Editing Field Guide

The '''Field Guide''' is the browsable version of the Completion Log's item collection. Instead of a flat wall of anonymous icons, items are grouped by category and every entry is clickable — and, most usefully, each one answers the question '''"where do I get this?"'''

== Browsing Items ==

* Items are grouped into their [[Items|category]] buckets (Fishing, Crafting, Fossils, and so on), each with its own discovery count (for example "Fishing — 14/23").
* Click any item to open its detail: icon, name, description, sell value, any stat badges (heal / equip / potion / salve / dino gear), and its '''sources'''.
* '''Undiscovered items''' still appear as nameless "???" entries, but their detail still shows the category and source chips — so the guide can point you toward the hunt even before you have found the item.

== Where Things Come From ==

Every item lists one or more '''sources''' — the ways it can be obtained. The guide builds these automatically from the game's systems, so it is always complete and up to date. Source types include:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Source !! What it means
|-
| Skill action || Dropped or produced by a [[Skills|skill]] action (named when only a few actions give it, e.g. "Fishing — Lagoon Gar (Lv 27)"; grouped when many do)
|-
| Farming || Harvested as a [[Skills|crop]], or returned as its seed
|-
| Excavation || Dug up at a specific dig site, or a [[Fossils|skull]] from a biome's digs
|-
| Alpha spoils || A [[Items|Trophy]] earned from overcoming a biome's alpha predators
|-
| Trail caches || Found in caches from winning expeditions
|-
| Dispatch || Loot from a named dispatch mission
|-
| Trading Post || Bought or produced at the Trading Post
|-
| Mark Exchange || Traded for at the Mark Exchange
|-
| Contract Board || Paid out for completing contracts
|-
| Villager basket || Gifted by a homestead [[Chronicles|villager]]
|-
| Homestead || Passively produced by a homestead structure
|-
| Quest || Rewarded by a [[Quests|quest]] chain
|-
| Amber Shop || Bought with [[Items|Amber]] (some are one-of-a-kind)
|-
| Chronicle finds || The Echo of the Vale, the mark of a [[Chronicles|chronicle]] blessing (never a normal drop)
|}

Every item in the game is guaranteed to have at least one listed source — nothing is unobtainable or unlabelled.

== Creatures in the Guide ==

[[Creatures]] are clickable too, with a lighter detail view showing diet, home biome, and any earned field notes. A creature's [[Ecology|biome affinity]] only appears once you have earned its Field Note — the guide never spoils the hidden-advantage system in advance.

== See Also ==

* [[Items]] — the full item catalogue
* [[Creatures]] — the creature roster
* [[Ecology]] — biome affinity and Field Notes
* [[Achievements]] — the Collector track (items discovered)

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