Have you ever felt like BotB is missing something (other than pit fights, OHB rushes and starcans)? Wished there was some sort of progression outside of leveling and format badges? Do you like checking things off lists?

If you said yes to any or none of these questions, then I would highly reccommend...

chievos!
noun /tʃiːv ˈəʊ/
an accomplishment of something specific, usually in a list of other specific challenges

You may have seen the chievos on my profile before getting ticked off and getting new additions every so often. This system has recieved a lot of positive reception and even encouraged some people to refurbish their own profiles. So, by (I guess not very) popular demand, I am releasing my chievo system for everyone to easily use! If you need a little something extra that will not only spruce up your profile but also give you something to strive towards, then I highly reccommend chievos!

Currently, my chievo system has 10 chievo categories:

• Getting Started (chievos for n00bz! this website can be a bit daunting for a newcomer, so why not check these off first? you'll feel right at home!)
• General (chievos that aren't really niche and are more aimed at n00bs getting familiar with the site)
• Battles (chievos surrounding entries to battles such as XHBs and majors)
• Level Milestones (chievos for leveling up all the way to level 33)
• Melons (chievos based on hanna's yummy melon system!)
• Hostist (chievos surrounding hosting battles!)
• Chips Challenge (chievos surrounding the infamous challenge involving submitting to all formats in a 6+ format major)
• Chievocobos (chievos surrounding chocobo runs, a BotB gamemode where your entries need a score of 20+ or it's game over!)
• Sillies (chievos that...honestly i have no idea how they got here. maybe you need to figure out how to unlock them? they do look kinda silly)
• Master chievos (chievos that are significantly harder than most chievos. don't expect to get these quickly!)

Sounds fun? Great! You can view the current (and previous) versions of the chievo system below. In it you will find some handy info, a changelog and the firki that you can simply copy and paste into your bio!

show me teh latest chievos! (v1.1)

previous version (v1.0)

If the chievo system recieves minor updates (1.x) then I will update this post accordingly. I hope you all get a kick out of this like I have!

fun thing, i especially like the layouting of it!
had an achievement list on my profile for a long time too.

looking at your list, i think i got all chievos apart from the lvl33 one and the melons (tho i never actually checked if i ever got a melon or two, so cld as well be)

maybe we shld update the concept of chocobo run to be able to fit it into this list as well hmmm...

my current wip achievement is "getting all badges", but that one requires maintenance since new formats can get added any time

ok. let's go thru this

for what it is - a n00b motivator - it's pretty damn good for an idea; better than psn trophies, that's for sure. however i think, for what it is RIGHT NOW, this is pretty anemic. the cheevs here don't really hold a candle to the goals some botbrs (myself included) instill upon themselves; that's not a point against it conceptually, but there's too little difficulty comparitive to those goal sets. it feels like things any botbr with a well enough (musical or otherwise) understanding of botb could blast through these, aside from stuff like pulling a golden medal for every possible major cat and getting lvl 33. either way, i feel like there's not enough for the veterans to get invested into this; dunno if that's your intent, but i betcha get more botbrs on board catering to both the n00bs and the oldsk00l.

there's changes i could list right now that would probably make great additions to this achievement list:
- subbing mastery iii and v for the mighty and ascended cheevs, as they're functionally the same thing only a few levels seperated. adjust mastery iv to somewhere between levels 21 and 23
- longcatislong cheevs for 5 min, 10, 20, etc
- master cheevos for getting a long enough FORMAT GOLD C-C-C-COMBO going
- cheevs for topping both the charts, in different ways too
- chip's challenge cheevs, master cheevo for BOTB DEITY
- chocobo run cheevs
- multiple badges cheevs
- social work cheevs, such as streaming synclistens, uploading vlogs, etc.
i could probably go on infinitum but ykwim

of course there are other logistical questions: how will this look next to the already in-place badges and medals? will all botbrs update the cheevos in accordance and good faith to them in a timely matter? why even do this in the first place? does my input matter? the answers, btw, are who cares, dunno, personal motivation, and only if you choose for it to matter.

i'm super thrilled to hear you're updating it in the future. my suggestions are up there for you to mull over, but either way i'm excited to hear what you will do with this in the future. :)

i want to see more completionists, more people submiting to all existing battle formats, and more people submitting 2-hour songs!!!

i personally think it's fine if the cheevo list as-is isn't for everyone. i did sorta conclude before that i've done most of these, but that's okay. it just made me think about whatever my incomplete goals are, and nothing's to stop me from listing those if i want* :D

those are some good ideas for additional cheevos for sure, but yeah i think the core function of getting new/newer folks more excited about participating is 100% there and awesome. who doesn't wanna check stuff off a list!? if i was still new (i still feel new...) i would absolutely be rocking this list on my profile. it's cute & good

* actually upon reflection i don't think i have a lot of specific long term goals here lol... after this winter chip, i got close enough to "have an entry in every format" that i might gradually go for that, and it'd be fun to completionism spring tracks and summer chip once too, but neither of those will likely be this year. i dunno i'm just here to make songs, check out cool art and help people out

V1.1 IS OUT!! go check the top post!
also HUGE thanks to lumby for the suggestions!

- Tag x entries
- vote on x entries
- gain points of every regularly available point type

I decided against putting this on my profile due to lack of interest, but I did decide to take a look at your chievos list.
As of the time of this post, I have...
- Everything under getting started.
- Almost everything under general. The biggest exception is that I have no gold format badges (I'm 25 away from a gold S3XMODIT, the only one that made that much progress, but I have absolutely nothing for everything else), and I do not understand what shadowcans and starcans are.
- The longcatislong series for battles. I don't have a good enough memory for the buzzer beater or buzzer beated ones.
- Everything up to level 27 on the milestones. I'm not interested post-ascension on this one: quite enough for me.
- Zero melons simply because I am very inactive on OHBs these days, and I think my participation gaps would be way too large to consider this. Plus, the melon system started in mid-2022: my last 30+ song was in February 2022, and they tend to be rare enough.
- Hostist is an interesting one, because sometimes I directly contributed sample packs and sometimes I didn't, to some OHBs. I will only count the ones I actually beghasted myself. Unbelievably, the only chievo that I don't have is i just work here, which means I submitted an entry to every single XHB that I hosted.
- Pretty sure I have zero under Chips Challenge. In some cases this is because of tool limitations.
- No Chocobo run either, and I'm not interested.
- Sillies are an interesting one since they're more vague...
-- Definitely haven't done your honour if that's what I think it is... but I actually have one that I can nominate for the your honour sillies ^c_hⁱ_e^v_o^s, though the render was later replaced: it was Tilde's only Atari TIA entry. I even remember commenting that I was only going to judge the actual entry: if I remember his words correctly, it made me both a magnificent bastard and a reasonable man.
-- aha, you know what that means! sounds like something I've done before very early on in which I asked someone else to host and I provided a sample pack.
-- Hmm... do I recall doing something akin to release the trolley before? I'm trying to remember if I did for someone else to host...
-- No comment on free.
-- *hug* *purrs like a furby*
-- what kind of silly doofus rubbish is that? ...would, interestingly enough, most likely apply to a comment I made on the IRC in an indirect fashion when listening to the (now at least partially, if not completely lost) synclisten for Winter Chip IX.
- And last, but not least, the master chievos. There is exactly one that I almost got, and that is gold across the board in my very first major in Summer Chip II: it has gold solar power, gold cool breeze... and silver 64k module (the format it was entered in), and bronze overall.

i don't enjoy melons too, i prefer watermelons! xD

v1.2 is coming i promise

Apparently the melons achievement was discontinued, too.

don't worry, i just learned about star cans just now too. someone needs to get me up to speed

> Apparently the melons achievement was discontinued, too.
really? that sucks :(

> don't worry, i just learned about star cans just now too. someone needs to get me up to speed
dont worry, starcans are just an idea i had for OHRs (which might be added with the engine rewrite!)