Artifacts
Artifacts are the notes, letters, maps, diagrams and personal items you pick up across The Last of Us Part I and Left Behind. Collecting every one, together with the notes, earns the Chronicles trophy.
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Good to know
- Most are written: notes, journal pages, maps and diagrams.
- A few are objects rather than paper, such as Sam's robot and Ellie's backpack.
- Most exist for the story and give no gameplay bonus.
- Some point you to hidden loot, and some carry the combination for a safe.
- A handful are keys or keycards you need to move on, such as the warehouse key, the pharmacy key and the hotel keycard.
- Left Behind's collectibles are all artifacts.
How the set works
Picking up an artifact adds it to your collection. Combination notes double as safe keys: once you hold the right note, the matching safe can be opened.
Trophies
Chronicles asks for every note and artifact in the game. A separate trophy, In Memoriam, is tied to one note in Bill's Town that you have to pick up again after it gets thrown away.
Related collectibles
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Abandon Zone Note
The Abandon Zone Note sits on the desk in the office at the far left end of the bookstore's first floor in Pittsburgh.
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Ambush Map
The Ambush Map is pinned to the wall of the room at the end of the hallway. Leave the stairs in the room with the two dead bodies, follow the corridor to its end and look on the wall.
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Applicant Checklist
The Applicant Checklist is under the stairs on the far left of the bookstore's ground floor in Pittsburgh.
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Atrium note
The Atrium note is an artifact in the Left Behind DLC chapter So Close, set in the present-day Colorado mall. It is in the atrium, to the left of where Joel and Callus are hidden, near the remains of a field surgery.