The Can Em All fresh meat achievement unlocks when a creature that is still alive gets ground by the crusher teeth. A corpse does nothing — the game checks the creature's state at the moment the teeth close, so the kill has to happen inside the machine, not before it. Three routes work, and the fastest one is a single truck arrival with the crusher already running.
Can Em All fresh meat achievement: what actually triggers it
The unlock condition is narrow: a creature that is alive reaches the crusher and is ground while alive. That rules out the obvious approach. Shooting a creature at the truck door before it reaches the machine kills it, and a dead body that goes into the crusher does not count.
Two things reliably break it:
- Bleeding kills it first. The bleed upgrades are strong enough that a wounded creature bleeds out on the way to the machine. If it drops to zero health on the floor, the crusher only receives a corpse and the achievement does not pop.
- Someone else killed it. Turrets and the body-cleaning bots do the damage for you, and they do not care about the achievement. A creature that arrives already dead is not a fresh kill.
Check the full achievement list to see where this one sits against the others you still need — the achievements guide has all twelve with their conditions.
Three ways to get a living creature into the crusher
- Let the truck deliver and do not shoot. Let a truck arrive, walk a creature toward the crusher with the vacuum on, and never fire a weapon. The teeth grind it while it is alive and the achievement pops. This is the cleanest route.
- Push it in physically. You can grab a creature and shove it into the crusher pit yourself. The game still registers it as alive at the moment of contact, and this does not depend on damage at all, so bleeding upgrades cannot steal it.
- Vacuum it in. Fire the vacuum at a living creature, walk it over the crusher and let the machine take it. The vacuum does not damage what it holds, so the creature stays alive the whole way.
The vacuum is the reason most players can do this on demand. Its controls are shared with your weapons, and the vacuum controls guide explains how to fire it without shooting the creature you are carrying.
Why a kill that looked clean did not count
The achievement checks the creature's health at the moment the teeth close, and there is a wide window where it looks like a kill but is not.
- The creature was already dead when the teeth closed, because a turret, a bot or a bleed tick finished it.
- The kill landed on the floor just short of the machine, so what reached the crusher was a body rather than a live catch.
- You hit it while it was being hoisted, which stops the delivery without moving it into the teeth.
If it did not pop on the first attempt, let the next truck arrive and do nothing to it. Do not shoot, do not let the turrets engage, and walk it in. That single approach triggers it in almost every case where a heavier method did not.
Getting it without ending your shift
Fresh Meat is one of the two hidden achievements that only involves other creatures, so it is safe to perform during a normal run. The other two hidden achievements require the player character to go into the processor or the transport tube, and both end the current day when they fire. The hidden achievements guide lists all four and explains when to save them for a shift you can afford to lose.