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 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:
| Source | What it means |
|---|---|
| Skill action | Dropped or produced by a 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 crop, or returned as its seed |
| Excavation | Dug up at a specific dig site, or a skull from a biome's digs |
| Alpha spoils | A 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 villager |
| Homestead | Passively produced by a homestead structure |
| Quest | Rewarded by a quest chain |
| Amber Shop | Bought with Amber (some are one-of-a-kind) |
| Chronicle finds | The Echo of the Vale, the mark of a 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 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)