Alchemy Factory Achievement Guide — All 55 and the 50-Day Challenge

Alchemy Factory ships with 55 Steam achievements, and the list leans toward production and progression milestones rather than one-off stunts. The documented names come from the Steam store API — First Potion!, Alchemy Master and the chain The Alchemist's Path II through IX — while the community's most discussed goal is the time-pressured 50-day run. This page covers the count, the named achievements, the 50-day method and what completion actually costs in hours.

How Many Achievements and How Long They Take

Both the Steam store API and the achievement tracker Steam Hunters report 55 achievements, so the count is settled. The time data is the interesting part: the tracker lists a fastest completion of 46 hours 3 minutes against a median of 382 hours 49 minutes, which is a very wide spread and reflects how differently players approach the factory.

Metric	Value
Achievements	55
Steam Hunters points	39,047
Fastest completion	46h 03m
Median completion	382h 49m
Players perfected	7
Players qualified	1,084

Documented Achievements

The Steam store API highlights ten achievements, and the naming pattern shows a progression chain plus two standouts. The Alchemist's Path II through IX forms a long ladder, and First Potion! is presumably the earliest of the set.

Achievement	Type
First Potion!	Early milestone
The Alchemist's Path II	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path III	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path IV	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path V	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path VI	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path VII	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path VIII	Progression chain
The Alchemist's Path IX	Progression chain
Alchemy Master	Capstone

The tracker's summary line also references completing a harvest, which fits the store description's framing of stocking your shop with potions, jewelry and relics. The full 55-name list is not reproduced here because the sources used publish the names in different formats; Steam's own achievements page is the authoritative list.

The 50-Day Challenge

The community's signature goal is finishing within 50 days, and a forum answer to that question lays out a deliberately unusual method. It starts by skipping the tutorial and buying zero plots, then building a tower so the architect has room, and it treats the shop as optional.

• Skip the tutorial and buy zero plots.
• Build a tower to give the architect room.
• Do not sell to customers; hoard resources for quests and urgent requests.
• Hand-feed machines through storage instead of automating early.
• Get a bandage contract running as soon as possible.
• Put skill points into bonus quest rewards for extra money.

The reasoning given is that automation is slow before belt-speed and production upgrades, so manual feeding beats it early, and that quests become your only income if you never sell to customers — which makes quest reward bonuses the highest-value skill points in that run.

What is not confirmed.

The full text of all 55 achievements, which ones are missable, and whether the 50-day goal has an officially named achievement are not documented in the sources used here. The completion-time figures come from one tracker and reflect the players it tracks. For the production habits that shorten a run, see the guide, and for where skill points go, see the upgrade guide.

• Play a normal save first to learn the production chains.
• Then attempt the 50-day goal with the skip-tutorial method above.
• Track which Alchemist's Path tier you are on to gauge progress.
• Expect a long completion; the median is measured in hundreds of hours.