Golden Rails: Small Town Story

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Submitted by: David K.

Achievement Guide:
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Written by luckz

-=Foreword=-
Most Golden Rails achievements are gained while playing the campaign. None are 
missable or exclusive to certain difficulties. On the easiest setting —with no 
time limit or real failure condition— completing the game and getting all 
achievements likely takes around 14 hours.

This guide will only mention the necessities.

Progress does not carry over from one difficulty to another!

All You Need to Know

-=Terminus=-
Complete all levels with 3 stars.

* Just play through all the game's levels on one difficulty mode. If you don't 
  want to be challenged by time limits, Easy Mode is what you should pick.
* If you're on Normal or Hard, the pause screen offers a Level Guide for each 
  level. You'll likely need to first unlock bonus choices to get three stars on 
  the harder levels.

-=Owls=-
Find every owl.

* The game's 60 levels each have one hidden owl behind a tree (There's a "Wanted" 
  list for owls. Perhaps some pun akin to Outlaw – Owl.)
* On mouseover, you see a "Owl" tooltip. The owl periodically jumps up behind 
  the tree to make spotting it easier. You need to (and can) collect each level's 
  owl only once.
* If you miss an owl, don't fret. It's enough to start the level again, click the 
  owl, and exit to "Map"!
* Exiting does not persist your other progress, so don't try to cheese the 
  achievements below that way.

-=Legend of the West=-
3 stars on all 5 shooting ranges.

In addition to the levels, there is a tiny shooting gallery minigame. You have 
to click anything that moves, namely robbers and ducks. Not shooting robbers 
makes them 'shoot you' for a point penalty. I don't think it's even possible to
get less than three stars on Easy mode, but in any case, I suggest you double-
click or even triple-click anything that moves as the hit detection on moving 
objects is kinda wonky.

-=Town Planner=-
Build 300 fully upgraded houses.

Contrary to what it says, you don't need to "fully" (twice) upgrade houses for 
this. You'll get this anyway while grinding gardens.

-=Blooming Town=-
Plant 100 gardens.

This is where we grind. I had ~40 left to plant after finishing all levels, and 
after some trial and error, my recommendation is:

Level 26, with upgrades: cash income, food income, totem cost, worker speed. In 
around 6 minutes or a bit more, you'll get 4 gardens. Repeat (using the "replay" 
button after the level to save time) ad nauseam. You need to finish the levels. 
Exiting to map to save your gardens does not work.

Level 28 (8 minutes) also has 4 gardens. Levels 40 (7-8 minutes) and 47 (6 minutes) 
only have 3 gardens. 25, 27, 29, 30, 39, 49, 1B, 6B, 9B, 10B are some other garden 
levels if you'd like a little variety.

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