Spelunky 2
32 Achievements
1,000
80-100h
PC
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Pilgrim
Reach the Sunken City in a non-seeded, single-player run. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
60
0.55%
How to unlock the Pilgrim achievement in Spelunky 2 - Definitive Guide
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To get to the Sunken City, you'll need the Tablet of Destiny with you when you reach 6-2. There is a guide already written for that and the other parts that you need to get the tablet so check those out if you don't know how to get it.
Alternatively, there is cheese strategy that is very hard to pull off but I will list it below.
On 6-2, find the entrance to the backlayer and you'll see tons of urns everywhere. Open up your journal and go to page 20 of the item section and read the description of the Tablet of Destiny. It will tell you which urn to pick up and the description should be obvious other than the color which can be confusing. Wood is brown, gold is yellow, jade is green, clay is white, and onyx is grey. Pick up the correct ushabati and take it to 6-3. On 6-3 if you picked the correct urn, it will open up at the beginning of 6-3 and a mount will pop out called the Qilin. When riding it, it can fly infinitely and if you crouch and press X it will spit fire. Take it to 6-4 where Tiamat resides. Instead of fighting her, what you're going to do is ride the mount above her and keep going up to the top of the level. Time your jumps right to avoid the lasers to reach the very top of the level where Tun will congratulate you on making it thus far. Walk through the door, get on the spaceship, and this will take you to Sunken City where the achievement will pop. -> https://i.imgur.com/c95Z5Xt.mp4
Okay, so cheese strat. There is such a thing called the Qilin skip and there are many ways to do it. Most of these involve having items such Vlad's Cape and climbing gloves which would require you to start from the beginning of the game anyway AND are extremely hard so I'm going to show you the easiest Qilin skip that you can do and all you need is a jetpack AND you can even start from the 5-1 shortcut (oh wow!)
So, starting at 5-1, you need to find a jetpack. You'll also need one bomb and at least three ropes but hopefully four ropes by the time you get to Tiamat so hold on to those. Steal a jetpack from the shopkeep (or find some way to finance it) and move on to 6-1. Manage to get through all of Neo-Babylon without blowing up and come out to Tiamat on 6-4. Don't worry about Tiamat, just place one bomb at her feet. This will release bubbles in the center of the level. Ride those bad boys up to the very top. Here you'll need to throw 3 or four ropes. The first rope needs to go exactly under the first laser. The second rope (or two ropes go inbetween the first and second laser and then the fourth rope needs to get exactly one tile above the second laser. You can place the fourth rope in the right spot by going to the very top of the first rope and deploying another rope. No more ropes can be deployed in this area, they will just fall back on you since there is no background for them to hold on to. Now, jetpack rules state that to refuel you must touch the ground, so before you try this, make sure your jetpack is at full fuel by touching your feet to one of the bubbles beneath you and then getting back on that first rope without using the jetpack. Now you need to jump up to the top most rope without using your jetpack at all. You should now be positioned at the top rope, above the second laser, and have a full jetpack. From here, when there is an opening, you need to jump up and then very quickly tap the jetpack button to make yourself rise up at a pace where the lasers don't hit you but you're also not pausing in the air at all. If done perfectly, you should run out of fuel right as you can grab the ledge where the last two lasers are that are vertical. When those lasers turn off, jump up and walk to the Sunken City -> https://i.imgur.com/nVgYzxG.mp4
You can use this strat to get to Sunken City, do the Sun Challenge, and defeat Hundun. You will be low on resources but the option is always there!
As Stormborn64 pointed out in the comments, you can also use the Daily Challenge as a cheese for this achievement. Usually you'd have to do a lot of legwork to get the Tablet of Destiny which tells you the correct urn to pick but in the daily challenge, since its the same seed for everyone, it's the same urn as well and yes, achievements do unlock here (but characters never unlock in the daily!). I'm not sure if there are resources out there that tell you what the urn is for the daily every day but there are plenty of Spelunky nerds, myself included, who know which urn it is or can figure it out. I recommend checking out the Spelunky 2 discord as they even have a text channel specifically devoted to discussion around the daily.
Alternatively, there is cheese strategy that is very hard to pull off but I will list it below.
On 6-2, find the entrance to the backlayer and you'll see tons of urns everywhere. Open up your journal and go to page 20 of the item section and read the description of the Tablet of Destiny. It will tell you which urn to pick up and the description should be obvious other than the color which can be confusing. Wood is brown, gold is yellow, jade is green, clay is white, and onyx is grey. Pick up the correct ushabati and take it to 6-3. On 6-3 if you picked the correct urn, it will open up at the beginning of 6-3 and a mount will pop out called the Qilin. When riding it, it can fly infinitely and if you crouch and press X it will spit fire. Take it to 6-4 where Tiamat resides. Instead of fighting her, what you're going to do is ride the mount above her and keep going up to the top of the level. Time your jumps right to avoid the lasers to reach the very top of the level where Tun will congratulate you on making it thus far. Walk through the door, get on the spaceship, and this will take you to Sunken City where the achievement will pop. -> https://i.imgur.com/c95Z5Xt.mp4
Okay, so cheese strat. There is such a thing called the Qilin skip and there are many ways to do it. Most of these involve having items such Vlad's Cape and climbing gloves which would require you to start from the beginning of the game anyway AND are extremely hard so I'm going to show you the easiest Qilin skip that you can do and all you need is a jetpack AND you can even start from the 5-1 shortcut (oh wow!)
So, starting at 5-1, you need to find a jetpack. You'll also need one bomb and at least three ropes but hopefully four ropes by the time you get to Tiamat so hold on to those. Steal a jetpack from the shopkeep (or find some way to finance it) and move on to 6-1. Manage to get through all of Neo-Babylon without blowing up and come out to Tiamat on 6-4. Don't worry about Tiamat, just place one bomb at her feet. This will release bubbles in the center of the level. Ride those bad boys up to the very top. Here you'll need to throw 3 or four ropes. The first rope needs to go exactly under the first laser. The second rope (or two ropes go inbetween the first and second laser and then the fourth rope needs to get exactly one tile above the second laser. You can place the fourth rope in the right spot by going to the very top of the first rope and deploying another rope. No more ropes can be deployed in this area, they will just fall back on you since there is no background for them to hold on to. Now, jetpack rules state that to refuel you must touch the ground, so before you try this, make sure your jetpack is at full fuel by touching your feet to one of the bubbles beneath you and then getting back on that first rope without using the jetpack. Now you need to jump up to the top most rope without using your jetpack at all. You should now be positioned at the top rope, above the second laser, and have a full jetpack. From here, when there is an opening, you need to jump up and then very quickly tap the jetpack button to make yourself rise up at a pace where the lasers don't hit you but you're also not pausing in the air at all. If done perfectly, you should run out of fuel right as you can grab the ledge where the last two lasers are that are vertical. When those lasers turn off, jump up and walk to the Sunken City -> https://i.imgur.com/nVgYzxG.mp4
You can use this strat to get to Sunken City, do the Sun Challenge, and defeat Hundun. You will be low on resources but the option is always there!
As Stormborn64 pointed out in the comments, you can also use the Daily Challenge as a cheese for this achievement. Usually you'd have to do a lot of legwork to get the Tablet of Destiny which tells you the correct urn to pick but in the daily challenge, since its the same seed for everyone, it's the same urn as well and yes, achievements do unlock here (but characters never unlock in the daily!). I'm not sure if there are resources out there that tell you what the urn is for the daily every day but there are plenty of Spelunky nerds, myself included, who know which urn it is or can figure it out. I recommend checking out the Spelunky 2 discord as they even have a text channel specifically devoted to discussion around the daily.
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just wanted to give another option, the daily challenge is the same urn for everyone so you could look up which urn you need for that daily and then have 1 chance of not needing the tablet.
By Stormborn64 on 17 Jan 2022 01:30
Yes, that is true. You cannot use seeds and even though the daily is a seed, it still unlocks achievements, but be warned, you cannot unlock any characters on the daily run, even the ones for beating the game on normal and hard.
By Uh iCanExplain on 17 Jan 2022 01:52
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This trophy will require you to reach the Sunken City, the secret 7th area of the game. To get here, instead of fighting Tiamat, you will have to reach the area above her, which is guarded by spark traps, forcefields and low gravity. Under normal circumstances, this area is extremely difficult if not impossible to reach and requires you to bring a special flying mount, Qilin, which requires many difficult and convoluted steps to acquire. Before listing these steps, it should be noted that using a jetpack in conjunction with well places ropes also makes it possible to reach this area. This however requires very precise movement and is immensely difficult. If you are interested in this method, you can find guides on Youtube that explain it much better than I ever could.
Many of these steps yield trophies of their own but for simplicities sake, I will list all steps under this trophy. If you are already familiar with any of these steps, feel free to skip to the next part. Summarized, the steps look like this.
1: Find the Udjat Eye in the Dwelling
2: Obtain a piece of royal headwear in either The Jungle or Volcana
3: Obtain the Ankh by defeating Olmec
4: Draw the legendary sword Excalibur from its stone in 4-2 of the Tide Pool
5: Clear the lava at the bottom of 4-3 by setting of the trap
6: Revive using the Ankh and go through the secret door to Abzu
7: Kill Kingu using Excalibur and obtain the Tablet of Destiny
8: Pick the right Ushabti in 6-2 and take it with you
9: Hatch Qilin in 6-3 and use it to fly to the secret area above Tiamat’s Throne
1: In order to obtain Qilin, one must start on the Dwelling and find the golden key and bring it to the corresponding chest. Both the key and the chest always appear on the same floor, either on 1-2 or 1-3. From the chest you will get the Udjat eye, which will allow you to see gems hidden in stones and to reach special hidden areas.
2: Using the Udjat eye, one can either find the Black Market or Vlad's Castle in The Jungle or Volcana respectively. Your goal in either one of these areas is to find a crown, which will make you royalty. Note that, since you can't go to both areas in a single run, you only need one of these crowns to proceed.
The Black Market can be found by listening closely for a beeping sound when navigating The Jungle. The Udjat eye will blink faster the closer you get to the secret entrance. Keep a close eye on both the beeping sound and the eye itself on the top right of your screen, which will blink blue. When the eye starts beeping, it means that you are on the right floor. When the eye beeps rapidly, it means that you are right next to the secret entrance. Place a bomb there and you should find an entrance. For more information on finding the Black Market, see Shadow Shopper
. After entering, you will find a massive shop selling all sorts of items, including the Hedjet, a white-golden crown which costs a whopping $40,000 gold. In order to reach the sunken city you must buy or steal this crown, although stealing it might not be the easiest task, since the whole area is swarming with hyper-dangerous shopkeepers.
Vlad's castle appears on Volcana, deep underground. Somewhere at the top of one of the four levels, you will find a huge drill, which can be activated by inserting the Udjat Eye into the pedestal next to it. This will cause the drill to drill a large hole through the entire map, creating a passage all the way down, where you will find Vlad's Castle. Be very careful going down the drill however, since it is very likely a pool of lava has formed on the bottom of the hole. You might also find lava still dripping down as you descend, killing you instantly. It is therefore advisable to wait a minute until most of the lava has stopped dripping down. Inside the castle, recognizable by its blood red masonry, you can find Vlad. Killing him will yield his cape but the real treasure is the crown on top of the statue at the very top of the castle.
Picking up either of the two crowns will give you the Divine Right trophy and you will be considered royalty for the rest of your run, which will be required later on.
3: Now, you will have to defeat Olmec by dropping him in the lava and obtain the Ankh. For an in depth explanation of how to do this, see A Second Chance
. After picking up the Ankh, you will have to find the Tablet of Destiny. This can be done by killing a specific secret boss in either the Tide Pool or the Temple of Anubis. Since the Tide Pool method is much easier, I will only cover that route in this section. If you're interested in the Temple of Anubis route, see Seen It All 
.
4: Now that you are wearing a piece of royal headwear, you are seen as royalty, allowing you to find and pull out the legendary sword Excalibur, which can be found at the bottom of 4-2 of the Tide Pool, which you will need later to slay the secret boss of the Tide Pool.
5 & 6: In the next floor, 4-3, you will find that the bottom of the floor is covered by lava. There is a secret door somewhere in the lava, which will require you to set off a trap in the secret section on the bottom of the map to enter it. This section is only accessible by a cave entrance somewhere on the level. Before entering this cave however, it is crucial that you leave Excalibur outside of the cave and if you are carrying a Pack item on your back, it is also advised to leave that with Excalibur. You will be able to pick up both later. After entering this area and moving all the way down, you will find a golden idol. Picking up or moving this idol will result in the entire section being flooded with lava, killing you. There is nothing you can do to prevent this so this is where the Ankh comes in. After you are revived and brought back to the beginning of the level, take Excalibur and find the secret exit of the level, which is now no longer covered by lava. Be very careful as to not accidently exit through the normal door, which will make all the previous steps be for nothing.
7: Entering the secret door will lead you to Abzu, a secret domain at the bottom of the Tide Pool where the deity Kingu lives. Kingu's back is covered by a hard, impenetrable shell, which can only be cracked by Excalibur. Climb on top of Kingu and keep hitting her shell until she is defeated, dropping the Tablet of Destiny, earning you the Chosen One trophy. Again, be very careful not to accidently go through the exit of the level before killing Kingu.
8: Opening the Journal page dedicated to the Tablet of Destiny by pressing
will give you valuable hints for your next step. The Journal entry for the Tablet will read: "A (personality) servant of (material) marked by the (symbol) will open the door for the Aspirant." These three attributes describe the Ushabti (small doll-like statues) you will be looking for in a secret area in 6-2. Entering the door leading to this area, you will find a huge room, filled by dozens of Ushabti. You will have to find the one that corresponds with the description given by the Journal. Note that these attributes are random and change each run. You can also always find the Tablet of Destiny page in your Journal under Items so you won’t have to remember the attributes throughout the rest of the floor.
The personality of the Ushabti can be either smiling, designated by a huge grin, simple, designated by a blank vacant expression, cracked, designated by a frown with cracks all over the body or tall, being much taller than the rest of the Ushabti.
The material can either be gold, jade, wood, clay or onyx. Jade is a bright green, clay is a shining white and onyx is a dark black.
The symbol on the bottom of the Ushabti can be either a snake, an eye, a vortex, an ankh or a bat. The snake will be a squiggly diagonal line and the vortex will have the shape of a spiral. The rest of the symbols should be recognizable.
If this is your first time picking the right Ushabti, carefully look at the other Ushabti and make sure you know which attributes you’re looking for. Be careful of the many flying elevators in the room and pick up the Ushabti you are looking for and exit the floor. The game will give you no indication that you have picked up the right one so make sure that you carefully consider each described attribute.
9: After entering 6-3, given that you have taken the right Ushabti with you, it will start to shake and crack after some seconds. Simply put it down and the legendary mount Qilin will hatch from it. Qilin will give you the ability to fly and breath fire. Make it through the last level of Neo Babylon with Qilin and make sure it stays alive. Entering Tiamat’s Throne, you will now have the ability to enter the secret entrance to the Sunken City, above Tiamat. Simply ignore Tiamat (you do not have to fight her) and fly to the area above. Be very careful, as it is still a challenge to avoid the many forcefields and spark traps in this area. After you make it all the way to the top, be careful of the two vertical force fields covering the top area and you are good to go. You will find Tun here, complimenting you on getting this far. Hop off Qilin (you unfortunately can’t take it with you) and you will find your one-way ride to the Sunken City. Hop on, watch a short cutscene and you will finally enter the Sunken City, a mysterious place filled with strange and dangerous creatures. Don’t worry too much about them for now though, as simply entering the Sunken City earns you this trophy.
Be aware that you will likely have to enter the Sunken City at least 3 times to earn the Platinum so you should be able to replicate these steps with some consistency.
Many of these steps yield trophies of their own but for simplicities sake, I will list all steps under this trophy. If you are already familiar with any of these steps, feel free to skip to the next part. Summarized, the steps look like this.
1: Find the Udjat Eye in the Dwelling
2: Obtain a piece of royal headwear in either The Jungle or Volcana
3: Obtain the Ankh by defeating Olmec
4: Draw the legendary sword Excalibur from its stone in 4-2 of the Tide Pool
5: Clear the lava at the bottom of 4-3 by setting of the trap
6: Revive using the Ankh and go through the secret door to Abzu
7: Kill Kingu using Excalibur and obtain the Tablet of Destiny
8: Pick the right Ushabti in 6-2 and take it with you
9: Hatch Qilin in 6-3 and use it to fly to the secret area above Tiamat’s Throne
1: In order to obtain Qilin, one must start on the Dwelling and find the golden key and bring it to the corresponding chest. Both the key and the chest always appear on the same floor, either on 1-2 or 1-3. From the chest you will get the Udjat eye, which will allow you to see gems hidden in stones and to reach special hidden areas.
2: Using the Udjat eye, one can either find the Black Market or Vlad's Castle in The Jungle or Volcana respectively. Your goal in either one of these areas is to find a crown, which will make you royalty. Note that, since you can't go to both areas in a single run, you only need one of these crowns to proceed.
The Black Market can be found by listening closely for a beeping sound when navigating The Jungle. The Udjat eye will blink faster the closer you get to the secret entrance. Keep a close eye on both the beeping sound and the eye itself on the top right of your screen, which will blink blue. When the eye starts beeping, it means that you are on the right floor. When the eye beeps rapidly, it means that you are right next to the secret entrance. Place a bomb there and you should find an entrance. For more information on finding the Black Market, see Shadow Shopper
. After entering, you will find a massive shop selling all sorts of items, including the Hedjet, a white-golden crown which costs a whopping $40,000 gold. In order to reach the sunken city you must buy or steal this crown, although stealing it might not be the easiest task, since the whole area is swarming with hyper-dangerous shopkeepers. Vlad's castle appears on Volcana, deep underground. Somewhere at the top of one of the four levels, you will find a huge drill, which can be activated by inserting the Udjat Eye into the pedestal next to it. This will cause the drill to drill a large hole through the entire map, creating a passage all the way down, where you will find Vlad's Castle. Be very careful going down the drill however, since it is very likely a pool of lava has formed on the bottom of the hole. You might also find lava still dripping down as you descend, killing you instantly. It is therefore advisable to wait a minute until most of the lava has stopped dripping down. Inside the castle, recognizable by its blood red masonry, you can find Vlad. Killing him will yield his cape but the real treasure is the crown on top of the statue at the very top of the castle.
Picking up either of the two crowns will give you the Divine Right
trophy and you will be considered royalty for the rest of your run, which will be required later on.3: Now, you will have to defeat Olmec by dropping him in the lava and obtain the Ankh. For an in depth explanation of how to do this, see A Second Chance
. After picking up the Ankh, you will have to find the Tablet of Destiny. This can be done by killing a specific secret boss in either the Tide Pool or the Temple of Anubis. Since the Tide Pool method is much easier, I will only cover that route in this section. If you're interested in the Temple of Anubis route, see Seen It All .4: Now that you are wearing a piece of royal headwear, you are seen as royalty, allowing you to find and pull out the legendary sword Excalibur, which can be found at the bottom of 4-2 of the Tide Pool, which you will need later to slay the secret boss of the Tide Pool.
5 & 6: In the next floor, 4-3, you will find that the bottom of the floor is covered by lava. There is a secret door somewhere in the lava, which will require you to set off a trap in the secret section on the bottom of the map to enter it. This section is only accessible by a cave entrance somewhere on the level. Before entering this cave however, it is crucial that you leave Excalibur outside of the cave and if you are carrying a Pack item on your back, it is also advised to leave that with Excalibur. You will be able to pick up both later. After entering this area and moving all the way down, you will find a golden idol. Picking up or moving this idol will result in the entire section being flooded with lava, killing you. There is nothing you can do to prevent this so this is where the Ankh comes in. After you are revived and brought back to the beginning of the level, take Excalibur and find the secret exit of the level, which is now no longer covered by lava. Be very careful as to not accidently exit through the normal door, which will make all the previous steps be for nothing.
7: Entering the secret door will lead you to Abzu, a secret domain at the bottom of the Tide Pool where the deity Kingu lives. Kingu's back is covered by a hard, impenetrable shell, which can only be cracked by Excalibur. Climb on top of Kingu and keep hitting her shell until she is defeated, dropping the Tablet of Destiny, earning you the Chosen One
trophy. Again, be very careful not to accidently go through the exit of the level before killing Kingu.8: Opening the Journal page dedicated to the Tablet of Destiny by pressing
will give you valuable hints for your next step. The Journal entry for the Tablet will read: "A (personality) servant of (material) marked by the (symbol) will open the door for the Aspirant." These three attributes describe the Ushabti (small doll-like statues) you will be looking for in a secret area in 6-2. Entering the door leading to this area, you will find a huge room, filled by dozens of Ushabti. You will have to find the one that corresponds with the description given by the Journal. Note that these attributes are random and change each run. You can also always find the Tablet of Destiny page in your Journal under Items so you won’t have to remember the attributes throughout the rest of the floor.The personality of the Ushabti can be either smiling, designated by a huge grin, simple, designated by a blank vacant expression, cracked, designated by a frown with cracks all over the body or tall, being much taller than the rest of the Ushabti.
The material can either be gold, jade, wood, clay or onyx. Jade is a bright green, clay is a shining white and onyx is a dark black.
The symbol on the bottom of the Ushabti can be either a snake, an eye, a vortex, an ankh or a bat. The snake will be a squiggly diagonal line and the vortex will have the shape of a spiral. The rest of the symbols should be recognizable.
If this is your first time picking the right Ushabti, carefully look at the other Ushabti and make sure you know which attributes you’re looking for. Be careful of the many flying elevators in the room and pick up the Ushabti you are looking for and exit the floor. The game will give you no indication that you have picked up the right one so make sure that you carefully consider each described attribute.
9: After entering 6-3, given that you have taken the right Ushabti with you, it will start to shake and crack after some seconds. Simply put it down and the legendary mount Qilin will hatch from it. Qilin will give you the ability to fly and breath fire. Make it through the last level of Neo Babylon with Qilin and make sure it stays alive. Entering Tiamat’s Throne, you will now have the ability to enter the secret entrance to the Sunken City, above Tiamat. Simply ignore Tiamat (you do not have to fight her) and fly to the area above. Be very careful, as it is still a challenge to avoid the many forcefields and spark traps in this area. After you make it all the way to the top, be careful of the two vertical force fields covering the top area and you are good to go. You will find Tun here, complimenting you on getting this far. Hop off Qilin (you unfortunately can’t take it with you) and you will find your one-way ride to the Sunken City. Hop on, watch a short cutscene and you will finally enter the Sunken City, a mysterious place filled with strange and dangerous creatures. Don’t worry too much about them for now though, as simply entering the Sunken City earns you this trophy.
Be aware that you will likely have to enter the Sunken City at least 3 times to earn the Platinum so you should be able to replicate these steps with some consistency.
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This guide was translated automatically.
The classic way is to obtain Quilin . To get it, you need to find out the required combination of the Ushabti statue using the Slab of Fate. After this, at level 6-2 (Neo Babylon), find the entrance to the room with statues, find the one you need and bring it to level 6-3. Place it on the floor and Quillin will hatch out of it.
Video guide (en) with a workaround, without using Quilin
All possible variations of the Ushabti statue
Video guide (en) with a workaround, without using Quilin
All possible variations of the Ushabti statue
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