Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

This is a very self explanatory achievement. Simply complete any stage without dying.

PLAINS is by far the easiest place to get this achievement as well as several of the other level based achievements. This is the level you play when you start a brand new game. You can return back to it any time you wish.

This level acts like a tutorial level. Obstacles aren't very difficult to navigate and enemies are not as common as in other stages. If you die, back out to the map and start again.

First off, I suggest going into options and switching your relic activation to Button mode so that you only have to tap to use relics rather than having to use the left thumbstick/d-pad and button combo. It makes the entire game much easier IMO.

You can knock out On a Diet, Shovel Economy, Dirt Poor, and I'm Alive rather easily on the very first stage, Plains. Just come back once you have the Phase Locket relic at a minimum, and perhaps one of the goblets with the full health/magic ichor in it to get your magic back if you need more for more phasing. Head through the level, avoiding enemies as much as possible and using the Phase Locket to pass through them rather than kill them to conserve shovel swings. Downward bash (where you jump and hold down to bounce off enemies) doesn't count as swinging, so use that on the large dragons to kill them, making sure to bounce AWAY on the final blow (7 blows kills them) so you don't grab any gems/food when they die.

To make sure you get Dirt Poor and On a Diet, do not pick up any food items. When you have to break dirt blocks to progress, only break the minimum required to get through to conserve shovel swings, and do not stand close or on top of them when you do so. If you have to break them from above, bounce off to the side with the downward bash move to conserve swings and avoid grabbing any gems that come out.

On the part where you have to go down through a large area of sand blocks, with ooze enemies below it, make sure to hug the far right-hand side, breaking an area only ONE block wide, as there are no gems there. When you reach the bottom, activate phase so you don't kill the ooze enemies and run through them. When you get the the Black Knight, just jump and hold down to do the downward bash to damage him rather than swinging your shovel, making liberal use of the Phase Locket to avoid dying.


In the interest of creating as much of a one-stop-shop as possible, I've included 22 of the miscellaneous achievements in Shovel Knight in the video below. I wanted to include Knuckle Down as well, but the stage for that was already complete in my game and I haven't played back through again to unlock it. You can see a playthrough of the Plains mission with 0 deaths that unlocks On a Diet, Shovel Economy, and Dirt Poor at the end at the 4:27 mark. I'm Alive doesn't unlock because I had already earned it, but it would have had I not earned it previously.