Xenoblade Chronicles Achievement Guide

Xenoblade is one of the few Wii titles to offer achievements, actually gifting EXP for completing these tasks. Here's the full achievement list!

Unique Monsters

  • Hunter-in-training – Defeat any unique monster.
  • Pro hunter – Defeat 10 UM.
  • Master hunter – Defeat 100 UM.

Landmarks

  • First Steps – Discover any landmark.
  • A corner of the world – Discover 10 landmarks.
  • Seasoned traveller – Discover 40 landmarks.
  • Globetrotter – Discover 80 landmarks.
  • Worldly wise – Discover 150 landmarks.

Secret Areas

  • Explorer – Discover a secret area.
  • Trailblazer – Discover 6 secret areas.
  • Pioneer – Discover 12 secret areas.

Affinity Chart

  • Your first friend – Get to know a named person.
  • Friend number 10 – Register 10 people on affinity chart.
  • Fifty fine friends – Register 50 people on affinity chart.
  • Friend of the world – Register 120 people on affinity chart.

Meeting People

  • The brave protectors – Get to know all Defence Force soldiers in colony 9.
  • Network of knowledge – Get to know many Nopon outsied of populated areas.
  • The hopeful survivors – Get to know lot of people in Colony 6.
  • Know so many Nopon! – Get to know the Nopon living in Frontier Village.
  • Wings of nobility – Get to know many High Entia with small headwings.
  • A village of machines – Get to know numerous Machina in the Hidden Village.

Affinity Ties

  • The strongest tie – Help two people form a deep affinity for one another.
  • Constellation – Help people form an affinity for one another 10 times.
  • Spider's web – Help people form an affinity for one another 50 times.
  • Neural network – Help people form an affinity for one another 100 times.
  • Roots across the world – Help almost everyone form an affinity for one another.
     

Area Affinity

  • Colony 9 celeb – Achieve 3-star affinity rating for Colony 9.
  • Colony 6 celeb – Achieve 3-star affinity rating for Colony 6.
  • Honorary Nopon – Achieve 3-star affinity rating for Frontier Village.
  • Honorary High Entia – Achieve 3-star affinity rating for Alcamoth.
  • Honorary Machina – Achieve 3-star affinity rating for Hidden Village.
  • Local hero – Develop 5-star affinity with the people of any area.
  • World hero – Develop 5-star affinity with everyone.
     

Heart-to-Hearts

  • Heartwarming – Have Heart-to-Heart go as smoothly as possible.
  • Heartbreaking – Have Heart-to-Heart go as badly as possible.
  • Pouring out your heart – Have 20 Heart-to-Hearts.
  • The heart of the matter – Have 40 Heart-to-Hearts.
  • Ace of hearts – Have all possible Heart-to-Hearts.
     

Quests

  • Problem solved! – Complete a quest.
  • Helpful stranger – Complete 10 quests (excluding story quests).
  • Generous friend – Complete 100 quests (excluding story quests).
  • Charitable ally – Complete 200 quests (excluding story quests).
  • Selfless giver – Complete 300 quests (excluding story quests).
  • Shaping history – Change someone's life through your actions.

Populating Colony 6

  • Drawing a crowd – Increase population of Colony 6 to 50 people.
  • Building a community – Increase population of Colony 6 to 100 people.
  • Bursting at the seams – Increase population of Colony 6 to 150 people.
     

Rebuilding Colony 6

  • A fixer-upper – Start reconstruction of Colony 6.
  • A fix on the solution – Make good progress in reconstructing Colony 6.
  • Good and fixed – Finish reconstructing Colony 6. Amazing!

Single Attack Damage

  • Bone breaker – Deal 3000+ damage in single attack.
  • Rock smasher – Deal 25000+ damage in single attack.
  • World shaker – Deal 50000+ damage in single attack.

Defeating Enemies

  • Beginner's luck – Defeat 50 enemies.
  • Tough guy, eh? – Defeat 200 enemies.
  • No stopping you – Defeat 1000 enemies.
  • Please! No more! – Defeat 5000 enemies.

Useless in Battle

  • Time for new glasses – Attempt 100 attacks that miss.
  • Some help you are! – Win a battle without actually doing anything.

Defeating Mechon

  • Machine mishaps – Defeat 30 Mechon.
  • Machine mayhem – Defeat 100 Mechon.
  • Machine meltdown – Defeat 250 Mechon.

Defeating Ground Monsters

  • Ground down – Defeat 30 ground monsters.
  • Ground up – Defeat 100 ground monsters.
  • Ground to a pulp – Defeat 250 ground monsters.

Defeating Aerial Monsters

  • Airing grievances – Defeat 30 aerial monsters.
  • Clearing the air – Defeat 100 aerial monsters.
  • Anti-air battering – Defeat 250 aerial monsters.

Defeating Insects

  • Bug off – Defeat 30 insects.
  • Walking insecticide – Defeat 100 insects.
  • Defeating Ether-Based MonstersEdit
  • Elementary! – Defeat 30 ether-based monsters.
  • Braving the elements – Defeat 100 ether-based monsters.

Defeating Telethia

  • Telethia tracker – Defeat 30 Telethia.
  • Telethia triumph – Defeat 100 Telethia.

Defeating Water Monsters

  • Fish for compliments – Defeat 30 monsters that live in water.

Vision Tags

  • Smashing – Smash a vision tag.
  • Simply smashing! – Smash 100 vision tags.
  • Smashing… to pieces! – Smash 1000 vision tags.

Stopping the Future

  • Not gonna happen! – Stop the future in its tracks once.
  • I'll change the future! – Stop the future in its tracks 20 times.
  • The future is ours! – Stop the future in its tracks 50 times.

Reviving Party Members

  • Second wind – Revive incapacitated party members 10 times.
  • Can't keep 'em down – Revive incapacitated party members 100 times.
  • Down but never out – Revive incapacitated party members 500 times.

Critical Hits

  • Critical thing – Deliver 50 critical hits.
  • Critical condition – Deliver 1500 critical hits.
  • Critical mass – Deliver 5000 critical hits.

Battle Start Affinity

  • Let's fight! – Achieve Battle Start Affinity once.
  • Let's go, everyone! – Achieve Battle Start Affinity 100 times.
  • Yeah! We can do it! – Achieve Battle Start Affinity 1000 times.

High Tension

  • Turn it up – Enter state of High Tension once.
  • Fire it up – Enter state of High Tension 50 times.
  • Burn it up – Enter state of High Tension 200 times.

Chain Attacks

  • Go team! – Use chain attack once.
  • Tip top team-up – Use chain attack 50 times.
  • A team like no other – Use chain attack 200 times.
  • Team with a capital T – Use chain attack 1000 times.

Chain Attack Damage

  • Killer combo – Use chain attack which deals 3000+ total damage.
  • Cosmic killer combo – Use chain attack which deals 30000+ total damage.
  • Quantum killer combo – Use chain attack which deals 100000+ total damage.

Chain Attack Links

  • Chain gang – Perform chain attack with 4+ links.
  • Off the chain – Perform chain attack with 5+ links.

Back Attacks

  • Back-stabber – Perform back attack once.
  • Rear admiral – Perform back attack 50 times.
  • Ninja skillz – Attack an enemy from behind and beat it in one strike.

Near Death

  • Jaws of defeat – Win a battle while on the verge of death.

Being Incapacitated

  • Come on, cheer up! – Feel the pain of being incapacitated for the first time.
  • Phoenix – Been wiped out 50 times.

Using Arts

  • Art practice – Use arts 1000 times between the entire party.
  • The art of war – Use arts 10000 times between the entire party.

Individual Arts

  • Right, let's do this! – Use Shulk's arts 100 times.
  • Reyn time, baby! – Use Reyn's arts 100 times.
  • I can beat anyone! – Use Fiora's arts 100 times.
  • Attack me if you dare! – Use Dunban's arts 100 times.
  • Things are heating up! – Use Sharla's arts 100 times.
  • Riki use arts! – Use Riki's arts 100 times.
  • Who dares defy me? – Use Melia's arts 100 times.

Levelling Arts

  • One step further – Unlock the ability to level up your arts even further.
  • The final step – Unlock the ability to level up your arts completely.
  • Art school – Level up an art once.
  • A work of art – Raise an art to level 5.
  • Perfecting the art – Raise an art to maximum level.
  • Down to a fine art – Raise 5 of one character's arts to max level.
  • Art-to-art – Raise 10 of one character's arts to max level.
  • State of the art – Raise all of one character's arts to max level.

Developing Skills

  • Sharing the knowledge – Receive shared skills from every character.
  • Specialist – Fully develop one skill branch.

Individual Skills

  • Honest insight – Fully develop three of Shulk's skill branches.
  • Raging stlalwart – Fully develop three of Reyn's skill branches.
  • Spirited adventurer – Fully develop three of Fiora's skill branches.
  • Gallant hero – Fully develop three of Dunban's skill branches.
  • Unyielding devotion – Fully develop three of Sharla's skill branches.
  • Adorable randomness – Fully develop three of Riki's skill branches.
  • Serene candour – Fully develop three of Melia's skill branches.

Party Skills

  • Secret weapon – Fully develop any character's skill branches.
  • Dream team – Fully develop every character's skill branches.

Burst Affinity

  • Turning it around – Successfully achieve burst affinity.
  • Changing course – Achieve burst affinity 300 times.
  • Complete 180 – Achieve burst affinity 2000 times.

Higher Level Enemies

  • Looking for trouble – Defeat an enemy 5 levels higher than yourself.
  • Beating the odds – Defeat an enemy 10 levels higher than yourself.

Exact Damage

  • Unlucky sixes – Perform an attack that deals exactly 666 damage.
  • Lucky sevens – Perform an attack that deals exactly 777 damage.

Skip Travel

  • Skip it – Use skip travel once.
  • Lazybones – Use skip travel 50 times.

Rare/Super Rare Treasure Chests

  • Hunting for treasure – Obtain 10 rare treasure chests.
  • Hoarding treasure – Obtain 50 rare treasure chests.
  • Ooh, shiny – Obtain a super rare treasure chest.
  • It hasn't lost its lustre – Obtain 10 super rare treasure chests.
  • Need… more… treasure – Obtain 50 super rare treasure chests.
  • Treasure trove – Obtain 1000 rare or super rare treasure chests.

Harvesting Crystals

  • Titan's gift – Harvest an ether crystal.
  • Titan's generosity – Harvest ether crystals 50 times.
  • Titan's greatness – Harvest ether crystals 500 times.
  • Raring to go – Obtain a rare ether crystal.
  • Medium rare – Obtain 7 rare ether crystals.
  • In rare form – Obtain 77 rare ether crystals.
  • Crystallized luck – Mine a rank V ether crystal.

Gem Slots

  • That hits the slot – Fill a gem slot.
  • Truly outrageous – Fill all 8 possible gem slots at once for any character.

Synergy Bonuses

  • Learning the craft – Practice gem crafting and receive a synergy bonus.
  • Getting crafty – Receive a synergy bonus more than 250 times.
  • Crafting your destiny – Receive a synergy bonus more than 500 times.

Crafting Fever

  • Craftacular! – Enter a fever state while gem crafting.
  • Craftstravaganza! – Enter a fever state 3 times.

Support Bonuses

  • Lending a hand – Receive a support bonus.
  • Crafting friendships – Receive a support bonus for every character.

Cylinder Gauge

  • Firing on all cylinders – Fill up the cylinder gauge 9 times in one crafting session.

Passing Time

  • Happy new year! – Witness the sun rising on 366th day.

Falling

  • Terminal velocity – Fall to your demise from a great height.
  • Making waves – Fall into water from a height of 200 meters.

Collectopaedia

  • One is never enough – Record an item in the Collectopaedia.
  • Collector's mentality – Complete a page in the Collectopaedia.
  • Stamp of insanity – Complete every page in the Collectopaedia.

Gifts

  • Study aids – Give Shulk 20 pieces of machinery as gifts.
  • Auber the top – Give Reyn an Energy Aubergine as a gift.
  • Aim for the heart! – Have Fiora give 20 gifts to Shulk.
  • Thanks but no thanks – Give Dunban an Ether Plum as a gift.
  • Fruitful gifts – Give Sharla fruit as a gift 20 times.
  • You may have this – Have Melia give 30 gifts.
  • Not just Riki eat! – Have Riki give insects as gifts 30 times.
  • Love at first bite – Give Love Source as a present.

Talking to People

  • Ear to the ground – Talk to people 100 times.
  • Social butterfly – Talk to people 1000 times.

Party Member Conversations

  • Breaking the ice – Have a party member step into a conversation.
  • Idle chit-chat – Have party members step into conversations 50 times.
  • Chatting the day away – Have party members step into conversations 300 times.

Party Member Affinity

  • Blossoming friendship – Improve the affinity between two party members.
  • Unshakable trust – Improve two party members' affinity still further.
  • Unshakable bond – Form the deepest affinity between two party members.
  • Get the party started – Deepen the affinity between all party members.
  • Party's in full swing – Form the deepest affinity between all party members.

Trading Items

  • Equivalent exchange – Successfully trade items with someone.
  • Tradesman – Trade items 20 times.
  • Master tradesman – Trade items 100 times.

Trading Unique Items

  • Mysterious mantis – Obtain a Minute Mantis through trading.
  • Shining impracticality – Obtain a Golden Cog through trading.
  • Indigo Belligerence – Obtain a Love Beetle through trading.
  • Stormy Outlook – Obtain a Thunder Compass through trading.
  • Angelic Imitation – Obtain an Angel Engine Y through trading.
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