Barren Land / Conscientious Diet achievements not triggering (large map v1.1.2a)

Farthest Frontier Bug Reporting
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Hi,

I’ve encountered an issue where two achievements did not trigger despite meeting their conditions:

  • Barren Land (Upgrade the Town Center to Tier 4 without ever building a Crop Field)
  • Conscientious Diet (Upgrade the Town Center to Tier 4 without producing or consuming any meat)

What I did:

  • Playing on a large map, Vanquisher difficulty, non-pacifist mode
  • Reached Tier 4 Town Center without ever constructing a single Crop Field
  • Kept “Produced Meat” at 0 the entire playthrough (checked via the Graphs panel) — no Hunter Cabin, no Smokehouse used, food came from Forager Shacks, a Fishing Shack, and fruit trees
  • Population is well over 500

What happened:
Both achievements simply never popped when Tier 4 was reached, even though the conditions appear to be fully met according to the in-game stats.

What worked fine for comparison:
Other rare/conditional achievements on the same save — Highlanders and There can only be 500 (500 population without any walls/gates) — triggered correctly. So it seems isolated to these two specific achievements rather than a broader issue with conditional achievements on large maps.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there a known fix, or is this a confirmed bug?

Thanks!

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Fish isn’t meat?

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Not for this achievement, no. Nor is any meat that immigrants bring with them or that you find at salvage sites. It’s literally producing and consuming meat yourself.

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Thanks for confirming! That matches what I understood — I never had a Hunter Cabin or Smokehouse, and the “Produced Meat” graph stayed at 0 the entire game. Population is well past 500 with Tier 4 reached, so both conditions should be met, but neither achievement triggered.

Could this be related to playing on a large map? I’ve seen a few older threads mentioning achievement issues specifically on large maps (Philosopher, Beautification, etc.). Is there any known fix, or should I file this as a separate bug report with my save file?

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Not that I know of.

You’re not using any mods? Or any Custom Settings? Didn’t change anything in the Advanced Settings like change raiders to Pioneer?

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I don’t think the largest maps are as large as they used to be, or so it seems to me. My 1500 pop town has edges too close to the borders.

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That may be because you started it near those borders

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I have a 3,500 pop village on a medium map with lots of room to spare. What is the problem with building close to the borders?

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All maps start with you at the centre, you move it around to look for a good spot, but even if you move to the edge of the visible area you are still fairly close to the centre of the map. Recently my games have my town centre almost a third of the way to the map border, making me think the maps are not as large as they should be. I’ve had games where I got to T4 after 50 turns and the map hasn’t been fully explored, that’s no longer the case.

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No mods on my end, and I can confirm the difficulty is genuinely Vanquisher — I already unlocked a couple of other Vanquisher-locked achievements on this exact save, so that part seems to be working as intended. Raiders are left on default too, haven’t touched Pioneer settings at all.

So at this point it really seems narrowed down to just these two specific achievements. Any other ideas on what could be going wrong, or is this something that needs a proper bug report/save file to investigate further?