Replace one line in your save file in order to nearly 100% of the game’s achievements.
Introduction
If you’ve played for a while, you’ve probably realized just how grindy getting all of the achievements will be. Getting all the normal fish is fine enough, and getting all the painted fish can be done with some simple effort, but getting all of the golden fish requires a lot of successful RNG, to the point of absurdity.
Fortunately, the save file is easy enough to edit. For most people, your save file is located at:
"C:\Users\%YOURPCNAMEHERE%\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Chillquarium\V7"
If you can’t find it, a simple google search should suffice.
Open “globals.save” in your text editor of choice. Even just Notepad works fine, though I do suggest Notepad++.
The second line should start with something similar to:
{"Goldfish":[-1,0]
Where the first fish, alphabetically, that you already have in your fish log is listed first, in this example, the “Goldfish”.
The end of that line should end in:
"path":"/root/PlayerStats"}
If the only fish you have so far in your log is a normal “Goldfish”, the entire line would look something like this:
{"Goldfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"filename":"res://Autoloads/Player_Stats.tscn","food_level":[-1,0,1],"parent":"/root","path":"/root/PlayerStats"}
All you need to do, is replace that entire line with this:
{"Acara":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Achilles Tang":[-1,0,1,2,3],"African Butterflyfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"African Cichlid":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Alligator Gar":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Amazon Leaffish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Angelfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Arapaima":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Arowana":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Assassin Snail":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Atlantic Tarpon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Australian Lungfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Axolotl":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Bala Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Banded Coral Shrimp":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Banggai Cardinalfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Barracuda":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Barred Knifejaw":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Basking Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Betta":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Black Tang":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Blobfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Blue Grass Guppy":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Blue Marlin":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Blue Tang":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Bluefin Trevally":[-1,3],"Bluespine Unicornfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Bullhead Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"California Sheephead":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Carp":[-1,3],"Celestial Pearl Danio":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Cherry Shrimp":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Chili Rasbora":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Chinese Trumpetfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Clown Loach":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Clownfish":[-1,3],"Coelacanth":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Colossal Squid":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Copperband Butterflyfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Corydoras":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Cowfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Devils Hole Pupfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Discus":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Dwarf Cichlid":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Dwarf Gourami":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Elephant Fish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Exquisite Fairy Wrasse":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Falco Hawkfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Fire Eel":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Firefish Goby":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Flame Angelfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Flounder":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Flowerhorn Cichlid":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Frogfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Garibaldi":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ghost Knifefish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ghost Pipefish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Giant Barb":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Giant Pacific Octopus":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Giant Squid":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Giant Trevally":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Glassfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Goldfish":[-1,3],"Goliath Grouper":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Great White Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Green Sunfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Gulper Eel":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Halfbeak":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Halibut":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Hammerhead Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Hatchetfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Hillstream Loach":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Hogfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Horse Face Loach":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Humphead Parrotfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Kijimuna Goby":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Killifish":[-1,3],"King Salmon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Koi":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Kuhli Loach":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Lancetfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Leafy Seadragon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Lingcod":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Lionfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Longfin Batfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Lumpfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Lyretail Anthias":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Mahi Mahi":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Mandarinfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Manta Ray":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Mantis Shrimp":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Masked Angelfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Mola Mola":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Moonfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Moorish Idol":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Moray Eel":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Mudskipper":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Nassau Grouper":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Neon Tetra":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Neopercularis Hogfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ninja Woodcat":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Northern Pike":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Oarfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ornate Bichir":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Oscar":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Otocinclus Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Pacific Lookdown":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Paddlefish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Panda Garras":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Payara":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Pea Puffer":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Peacock Bass":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Peacock Gudgeon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Perch":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Pictus Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Piranha":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Pleco":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Polka Dot Stingray":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Pufferfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Rainbow Trout":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Rainbowfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ramshorn Snail":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ranchu Goldfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Red Snapper":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Redtail Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Rock Greenling":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Royal Gramma":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Ruby Red Dragonet":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Rummy Nose Tetra":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Saw Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Scaly Foot Snail":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Scorpionfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Sea Bass":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Sea Slug":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Seahorse":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Snakehead":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Sockeye Salmon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Spotted Ribbonfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Sturgeon":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Surge Wrasse":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Swordfish":[-1,3],"Swordtail":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Tequila Splitfin":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Threadfin Rainbowfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Tiger Shovelnose Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Tiger Trout":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Triggerfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Upside Down Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Viperfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Wagtail Platy":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Wahoo":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Walleye":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Whale Shark":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Whiptail Catfish":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Wolf Eel":[-1,0,1,2,3],"Yellowfin Tuna":[-1,0,1,2,3],"filename":"res://Autoloads/Player_Stats.tscn","food_level":[-1,0,1],"parent":"/root","path":"/root/PlayerStats"}
Results
From there, all you need to do is get the normal, painted, and golden variant of the most common fish in each pack to complete each achievement: Bluefin Trevally, Carp, Clownfish, Goldfish, Killifish, and Swordfish.
Final Thoughts
I’m unsure if achievements properly trigger if you have a 100% complete fish collection save, as I didn’t test it myself.
I’ll be honest, if the hardest achievements were to just get all the painted fish, I’d have done it naturally, but in my opinion, getting full gold takes far too long even with infinite funds to cycle through baby fish constantly.