Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

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"Master Archivist" Achievement Guide
By Gharren
A guide on all note locations for the "Master Archivist" achievement. If you have anything to add or correct, or anything should be unclear, feel free to point it out in the comments. Also, give it a like if it helped you, much appreciated!
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Waking the Doll's House (Mansion I)
#1: June 24th 1899
Can be found in the very first room you wake up in, on the table.

#2: Edwin and Enoch's Diary
In the attic, nearby the lantern, you can crawl underneath some planks to find the note.

#3: February 14th 1899
In the hallway immediately after leaving the attic, in the second room to the left in the middle drawer.

#4: November 7th 1899
In a desk drawer in Mandus' office.

#5: Clockwork and the Soul
In the hidden pathway, stapled near one of the see-through paintings.
In Lily's Honour, A Banquet (Mansion II)
#6: Edwin and Enoch's Diary
Right at the beginning on a table to your right.

#7: Dieses Herz ('This Heart')
In the banquet hall to the left of the main hall, on a music stand next to a piano.

#8: December 20th 1899
On a drawer in front of the (initially locked) room with the sleeping pig monster in it.

#9: Old Sallie I the Doll's Cottager
After the pig monster escaped, it can be found inside the bedroom in a drawer.
Against the Rising Waters (Cellars)
#10: June 3rd 1899
Right after you start, lying on a barrel besides the broken staircase.

#11: August 19th 1899
In the storage room behind the blocked door, accessible via the walkway after you fixed the third fuse box.
The Collar, The Neck, The Noose (Factory)
#12: August 22nd 1899
In a desk drawer in one of the offices right at the start, nearby the phone.

#13: May 1st 1899
In another desk drawer in one of the offices, not far from the first note in this chapter.

#14: October 11th 1899
In the passageway after the offices, lying on a box.

#15: September 28th 1899
Within a small storage room in the fuelling station, near the open window.

#16: Delivery Schedule
Lying on the transporter outside in the alley.
Livestock and Bibles (Church)
#17: November 23rd 1899
Inside of a side room right after you enter the church.

#18: Father Jeremiah's Journal
In the storage room where you also find the candlestick, sitting on a box.

#19: These final thoughts
In the underground passage, sitting on a table next to the cages (just before the staircase with the monster scare)
And so to the Stoking (Furnaces)
#20: October 17th 1899
In the second drawer in the office above the piston hall.

#21: October 18th 1899
Just to the right on the table after entering the piston control room.

#22: October 21st 1899
In the middle of the lower area of the piston hall, where the pig monster roams, turn left and backtrack a bit. The note is on a workbench near a fence that separates the left side of the hall.

#23: April 30th 1899
In the coal conveyor area, on a box next to the facility map.
In the Nest of Eggs (Laboratory)
#24: July 15th 1899
By the cupboards in the room with the examination chair and lamp.

#25: a warning
In the low temperature storage on a table next to the dispenser.

#26: August 20th 1899
After the first room of the holding pens, sitting on one of the shelves in the hallway.

#27: August 4th 1898
After crouching through the hallway with the busted pipes, it lies on the ground immediately to the right.
This Leaking World (Sewers)
#28: October 22nd 1899
In a small room to the right immediately at the beginning of the chapter.

#29: August 1st 1899
In the room with the valve for the first sluice gate.

#30: February 17th 1899
In the room with the valve for the second sluice gate, on the shelf hidden behind a crate.
From Tide to Spine (Bilge Pumps)
No notes to be found in this area (they'd probably be wet and unreadable anyways).
The Children, Dancing (Reactor)
#31: March 15th 1899
At the start of the chapter, on one of the shelves at the end of the room.
Mandus, Saboteur (Engine)
#32: December 29th 1899
On the floor with the pig masks lying around, in front of the ladder.

#33: August 31st 1899
On the pressure regulator control panel.

#34: December 1st 1899
Lying in front of you on the ground right as you regain consciousness.
Anything to Save Them (London Streets)
#35: October 25th 1899
After going through a small wooden hut, immediately turn right into one of the apartments. Upstairs, the note rests on a table.

#36: October 24th 1899
After ending up on the road, turn right and go beyond the stacked crates. You'll find a house in which a woman gets attacked by a pig-man, the note lies in front of the scene.

#37: December 23rd 1899
After entering the building through the cellar window, the note is on a box in one of the boarded up rooms, accessible by crouching underneath the planks.

#38: October 25th 1899
Nearby the exiting lift, there will be a huge stack of crates. Crawl your way through it to find the note.
Farming the World (Pigline)
#39: October 25th 1899
At the end of one of the walkways by the iron butler.

#40: October 27th 1899 - 1
In the room where you throw the container into the machinery, it is pinned on the wall near the entrance.

#41: October 27th 1899 - 2
After the act of sabotage, in the area with the vault doors, there is a room with stacked boxes, the note resting on one of them.

#42: December 2nd 1899
After going into the Tripery, at the end of the hallway just on top of the stairs, the note is nailed to the right-hand wall.
The Veil Lifts, the Bride is Waiting (Tesla I)
#43: 25th December 1899: If You Should Find This
At the beginning of the chapter, pinned right next to the facility map.
Mandus Descending Amongst the Spirits (Tesla II)
#44: December 28th 1899
The final note is on one of the upper catwalks at the beginning of the level, lying next to a teddy bear on the ground.
47 Comments
apple 4 Sep @ 11:57am 
Cheers! Perfect guide
eclipsingGod 26 Jun @ 9:22am 
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This saved me so much mental anguish. I didn't enjoy this game, and if I had to play it AGAIN because I missed something, I would've ripped by hair out. Thank you!
Gharren  [author] 18 May @ 8:57am 
@valhsia Glad it helped!
valhsia 15 May @ 10:10pm 
Perfect guide! Simple to understand descriptions, thank you for helping me not miss anything:))
Gharren  [author] 28 Dec, 2023 @ 12:28am 
Thanks for 600 ratings! :coolstar2022:
dgone 22 Nov, 2023 @ 8:53am 
Great guide, easy to follow. I accidently missed #11 by going to far and locking myself out, but thanks to autosaves it wasn't any major setback to replay the level.
Xamalion 20 Aug, 2022 @ 4:19am 
Thank you very much, after 10 years I finally found them all. :steamhappy:
Brunkk 6 May, 2022 @ 4:21am 
Thanks for the guide!
Huaie 17 Apr, 2022 @ 7:16am 
You're welcome and thanks for the guide! :rd_love:
Gharren  [author] 17 Apr, 2022 @ 12:29am 
@Gura
I have added it to the guide. Thank you for your feedback!