Windbound

I reached out to the devs for help after having issues with several achievements.

"For the ranged weapon only achievement, which I haven't tried yet, I'd like to know what will void it. You need to use your knife to cut sticks and tall grass. You pull out the knife if you lock onto enemies. I don't want to waste several hours only to be doing something wrong. Can you clarify?"

I still couldn't get the achievement to unlock. The dev offered more info:

I was able to get the achievement work in a run where I only used the grass sling/rocks, then, once I could craft them, bows/arrows. I also avoided all jellyfish/sharks in my boat.

I used LT to lock onto enemies, which pulls out the knife but caused no issues (I think this really just helped with tremorlurks). The chapter bosses were tough since they dodge ranged attacks with ease, so I crafted Spectral Arrows for increased damage and the hunter Bow for quicker shooting. I found the most consistent way to hit them was to bait melee attacks, then quickly shoot them in these animations (usually tanking damage as a result).

In situations where you had to interact with gongs to progress towers, I always shot them with ranged weapons rather than using "Y" to interact with them.

This achievement IS possible, but you cant ever hit a jellyfish or crobster with the boat. This will have to be done on a new save file after deleting your save & is a pain & requires constant manual saves & reloads.

There is however another possibility... Glitching... You can just sail to the exit from the start of the chapter & wall jump up the wall to exit. After watching the Any% speedrun for this (which uses a wall jump glitch with an increased framerate) I was able to pull it off on console, but it will require above average mashing skills, specific angles, & a bit of luck.

Method 1 - Wall Jump

Method 2 - Zip


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Finished the game using only ranged weapons and the achievement still didn't pop. Only after completing the game did I realized that i accidentally pulled out the knife once by tapping block. This is the only thing i can think of that would stop you from getting the achievement. At all cost, don't tap the block/dodge button.