Achievements
Complete each achievement to get the allotted gamerscore:
Challenge Accepted (30) - Completed level 1 of all non-level-specific challenges with a single character.
Goliath, Meet David (15) - Allowed a Goliath to level up four times before killing him.
Went Five Rounds (25) - Completed Round 5 of any Circle of Slaughter.
Not Quite Dead (5) - Reached level 5.
Better Than You Were (10) - Reached level 10.
Always Improving (25) - Reached level 25.
Capped Out...For Now (50) - Reached level 50.
Arctic Explorer (15) - Discovered all named locations in Three Horns, Tundra Express, and Frostburn Canyon.
Cute Loot (15) - Killed a Chubby.
Tribute To A Vault Hunter (15) - Got an item from Michael Mamaril.
Definitely An Italian Plumber (15) - Killed Donkey Mong.
High-Flying Hurler (10) - Killed a flying enemy with a thrown Tediore weapon.
Token Gesture (20) - Redeemed 25 tokens.
Unseen Predator (20) - Remained in Zero's Deception mode for ten seconds straight.
Build Buster (20) - Killed a Constructor without it ever building another bot.
How Do I Look? (25) - Unlocked 10 customization items.
Friendship Rules (10) - Revived someone from "Fight for Your Life!" that is on your friends list.
Better Than Money (15) - Purchased 5 items from the black market.
Urban Explorer (15) - Discovered all named locations in Sanctuary, Opportunity, and Lynchwood.
Highlands Explorer (15) - Discovered all named locations in The Highlands, Thousand Cuts, and Wildlife Exploitation Preserve.
Blight Explorer (15) - Discovered all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron.
World Traveler (50) - Discovered all named locations.
Sugar Daddy (10) - Tipped Moxxi $10,000.
Decked Out (25) - Had Purple-rated gear or better equipped in every slot.
Sabre Rattler (20) - Killed 100 enemies with the Sabre turret.
Phased and Confused (20) - Phaselocked 100 enemies.
So Much Blood! (20) - Gunzerked continuously for 90 seconds.
No Man Left Behind (20) - Completed the mission "A Dam Fine Rescue".
Wilhelm Screamed (20) - Completed the mission "A Train To Catch".
Sky's The Limit (20) - Completed the mission "Rising Action".
Can See My House From Here (20) - Completed the mission "Bright Lights, Flying City".
Farewell, Old Girl (20) - Completed the mission "Wildlife Preservation".
Got The Band Back Together (20) - Completed the mission "The Once and Future Slab".
Identity Theft (20) - Completed the mission "The Man Who Would Be Jack".
An Angel's Wish (25) - Completed the mission "Where Angels Fear To Tread".
Bombs Away (20) - Completed the mission "Toil And Trouble".
Knowing Is Half The Battle (20) - Completed the mission "Data Mining".
Up High, Down Low (15) - Gave Claptrap a high five.
Bounty Hunter (25) - Completed 20 side missions.
Did It All (40) - Completed all side missions.
Additionally there are twenty secret achievements.
First One's Free (10) - Completed the mission "My First Gun".
Dragon Slayer (20) - Completed the mission "Best Minion Ever".
A Road Less Traveled (20) - Completed the mission "The Road To Sanctuary".
New In Town (20) - Completed the mission "Plan B".
An Old Flame (20) - Completed the mission "Hunting The Firehawk".
Cool Story, Bro (30) - Defeated Jack.
What does it mean? (15) - I can't even capture it on my camera.
Well That Was Easy (10) - Completed the mission "Shoot This Guy in the Face".
Thresher Thrashed (30) - Defeated Terramorphous the Invincible.
Feels Like The First Time (10) - Opened the chest at the bus stop in Fyrestone.
Additionally, there are three Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty DLC achievements:
Gadabout (25) - Discover all named locations in Oasis and the surrounding Pirate's Booty zones.
Completionist (25) - Complete all Pirate's Booty side missions.
Treasure Hunter (75) - Complete the mission "X Marks the Spot".
Additionally, there are ten Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep DLC achievements:
Dang Girl You Ace At This Game (30) - Win the most challenging round in Murderlin's Temple.
Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' (15) - Demonstrate your skill, or lack thereof, at rolling the magical treasure orb of many sides.
Make it Raaaaaid (50) - Vanquish the Ancient Dragons of Destruction.
Shorty, You So Best (60) - Complete thy quest by rescuing yonder queen.
Girl's Gotta Eat (15) - Feed thy noble queen 3 times during one visit to her quarters.
Hmmmmm (15) - Wield the Mysterious Amulet.
I Totes Planned That Boss (10) - Slay Mister Boney Pants Guy.
It's Like That One Video (10) - Show thine worst enemy, the abomination known as "The Darkness," who is the nerdiest of them all.
They Was All "Hey That's Mine" (20) - Unsheath 5 swords from Immortal Skeletaurs without leaving the area.
Yaaaaaay (25) - Introduce thyself to the White Knight.
Infinite Eridium
Enter the Three Horns Valley, head northwest to the Bloodshot hideout and kill the Bad Maw boss. As soon as you take out Bad Maw, collect the Eridium, which he leaves behind. Once you enter the Bloodshot Stronghold head to the main menu and select 'Save and Quit'. Continue the game, go back to Three Horns Valley, deal with Bad Maw once more and grab additional Eridium. You can do this as often as you wish.
Unlock Borderlands Skin
Have a saved game file from Borderlands to unlock characters skin from the original game.
True Vault Hunter Mode
Complete Normal difficulty story mode.
Minecraft Enemies and Outfit
In the Caustic Caverns underneath Sanctuary, near the furthest edge, there is a shallow incline. If you go along the left-most cliff beside the incline, you will find Minecraft blocks. Breaking them will lead into an area with creepers from the Minecraft games, a golden ore block with a normal outfit, and a special outfit for defeating the creepers.
Duplicate Items
Place the desired item(s) on a character, and ready or create a second character to take on as many of the item as you wish. Start a two-player co-op game with the first character as player 1 (and the other character as player 2, obviously). Give desired item(s) to player 2 and have player 2 save and leave game. Quit game from PS3 system menu. Because the game doesn't save player 1 when player 2 leaves, nor when you quit from the system menu, now both players have said item(s). Repeat as desired (for faster duplication, transfer all copies of the item to player one, save-and-quit with both, and start over with the duplicates on player 1).
Badass Rank Farming
To build a high Badass Rank, and gain all the perks associated with it, create a pair of new characters in co-op mode and have player 1 beat player 2 in 50 duels. This gives 166 Badass Ranks. Save and quit, then start another new game, creating another new character for player 1 (don't bother messing with player 2's character). Fight another 50 duels, with player 1 winning them all for 166 more Badass Ranks. Repeat as desired, and delete the pile of unwanted characters when you're done.. If you set the controller configuration to something where you can just keep tapping the melee-attack button without ruining your aim at the other player, you can finish a duel-run like this in roughly 10 minutes. Thus, over the course of one hour, you can build up 996 Badass Ranks.
Easily Reach Level 20
When you have a character reach Tiny Tina do all of her side missions until you make it to the final stage of her tea party. Here she wants you to lure Flesh-Stick to her little cove to join her tea party. Since you can fail this mission by killing him you can actually repeat that over n over for experience. On top of that if a second controller is available and you wish to make another character but don't want to level them up the normal way you can have that created person join your session and have them run all the way to Tiny Tina. If you keep them in front of her and your main character in front of where Flesh-Stick walks out you can kill him and re-accept the mission as fast as your trigger finger allows making anyone reach roughly 20-21 in a matter of minutes.
Easy XP Leveling
After completing the quest, "A Dam Fine Rescue", you will find Sir Hammerlock inside Sanctuary offers a quest called, "Mighty Morphin'" that involves taking an Injector and injecting Varkid Cocoons with a special serum. Injecting the serum into a cocoon forces a large flying Badass version of a Varkid. Killing one yields 1,900 Experience. As long as you don't complete or turn-in the quest, you can wipe the entire zone of cocoons, save the game, reload, and do it again!
Easy XP
At the end of Tiny Tina's Tea Party side quest you're required to lure a psycho named "Flesh Stick" back to her home. If you shoot and kill Flesh Stick rather than luring him back you'll reap a huge XP boost (750xp/kill on level 18 and around 1,800xp on level 17) which can be repeated by simply talking to Tiny Tina again and restarting the mission. This exploit works best during co-op play. where one person stations where Flesh Stick spawns and another at Tiny Tina. Doing so will enable you to repeat this process in quick succession until the game will no longer spawn Flesh Stick again. At this point you can run back to the start of the area, exit and return, or (faster), save & quit then reload the game. Doing so will allow Flesh Stick to respawn again.