First Cut
Peel your first potato.
Steam row
- Entry
- First Cut
- Board
- Achievements
- Board order
- 1 / 20
- Visibility
- visible
- Global percent
- 100.0
- API name
- ACH_FIRST_CUT
Unlock condition and board standing
First Cut is the opening achievement on the Potato Please board (board entry 1 of 20, API key ACH_FIRST_CUT) and unlocks the moment you peel your very first potato at the indoor kitchen counter. Because every playthrough starts with a raw tuber on the cutting board and the starting blade in hand, it sits at a 100.0% global unlock rate across Steam players.
As a visible milestone, First Cut serves as the entry stamp for the entire volume progression chain before any currency is spent or any upgrades appear at the service window.
Shift context and related milestones
On the achievement board, First Cut links directly to Warmed Up (97.3%, Finish the warm-up shift), which follows once you clear the initial tutorial tray at the counter. From that opening tray, your total peeled count continues accumulating toward A Thousand Peels (1,000 potatoes), Ten Thousand (10,000 potatoes), and The Quota.
The earliest currency you earn right after unlocking First Cut goes toward the Rusty Knife at 0.30 printed cost, giving you your first blade replacement at row 1 of the upgrade ledger.
Workstation notes and version 1.0.2 details
Manual cutting during the opening shift uses the first-person blade view above the water channel. Hotfix 1.0.2 ensured that turning on Invert Y in settings only inverts the camera look direction while knife slicing motions stay aligned with standard mouse or controller input.
You can also adjust camera wobble during manual cutting with the hand-shake intensity slider added in Hotfix 1.0.1, making those first peel passes steadier on the eyes.
Warmed Up