West of Loathing – WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

A step-by-step guide to the WANTED: Alive achievement and filling the Dirtwater jail.

Other West of Loathing Guides:

Stripey Hat Gang

Please note: all credit goes to Chocolateteapot!

If you want to do this quest first, pick the WASTED poster on the right hand side.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Travel to Cavern Canyon and take the cavern on the left marked with a DANGER! SPIDER sign.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Opening one of the crates will trigger the spider’s appearance, I chose the one marked with WEAPENS but any will work.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Exit the first cavern and enter the one in the middle using your crowbar to remove the boards. This item is available even if you skip the tutorial.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Take the passage to the right.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Look at the junk on the right, leave the junk room.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Open the door with the deadbolts.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Leave the second cavern and attempt to enter the one on the right.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

You find your bounty bound in silk and offering no resistance.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Loot the bar for booze and a Jaw Harp, and free the cook in the kitchen to get a Hot Dog shop in town. Interact with the Gang to return to jail.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Potemkin Gang

A new WANTED poster is up!

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Travel to the new map marker and you’ll find you can’t enter any of the buildings.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Go into the outhouse to the right of the town and leave through the back.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Walk down the back of the prop town to find the heavy load, it’s second from the end here.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Return to the front of the town to see this corresponds to the jail.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

The guy in the white hat is easiest to move, just tell him where to look for his belt buckle.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

The guy in the black hat will try and block you from entering any of the buildings you click on, so click on the jail.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

The woman wants you to stay away from her, so herd her like an inept sheepdog and with a bit of luck you’ll have all three right where you want them!

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Go to the back of the town and cut the rope holding the jail up.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Return to the front of town to find the Gang dazed, arrest them to return to town and your reward!

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Black Hat Bandits

A new WANTED poster.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Head to The Old Millinery and enter the building.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Hat Room 1: It’s the Black Hat.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Hat Room 2: Watch the hats, one will move occasionally.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Hat Room 3: It’s the hat with the smallest divot, here it’s the hat in the centre.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Hat Room 4: Wander around the room a bit and then stand still, you will hear snoring and see ZZz’s appearing where the bandit has fallen asleep.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Hat Room 5: Activate the player piano next to the room and change the music until the text box asks if you can hear whistling.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Enter Hat Room 5, you will see music notes from the bandit’s whistling.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Interact with the Bandits to return to town.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Gherkin Brothers

A new WANTED poster.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Enter the Pickle Factory and read the text, it contains hints to solving the puzzle.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Go into the Cukes room.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

The aim is to get all three levels equal. Pull the levers 1 and 3 until the outer levels are balanced and then use lever 2 until all three levels are equal.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Tell the ghost that you’ve taken care of the cucumbers and then collect his remains.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Enter the Salt room, use the three levers to change the salinity to 976.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Tell the ghost the salt is correct and collect his remains.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Enter the vinegar room.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Check the temperature.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Take a shovel if you want/need one.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Add coal to the furnace and use the bellows to raise the temperature.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Each piece of coal followed by the bellows raises the temperature a few degrees. When you get above 190 degrees, add a little coal at a time until you get a number that is a multiple of 10.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Use the steam pressure release to lower the temperature in increments of 10 until you reach 190 degrees exactly.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Speak to the ghost about the temperature of the vinegar and collect his remains.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Go to the hub room of the PIckle Factory and to the machine on the left.

Pull the Factory Activation lever and get Ghost Pickles.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Pull the Factory Activation lever and get Ghost Pickles.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Return to Dirtwater Jail and hand over the remains to claim the bounty.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

House-in-the-Desert-Gang

This mission has been available from the start but I’ve done it last because it requires three items to complete stealthily and two can be collected in chance encounters as you travel the map.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

You might have spotted Fort Alldead on the map.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

If you don’t already have a Skeleton Bone then enter the Barracks area, and using a needle, lockpick one of the footlockers to get one.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Be Sneaky

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

You encounter a doghouse, give the dog a bone.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Walk to the gate, it’s rusty.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Travel back to Dirtwater, go to the Dirtwater Mercantile.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Buy a lock, if you haven’t found one, and a can of oil. If the shop doesn’t have the item you need then sleep a night in your bed and it might spawn.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Return to The House in the Desert, oil the hinges and lock the Gang in the house.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Arrest the Gang to travel back to Dirtwater.

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

Dirtwater Jail is full, a bounty collector is you!

West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide
West of Loathing - WANTED: Alive Achievement Guide

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