Missable achievements in Dressmaker, and the ones that only look risky
One achievement is missable: Sucker for Punishment
When Vivian talks about animals, pick the leech. The game autosaves, so any other answer stays picked. The other 31 cannot be missed. The story ones count a card as done once you hand a dress in, even a dress that fails it. The craft ones, Opulence and Excess included, are checked on any dress you hand in, sell or gift, and you can keep making and selling dresses after the story ends.
Can each one be missed?
The missable one first, then the rest by how many Steam players have them. The conditions themselves, hidden ones included, are on all 32 achievements.
| Achievement | Missable? | What to watch | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucker for Punishment | Missable | One answer in a talk about animals with Vivian. See the leech answer. | 1.4% |
| Laid To Dress | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Respectful Funeral, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 74.5% |
| 99 Problems But A Stitch Aint One | Not missable | Any dress, any time. 100% quality | 72.2% |
| You’ve Got Mail | Not missable | Hand in Dorothy’s first card, Pigeon Adoption, pass or fail. Check the card | 44.7% |
| Style Goals | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Spirited Exercise, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 34% |
| Dart Deco | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Art Appreciator, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 23.1% |
| Rooting For You | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Carrot Promotion, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 15.8% |
| Hedge Your Bets | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows A-maze-ingly Lost, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 11.4% |
| Don't Wanna Miss A Spring | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Spring Fete, pass or fail. The event’s cards | 9% |
| Sew Long | Not missable | Any dress with the ruffle skirt, handed in, sold or gifted. dress pieces | 6.7% |
| Simply Beastly | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Beloved Ox, pass or fail. Later events | 5.9% |
| Smells like Sateen Spirit | Not missable | Hand in Comfortable Coffin, pass or fail. Later events | 4.3% |
| Newlythreads | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Never the Bride, pass or fail. Later events | 3.3% |
| A Midsummer Night’s Seam | Not missable | Hand in Constellation Inspiration, pass or fail. Later events | 2.4% |
| Caw Evermore | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Raven Rising, pass or fail. Alice’s cards | 2.2% |
| A Rose By Any Other Name | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Bold Tigress, pass or fail. Rose’s cards | 2.1% |
| Extrav-organza | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Bold Tigress, pass or fail. Later events | 2.1% |
| Snitches Get Stitches | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Gala Supporter, pass or fail. Dorothy’s cards | 1.8% |
| Reap what You Sew | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Opera Night, pass or fail. Fiona’s cards | 1.7% |
| On a High Note | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Another Encore, pass or fail. Later events | 1.5% |
| G.O.A.T. | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Diplomatic Outreach, pass or fail. Marie’s cards | 1.4% |
| Go Off, Queen! | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Crowning Glory, pass or fail. Adora’s cards | 1.3% |
| Good Girl Gone Vlad | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Dark Emissary, pass or fail. Vivian’s cards | 1.1% |
| Crowning Glory | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Dark Emissary, pass or fail. Later events | 1.1% |
| Swan Song | Not missable | Hand in her last card, World Stage, pass or fail. Edith’s cards | 1% |
| Prudence and Prejudice | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Painted Dream, pass or fail. Prudence’s cards | 0.9% |
| Drawn to Hue | Not missable | Hand in her last card, Sewn in the Stars, pass or fail. Priya’s cards | 0.9% |
| Don We Now Our Gay Apparel | Not missable | Pops with the newspaper report that follows Painted Dream, pass or fail. Later events | 0.9% |
| Birds of a Feather, Frock Together | Not missable | All 8 letters handed in, pass or fail. They do not expire. Pigeon letters | 0.8% |
| Harder than it Seams | Not missable | Any dress you hand in, sell or gift. the three marathons | 0.7% |
| Trim and Proper | Not missable | Any dress you hand in, sell or gift. the three marathons | 0.6% |
| Opulence and Excess | Not missable | Materials worth 5,000 gold or more on any dress you hand in, sell or gift. It does not have to pass a card. the three marathons | 0.3% |
The leech answer for Vivian
Sucker for Punishment asks you to pick the leech option when Vivian talks about animals. Her first visit is not that talk: the questions there are about your cat and who you are, and none of the answers mentions a leech. Start the video here to see what her choices look like.
- Expect it later. The animal talk can come as late as Vivian’s third commission, the one the pigeon delivers, so treat every Vivian conversation from her first card on as the one.
- Read all the answers before you click. Pick the one that compares her to a leech. It is the only achievement decided by a line of dialogue.
- Do not count on a reload. The game autosaves, even in the middle of a problem, so quitting does not take an answer back. Whether the talk can come round a second time is not known.
More about her, her velvet cards and her night visits is on Vivian’s page.
A failed story dress still counts
The event achievements ask for all the dresses for an event, and the client ones for all of a client’s major commissions. For both, a card counts as done once you hand a dress in, whether it passes or fails. Most event ones pop with the newspaper report that follows the event’s last dress. A failed card still pays its full budget and a quarter of a friendship star. Handing in a delivered dress again is not possible.
So a fail costs you most of the friendship and prestige, not an achievement. If a line on the card is close, Keep working is still worth it for the full star; check the card first in the pass-or-fail checker.
Pigeon letters wait for you
Birds of a Feather, Frock Together (0.8% of players) counts every commission Berty brings. When Berty adopts you, Dorothy is plain about it: “these extra tasks wouldn't expire, although I imagine customers could occasionally become temporarily unavailable for personal reasons.” Letters can still be waiting when the story stops, so if it stops while some clients seem to have dresses left, go through the pigeon before you call it finished. Finish the story card you are on before you accept a letter; taking one midway can hide the open card. How the mail and visiting cards work is on friendship stars and gifts.
When an achievement does not pop
- 99 Problems But A Stitch Aint One with 100 on the dress. The achievement ignores measurements. It scores the dress as if it had no client, 40% cutting and 60% sewing, and needs 99.5 or more. That makes it easier than the Quality on a commission card suggests: a dress showing 96 can earn it when the fit was what cost the points. It also means a dress showing 100 can miss by a fraction when the sewing was a touch short. So aim for clean seams above all, on any dress, off the rack included. If a dress with every piece and every seam at 100% still does not pop it, report it on the Steam discussion board. How to reach 100 is on getting 100% quality.
- Event achievements after finishing the event. Most event achievements wait for that event’s newspaper report, so they pop when the paper arrives, not when you hand in the last dress. Some players get no achievements at all after hours of play. No cause or fix has turned up; report it on the Steam discussion board.
- Sew Long after sewing ruffles. It asks for the ruffle skirt itself. Ruffles made another way may not count, so if it has not popped, finish a dress with that skirt.