There are ways to take your PEAK playthrough beyond just climbing up a few mountains and logging off. If you’re looking for a challenge, you can set off on a mission to collect every badge, unlock every difficulty level, and more.
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All PEAK achievements
PEAK features over 40 badges you can collect across multiple runs. While some require reaching the end, others span across several playthroughs. You’ll even find a mix of multiplayer and singleplayer challenges to tackle. Here’s a complete list of PEAK’s badges and how to obtain them.
| Badge | Description | How to unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Beachcomber Badge | Climb past the SHORE. | Climb to the top of SHORE’s mountain and activate its campfire. You can reduce the difficulty of Tenderfoot to make this and subsequent badges easier to earn. |
| Trailblazer Badge | Climb past the TROPICS. | Climb to the top of the TROPICs mountain and activate its campfire. |
| Alpinist Badge | Climb past the ALPINE. | Climb to the top of ALPINE’s mountain and activate its campfire. |
| Volcanology Badge | Climb past the CALDERA. | Climb across CALDERA’s landscape and activate its campfire. |
| Peak Badge | Reach the PEAK. | Reach the end of PEAK’s final level. As of Patch v1.8, you can no longer cheese this by dying before reaching the end. You now need to be alive during the finale for this to count. |
| Esoterica Badge | Obtain a mystical item. | Find any of PEAK’s mystical items by searching through luggage bags or Ancient Statues at the end of each level. Using an Ancient Statue with an eliminated player in your group will revive them instead of giving you an item. |
| Happy Camper Badge | Receive five Morale Boosts from campfires. | Interact with five campfires while playing in a multiplayer match. You’ll need five campfires across at least two runs. |
| First Aid Badge | Heal your friends for 100 points of injury in a single expedition. | You can heal other players using Medkits or bandages. |
| High Altitude Badge | Climb 5000m total. | Continue playing through PEAK until you’ve climbed a total of 5,000 meters. You can complete this across multiple runs. |
| Plunderer Badge | Open 15 luggages in a single expedition. | Open every single luggage bag you encounter across each level. You need to accomplish this in a single run. |
| Emergency Preparedness Badge | Heal an unconscious friend with an item to save them from death. | If your friend is injured, use a Medkit. Otherwise, you can use items like Cure-All if they’re affected by status effects. |
| Arborist Badge | Reach the top of a really big tree. | Reach the TROPICS level and climb any of the large trees you find throughout your run. |
| Foraging Badge | Eat five different berries in a single expedition. | Every level has several berry types you can consume, including poisonous variants that’ll damage you but otherwise count toward this badge. |
| Participation Badge | Have a friend escape the island without you. | Have your character die and turn into a ghost before your run ends. From here, you just need a friend to reach the final level’s peak and escape. |
| Clutch Badge | Resurrect three scouts in a single expedition. | You can only do this by visiting Ancient Statues at the tops of each level. You can use multiple statues across several levels, but must complete this within one full run. |
| Endurance Badge | Climb 50m upwards without touching the ground. | Use consumables like Big Lollipops or energy drinks to raise your stamina and movement speed. From here, you need to climb up a wall without touching any flat surfaces. You can also use pitons, vines, or chains. |
| Cooking Badge | Cook 20 meals at campfires. | Bring any item to campfires, ideally food, and cook it. Continue this process until you cook 20 total items. |
| Survivalist Badge | Escape the island without ever losing consciousness. | Complete a run without succumbing to any status effects or taking too much fall damage. |
| Animal Serenading Badge | Play the bugle for a capybara. | You’ll find a bugle at the plane’s crash site when you begin SHORE. Bring the bugle with you to ALPINE before searching for a hot spring containing several capybaras. You can also use the Bugle of Friendship or Scoutmaster’s Bugle if you have them. |
| Bing Bong Badge | Help Bing Bong escape the island. | You’ll find Bing Bong at the plane’s crash site when you begin SHORE. Bring Bing Bong to the end and escape the island with the plushie still on your person. |
| Toxicology Badge | Restore 200 total poison by using items. | Use Antidotes, Medkits, and Cure-All to heal status effects. You’ll find poisonous jellyfish and plants within SHORE, while TROPICS has multiple poisonous plants and consumable items. |
| Mentorship Badge | Have a 1-on-1 with the Scoutmaster. | The easiest way to do this is to play in multiplayer and have one person reach the level’s peak while another stays at the bottom. Only the host will earn the achievement through this method, though. In singleplayer, you can use the Scoutmaster’s Bugle to summon the Scoutmaster. |
| Bouldering Badge | Place 10 pitons. | You’ll find pitons inside luggage bags. Obtain some and place them on any wall. You can complete this across multiple runs. |
| Lone Wolf Badge | Escape the island in a solo expedition. | Complete the final level in a solo playthrough without other players. |
| Speed Climber Badge | Escape the island in under an hour. | Spend time learning a day’s map, its most optimal routes, and ways to utilize certain items to make traversal easier. Maps reset daily, giving you only one day to learn before having to start from scratch with a new layout. This can also depend on luck with what items you get from luggage bags and Ancient Statues. |
| Mycology Badge | Eat four different non-toxic mushrooms in a single expedition. | Mushrooms spawn in the SHORE and TROPICS. There are seven variants, with four being non-toxic and three being poisonous. You can find out their differences through your in-game guidebook or our breakdown of which PEAK mushrooms are poisonous. A friend can also feed them to you if you’re out of inventory space and want to save some time. |
| Balloon Badge | Escape the island without taking fall damage. | Be very careful as you travel around each level to avoid accidentally falling off ledges. Tenderfoot is much more forgiving with fall damage, making this achievement much easier. |
| Naturalist Badge | Escape the island without eating any packaged food. | Only eat foraged goods like berries, mushrooms, honeycombs, and eggs. You can also eat marshmallows you find at campfires. |
| Gourmand Badge | Escape the island after cooking and eating a coconut half, a honeycomb, a yellow winterberry, and an egg. | You can find coconuts in the SHORE and TROPICS and honeycomb in the TROPICS. Yellow Winterberries spawn in ALPINE, while eggs appear in CALDERA. A friend can also feed you these items. Prior to Patch v1.8, a bug allowed you to eat them as is and still receive credit. Aggro Crab and Landfall have since resolved this, and you’re now required to cook the items before consuming them. |
| Leave No Trace Badge | Escape the island without placing anything on the mountain. | Don’t place any pitons, ropes, or chains as you progress through each level. If you’re in multiplayer, everyone has to abide by this for you to receive the badge. |
| Knot Tying Badge | Place 100m of rope in a single expedition. | Loot luggage bags and take any spool of rope, including rope cannons, you find. Use them in their entirety until you place 100 meters total. |
| Bookworm Badge | Read all of Scoutmaster Myre’s journal entries. | Myre’s journal entries spawn at campfires. Inspect each entry, repeating this for each campfire. You’ll need to do this across multiple runs, but you can end an attempt after reading CALDERA’s entry to save time. As of Patch v1.8, Scrolls now appear in chronological order regardless of where you are on the mountain, making this badge much easier to obtain. They also have a chance to appear each time you play, letting you search for them repeatedly, even if you’re doing so on the same map. |
| Aeronautics Badge | Achieve flight. | Equip six Balloons at the same time. |
| Astronomy Badge | Look a little too closely at the blazing sun. | Use the Binoculars to look directly into the sun in the MESA biome. |
| Cool Cucumber Badge | Climb over the MESA without ever having over 10% HEAT. | Reach MESA’s Campfire without taking 10% HEAT. You can do this by moving only during the night, using areas with shade, and take help of items like the Sunscreen. |
| Daredevil Badge | Shoot across the MESA canyon in a Scout Cannon. | Use the Scout Cannon to fire your teammate over the canyon at the foot of the MESA’s central plateau. |
| Megaentomology Badge | Survive an Antlion attack. | Enter an Antlion pit, let yourself get bitten once, then have a friend pull you to safety. If you’re playing solo, use a rope to set up your escape route. |
| Needlepoint Badge | Have a lot of cactuses stuck to you. | Let five of the MESA’s small cactuses get stuck on you, then pull them off. |
| Nomad Badge | Climb past the MESA. | Reach Campfire at the top of the MESA for the first time. |
| Resourcefulness Badge | Give into your hunger. | Wait until your hunger drops below 60%, then press “E” on another player to activate cannibalism. |
| 24 Karat Badge | Offer the Kiln a worthy sacrifice. | Take the Golden Idol from the TOMB area and throw it into the lava. |
| Ultimate Badge | Catch a Flying Disk from 100m away. | Grab the Flying Disk on the SHORE, climb to a height, and toss it down to another player stationed at the starting area. If you’re playing alone, grab the disk from the ground to complete the badge. |
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Published: Aug 14, 2025 03:14 pm