The recommended progression ladder
Finish a guided Part 1 run
Learn the opening, official controls, objective flow, and Part 1 completion milestone before adding constraints.
Repeat with a chosen team size
Official badges separately recognize solo, partner, team, and squad completions. The badges confirm these routes exist, but not the exact player count behind every label.
Try Part 1 without guidance
The “WHO NEEDS DIRECTIONS?” badge requires guidance to remain off from the beginning through completion. Attempt it after you can read the run without assistance.
Explore one badge-confirmed interaction
Universe-level official badges confirm interactions involving a sandwich for Verity, staring at Verity for ten seconds, UM'S Store, cashier Dan, a $0.50 gift, the basement computer, and a Detective. Their API records do not prove which place contains each interaction.
Branch into a separate mode
Try the unfinished Part 2 as unfinished content, learn Night Shift's store-service loop, or start the survival place with its day milestones.
Three useful progression tracks
Part 1 → Part 2
Finish Part 1, learn a replay condition, then enter Part 2 knowing its official completion badge still describes the chapter as unfinished.
Night Shift
Work from basic store operation toward better ratings. Official S/S+ and perfect-solo badge text emphasizes customers, tasks, fridge doors, totals, change, and complaints.
Verity x Minecraft
Use the official Day 10, 25, 50, and 100 badges as checkpoints. Resource and encounter badges establish the vocabulary but not exact recipes or routes.
Night Shift: what higher ratings prove
- S and S+ badges refer to groups of three to four players and coordinated store management.
- The S+ description requires no missed customers, tasks, or fridge doors.
- A perfect solo shift requires no lost customer, no complaint, and correct total and change calculations.
- Official badges also confirm a Watcher event beginning at 6 PM and service interactions involving it.
Survival: use milestone goals, not invented recipes
The official badges confirm oak wood, torches, coal, iron, diamond, gold ingots, copper ingots, and several named hostile encounters. They do not document crafting formulas, spawn locations, maps, or combat tactics.
If a run does not match this structure, return to the identity check before changing your strategy.