Instead, they can only watch as ducks swim by without being able to influence them at all. This means that, for the most part, the player can’t force the achievements to happen. But players still might be wondering just what all the achievements are in this weird little game.
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Ducks By Numbers in Placid Duck Simulator
There are three different easy achievements that are completed just by having some ducks land in the pool; there is an achievement for three ducks, for twenty, then for collecting all the possible base-game ducks. These are:
Three is Company - Get three ducks. Duck invasion - Get 20 ducks. That’s all, ducks! - Get all the ducks; this doesn’t include the ducks from the DLC.
Event Achievements in Placid Duck Simulator
In this game all about enjoying the little things, there are a grand total of 25 achievements, and 15 of these are base-game event achievements. These are gotten when the game gives players a certain duck, an event happens outside the pool, or a certain duck has something happen to it.
Family Pond (Hidden)
One of the many ducks in this indie game that players can get in their pools in the main game is a momma duck that comes with several little tiny plastic ducklings. Once this duck and her babies drop into the pool, players will get this achievement.
Make a Wish
During the night on the pool map, players can sometimes see a shooting star over the pool. This will trigger the “Make a Wish” achievement.
Catch a Flight
See a video game airplane fly overhead the pool for this goal.
Way to the Shore (Hidden)
There are a couple of ducks in this immersive sim game that have the ability to something beyond floating around. One of these is a duck with a spinny hat that can launch him out of pool and into the ocean like a helicopter. There are other ducks that can get this achievement, but this one seems to be the fastest one.
Private Pool
This achievement occurs when a duck slides from the big pool into the smaller pool in this replayable sim game.
On Fire
There are a couple of ducks that shoot or have flames on them, and several ducks that are super flammable. One of the fire ducks has to catch a flammable duck on fire.
Ducks Adrift
If players are looking out over the ocean, they may see a bunch of ducks going by.
High-Rise
There is a pipe that can suck ducks from the small pool to the big one. The first duck that goes through the pipe will trigger this achievement.
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Putting Challenge (Hidden)
A golf ball will fall from the sky at some point, giving players this achievement.
Abducktion
A little tiny alien ship will come by, stealing a duck or two before disappearing into the night.
Watery Help
There are a handful of ducks that shoot water, including the firefighter duck and the clown duck. One of these two just needs to put an on-fire duck out.
Cruise Ship
Look out over the water and eventually there will be a cruise ship that goes by. This will trigger the Cruise Ship achievement.
Firequackers
In order to get this achievement, players will need to have both a duck with fire and the firecracker duck. Once the firecracker duck’s fuse is lit, it will launch into the heavens and explode into a shower of pretty sparks.
Beeline
There is both a bee duck and a plant duck. These two must both be in the pool together. Once they get close enough, the bee duck will start to circle the plant duck, triggering the event.
Floatpiercer (Hidden)
There is a cute-but-creepy stabby duck with a sharp knife that can float around in the pool. If the flamingo floaty gets into the pool with this stabby duck, it can end up with no air in it at the bottom of the pool.
Quack in the Ice DLC Achievements
Magnetic Feel
When these two magnetic ducks end up in the pool together, they will come to stick together like glue.
Quacking the Ice
When a duck slides down the slide from the upper pool to the ice below, it will trigger this event.
Fun-Fun-Funicular
In this amazing little indie simulation game, the little zamboni will push the little ducks into an elevator which releases them back into the upper pool.
Hot Tub
A couple of ducks spit fire in Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. If one of them gets close enough to the metal ball in the middle of the pool close to the fireplace, they can light this and heat up the pool.
Campfire Simulator (Hidden)
When players press E in Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, they can move into a sitting position to watch the ducks. In the DLC, there are three positions that E will take them to. One is in the room by the fireplace, the next is outside by the slide, and the third has them looking through the viewfinder near the pool’s edge. Once a spinny-hat duck is spawned, it’ll fly off to start a campfire. Look through the viewfinders at the duck to earn this achievement.
Off-piste Ski (Hidden)
In this game that’s so relaxing, players can listen to a podcast white playing, there is a duck that is frozen in a block of ice above the pool. Wait for a woodpecker to come by, and the bird will eventually knock down this skii-themed duck and dump it into the pool.
Scoring Challenge (Hidden)
This hidden achievement can only be gotten if the little zamboni pushes the puck into one of the goals on the ice.
Getting the Achievements Faster in Placid Duck Simulator
While all these achievements are based on just letter the game idle long enough, there is a way to speed things up a little bit. If players are looking to collect all the ducks, they may have noticed how slow the duck meter in the upper right-hand corner fills up the more ducks they get. When the meter starts, it only takes about 2 minutes for the meter to fill, but it gets longer each duck.
In order to speed this up, especially if players are looking for a specific duck or combo of ducks, they can:
After the first duck drops, let the duck meter fill. This will take about 2 minutes to 2:30 minutes. Save and quit. Then resume the game. Check to see which duck has spawned, then reset the game again. This will speed the “Getting All Ducks” achievement up quite a bit.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is available for Steam.
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