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Black Book 100% Achievements Guide and Tips

By Lungblossom

Not spoiler free! this guide will help you achieve 100% completion in Black Book, as well as some mechanical tips.

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Guide Index

Overview

Mechanical Tips

Knower

Black Mage

Keeper of Knowledge

Old Spirits

New Spirits

Sinner

Susanin

Revelation

Worthy

Black Sorceress

Word Master

Old Friend

Voipel

Vorsa

Soldier

White Head

Traveller

Listener

Collector

Folklorist

Student

Scientist

Encyclopedist

Musician

Researcher

Initiation

Aspen Tree

Water

Wolf

Pine Tree

Fern

Dead Man

Black Sorcerer

Black Book

Savvy

Dead Friend

Own Way

Detective

Card Player

Cheater

Diplomat

100 friends

Healer

Herbalist

Witch

Cow Level

Great Sorceress

Righteous

Koldun

Mistress of Hell

Comments

Mechanical Tips

In walking sections, you can walk using WASD/arrow keys and interact using spacebar.
To skip the text fast, use the scrollwheel.
You can skip battles with no penalty whatsoever. If you grow too frustrated with a fight, skip it by failing 4 times (2 for battle puzzles or in nightmare mode).
You have a limited number of manual saves - 20. The game also has 2 autosaves, one at the beginning of a main task (at the izba/resting place) and one in your current location.

Knower

Answer 10 Knowledge questions

See Keeper of Knowledge section.

Black Mage

Answer 25 Knowledge questions

See Keeper of Knowledge section.

Keeper of Knowledge

Answer 40 Knowledge questions

Answer 40 knowledge questions correctly. Using hints is likely allowed for the achievement.

Old Spirits

Release seven dead men

During the main task Get to the Cave in chapter 2, visit the location Drowner Circle. Interact with pillars to the left side of the screen and they will make sounds in a sequence. Repeat the sequence in the order middle, right, left, right, middle and the drowners will be freed.

New Spirits

Take seven demons into your service

Demons will be added to your pester as you level up, and you can also find them during main and optional tasks and agree to take them into your service.

Sinner

Acquire 100 sins

Get sins by doing bad deeds during dialogues and choices such as stealing offerings and refusing to help people in need, as well as sending your chorts to curse people.

Susanin

Guess the road in the cursed forest

On chapter 3 in the main task Protect the Bridal Procession in the location near the crooked forest, go left, right, right.

Revelation

Unlock all the words

Unlock all cards. Note that chapter 7's cards require you to visit the market and do battles in order to not miss them.

Worthy

Break all the seals

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Black Sorceress

Unlock all the black pages

As the achievement says, unlock all black cards. Note that chapter 7's cards require you to visit the market and do battles in order to not miss them.

Word Master

Collect 4 copies of each page

Buy cards from book keepers at every opportunity, fight battles, and craft cards - getting the skills which reduce the cost of buying from shops and of crafting cards as well as getting more money from gifts is very helpful here, but it will still cost a lot of money to craft all the needed cards, around 4000.

Old Friend

Complete Old Egor loyalty quest

Keep talking to Egor and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzle successfully (or skip it) and in the knowledge choice choose break the spine or hammer an aspen stake.

Voipel

Complete Proshka loyalty quest

Keep talking to Proshka and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. There is a battle puzzle on the way which you can avoid by hiding, but the quest is otherwise combat free.

Vorsa

Complete Karnysh loyalty quest

Keep talking to Karnysh and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

Soldier

Complete Nikolay loyalty quest

Keep talking to Nikolay and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

White Head

Complete Levonty loyalty quest

Keep talking to Levonty and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

Traveller

Visit 333 locations

Simply visit every location available until the achievement unlocks.

Listener

Collect 10 bailichkas

See Folklorist section.

Collector

Collect 30 bailichkas

See Folklorist section.

Folklorist

Collect 50 bailichkas

Bailichkas are usually collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in time.

Student

Collect 10 entries in the encyclopedia

See Encyclopedist section.

Scientist

Collect 30 entries in the encyclopedia

See Encyclopedist section.

Encyclopedist

Collect 70 entries in the encyclopedia

Encyclopedia entries are usually collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in time.

Musician

Collect all the songs

Songs are collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in chapter 5, at the location Vilgort Gathering.

Researcher

Read 77 entries in the Onomasticon

In the Onomasticon tab of your menu, gain 77 entries (bailichkas, songs and encyclopedia entries) and click them all to get rid of the exclamation point.

Initiation

Complete the prologue

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Aspen Tree

Complete chapter 1

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Water

Complete chapter 2

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Wolf

Complete chapter 3

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Pine Tree

Complete chapter 4

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Fern

Complete chapter 5

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Dead Man

Complete chapter 6

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Black Sorcerer

Complete chapter 7

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Black Book

Retrieve the book

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Savvy

Guess all the obderiha riddles with the first attempt

During chapter 1 on main task Rescue the changeling at the Old Banyas, Choose the girl on the right, then the chest in the middle.

Dead Friend

Release the mermaid

when talking to Vakul at the Water Mill, you have two options that will lead to this achievement:

Ask for both the seal and the mermaid. You will have to pay 100 coins.
Ask only for the mermaid. She will open the seal herself.

Own Way

Don't release the Mermaid

When talking to Vakul at the Water Mill, only ask him for the seal.

Detective

Find all the clues in Nemzya

This achievement is done on chapter 4 in main task Find the Leshiy. Check out this guide for detailed steps of achieveing it:

https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2634053696

Card Player

Win 5 times in a card game

You can get this achievement against the same opponents, so you can get it the moment the card game unlocks.

Cheater

Win 3 times in a card game while cheating

Investing skill points in Durak I and Durak II will unlock the option to cheat in card games. Win three times while using those abilities.

The following items will also unlock the abilities: Ace of a Sinner, Golden Card, Glass Eye, Eyes in a Jar.

Diplomat

Negotiate with Susedko on Zemskaia station

During chapter 2 main task, you will arrive in Post Station. There is a susedko tormenting a white horse. Choose to reach agreement with the susedko. Talk to station master Samson and say that he needs to buy a grey horse, then return to the susedko.

100 friends

Talk with 100 characters

Keep talking to characters and this achievement will unlock in time.

Healer

Get 13 herbs

See Witch section.

Herbalist

Get 33 herbs

See Witch section.

Witch

Get 66 herbs

In the sections where Vasilisa can walk around freely, herbs can be found and picked up. These are the only herbs that count for this achievement, unlike ones that are picked up during dialogues or bought from merchants.

Cow Level

Cow level

During chapter 2 in the main task Go to the Vodyanoi's chambers, visit the Gatehouse.

Great Sorceress

Compose a spell out of 13 words

Learn the Orders I, Orders II, Keys I, and Keys II skills under Book Handling. Build a deck with 4 Nava cards, 4 Babushka-Yaga cards, 4 Babushka-Atamanushka cards, 4 Key-Tongue cards and 4 Circle cards.

On the first turn, play your available Babushka-Yaga and Babushka-Atamanushka cards. On the second turn, only play the Nava cards in your deck. On the third turn, play every remaining card in your deck - it will put you just over 13 words.

Righteous

Meet your beloved one

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. If you've accumulated less than 130 sins, proceed to destroy the black book.

Koldun

Succumb to Dark forces

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. No matter how many sins you've accumulated, proceed to escape the hell.

Mistress of Hell

Become a mistress of Hell

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. If you've accumulated over 130 sins, proceed to take the throne.

9 Comments

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IDDQD 8 Feb @ 8:44pm

Yes, @Laza is right. I also got the Musician achievement at the very end after completing the game. @Shin you can see the full list of songs on the 'Supporter Pack' DLC page.

Shin 10 Sep, 2023 @ 8:20pm

@Laza Can you please share the complete song list for the Musician achievement?

Laza 1 Feb, 2023 @ 3:07am

Word Master - Build a money-making deck, based on Korkoteya as soon as it becomes available; whenever possible, use all options (items/skills) that give money. In chapter 7, save when reaching Chort's Fair, sell most of the herbs/items which you won't use from now on, buy all spells. After defeating Andromalius, you'll reach Chamber of Death, where you can buy/craft the rest of the missing spells (provided you have enough money, ofc). There will be another chance to complete the book at Respite, before the final battle(s).
Mistress of Hell - During regular playthrough, make sure you accumulate a bit more than 100 sins. In Hell, save when reaching Chort’s Cauldrons. If choosing option Torture sinners, you will get +30 sin, which will get you over the limit for the achiev. You can also use spells/items that give you sin. So basically you only need to replay the last two thirds of Chapter 7.

Laza 31 Jan, 2023 @ 8:25am

Musician achievement unlocks during end credits, which feature the last song of the game. I am 100% sure I had collected all of them and the achiev didn't unlock in Chapter 5. Also that last song was new (yes, I listened to them all previously; they're all very beautiful

myu_pc 7 Aug, 2022 @ 2:57pm

Thanks! I remember the riddles, but didn't agree for some reason.

Lungblossom [author] 6 Aug, 2022 @ 11:34pm

@Not Sure on your first visit to the spinner, answer all of his riddles correctly (I believe there are 5) and he will ask to join you. You must agree.

myu_pc 6 Aug, 2022 @ 1:31pm

When do you meet Levonty (of the White Head achievement)? My first play through was aiming for Mistress of Hell, so maybe I got locked out for being too evil?

Lungblossom [author] 6 Jun, 2022 @ 10:52pm

@Kamyu thank you, i got confused hopping around so many saves, fixed!

Kamyu 6 Jun, 2022 @ 8:35pm

savvy is at the end of chapter 1 btw

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