Artifact

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Find 30 artifacts.

This means that the player must recover ALL 30 artifacts shown on Shaman’s board. Since only 5 can be carried at any one time, this achievement will require a minimum of 6 trips into the Library and back again. Once again, purchasing the Environment suit will extend your filter life which will in turn give you more time to explore.

Because the artifact spawns are randomized, there is no real way to make a definitive locations guide for each item. However, it might be handy to have a list with general descriptions since you can only see list when you’re back at base. And even then some of the names of the artifacts don’t make it clear what you’re actually seeking. Also, this list should be in the general order you will encounter the artifacts as you progress and open up more of the level:

1. Gasoline (red gas can)
2. Book
3. Old Phone
4. Monitor (looks like a flat screen)
5. Keyboard
6. Painting (a landscape of a beach)
7. Toy (stuffed bear)
8. Pack of Books (actually a box filled with books)
9. Clock (a hanging wall clock)
10. Weapon Parts (found near a dead body, 2nd Floor Great Library)
11. Glasses (pair of white wire-frame glasses, small and sometimes difficult to spot)
12. Tricycle
13. Icon (a painting depicting Mary holding the baby Jesus)
14. Tools (looks like a blue plastic case for a power drill)
15. Poster (primarily red, depicts silhouette of a sexy woman)
16. Suitcase
17. Medical supplies (metal box with red cross logo on top)
18. Drawings (sheet of graph paper with blue geometrical shapes drawn on it)
19. Doll (bald baby doll)
20. Plate (white with a blue floral pattern, will likely be found hanging on a wall)
21. Space Lattice Model (a cube made up of interconnected red and blue spheres)
22. Technical Notes (found with a pencil on top in the ruined offices of the Depository on a desk with a corpse slumped at it)
23. Welding Helmet (worn by a corpse)
24. Balalaika (triangular guitar clutched by a corpse in a ruined bathroom; taking this artifact will cause a Librarian to spawn)
25. Traffic Light (standard green/yellow/red configuration found at the end of a long alleyway outdoors on the surface)
26. Science Book (open and flat, can be difficult to spot amongst the rest of the rubble)
27. Terminal (hangs on a wall, has a giant, reddish screen with two knobs under it)
28. Mechanical Parts (seem to resemble more the tape reels from a reel-to-reel recorder)
29. Audio Speaker
30. Secret Subway Map (taking this artifact spawns a Librarian behind the player)

I've found the glasses twice in the same location.. When you head up the stairs towards to beginning to the locked door and have to jump through the small hole on the left, they're on a shelf in the small room you fall into.

The tricycle is on the same floor as the door with the hole. Facing that door, turn around and run past the annoying tentacle things to get to the opposite side of that same room / floor. The tricycle is in the back of a little alcove with a few more annoying tentacles things guarding it.