Guide: Achievements

From HBM's Nuclear Tech Wiki

Achievements were introduced in the beta versions of 1.0.27 (MC 1.7.10)

As the mod progresses, achievements may be added, please be patient as we research how to get them, if possible.

Name Description How to Get It Meaning Icon
Coal and Iron They salvaged a sunken dreadnought for Explorer 1. Craft a Blast Furnace. Shows progression, allows purchasing of material-related items from Bobmazon, such as simple materials like Tungsten and Copper.
Under Pressure Pressure pushing down on me, on you Craft Burner Press Joke about the press' functionality.

Lyric reference to Under Pressure by Queen.

The Factory Grows Wait, it's already 1 am? Craft an Assembly Machine. Shows progression, allows purchasing of basic Assembly Machine items from Bobmazon like circuits and motors.
The Factory Grows Pt. 2 Now you're thinking with chemicals! Craft a Chemical Plant. Shows progression, allows purchasing of basic chemistry products from Bobmazon, such as Lithium and Poison Gas (Chlorine) cartridges.
Old Reliable A Bolshevik's favorite. Make asbestos concrete in a chemical plant. Shows progression
Teflon Delicious, delicious microplastics. Make polymer in a chemical plant. Shows progression.
Le Verrier "Come on then, you lot. Places to go!" Make your first Desh ingot in a chemical plant. Could be a reference to Urbain Le Verrier, a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics. The quote could be referencing a quote from "The Doctor", the primary character of the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
"Tantalium" An elusive, yet ever-needed element. Make a Tantalium polycrystal with a chemical plant. Shows progression.
3.6 Roentegen? He's delusional, get him to the infirmary. Craft an empty RBMK fuel rod. Reference to the Chernobyl HBO series.
It is 15,000. What is the cost of lies? Explode an RBMK. The reading of 3.6 roentgen per hour was the highest reading they could get before their Geiger counters maxed out. It is thought that actual reading were 15,000 roentgen per hour, some say as high as 20,000 roentgen per hour.
Bismuth Remember when people complained about this for a month? I do. Make Bismuth by centrifuging spent fuel or using a SILEX. Shows progression. Bob probably got complaints about how annoying bismuth was to make.
Fusion A dance of deuterons, tritons, and energy. Make a fusion reactor core component in an assembly machine. Show progression.
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly You got this far, how could you mess this up? Meltdown a Fusion Reactor with Balefire plasma. Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is a common joke name for catastrophic failure in a machine, usually reactors or rockets.
The Manhattan Project 8:15; August 6th, 1945 Be near a nuclear explosion. A reference to the Manhattan Project, the construction of the first ever nuclear bomb, and another move closer toward extinction.
Centrifugal Force centrifugal force is real don't @ me Make a centrifuge in an assembly machine. Show progression.
99 Red Ballons "This is what we've waited for. This is it, boys, this is war." Make a nuclear missile in an assembly machine. Refers to the song "99 Red Ballons" by Nena. The description is a line taken from the song.
MISTER INCREDIBLE YOU'RE FIRED FOR POURING RADIUM IN MY COFFEE! Drink Radium Coffee. See: Radium Coffee
Big Man, Pig Man It's medicinal, it's medicinal! Make Technetium-99 Refers to the song "Pigs" by Pink Floyd.
CIRNOX cope, seethe, mald Explode a ZIRNOX cope, seethe, mald

The name is in reference to Cirno from Touhou Project. It became a joke name for the ZIRNOX when it was first conceived because the beginning of the name "ZIRNO-" part looks and sounds like "Cirno".

Pegasi and Missile Silos Send a relay into martian...I mean dunaian orbit. Send the PEAF - FOEQ relay satellite into orbit using the HTR-01 Carrier rocket or Soyuz-FG. Pegasi is the plural of pegasus, dunaian orbit refers to the planet of Duna, a mars equivalent in the game Kerbal Space Program. The craft itself is also modeled after KSP stock parts. PEAF - FOEQ has been confirmed to stand for Pegasus Enclave Air Force - Fallout: Equestria. This is likely a reference to a major plotline of Project Horizons where a rogue operative of the Pegasus Enclave develops clandestine missiles.
Baked Potato Become crunchy Stand underneath a Soyuz launchpad while it is taking off. You will be killed and a heavily distorted version of the Soviet national anthem will play. Probably just a joke.
The Final Front-ah forget it Fail in every way possible and waste funds worth 90 million dollars. Shoot a painting of a cartoon pony into orbit using the HTR-01 carrier rocket. This is a reference to the Star Trek series, where the line "Space, the final frontier..." is the beginning of its famous monologue. The description refers to the cost of a rocket launch, the reusable Falcon Heavy also costs around 90 million USD.
Acidic oof ow my skin Make an ore acidizer in an assembly machine. Shows progression.
Separation of Isotopes by Laser Exitation That's cooler then it sounds, I promise. Make SILEX Shows progression.
Island of Stability Regardless, I wouldn't look at it for too long. Obtain your first Schrabidium ingot. A reference to the "island of stability", a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy elements that may be more stable than others, some even having half-lives of seconds which at this point is a very long time for such a large element.
The Zippe Style Unenriched Uranium hates him! Make a gas centrifuge in an assembly machine. Zippe-style refers to a particular design for gas centrifuges that increases the efficiency of enriching uranium. -Vær
The Power of Element-126 Fölkvanger fields possibly included. Make a Watz powerplant core component with a crafting table. Shows progression.
Disgusting Drain your septic tank next time. "Explode" a Watz powerplant Don't let the poisonous mud overflow next time.
Hidden Catalogue Bobmazon Level 6 Kill a Tainted Creeper with a Falling Boxcar. (with the boxcar the spawns when you hit an enemy with Lil' Pipsqueak) Step to being able to purchase superweapons and endgame items from Hidden Catalogue.
6 months of mandatory service and all I got was a lousy t-shirt Bonk the big boy Kill MaskMan Is based on a common joke t-shirt print template.
Bomb On Four Legs 'There is nuclear creepers? Those are a thing?!' Be within 50 blocks of a nuclear creeper dying. Possibly a reference to a very common reaction to players discovering that Nuclear Creepers are in the mod.
Disassembling Ball-O-Tron The Fabstuff. My ass. You do the math. Kill Balls-O-Tron. Shows progression.
Ayy Lmao "Yo what do have here? A huge spacecraft pulling up to the blockship?" Kill the Martian invasion ship Shows progression.
3.6 Roentgen More terrible than great, but I take what I can get. Kill the mini-boss variant of the meltdown elemental. Reference to the Chernobyl HBO series.
Sororicide Face the fire and live. Get shot with an immolator plasma beam while holding the Lil'Pipsqueak, a geiger counter and a bottle of S~Cola. Doing so will not damage the player and grant the achievement along with regeneration 7 for three seconds. Sororicide describes the act of killing one's sister.

This is a reference to the ending of Fallout: Equestria. It is possibly also a reference to Portal as it has a similar achievement: "Fratricide - Do whatever it takes to survive". Sororicide is a more specific version of Fratricide, which means to kill one's sibling.

In the code, this achievement is referred to as achSacrifice.

Literally Impossible You can't get this achievement This achievement has no trigger. Possibly a reference to the game The Stanley Parable which also features unobtainable and absurd achievements.
The Taste of Blood is not part of any testing protocol. This achievement has no trigger. May be a reference to the Portal game series.

Achievement icon is actually Antischrabidium, as said in game files.

Rogue AI You stabbed me! What is WRONG with yo-WOOOAAH Upgrade a potato battery to PotatOS. Reference to the game Portal 2.
XVIII The Moon Yeah. Craft either a B92 laser weapon or a radial engine piston. The Moon may reference that in the game files, the radial engine is known as machine_selenium, and Selene is the Greek word for Moon. This may be also not true since Bob himself said that radial engine was first supposed to be running on selenium (there is even a texture of selenium ingot).

This has also been confirmed to reference the game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, where XVIII The Moon is a tarot card that can teleport you to the floor's secret room. It is unclear what significance this has besides the name.

Chapter 44 Galvanized! I mean, zinc! Craft the Lil'Pipsqueak. Lil'Pipsqueak - the full name of the main character of the fan fiction Fallout: Equestria, who used a similar weapon throughout the book.

''Galvanize!'' is the name of Chapter 44 of Fallout: Equestria.

Chapter [TWENTY POINT FIVE] ??? Obtained when FlimFlam Industries Canned Stallion Milk is picked up. The name of the achievement is a reference to a cut NSFW chapter of the fan fiction Fallout: Equestria. This chapter was added back in the 4th print edition of Fallout: Equestria. Trivia: The 4th print edition had gold lined pages; the Book of Boxcars is a reference to this.
Freytag Herold's life guards Craft an MP40. Possible reference to the French-German historical drama The Captain, the name Freytag refers to one of Captain Herold's crew members.
Apogee Send a lad to the moon. Send Gerald using the Soyuz-FG on the moon It is a reference to Project Horizons - a spinoff of Fo:E. Apogee is the name of Chapter 73 of Project Horizons. Apogee is also the point in the orbit of the moon where it is furthest from the Earth (may apply to any celestial body with a satellite too).
The Horizons. Send Tom home. Use a satellite designator linked to the Gerald Same as "Apogee".
Slam Dunk Diarrhea honest to god what the hell is wrong with you This achievement has no trigger (it may be added later). Same as "Apogee".
Stratum Hit the brakes, Mitts Discover your first Schist Statum. Mining the first block will also grant you a fair amount of XP. Reference to the song Mittsies - Stratum, which also inspired the inclusion of Schist strata in the first place.
Omega-12 Particle Accelerator Solve the problem of continued life on this wretched planet. Acquire the Digamma particle through the Particle Accelerator. Unconfirmed, but it makes reference to the Digamma Particle's capacity to be world-ending.
ENTER THE ABYSS It's a bit dark, bring a flashlight. Acquire your first bit of Digamma radiation. Possibly referencing the immense and ominous threat of the mere existence of the Digamma particle. "Seeing into the abyss" may also be in reference to the famous Nietzsche quote "If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back", which itself likely refers to a person's proverbial "shadow" or Freudian Id, though this may be a coincidence.
SEWAGE-INFUSED GARBAGE WORLD My eyes are bleeding. Acquire Digamma radiation poisoning. A literal interpretation would be referring to the ravaging effects of Digamma radiation on one's body. A more metaphorical interpretation would be that the "terror" found by staring into the aforementioned abyss is causing physical signs of extreme fear/terror in the person and they perhaps no longer "feel" right in some way.
THE TERROR OF KNOWING ... what this world is about. Receive a fatal dose of Digamma radiation. Quite simply just a direct quote from the song by Queen: Under Pressure.
SING, SING ME THE SONG, YOU KAUAI MOHO Everything is awful, here's some hot choccy. Melt down a RBMK reactor with a Digamma fuel rod. The Kauai Moho (or Kauaʻi ʻōʻō) is an extinct bird (as of 1987) once native to the Kauai Hawaiian island. It is likely the one depicted in the image. It was known for its odd vocalizations and mating calls, aka its song. What it has to do with the Digamma particle is uncertain, however, it should be noted that its extinction was (at least in part) due to artificial means.
ADMIRE ME, ADMIRE MY HOUSE Admire my son, he's my clone. At the moment it has no trigger. A quote from the song by Pearl Jam: Do the Evolution.
I should dip my balls in sulfur acid. Pick up a slime ball. Reference to a meme GIF on Tenor.
I should not have dipped my balls in sulfur acid. Drop a slime ball in sulfuric acid. The logical sequel to the previous.
Some Wounds Will Never Heal Get Ready Use 8-inch blade autoinjector. You will understand your mistake when you get the achievement Okay. Imagine: 8 inch blade hit you several time in your chest. Do you think it will get healed? 10/9 doctors say, that you don't have a chance to heal it before you will see a light in the end of a tunnel. (DO NOT TRY TO REPLAY THAT AT HOME)
Yay, Radiation Suffer the effects of radiation poisoning Got dose in 200+ RAD 1st stage of radiation sickness.
Ouch, radiation Maria Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the threatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity Get dose in 1000 RAD. It will permanently kill you. 1,000 RAD is considered a lethal dose if medical care is not immediately provided.

Marie Curie made a huge contribution to nuclear physics, but due to ignorance about the dangers of and a lack of protection from radiation, she died of radiation sickness at the age of 66.

Operation Cannibal "Turn it to ashes! That's not enough! Drop more bombs!" Summon an airstrike on an oil refinery. Possibly a reference to the Arakan Campaign of 1942-43 which was codenamed "Operation Cannibal".
Witch Taunter Those wacky creatures got nothing on you! Make a 4-gauge wooden stake shell with an NTM anvil. Likely a reference to the mythical creature known as a vampire. They are commonly shown to have a weakness to being staked in the heart, though I think every living creature is vulnerable to having their heart stabbed with a sharp log.

Also a reference to the Witchery mod, which is notorious for allowing players to become nigh unkillable, so the shell effectively turns their strength (extended player data) into a weakness (deleting said player data).

Ironic Thank you, god bless you, and god bless the United States of America. Make americium-242m nugget in SILEX. Shows progression.
The navigator landed in New World "How were the natives?/"Very friendly." Make reactor grade plutonium billet. The text refers to Chicago Pile, there was a secret race between Nazi Germany and the USA with who first achieved a chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. The text is just a slightly modified version of "The italian navigator has landed in the new world.", which is a reference to Enrico Fermi, one of the scientists behind the reactor, and he had to escape fascist Italy to the USA to get his Nobel prize.
Old Number Nine "I hope the lead I'm mining will be used in your paint" Wear mining helmet and smoke FFI-brand cigarette. The text refers to an old, historical advertisement related to lead mining, before the adverse health effects of lead were publicly known.
Delinquent Be mean. Wear damn stylish ballistic jacket and make shimmer sledge. Unclear
Delinquent Chapter 2: Delinquent Harder Be meaner. Wear damn stylish ballistic jacket and make shimmer axe. Unclear
Go Fish Nautical Crucifixtion Drop a Stick of Fishing Dynamite into water. The achievement's icon (cross) may be referencing The Bible where fish symbolism is very common.

The icon is also somewhat similar to the icon of Airdorf Games, the developer behind FAITH.

The Other Side ? Using Red Key, open Red Room. The Binding of Issac