All 32 Dressmaker achievements with real unlock rates, the one missable hidden achievement, the three craft marathons, and the order to chase them in.
Dressmaker Achievements: All 32, And The One You Can Miss
Dressmaker has 32 Steam achievements and exactly one of them can be lost: Sucker for Punishment, which fires on picking the leech answer in one of Vivian's conversations. Steam does not mark it hidden. Its listing on the official achievements page carries no secret badge and no description, so it looks exactly like the other fifteen entries that hide their condition behind a blank line. That is why "where are the hidden achievements in Dressmaker" is a real question: there is no hidden flag to find. There are sixteen achievements with no printed condition, and only one of them is genuinely missable.
Read the percentages below as a progress map rather than a leaderboard. Pulled from the official page on October 4, 2026:
| Group | Count | What it covers | Rate range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event achievements | 14 | One newspaper report per story event, wedding, ball or gala | 78.6% down to 2.1% |
| Client achievements | 10 | Every major commission for one of the ten named clients | 4.5% down to 2.1% |
| Craft marathons | 3 | 300 accessories, 50m of trim, 5,000 gold spent on one dress | 2.5%, 2.2% and 1.6% |
| Pigeon and mail | 2 | Berty adopting you, and the eight letters that follow | 52.8% and 2.0% |
| Craft milestone | 1 | 100% quality on a dress | 75.2% |
| Pattern unlock | 1 | The ruffle skirt, completed once | 10.9% |
| Hidden dialogue | 1 | The leech answer with Vivian | 2.4% |
- Only one achievement is missable. The other 31 fire on delivery, on a sale, or on a newspaper report
- A failed card still counts as done. Handing in a dress that fails unlocks just as much as one that passes
- Three marathons check any dress you hand in, sell or gift, and the game keeps counting after the story ends
- The rarest achievement in the game is Trim and Proper at 1.6%, not the hidden one
The full list, with real unlock rates
Every name and every printed description below comes from the official Steam achievements page, read on October 4, 2026. Where a condition is blank on Steam, the trigger is community-observed and marked as such.
| Achievement | Printed condition | Players | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laid To Dress | none printed | 78.6% | Event |
| 99 Problems But A Stitch Ain't One | Achieve 100% quality on a dress | 75.2% | Craft |
| You've Got Mail | none printed | 52.8% | |
| Style Goals | none printed | 42.8% | Event |
| Dart Deco | none printed | 31.3% | Event |
| Rooting For You | none printed | 23.2% | Event |
| Hedge Your Bets | none printed | 17.6% | Event |
| Don't Wanna Miss A Spring | none printed | 14.5% | Event |
| Sew Long | Complete the ruffle skirt for the first time | 10.9% | Pattern |
| Simply Beastly | none printed | 10.2% | Event |
| Smells like Sateen Spirit | none printed | 7.8% | Event |
| Newlythreads | none printed | 6.3% | Event |
| A Midsummer Night's Seam | none printed | 4.8% | Event |
| Caw Evermore | Complete all of Alice's major commissions | 4.5% | Client |
| A Rose By Any Other Name | Complete all of Rose's major commissions | 4.3% | Client |
| Extrav-organza | none printed | 4.3% | Event |
| Snitches Get Stitches | Complete all of Dorothy's major commissions | 3.8% | Client |
| Reap what You Sew | Complete all of Fiona's major commissions | 3.5% | Client |
| On a High Note | none printed | 3.3% | Event |
| G.O.A.T. | Complete all of Marie's major commissions | 3.0% | Client |
| Go Off, Queen! | Complete all of Adora's major commissions | 2.8% | Client |
| Good Girl Gone Vlad | Complete all of Vivian's major commissions | 2.7% | Client |
| Crowning Glory | none printed | 2.7% | Event |
| Swan Song | Complete all of Edith's major commissions | 2.5% | Client |
| Harder than it Seams | Place over 300 accessories on one dress | 2.5% | Marathon |
| Sucker for Punishment | none printed | 2.4% | Hidden |
| Drawn to Hue | Complete all of Priya's major commissions | 2.3% | Client |
| Opulence and Excess | Spend more than 5 000 gold on a successful dress | 2.2% | Marathon |
| Prudence and Prejudice | Complete all of Prudence's major commissions | 2.1% | Client |
| Don We Now Our Gay Apparel | none printed | 2.1% | Event |
| Birds of a Feather, Frock Together | Complete all the commissions received via pigeon | 2.0% | |
| Trim and Proper | Use more than 50m of trim on a single dress | 1.6% | Marathon |
Official source: the Dressmaker achievements page on Steam, which prints Total achievements: 32 and every name and description quoted above. The Steam store listing confirms the game carries Steam Achievements as a feature category.
Where the hidden ones actually are
Sixteen of the 32 entries print no description at all, which is where the hidden achievement question comes from. Most of that blank space is ordinary: the event achievements describe a newspaper report rather than a dress, so there is no in-game string to quote.
The one that matters is Sucker for Punishment, at 2.4%. It is the only hidden achievement and the only missable one in the game.
| Achievement | What actually triggers it | Missable? |
|---|---|---|
| Sucker for Punishment | Pick the leech answer when Vivian talks about animals | Yes, this is the one |
| Laid To Dress | The newspaper report after Respectful Funeral | No |
| You've Got Mail | Hand in Dorothy's first card, Pigeon Adoption | No |
| Style Goals | The report after Spirited Exercise | No |
| Dart Deco | The report after Art Appreciator, Vivian's exhibition card | No |
| Rooting For You | The report after Carrot Promotion | No |
| Hedge Your Bets | The report after A-maze-ingly Lost | No |
| Don't Wanna Miss A Spring | The report after Spring Fete | No |
| Simply Beastly | The report after Beloved Ox | No |
| Smells like Sateen Spirit | Hand in Comfortable Coffin, Vivian's silk card | No |
| Newlythreads | The report after Never the Bride | No |
| A Midsummer Night's Seam | Hand in Constellation Inspiration | No |
| Extrav-organza | The report after Bold Tigress, Rose's last card | No |
| On a High Note | The report after Another Encore | No |
| Crowning Glory | The report after Dark Emissary, Vivian's last card | No |
| Don We Now Our Gay Apparel | The report after Painted Dream, Prudence's last card | No |
Birds of a Feather, Frock Together is not on that list even though it is one of the rarest: Steam prints its condition in full, Complete all the commissions received via pigeon. It sits at 2.0% only because the eight letters are optional and do not expire.
Her first visit is not that talk. The questions there are about your cat and who you are, and none of the answers mentions a leech. The animal conversation can come as late as her third commission, the one Berty the pigeon delivers, and the game autosaves, so quitting does not take an answer back. Read every Vivian option from her first card onward. Full detail on her page is in the Vivian guide.
The three craft marathons
These are the ones players postpone, and all three check any dress you hand in, sell or gift. They do not need a commission and they do not need the story to be running, so they can all be finished after the ending.
| Achievement | Requirement | Rate | Cheapest way |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harder than it Seams | Place over 300 accessories on one dress | 2.5% | Burlap base, then one accessory type repeated |
| Trim and Proper | Use more than 50m of trim on a single dress | 1.6% | One long lace strand, drawn in passes |
| Opulence and Excess | Spend more than 5 000 gold on a successful dress | 2.2% | Buy the most expensive brooches and place them |
Hold Shift to place several accessories in a row instead of one per click, and the price scales with Quality and shop rank, so a dress decorated heavily on a clean base is the cheapest route to all three at once. PC Gamer's hands-on notes the same trap from the fabric side: sometimes you have just enough for that extra yard of silk and make do with a cheaper weave elsewhere. That arithmetic is broken down in the money guide, and the trim-length side is in the lace trim guide.
The official text is Spend more than 5 000 gold on a successful dress. Community testing reports the check firing on a dress that did not have to pass a card at all. If you want certainty, hand it to a client who accepts it.
What a fail actually costs
A failed card is not an achievement loss. For both the event achievements and the client achievements, a card counts as done the moment you hand a dress in, whether it passes or fails. A failed card still pays its full budget and adds a quarter of a friendship star, so the loss is friendship and prestige rather than progress.
That is the single most useful fact on this page for a first playthrough. You can push the story to the end without ever passing a card and still collect nearly everything except the craft pieces that need a clean dress. Where the quality maths goes wrong, the quality guide explains the measurement penalty and the 80-point wall.
The order to chase them in
Reading the official rates as a funnel gives a clean route.
- You've Got Mail at 52.8% comes from Dorothy's first card, Pigeon Adoption, which is also the key that unlocks the whole mail track. Her card and what it demands are in the Dorothy guide. Everything else in the mail track is locked behind it.
- The event ladder runs Laid To Dress, Style Goals, Dart Deco, Rooting For You, Hedge Your Bets, Don't Wanna Miss A Spring, then the later gallas and weddings. Each one is just the last card of an event.
- The client ten run from Caw Evermore at 4.5% down to Prudence and Prejudice at 2.1%. Each is that client's last card, not the whole set of their commissions.
- The marathons are the deliberate end-game work, at 1.6% to 2.5%.
- The leech answer is free if you read the options, and permanent if you do not.
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel fires on a newspaper report rather than a dialogue choice, so it cannot be missed. Sucker for Punishment is the only one decided by a line, and it is the only one that can be lost. Everything else in Dressmaker is decided by the sewing, not by the talking.
FAQ
How many achievements does Dressmaker have?
32, and the official Steam page prints Total achievements: 32. They break down into 13 event achievements, 10 client achievements, 3 craft marathons, 2 pigeon and mail achievements, the 100% quality milestone, the ruffle skirt pattern unlock, and the one hidden dialogue achievement.
Which Dressmaker achievements are missable?
One: Sucker for Punishment, which needs the leech answer in Vivian's animal conversation. It can arrive as late as her third commission and the game autosaves, so there is no reload. The other 31 fire on delivery, on a newspaper report, or on any dress you hand in, sell or gift.
Are there any hidden achievements in Dressmaker?
Steam does not flag any of them as hidden. Sixteen entries print no description, and exactly one of those, Sucker for Punishment, is a genuine hidden unlock. The rest of the blank descriptions belong to event achievements that trigger on a newspaper report rather than on anything you do to a dress.
Does a rejected dress still count toward achievements?
Yes. A card counts as done once you hand a dress in, pass or fail, and a failed card still pays its full budget. Most event achievements pop with the newspaper report that follows the event's last delivery.
What is the rarest Dressmaker achievement?
Trim and Proper at 1.6% of players as of October 4, 2026, which needs more than 50m of trim on a single dress. Harder than it Seams follows at 2.5% and Opulence and Excess at 2.2%. The hidden one, Sucker for Punishment, is more common at 2.4%.
Can you keep earning achievements after the story ends?
Yes. The three craft marathons check any dress you hand in, sell or gift, and players report you can keep making and selling dresses after the story is over. The eight pigeon letters also do not expire, so they can still be waiting when the credits roll.
Related Guides
- Dressmaker Vivian guide covers the one client whose dialogue can cost you an achievement, plus her seven card requirements.
- Dressmaker characters and clients lists all ten clients and their order of arrival, which is the order the ten client achievements fall in.
- Dressmaker lace trim and accessories covers the 50m trim marathon and the accessory counting rules.
- Dressmaker money and selling covers the 5,000 gold marathon and the brooch trick that makes all three craft goals cheap.