These Hands Were Made for Peeling
Peel 1,000 potatoes by hand.
Steam row
- Entry
- These Hands Were Made for Peeling
- Board
- Achievements
- Board order
- 7 / 20
- Visibility
- visible
- Global percent
- 5.9
- API name
- ACH_MANUAL_1000
Unlock condition and board standing
These Hands Were Made for Peeling sits at row 7 of 20 on the achievement board (API key ACH_MANUAL_1000) with the visible description Peel 1,000 potatoes by hand. At a 5.9% global unlock rate, it is the rarest visible achievement in Potato Please and the second rarest stamp overall after Unauthorized Passenger (2.7%).
Besides the 1,000-potato manual description, Destructoid documents that buying five levels of the Blade Speed upgrade is the direct unlock condition associated with this achievement.
Shift context and related milestones
This stamp pairs on the board with Old School (25.1%, Peel 500 potatoes by hand. No machines needed). Together, rows 6 and 7 represent the manual craftsmanship branch of the shift, standing in contrast to Industrial Revolution (62.1%) and Fully Automated (49.1%).
Players pursuing These Hands Were Made for Peeling focus their early currency on counter blade upgrades—starting with Rusty Knife (0.30) and Steel Knife (2.70)—and five tiers of Blade Speed.
Workstation notes and version 1.0.2 details
Hotfix 1.0.1 and Hotfix 1.0.2 improved comfort for extended manual counter work by adding a hand-shake intensity slider, fixing the Auto Rotate control label, and ensuring Invert Y flips only the camera view rather than knife stroke directions.
Even with Muscle Memory active during late-shift hand peeling, plan on finishing the last stubborn skin patches with a direct manual pass of the blade.
Old School