Brutal Orchestra

Brutal Orchestra

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Brutal Orchestra - 100% Achievement Guide
By ZetDerp
This guide contains major spoilers for the whole game so I'd advise strongly not reading beyond this point until you finished the game. This guide goes through every single achievement in the game and explains how to get them and tips on how to achieve them. This guide will be update on content updates.
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Brutal Orchestra
Total: 1

Brutal Orchestra
This longest and strangest dream comes to an end.

Obtain every single achievement.
Good luck ;)
The Narrative
Total: 3

The End?
This can't be the end.

Kill the Pitiful Corpse in Pre Hardmode.

I'll Make You Regret This
Let's do this the hard way.

Spare the Pitiful Corpse and enter Hardmode.

All that is Mortal.
...

Complete the game in Hardmode by killing Heaven or Osman Sinnoks.
The Fools
Total: 22

Pre Hardmode Fools
The following party members can be unlocked at any time in the game.

The Veteran
Unlock Boyle.

Unlocked in the tutorial and is impossible to miss.

The Severed
Unlock Hans.

Unlocked in the tutorial and is impossible to miss.

The Sadist
Unlock Burnout.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Burnout you must punch him during the interaction with him. Select "Sucker punch him"

The Impaled
Unlock Fennec.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Fennec you must select the two prompts "This is the last one, I promise" and "We should get him on our side now".

The Gambler
Unlock Anton.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Anton you must pay him 10 coins, you are able to give him a fraction of the payment since this persists between runs.

The Conjoined
Unlock Splig.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Splig you must have a party member die before speaking to Splig.

The Glutton
Unlock Pearl.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Pearl you must complete 40 combat encounters after encountering Pearl (the amount of encounters completed persists between runs). Once 40 combat encounters are completed return back to Pearl.

The Incinerated
Unlock Dimitri.

Encountered in The Far Shore. There will be an encounter that has a skeleton sitting beside the campfire. Interact with the skeleton and watch if the skeleton talks about the fire, if the skeleton does you should be able to interact with the campfire after talking to the skeleton.

The Parasite
Unlock LongLiver.

Encountered in The Orpheum. For every party member that dies the chance of encountering LongLiver is increased by 1%. The chance to encounter LongLiver persist between runs.

The Stoic
Unlock Clive.

Encountered in The Orpheum. To unlock Clive you must interact with him on three different runs. He will unlock on the third encounter.

The Zealot
Unlock Kleiver.

Encountered in The Orpheum. To unlock Kleiver you must kill 35 Music Men before they transform into an instrument. Once 35 Music Men are killed you must encounter Kleiver to unlock him.

The Corpse
Unlock Cranes.

Encountered in The Orpheum. To unlock Cranes you need to have suffered 20 casualties and then encounter the pile of corpses. Casualties persist between runs.

Hardmode Fools
The following party members can only be unlocked after sparing the Pitiful Corpse and then playing a run on Hardmode.

The Trickster
Unlock Thype.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Thype you must kill all four bosses that can appear in The Far Shore. The bosses are Roid, Hickory, Mobius and Trigger Fingers and once all have been killed return to Thype.

The Naked
Unlock Griffin.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Griffin you must complete three combat encounters without taking any damage (direct and indirect). Once the requirement is met wait for Griffin to appear. Taking damage and then healing it does not count towards this unlock.

The Failure
Unlock Arnold.

Encountered in The Far Shore. To unlock Arnold you must encounter him and avoid insulting him when picking what Nowak will say.

The Terminal
Unlock Agon.

Encountered in The Orpheum. To unlock Agon you must encounter him without suffering any casualties on your current run.

The Psychic
Unlock Rags.

Encountered in The Orpheum. To unlock Rags you must kill an Ungod before it flees. Ungods are summoned only by a Wriggling Sacrifice. After killing an Ungod you then must encounter Rags one more time.

The Black Lung
Unlock SmokeStacks.

Encountered in The Orpheum. In order to unlock SmokeStacks you must discard items found in your run. For every discarded item the chance to unlock SmokeStacks increases by 1%. The chance for SmokeStacks to unlock persists between runs. To unlock SmokeStacks you must interact with them to see if they will unlock or not.

The Mass
Unlock Leviat.

Encountered in The Garden. To unlock Leviat you must encounter them while having Hans in your active party.

The Immortal
Unlock Bimini.

Encountered in The Garden. To unlock Bimini you need to pay them 50 coins all at once. The payment does not persists between runs and must be completed in one run.

The Magnum Opus
Unlock Gospel.

Encountered in The Garden. To unlock Gospel must interact with Gospel with Nowak being the only party member you have. Keep in mind that you must throw your run since you are forced to discard all party members except Nowak.

The Mistake
Unlock Mordrake

Encountered in The Garden. To unlock Mordrake you must unlock 30 achievements / items that are from The Witness or The Divine sections. Once the requirement is met find and interact with Mordrake.
The Bosses
Total: 10

Kingslayer
Defeat all bosses found in the main campaign.

Kill every boss in the game, miniboss-like enemies like the Ungod and The Heir do not count.

The Juggernaut
Murder Roids.

Kill Roids, found in The Far Shore.

The Coward
Murder Trigger Fingers.

Kill Trigger Fingers, found in The Far Shore once you enter Hardmode.

The Fire and the Flames.
Murder Hickory.

Kill Hickory, found in The Far Shore.

The Widower
Murder Mobius.

Kill Mobius, found in The Far Shore.

The Leviathan
Slay the Ouroboros.

Kill the Ouroboros, found in the Orpheum.

The Messiah
Slay the Charcarrion.

Kill the Charcarrion, found in the Orpheum once you enter Hardmode.

The Orphan
Slay the SmoothSkin.

Kill the SmoothSkin, found in the Orpheum

The Witness
Forget Osman Sinnoks.

Kill Osman Sinnoks, found in the Garden once you enter Hardmode.

The Divine
Transcend Heaven.

Kill Heaven, found in the Garden once you enter Hardmode.
The Witness
Total: 22

These achievements all require you to kill Osman Sinnoks with specific party members in your current active party (and they must survive the encounter).

For the achievements you need to kill Osman Sinnoks with...

Another Dud
Unlocked a new item.

... Boyle in your active party.

Rorschach Test
Unlocked a new item.

... Hans in your active party.

Health Insurance
Unlocked a new item.

... Burnout in your active party.

Rotund Amphibian
Unlocked a new item.

... Fennec in your active party.

You Can Do It!
Unlocked a new item.

... Anton in your active party.

Extra Stitching
Unlocked a new item.

... Splig in your active party.

Lycanthrope's Core
Unlocked a new item.

... Pearl in your active party.

Fishing Rod
Unlocked a new item.

... Thype in your active party.

Gilded Mirror
Unlocked a new item.

... Griffin in your active party.

Someone Else's Wedding Ring
Unlocked a new item.

... Arnold in your active party.

Czech Hedgehog
Unlocked a new item.

... Dimitri in your active party.

Deworming Pills
Unlocked a new item.

... LongLiver in your active party.

Holy Chalice
Unlocked a new item.

... Clive in your active party.

The Jersey
Unlocked a new item.

... Kleiver in your active party.

Mystery Ration
Unlocked a new item.

... Cranes in your active party.

Iron Necklace
Unlocked a new item.

... Agon in your active party.

Trepanation
Unlocked a new item.

... Rags in your active party.

Prussian Blue
Unlocked a new item.

... SmokeStacks in your active party.

Blind Faith
Unlocked a new item.

... Leviat in your active party.

Divine Mud
Unlocked a new item.

... Bimini in your active party.

Sculptor's Tools
Unlocked a new item.

... Gospel in your active party.

Meatre Worm
Unlocked a new item.

... Mordrake in your active party.
The Divine
Total: 22

These achievements all require you to kill Heaven with specific party members in your current active party (and they must survive the encounter).

For the achievements you need to kill Heaven with...

Purple Heart
Unlocked a new item.

... Boyle in your active party.

Roentgen Rays
Unlocked a new item.

... Hans in your active party.

A Gift?
Unlocked a new item.

... Burnout in your active party.

Gamified Cephalopod
Unlocked a new item.

... Fennec in your active party.

♥♥♥♥♥♥ Vampire (lol censored)
Unlocked a new item.

... Anton in your active party.

Pain Killers
Unlocked a new item.

... Splig in your active party.

Head of Scribe
Unlocked a new item.

... Pearl in your active party.

Effigy of the Mettle Mother
Unlocked a new item.

... Thype in your active party.

Spiked Collar
Unlocked a new item.

... Griffin in your active party.

Fist Full of Ash
Unlocked a new item.

... Arnold in your active party.

Cremation
Unlocked a new item.

... Dimitri in your active party.

Medical Leeches
Unlocked a new item.

... LongLiver in your active party.

Seeds of the Consumed
Unlocked a new item.

... Clive in your active party.

Pontiff's Parade
Unlocked a new item.

... Kleiver in your active party.

Ol' Stumpy
Unlocked a new item.

... Cranes in your active party.

The Apple
Unlocked a new item.

... Agon in your active party.

Wheel of Fortune
Unlocked a new item.

... Rags in your active party.

DDT
Unlocked a new item.

... SmokeStacks in your active party.

Modern Medicine
Unlocked a new item.

... Leviat in your active party.

Opulent Egg
Unlocked a new item.

... Bimini in your active party.

Gospel's Severed Head
Unlocked a new item.

... Gospel in your active party.

Norris!
Unlocked a new item.

... Mordrake in your active party.
Strangers / Quests
Total: 5

Fog's Prescience
Complete Fog's Quest.

Finish Fog's quest. When you first meet Fog he will ask you to kill all 4 bosses in The Far Shore. After you kill them all return to Fog and he will now be in The Orpheum asking for you to kill all 3 bosses in The Orpheum, the same goes for The Garden. Once the quest is complete Fog will be at the boss encounter in The Orpheum in future runs and paying him 20 coins allows you to pick the final boss for that run.

Ichor's Last Wish
Complete Ichor's Quest.

Finish Ichor's quest. In order to talk to Ichor's you must complete each world without any casualties. Ichor is first found in The Far Shore and once talked to will be in The Orpheum and then at The Garden. After talking to Ichor in The Garden you then must encounter Ichor one more time in The Garden on a new run. The reward for finishing this quest does not grant any benefits to future runs.

Bronzo's 2 Cents
Complete Bronzo's Quest.

Finish Bronzo's quest. Throughout runs Bronzo will ask for coins starting at 2 coins in The Garden, 25 coins in The Orpheum, 50 coins in The Far Shore, 100 coins still in The Far Shore and finally 300 coins in The Orpheum (Total: 477 coins). After the quest is completed Bronzo will give a random amount of coins to you every time you encounter him starting from the next run.

The Ungod's Demand
Complete the Emissary's Quest.

Finish the Emissary's Quest by killing the Unfinished Heir (the result of letting TaMaGoa, Egg of Incubus hatch) and report back to the Emissary. In order for the Emissary to appear in The Far Shore you will need to have killed an Ungod in a past run. Talking to the Emissary will provide access to a 4th zone that will always be TaMaGoa, Egg of Incubus. There is no reward for finishing this quest.

Mordrake's Untold Tale

Earn all achievements (excluding "Brutal Orchestra") and talk to Mordrake in The Garden. The reward is 100% completion.
The Areas
Total: 9

Beyond the Dunes
Complete "The Far Shore".

Beat the first boss, located in The Far Shore. The boss can be Roid's, Hickory or Mobius.

Above the Mountains
Complete "The Orpheum".

Beat the second boss, located in The Orpheum. The boss can be Ouroboros or SmoothSkin.

Within Yourself
Complete "The Garden".

Beat the third and final boss, located in The Garden. The boss can be Heaven or Osman Sinnoks.

Duke of the Dunes
Complete "The Far Shore" with no casualties on Hardmode.

Complete all of The Far Shore in Hardmode without losing any party member.

Master of the Mountains
Complete "The Orpheum" with no casualties on Hardmode.

Complete all of The Orpheum in Hardmode without losing any party member. From my knowledge casualties in The Far Shore will not count towards this achievement.

Garden of Earthly Delights
Complete "The Garden" with no casualties on Hardmode.

Complete all of The Garden in Hardmode without losing any party member. From my knowledge casualties in The Far Shore and The Orpheum will not count towards this achievement.

The Work of an Artist.
Complete all areas with no casualties on Hardmode.

Complete the whole game in Hardmode without any casualties in a single run.

Thorough Explorer
Fully explore any normal zone.

Explore all possible shops, Fools Boards, encounters, fools, chests and NPC's before fighting the boss of a world.

Every Stone Turned
Fully explore all zones in Hardmode.

Explore all shops, Fools Boards, encounters, fools, chests and NPC's before fighting the boss for The Far Shore, The Orpheum and The Garden in a single run.
Comedies
Total: 13

Throw Hands
Humiliate a boss by killing it with a slap.

Finish off any boss with a "Slap".

God of Phalanges, Palms and Pain
Humiliate every boss by killing them with a slap.

Finish off every boss in the game with a "Slap" or "SLAP!". You also must kill both Hickory's, Osman Sinnoks and Osman + Sinnoks with slaps.

Decisive and Concise
Defeat the final boss in under 45 minutes.

Kill Heaven or Osman Sinnoks in under 45 minutes. It is recommended to turn off turn animations.

God is Dead and We Have Killed Him
Slay an Ungod... Kinda.

Kill an Ungod before it flees. Ungods are only summoned by Wriggling Sacrifices and only appears in The Orpheum.

Bloodline Drinker
Unmake the Unfinished Heir.

Kill the Unfinished Heir, spawned by TaMaGoa, Egg of Incubus in The Far Shore. To encounter TaMaGoa, Egg of Incubus it can be a rare encounter or a guaranteed 4th encounter if you talk to the Emissary.

Heavyweight Champion
Cancel Roid's entire turn.

Cancel Roid's 5 actions in a single turn. AoE attacks can remove 2 moves from Roid's at once so using a Lvl 2 Pearl can make this boss trivial.

Crisis of Faith
Defeat the Charcarrion by letting its corpse decompose.

Have the Charcarrion die by its own Decompose attack.

Emotional and Physical Annihilation
Watch SmoothSkin's trauma be his undoing.

Have My Own Visage kill SmoothSkin by using Trauma. Trauma deals 20 damage and then heals 50 so SmoothSkin must be below 21 health for it to work.

Plot Armour
Defeat the final boss without Nowak in your active party.

Kill Heaven or Osman Sinnoks without Nowak in your party.

Brutality!
Complete a difficult encounter before any enemies can act.

Complete an encounter on a single turn that is considered difficult. A difficult encounter is any encounter that has a high threat target or any boss. This can be easily completed with Demon Core paired with Lucky Helmet (15%) / Gambler's Right Hand (40%) / Divine Protection (not recommended) / >50 hp Agon.

Nary a Finger Lifted
Complete a combat encounter without any party members performing an ability.

Complete an encounter without using any moves. Can be easily completed with an encounter with only Keko's in The Far Shore.

Deep Pockets
Purchase everything in a shop.

Buy all 6 items in a single shop.

Human Resources
Hire all 3 party members from the Fools Board.

Purchase all 3 fools from one Fools Board. To fully buy out a Fools Board it costs 21 coins in The Far Shore and 45 in The Orpheum.
Tragedies
Total: 8

It Happens to the Best of Us
You did your best.

Experience the first of many deaths. Go you!!!

Tactical Miscalculation
Lose a party member to using the wrong Pigment.

Have the damage by using wrong pigment be fatal for the party member.

Drowning in Pigment
Lose a party member to Pigment overflow.

Have a party member die due to Overflow damage.

What are You Doing?
Lose a party member to your own party...

Have damage dealt by a party member be fatal for another party member. Can be easily completed by linked damage from a party member or party attacking moves (use Leviat and kill the randomly selected party member at the start of a run).

Boom, Headshot
Have one of your party member's head be reduced to a fine red mist.

Have one of your party members die from Trigger Finger's Headshot attack.

Smooch!
Lock lips with the Ouroboros.

Have a party member be healed by Ouroboros Smooch attack.

Worthy Successor
Have Nowak be the lone survivor of an encounter with the Witness.

Kill Osman Sinnoks and have Nowak be the only survivor.

The Second Coming
Have a party member die to damage dealt by the Divine twice during an encounter with the Divine.

Have a party member die twice to Heaven's attacks in one encounter. Heaven must have the killing blow for it to count towards the achievement. Easiest way to get this is to use Agon and have the revival ability on him.
Exquisite Corpse Related Achievements
Releases: 23rd of Oct (Sunday)

These achievement will only be in this section till the content update drops (to avoid spoilers) then they will be added to their sections once another content drop arrives.

The Emotional Disaster (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Unlock a Mung?
Can be obtained after finishing Ichor's quest. Mung can be found in The Far Shore as a random encounter, that being a skeleton with a red hat + coat (you'll know when you see it).

Bit Off More Than You Can Chew. (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Dismantle Xiphactinus and Gillicus.
Kill Xiphactinus and Gillicus in The Garden and unlock my item :).


Somebody Call The Vatican. (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Execute Pope Innocent X.
Kill Sepulcher in the Garden.


Left Shoe (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Unlocked a new item.
Kill Heaven with Mung in your active party.


Wels Catfish (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Unlocked a new item.
Kill OS with Mung in your active party.


The Director's Final Frame (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Complete the Director's Quest.
Currently requires you to bring clothes/ mask/ heart related items to a statue in The Orpheum in order to finish the quest. The quest is finished after you visit the statue after giving a "Heart" related item.

Masks - Recalled Gas Mask, Iron Helmet, Serpent's Head, Blind Faith, Caretakers's Cudgel, Convergent Rage, Gospel's Severed Head, Head of Scribe, Tondal's Vision, Professional Procrastinator, Someone Else's Face, Splatter Mask, RAM!, Broken Doll

Clothes - Barely Used Gauze, Soggy Bandages, First Aid Kit, Howling Log, Pontiff's Parade, Tondal's Vision, Wicker Child, Vyacheslav's Last Sip

Knife - Ol' Stumpy, Gambler's Right Hand, Little Knife, Skates!, The Brand, Curved Dagger, The Master's Sickle, Cursed Sword

Demon Fetish - Defaced Scripture, Violated Pact, Divine Mud, Hereafter, Idea of Evil, Man Made Ovum, The Brand, The Human Soul, The Asymptote, Cursed Sword, Infernal Eye, Enigma

Heart - Lycanthrope's Core, Demon Core, Idea of Evil, The Human Soul

Dumb Luck (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Beat Brutal Orchestra 2 times consecutively. This achievement rewards many items!
Self Explanatory, see Total and Absolute Mastery for advise on the win streaks.


Notable Skill (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Beat Brutal Orchestra 3 times consecutively. This achievement rewards many items!
Self Explanatory, see Total and Absolute Mastery for advise on the win streaks.


Burgeoning Expertise (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Beat Brutal Orchestra 4 times consecutively. This achievement rewards several items!
Self Explanatory, see Total and Absolute Mastery for advise on the win streaks.


Total and Absolute Mastery (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Beat Brutal Orchestra 5 times consecutively. This achievement rewards several items!
You get the story by now get 5 wins in a row blah blah blah. For the wins you should take a very good DPS (like Griffin) or a solid healer (like hans), i personally go with Griffin A (C also works as long as he has clobber/AoE as a move) since his clobber move can make short work of just about everything. Having fog at the 2nd boss is also ideal since it takes away the RNG of what boss to fight (tip, go for heaven). If you have a maxed Griffin against Heaven with spotlight Griffin can dish out 60 dmg at minimum .

TL;DR: Take Griffin with AoE move, pay fog for Heaven, fully upgrade Griffin before Heaven, delete Heaven.


Time to Die! (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Related to the Bronzo boss fight. My best guess is you get one of these achievements for each section you survive while fighting Bronzo. This is probably the 4th achievement.



What the !@#$ Nowak? (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Related to the Bronzo boss fight. My best guess is you get one of these achievements for each section you survive while fighting Bronzo. This is probably the 1st achievement.



Okay Nowak, Seriously Stop! (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Related to the Bronzo boss fight. My best guess is you get one of these achievements for each section you survive while fighting Bronzo. This is probably the 2nd achievement.



That's it Nowak! (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Related to the Bronzo boss fight. My best guess is you get one of these achievements for each section you survive while fighting Bronzo. This is probably the 3rd achievement.



Capital is King (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Have over 100+ coins at once.



War Criminal (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Deal 100 or more points of damage in a single hit to an enemy during a successful combat encounter.
An easy way to get this is to use shatter Gospel since shatter deals 999 damage and and apparently Gospel counts as an enemy.


The Shyster (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Related to the Bronzo boss fight. In order to get this you must beat him.



Honest Effort (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Die while fighting a boss.



Swallowed by the Sea (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Survive Ouroboros' starvation attack after being hit with it.



So Long Liver (Exquisite Corpse Achievement)
Send LongLiver off on a journey of his own.
Have LongLiver be inside an enemy when they flee.
16 Comments
ZetDerp  [author] 29 Dec, 2023 @ 3:42am 
@PhoenixBoyJoel at the time of writing pre-nerf Griffin did that much damage since he use to be able to hit 3 lanes. Even with his nerf he is still a very good party member as long as he has wallop.
PhoenixBoyJoel 28 Dec, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Unless my math is off, Spotlight Griffin does not do 60 damage at max for the 5 kills in a row achievement.
ZetDerp  [author] 15 Apr, 2023 @ 12:46am 
@Some Polter It's up to chance whenever you come across Sepulcher and there's no way to manipulate it spawning from what I know. I've only seen him about 4 times within my 90 hours myself so its just really bad luck.
Some Polter 14 Apr, 2023 @ 6:16pm 
Is there anything you need to to to able to fight the Sepulcher (aka Pope Innocent X). I have 57 hours and I have not seen this guy once.
ZetDerp  [author] 29 Oct, 2022 @ 4:48am 
Updated with some additional items also added.
Erect Ferret 27 Oct, 2022 @ 8:17pm 
Skates worked for the knife part of the directors quest
Defaced Scripture worked for the demon fetish part
ZetDerp  [author] 26 Oct, 2022 @ 3:53pm 
Add them + some others to the quest just there.
txh0881 24 Oct, 2022 @ 3:47pm 
Third request in Director's Quest is for a knife, because the mouth is stitched together. It probably needs something sharp.
txh0881 24 Oct, 2022 @ 3:46pm 
Broken Doll works as a Mask for the Director's Quest.
ZetDerp  [author] 24 Oct, 2022 @ 8:46am 
Yeah once I added the disclaimers pointing out the bugs a patch must have released right after. Updating them now.