Welcome.

The purpose of this guide is to list where you can find artifacts, and what you can spend them on.

I've tried to keep spoilers to a minimum, using the spoiler tag in some cases, but this whole guide is spoilery by its very nature, so... yeah... if you're here, that's on you.

I've also tried to keep it as error-free as possible, but you know how it goes, nobody's perfect. If you see something, say something! Whether it be typos, bad directions, wrong information, or whatever other sort of mistake. Let me know in the comments, so I can fix it. Thanks!

I've tried to be as thorough as possible, but I make no guarantees that I've found every single artifact in the game. If I've missed some you've found, also please let me know!

The numbers next to location names is how many artifacts I've found in that place.

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A couple of things that will help your artifact hunting:

Phantom Rifle: In the south-west corner of Storm Drain, there's a bunker entrance behind the waterfall. The code to enter is 325174. Inside, you'll find a Phantom Rifle, which can be very useful for artifact hunting, due to its "Phantom-Vision" when scoped (lets you see through walls; highlights artifacts and some other things) .

PV-09 Goggles: In the western end of The Pines, a bit south/south-west of the bridge, you can find goggles that replace your binoculars and give you "Phantom-Vision". The zoom is a bit less far than the Phantom Rifle's scope, and you get a wider angle.

(you can buy both of these items so you can start with them and don't have to go get them every time you come down from the VAKT ship, but neither is cheap, and they can be worth the detour when you're just starting out. They help a LOT with finding artifacts)

Crouch Jump: If you crouch (CTRL by default) when you try jumping onto an object, you'll be able to "climb" a bit and reach a bit higher than you otherwise could with a regular jump. This is very useful for reaching all sorts of areas, and worth keeping in mind.

Compass: There's a compass at the top of the screen, above your health. Use it. A lot of the directions I give involve... well... directions.

Near the end of Rook's quest chain, he gives you the Shooting Stars quest, which is repeatable.

Every once in a while, as you're wandering around an outside area, a drop pod will drop out of the sky.

Power it up by bringing it a battery, and you'll have to defend it from a few waves of enemies that show up (except for the first time).

If it gets to 100%, you get 3 artifacts.

This means that in theory, with enough patience (it's repeatable, but it doesn't happen that often), you could get enough artifacts to buy everything.

What's the point of artifacts?

Permanently unlocking equipment from the various vendors! Also a bit of extra stuff, in CODEXES (a mix of lore, hints, and codes).

The screenshots for each shop shows default inventory, though I've typed everything out as well so it's searchable.

The four headers are as follows:

ARTIFACTS: This is the artifact cost to unlock/purchase said item.

NAME: The... name... of the thing. Yeah.

DAMAGE: Tested on the Playground, point-blank (for weapons with spread) body shots, no scope. One shot when possible, one burst otherwise (one click of the mouse).

This is just to give a rough idea of what you're dealing with, not meant to give detailed weapon info. I don't cover area damage or varying fire modes. Headshots are usually double damage, though with a bit of testing, I've seen a few oddities.

If you really want to know how a weapon handles, test it for yourself in the Playground (Chapter Select, scroll right).

DESCRIPTION: The... description... of the thing. Yeah. Like Name, just longer.

From the main room with the big statue, go to the large room to the north with desks. In the north-east, on a desk corner.



From the main room with the big statue, go east to the toilets. In a middle stall.



Second floor of the western-most office, north-west corner.



South from this, in a warehouse, on top of a cargo container.

West of the landing craft, right next to the Data Cache, under that big tube structure.



East of the landing craft, find stairs going down behind a building marked B-3. In the basement, behind a door locked with a code (code: 47 217), two on your right when you enter. You can buy the code as a CODEX from a vendor (BH-BSMT-535, from Free Scrappers).



South-east from the landing craft, there's a smaller ball than the one with the radar tower, with a tree inside. Just a bit more south-east from there, there are stairs going down into a small room/area. To the right of these stairs, behind some barrels with a blue tarp over them.



In the south-east corner of the map, behind a train.

From the Pines entrance, just past the area with the trees and water, look for a tunnel on your right (north/north-west). In the little cave/room at the top, look to your left (west).



From the Pines entrance, left (south) at the intersection just before you get to the main cave (a bit further than where you turned for the previous artifact). You should see a big building in front of you, marked as B-3. In the south-east corner of the platform/balcony near the bottom of the southern side of the B-3 building. The big one near the Pines entrance, with the walkway up top that leads to N-86.



Look west of the B-3 building for a building marked N-86. On the western side of this building.



From the Catacombs entrance, take the red elevator down, and right in front of you at the bottom (facing west), you'll see a small building. Artifact is to your right (north-east corner) when you enter.



From the Priory entrance, just a bit to your left (north) when you reach the main cavern, you'll see a red and white structure. The artifact is on a ledge on its east side.



From the Conduit entrance, turn right (south), then right again (west) when you reach the tracks. Inside the red train car stuck in the ice(?).

South side of the area, there are three barracks. In the middle one, south-west corner, on top of a bunk bed.

North-east corner of the map, on the south-east corner ledge in the middle of a big green machinery pillar thing.



From the Storm Drain entrance, take the western exit in the room with the map (on the north wall). Keep following this west then north into another room with a map (on the south wall). To the north-west, a room with greenery, plants overgrown. Look in the north-west corner of this room, hard to see behind the plants.



From the entrance to the Haunt, turn right (east) and follow the tunnel to its end. Artifact is behind the derailed train car.



From the Junction 06 entrance, go down the couple of steps of metal stairs, and jump over the railing to your left (north), into the little raised gutter area that's below the stairs and metal walkway but higher than the lowest area. Turn left (west) and the artifact is just a bit under the water, by the wall.



From the entrance to Junction 06, after coming down the little metal stairs, turn right (south) into the tunnels, walk down to their end on the metal walkway, then turn left (east) and keep following the metal walkway. When the walkway ends, before the door, the artifact's below, in the corner behind the metal stairs on your right, between some barrels with blue and orange tarps over them.

In the south-west corner of the medical bay (room in the south-west corner of the area).



To your left (south), on a little wooden table, in the back room with the meat in a tube behind the crate.

In the tunnel with the fire anomalies, turn left (south) just before going to the next room, and climb on top of the cargo containers. Make your way back towards the exit a bit and you should see an artifact on one of the lower containers to the right, near the wall, just after the two wooden planks.



When you enter the circular chamber before vault 07-09, under a piece of metal junk.

From the Catacombs entrance, just before you get to the metal stairs, there's a big green machine. On top of that, east side.



From the Catacombs entrance, go down the stairs to the area with all the junk and the water. Near the middle of this, face east and look for some garbage.



From the tall ladder going down into the pit, turn around and move east down the little tunnel. Second opening on your right (south), down some stairs in the corner.

Lower core area, atop the western ladder thing.



In the control room up top, left (south) side of the controls.



West side of the core, up top. Hard to reach spot, where this big metal pole connects to the explosive barrel dispenser. You can reach it from below, just gotta highlight and gravity-grab.

From the Blue Caverns entrance, first left (south), inside the train car, eastern end of it.



From the red train car, go down the tunnel west a bit, and take the tunnel on your right (north). At the end of this, in the back of a wrecked truck.



Western end of the map, just before the tunnel blocked off by the radioactive purple stuff, to the north there's a little room. In the south-west corner, behind some barrels with a blue tarp over them.



From the Administration entrance, first left (west), down the stairs, then left again (south) behind the truck, up the ramp to the end of the dead-end tunnel. Artifact is in the south-west corner.

Near the end of the first area with the trains, on top of the southern train car, on its south-west corner.



South-east corner of the big room, behind some derailed train cars, at the mouth of a tunnel blocked off with rubble.



In the south-east corner of the little overlook thingy, where you turn off the energy field.

In the room that controls the doors, on top of the northern-most machinery thing.



Behind door 03, in the ventilation shaft on the west side of the first room.



Behind door 03, in the back (south) of the room with the Stone Tree sample, on the western side of the big machine sticking out of the wall.



Behind door 04, first bed of the third trio, north side.



Behind door 05, immediately on your right (north) when you enter, behind the sheet partition.



Behind door 05, south-west, near the back of the main room.

When you enter from Storm Drain, go to your right, power up the elevator, and go to the top. Drop down into the ventilation shaft in the main room, and there's an artifact on a table before you get back out.



When entering from Storm Drain, go to your right until the bent electrical pylon. South from here, look for a hole in the fence that you can crouch through. A bit to your left, behind some barrels with a blue tarp over them, hidden between a bunch of cargo containers.



Underneath the dish, on its southern side, next to a flamingo and weapon crate.



South-east corner of the map, near the blocked-off tunnel entrance, behind an overturned green train car.



From the entrance to the Haunt, turn left and go into the building. Top floor.



From the entrance to the Haunt, at the southern end of the long area with the canal that leads to it, there's a small brick building. Look up inside, on a beam.

From the ladder, facing west, turn left (south) at the tracks in front of you. At the north end of the red train car in front of you.



On the north side of the room, on top of the western-most cylindrical thing.



In the air ducts between the Forsaken Idol's room and cubeheaded creature's room.

North-west corner of the little building in the south-west corner of the map, on ground level.



Up the crane in the middle of the map.



North-east corner of the map, ground level, behind a blue cargo container.

About halfway through, in front of the door with the electronic lock (entrance to the Bowels), near the way to MTN-001.

(Sorry, you won't be getting precise directions here, and it's entirely possible I've missed some. If I have, sorry, but I'm not coming back for artifact hunting. I can't stress enough how much I hate this place.)

In the big central room with the "water" channel running through it, up some metal stairs in the north-east corner, down tunnels, some orb on a meat pedestal you can shoot. Right behind it, an artifact in some metal thing with a red light.



In the big central room with the "water" channel running through it, up some metal stairs in the south-west corner, a side-room not too far. I found it in the doorway; I can only imagine that some explosion or whatever made it move a bit from its original position.

When you get to the area with the trains, in the eastern end of the red car.



In the north-west corner of the platform below the big ball of screens.

Almost as soon as you enter from Beach Head, a train car that's at an angle. Through its open side, to the right, behind a crate.



A bit after coming in from Beach Head, keep to your right and get on top of the building in the north-east corner. The artifact is near a sniper's nest.



Near the middle of the map, in the Depot 6-C Railway Control Tower, behind a wooden pallet.



Top floor of building 28 on the north-western side of the map, a bit north of the exit to The Pines.



In the south-west corner of the map, building 535. On top of the metal beam near the ceiling.

When you get into the main room, directly in front of you, on someone's back.



Second floor, west side, at the end of one of the metal beams.



Two in the little room upstairs on the south end. One on the right,



And one on the left.

From the Junction 06 entrance, go to your right (east), go under the overpass, and turn left (north). Look for a cylinder with posters on it, next to a blue bench, near a red brick warehouse. The artifact is on top of the cylinder thing.



From the Junction 06 entrance, go forward (north) for a bit and look for a burned-out/bombed-out building to your left (west). The artifact is in a small room in the top floor. The stairs are roughly in the middle, on the south side of the building, in front of the wreck of a red bus.



From the north side of the burned-out/bombed-out building, look for stairs going down (south). Follow them down and look to your right (west) when you can. The artifact is up on a pipe.



Turn back east and go deeper into the sewers, left (north) at the intersection. The next artifact is near the northern end of the tunnel, next to the western stairs going up.



At the northern end of the map, there's a tiny little concrete bunker, with an artifact inside.

Turn right (east) at the first intersection. Inside room 33.



In room 25 on a desk, accessed through room 23.



Downstairs, in room 41. In a locker, north-west corner.

North-east corner of the landing pad.



When you enter the warehouse, to your right (south), between two green cargo containers.



In the south-east corner of the area with the big crystal, there are two artifacts on a wooden spool for cables, inside a tent thing.

Top shelf on your left (west) as soon as you start the mission.

(artifact not shown in image; had issues with screenshots, so had to go back and take a new screenshot after originally taking the artifact)



Seventh train car, walk around the edge very carefully. South side.



Train car after the two tankers, walk around the edge very carefully. North side.



Just before the end of the train sequence, right next to the suitcase.

Entering from Junction 06, turn right (north) and follow the path for a bit. When the path goes down a bit, beneath a stone arch, look to your left for a cave entrance. Follow the cave until you get to a maintenance tunnel. Go down the metal stairs to the lowest area, where there's water, and look in the Eastern corner, in the water.



Entering from Junction 06, follow the tracks until you get to the pylon that's fallen across the tracks. Turn left (south), and there's an artifact just behind a big boulder, on a pedestal.



In the partially-submerged cockpit of the crashed plane in the south-west side of the area.



On a crane hook at the little marina south of the bridge.



In the back of the flooded engine room of the boat near the portal on the little island, west end of the area, north of the bridge.



Near the end of the tracks in the west of the area, inside the train car 502-C. This is also where you can find the AI Transfer Drive.

Past the fire anomalies, when you go down the stairs, second door on your left (north), on a desk.



Last door on the right (south), three in the back of the locker room (code: 1234).

Eastern end of the area, on the rocks above the Data Cache.



Southern end of the area, on some rocks. You can see it from the metal walkway before it turns left (east).



Near the middle of the area, on the lower platform on the north side of the Stone Tree. On the floor near some seats with screens.

When you get to the large room with the two metal stairs going down, just after the energy field, look on the left (north) side for a double sliding metal door that's broken, letting you through to a locker room beyond, with health machines, ammo on the shelves, and an artifact. N-05 is in the locker room as well, and a Sleeper just before you enter.

From the Haunt, off the bridge and into the water. South of the land area, underwater.



Middle of the map, to the north. Corner bit of land before the water, behind some fallen machinery.



Third floor, behind the stairs, of the building that goes up to the bridge to the South Ridge exit.

Just a bit before the haunted door, to your right, a room blocked off by two containers. On a shelf straight ahead (south).



Behind Dr. Sanchez.

On top of the metal thing in the cavern that has the bridge controls. Stand on a railing and jump to see it.



When you get to the north road, head east, to the blocked-off tunnel. There's an artifact on the ground there, behind the truck with the weapon crate in the back.



When you get to the western end of the north road, go underneath.



Just before Rook's Nest, under water at the stairs to the blocked-off entrance to the Power Plant.

When entering from Beach Head, stick to your left (east) and look for an open door in the wall. Enter, go left, then left again. There's an artifact under the wooden pallet.



In the middle of the area, on the east side, there's a small building that sticks out on the second floor, with windows looking out all over. When you go up the stairs, face east and look in the corner. There's an artifact behind a wooden box.



Near the south-west entrance to the Catacombs, there's a little raised building. The artifact is just outside of it, on a metal support beam.



From the entrance to the Catacombs, turn right (south) into the little water/swamp area and look west, in the corner near the building, behind a shabby wooden pallet.

On the table next to the Phantom Rifle.



Behind some wooden boxes, up top in the gated area.