Bunker Tidy Up Achievements Guide: Unlock All 14 Badges

Stepping into a post-apocalyptic shelter packed with 17,437 misplaced supplies can feel overwhelming before you even place your first crate. Mastering all Bunker Tidy Up achievements requires far more than casual cleaning; it demands a structured route, smart skill investment, and careful attention to easily broken milestones. Hunting down every single badge turns this relaxing physics organizer into a rewarding completionist challenge.

Whether you are aiming to fill all 136 shelves or trying to navigate conflicting requirements, tracking your Bunker Tidy Up achievements from minute one saves hours of backtracking. This comprehensive guide covers the full milestone list, optimal unlocking order, upgrade priorities, and essential troubleshooting steps based on confirmed developer updates.

Complete List of Bunker Tidy Up Achievements

The game features exactly 14 Steam milestones. They range from simple introductory tasks to massive cumulative placement goals that span thousands of individual items across the bunker.

Most of these milestones unlock organically as you systematically clear out rooms, but a few require explicit planning to avoid locking yourself out of an efficient single-run completion.

Crucial Unlocking Order: Fragile vs. Not a Scratch

The most common trap for new players involves the relationship between Fragile and Not a Scratch. While both relate to item handling, their requirements directly pull against each other if attempted in the wrong sequence.

Fragile requires you to place 100 items on correct shelves without throwing a single item away. Meanwhile, Not a Scratch demands that you throw away 100 items. According to player experiences shared on the Steam community forums, the in-game action of "throwing away" an item is triggered simply by pressing G to drop carried goods onto the floor.

If you drop an item to free up inventory space before placing your first 100 items, you forfeit the clean streak required for Fragile. Follow this exact sequence to secure both badges cleanly in a single save:

1. Begin your sorting run by carrying small quantities of obvious supplies directly to their labeled racks.
2. Carefully place every picked-up item onto a valid shelf until the HUD counter reflects at least 100 placed goods and Fragile pops.
3. Once Fragile is safely registered on your profile, locate a dense pile of lightweight items (such as canned food or jars).
4. Pick up items until your inventory limit is reached, then press G repeatedly to toss them back onto the ground.
5. Repeat this pick-and-drop loop until Not a Scratch unlocks, which takes less than two minutes once you have expanded your carry limit.

Community reports emphasize that players should never touch the G key during the opening hour of play. Maintaining that discipline ensures you will not need to restart a brand-new profile just to earn Fragile.

Progression Upgrades and Inventory Milestones

A core loop of the game involves spending earned progression stars to upgrade your character. Each completely and correctly filled shelf rewards stars, which you spend by pressing Tab to access the Upgrade Window. Understanding this progression tree is critical for unlocking Will Come in Handy, Tough Day, and Jack of All Trades.

At the start of the game, your default inventory allows you to carry only 5 items at a time. The first priority upgrade should always be Capacity. Raising your capacity to 10 immediately triggers the Tough Day achievement as soon as you gather a full stack in your hands.

Investing in character perks does more than unlock badges; it drastically cuts down the 7 to 12 hours an average playthrough takes. The primary abilities found in the upgrade menu include:

• Carry Capacity: Increases maximum held items from 5 to 10, and higher.
• Item Gathering (Magnet): Automatically pulls nearby loose items of the active matching category into your hands.
• Ground Scanner / Highlight: Temporarily illuminates matching supplies scattered across the floor for 5 seconds (bound to a dedicated shortcut key with a 60-second cooldown).
• Movement Speed & Jump Height: Accelerates floor traversal and enables jumping over low barricades and banisters.
• Autoloader: Allows you to hold down the interact key to continuously deposit or withdraw supplies from shelving units.

To earn Jack of All Trades, you must fully max out every available tier in the upgrade menu. Prioritizing carry capacity and movement speed early creates a compounding time advantage, giving you faster turnaround times when clearing entire warehouse wings.

Category Sorting Routes for Cumulative Milestones

With 17,437 items scattered across 136 shelves, earning cumulative placement badges like Fine Craftsmanship (1,000 items), Perfect Order (5,000 items), Bunker Keeper (10,000 items), and American Dream (all items) requires an organized operational workflow.

Randomly picking up unmatched supplies will quickly clutter your temporary hand space. Instead, divide your sorting routine into strict category-focused phases:

1. Bulky Emergency Equipment: Begin with water barrels, fuel canisters, bulletproof vests, and power generators. Removing these massive physical models clears room pathways and exposes smaller boxes tucked into corners.
2. Hygiene and Cleaning Products: Clear toilet paper rolls, paper towels, soaps, and cleaning sprays from the upper walkway storage areas.
3. Medical Supplies: First aid kits, bandages, pills, and iodine bottles belong in the dedicated clinical wall racks.
4. Food and Consumables: The bunker contains thousands of pickled jars (cucumbers, tomatoes, beans), canned goods, and dry provisions. Tackle jars in dedicated single-crop runs to avoid mixing up pantry slots.
5. Books and Media: All loose literature must be brought to the library study area to unlock the specific Archivist achievement.

While sorting, keep a close watch for unique non-standard props hidden behind furniture and inside shadowed recesses. These objects count toward the Nothing Forgotten achievement, which tracks the discovery of every collectible item across the bunker complex.

Troubleshooting Broken Milestones and Patch Updates

During the immediate launch window, numerous players reported issues where tracking failed to register properly on Steam. Forum threads documented instances where players held over 10 items or filled multiple complete racks without Tough Day or Storekeeper unlocking.

Developer Tovarishch Games identified that an internal achievement handler component had failed to enable in early release versions. The developer pushed a fix (v1.0.4f3) stating that a component that handles achievements had not been enabled in the build, though players subsequently reported that achievements were still not working on build 1.0.4f5.

If your achievements appear frozen while working through your checklist, take the following steps:

• Verify your game installation is updated through Steam to the latest build.
• Load your active save file. A player confirmed that missing achievements popped as soon as they loaded their save.
• For complete system requirements and the latest technical announcements, visit the official Bunker Tidy Up Steam store page to verify recent build notes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I unlock all Bunker Tidy Up achievements in a single playthrough?

Yes, all 14 badges can be completed in one save file. The only critical requirement is ensuring you do not drop any items with G until after you have earned Fragile by placing your first 100 items cleanly.

What should I do if an achievement does not pop after meeting the criteria?

Update your client to the newest version (v1.0.5 or later). Early release bugs prevented tracking components from firing, but reloading your save file on the updated version will automatically trigger any previously earned milestones.

How do I complete the Archivist achievement in Bunker Tidy Up?

To unlock Archivist, you must collect every book scattered across the rooms and correctly shelve them in the designated library bookcases. Use visual contrast and inspect low shelves and floor rugs to avoid missing isolated copies.

How long does it take to earn all Bunker Tidy Up achievements?

Most players achieve 100% completion in 7 to 12 hours. Experienced players utilizing early capacity upgrades and the magnetic gathering perk can finish full runs in 4 hours 30 minutes on stream.