This Best Served Cold achievement is likely to be obtained naturally as you play through the main campaign. The business of forging a powerful clan and kingdom in Calradia is a bloody one, and the chances of one of your clan members meeting a grizzly end at the hands of another lord are high. All you need to do to ensure that this achievement is completed is keep track of any death involving one of your clan members, take note of who executed them and then begin the process of hunting them down. If you defeat the lord in battle, you will have the option to release them, imprison them, or execute them at the end. The choice is clear to obtain this achievement.

To earn this achievement you’ll need to play in the Multiplayer mode of Bannerlord. There are different game modes within multiplayer such as Skirmish and Captain, and you can play these in a competitive environment, or you can start a custom Captain match with AI companions. Defeating 10,000 enemy troops may seem like a lot, but if you consider that any kill from your allies counts towards this, it doesn’t take very long at all if you’re willing to play Multiplayer consistently. To speed things up you can use things like trebuchets to get multiple kills at once, so you should always consider ways to gain numerous kills with the least amount of effort if all you want to do is earn this achievement and then quit playing the Captain mode. In truth, you could just as easily join a Captain game and sit there doing nothing while your allies earn the kills for you, but where’s the fun in that?!

The Catch achievement is another one which should come naturally as you play through the campaign, but you can obtain it easily in almost any game, so long as you’re in a siege. You’ll have a better chance if you’re defending against an attacking army, since they will be forced to attempt to breach the gates of your settlement. A Boulder can be found in a Stone Pile, which are often located on the ramparts near the main gates of a castle. All you need to do is pick one up and throw it down at the enemy, in the hopes that it will clonk one of them on the head and kill them where they stand. You only need to kill one enemy using this method to earn the achievement.

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(1 of 2) Look for a Stone Pile on the ramparts near the main gate of a castle.

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Look for a Stone Pile on the ramparts near the main gate of a castle. (left), Once you have a Boulder, wait for the enemy to come closer before throwing it down at them. (right)

The Crush Your Enemies achievement is actually one of the easiest to obtain. If you’re committed to a long campaign in Calradia, killing as many as 10,000 troops and many more will come quite naturally. If you want to earn this one sooner rather than later, you can pledge your service to a lord and then serve in their army to take part in large battles early on.

The Crackshot achievement is as simple as it sounds: you need to hit a headshot from at least 200 meters away from the target. There are few ways to game this one, and there’s no getting around the fact that you’ll need decent aim to even attempt. However, if you keep in mind that you’ll need to aim higher the further away an opponent is, you can begin to master the art of shooting from a distance. A good way of increasing your chances of landing a headshot from this distance is to be a defender in a siege, giving you a good view of numerous enemies below. An enemy force will often begin the siege from at least 200 meters away, giving you plenty of opportunities to hit one of them as they make their way towards the keep. Needless to say, improving your Bow skill will make this one easier, but you can also earn this achievement if you hit a headshot with a crossbow, or even a javelin, but it can be significantly more difficult with the latter.

The Crowdfunded achievement is earned through sheer grit and skill in the arena. You’ll find plenty of arena tournaments throughout the main settlements of Calradia, and you’ll often be notified on the campaign map when a new tournament is about to begin, giving you time to travel there and take part. You may find competing in tournaments difficult at first, but they’re great fun and you will only improve with more practice. The more you level up your character while playing the regular campaign, the greater your chances of winning a tournament will be. Keep in mind that you can’t always choose which weapons you’ll be using in a tournament, so it’s a good idea to maintain a good balance of investing in melee and ranged weapons, rather than putting all of your points into one weapon in particular.

The Entrepreneur achievement may take some time to earn, since you’ll need quite a lot of money (Denars) before you can purchase and maintain both a Workshop and a Caravan. If you want to know more about how to purchase a Caravan, see our page on Investing in a Caravan. We’ve also got a page on Investing in Workshops, which covers the entire process.

The Explorer achievement takes some serious dedication to obtain. If you’re committed to a long campaign playthrough, you’ll probably visit most of the major settlements eventually, but covering every single one may require you to keep track of things if you can’t remember where you’ve been previously. An important thing to note here is that you only need to visit the settlements which are still shown on the map when you zoom out completely. You don’t need to visit each castle or village. There are 52 settlements which count towards this achievement, listed below in accordance with who controls them at the beginning of a campaign. Keep in mind that ownership of each will shift randomly based on the way your campaign plays out.

Aserai

• Quyaz
• Sanala
• Razih
• Qasira
• Hubyar
• Askar
• Iyakis

Battania

• Car Banseth
• Dunglanys
• Seonon
• Pen Cannoc
• Marunath

Khuzait

• Baltakhand
• Makeb
• Ortongard
• Chaikand
• Akkalat
• Odokh

Northern Empire

• Argoron
• Amprela
• Epicrotea
• Diathma
• Saneopa
• Myzea

Sturgia

• Sibir
• Tyal
• Varnovapol
• Balgard
• Omor
• Varcheg
• Revyl

Southern Empire

• Syronea
• Phycaon
• Lycaron
• Onira
• Poros
• Danustica
• Vostrum

Vlandia

• Ostican
• Rovalt
• Ocs Hall
• Pravend
• Galend
• Jaculan
• Sargot
• Charas

Western Empire

• Lageta
• Rhotae
• Amitatys
• Jalmarys
• Ortysia
• Zoenica

The Fat Cat achievement is obtained once you’ve earned at least 1 million denars in trade profit. This means that wealth earned through plundering and looting won’t count, but manipulating the Bannerlord economy will. The economy for each campaign will be slightly different, but prices will remain similar at the beginning of a game. What you do from this point will determine which goods become more rare or more common, and how you sell them for a profit will be based on your knowledge of the local economy in your campaign. For a quick guide on how trading in the Bannerlord economy works, see our page on Trading For a Profit.

This one is simple enough: all you need to do is ensure that your dynasty survives long enough for you to become a great grandparent. It goes without saying that the first step to obtaining this one is having children of your own, and for that you’ll need to find a marriage parter. See our page on all things Marriage for more information on that!

As the description suggests, you’ll need to kill at least 100 enemy players with headshots using ranged weapons in multiplayer to earn this achievement. The weapons that count towards this are the bow, crossbow, javelins, throwing axes, and throwing knives. It may take a while but if you’re regularly playing multiplayer in Bannerlord, you may be surprised by how many opportunities for headshots arise!

This achievement requires more than a bit of dark humor. If you don’t mind playing as a heartless tyrant, you should be able to earn this quite naturally. However, if you’d rather not toy with the lives of others but you just really, really want to complete all of the achievements…

The easiest way to do this is to avoid marrying anyone in particular until you’ve executed your first lord or lady. You can then check the Encyclopedia in the campaign (by pressing N on the keyboard) to search for the lord or lady that you’ve slain, and see who their partner was. Now you can seek them out and work on winning their affection before proposing marriage.

This achievement can only be earned in multiplayer, where the Skirmish game mode is available. There will be plenty of opportunities to kill your enemies in new and interesting ways, but you’ll need to focus on killing them with a melee weapon both unmounted and mounted, a ranged weapon both unmounted and mounted, and a couched lance all in one round. This should be fairly easy so long as you start the skirmish from the beginning and work towards it throughout.

This one is pure grit and grind through a campaign in Bannerlord. You’ll need to defeat 100 armies which have commanders at their helm, and they will need to be counted as an army by their faction. Defeating large groups of bandits won’t contribute to this achievement, so you shouldn’t be counting those victories.

This one is as simple as it sounds, but it can take a while, especially if you’re not fond of mounted combat. The only way to earn kills towards this achievement is by couching your lance, which can be done by holding X by default on keyboard. Any kills with a lance outside of the couching stance won’t count towards this achievement.

You’ll find it much easier to kill light armored enemies such as archers while couched, so try to avoid heavily armored infantry and focus on the lighter armored troops first.

This achievement can be unlocked through the course of a campaign playthrough, but you’ll most likely to achieve this in the later stages of a campaign. You’ll find that most Kings and Queens of factions in Bannerlord are heavily guarded at all times, with enormous armies of their own, and similarly large armies commanded by their allies never too far away. This means that to even consider facing one of their armies, you’ll need a significant force of your own and preferably some allies in the form of commanders who can back you up.

If you don’t have many allies but you’re at a stage where your own army consists of high level troops, and you have at least 200 of them, you can begin to consider taking on the armies of Kings and Queens. In truth, you’ll fare far better with an army of 400+, but it is doable with around 200 if you’re careful. If you find a King or Queen isolated from their allies, you can always try fighting them even if you’re outnumbered, but keep in mind that you still need to find them on the battlefield. They will often use horses and stay towards the back of their army alongside other cavalry, but sometimes they’ll be foolish enough to charge you with them. If the former occurs for you, try flanking them from a position of stealth, such as a wooded area.

This achievement is unlocked once you obtain a campaign victory while allied with or in control of one of the old empire factions, which consist of the Southern Empire, Western Empire, and Northern Empire.

This one will take a bit of patience, not least because you will most likely need to find a partner who is fertile if you’re a male, or just hope that you’re fertile! Needless to say, you’ll have a better chance of achieving this one if you start your campaign with a character in their early 20s, rather than an older one. Note that the children will only count to a total for each individual character, so you can’t rely on your descendant’s children contributing towards the count.

To unlock this achievement you’ll need to dedicate some time to being a mounted archer, and if this isn’t your thing then you’ll have to learn how to shoot a bow while moving on a mount! You won’t be able to use all bows while mounted by default, but you can unlock this ability by investing in the Horse Master perk, which can be unlocked at skill level 225 with the Bow. You can invest in perks from the Riding perk tree to improve your accuracy with bows while mounted, making it easier to kill enemies using this method.

As the description of this one suggests, to unlock this achievement you’ll need to capture at least 100 fortifications. If you’re wondering what counts as a fortification, it’s essentially any castle or town that you need to besiege to capture. To capture 100 of these might sound like a lot, but it should come fairly naturally as you grow in power throughout your campaign. You’ll need to make sure that you have enough supplies to last in holding a siege, and enough resources to construct appropriate siege equipment.

To unlock this achievement in multiplayer you’ll need to make sure that you start a battle without your mount, which can be removed from your inventory screen. You’ll then need to locate a mount on the battlefield, and use it to kill 5 enemy players without dying before the game ends.

As indicated by the description, this achievement can only be unlocked in multiplayer. To do so you’ll need to not only charge 100 enemy players, but kill them with the charge. You can do this most easily using a mount as you hunt down already weakened players. This is arguably one of the most difficult to achieve in multiplayer, since you’re relying on finding enough weakened players to kill with charge damage.

This one is fairly easy to unlock in multiplayer, but you’ll need to make sure that your killing blow is executed as part of a chain attack combo. You can do this with most weapons, but it’s perhaps easiest with a two-handed sword or axe.

This one can be unlocked in multiplayer when you use a mangonel against enemy players. You’ll need to make sure that you aim it at a group of enemies to kill at least 3 of them with one shot in order to unlock the achievement.

This one will take a while! To unlock it, you’ll need to capture all towns and castles throughout Calradia, leaving all other factions without any land control whatsoever. A pure grind, but necessary if you’re a completionist.

This achievement can be earned in a multiplayer situation where you’re either the defender or attacker of a town or castle with sufficient space on the ramparts for you to kick an enemy off. It’s fairly easy to earn so long as you focus on staying around the walls of a settlement, and there should be plenty of inexperienced players who linger on the edge of a wall, begging to be kicked off! You can try this in the midst of a chaotic battle, or you can attempt to goad an enemy player into chasing you near the edge of a wall, then wait for them to get close enough for you to perform a kick.

To unlock the Swordbearer achievement you’ll need to put some serious timing into the Smithing crafting system of Bannerlord. This is a fairly basic crafting system compared with most other games, so it’s easy enough to master, but you’ll need to put the time in to reach a level where you can craft tier 6 weapons. You’ll start off with basic recipes such as hardwood and charcoal, but as you increase your skill level you’ll be able to use different types of metals to increase your XP gain while Smithing. The crafting system is incredibly simple so you don’t need to worry about gaming it, but try not to neglect this during your campaign! Some of the crafted swords that you can produce will be among the best weapons in the game.

This achievement is fairly easy to earn, but you will need to control a town or castle of your own before you’ll have the opportunity. At this point you will need to be in a situation where your town or castle is besieged by an enemy force, and you will need to repel their attack from the ramparts of your settlement. This means that if the enemy forces break through the main gates and infiltrate your castle or town, you will have failed the condition of “repelling an attack on the walls”.

You’ll need to make a strong defence of your settlement from the walls, and this is more easily done against smaller enemy forces if you can goad them into attacking one of your settlements. You can then focus on building a garrison which consists of elite archers, or position an army with such units in the settlement for the specific purpose of defending it from the walls. You can also position infantry and cavalry outside of the castle walls to increase the chances of repelling enemy forces before they infiltrate the settlement.

To earn this achievement, you’ll first need to have at least one faction which is hostile to your own faction or clan. You can then try to sneak into one of their settlements by interacting with it, then selecting “Disguise yourself and sneak through the gate”. There will be a specific percentage indicating the chances of you performing this successfully, and you can increase this by improving your Roguery skill. The higher the skill, the higher the chance you’ll have to infiltrate the town.

Once you’re inside a hostile town, all you need to do is complete one of the “issues” within it. These are the quests which are visible when you press ALT by default on keyboard. You’ll see a bunch of exclamation marks which indicate the presence of a potential quest. You can then speak with one of the people marked and offer to help them with their issue. These will usually be relatively simple tasks, such as providing them with materials at a reduced cost so that they can game the local economy and cheat one of their rival merchants. You may need to sneak into a town more than once while you collect the necessary goods from elsewhere.

This achievement can be earned relatively early in a campaign so long as you focus on upgrading one particular settlement. However, it may be unwise to do this and neglect others, so it’s probably better if you do it gradually as you expand your faction. You can invest resources into one particular settlement that you want to see grow to its full potential, constructing everything available there. As your faction grows, new projects will become available for specific settlements, so you’ll need to check back every so often and keep building things!

This achievement can be earned towards the late game of a campaign. As the description suggests, you’ll need to have at least 21 other clans under your control. This will often occur naturally as you expand your kingdom and secure the loyalty of clans from different factions. It may take a while, but this achievement is at the heart of what most Bannerlord campaigns consist of: expand and conquer.

The Dynasty achievement is obtained once you reach tier 6 with your Clan. To do this, you’ll need to reach specific milestones and increase your Renown, which in turn will increase the experience and tier of your Clan. If you need help with earning Renown, see our How to Gain Renown page. If you’re just starting out to reach Clan Tier 1, we’ve covered that in our Rebuild Your Clan page, which covers the basic process of increasing your clan tier.

It’s not too difficult to achieve -100 relations with a specific lord or lady, and you can start working towards it from the beginning of your campaign by insulting them whenever you get the chance, allying yourself with their enemies, raiding their villages, and any other activity that you can think of which will increase their anger towards you. You should consider which faction you’re likely to be making enemies of in the future of your campaign first, though!

As you continue fighting with the chosen lord or lady, you’ll need to make sure that they’re not captured or executed by the leader of any other army, so you should keep up to date with who their enemies are using the encyclopedia in game, and keep an eye on their movements to see when they might be putting themselves at risk of defeat at the hands of others. In the worst case scenario, the lord or lady will be captured, since the AI is reluctant to execute their enemies in most cases, and usually opts to imprison and then sell them instead.

To unlock this achievement your Clan tier will need to be at least 4. In addition, you’ll need to leave any faction that you might have bound yourself to so far, and you will need to control at least one town of your own. At this point you can speak to one of your governors to begin the process of establishing your kingdom! If you need more help understanding what you can do with a kingdom and how to set one up, see our How Parties, Clans, and Kingdoms Work page.

The Against All Odds achievement is one of those which you’re likely to obtain by playing through a normal campaign. If you play for long enough, to the point where you’re beginning to draw the attention of army commanders from some of the largest factions, there’s a good chance that you’ll end up in a conflict where you’re massively outnumbered. You can of course make this happen much sooner, but you’ll need to have at least a few hundred high level troops, and you should be confident enough in your own combat abilities to make sure that starting a fight with a much larger force doesn’t look like suicide.

One of the best ways to obtain this achievement quickly is by fortifying one of your settlements, populating it with a decent garrison and a capable army, then attracting the attention of massive armies which are commanded by enemy leaders. You can do this by raiding their villages and caravans, or just by attacking some of their smaller armies. Eventually, the leaders will become angry enough to hunt you down and besiege your settlement(s). You’ll find it much easier to defeat a larger force than your own if you have the advantage of being within an adequately defended castle or fort, so try to hold up in one of these, and be sure to have a significant number of skilled archers to whittle down enemy numbers as they attack!

This achievement is fairly simple. If you want to become the Butterlord, you need to loot or purchase at least 100 Butter and have them in your inventory at the same time. It won’t count if you have 50 Butter one day, then 50 the next, since your troops will gradually consume this. It has to be 100 Butter at the same time. Butter is quite cheap in most places throughout Calradia, but you should also keep in mind that the more you carry, the greater your carry weight will be. You’ll need to have a Mule or two to increase your carry weight capacity, but all of this comes quite naturally as you play through the campaign.

This achievement can be unlocked once you level any skill from the character screen to at least level 300. This will take a while, but it’s certainly doable throughout the course of a long campaign. It’s often easiest to do this with one of the weapon skills such as One-Handed and Two-Handed weapons. These are generally easier than others to level up, since using any one-handed or two-handed weapon will count towards improving that skill. The potential to level Polearm, Bow, and Crossbow skills quickly is more limited unless you’re using one of those weapons as your primary most of the time. You should focus on taking part in as many battles as possible to ensure that you get enough chances to improve the skill, rather than leaving them to simulations.

To earn the First Born Child achievement you’ll first need to find a Marriage partner. You can choose from most members of any faction, but you’ll first need to win their affection by speaking with them and visiting them regularly. There are many different ways of doing this, as described in more detail on our marriage page linked above. You should take care in deciding who you want to propose marriage with, since your choice will influence the political options that you’ll have later.

Once you’ve wont he affection of a potential marriage partner, you will often need to gain the approval of their faction leader before the marriage can go ahead. They may ask you to do certain favors for them, but in most cases all you need to do is provide enough material wealth for them to approve. This can come in the form of specific goods, or just a lump sum of denars. This part is generally easier than winning the affection of a potential partner, and once done the ceremony can go ahead! Now all that remains is for you to wait until a child is born…

To earn this achievement you’ll need to compete in and win a lot of tournaments, although the precise amount will vary depending on your campaign. In general, you can expect the AI leader of the tournament scoreboard to have at least 20 - 30 victories, so you’ll need to win at least that amount to compete with them. It shouldn’t take too long once your character is tough enough to consistently compete in and win tournaments. You can check the tournament scoreboard from any arena in Calradia by visiting an arena and selecting the option to view it.

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There will be a number of AI competitors who already have a substantial amount of arena victories that you’ll need to compete with.

The Duelist achievement will be earned as you play through the campaign of Bannerlord. More specifically, you’ll encounter Radagos during the Rescue Your Family quest. Here you’ll need to decide whether to kill or spare Radagos, but either way you will need to defeat him in the duel first.

This one is actually easier than it sounds, but you may need to be patient before you can find a suitable town which can be easily captured. If you’re not too confident in your ability to capture a well defended settlement, you should look for factions which have been weakened by years of war. You can then prowl around their territory and wait for other armies to inflict most of the damage to a settlement, slowly eating away at the garrison troops and fortifications. You can then choose to take the town on your own if the previous attacker loses interest, or you can wait until the attacker takes it, then try to take it from them if they’ve been weakened by their efforts. Just keep in mind that you’ll be risking open warfare with whoever you attack if you’re not already at war with them.

The King Solomon achievement can be unlocked quite naturally throughout the course of a campaign. It’s not too difficult to earn 10,000 Denars in one day, but you will need to make sure that you have a number of sources for consistent income. There are numerous ways of doing this in Bannerlord, such as setting up multiple trading caravans and workshops. If you need help doing either of these, see our guides on them linked below.

• Investing in a Caravan
• Investing in a Workshop

This achievement can be earned once you’ve established yourself as a force to be reckoned with in Calradia. There are two ways to earn tribute from other factions. The first is perhaps more intuitive: you control a powerful faction which has the potential to overwhelm and destroy another faction, that other faction pays you tribute as part of an agreement so that you won’t take any hostile action. You can earn tribute in this way from neutral factions, enemy factions (eventually), and tentatively allied factions, but you may need to force this as a condition of terms when you negotiate peace with them.

The other situation in which you have the potential to earn tribute occurs if you’re a small faction. In this scenario, you may have been raiding villages and caravans belonging to a much larger and more powerful faction than your own. The leader of the faction that you’ve been harassing may choose to pay you tribute if you agree to stop raiding their villages and caravans. However, it can take some time before you become enough of a nuisance to force other factions to pay you tribute, so you’ll need to do a lot of raiding first.

In either scenario, you will most likely need to become notorious enough in the eyes of multiple factions if you want to earn 1,000 denars in tribute. It is possible to force terms with one faction by asking them to pay you 1,000 denars or more in a single payment, but otherwise you can earn 1,000 denars in one day if you have consistent tribute coming in from multiple factions. Either way, you need to gain power with your own faction before you can begin to consider forcing tribute.

The Lawmaker achievement can be unlocked once you join a faction and begin to influence its politics. You’ll need to check the faction tab to see what kinds of laws are available to propose, measure the likely support for one, and attempt to persuade other lords and ladies to agree to your proposition. If you get enough votes for the law to pass, you’ll unlock this achievement! Don’t worry if your first attempt doesn’t succeed - there will be plenty more opportunities.

The achievement to Assemble the Dragon Banner of Calradia is part of the main campaign quest, Assemble the Dragon Banner. There are a number of steps leading up to this included in earlier parts of the main campaign story, beginning with Investigate Neretzes’s Folly.

This should be one of the first achievements that you unlock while playing through the campaign, so long as you don’t join another faction too soon. However, you can always get this one done much later in the game after you’ve already joined and then left a faction. This is the natural progression if you want to work towards establishing your own kingdom. At this stage you should have a sizable force that you can use to contend with other armies and, ideally, defeat them handily. The key here is not to use any allies, and fight only with an army consisting of your own troops.

This is one of the first achievements that you’ll unlock so long as you don’t skip the tutorial at the beginning of a campaign. All you need to do is follow the steps that you’re taken through by your brother at the beginning of a campaign, then finish the initial steps on the campaign map until you reach the point where you can choose your family name, clan banner, and colors. You can learn more about that process here.

This one is simple enough, and it will inevitably come as you play through your campaign. You may find that you’re not able to besiege castles or towns initially. This is because you need to declare war with the specific faction first. You can do this by attacking an army from a specific faction, or by joining another faction in a fight against them. You will then be able to select any of your new enemies’ castles or towns, and choose to besiege them. you’ll have the option to select specific siege weapons to make things faster, or you can choose to starve the enemy out if you’re unable to construct any siege weapons.

This achievement is a simple one to obtain, and you’ll likely do it within the first few days of your campaign. A hideout is classified as any place where bandits have gathered in sufficient numbers to call it one. There are many hideouts throughout Calradia, and you’ll often find them around mountain passes which are strategically located close to nearby towns and villages. An example of a hideout is shown in the screenshot below. All you need to do to clear one is enter and kill all of the enemies present, including the leader at the end.

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An example of a hideout, which are often found around mountain ranges.