PickCrafter: WHAMMY Achievement Guide

The short of it is 10,000 criticals while the critical potion is active. Other constraints are not explained. When I sat down to get this achievement, I already had about 198,200 criticals and about 280 uses of the critical potion, and yet the achievement had not activated yet. Clearly this isn’t a casual “dings along the way” sort of achievement, but one that must be actively sought after. When it did finally activate, I had sat there at the End without turning the game off.

The following helped reduce the time needed to activate this achievement drastically:

• Sono-Chrono Pick
• Reload Ability
• Reload Short Ability

When the pick’s ability activates in the middle of the potion, it stretched out about 10 seconds worth of potion a significantly longer period of time. The reload abilities helped reduce cool down times so I could use the potion more frequently.

It took somewhere after 60 minutes but before 100 minutes. The only reason for knowing this is I finished before I was able to craft a 2nd mythical cube in the time frame and crafting one takes 51 minutes for me. I was also able to do a 1 hour task in another game, giving the lower bound. Without using these, the amount of time it takes will be significantly longer, up to more than twice as long as I took.

As stated earlier I started at about 198,200 criticals and 280 critical potion uses. At the end of this I was at 209,695 criticals and 333 critical potion uses. I had to look at Steam to see that the achievement activated since a notice didn’t pop-up.

The most important part of this was keeping the game running and going for it in one shot. I did not prestige. I did not change biomes. These latter two facts may or may not affect the outcome. But as I didn’t recieve the achievement before this run,(assuming 100 criticals on average per potion use would require 100 uses of the potion: 100×100=10,000) closing the game is definitely one cause for the achievement to not activate.

I play in windowed mode, and attended to other games so leaving the game on behind another game is okay.

I did fight some bosses along the way, but did not engage the witch as that would require me to leave the biome.

Reload Short Level 4
Reload Level 8(+2)
Potion of Critical Strike Level 10(+6)

Biome: The End
Prestige Level 19
Pick Level 19

Skill Tree Trandscended
Player x7
Chest x4
Idle x6
All skills are maxed out

Artifacts:
Corrupt Pixie +24
+5 Drill
+3 Potion of Luck
+2 Reload
+2 Potion of Critical Strike
+1 Potion of Strength
+2 Treasure Seeker
+2 Ability Seeker
+1 Armor Boost
+1 Sharp Pickaxes
+1 Pickaxe Fuel
+1 Pickaxe Lighter
+1 Artifact Seeker
+1 Block Fortune
+1 Impatient Lockpicker

Blade +10
+2 Potion of Critical Strike
+1 Potion of Luck
+1 Drill
+2 Picks Master
+1 Wealthy Mobs
+1 Impatient Lockpicker
+1 Lucky Socks
+1 Armor Boost

Bramble +10
+2 Potion of Luck
+1 Potioin of Critical Strikes
+1 Drill
+2 Lucky Socks
+1 Artifact Seeker
+1 Mimic Bait
+1 Blacksmith
+1 Ability Seeker

Cactus Buddy +7
+1 Potion of Critical Strike
+1 Drill
+2 Lucky Socks
+1 Pickaxe Fuel
+1 Rare Block Seeker
+1 Mob Lure

None of the Mythical Devices have been crafted.