The headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) in New York is a building called the Oldest House. The Oldest House is the playable area in control and scattered throughout the main missions are collectibles that tell the backstory of the building and the people that work there. Check out our Mission Collectibles Guide to find their location and pick them up to unlock the following three achievements/trophies.
Strange Collection – Collect 40 Collectibles
Record Keeper – Collect 80 Collectibles
Bureau Archivist – Collect 120 Collectibles
• Correspondence - Official - Prohibited Items Reminder
On top of the metal detector.
• Research & Records - Reports - Bureau Expenditures
Inside the office to the left of the first flight of stairs.
• Correspondence - Official - Security Order
Inside the first office after the first floor landing.
• Correspondence - Official - R4 Reports Reminder
Inside the office with no lights on.
• Correspondence - Non - Official - Trench: Do Not Disturb
On the cabinet left to the doors to the Director's Office.
• Correspondence - Official - Approved Terminology Reminder
In the room opposite the door requiring Clearance Level One.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentations - Objects of Power
Receive automatically after picking up the Service Weapon.
• Research & Records - Reports - Director Trench Photograph
Receive automatically after completing the Astral Plane Challenge.
• Case Files - Objects of Power - Service Weapon
Receive automatically after completing the Astral Plane Challenge.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Shifted Bathroom Complaint
In the second floor office directly north from the first Control Point.
• Research & Records - Research - Technological Restrictions
In the second floor office north-west from the first Control Point.
• Correspondence - Official - Travel Costs
On a cabinet against the southern wall in the room after the barricade directly north of the first Control Point.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Barrier
Trying to walk down the Hiss infected corridor in the Cafeteria.
• Correspondence - Official - Unstable Area Notice
In the women's toilet in the Cafeteria.
• Correspondence - Dead Letters - Machine God
Next to the wet floor signs on the left as you enter the Dead Letters department. You may hear music.
• Correspondence - Dead Letters - Singing Fish
In the south-western corner of the Dead Letters department once you've gone down the first set of stairs. May be hard to see in the dark.
• Correspondence - Official - Trench: Dead Letter Approval
In the middle right hand office after first entering the Dead Letter department. May be hard to see in the dark.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentations - Floppy Disk
After cleansing the Control Point - in the office to the right of the Control Point, next to the doors to the Communication Department.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Book Club: Penny
After cleansing the Dead Letters Control Point - a cabinet in one of the formerly closed offices on the lower floor.
• Multimedia - Threshold Kids - Missing Momma
After cleansing the Dead Letters Control Point - turn on the television in one of the formerly closed offices on the lower floor.
• Correspondence - Dead Letters - Dead Presidents
After cleansing the Dead Letters Control Point - on a cabinet in one of the formerly closed offices on the lower floor.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Book Club: Samson
In the shelter at the end of the corridor after the Dead Letters Control Point.
• Case Files - Objects of Power - Floppy Disk
Receive automatically after completing the Astral Plane tutorial for the Floppy Disk.
• Correspondence - Official - Tommasi: Willow AWE Outcome
On a cabinet in the room on the left hand side when you first enter the Mail Room.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Demolition Expert
Receive automatically after killing a Hiss Demolition Expert.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Ranger
Receive automatically after killing a Hiss Ranger.
• Multimedia - America Overnight - America Overnight Ep 359
On the second floor of the Communications Department in the office section.
• Correspondence - Official - Marshall: Lockdown Distinctions
On a cabinet in the third floor office of the Communication Department.
• Research & Records - Reports - Data Breach
In the computer room on the third floor of the Communications Department.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Elevated
Defeat Tommasi.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Tee Time
On the ground floor in the north-eastern corner of the room you fight Tommasi in.
• Case Files - Altered World Events - Butte Summary
On the floor in the circular room.
• Research & Records - Reports - Tommasi's ID
In front of one of the computers in the circular room.
• Multimedia - FBC Recordings - Tommasi: AWE Report
In front of the main control unit in the circular room.
• Case Files - Altered World Events - Butte Supplement
On the desk to the right of the entrance to the Hotline Chamber.
• Research & Records - Reports - Hotline Security Log
On a cabinet in the small office in the Hotline Chamber.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Initial Impressions
On the table in the Board Room.
• Correspondence - Official - Agent Death Notification
Return to the lobby before the Director's office and go through the Clearance 1 Level door.
• Hotline - Northmoor
Receive as part of the story line.
• Correspondence - Official - Arish: Escaped OoP
On a table directly opposite the access lift.
• Correspondence - Official - Arish: Security Matters
On a cabinet in the Security Booth.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Charged
Receive after killing the first wave of Hiss Charged.
• Multimedia - FBC Recordings - Furnace Research
On a desk in the Furnace Room near the Furnace.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Mail Tube Complaint
On a board in the lower level of the Furnace Room.
• Correspondence - Official - Clog Complaint
On the cabinet on the highest level of the Coolant Pump room.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Trooper
Receive after killing Trooper Second Class Coppack.
• Research & Records - Research - Thresholds
Beneath the statue in Central Maintenance.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Tennyson Report Warning
In the room you reach by taking the right-hand door in Central Maintenance.
• Research & Records - Research - Home Safe Tests
In the same room you reach via Central Maintenance - found opposite the metal detectors. Finding this document will also start the A Good Defence mission.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Upcoming Game Reminder
On the desk as you enter the NSC Control Room.
• Hotline - Internal Lockdown
Cleanse the Control Point in the NSC Control Room.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Book Club: Lopez
In the Clearance Level 2 room after climbing the stairs to the Sector Elevator.
• Hotline - Board - The Hiss
Receive after completing Directorial Override.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Sniper
Receive after killing a Hiss Sniper.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentation - Research Sector
Receive upon entering Central Research.
• Case Files - Altered World Events - Emergency Call Summary
In the shelter in Central Research.
• Correspondence - Non-Official - Plant Complaint
In the first office you see in Central Research.
• Research & Records - Research - Synchronicity
In the conference room in Central Research.
• Research & Records - Research - Threshold Unity
On the lowest floor of Central Research near the black plant life.
• Correspondence - Official - Hubert: Black Rock Analysis
On the counter in the Central Research Cafeteria.
• Research & Research - Research - Song Questionnaire
On the desk in Lab 1, accessible on the lowest floor of Central Research.
• Multimedia - Music - Poets of the Fall: My Dark Disquiet
By pressing the red button in Lab 1, accessible from the lowest floor of Central Research.
• Hotline - Ashtray Maze
Walk through the doors to Dimensional Research.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentations - HRAs
Receive upon entering Dr Darling's office.
• Research & Records - Research - Astral Plane Counteressay
On a cabinet in the right-hand corner of Dr. Darling's office.
• Research & Records - Research - Resonance Theory
On the central desk in Dr. Darling's office.
• Correspondence - Official - Darling Budget Request
On the floor in Dr. Darling's office by the bin.
• Research & Records - Research - Astral Plane
On the cabinet on the left-hand side of the Dr. Darling's office.
• Case Files - Altered World Events - Emergency Call Supplement
On the counter near the last cage in the first room you enter in the Parakinesiology department.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentations - Astral Plane
Receive when you go through the door to the Astral Plane department.
• Research & Records - Research - Astral Exhibition
Found on a desk in the room after the Control Point in Parakinesiology.
• Multimedia - Darling Presentations - Astral Spike
Interact with the television in the room after the Control Point in Parakinesiology.
• Correspondence - Official - Precognitive Powers
On a desk in a corner, near the record banks, where you fight the Hiss Cluster in the Parapsychology department.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Cluster
Receive after killing a Hiss Cluster.
• Research & Records - Reports - Astralnauts Information
On the cabinet near the Control Point. Finding this will start the A Captive Audience side mission.
• Research & Records - Research - Groupthink
On the desk in the far corner in the small office space right of the Control Point in Parapsychology.
• Case Files - Altered Items - Rubber Duck Supplement
In the men's toilet to the left of the elevator.
• Research & Records - Hiss Research - Hiss Warped
Receive after defeating Parakinesiology Chief Lewis.
• Research & Records - Reports - Threshold Kids Proposal
Inside the shelter accessible after the Ritual Division Control Point has been cleansed.
• Research & Records - Research - Synchronicity Experiment
Found on the right second floor in the Synchronicity Lab.
• Correspondence - Official - Carla: File Received
Take the elevator to the Ritual Office, left of the Ritual Division Control Point, and find it on a cabinet inside.
• Research & Research - Research - Rituals
In the main Ritual Office overlooking the Ritual Division, accessible via elevator, on a cabinet.
• Multimedia - FBC Recordings - AI52 Testing
Next to the cage with the rubber duck in it in the first room of Protective Studies.
• Research & Records - Research - Black Rock Prisms
On the box in the right-hand corner on the ground floor of the HRA Lab.
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