Achievements "All Ears" and "No Stone Unturned"

Hi, I'm trying to complete the following achievements in PoE 1 but I think they are bugged and problematic:
"All Ears"
- Listen to all optional NPC dialogue as one character.

"No Stone Unturned"
- Discover all environmental lore as one character.

I created a new character(Yacuy_HC_I) in HC just to finish up these achievements (and some other HC related), so I did go through every zone carefully and talked with every npc whenever I came back to town.

"All Ears" is bugged BIG TIME, I have talked mutipliple times with differnt NPCs while having the achievements tab open and it just did not count. I do imagine there are some dialogues that are not included in the Achievement but exist due to new leagues being added to the core game, such as the dialogues with Sister Cassia.

"No Stone Unturned" I would imagine it is bugged but I just got to maps, I thought this would only be Campaign related lore but because I still have more than 50 to go, I think there are things in maps.

When I said they - the achievements - are problematic, I meant that they are IMPOSSIBLE to track what you've done or done. It's basicly a guessing game if you've interacted or not with something in the enviroment and where the missing ones are/ or could be at.

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TLDR:

Achievement "All Ears" is bugged!
- multiple dialogues did not count towards the completion.
Avhievement "No Stone Unturned I believe it is bugged.
- I imagine it should only be campaign lore enviroment, I can't tell whether that's true or false.
- this achivement is impossible to be tracked what's done or left to be done




Last bumped on Apr 29, 2025, 1:12:12 PM
did you have an excel file to track progress at all, reddit has the latest list and wiki has may be not update to date to-do-list

Also, try to do that in Standard league may be less buggy
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Last edited by neohongkong#0222 on Apr 27, 2025, 9:02:42 PM
I earned No Stone Unturned three days ago. It doesn’t include any end-game Map content.



As far as I know, All Ears is not bugged. You are correct that NPCs added from prior challenge leagues were not added to the achievement. It would help a lot if you could post specific examples of NPCs & their dialogue options that haven’t appeared to count for you.
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Sarno#0493 wrote:
I earned No Stone Unturned three days ago. It doesn’t include any end-game Map content.



As far as I know, All Ears is not bugged. You are correct that NPCs added from prior challenge leagues were not added to the achievement. It would help a lot if you could post specific examples of NPCs & their dialogue options that haven’t appeared to count for you.


the problem is, he/she/they did not use external check-list to track progress. "All Ears" quite often requires to portal back to town in mid of the quest , as the dialogue will be gone if you reached next quest step or finished the quest. It is impossible to do it by blind run, it must be done by following guide / checklist
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Yacuy#4264 wrote:
"No Stone Unturned" I would imagine it is bugged but I just got to maps, I thought this would only be Campaign related lore but because I still have more than 50 to go, I think there are things in maps.

There's nothing available only from maps, though being at endgame can help a little.

Both All Ears and No Stone Unturned have some things that are easily overlooked.
Some examples for No Stone Unturned (spoilered at Sarno's suggestion:
Spoiler
Vaal Side Areas have lore at the end).
Spoiler
They only have a chance to spawn in an area. Being able to throw sacrifice fragments into the map device to open a random Vaal Side Area helps to finish those up iirc.

The lore available from the Library cannot all be obtained from a single visit.
Spoiler
There are over 15 books that can appear, but only a few are present in an instance, so it takes multiple visits.
Last edited by Jadian#0111 on Apr 28, 2025, 12:59:09 AM
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Jadian#0111 wrote:
Another easily missed set of lore is

While it’s very kind of you, I’m not sure OP would want such specific and actionable advice.

They must know that guides exist for these, but they’ve clearly elected not to follow one - and on top of that, they’ve chosen to attempt this on Hardcore. I get the feeling they’re not the type to desire having their hand held. Maybe edit your post to have those examples hidden in a spoiler tag?
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Sarno#0493 wrote:
I earned No Stone Unturned three days ago. It doesn’t include any end-game Map content.



As far as I know, All Ears is not bugged. You are correct that NPCs added from prior challenge leagues were not added to the achievement. It would help a lot if you could post specific examples of NPCs & their dialogue options that haven’t appeared to count for you.



Wow! I didn't expect these much people commenting, thanks!

Regarding "All Ears" I do not know which ones should count, so I didn't keep track but as it seems, I'm gonna have to do it over because @neohongkong#0222 mentioned a spreadsheet to keep track of stuff.

Regarding "No Stone Unturned", thanks! I'm gonna go through the zones again.
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did you have an excel file to track progress at all, reddit has the latest list and wiki has may be not update to date to-do-list

Also, try to do that in Standard league may be less buggy



I'm gonna give a google and try again. I just checked the PoE Wiki and I realised what a nightmare this is going to be.

Thanks for taking your time to reply. GLHF
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Jadian#0111 wrote:
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Yacuy#4264 wrote:
"No Stone Unturned" I would imagine it is bugged but I just got to maps, I thought this would only be Campaign related lore but because I still have more than 50 to go, I think there are things in maps.

There's nothing available only from maps, though being at endgame can help a little.

Both All Ears and No Stone Unturned have some things that are easily overlooked.
Some examples for No Stone Unturned (spoilered at Sarno's suggestion:
Spoiler
Vaal Side Areas have lore at the end).
Spoiler
They only have a chance to spawn in an area. Being able to throw sacrifice fragments into the map device to open a random Vaal Side Area helps to finish those up iirc.

The lore available from the Library cannot all be obtained from a single visit.
Spoiler
There are over 15 books that can appear, but only a few are present in an instance, so it takes multiple visits.



I found out about the Vaal Side areas on my own. There are 4 total I believe.

But I did not know about FIFTEEN books in the Library. Gonna give that a go today.
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Sarno#0493 wrote:
I earned No Stone Unturned three days ago. It doesn’t include any end-game Map content.



As far as I know, All Ears is not bugged. You are correct that NPCs added from prior challenge leagues were not added to the achievement. It would help a lot if you could post specific examples of NPCs & their dialogue options that haven’t appeared to count for you.


the problem is, he/she/they did not use external check-list to track progress. "All Ears" quite often requires to portal back to town in mid of the quest , as the dialogue will be gone if you reached next quest step or finished the quest. It is impossible to do it by blind run, it must be done by following guide / checklist



As I said priorly, I just checked the Wiki and the fact that having to go back amidst the quest makes me furious. I know it makes some sense on the roleplay perpective but don't make that part - which is unrepatable and easily skipable - be part of a achievement.

Sorry, I bit of venting.

Thanks for replying, you and everyone else here was quite helpful.

GLHF

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