Placid Plastic Duck Simulator: How to Get All Achievements (2024)

There is a brand-new, super relaxing game and DLC called Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, and this game is all the rage on Steam. It has a perfect score of Overwhelmingly Positive with more than 4,000 reviews. The game is the ultimate relaxing video game idle simulation; players can influence the game in any way.

Instead, they can only watch as ducks swim by without being able to influence them at all. This means that, for the most part, the player can't force the achievements to happen. But players still might be wondering just what all the achievements are in this weird little game.

Updated on February 22, 2023, by Mina Smith: Previously, this article covered the base game and two DLCs. But now there is a brand-new DLC available for Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. The new update is called Duck Addiction, and it dropped on February 20th. This update added new interactions, 27 new ducks, and three new achievements for players to collect. In order to keep this article as accurate as possible, it was necessary to add the information for all the updated achievements, how to get them, and what ducks players will need to achieve these trophies.

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Ducks By Numbers in Placid Duck Simulator

There are three different easy achievements that are completed just by having some ducks land in the pool; there is an achievement for three ducks, for twenty, then for collecting all the possible base-game ducks. These are:

• Three is Company - Get three ducks.
• Duck invasion - Get 20 ducks.
• That's all, ducks! - Get all the ducks; this doesn't include the ducks from the DLC.

Event Achievements in Placid Duck Simulator

In this game all about enjoying the little things, there are a grand total of 28 achievements, and 15 of these are base-game event achievements. These are gotten when the game gives players a certain duck, an event happens outside the pool, or a certain duck has something happen to it.

Family Pond (Hidden)

One of the many ducks in this indie game that players can get in their pools in the main game is a momma duck that comes with several little tiny plastic ducklings. Once this duck and her babies drop into the pool, players will get this achievement.

Make a Wish

During the night on the pool map, players can sometimes see a shooting star over the pool. This will trigger the "Make a Wish" achievement.

Catch a Flight

See a video game airplane fly overhead the pool for this goal.

Way to the Shore (Hidden)

There are a couple of ducks in this immersive sim game that have the ability to do something beyond floating around. One of these is a duck with a spinny hat that can launch him out of the pool and into the ocean like a helicopter. There are other ducks that can get this achievement, but this one seems to be the fastest.

Private Pool

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This achievement occurs when a duck slides from the big pool into the smaller pool in this replayable sim game.

On Fire

There are a couple of ducks that shoot or have flames on them, and several ducks that are super flammable. One of the fire ducks has to catch a flammable duck on fire.

Ducks Adrift

If players are looking out over the ocean, they may see a bunch of ducks going by.

High-Rise

There is a pipe that can suck ducks from the small pool to the big one. The first duck that goes through the pipe will trigger this achievement.

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Putting Challenge (Hidden)

A golf ball will fall from the sky at some point, giving players this achievement.

Abducktion

A little tiny alien ship will come by, stealing a duck or two before disappearing into the night.

Watery Help

There are a handful of ducks that shoot water, including the firefighter duck and the clown duck. One of these two just needs to put an on-fire duck out.

Cruise Ship

Look out over the water and eventually there will be a cruise ship that goes by. This will trigger the Cruise Ship achievement.

Firequackers

In order to get this achievement, players will need to have both a duck with fire and the firecracker duck. Once the firecracker duck's fuse is lit, it will launch into the heavens and explode into a shower of pretty sparks.

Beeline

There is both a bee duck and a plant duck. These two must both be in the pool together. Once they get close enough, the bee duck will start to circle the plant duck, triggering the event.

Floatpiercer ​​​​​​(Hidden)

There is a cute-but-creepy stabby duck with a sharp knife that can float around in the pool. If the flamingo floaty gets into the pool with this stabby duck, it can end up with no air in it at the bottom of the pool.

Quack in the Ice DLC Achievements

The Quack in the Ice DLC gives players a great excuse to replay this indie game again; there is a whole new map with all new achievments.

Magnetic Feel

When these two magnetic ducks end up in the pool together, they will come to stick together like glue.

Quacking the Ice

When a duck slides down the slide from the upper pool to the ice below, it will trigger this event.

Fun-Fun-Funicular

In this amazing little indie simulation game, the little zamboni will push the little ducks into an elevator which releases them back into the upper pool.

Hot Tub

A couple of ducks spit fire in Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. If one of them gets close enough to the metal ball in the middle of the pool close to the fireplace, they can light this and heat up the pool.

Campfire Simulator (Hidden)

When players press E in Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, they can move into a sitting position to watch the ducks. In the DLC, there are three positions that E will take them to. One is in the room by the fireplace, the next is outside by the slide, and the third has them looking through the viewfinder near the pool's edge. Once a spinny-hat duck is spawned, it'll fly off to start a campfire. Look through the viewfinders at the duck to earn this achievement.

Off-piste Ski (Hidden)

In this game that's so relaxing, players can listen to a podcast white playing, there is a duck that is frozen in a block of ice above the pool. Wait for a woodpecker to come by, and the bird will eventually knock down this skii-themed duck and dump it into the pool.

Scoring Challenge (Hidden)

This hidden achievement can only be gotten if the little zamboni pushes the puck into one of the goals on the ice.

Duck Addiction DLC Achievements

On February 20, 2023, a new DLC for the quirky gamePlacid Plastic Duck Simulator dropped, giving players 27 more relaxing ducks to watch. According to the Steam page, it also added:

• New unique actions and combos.
• Support for further development.
• An explosion.
• 3 more achievements for plastic duck fans.

Sailin' On

During play, a little sailboat with a captain duck on it will appear in the pool.

Hide and Seek

Players will actually have to interact with the game in order to get this one; it can only be done after the ninja duck has appeared. Everything three minutes or so, the ninja duck will disappear, and it will no longer show up in the roll of ducks if players scroll through them with the tab key. It hides in one of several places for about a minute; players need to locate it. Once it's been spotted in one of these places, click the right mouse button to lock the camera, then use the arrow-shaped pointer to click on the ninja in its hiding place. Once players find it six times, they will get this achievement.

• There is a little island off the pool's edge where it can appear.
• Under the first chair that is on the opposite side of the pool from the big palm tree floatie.

• Under the slide that ducks slide down to get to the smaller pool.

• Next to the beach ball that is next to the tube that connects the smaller pool to the bigger one.

• When sitting on the fabric beach chair, look to the left. At the base of the real palm tree, there is a little bush for the ninja to hide in.

• On the upper corner of the roof, opposite the wall with the giant round holes in it.

If players are on the other map from the Quack in the Ice DLC, here are the ninja's hiding spots.

• In the tree near where the ice duck is.

• In a pile of snow overlooking the mountains.

• On the mantle in the pool room.

• Under the table in the pool room.

• On top of the snowman near the ice skating pool.

Paranormal Activity (Hidden)

There are two new ducks needed for this achievement; players will need to have both the Tron duck and the ghost duck in the pool at the same time. Unfortunately for them, the ghost duck is completely invisible to the naked eye. But if players look at the duck list under collections in the menu, they will see whether or not they have the ghost. They can also see it if they try to tab through all the ducks and find one that is just empty space.

Once the ghost duck is out, players will need to switch to the Tron duck by clicking on it. This will open its scanning mode; if players use tab, it will not open this scan mode. This mode looks like this:

Now, the player will have to stay in scan mode and wait for the ghost duck to swim by, holding still long enough in front of the Tron duck to scan it. This takes a good chunk of time to accomplish most of the time, since the scanning is pretty slow. Thankfully, the ghost is pretty easy to see in this mode.

Getting the Achievements Faster in Placid Duck Simulator

While all these cozy PC game's achievements are based on just letter the game idle long enough, there is a way to speed things up a little bit. If players are looking to collect all the ducks, they may have noticed how slow the duck meter in the upper right-hand corner fills up the more ducks they get. When the meter starts, it only takes about 2 minutes for the meter to fill, but it gets longer each duck.

In order to speed this up, especially if players are looking for a specific duck or combo of ducks, they can:

• After the first duck drops in this indie Steam game, let the duck meter fill. This will take about 2 minutes to 2:30 minutes.
• Save and quit.
• Then resume the game.
• Check to see which duck has spawned, then reset the game again. This will speed the "Getting All Ducks" achievement up quite a bit.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is available for Steam.

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Source: Steam Community