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Achievement List
This is a list of all the achievements in the single-player game that you don't automatically get for making game progress. They're put in the order that you can get them -- or first start on them in the case of those that take awhile. This list only contains information on exactly where each achievement can be gotten. To learn how to get it, you'll need to read the hints for its area.
* Drop Box: You can get this achievement in Chapter 1's Test Chamber 03, but it's easier to get in Chapter 2's Test Chamber 06. Two other opportunities occur in Chapter 3's Test Chamber 13 and Chapter 8's Test Chamber 05.
* Final Transmission: You can get this achievement while getting a storage cube in Chapter 2's Test Chamber 06.
* Pturretdactyl: You can get this achievement while getting a storage cube in Chapter 2's Test Chamber 06, or you can wait and get it right before leaving Chapter 3's Test Chamber 15.
* Preservation of Mass: You can get this achievement right before exiting Chapter 2's Test Chamber 07.
* Overclocker: You can get this achievement in Chapter 3's Test Chamber 10.
* Good Listener: You can get this achievement near the end of Chapter 4 while escaping with Wheatley.
* No Hard Feelings: You can get this achievement in Chapter 5's "Turret Testing Area" region while getting across the room with the turret redemption lines.
* Scanned Alone: You can get this achievement while sabotaging the production line in Chapter 5's "Turret Testing Area" region.
* Door Prize: There are two areas related to this achievement, both of which are in Chapter 6. You'll find one of them in the "Old Facility and Pump Station Alpha" region while trying to get to the Pump Station Alpha door. The other one can be found while trying to portal-fling yourself to the exit elevator in the "Pump Station Beta" region.
* Schrodinger's Catch: You can get this achievement while getting the storage cube in the third test chamber in Chapter 6's "Alpha Enrichment Sphere #3" region.
* Ship Overboard: You can get this achievement while trying to portal-fling yourself to the exit elevator in Chapter 6's "Pump Station Beta" region.
* Portrait of a Lady: You can get this achievement in the area between test chambers in Chapter 7's "Beta Enrichment Sphere #1" region.
* You Made Your Point: You can get this achievement on your first trip through Chapter 8's second test chamber.
* Smash TV: This achievement requires you to damage eleven of Wheatley's test chamber monitors in Chapter 8. The first one is in Test Chamber 01 (the one with the first excursion funnel), and the last one is in Test Chamber 16. (Note that Test Chamber 05 has two monitors in it.)
* Pit Boss: You can get this achievement near the beginning of Chapter 9.
