All 20 Achievements Checklist & Guide

Track all 20 Potato Please achievements with a checklist, hand-peeling milestones, automation unlocks, the 60,000 quota, and every train ending.

How the 20 Achievements Break Down

Every entry in this Potato Please achievement guide falls into one of a handful of unlock groups, and sorting them that way is the fastest way to stop replaying content you have already finished. The list holds 20 Steam achievements spread across the opening shift, kindness interactions, hand-peeling counters, machine purchases, rank and quota goals, and three separate train endings.

The single most important distinction is between potatoes peeled by hand and potatoes peeled in total. The game tracks those as separate numbers, so a fully automated factory can push your total past 10,000 while your hand-peeling achievements sit at zero. If you want to sanity-check the whole list while you play, keep the full 20-achievement checklist open in a second tab.

Group	Achievements	What it actually tests
Opening shift	First Cut, One Last Puff, Warmed Up	Playing through the first work objectives
Kindness	Good Boy, A Heart of Gold	Feeding the puppy and small story actions
Manual peeling	Old School, These Hands Were Made for Peeling	500 and 1,000 potatoes peeled by hand
Peeling totals	A Thousand Peels, Ten Thousand	1,000 (hand or machine) and 10,000 total
Automation	Industrial Revolution, Fully Automated	Auto Peel Machine and Crane Autopilot
Rank and quota	Employee of the Month, The Quota	Master Peeler rank and 60,000 potatoes
Escape and endings	No Escape, Traitor, For the Motherland, The Last Harvest, Every Path Has a Price	One perimeter attempt and three train destinations
Unclear	Your Own Executioner, Unauthorized Passenger	Undocumented triggers

First Cut and One Last Puff both sit at a 100% unlock rate in the November 2026 Steam snapshot, which means anyone who starts a shift gets them automatically. Everything else needs a deliberate action.

One early decision shapes how quickly the counters move. On Normal difficulty each potato pays full rewards, while Hard halves them, so a completion run should stay on Normal and keep the full payout feeding your upgrades.

Opening Shift and Story Achievements

These five unlock before the factory gets interesting, and two of them are easy to miss because nothing on screen flags them.

First Cut

Peel your first potato with the starting knife. The opening sequence walks you through tearing the bag open, carrying potatoes to the workbench, and using a long press to peel — the achievement fires the moment the first potato is finished.

One Last Puff

Use the smoking break interaction when the worker offers it. This is a separate action from buying Medication or upgrading stamina, so do not assume a treatment purchase covers it. Take the break early, while you are still peeling at the workbench.

Warmed Up

Finish the opening work objectives. Buying the Rusty Knife is not the trigger on its own — keep working until the Journal marks the warm-up shift as complete.

Good Boy

The puppy appears outside the facility in the cold. Buy Dog Food from the terminal for 3 units of in-game currency, walk back to the puppy, and press E to feed it. Once fed, it recovers and starts helping with the potato pile, so you get a small production boost as a bonus.

A Heart of Gold

Its description reads "Even the smallest act of kindness matters," but no specific trigger is confirmed. Feeding the puppy awards Good Boy, so do not assume one action covers both unlocks. Leave it unchecked until Steam tells you otherwise.

Achievement	Requirement	Best timing
First Cut	Peel one potato with the starting knife	First minute of the shift
One Last Puff	Use the smoking break interaction	Early shift, before automation
Warmed Up	Complete the opening work objectives	End of the tutorial shift
Good Boy	Buy Dog Food (3 currency), then press E near the puppy	As soon as the puppy appears outside
A Heart of Gold	Unknown kind act	Watch for it during story beats

Manual vs. Machine Peeling Milestones

Four achievements look like duplicates but are not. Two demand hand peeling, one accepts either method, and one counts everything you have ever peeled.

Achievement	Count	Method allowed	Notes
Old School	500	Hand only	Workbench peels count
These Hands Were Made for Peeling	1,000	Hand only	Shares progress with Old School
A Thousand Peels	1,000	Hand or machine	Description explicitly allows machines
Ten Thousand	10,000	Hand or machine	Lifetime total on the save

Retiring the workbench the moment machines arrive is the most common way to stall this group. Any Potato Please achievement guide worth following will tell you to keep hand-peeling in rotation long after the Auto Peel Machine comes online.

Two practical cautions. The hand-operated Crank Peel Machine is not confirmed to count as "by hand," so do not rely on it for the 500 and 1,000 goals. And knife tier upgrades plus Journal upgrades shorten every peel, so buy them before you grind the manual milestones rather than after.

Situation	Better choice	Why
Total still under 1,000	Hand-peel at the bench	Advances all four milestones at once
Total between 1,000 and 10,000	Run machines, hand-peel when idle	Machine output carries the total
Hand count under 500	Stay on the bench	Machines do nothing for Old School
Chasing Ten Thousand	Let the factory run	Automation outpaces manual speed

Automation, Ranks, and the 60,000 Quota

Four unlocks cover the industrial half of the game, and all four are purchase or progress checks rather than puzzles.

Achievement	Trigger	What to do
Industrial Revolution	Own the Auto Peel Machine	Buy the first motorized peeler; no Claw Crane required
Fully Automated	Own Crane Autopilot	Obtain the Claw Crane, then purchase Crane Autopilot
Employee of the Month	Reach Master Peeler	Clear the Journal's rank objectives (earnings plus peel totals)
The Quota	Counter reaches 60,000 / 60,000	Finish every remaining potato in the pile

Employee of the Month is not a "buy everything" award. Check the Journal for whichever rank tasks are still open — usually an earnings target and a peel total — instead of dumping currency into optional upgrades.

Early skill points are best spent on stamina, the combo timer, and automatic rotation, because a steadier peel wastes less potato and keeps the combo multiplier alive. The worker's cough also eats into shift time, and the terminal's Medication purchase is a sensible place for your first real earnings.

Endings, Hidden Achievements, and the Fastest Completion Order

No Escape

Cross the guarded outer perimeter while the shift is still unfinished. Guard fire triggers and the hidden achievement unlocks with the "Your shift isn't over yet" description. This is not the same as opening the Iron Door with the Golden Key, which is the normal departure route and will not earn it.

The Three Train Destinations

Line	Destination	Faction	Ending report	Achievement
01	Northern Front	Ministry	A Loyal Worker of the Motherland	For the Motherland
02	Varenka	Villagers	—	The Last Harvest
03	Western Industry	Resistance	New Masters	Traitor

Every Path Has a Price unlocks after all three rides, so make a save before you pull the departure lever and reload it to revisit the other lines.

The Two Unclear Achievements

Your Own Executioner ("You taught him well") ties to Pavel's letters, but no specific reply sequence is confirmed.
Unauthorized Passenger ("This is not an approved transport method") has resisted attempts to unlock it by simply climbing onto a Sack Cableway sack.

Fastest Completion Order

Step	Focus	Achievements gained
1	Play the opening shift on Normal	First Cut, One Last Puff, Warmed Up
2	Feed the puppy, follow story beats	Good Boy, A Heart of Gold (if it triggers)
3	Hand-peel at the workbench	Old School, These Hands Were Made for Peeling
4	Buy automation	Industrial Revolution, Fully Automated, A Thousand Peels
5	Push rank and totals	Employee of the Month, Ten Thousand
6	Clear the pile, then ride all three lines	The Quota, No Escape, Traitor, For the Motherland, The Last Harvest, Every Path Has a Price

The cleanest sequence for any Potato Please achievement guide run is to bank every action-based unlock before automation takes over, then let machines cover the counters while you push toward the quota. Save the endings for last so a single pre-departure file can reach all three reports.

FAQ

How many achievements does Potato Please have? Twenty on Steam. Two of them, First Cut and One Last Puff, unlock for essentially everyone who starts a shift; the rest require specific actions, purchases, or one of the three endings.

Do machine-peeled potatoes count toward Old School? No. Old School and These Hands Were Made for Peeling only count potatoes you peel yourself at the workbench. A Thousand Peels and Ten Thousand accept hand or machine output, which is why automation can carry your totals while your manual goals lag behind.

Which achievements are easiest to miss? One Last Puff, Good Boy, No Escape, and A Heart of Gold. Each demands a specific interaction rather than a counter, so handle them early — a good Potato Please achievement guide run clears the smoking break and the puppy feeding before the factory speeds up.

Can I unlock all three endings in one playthrough? Yes, if you save before the departure controls. Ride one line, reload, pick the next, and repeat until Traitor, For the Motherland, and The Last Harvest are all checked off. Every Path Has a Price follows once the set is complete.