BioShock
51 Achievements
1,100
15-20.5h
Historian
The player has found every audio diary.
50
How to unlock the Historian achievement in BioShock - Definitive Guide
http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/bioshock/maps/maps.htm
I did not make these maps, rather just found a need to share them as the text can be difficult to follow. The maps are from visualwalkthroughs.com by Mike Mangold.
Here is a list of all the audio diaries, organized by the area they are in.
Welcome to Rapture - 2
1. New Year's Eve Alone
2. Hole In The Bathroom Wall
Medical Pavilion - 17
3. ADAM's Changes
4. Released Today
5. Higher Standards
6. Love For Science
7. Parasite Expectations
8. Limits of Imagination
9. Vandalism
10. Freezing Pipes
11. Surgery's Picasso
12. Enrage Trial
13. Useless Experiments
14. Testing Telekinesis
15. Plasmids Are The Paint
16. Symmetry
17. Aphrodite Walking
18. Not What She Wanted
19. Gatherer Vulnerability
Neptune's Bounty - 19
20. Bathysphere Keys
21. Timmothy H. Interrogation
22. Fontaine Must Go
23. Finding The Sea Slug
24. Picked Up Timmy H.
25. Masha Come Home
26. Watch Fontaine
27. Have My Badge
28. Adam Discovery
29. Eden Leaking
30. Fontaine's Smugglers
31. Death Penalty In Rapture
32. Meeting Ryan
33. Rapture Changing
34. Working Late Again
35. Smuggling Ring
36. Saw Masha Today
37. Arresting Fontaine
38. Putting The Screws On
Smuggler's Hideout - 3
39. Meeting with Fontaine
40. Kraut Scientist
41. Offered a Deal
Arcadia - 17
42. Seeing Ghosts
43. Big Night Out
44. Mass Producing Adam
45. Arcadia Closed
46. Shouldn't Have Come
47. The Market Is Patient
48. Offer A Better Product
49. Early Tests Promising
50. Heroes And Criminals
51. What Won't They Steal?
52. Teaching An Old Hound
53. The Lazarus Vector
54. Lazarus Vector Formula
55. The Saturnine
56. Arcadia And Oxygen
57. Maternal Instinct
58. The Great Chain
Farmer's Market - 8
59. Bee Enzyme
60. First Encounter
61. Hatred
62. Desperate Times
63. Pulling Together
64. Water in Wine
65. Adam Explained
66. Functional Children
Fort Frolic - 15
67. Come To The Record Store
68. The Wild Bunny
69. Artists' Feud
70. Fancy Cigarettes
71. Stood Up Again
72. Musical Insult
73. The Doubters
74. The Iceman Cometh
75. Fontaine's Army
76. Bump Culpepper?
77. Guns Blazing
78. Pregnancy
79. It's A Gift
80. Ryan's Stableboy
81. Requiem For Andrew Ryan
Hephaestus - 17
82. Ryan Takes F Futuristics
83. Scoping The Gate
84. Going To Heat Loss
85. Stopping Ryan
86. A Man Or A Parasite
87. Fontaine's Legacy
88. Running Short On R-34s
89. Assassin
90. Kyburz Door Code
91. Genetics Arms Race
92. Getting A Break
93. Market Maintenance Code
94. Device Almost Finished
95. The Dream
96. Assembling The Bomb
97. A Great Chain Moves Slowly
98. Impossible Anywhere Else
Rapture Central Control - 3
99. The Vita Chamber
100. Baby Status
101. Mind Control Test
Olympus Heights - 6
102. Mozart Of Genetics
103. Fontaine's Human Jukebox
104. Mind Control Antidote
105. Fontaine's Breakup
106. Artist Woman
107. Sad Saps
Apollo Square - 6
108. What's Happening Here?
109. Atlas Lives
110. Protection Bond
111. Meeting Atlas
112. The Longest Con
113. Today's Raid
Point Prometheus - 9
114. Why Just Girls?
115. Changing Employers
116. Extra Munitions
117. Marketing Gold
118. Cheap Son Of A Bitch
119. Missing Boots
120. Protector Smell
121. Mistakes
122. Protecting Little Ones
Audio Diary's
All Plasmids (Tonics)
Power To The Power (Upgrade stations)
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Author video: Shadow21Gaming
Locations for all 122 audio diaries in Bioshock.
In the beginning the sound and quality is a bit shady, But after i while I found a good editing program and also bought an nice computer.
So the quality is better and better as you go!
Something in my head tells me that it shuold be 122 diaries total? But this is 123 diaries. So i dunno :P But i promis! Fwollowing this guide will give you Historian Achievement - 50G
(Recorded with El Gato GameCapture HD)
Lvl 1 - Welcome to Rapture (2 Diaries)
Lvl 2 - Medical Pavilion (18 Diaries)
Lvl 3 - Neptune's Bounty (19 Diaries)
Lvl 4 - Smugglers Hideout (3 Diaries)
Lvl 5 - Arcadia (16 Diaries)
Lvl 6 - Farmers Market (9 Diaries) (Missed one Power to the People station, In the basement, half coverd i water.
Lvl 7 - Fort Frolic (15 Diaries)
Lvl 8 - Hephaestus (17 Diaries)
Lvl 9 - Rapture Controlroom (3 Diaries)
Lvl 10 - Olympus Heights (6 Diaries)
Lvl 11 - Apollo Square (6 Diaries)
Lvl 12 - Point Prometheus (9 Diaries)
There are 122 Audio Diaries in the game. You must collect them all during one save. If you save before going up the elevator to fight the final boss, you can return to almost any location in the game. In the thread linked below, Diaries marked with an asterisk (*) are ones that must be collected while you are in the area because you can not return to it later.
Check this thread for locations and maps.
This achievement is highly missable!
This achievement requires you to collect all 122 Audio Diaries that are spread throughout Rapture. This achievement is highly missable due to the fact that you cannot return to the Welcome to Rapture (2 Audio Diaries), Smuggler’s Hideout (3 Audio Diaries), or Rapture Central Control (3 Audio Diaries) areas. These areas contain a grand total of eight Audio Diaries that you cannot go back and collect once you move past them. It's a good idea to print a list of these collectables and compare them to your in-game log in order to make sure that none were missed before continuing to another level.
You can view which Audio Diaries that you’ve collected by pressing and then twice.
For a detailed text guide for all Plasmids, Tonics, Power to the People Stations, Audio Diaries, and Little Sister locations, please refer to Fizzmatix’s guide that was created for the Xbox 360 version of the game but is compatible with this remastered version. All credit for this guide should go to Fizzmatix. This is the guide that I used for my Xbox 360 and Xbox One playthroughs:
BioShock: Plasmids, Tonics, Upgrades, Diary's & Little Sister Guide by Fizzmatix
NOTE: Audio Diaries that you collected on your first playthrough will carry over to a New Game+ playthrough. If you did not collect all Audio Diaries during your first playthrough, you can collect whatever you missed on a New Game+ playthrough. However, you must know which Audio Diary or Diaries that you missed since all Diaries will be re-populated on the New Game+ playthrough.