[2020] PSA: Don't boost for one-off Achievements, you can permanently lock yourself out of them

Actually, the reverse is true. If you complete the condition for an achievement by boosting, the requirement variables are set on your account.

So although the achievement is still locked, because you don't meet all the prerequisites, you have completed the unlock condition, rather than being permanently locked out.

So once you've leveled up to meet the base skill prerequisite, the achievement should unlock.

It applies to any achievement with skill prerequisite, regardless of category, due to how the achievement engine processes the requirements.

If an achievement has a skill prerequisite, then it currently uses your base level in that skill as the condition for that prerequisite. The achievement engine assumes that if an achievement has a prerequisite, then you must need that prerequisite to complete the achievement.

The only outlier might be where content has scripted conditions that themselves throttle whether the requirements for the achievement are flagged. (From what you've described, sounds like the content scripts that complete the wilderness diary achievements themselves checked your base skill levels, at some point.)

I don't have any new information on the subject to offer.

I can only reiterate what I've previously communicated, which is that making the achievement engine effectively ignore skill prerequisites so that they can be boosted requires a full-stack engine deployment, and currently only client engine releases are scheduled for the remainder of this year.

We discussed our options - stripping all skill prerequisites off all the achievements, setting all the prerequisites to 1 and living with the prerequisites appearing as incorrectly struckthrough, or changing the skill prereq logic in the achievement engine - and decided to go with the engine fix as the best long-term solution.

Our producers have also reassigned Mod Asherz and myself back to working exclusively on mobile for the foreseeable future to meet the deadlines they've set, so we need to balance that need against, and coordinate with the engine release schedule for, any further short-term work on achievements.

We intend to keep you updated of any further developments when we know more, and address the issue when we can.

If you mean the Power of Three Spirits achievement in the Exploration->Prifddinas subcategory, IIRC that's listed with an 89 Farming req, which'd account for why it's completed at 112 Farming.

It sounds like you have the Show Completed tickbox unticked, near the top of your achievement interface.

If you'd like to see achievements you've completed to verify, tick Show Completed, then you should see achievements you've completed in your achievement subcategories and meta lists.

Hope that helps!

Similar principle to skill prereqs, yeah. Membership is a prereq and achievements default to members=yes if not specified. We copied across the member status of each achievement from the old achievement system, which worked the same way.

If there are specific achievements you feel should be flagged as members=no, please submit an in-game bug report listing those achievements and we'll get those fixed.

Took a look at the config and the Family Spirit Tree achievement currently has a skill prereq of 89 Farming.

Apparently that's a concession to those that completed the achievement before the Manor Farm tree was added to it, so that they didn't have to recomplete the achievement.

Regardless, you've completed the achievement, so there's nothing to worry about. :) The achievement system considers this achievement to be complete for you, and therefore you've met that requirement for MQC.