At the Crash Site on Dantooine, there are a whole bunch of unique achievements that got added with Update 7.8.1. We’ll show you how to get every single one of them!
A Botanical Mystery I [Hidden]
Discover research notes on an unknown botanical species.
There’s a datapad near Doctor Armaxa (if he’s there) at the Sporefall Forward Research Camp that alludes to this secret achievement.
If you head over to the little ortolan’s camp in the northern alcove of Sporefall where the Sample Collection: Pterathki encounter takes place. The encounter does not need to be active for this to work.
You have to walk into the tent, right-click on the macrobinoclars to obtain the Handheld Scanners, and mouse over the datapad to get the achievement to pop.
The Handheld Scanners are a regular green rarity item that appear in your inventory after you click on them. Stick them on your quickbar for easy access as you hunt down the elusive Lurak Thistle scattered throughout Dantooine’s canopies.
A Botanical Mystery II [Hidden]
Discover the locations of unusual flowers in the Dantooine Crash Site.
There are 8 unusual flowers scattered throughout the wreckage on Dantooine. You get hints on their locations after noticing one with the Handheld Scanners.
We have enclosed each location in an expandable section associated with its hint, so you don’t get spoiled if you want to find them yourself!
You can find this flower above to some Orobird Fledglings along the southeastern path connecting the Main Research Camp to the Crashed Ship Perimeter.
No, it’s not the one above the tent where you found the binoculars near a bunch of Pterathki that I interpreted as the fledgling birds.
This flower is located high above the Sporefall Forward Camp. You can spot it from the ground, but the Handheld Scanners might not be able to pick it up unless you reach the top level with the Repulsor Pads.
The Repulsor Pads are passively accessible here if you’ve unlocked them on that toon on Ruhnuk as part of the scavenger hunt missions that lead to the Datacron there.
This flower is dangling above Professor Hoppington’s froggy brethren in the northeastern alcove in Sporefall. This is the same region with Sample Collection: Ginx.
This flower is hiding in some hanging roots at the entrance to the Glacial Trespass Cavern, near the Hollow Frost encounter.
This flower is feeling impotent next to the central Rootmass in the Glacial Trespass Cavern. It’s at about 10 or 11 o’clock if you’re looking at the biggest flower in the whole game.
This flower somehow managed to grow right next to an active lavafall past the big bridge in the Lava Cave at Geothermal Disruption.
This flower is growing near the waterfalls at the acid lake in the middle of Geothermal Disruption, north of the Geothermal Disruption Forward Camp, where the Acid Trip encounter takes place.
This flower is growing out of an opening, along with some hanging roots, on the Jannimak near the Main Research Camp. You can see it with your Handheld Scanner next to the shuttle that brings you down to the planet.
Advanced Research: Geothermal Disruption [Hidden]
Once you reach Legend rank with G.S.I., you can purchase Advanced Research: Geothermal from the main reputation vendor that grants permanent access to use Ejected Sludge Containers within Geothermal Disruption.
Clicking on any Ejected Sludge Container after unlocking Advanced Research: Geothermal will grant this achievement.
Advanced Research: Glacial Trespass [Hidden]
Once you reach Legend rank with G.S.I., you can purchase Advanced Research: Glacial from the main reputation vendor that grants permanent access to use Supercooled Crystaline Shards within Glacial Trespass.
Clicking on any Supercooled Crystaline Shards after unlocking Advanced Research: Glacial will grant this achievement.
Advanced Research: Sporefall [Hidden]
Once you reach Legend rank with G.S.I., you can purchase Advanced Research: Sporefall from the main reputation vendor that grants permanent access to use Spore-Coated Masses within Sporefall.
Clicking on any Spore-Coated Mass after unlocking Advanced Research: Sporefall will grant this achievement.
Beast Friends
Doctor Hoppington and Professor Whiskers send their warmest regards.
- Pacify Doctor Hoppington 25 times
- Pacify Professor Whiskers 25 times
It goes without saying, but Doctor Hoppington and Professor Whiskers are the unforgettable research assistants for Doctor SPORES during both Sporefall transition encounters.
Expansive Research [Hidden]
Collect research material from each expanded biome in the ecotones.
Crystallized Toxins- Geologic Samples
- Dormant Spores
- Infected Flora
Check out the Ecotone Buffs section in our guide on how to make Wreckage on Dantooine easier for more details on how these buffs work, but only 2 can spawn per core cycle.
Feeling Weird
Have all three spore types from Light Sporefall on you at one time.
- Numbing Spores
- Poisonous Spores
- Debilitating Spores
Numbing Spores
Poisonous Spores
Debilitating SporesYou will almost certainly get this automatically while trying to do the Wreckage on Dantooine mission.
Filthy Fighter
Defeat 100 hostile enemies in the Geothermal Disruption while suffering from Toxic Contamination.
Toxic Contamination is the debuff you get for standing in the water in Geothermal Disruption without Hazard Mitigation, so you just have to defeat 100 enemies while standing in the water.
The quickest and easiest way to do this is to do Graul Graveyard and focus on adds rather than the boss at the end. With a rank 50 healer companion, you can stand in the water until you get 10 stacks of the debuff, but you will probably run out of HP if you hit 13 stacks.
Frostbitten Finisher
Defeat 5 Cryo-Nester Broodguards in the Glacial Trespass while suffering from Freezing.
Cryo-Nester Broodguards are Strong (silver) enemies that can appear when you destroy eggs during the Frigid Swarm encounter. Defeat 5 of them while you have the extra debuff for reaching 10 stacks of Cryogenic Saturation and you’ll get this achievement.
You can’t get either debuff if you’re protected by Hazard Mitigation Module for Glacial Trespass.
Level Five Geological Aptitude [Hidden]
It really is a nice boulder.
Professor Calvaz left a note at his precious rock on the edge of the Main Research Camp. You’ll need to reach Level 5 with Professor Calvaz to get this achievement.
You can find his esteemed Level 5 badge lying on the big bridge in the Lava Cave in Geothermal Disruption.
Once you click on it, you’ll just have a buff. If you visit the primal rock with said buff, you’ll get the achievement. The buff persists until you leave the planet, so you can flex on the plebeians without such incredible aptitude for geology.
Major Malfunction [Hidden]
Found the Abandoned Control Room. Not on purpose, of course.
It seems you have ~0.1% chance to get transported to the Abandoned Control Room whenever you use the Maintenance Access Tunnels, which require 
Maintenance Access Codes.
You may also be able to get Unusual Access Codes from somewhere else, like the Orbital Core, but this is unconfirmed.
Melt the Messenger
When it spawns, defeat the Cryo-Dominator Droid within 70 seconds during the Dynamic Encounter “Iceweeds.”
The final objective of the “Iceweeds” encounter requires you to defeat a champion Cryo-Dominator Droid. This should be very doable with all the buffs you can pick up that make Wreckage on Dantooine easier.
Since the HP of enemies at the Crash Site increases dramatically each time a new person engages it in combat, if you aren’t great at DPS (or aren’t a DPS at all) and want this achievement, just wait until the droid gets down below like 3% and then hit it, since it only doubles the remaining health.
Iceweeds is only available while Glacial Trespass is at level 1.
No Sense of Direction
How is it even possible for people to get lost this frequently?
Locate and rescue each of the scientists when they get lost outside of their respective biomes on Dantooine. Once a single person finds them, these guys return to the biome forward camp where they got lost and turn into a vendor.
Thanks to Sinrai for their help, we now know that researchers get lost after visiting one of the ecotone encounters on the edge of their biome. They will always get lost in the biome adjacent to their home base.
For example, Doctor Losoo is from Sporefall but can come check out Petals in the Snow and wind up getting lost in Glacial Trespass.
| Researcher | gets lost after this Ecotone Event | Buff | in this Biome |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Maniks | Natural Coolant  Volcanic Residue | Geothermal Disruption |
| Doctor Maniks | Frozen Spores  Benign Spores | Sporefall |
| Doctor Sanner | Natural Coolant Volcanic Residue | Geothermal Disruption |
| Doctor Sanner | Frozen Spores Benign Spores | Sporefall |
| Doctor Lamuna | Petals in the Snow  Altered Flora | Glacial Trespass |
| Doctor Armaxa | Petals in the Snow Altered Flora | Glacial Trespass |
| Doctor Olobus | Petals in the Snow Altered Flora | Glacial Trespass |
| Doctor Losoo | Petals in the Snow Altered Flora | Glacial Trespass |
| Doctor Deld | Petals in the Snow Altered Flora | Glacial Trespass |
| Doctor Gentra | Toxin Trouble  Crystallized Energy | Glacial Trespass |
| Professor Naul | Toxin Trouble Crystallized Energy | Glacial Trespass |
Doctor Maniks and Doctor Sanner are by far the easiest to get because they come from the Glacial-centric ecotone encounters and can appear in either biome. Most of the rest are scattered around the west side of Glacial Trespass.
You can turn on Nameplates on Friendly NPCs in the settings to more easily see them from a distance.
Please share an image with the location of a lost scientist if you find one! We’re working on adding these locations to our Dantooine Crash Site Interactive Map.
Doctor Gentra (TBD)
Doctor Gentra is from Geothermal Disruption and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after she visits the Toxin Trouble ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Geothermal Disruption first.
Professor Naul
Doctor Gentra is from Geothermal Disruption and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Toxin Trouble ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Geothermal Disruption first.
Doctor Maniks (Sporefall)
Doctor Maniks is from Glacial Trespass and can get lost in Sporefall after visiting the Frozen Spores ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Glacial Trespass first.
Doctor Maniks (Geothermal)
Doctor Maniks is from Glacial Trespass and can get lost in Geothermal Disruption after visiting the Natural Coolant ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Glacial Trespass first.
Doctor Sanner (Geothermal)
Doctor Sanner is from Glacial Trespass and can get lost in Geothermal Disruption after visiting the Natural Coolant ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Glacial Trespass first.
Doctor Sanner (Sporefall)
Doctor Sanner is from Glacial Trespass and can get lost in Sporefall after visiting the Frozen Spores ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Glacial Trespass first.
Doctor Lamuna
Doctor Lamuna is from Sporefall and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Petals in the Snow ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Sporefall first.
Doctor Armaxa
Doctor Armaxa is from Sporefall and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Petals in the Snow ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Sporefall first.
Doctor Olobus
Doctor Olobus is from Sporefall and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Petals in the Snow ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Sporefall first.
Doctor Losoo
Doctor Losoo is from Sporefall and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Petals in the Snow ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Sporefall first.
Doctor Deld
Doctor Deld is from Sporefall and can get lost in Glacial Trespass after visiting the Petals in the Snow ecotone encounter that occurs if you level up Sporefall first.
Spore Thing [Hidden]
Attack and defeat a non-hostile Spore-Tending Unit.
Spore-Tending Units are the champion probe droids floating around Sporefall, destroying the lives of the inattentive and uninoculated.
For this achievement, you’ll need to defeat a non-hostile Spore-Tending Unit, so its nameplate needs to be yellow when you aggro it, not red. I believe they only spawn when Sporefall is at levels 1 and 2.
Spore-Tending Units apply the Heavy Sporefall debuff that will zero out your health bar if you remain remotely close to it for more than a few seconds, but if you have the Friend+ rank Hazard Mitigation active for Sporefall, you are immune to its effects, allowing you to fight them.
They only do one ability, Energy Surge, that is just an AoE pulse with a 1.5s cast. They will spam it, but you can interrupt it.
These droids have a ridiculous amount of health, 8 million, and it increases dramatically with each additional player who engages. Each person who participates gets a drop that lets you build a Purifying Tower, and it takes 4 people with the drop to build a single tower.
If you do it solo, I highly recommend getting all the buffs and using a ranged healer companion. You won’t take much damage if you have the survivability buffs, but you need to make sure your healer companion isn’t in melee range. They can’t survive too many Energy Surges.
Thawbringer
Burn 50 Frostblooms or Resonating Frostbulbs in the Glacial Trespass.
Frostblooms are one of the main objectives of the Frostbloom Sweep encounter, while Resonating Frostbulbs are part of the Hollow Frost encounter. It’s a lot faster to clear out the Frostblooms and you can get the Frostbloom deco for doing so.
The giant Frostveins and central Rootmass in Root Cause do not count towards this achievement.
This is Fine
Activate 5 Thermal Regulators without a Coolant Pack during the Dynamic Encounter “Core Overload.”
It’s easiest to do this as a Mercenary | Commando because you can rely on Kolto Overload with Kolto Surge | Adrenaline Rush with Adrenal Surge to keep your health up the whole time. Relying on a healer buddy will also make it a lot more doable.
Since there are only 4 Thermal Regulators you need to click for Core Overload, you’ll need to do the encounter at least twice, or 3 times if you’re doing it with a buddy. You do not need to do all of them in one fell swoop (it’s impossible), nor do you need to survive after you’ve finished clicking.
Violent Tendencies
Defeat 25 Spore-Tending Units.
There’s also an achievement for defeating a whopping 25 Spore-Tending Units! If you could defeat just 3 more (28) in one fell swoop, you could install Spore Purifiers at all 7 locations in Sporefall, but you won’t have enough time to do that.
The towers disappear when the Orbital Core resets and the Spore-Tending Droids take a few minutes to respawn, even at Level 3. Still, if you do it in a group of 4, you can protect all of Sporefall after defeating only 4 droids.
Well, Well, Well [Hidden]
The wells of Dantooine hold some secrets, at least.
The well near the QT point and Unruly Nesters encounter has a little explorable area in it now! Dive in!
Whiteout Warrior
Defeat 100 hostile enemies in the Glacial Trespass while suffering from Cryogenic Saturation.
Cryogenic Saturation is the blizzard debuff you get in the Glacial Trespass biome while you aren’t protected by Hazard Mitigation, so you just have to defeat 100 enemies while in the blizzards. Keep moving to keep those stacks low!
It’s easiest to do this with the little weak enemies in the Frigid Swarm encounter.
