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title: What the Buck Guides: Beginner Tips, Ending, Achievements
description: Your first shift, how to reach the ending and 100%, and all 47 achievements.
url: https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/
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Guides

# What the Buck guides
Step-by-step help from the first swipe of the credit card to the last prestige node, built from the official notes and full recorded runs of the game.

## Where to start
From the first swipe to 47 of 47.

- [Beginner guide](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/beginner-guide/)Amount first, then Damage

- [Ending and 100%](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/ending-and-100-percent/)Goal: destroy $1 sextillion

- [Achievements](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/achievements/)47 achievements, 1 hidden

## Every What the Buck guide

- [Beginner guide How to play your first shift: swiping, steering the breaker, the first upgrades to buy and when to end the shift. Amount first, then Damage Skill tree opens for $0 First shift ends at $100K](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/beginner-guide/)

- [Ending and 100% What the ending asks for, how long a full run and a 100% run take, and what is left to do after the credits. Goal: destroy $1 sextillion 100% took 2 h 46 min in game Last nodes reachable since 1.0.1](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/ending-and-100-percent/)

- [Achievements The full list of 47 Steam achievements, grouped by how you unlock them, with the ones that trip players up. 47 achievements, 1 hidden One Hour counts table time only Grey tab: restart from library](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/achievements/)

## What the Buck guides questions players ask
Why are my achievements not unlocking? Close the game and start it again from the Steam library; anything earned in the meantime unlocks then. If you came from the demo, uninstall the demo first. You do not need a new save. [Details →](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/achievements/)

What does the last shift cost after the ending? Before 1.0.1 it kept rising 100 times per shift, up to 50 sextillion for one player. Since 1.0.1 every shift from the ninth on costs 1 sextillion, so the last prestige nodes are reachable. [Details →](https://whatthebuck.wiki/guides/ending-and-100-percent/)

Other sections: [Bills](https://whatthebuck.wiki/bills/) · [Upgrades](https://whatthebuck.wiki/upgrades/) · [Game info](https://whatthebuck.wiki/game/) · [Updates](https://whatthebuck.wiki/update/)