Starfield Shattered Space: All achievements & how to unlock them

Here's how to unlock all the achievements added in the Shattered Space DLC for Starfield.

Joshua Boyles

02nd Oct 2024 14:07

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The Shattered Space DLC for Starfield adds 12 new achievements for you to unlock. While you’ll grab most of them by completing the main quests of the expansion, there are a few others that you’ll need to work for if you want to earn every single one.

All Shattered Space achievements

Title	Description	Gamerscore
What Remains	Complete ‘What Remains’	20 G
The Promised, Broken	Complete ‘The Promised, Broken’	20 G
Zealous Overreach	Complete ‘Zealous Overreach’	20 G
Conflict in Conviction	Complete ‘Conflict in Conviction’	20 G
Exhuming the Past	Complete ‘Exhuming the Past’	20 G
The Other Side	Complete ‘The Other Side’	20 G
The Scaled Citadel	Complete ‘The Scaled Citadel’	20 G
The Great Unknown	Discover 50 Locations on Va'ruun'kai	10 G
Facing Your Fears	Defeat 25 Vortex Horrors	10 G
Redemption Arc	Defeat 10 Redeemed	10 G
Five of a Kind	Craft one of each type of Vortex Grenade	10 G
Savior of the Promised	Aid the people of Va’ruun’kai	20 G

How to unlock all achievements

Starfield Shattered Space DLC

Main quests

All of the achievements that have a description starting with “Complete” mean that you’ll need to finish the main questline.

I recommend that you focus on playing only the primary missions if you want to get these out of the way as quickly as possible.

The Great Unknown

The next step will be to explore as much of the new planet Va’ruun’kai as possible, as you’ll need to discover 50 locations to unlock The Great Unknown.

The quickest way to do this is to hop in your Space Rover and whizz around the outskirts of the city. Look out for distinct landmarks, and you’ll reach 50 discovered locations in no time.

Facing Your Fears

To unlock Facing Your Fears, you’ll need to defeat 25 Vortex Horrors. These are particularly horrific enemies that you’ll come across while exploring Va’ruun’kai.

You can take them down faster by aiming for their knees, which is their crit spot. If you look at them once they’re dead, you’ll see this is because they have faces in the middle of their legs. Creepy!

Redemption Arc

Redeemed are another enemy introduced in the Shattered Space DLC, and you’ll need to defeat 10 of these to unlock the achievement.

You should come across these enemies while playing through the main campaign, so don’t worry too much about going out of your way to unlock this one.

If you need to find more, take up a few more side quests or explore some of Va’ruun’kai’s outer reaches.

Five of a Kind

This achievement asks you to craft one of each type of Vortex grenade. You’ll need a bunch of Vortex Shards for this, which you can harvest from the blue-ghost-like enemies that you kill during the main story.

Here are all the other resource requirements you’ll need for each of the grenades, which you can craft at a workbench.

Binding

1 Dark Vortex Cyst
1 Vortex Shard

Charged

1 Glowing Vortex Cyst
1 Vortex Shard

Lure

1 Vortex Cyst
1 Dark Vortex Cyst
1 Vortex Shard

Phasing

1 Vortex Cyst
1 Glowing Vortex Cyst
1 Vortex Shard

Unstable

1 Vortex Shard
1 Vortex Cyst

Savior of the Promised

The description of Savior of the Promised asks you to aid the people of Va’ruun’kai, which is rather cryptic. To unlock the achievement, you’ll need to complete several side quests on the new planet.

Players have reported this achievement being a little fiddly to unlock, with some folks unlocking it after completing only five side quests. Others have had to grind out nine or ten.

Regardless, here are all the side quests that we know contribute to unlocking this achievement:

A House Divided
Fallen Footsteps
Legacy of the Fang
Lost and Found
Path of Redemption
Scientific Method
Sympathy for the Living
The Courier
The Duel
Twice Reformed

You can find these side quests by wandering around the main city of the planet and speaking to NPCs.

About The Author

Joshua Boyles

Joshua is the Guides Editor at GGRecon. After graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Broadcast Journalism, he previously wrote for publications such as FragHero and GameByte. You can often find him diving deep into fantasy RPGs such as Skyrim and The Witcher, or tearing it up in Call of Duty and Battlefield. He's also often spotted hiking in the wilderness, usually blasting Arctic Monkeys.

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