PeakAchiever

Pin the badges you want to chase, and see during your run which ones you can still earn.

• Pin from the pause menu. Open the badges page of the pause menu and click a badge you have not earned yet: a yellow pin marks it, and the badge's tooltip says whether a click pins or unpins it. Works in the airport too, so you can pick your targets before take-off.
• Track in the top-right corner. During a run, each pinned badge shows its icon, name and condition, taken from the game in your language.
  • A yellow bar and current / total for badges with a counter. LIFETIME marks counters the game keeps across all runs (meals cooked, height climbed...).
  • "Holding so far" for clean-run badges (no fall damage, no packaged food...) still intact.
  • A green check once earned.
  • A red cross, with the reason, once the badge can no longer be earned this run: its biome is not on this map or is behind you, or the clean-run condition broke.
• Forbidden items marked in the inventory. While a pinned Naturalist or Leave No Trace badge is still holding, a red cross sits in the bottom-right corner of every hotbar slot holding an item that would break it (packaged food; pitons, rope spools, the rope cannon, the chain launcher and other placeable objects). The backpack slot shows a yellow warning if something forbidden is inside, and the opened backpack shows the cross on that item. The marks go away once the badge is earned or broken.
• Pins persist. They are saved in the config. At the start of the next run, badges earned are unpinned and failed ones are doable again.
• Secret badges keep their ??? until earned. The tracker hides while the pause menu is open.
• Client-side only: other players do not need the mod.

Installation

Requires BepInExPack for PEAK.

• With a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman, Gale): install PeakAchiever into your PEAK profile and launch the game from the manager.
• By hand: copy Altaks.PeakAchiever.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ of your PEAK BepInEx install.

Tested with PEAK 2.4.c. If a game update breaks the mod, the error shows in BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/Altaks.PeakAchiever.cfg, section [Tracker]:

How badges are judged

Every rule comes from the game's own code and scene data (game version 2.4.c). When nothing in the game can rule a badge out, the tracker never shows a red cross for it.

If an achievement-blocking mode is active for the run, the tracker says so above the cards.

Credits and licence

MIT licence, see LICENSE. The mod ships only its own cross and pin icons. Badge icons, names, descriptions and fonts are read from your copy of the game while it runs, and never redistributed. PEAK belongs to its developers; this mod is not affiliated with them.

Development

Built from the PEAK BepInEx template (NuGet PEAKModding.BepInExTemplate). Copy Config.Build.user.props.template to Config.Build.user.props and point it at your game and BepInEx folders; a Debug build then copies the plugin there.

dotnet build          # builds and deploys the plugin
dotnet test           # unit tests; needs the game installed, they load its assemblies
dotnet build -c Release   # Thunderstore package in ./artifacts/thunderstore/

Changelog

The format follows Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

[0.3.0] - 2026-09-29

Added

• Scouts panel, for the host of a multiplayer game: a Scouts button on the badges page lists the badges worth pinning for the whole team, those no scout has first ("Recommended"), then those some still miss, with who misses them. Up to MaxTeamPins (5 by default) can be pinned. The pins stay in the room when the host leaves, the next host with the mod takes over, and at each run start the pins every scout with the mod has earned are dropped. The team pins do not show on the trackers yet.

• Players with the mod share which badges they earned, through Photon player properties under a PeakAchiever. key: players without the mod ignore them, and appear in the panel as unknown.

• A card whose badge becomes impossible tears in two along a jagged line, then falls to the end of the tracker, where it stays torn and crossed out.

• A lost run (the end screen with nobody at the summit, solo or the whole team) rules out every badge still in play, "Impossible: run lost", and their cards tear one after the other.

• Badges already earned can be pinned, to help an ally earn them in a multiplayer run. They stay pinned from one run to the next until unpinned; the config marks them with a leading +.

Changed

• The heat, cold and spores bars are drawn like the matching segment of PEAK's stamina bar (its hatched fill, outline and icon), and the Speed Climber time like the arrow segment. Near the limit the outline blinks instead of the bar turning orange.
• The statistics panel is made of PEAK's own parts: the badge popup's paper over a dark veil, the game's ribbons as buttons. The ascent arrows turn grey, with a hint, when no other ascent has times.
• The Back, Statistics and Scouts buttons sit side by side: the Statistics button used to cover Back.

[0.2.0]

Fixed

• Speed Climber no longer shows its red cross during the last second of the hour, which the game still counts.
• Lone Wolf no longer shows a red cross when other scouts are in the run: the game only counts scouts at the summit, and they can leave before.
• Biome times are now recorded in runs the game gives no id to (a solo run, among others): the mod makes one for the run.
• The Foraging checklist no longer lists Clusterberry_UNUSED, an item the game no longer uses.

Changed

• ToggleKey in the config is now an Input System path (<Keyboard>/f6). A key saved by 0.1.0 is converted; one with modifiers falls back to F6, with a warning in LogOutput.log.
• Progress bars have fully round ends and a light rim.

Added

• Speed Climber card: a bar of the run time against one hour, and the time spent in each biome, the current one in yellow. Past one hour the red cross keeps the run time and the splits below it.
• Cool Cucumber, Bundled Up and Tread Lightly cards: a bar of the highest heat, cold or spores rate reached in the biome against the game's limit (10%, 20%, 25%).
• Speed Climber splits compare with the median of past runs at the same ascent: (+1:20) in red when slower, (-0:40) in green when faster; the current biome only once it runs over.
• The tracker key can be set from the game's Controls menu (pause menu, Controls), in a row like the game's own at the end of the first column: click it and press a key on the game's rebinding page, or use its reset button to go back to F6.
• Suggested pins: on the badges page, a yellow star on as many badges as there are free pin slots, all doable on today's map (or the run's) and compatible with the pins and each other. Badges tied to that map's biomes come first, then clean runs. Locked secret badges are never starred.
• Statistics panel, opened from a Statistics button under the Back button of the pause menu's badges page: per ascent, each biome's times, median and best, the whole climb of each map layout, and a two-click erase of the ascent shown.
• Warnings in orange: the heat, cold and spores bar and figures from 75% of the limit (8% of 10%), and the Speed Climber ETA once it is past one hour.
• Speed Climber ETA: when the summit should be reached, from the median time of each biome in past runs at the same ascent. The times of every biome finished are saved to BepInEx/config/Altaks.PeakAchiever.splits.csv, mini runs excepted.
• Badges that no map allows together can no longer be pinned together: the click is refused with a message naming the pinned badge in the way, and the badges page fades them, with the reason in their tooltip. The maps come from the game's own level table.
• Eating checklists: the items this map yields none of move to a separate, fainter row, "Not seen on this map". A hint read from the level's spawners, never a red cross.
• Badges page: a red cross on the badges today's map cannot hold (the level the airport kiosk sends, or the run's own map during a run), with the missing biome in the tooltip. They stay pinnable.
• Foraging, Mycology, Advanced Mycology and Gourmand cards: a grid of every item that counts, dimmed until eaten this run, then in full colour with a green tick.

[0.1.0]

Added

• Pin and unpin badges from the pause menu's badges page, with a pin marker and a click hint.
• Top-right tracker during a run: progress bars, "holding so far", green check and red cross with reason.
• Pins saved in the config, earned ones cleared at the start of the next run.
• ToggleKey (default F6) and MaxPinnedBadges (default 5) settings.
• Red cross on inventory slots holding an item that would break a pinned Naturalist or Leave No Trace badge, and a warning on the backpack slot when one is inside.
• English and French texts.