Anthem Collectibles Guide

Anthem has 402 Collectible Locations. This collectibles guide shows all locations for the Bastion collectible challenges and all trophies or achievements.

• 10 Overlooks (Trailblazer Challenge) – must find all of them
• 4 Tombs of the Legionnaires (Grave Historian Challenge) – must find all of them
• 25 Arcanist Archives (Arcanist Archives Challenge) – can farm the same ones after death
• 25 Dominion Intel (Dominion Intel Challenge) – can farm the same ones after death
• 25 Outlaw Intel (Outlaw History Challenge) – can farm the same ones after death
• 25 Scar Intel (Scar Intel Challenge) – can farm the same ones after death
• 25 Sentinel Archives (Sentinel Archives Challenge) – can farm the same ones after death
• 80 Misplaced Writings (Mederines’ Disciple (10 Writings) / Mederines’ Order (+30 Writings) / Mederines’ Peer (+40 Writings). With each challenge tier the counter resets, you need all 80 of them for the No Stone Unturned trophy.) – can farm the same ones by making a new pilot
• 80 Runes (Hidden Messages (10 Runes) / Footsteps of Idris (+20 Runes) / Vassa’s Triumph (+50 Runes). With each challenge tier the counter resets, you need all 80 of them for the No Stone Unturned trophy.) – can farm the same ones by making a new pilot
• 1 Clam (The Clam Before The Storm Challenge – not needed for “No Stone Unturned” trophy)
• 63 Districts – must find all of them
• 9 Hidden Places (there are more but only 9 count as collectibles) – must find all of them
• 30 Landmarks – must find all of them

You can keep track of all Collectibles under Challenges > Exploration > Bastion Collectibles / Bastion Regions. Nothing is missable. They are all found in the open world and available from the start of the game. They can still be collected after the story.

The collectibles also grant you Loyalty XP for the different factions. They also add some lore to your text documents so you can learn more about the world of Anthem and the people in it. Completing a collectible challenge (meaning you collected all of one type) also gives some money rewards.

It’s worth noting that the challenges for the 80 Runes and 80 Misplaced Mederines’ Writings have multiple tiers to them. The first challenge only wants you to find 10 of these but then the challenge resets and wants you to find more. All 80 of these are required to complete the challenge and earn No Stone Unturned.

How to Farm Collectibles (instead of searching for them):

What’s great in Anthem is that you can farm the Intel & Archive locations (the items that have 25 each) and collect the same ones again until you have 25 to complete their challenges. They respawn when you die in free roam. No need to find all unique ones, a good farming route in which you pick up different types will do better than looking for them, as the guide below will show.

What’s not so great in Anthem is that not all collectibles spawn on each freeplay. Only certain types will appear. So you could walk around for hours and never find what you’re looking for. On top of that if another player picked up the collectible before you it will disappear in your game! One more reason why you should just farm the same ones to save yourself that headache. It’s boring but easier than finding everything.

The 80 Runes and 80 Misplaced Writings only respawn when you make a new Pilot, but they don’t spawn right at the start and you must advance the story a bit to make them show up. Then they can be collected a second time. They are really easy to find and there are more than 80 of them anyway. Unlike other collectibles these will always spawn. You can get around 50 of them and then start a new Pilot to collect them again until you have 80. Be sure to keep this for last though.

The 10 Overlooks and 4 Tombs of the Legionnaires are unique and you must find all of them. Same goes for the 63 Districts, 9 Hidden Places, 30 Landmarks. You have to find all of those, they can’t be farmed.

Trophies unlocked from Collectibles:

1. No Stone Unturned
2. Explorer: High Road 
3. Explorer: Academy Ruins 
4. Explorer: Monument Watch 
5. Explorer: Fortress of Dawn 
6. Explorer: Ruins of Shadowmark 
7. Explorer: Valley of Tarsis 
8. Explorer: Great Falls Canyon 
9. Explorer: Emerald Abyss 
10. Explorer: East Gate 
11. Explorer: Eastern Reach 

Overlooks

#1 – High Road Overlook – 0:05
#2 – Academy Ruins Overlook – 0:26
#3 – Fortress of Dawn Overlook – 0:48
#4 – Ruins of Shadowmark Overlook – 1:07
#5 – Monument Watch Overlook – 1:29
#6 – Emerald Abyss Overlook – 1:51
#7 – Great Falls Canyon Overlook – 2:08
#8 – Skystone Overlook (East Gate) – 2:30
#9 – Eastern Reach Overlook – 2:51
#10 – Valley of Tarsis Overlook – 3:15

Tombs of the Legionnaires

» Tombs of the Legionnaires Challenge Guide

Arcanist Archives

Arcanist Archives & Sentinel Archives will both spawn on structures that will spawn outside of normal faction spawning areas. They can spawn on a few different types of structures that can typically be easily spotted as they are decently large and look out of place with the rest of the environment when you see them. These ones will also respawn in nearly the exact same place over and over each death if you’re lucky and there are no other players in the immediate area that could influence world spawns.

For the dark tent with boxes around it, the collectible will spawn on a group of crates at the back of the tent. For the covered robot walker with a white tower beside it, the collectible will spawn to the side of the tower on some crates.

Here is a farming route for Arcanist, Outlaw, Scar, Sentinel Collectibles. Play on Hard and let yourself die at the end of the route to make collectibles respawn:

Dominion Intel

Dominion Intel items will spawn on Dominion related structures that appear in areas that Dominion enemies can spawn in. The structures are normally all similar, they are the dark grey / black metal container that looks like an engram from Destiny. All variants of these structures can have the intel spawn on them, and there is typically a large number that spawn with the Dominion enemy spawns.

Here is a farming route for Dominion Intel Collectibles. Play on Hard and let yourself die at the end of the route to make collectibles respawn:

Outlaw Intel

Outlaw Intel items will spawn on Outlaw related structures that appear in areas that Outlaw enemies can spawn in. These can most often be found in two places: in the cloth roof shelters with the fire in the front, they will appear on a box to the right side of the fire, or on top of the groups of containers that also spawn near where the groups of Outlaws will spawn.

In the sheltered area, the Collectible can spawn on either side of the fire on the crates. On the small structures in the open, the collectible can spawn on crates groups of crates that look similar to the one directly above the Javelin or to the right. They can also have a number of canisters on them and they will spawn in front of the canisters.

Here is a farming route for Arcanist, Outlaw, Scar, Sentinel Collectibles. Play on Hard and let yourself die at the end of the route to make collectibles respawn:

Scar Intel

Scar Intel items will spawn on Scar related structures that appear in areas that Scar enemies can spawn in. They will normally always be on the left side (facing the “door”) of the hut structures that spawn with the Scar, sitting on top of a barrel. You can have multiple of these huts spawned in a Scar area, and each one has the potential to have a collectible located on the barrel. These are primarily what you want to be on the lookout for when trying to get the Scar Intel items.

Here is a farming route for Arcanist, Outlaw, Scar, Sentinel Collectibles. Play on Hard and let yourself die at the end of the route to make collectibles respawn:

Sentinel Archives

Sentinel Archives & Arcanist Archives will both spawn on structures that will spawn outside of normal faction spawning areas. They can spawn on a few different types of structures that can typically be easily spotted as they are decently large and look out of place with the rest of the environment when you see them. These ones will also respawn in nearly the exact same place over and over each death if you’re lucky and there are no other players in the immediate area that could influence world spawns.

 

For the dark tent with boxes around it, the collectible will spawn on a group of crates at the back of the tent. For the covered robot walker with a white tower beside it, the collectible will spawn to the side of the tower on some crates.

Here is a farming route for Arcanist, Outlaw, Scar, Sentinel Collectibles. Play on Hard and let yourself die at the end of the route to make collectibles respawn:

Misplaced Writings

Misplaced Writings are all of the text collectibles that you can find scattered around the map. These will look like reddish-pink books, scrolls, or pieces of white paper, and have fixed spawn locations around the map. You need a total of 80 of these for all the Bastion challenges.

The easiest way to farm these is to just make a new pilot and grab 10 – 20 that are very easy to pick up right at the start of the story. You only need to do the two tutorial missions before you have access to the open map, then all the text collectibles are available. In the mission “Lost Arcanist” if you go to the first map objective to slightly progress the mission you are then able to go around the entire world map without the game trying to warp you away, which makes picking these up quick and easy.

There are nearly 10 pickups just by the Fort Tarsis spawn point alone, so it should take about 20 minutes to do one run on a new pilot to grab a handful of these collectibles, then repeat on a new pilot.

Runes

Arcanist runes are green glowing runes that appear in the world after you do a contract for Matthias at the start of the game called “Arcanist Runes”. They can be found all over the place on walls and are fairly easy to see when you spot them. You need to pick up a total of 80 of them for all the of the Bastion challenges.

The easiest way to go about getting these is to just pick up every one you find as you go by. This includes making sure you get all of the ones in each Hidden Place as you go through them for the story missions. Each Hidden Place has at least a few, so they’re a good place to look. If you’re picking up each rune you see as you’re playing you should be able to easily get 50 – 60 through general story progress, then you would only need a handful more on a second pilot so wouldn’t need to redo the story more than once. On a second pilot it would likely be easiest to get the ones from Hidden Places, seeing as they can have a large number.

Note: when farming runes on a new pilot some will be glowing green and others yellow. The ones that are glowing green don’t seem to increase the counter anymore. The yellow ones add to your counter on new pilot and can be farmed. So if a rune doesn’t count for you that’s why.

The Clam Before the Storm Challenge

NOTE: This challenge isn’t required to be completed to earn No Stone Unturned.

You MUST be playing as a Storm type Javelin to unlock this challenge, you can’t complete it with one of the other three Javelin types.

Launch a Freeplay session from the Strider that’s directly south of Ruins of Shadowmark. Proceed directly North so that you come in to the ruins area and are right near the Landmark called The Sunken Gardens.

Jump in the water and head straight to the bottom. To the North wall you should see a square opening with light coming out of it. Go into this passage and on the left you should see a large clam. Go up to it and you will complete the challenge.

High Road Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Tarsis Falls – 0:05
#2 – District: Trasis Bypass – 0:18
#3 – District: Watchtower of Arath – 0:37
#4 – Landmark: The Last Sentinel – 0:56
#5 – District: The Tower Road – 1:18
#6 – District: The Hureen Slide – 1:36
#7 – District: Serpent’s View – 1:58
#8 – District: Giant’s Crossroads – 2:12

Academy Ruins Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Tarsis Forest – 0:05
#2 – District: The Bullet Mires – 0:21
#3 – District: Moonpod Lagoon – 0:34
#4 – District: The Garrison At Velathra – 0:46
#5 – Landmark: The Garrison – 0:57
#6 – Hidden Place: The Hollow – 1:17
#7 – District: Sanadeen’s Pass – 1:32
#8 – District: Exiles Arch – 1:47
#9 – District: Praedean Falls – 2:02
#10 – District: Observatory of Velathra – 2:13
#11 – Landmark: Ring Gate – 2:29
#12 – Landmark: Astronomy Tower – 2:45
#13 – District: The Solarium Court – 3:06
#14 – District: First Refuge – 3:22
#15 – Landmark: Radio Tower – 3:34

Fortress of Dawn Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Morning’s Edge – 0:05
#2 – District: Crosslands – 0:21
#3 – District: Legionnaire’s Ravine – 0:35
#4 – District: Legion’s Plateau – 0:48
#5 – District: Fortress of Dawn – 1:01
#6 – Landmark: The Fortress of Dawn – 1:22
#7 – District: Darkwood Barrens – 1:38
#8 – Landmark: Vassa’s Way – 1:55
#9 – Hidden Place: The Dungeon – 2:16

Ruins of Shadowmark Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Tracks of Midderon – 0:05
#2 – District: Strider Alley – 0:28
#3 – District: Shadowmark – 0:42
#4 – Landmark: Sunken Gardens – 1:00
#5 – District: Helena’s Walk – 1:29
#6 – District: The Dawn Gates – 1:44
#7 – Landmark: Wrecked Gazebo – 1:57
#8 – Landmark: Shadow Lock – 2:14
#9 – District: North Rock – 2:37
#10 – District: Crescent Lake – 2:49
#11 – Hidden Place: The Sovereign Mine – 3:04
#12 – Hidden Place: The Vault – 3:19

Monument Watch Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – Landmark: The Monument – 0:05
#2 – Landmark: The Drill – 0:36
#3 – Hidden Place: The Bane Engine – 0:54
#4 – District: The Iron Serpent – 1:11

Emerald Abyss Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Abyssal Loch – 0:05
#2 – District: The Guardians of Dunar – 0:18
#3 – District: Mentor’s Trail – 0:33
#4 – Hidden Place: The Foundry – 0:51
#5 – Landmark: West Valve – 1:09
#6 – District: The Sanctuary of Dunar – 1:30
#7 – Landmark: Sanctuary Ruins – 1:46
#8 – District: Dark Canopy – 2:10
#9 – District: Arden’s Road – 2:24
#10 – Landmark: East Valve – 2:47

East Gate Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Silent Path – 0:05
#2 – District: Lover’s Spring – 0:18
#3 – District: Skystone Mine – 0:32
#4 – Hidden Place: The Necropolis – 0:49
#5 – District: Skystone Pass – 1:11
#6 – Landmark: Scar Mast – 1:24
#7 – Landmark: Skystone Lock – 1:47
#8 – Landmark: Mining Platform – 2:05

Eastern Reach Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: The Pistons – 0:05
#2 – District: Headless Hollow – 0:21
#3 – District: Scar’s Duskheap – 0:39
#4 – Landmark: Scar Burrow – 0:52
#5 – District: Stinging Gulch – 1:07
#6 – District: The Phantom Crag – 1:29
#7 – District: Lost Road – 1:43
#8 – District: Junkhead Basin – 2:02
#9 – Landmark: The Mining Platform (Convector Henge) – 2:16
#10 – Hidden Place: The Shrine – 2:31
#11 – District: The Breach – 2:48
#12 – Landmark: The Hate Engine – 2:59

Valley of Tarsis Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: Memorial Gate – 0:05
#2 – District: Strider Way – 0:19
#3 – District: The Crop Terraces – 0:36
#4 – Landmark: Howel’s Tower – 0:50
#5 – District: Governor Springs – 1:07
#6 – District: Honor Valley – 1:21
#7 – Landmark: The Workshop – 1:34
#8 – Landmark: Honor Valley Dam – 1:53
#9 – District: The Palisades of Idris (Spires of the Ancient) – 2:12
#10 – Landmark: Stone Bridge – 2:24
#11 – Hidden Place: The Haven – 2:39
#12 – Landmark: The Faithful (The Hound) – 3:13
#13 – District: Southern Reach – 3:33
#14 – Landmark: The Antium Lock – 3:47

Great Falls Canyon Landmarks, Districts, Hidden Places

#1 – District: The Bowl – 0:05
#2 – District: Gathering Falls – 0:20
#3 – District: Tears of Liaterelle – 0:36
#4 – District: Eddian Grove – 0:50
#5 – Landmark: The Great Eddian – 1:10
#6 – District: The Double Cross – 1:39
#7 – District: Korox Shallows – 1:56
#8 – Landmark: The Wedged Key – 2:12
#9 – District: Blackshore – 2:38
#10 – Hidden Place: The Mandible – 2:56
#11 – Landmark: Scar Tower – 3:10

 

Those are all the collectible types that can be found in Anthem.