The Secret Achievements of HearthPwn
So we have this awesome thing called the achievements system on HearthPwn. There have been a lot of inquiring minds to see if I would reveal all the secret achievements the site has before the shutdown.
Hell yeah, let's do it. If you go any further in this post, there are spoilers.
How Many Secrets?
Forty. There were forty secret achievements I created on HearthPwn (with some help from the kick-ass mod team) that were available for earning. The best part about secret achievements was coming up with the names. There were tons of references to help you figure out what you needed to do but unfortunately, not everyone was able to figure them all out but it was fun to send people on the hunt.
I do regret some of the references being very easy to not understand due to when you tried to go after the achievement, but in a way that made it more fun since you had to go on a proper search. Something like Nice Meme where you needed to create a deck with Ticking Abomination in it is tough to figure out unless you were around when the card was revealed. For those not in the know, Blizzard revealed Ticking Abomination after we were left in silence for just over two weeks since Frozen Throne has been announced. That is the card we were greeted with. The anger was insane!
That's Just Crazy
Although this has been spoiled in the past by some people, that's just crazy is indeed the craziest secret achievement HearthPwn had. As of writing only 221 community members earned the achievement!
What was the criteria you ask? Well, that's a secret! Okay, fine.
Visit the website every single day for an entire year. Yup, many of those who guessed the criteria for it were correct this whole time. The hardest part about it was being consistent in your arrivals. Due to the site being hosted in the Central American timezone, it was quite possible for you to technically visit the site on two different days in your country but really, we saw it as visits on the same day here. I don't believe the tracking was ever perfect but I am proud of being the first person to obtain the achievement and for Arthas, my bot, being one of the last.
More Crazy Secret Achievements
While we're talking about achievements that weren't earned by many, these are the top five rarest secret achievements outside of That's Just Crazy.
- [300] Now That's a Mad Lad - Visit Mad Hatter's card page.
- [378] Kira's Guardian - Create a deck using Bwonsamdi, the Dead.
- One of my favourite references since it is from Death Note, an anime favourite.
- Kira (killer) is the name given to Light Yagami by his followers. The Guardian of Kira is a shinigami (god of death) named Ryuk, which is a character Bwonsamdi in WoW really takes after.
- [565] HOWDY! - Visit Annoy-o-Tron's incredibly annoying brother's card page.
- The sound effect made by Annoy-o-Module
- [664] Death Note - Visit Bwonsamdi, the Dead's Card Page.
- So close to 666! Kira's Guardian explains this one.
- [677] That Incident - Create a deck using Hakkar, the Soulflayer.
- Reference to the Corrupted Blood incident.
The Rest!
Here are all the other secret achievements
- 01d G0ds 0n1ine - Create a deck which contains Mecha'thun.
- Blind Rage - Visit Shadow Rager's card page.
- Carrots and Mutton - Create a deck which contains Refreshment Vendor.
- Destroyer of Worlds - Create a deck which contains Deathwing.
- Did The Turtle see His Shadow? - Visit Tortollan Forager's card page.
- Duelfin Master - Create a deck which contains Murloc Tinyfin.
- Fiveosaurusrex - Visit The Last Kaleidosaur's card page.
- Fluffy Little Borker - Visit Arfus' card page.
- Frostmourne Hungers - Create a deck which contains The Lich King.
- Grandmaster of All - Create a deck which contains Nightmare Amalgam.
- Grave Aggression - Create a deck which contains Undertaker.
- HELLLOOOOO! - Visit Annoy-o-Tron's card page.
- Hunter of Spells - Visit Zul'jin's Card Page.
- I Always Like Making My Own Minions Worse - Create a deck which contains Purify.
- I Have A Secret - Visit the HearthPwn Secrets Calculator.
- I Summon Kuribo! - Create a deck which contains Feral Gibberer.
- I Will Hunt You Down! - Create a deck which contains To My Side!.
- Ticking Abomination - Create a deck which contains Ticking Abomination.
- Not This Again! - Visit Boommaster Flark's card page.
- Perfectly Balanced - Create a deck which contains Dr. Boom.
- Power Creep - Visit Pompous Thespian's card page.
- Say Cheese! - Visit Zola the Gorgon's card page.
- Southern Starseeking - Create a deck which contains Elise the Trailblazer.
- Team Five - Visit a Hearthstone developer's card page.
- Tentacles Are Cute! - Create a deck which contains Spawn of N'Zoth.
- The Answer To Jade? - Visit Skulking Geist's card page.
- TOO SOON! - Create a deck which contains Majordomo Executus.
- Tunnel Vision - Create a deck which contains Weasel Tunneler.
- Well Met Indeed - Create a deck which contains Eater of Secrets.
- What The Flark? - Visit Goblin Bomb's card page.
- Who Blew Out The Candle? - Visit The Darkness' card page.
- Yes, mi-light-lord - Visit Ragnaros, Lightlord's card page.
- You Merely Adopted The Dark - Create a deck which contains Fool's Bane.
- ZMOrc - Create a deck which contains Zoobot.
If you want to stay together with all of us orphans of the HearthPwn community, myself and our wonderful site staff have started up a new project over at OutOf.Cards. We encourage you to come see your old friends from HearthPwn over there - the goal is to support all the features HearthPwn had and do even more!
That one was easy enough - just have to post a lot and hope to get atleast one like
Edit: never mind thought I had it xD
Just made a deck to get many of this achievments lastly :(
I'm going to miss Hearthpwn. :(
Got every one of these except the "visit every day" one.. was indeed fun to guess what each secret achievement was, very nice idea indeed! :)
I am proud to be one of 221…
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Got most of the secret achievement and was going for "That's Just Crazy" also but as i see that friggin transfer to Fandom resetted my counter :(
Anyway nice job, looking forward to see Achies v2.0 at OutOfCards :)
I really wish there were combination of cards for secret achievements
Love that reference from The Dark Knight Rises
"You Merely Adopted The Dark, I was born in it, Molded by it."
Going to Bwonsamdi page to obtain the Death Note achievement, never noticed his similarities with Ryuk lol.
It is easier to notice if you played the new World of Warcraft expansion ;)
I acyually got a few of this by creating legit ranked decks like wild murloc shaman which used tynifin or mechathun priest.
One of the rarest achievements of all wasn't even a secret one: Now That's Community Value, which requires you to have a +2500 rating or more across the entire site. Only 34 users on the entire site ended up getting it since it was introduced in December 2017; of those 34, 7 were given it retroactively when it was introduced. I was one of those 7!
Yeah... That wasn't easy
The second rarest (achievable) achievement! Congrats on being one of the few who managed it. The rarest (achievable) achievement, "That's Incredible!", required double that rating, and only 9 of the 34 users who achieved +2500 managed to push for +5000.
Two of them were Flux and I, which I can't help but feel is cheating a little bit, given that Flux literally ran the site and answered everyone's questions, and I got jokes in on new cards as we were adding them to the site =P You're always first if you're the one making the content.
I say achievable, of course, because there is an achievement which nobody has, despite, I'm sure, many people qualifying for it. The "Does Anyone Read These?" achievement, for commenting on 500 News Posts, has been broken for possibly the entire time it's existed - I've certainly been stuck on 322/500 for well over a year. A shame that nobody will ever have collected all the Golden Achievements - I'm certainly not crafting the ~38 Golden Legendaries I need for those two achievements, and not even my best meme deck managed 500,000 views.
I wonder if anyone managed it - without "Does Anyone Read These?", of course.
Yeah, iv been stuck on 517/500 :D
563/500 Here, I'm getting this close from having it ^^
I'm one of the 34 chosen ones. It's actually very easy: just do a bad joke or a sexual reference in a comment and the upvotes will flow. I don't think I ever made a comment that had some actual value lul.
And now you have.
I don't know i actually made quiet a few valuable comments... I was feeding of card reveal seasons... Though curse screwed me over this March where cards where not being added to database for me to make a joke or analysis of it depending on my mood until towards the end of the season where i did grab 10+ bronze trophies still but damn if it wasn't for that problem i might have been at 300+... Oh well...