Harold Halibut

28 Achievements

14-18h

PS5

Forschergeist

Complete the Notebook.

Gold

Ultra Rare

2.0%

How to unlock the Forschergeist achievement in Harold Halibut - Definitive Guide

ShailRaVeN

TrueAchievements

22 Apr 2024 11:44

The Patch-fix Update is now online for this achievement.

For people who already have all 71 doodles, load the game from Epilogue and collect this section's 05 doodles, the achievement should unlock now.

Note - If you miss any doodles, you have to play the full game again or at least from your first missed doodle, then onwards to end again. Be careful while you are playing.

(Chapter 1.1) -
1. All Water Secretary Office scene - (story-related, will be in your PDA when you get it.)

(Chapter 1.2) -
2. Chris in the Lounge - (talking to Chris before using All Water tube) – missable
3. The Lightkeepers - (after talking to Cyrus for Fish food in Botanicals
4. The Fish Dinner - (after feeding the fishes)
5. Buoy Announcement - (after watching the announcement with Chris)

(Chapter 1.3) -
6. Stranger Danger - (Talking with Liis at Central Station) – missable
7. The Brothers - (Talking with Secretaries as numbered 17(Agora) - 8(Central Station) - 24(All Water office) - 8(Central Station) - 17(Agora)) - missable
8. Skiing - (Talking with Slippie (Agora) tied to achievement)
9. Fish Fish Fish Hut - (Talking with first restaurant guy at Agora)
10. Rafi Zelters - (Takling with Rafi at Intercom Oasis in Agora)
11. The Run - (Interacting and Jogging with Buddy in Agora, tied with achievement)
12. 3D-Printer Shock - (Talking with Cyrus in Energy District)
13. Rock Theft - (After Talking once with Tommy and checking on Brigitte then twice with Tommy in Arcade)
14. CEO Casselchop - (After the cutscene with CEO about audio leak)
15. Coco - (Talking with Capt. Zoya (All Water Station) about finding his bird)
16. The Package - (After a cutscene on returning to Lab for sleep)

(Chapter 1.4) -
17. Cyrus Plan - (After Talking to Cyrus in Energy District) – missable
18. Countdown - (After analyzing the sample in Lab)

(Chapter 1.5) -
19. The Scout and Agent Haroldson - (While going through vents with Felix)
20. Tea with Mareaux - (Last cutscene of this sub-chapter before sleeping)

(Chapter 2.1) -
21. Secret Guest - (After emptying out the storage room for fish person)
22. The Announcer - (going to 2nd room in hallway at Social District, tied with achievement)
23. Water Wieners - (Talking with Warren at Agora Arcade)
24. The Brothers - (After talking to Warren for previous doodle, go talk to all other secretary and then talk with warren again)
25. Quick-Soup Colorfish - (After talking to owner of Quick-Soup Colorfish two times at Agora Arcade. You can get this in 2.2 or in 2.3 also)
26. Graffiti - (After removing the second graffiti, tied with achievement)
27. Coping Captain - (Talking with Zoya in Intercom Oasis, Gertrude’s Bar, Central Station and at Colorfish soup shop, tied with achievement)
28. Buddy - (Talking with Buddy in Utility District and reading a letter)
29. Mysterious Door - (Interacting with the black door above stairs in-between Sunny and buddy at Utility District)

(Chapter 2.2) -
30. Bacteria Party - (After helping Brigitte second time at Energy District)

(Chapter 2.3) -
31. Dinner with Brigitte - (After having dinner with Brigitte at Agora Arcade and after cutscene for the of the chapter)

(Chapter 2.4) -
32. Rogue Bacteria - (After the starting dialogue/cutscene with Mareaux)
33. Catching Coco - (after delivering Coco to Capt. Zoya)

(Chapter 2.6) -
34. Submarine - (After getting into submarine, at the end of chapter 2)

(Chapter 3) - (has subsections but all are very short)
35. The Cave - (after reaching at Flumylym’s place, end of first cutscene)
36. Didachik - (after taking with the Flumylym at first stall/booth)
37. Bubble Guy - (after talking to the second stall/booth guy with fish in the bubble)
38. The Pyramid - (after talking to Flumylym at their library)
39. Don’t Touch - (interacting with Flumylym musical instrument just above library)
40. The Ritual - (after performing the dance with two kids waiting below from the previous location)
41. Lunch Break at The Pond - (after the cutscene with Weeoo)
42. The Crack - (after Weeoo shows hole with the light and after talking with Mareaux there)
43. Reading - (after collecting jelly book from Flumylym librarian)
44. Sneaker - (after last cutscene at Weeoo’s place, Notification pops up at the start of chapter 4)

(Chapter 4.2) -
45. Tubylym - (talking with two Flumylym at Central Station)
46. Sunny's Cupcakes - (talking with Sunny at her new stall in Agora Arcade)
47. Coffee - (talking to two Flumylym drinking coffee near Quick-Soup Colorfish)
48. AW Tourism Booth - (talking with Secretary at entrance of Flumylym cave area)
49. Brigitte and the Kids - (after helping Brigitte with plugs in Flumylym Cave near crack)
50. Major and Frank - (talking with Major near Flumylym library in the cave)
51. Cyrus in the Little Room - (Checking up on Cyrus in Lab District downstairs)
52. Plane Race - (after delivering all letters, talking to Chris at Social District and completing the race scene)
53. I am a Lightkeeper - (after completing the heist, dialogues and all cutscenes after it)
54. Filter Frankie - (after getting the adapter from Filter Frankie)

(Chapter 4.3) -
55. Dizzy Fish - (after the experiment with two fishes in bubbles with Brigitte at Flumylym Cave)
56. Singing Particles (after the last cutscene)
57. Energy Container (after the last cutscene - both together)

(Chapter 4.4) -
58. Barbershop Brothers - (after talking with fired secretary in Bathroom (Lab District) and watching the performance of four brothers at Agora Arcade)
59. Green Thumb Class - (attending Cyrus’ lecture in classroom at Social District)

(Chapter 5) - (story related)
60. Chasing The Dragon - (after chasing the dragon - story related)

(Chapter 6.2) - (all story related)
61. The New Submarine (after travelling through submarine while song is playing, at the loading screen)
62. Frozen Fedora - (reaching the Arcade building while in submarine)
63. The Core - (reaching at the core before coming out of the submarine)
64. Submarine Duo - (just after fixing the All Water tube)
65. Showdown - (after catching Slippie and after the cutscene in Energy District)
66. Finding the CEO - (after the cutscene at All Water area with Zoya and CEO)

(Epilogue) -
67. Hot Dog Contest - (talk to 4 brothers in Agora Arcade and talk with Warren again a second time)
68. Ancient Onat - (talk with Onat on the stage at Agora Arcade)
69. Frank Jr. - (talk to Major in Social District)
70. Captain Zoya - (talk to Zoya at All Water in his room)
71. Same Old - (talk to CEO in her office at All Water)

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Complete Notebook Doodles video:
(Timestamps are in YouTube pinned comment)

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100% complete Walkthrough Guide:

22 Apr 2024 11:44

56 Comments

Would be great to have some images alongside these.

By GamerlessOrange on 22 Apr 2024 23:29

Is there any information that might help with this achievement. Can you replay chapters and retain progress on the note-book? Does progress carry over between play-throughs?

By David791964 on 23 Apr 2024 16:23

Right now this achievement is unobtainable, people have shared Developer's reply that they are looking into it.

Replaying chapters currently is not recommended as many including myself have lost Notebook progress. Lost many random doodles that were already collected before replaying chapters.

If you start a new playthrough, it does show all the doodles but I have found that as we collect the same doodles again, Notebook shows a duplicate of the same on another page among other erratic behavior.

In Developer's reply it was said that after the update we can carry on from Epilogue to the end and this achievement should unlock if we already have all the previous chapter's doodles.

Only thing we can do now is wait for the update/patch/fix.

By ShailRaVeN on 23 Apr 2024 17:28

when is the update comming

By Lady S66 on 06 May 2024 14:32

Anyone else having issues trying to complete "6. Stranger Danger - (Talking with Liis at Central Station) – missable" The day always ends before I can do this step. Or is this completable in another chapter?

By LEV1NT0FU on 23 Apr 2024 22:23

@LEV1NT0FU - my bad, that was supposed to be in 1.3. Updated, Thank You.

You can find Liis at Central Station while going to talk with other brothers.

By ShailRaVeN on 24 Apr 2024 01:53

Who's the 2nd guy to complete this game? The 1st is the dev right?

By IEvil IMonkey on 30 Apr 2024 20:32

2nd person is not a Dev, since he replied to my private message and said it just happened as he was playing and reinstalling the game to look into it again and will share his findings.
Let's see.

By ShailRaVeN on 01 May 2024 01:21

I have 71 unique scribbles in the journal, or at least 71 drawings, but no achievement

By Mini Yuuzhan on 05 May 2024 18:43

Yeah, 71 is it for now.
Achievement is unobtainable right now due to some bug.
waiting for update fix.

By ShailRaVeN on 05 May 2024 19:39

On the 4th May 2024 at 16,03 there was a reply on Harold's halibut out now X feed saying

It’s already fixed and in testing :) It will be available in about a week

By lucylu1983 on 05 May 2024 21:17

Okay, so it is confirmed that this list of 71 is it.
This is all the notebook in game, there's no extra. Only the achievement was bugged.
and after this upcoming update achievement should unlock after playing and ending the game from Epilogue and collecting Epilogue's doodles again.

By ShailRaVeN on 06 May 2024 04:13

So, say we are at 71 now, I have to get all the drawings from the epilogue again before re-ending, or can I rush to the ending ?

By Mini Yuuzhan on 06 May 2024 08:32

Wait for the update first!
Then after the update, according to the post from dev, load Epilogue again 'If you still have all the previous doodles intact', collect all doodles in epilogue again because you will be missing the doodles from this section. ending the game from there should unlock doodles.

Again, wait for the update first.

By ShailRaVeN on 06 May 2024 08:44

This is a missable achievement. I got to the end of the game and missed 1 note - Quick Soup Colourfish. I went back to chapter 2-1, got it and saved my game. I then loaded the Epilogue up and it's not their in my book. Which means I have to play through the game again to keep it in the note book which is really annoying.

By OhOneOneOh on 06 May 2024 20:17

Does somebody know if there is a way to easily identify which notes are missing? I'm missing two and I wonder if I need to watch the video or try to compare the list above to the note pictures ingame or if there is an easier way of doing it

By emor on 08 May 2024 21:28

@Emor - I am in the process of creating the video for all notebook doodles and it's location. Should be up in 2-3 days. Will attach here with my list. That would make it easier to match just the doodles.

Edit: This video is up now and link is above.

By ShailRaVeN on 09 May 2024 05:21

There is an update now available to download it should hopefully fix the achievement

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 15:53

If you completed the game and originally got 71 pages in the notebook reload the epilogue and collect the 5 pages again on the epilogue as you get the last page achievement will unlock BUT you have to replay the epilogue and collect the last 5 pages simply loading the game won't work

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 16:09

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 16:42

I already collected all 71 doodles but the achievement didn't pop after loading the epilogue again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 17:16

I did it from the epilogue and got the remaining 5 again 😂 and didn’t get it this guy doesn’t know what’s he’s talking about. Plus this game is ass what game doesn’t let you unlock an achievement. I 100% alone in the dark in 5 days on day one

By TopGYoshi on 13 May 2024 17:20

Hey GamerlessOrange, you need to load the game from Epilogue section again and collect all 5 of these doodles again in this section for the achievement to pop.

Mine unlocked just fine.

If It doesn't unlock then either you missed any previous doodle (check with the list or video) or maybe a new problem or something is happening again with doodles.
But the update is working.

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 17:47

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 18:19

Collected the 5 from Epilogue and it unlocked straight away.

By HowMuch on 13 May 2024 18:29

Yeah I did that ShailRaVeN, it looks like I'm missing 6 pages I'm not doing that shit again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 18:31

I collected the 5 from The Epilogue and it unlocked straight away.

By iBrennxn on 13 May 2024 18:51

@GamerlessOrange
You say your missing 6 pages

after you have got all 71 pages for the notebook there are 5 empty pages at the back of the notebook

So after you have got all the pages in the epilogue,do you have 6 empty pages at the back of the notebook or do you have more because
if you do only have 6 empty pages after the notebook entries in epilogue then that will mean
you are only missing one notebook entry

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 19:59

In the previous developer's reply it was mentioned that if you somehow miss this 'Brothers' doodle you might still get it in Epilogue after the update, It is suppose to be noted at Agora Arcade when all brothers are standing In front of Warren's shop.

They might have changed the 'Brothers' doodle places after the update.
Try this:
Maybe they have pushed the first 'Brothers' doodle with '?' to the chapter 2.1 'brothers' doodle with all 4 brothers and then moved the all 4 brothers doodle to Epilogue. Devs did mentioned this in the previous reply that this was supposed to be proper place.

Can't confirm this myself, but If you want to try that out and see if it drops there in chapter 2.1 and Epilogue...

If you do confirm this, please share so that I can update the list here.

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 22:01

Update! Looks like I missed talking back to the Brother in central (which does finally pop the correct page)....So the order of events should be: 17 (Agora) > 8 (Central Station) > 24 (All Water office) > 17 (Agora) > 8 (Central Station).

By Pcenginefx on 13 May 2024 22:37

Yeah but I have no idea which one I'm missing so. I don't really want to go around the entire game again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 21:22

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 21:27

@gamerlessOrange

The easiest thing to do is to find out the earliest page you are missing and start from that chapter

So if you had all the pages for chapter 1+2+3 but not 4 you would start from chapter 4

It may not require a complete full playthrough if you were missing just one page

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 21:45

Started this today, since this patch supposedly fixed the achievement. I've followed your video to the letter so far, but #7 Brothers, isn't giving it to me. Do we see brother #4 at some point? Maybe the update gives us the note then 🤷

By Zer0e on 13 May 2024 21:46

Looks like "Brothers" is broken with the new patch (which is funny as this is what the patch was supposed to fix!). Went through chapter 1.3 twice to make sure - after talking with all of the brothers you don't get the page. I've also posted this on the Steam discussion as well.

By Pcenginefx on 13 May 2024 21:52

okay, if you are getting it at the same place as before then it's all good.

And you can actually talk to No. 8 again while coming back from 24 (All Water) and then go to 17 (Agora). I did that in my chapter 1 video, just saw this but have edited out in Notebook video.
I will update this here and on YT.

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 22:53

Still kind of annoying how you can't jump around chapters and grab missing pages. I'm only missing the Ch. 4 coffee one. No other solution atm other than to restart at Ch. 4 for this?

By Elgin Elder on 14 May 2024 05:51

So I tried to see if the game would still "carry" doodles if you finished the game then went to chapter select, but they fixed that. So unfortunately, no I don't see any other way. I was missing the coffee one also. Had to replay from 4.2 thru to the fifth doodle in the epilogue. Finally done with this movie.

I don't see why they couldn't have made it so you could utilize chapter select, but I'm glad it's fixed at least. I submitted a flag to get this marked as missable, as it really is now knowing they're not going to let you jump back to collect even 1 overlooked doodle.

By HEFTI82883 on 14 May 2024 08:29

Just finished this. Turns out I was missing the Coffee one. Very annoying. But still a good game.

By GamerlessOrange on 14 May 2024 11:27

So the only one I missed was the brothers one, and if reading the comments correctly this should now be obtainable in the epilogue? Has anyone tried that, would really love not having to replay the whole thing!

By DanPalf1991 on 14 May 2024 12:49

i have all 71 replayed the epilogue & the achievement still didn't pop. do you have to get the pages in a certain order? i really don't want to play this whole thing over for one achievement.

By Jaysworld430 on 14 May 2024 22:26

Still doesn't work. Replayed Epilog and still missing the dumb brothers during the epilogue.

By BRiT wtfdotcom on 15 May 2024 22:29

@Optimus Bower - I have listed and talked to no. 8 two times here:
17(Agora) - 8(Central Station) - 24(All Water office) - 8(Central Station) - 17(Agora)

Did you talked to no. 8 again before talking to 17?

Just want to confirm this as that's how I got this doodle but things might be changed after update...

By ShailRaVeN on 24 May 2024 12:31

@ShailRaVeN - Apologies, your text guide is correct. I was following the video guide, which does not include the second conversation with No.8, so I had to go back to him, to get the doodle.

By Optimus Bower on 29 May 2024 09:09

That is why I always check on games about their achievements, if any broken, bugged, missable or multi-player/co-op are present, before even starting any game.
This practice has served me well. This way, I dodge the frustration and backlog remains somewhat achievable.

Hopefully, they will add proper chapter-select option in this game soon. This game definitely need it.

By ShailRaVeN on 29 May 2024 16:31

Im missing the rock theft from 1.3 somehow, super i get to redo the entire game

By Spilner on 10 Jun 2024 20:14

The replay of the epilogue did not work. I was only missing the hotdog store with Warren. I had to delete and reinstall the game and start a new game and play ALL the way to ending before this finally worked and the achievement popped.

By DuBear61 on 14 Sep 2024 05:11

It does and is already mentioned in the solution above and by @Lucylu1983.

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 16:48

Yes, in Forschergeist Doodles video, the second conversation with no. 8 got edited out.
I have made a mention in YT comment and description about this.

Thank you for confirming that this path is still correct.

By ShailRaVeN on 29 May 2024 15:23

After starting over and collecting these in order, I still had to reload the epilogue and recollect those pages again to make it pop. Still seems a bit finicky.

By Dale Baldwin on 15 May 2024 01:54

Anyone having issues with chapter 4.3. every time I see Cyrus to do the wave machine the game crashes

By DanPalf1991 on 16 May 2024 16:31

I'm only missing the Ch. 4 coffee one. annoying... I lost the 1000G

By jaimeTGN on 17 May 2024 21:57

Unfortunately this isn’t working for me either, the game is great tho

By Randomnutta on 18 May 2024 15:31

@Randomnutta - If you want to start a new playthrough then try to delete save file and start a clean save again and try to follow the chapters video walkthrough.

many people said that starting a clean save-run worked for them.

By ShailRaVeN on 18 May 2024 16:40

Doodle 7 in Chapter 1.3 needs to be updated - You don't get the doodle after speaking with 17, you have to go and talk to No.8 (Central Station) again, to get it.

By Optimus Bower on 24 May 2024 10:43

Finished with 70/71, ugh. It was, predictably, the 1.3 brothers one I missed, and I wasn't using a guide for the first couple of chapters so didn't know about it. No way I'm boring myself silly playing this game again, so this will remain unfinished unless there's ever a patch that allows you to go back and add individual notes via chapter select.

By JOHN SWFC on 29 May 2024 15:45

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55 Comments

Yeah but I have no idea which one I'm missing so. I don't really want to go around the entire game again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 21:22

Would be great to have some images alongside these.

By GamerlessOrange on 22 Apr 2024 23:29

Is there any information that might help with this achievement. Can you replay chapters and retain progress on the note-book? Does progress carry over between play-throughs?

By David791964 on 23 Apr 2024 16:23

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 19:59

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 21:27

By LEV1NT0FU on 23 Apr 2024 22:23

@LEV1NT0FU - my bad, that was supposed to be in 1.3. Updated, Thank You.

You can find Liis at Central Station while going to talk with other brothers.

By ShailRaVeN on 24 Apr 2024 01:53

Who's the 2nd guy to complete this game? The 1st is the dev right?

By IEvil IMonkey on 30 Apr 2024 20:32

2nd person is not a Dev, since he replied to my private message and said it just happened as he was playing and reinstalling the game to look into it again and will share his findings.
Let's see.

By ShailRaVeN on 01 May 2024 01:21

I have 71 unique scribbles in the journal, or at least 71 drawings, but no achievement

By Mini Yuuzhan on 05 May 2024 18:43

Yeah, 71 is it for now.
Achievement is unobtainable right now due to some bug.
waiting for update fix.

By ShailRaVeN on 05 May 2024 19:39

On the 4th May 2024 at 16,03 there was a reply on Harold's halibut out now X feed saying

It’s already fixed and in testing :) It will be available in about a week

By lucylu1983 on 05 May 2024 21:17

By ShailRaVeN on 06 May 2024 04:13

So, say we are at 71 now, I have to get all the drawings from the epilogue again before re-ending, or can I rush to the ending ?

By Mini Yuuzhan on 06 May 2024 08:32

By ShailRaVeN on 06 May 2024 08:44

when is the update comming

By Lady S66 on 06 May 2024 14:32

By OhOneOneOh on 06 May 2024 20:17

By emor on 08 May 2024 21:28

By ShailRaVeN on 09 May 2024 05:21

There is an update now available to download it should hopefully fix the achievement

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 15:53

By lucylu1983 on 13 May 2024 16:09

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 16:42

It does and is already mentioned in the solution above and by @Lucylu1983.

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 16:48

I already collected all 71 doodles but the achievement didn't pop after loading the epilogue again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 17:16

By TopGYoshi on 13 May 2024 17:20

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 17:47

Update 2,45 GB. Hope this fix the Achievement

By SpaceTobi95 on 13 May 2024 18:19

Collected the 5 from Epilogue and it unlocked straight away.

By HowMuch on 13 May 2024 18:29

Yeah I did that ShailRaVeN, it looks like I'm missing 6 pages I'm not doing that shit again.

By GamerlessOrange on 13 May 2024 18:31

I collected the 5 from The Epilogue and it unlocked straight away.

By iBrennxn on 13 May 2024 18:51

By Zer0e on 13 May 2024 21:46

By Pcenginefx on 13 May 2024 21:52

By Pcenginefx on 13 May 2024 22:37

By ShailRaVeN on 13 May 2024 22:53

Still kind of annoying how you can't jump around chapters and grab missing pages. I'm only missing the Ch. 4 coffee one. No other solution atm other than to restart at Ch. 4 for this?

By Elgin Elder on 14 May 2024 05:51

By HEFTI82883 on 14 May 2024 08:29

Just finished this. Turns out I was missing the Coffee one. Very annoying. But still a good game.

By GamerlessOrange on 14 May 2024 11:27

By DanPalf1991 on 14 May 2024 12:49

i have all 71 replayed the epilogue & the achievement still didn't pop. do you have to get the pages in a certain order? i really don't want to play this whole thing over for one achievement.

By Jaysworld430 on 14 May 2024 22:26

After starting over and collecting these in order, I still had to reload the epilogue and recollect those pages again to make it pop. Still seems a bit finicky.

By Dale Baldwin on 15 May 2024 01:54

Still doesn't work. Replayed Epilog and still missing the dumb brothers during the epilogue.

By BRiT wtfdotcom on 15 May 2024 22:29

Anyone having issues with chapter 4.3. every time I see Cyrus to do the wave machine the game crashes

By DanPalf1991 on 16 May 2024 16:31

I'm only missing the Ch. 4 coffee one. annoying... I lost the 1000G

By jaimeTGN on 17 May 2024 21:57

Unfortunately this isn’t working for me either, the game is great tho

By Randomnutta on 18 May 2024 15:31

By ShailRaVeN on 18 May 2024 16:40

Doodle 7 in Chapter 1.3 needs to be updated - You don't get the doodle after speaking with 17, you have to go and talk to No.8 (Central Station) again, to get it.

By Optimus Bower on 24 May 2024 10:43

By ShailRaVeN on 24 May 2024 12:31

@ShailRaVeN - Apologies, your text guide is correct. I was following the video guide, which does not include the second conversation with No.8, so I had to go back to him, to get the doodle.

By Optimus Bower on 29 May 2024 09:09