So I was looking over the achievements on Steam today and it dawned on me that you broke one of them when you completely revamped the Thralls.
The achievement “The gilt, the craft and the lie” is broken since you changed the crafting thralls to not be placed directly on a bench but instead now have to be “guarding” the bench now. I know it’s not working because I’ve placed plenty of thrall crafters on all of my benches now at this point and still not getting the achievement.
I 100% the game on xbox and now that I’ve moved to PC I was hoping to do the same here but moved to pc after the thrall revamp and apparently that’s going to screw me from finishing all of the achievements on steam now. I couldn’t say if console is suffering from this also because I haven’t touched the game on console in awhile now and already had the achievement done.
Have your crafter follow you well out of your base range. Then place down a bench and assign them to it. I don’t know if that will trigger the achievement since I got that a long time ago, but it was the only way I could get the Journey Step to complete.
I don’t know how broken the achievements are, but I’d like it if they updated the Journey steps to take into account the new thrall placement, as well as the new way to obtain thralls. The Journey steps should just be “acquire an alchemist”, and whether you knock one out or you rescue one from a cage, it should still count.
But…I don’t expect any changes like that given the state of the game.
Yeah I can say I have tried this as well, Also placed random ones I get off the wheel right into a bench at random camps I have been farming. I haven’t even bothered with the journey thinking it’s probably the same issue and should have also mentioned that in this report lol but now that you did mention it I’m going to at least progress it to that point haha.