - reach a population of 100 billion
are you a stoopid - nuke yourself.
ARE YOU PROMOTING MY BRAND? - name your species Thrive Awesome, Thrive Good, or Thrive Sponsored
Trance Music for Thrive Game - beat the game in under 2 hours.
Return to Monke - Have an industrial society revert to a tribal society
Cutting corners: get to space without exploring the whole map, developing farming, or economies of scale.
The conspiracy theorists will love this: play as extra large humanoids named nephilim in caverns until another species evolves with inteligence on the surface and somehow not get noticed by them for a meaningful period of time.
The flat earthers will love this: somehow discover that you live on a flat planet. It’s kind of a cheap shot if you just make a planet like that in ascended and play your next game on it but it counts.
5-d chess with multiverse time travel: develop time travel and use it to make games weirder for entertainment purposes until it’s so confusing for people with normal 3.5-d brains that a classic game just goes out of style and is completely forgotten except by the five undergrads who got brain modifications to have a basic idea of what the hell is going on in the game.
Edit: 5-d chess with multiverse time travel is a real game. It’s not really worth the 12 dollars, unless you value true confusion as much as I do.
Game Inside a Game - Invent Video Games
Mathematically Unlikely - For every minute a random number is picked - this random number just so happened to be exactly one.
Classic Kerbal - Crash a Spaceship
You are no longer needed. - Destruct your own planet.
“He’s using hax go ban that guy” - Use the stock cheat menu
Bored? - Install Mods
Fish on Land - Go onto land - then realize you can’t BREATHE AIR
Sense of Humor - Invent HUMOR!
Sense of Dark Humor - Get killed by humor
Social Master: become a species of eusocial colonies, where the individuals are colonial organisms and the wider colonies interact with eachother presocially
Flesh Man - Have no skin.
Spooky Scary Skeletons - Have less than 5% muscle mass and less than 2.5% body fat.
Behold, A Man! - Create a featherless bipedal creature with wings (Now how do you fly?)
Radical Centrism - In a multiparty parliament, have every political ideology represented
Immortal Empire - Have a nation last for 1000 years without collapsing
Not Very Creative - Create a planet just like Earth or name a tribal society creature Homo Sapiens ( That’s the best thing you could come up with?)
Overpopulated - Reach a population of 1 billion
Starting to feel crowded - Reach a population of 1 million
If it ain’t broke - Go 300 million years without evolving and changing
Unintelligent Design - Have a creature die by it’s own design (The icon can be intentionally poorly drawn)
Wait, What?: Find a species similar to yours in another stellar system
You have to be kidding me: Find a species similar to humans in another stellar system
Mooo: Evolve a cow-like species
Fish out of water: go onto land.
EEE you can’t do that1!!!11!: smeltal the metal.
Space Fish: after smelting metal and reaching space stage, go into space as a aquatic creature.
“Darwin Award” Design a species that goes extinct 3 generations or less after the change.
“Look, it isn’t an underwater civilization if you go out of the water, am I rigth?” Design a sapient species of lobe-finned fish that can walk on land but require contact with water or high humidity to live.
“The Perfect Organism” Design a parasitoid species.
“The Little Planet of Horrors” Design a species of carnivorous plants or a species of photosynthetic carnivorous animal.
“War… War never changes” Wage War to 50 empires in the Space stage.
“Got Over It” Design a species that can climb near flat structures.
“Is that even legal?” Do an almost complete recreation of a famous alien
“Smeltel the metel” As a underwater creature, drop a metal ore into a hydrothermal vent. Sadly, no underwater civlization for you
“With more love than even the Satyriacs!” (migth be too much) Cross-breed with at least 30 empires
“The Fermi Paradox” Stay in the Space stage for 15 minutes without ever contacting another species of aliens
What’s up!!!: In society state, attack another nation by surprise.
Frozen planet: In any stage, survive a hard ice age.
Legends never pie: Create a nation where cakes are banned.
Monke grabs rock.: In aware stage, grab a rock…and use it as a weapon
Tell me, love isn’t it true: Mate with two different mates, both has to be alive.