Before We Leave

You can get this achievement with custom difficulty settings when you create a new game. So I suggest you do this as this guide is written with the default settings changed to make this easier. This is how I got the achievement.

I had peep expectations set to max (even though this has no effect on this achievement), but most importantly, I had start resources set to extra on each island and building cost set to quarter.

When the game loads, pause the game by pressing down on the D-pad 3 times. The clock you are watching is right beneath the green bar that says Island 1 at the top of the screen. It reads 00:00:00. You want to get the ship repaired and launched before it reads 00:15:00.

Look around your starting area. You want to locate the Ruined Generator and the Ruined Ship. While the game is paused go ahead and build roads to each of these. By using custom settings we do not need the Transmogrifier for this achievement. Next, find the closest Green Research cluster. Build a road to this.

Build order is important. Peeps won't build structures unless they have a hut to live in. They will however demolish trees and stone. The shelter holds 50 peeps, we need to get 25 of them out in order to repair the ship. Initial only three emerge without a hut to live in. The others will all need somewhere to live before leaving the shelter. Huts receive a bonus if built next to each other. A single hut will house two peeps. Build another hut next to that one, and now each of those huts will house 3 peeps. A hut with two other huts touching it will now house 4 peeps. But this is where the bonus stops. 4 peeps in one hut is the maximum. So try to cluster huts together so you need to build less of them. At the top of the screen, the numbers to the right of the green bar that says Island 1 are how many peeps have emerged followed by how many beds are available.

Demolish any stone or trees that prevent you from clustering huts together. You don't need to build all huts at once, but get some down so peeps will come out and add to the workforce. Pause and unpause the game as necessary.

After you get several huts built, you need to build an Explorers Hut next to the cluster of Green research. And then a Library next to that to cut down on peep travel time. The only research we need is Repair. It requires 20 green research. So once 20 is gathered, start researching this. Once researched you can select the Ruined Generator and repair it. Once you have 25 peeps on the surface, you can select to repair the Ruined Ship.

While you are waiting for research to generate, continue to build huts so you get to 25 beds. You may also want to build a woodcutter near a stand of trees as close to the ship on a direct road to it in order to make sure you don't run out of wood. You will also need to supply the ship with food and water. I built 2 wells and 5 potatoes. If you build farm plots adjacent to a well you receive a small speed bonus for how fast the food grows. You also receive a bonus if the food plot is touching a hut, but I didn't worry about trying to plan that layout. Wells on the other hand, receive a speed penalty if built next to a hut.

Once the ship is repaired, the peeps must then gather supplies to launch the ship. You need 20 wood, 20 tools, 10 stone, 30 potatoes, and 30 water. Also pause the Wood Generator because it will continue to use wood that we need for the ship. You do this by selecting the building and then clicking the green pause button at the center top of the building's info box. I also paused the Explorers Hut and Library to make sure my workforce was working on things I needed, like growing potatoes. Once all these supplies are gathered, the ship will launch, with an added 2 or 3 second delay for the peeps to board, and then the ship officially launches. I accomplished this several times between the 11 and 12 minute mark while writing this guide. You have up to the 15 minute mark to get this.

I show you how to play and get this achievement in my video


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