FAR: Lone Sails

FAR: Lone Sails

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Spoiler Free Achievement guide
By Nokkt and 1 collaborators
Guide to complete 100% of the game spoiler free!

Please play through the entire game at your own pace and check back in on this guide once you complete the story. You will need to run through the game an additional 2 times regardless to complete the achievement 'It's over 9000!'

On the second run we will complete some of the more awkward achievements saving you time to complete the speed run achievement 'I got 99 minuets' with less pressure on your 3rd run. This will unlock you the final achievement 'It's over 9000!' for playing through the game 3 times.
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Play through the story once
Since you will need to complete the game 3 times in total anyway, your first play-through can be comfortably left to enjoy the game at your own pace.

Try to avoid using walkthroughs to pass some of the puzzles. Its a lot more rewarding :)
I had to use a walkthrough at one point, I wonder if you can guess which part?



Come back to this guide and read on once you've completed your first play-through









Second Playthrough
Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed the story!
So looking at the achievement statistics the majority will have completed 8 Achievements on completion of the first run.


If you only have 7 that's because you somehow reached the end without burning 42 items and relied on wind power. That almost deserves an achievement in itself. Its the Apocalypse who cares about the environment? Jokes aside use the engine, It will help you cross the deserts a lot faster and you will need to do this to complete your 3rd run in under 99 minuets.

The rest of the achievements we will go through one by one starting with;


Hidden Achievement:My heart will go on
To get this achievement you need to be on the roof of the giant walker and jump over the glass dome to reach the front of the ship triggering the achievement.


A piece of Home


Remember that tiny mail box from the start of the game you probably picked up and eventually threw into the furnace as fuel. You need to drag that with you to the end for this one. Just hang it in the bedroom of your Okomotive and forget about it as it will still trigger if it is in the vehicle when the credits roll.

Mail box in bottom left as you approach barn.


The Sound of Silence


While the radio is nice company unfortunately you will need to burn it as fuel for this one. Its found at the top of the radio tower. ONLY BURN IT WHILE ITS PLAYING MUSIC OR IT WILL NOT COUNT


Fire in the Hole!


While the achievement refers to them as barrels they are actually these canisters with a fire symbol on them. Not to be confused with the barrels. Throw all 6 into the furnace for fuel and you get the achievement. The 6th barrel is right before the volcano so use it immediately as when your ship breaks you wont be able to burn it.

As you probably already know these do start fires and damage the fuel furnace which is why we will be doing this now to save time on the 3rd run for the achievement "I got 99 minutes"




TLDR/Summary
In order of what you need to concentrate on for your second run;
  1. A piece of Home - Pick up the red mail box and hang it in the bedroom out of the way. No further action needed.
  2. The answer to life, the universe and everything - Burn 42 items along the journey in the furnace if you haven't already.
  3. The Sound of Silence - Take the radio and burn it while it is still playing in the fuel furnace.
  4. Fire in the Hole! - Shortly after obtaining the radio you will be given the repair tool & the sucker thing. Consider this as your warning to start looking for the explosive 'barrels' (They look more like canisters with fire symbol) to burn in the furnace. There are 6 in total.
  5. Hidden Achievement:My heart will go on - When you get onto the roof of the giant walker Okomotive jump over the glass dome and explore the front.
Third Playthrough
So, If you haven't already gotten the speed run achievement from the first two runs this will be the one. - You can pause if you need to and it will stop the timer on this achievement [Credit to: Sempastian for testing this]



There is not much to it. There are only four things you can do to speed up your run besides remembering everything you need to do for the puzzles.

  • Prepare ahead of time - Get your fuel ready, have the sucker/scooper thing on, keep the Okomotive moving ect...
  • Use breaks - seems counter intuitive but use them before smashing into a barrier at mach 2 and you just saved yourself the problem of putting out a fire or two and worrying about repairs. (Don't break too early, this will also slow you down if the Okomotive needs to be over a pressure plate)
  • Speed is Key - That little flag on the top of your Okomotive shows you wind direction & strength. if the flag is blowing to the right get the sail up & keep your engine on.
  • Barrels - Not the explosive ones, the actual barrels. Stock up on them, especially before you have the sucker/scooper thing to collect fuel for you. As you will know by this point, Barrels completely fill the fuel gauge. Try to avoid stopping for every fuel item as you don't need all of them.

On completion of your 3rd run you should get the achievement "It’s Over 9000!" for reaching 9001 on the distance counter. The distance counter is persistent between runs.



I hope this helped you reach 100% achievements for this game. If you think something should be added let me know.


~ ɴ ᴏ ᴋ ᴋ ᴛ

15 Comments
Nevim 7 Apr @ 7:59am 
I played it a third time because of the last two achievements and neither of those two. Thank you very much.
Nokkt  [author] 6 Apr @ 1:30am 
No problem, Glad to see the guide is still helping people:auyay:
Eduzin 5 Apr @ 4:41pm 
Thank you, bro, it's going to help me a lot :marten_sip:
SunRed 6 Mar, 2024 @ 3:42pm 
For some reason I was missing roughly 1500 (meters? whatever the unit is) in distance when I finished my third run. I am not entirely sure what might have caused it. I did not do the runs back to back but stopped the game after each run and continued another time.
Oh well, thanks for the very nice write up though! :)
Nokkt  [author] 5 Feb, 2024 @ 10:27am 
Glad to hear you made it through :) :loneh:
Drippy Ash 4 Feb, 2024 @ 9:01pm 
Perfected FAR solely because of this guide.:loneh:
Nokkt  [author] 23 May, 2023 @ 2:30pm 
@Razielsoulshadow I did the same on my first run too - fortunately it wont matter if you are achievement hunting since you'll have to run it 3 times through anyways :) :Vodka:
RazielSoulshadow 23 May, 2023 @ 4:13am 
I'm now so upset that I grabbed the suitcase at the start, put it on the ship, and wasn't allowed to go back for the mailbox.
Nokkt  [author] 10 Feb, 2023 @ 11:23am 
:pumpkinjoe:
Nokkt  [author] 10 Feb, 2023 @ 11:23am 
pumpkinjoe:
Will update the guide to mention pausing works for that achievement
Thanks for the update :)