I loaded up Berry Bury Berry expecting a relaxed clicker experience — something to unwind with over a quiet weekend. What I actually got was a week of feeding garden ornaments into a supernatural pit while questioning every decision that led me here.
Hitting 100% completion in this game is a genuine endurance test. The first hour is warm and satisfying. Then the game quietly reveals that you also need to solve environmental puzzles, grind toward numbers that border on parody, and track down collectibles that spawn only under specific conditions. Miss one prop, skip one tape, and you are reloading a save and tearing your yard apart again.
This guide covers every achievement category — the grinds, the puzzles, the missable nightmares, and all thirteen cassette tape locations — so you can finish this thing without wasting entire afternoons wandering a ruined garden.
The Core Economic Grind
No platinum without patience. A significant chunk of this achievement list is pure idle progression, and you need to make peace with that early.
Berries, Cash, and Buddy Upgrades
The game’s earliest achievements are milestone-based and mostly unavoidable. Survive your first day, hit ten days, eventually push to 100 days for the Green Thumb trophy. These come on their own as long as you keep playing.
The real grind is in the numbers. You need to grow a total of 66,666 berries for the final farming achievement tier, and separately bank one billion dollars to unlock Guillotine Time. Yes, one billion. It takes a while.
The moment you can afford the Auto Coin Pickup upgrade, buy it — but do not activate full automation immediately. You need to manually click and collect five coins yourself first to unlock the Creature of Habit achievement. Automate too early and you lose that trigger forever.
Berry Buddies also need to be maxed out completely. Reaching the Pumpkin buddy tier earns its own trophy, but you then have to go further and have seven pumpkins active in your garden simultaneously to unlock Pumpkin Patch. Spawn them one at a time and keep count.
If you enjoy methodical completion checklists, the approach here is similar to working through something like the Nioh 3 trophy and achievement guide — systematic, unhurried, and occasionally punishing.
Environmental Destruction
The hole is not just there for berries. The game actively rewards you for dismantling everything around it.
Props, Walls, and Gnomes
You need to demolish 100 walls using either the sledgehammer or the chainsaw to earn the Renovator achievement. That number sounds large but accumulates faster than expected if you are systematic about working through each section.
The Consume All Props achievement is where most players lose time. Not a single loose prop can survive — everything gets dragged into the pit. The one that catches people off guard most consistently is the white garden arch near the office door. It blends into the background and is incredibly easy to overlook when you are focused on larger objects.
The yellow taxi is equally dangerous from a missability standpoint. It only appears during the clock puzzle sequence and will drive away permanently if you do not grab it during a tight window. The moment it parks, swallow it immediately.
Every garden gnome on the map also needs to go into the hole for a dedicated achievement. Getting them all triggers a specific chain of events — check out the Berry Bury Berry Endings Guide for a full breakdown of what that sequence looks like.
Puzzles and the Black Stars
This section of the game is where casual players bounce off and completionists quietly suffer.
Seven Stars, Seven Headaches
There are seven Black Star achievements, each tied to a distinct puzzle. These range from decoding computer passwords and working through radio math to recreating smoothie recipes and managing traffic sequences. Detailing every solution here would effectively double the length of this article.
If you are stuck on any of them — particularly the red string board or the radio — the Berry Bury Berry Black Star Guide covers every step in full. Getting all seven is non-negotiable for unlocking the full range of endings.
The Achievements That Require You to Play Badly on Purpose
A handful of trophies demand you approach the game in deliberately awkward ways.
The Worm
This one is genuinely clever design. To unlock the Worm achievement, you must reach and open the Star Door while every single wall on the map remains completely intact. No sledgehammer, no chainsaw, no demolition whatsoever.
You earn enough money for the Star Key and the Bubble upgrade while confined to the starting area, then use the hole itself to float underneath the map geometry and navigate to the Star Door from below. It is bizarre, it works, and finishing it feels great.
Speedrun and Survival Challenges
Sugar Rush requires you to complete any ending in under 60 minutes. New Game Plus modifiers are allowed, so use them. The Gnome ending is by far the fastest route — with full focus on dragging gnomes into the pit, you can finish in roughly 25 minutes.
Come Hell or High Water asks you to survive 90 seconds during the Belladonna ending sequence. Position yourself inside the Golden Berry Room, upgrade the pumpkin to trigger the map-wide chaos, and drop the dark fruit into the hole. If you get knocked outside that room, the giant slide in the northwest corner of the map gives you a survivable platform while the sequence plays out.
All 13 Cassette Tape Locations
The Truth achievement requires collecting every cassette tape on the map, and the majority of them will not even spawn until you have completed most of the Black Star puzzles. Hunt these down late in your playthrough once the puzzle content is mostly cleared.
Tracking down scattered collectibles across a complex map is the kind of task that benefits from a checklist — similar in spirit to hunting down every entry in a guide like all crow relic locations in Crisol: Theater of Idols.
| Found | Tape Number | Exact Location |
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Collect all thirteen and you unlock the “I Make The Rules Here!” achievement, which confirms you have cleared every ending, found every tape, maxed out your hole, and stripped the map of everything that was not bolted down.
Credit time: This guide was written from a personal playthrough and cross-referenced with the Steam community guide by Best Pal Popy and the Berry Bury Berry wiki for accuracy.