Anyone managed to unlock a Steam achievement via code (not stats)?

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Has anyone been able to unlock a Steam achievement from code?
Note: I’m not talking about achievements tied to stats, those unlock fine for me automatically when the stat hits the target value.

What I don’t get is why steamworks.setAchievementUnlocked() won’t unlock an achievement that’s not stat-based. My code looks solid (as far as I can tell), but it just won’t fire. Any ideas?

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Hi,
The only extra care I take is save the unlocked achievements into a file so I can synchronize it with the server later even if the first unlock request will fail.

Since your stats successfully updates (and I guess they are multiple calls), I’m moved to think 1 call may fail for some reasons but a later attempt would succeed?

This or maybe the achievements aren’t configured/exposed properly.

Try to log it and see if it gives you a error or anything

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My issue is that achievements not tied to stats won’t unlock from my code, while the stat-based ones unlock just fine when the stat hits the configured value.

The code is straightforward (I’ve checked it multiple times) and I also keep variable references/flags for unlocked achievements to track them. Still, several users report that those non–stat-based achievements don’t unlock for them either. That’s why I’m starting to think steamworks.setAchievementUnlocked() might not be working perfectly, especially since it was added to the Steamworks plugin fairly recently.

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Okay, but I do have non-stats achievements.

I only have non-stats achievements…

So maybe the issue is with having both types mixed together?

We can compare our set-up inside Steam if you want.

Just confirm those achievements have been 100% published and tell me what the log says about those calls, so we can exclude obvious reasons before we start

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Here’s an example of my achievements:

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For this one I simply use:

steamworks.setAchievementUnlocked("1D")
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Yes, that’s exactly how I’ve set up my achievements, and they’re already published. I’ll run some tests and post my results here.

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It’s been some time since I worked on the steam version of our apps but the achievements are still working fine and the code that I have is basically the same function call as yours:

--function that unlocks the specified achievement
function steamManager.unlockAchievement(achievementName)
	local hasSucceeded=steamworks.setAchievementUnlocked(achievementName)--returns true if the achievement is successfully unlocked
	
	if(hasSucceeded)then
		-- debugStmt.print("Steam Manager: Achievement Unlocked!!")
	else
		-- debugStmt.print("Steam Manager: Error!")
	end
end

I don’t know if the achievements have a name AND and ID but I should clarify that I am passing the full string name to the function and they unlock alright.

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I see… thank you for posting it.