Into the Pit

Into the Pit

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Avid Reader

Avid Reader

Collect 36 Journal pages - Complete

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How to unlock the Avid Reader achievement in Into the Pit - Definitive Guide

The journal pages are found at the end of each dungeon after defeating the boss.

However they have a small chance of spawning in some of the special rooms (Villager/Upgrade)
But they ALSO have a small chance of spawning in their very own room (The sign above the door is a candle surrounded by light)

You can find 34 throughout these dungeons with RNG however you will not find any after collecting 34, because the last two NEED to be picked up from the final dungeon.


Also Kalis'Ta posted this solution which will save a lot of time.

There’s an easy way to farm this. Once you find a respite room (Always on 2nd or 4th depth in my experience), enter the room, pick up the page and destroy the keystone. Wait for the score to appear on screen but don’t press A. Instead, quit and relaunch the game. The page will be saved, the achievement tracker will progress but the room will still be open, with a new page inside. You’ll still have to find the last two pages in the final dungeon, but it saves A LOT of time :)
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20 Oct 2021 02:53

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The farm method in the guide worked perfectly for me. Seems everyone's differing experiences are due to this being something we are obviously not meant to do lol. However you get it to work for you, my favorite part is the farming of motes you get from the chest, so don't forget to open the chest before breaking the keystone because you keep those from every time you grab a new page. This trick can be helpful to fill your blood motes and enable Cheat Death.

This will also work for Chamber of Healing rooms. So if you are low health, you can heal at the pool, break the keystone, then dashboard quit after the game saves. Upon restarting, you can heal at the pool again, if needed. This can help greatly if used strategically - like if you are at Depth 4 with full health, clear all other chambers first so you can use the healing pool to fill your health before the boss fight.

I haven't tried, but I assume it will work for villagers as well. Just keep in mind there are only 3 per dungeon so you probably can't farm them all the way to 45. I'll test it next time I find a villager and update.
UPDATE: You CAN farm villagers with this method as well. I only tested it once because each dungeon has 3 villagers, and you free the third one after the boss fight. I didn't see a point in farming any more since I'd need to play through every dungeon anyways so just one dashboard quit to get a bonus villager and you clear the dungeon with 3/3 saved.

One last thing - if you are lucky enough to get a Blood Magic chamber and a Healing Pool chamber on the same depth floor, you can use the dashboard quit trick to really make yourself OP for the rest of that run. I had a lot of fun obliterating demons with maxed (level 5) buffs lol.
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By local bellboy on 04 Dec 2021 23:05
Tried this out from the pass, was really fun! Just to make a bit of clarification, if you're like me and didn't have all 34 pages BEFORE the final boss you will not get the achievement. Get the 34 pages FIRST(using the method above works well) before you do the final boss for the last 2.
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By xDarkSoul18x on 22 Oct 2021 20:47
Using the quick method it always show up the same page for me, what am I doing wrong?
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By Mac Chickgun on 23 Oct 2021 15:26
to me the fast method no longer works, but I found another method (1) when you returned to the dash and reloaded the game, in the first game press start and return to the menu, (2) then reload a second time take the page break the key and this time you will notice the skull of the save ,then repeat without repeating the point (1) so for me it is back to work
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By AAC ALIEN on 24 Oct 2021 20:58
If the quick farm method doesn’t work for you - it didn’t for me - then it’s worth remembering that the selection of chambers that you get in each dungeon remains the same every time you rerun it. If you find a respite room on floor 2 of Obsidian Hollows, for instance, then it’ll be there every time and you can do several short runs to it to minimise your farming time.
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By Brujeira on 07 Mar 2022 23:26
Great guide and +1 to whoever Kalis'Ta is. Wanted to add a tip in for PC (since its an Xbox Play Anywhere title.) So for keyboard the message is "press any key to continue," and so I messed up at first with the guide since alt+f4 is two keys.

IMMEDIATELY after smashing the keystone hold the ALT key and then wait until the skull in the bottom left stops spinning and then finish the job by pressing F4, which will do the equivalent of quitting to dashboard. Hope this helps!
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By xEBx GEN Dread on 03 Oct 2022 19:53
Would also like to point out, while using the farming method to get as many pages as I could, picking up the motes from the chest with the 'motes heal you' perk on, the health they restore is saved as well.
Probably a niche use, but helpful nonetheless.
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By mystmagi on 09 Oct 2022 20:30
Working great for me on the first page room I found.

EDIT: It stopping saving at the end of the level a few times (spinning skull in bottom left of the screen after breaking the keystone), mostly just once or twice but eventually didn't save 5 times in a row. So I just proceeded to the next respite room, continued farming there, got to 34 pages without issue.
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By The Globalizer on 11 Oct 2022 10:45
Make sure you do the last dungeon, well last. I had to do it twice, since after you beat it for the first time, when you continue it puts you before the last boss again, so you won't have the final 2 pages.

So I had to leave the final dungeon and get the rest of the other Journal pages first, and then come back and beat it again.
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By EarthboundX on 12 Oct 2022 05:32
There’s an easy way to farm this. Once you find a respite room (Always on 2nd or 4th depth in my experience), enter the room, pick up the page and destroy the keystone. Wait for the score to appear on screen but don’t press A. Instead, quit and relaunch the game. The page will be saved, the achievement tracker will progress but the room will still be open, with a new page inside. You’ll still have to find the last two pages in the final dungeon, but it saves A LOT of time :)
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By Zaalde on 20 Oct 2021 12:38
I believe the Achievement is glitched. I had 30 pages before hitting the final boss. Killed the boss (easiest boss ever?) and claimed the 2 pages in that area. Now I'm at 32 of 36. I watched the credits. Reloaded the game. It takes you back to the Boss fight. I went back to town and began replaying the dungeons. I found 2 more pages, but no more. Now I'm at 34 and I already have the 2 Boss pages. Well, I killed the boss again - got the same two pages as before, but they counted as new and the achievement popped.

Also, during the replay of the 15 dungeons (NOT a new save file/start), I found 1 level with 2 Respite rooms on that level. That was new. Also, I had a dungeon that had a Respite room on levels 2, 3 and 4. I hadn't ever seen one on 3 before - nor three in one dungeon run.
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By Chaos Plasmid on 06 Nov 2021 16:37
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Working as of 2021-10-26.

This is what worked for me and can be done as early as the first time you reach your very first boss room.

Run the The Obsidian Fort dungeon (whichever is easiest for you) until you reach the boss room, defeat the boss, collect the journal entry and exit to title screen. Load your save and you'll be outside the boss room, defeat the boss again and collect the journal page, now exit to title screen. Repeat this until you have 34/36 pages and then complete the final dungeon The Nightmare Abyss for the final two and you're done.
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Thanks for this, worked like a charm for me after trying the other methods and failing.
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By jackzt3r on 27 Oct 2021 13:24
Sadly looks like none of these work anymore. Game saves only after picking up reward in rooms or after destroying keystone after boss fight.
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By HamsterLV on 09 Oct 2022 17:30
This still works as of 10/14/22. After grabbing the boss room page, quit to title and then reload. Kill the boss again and picking up the page gives you credit; repeat.
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By aardvarkgod on 15 Oct 2022 01:28
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So that you don't get confused. There are 34 location sheets in the game, the last two are for the final boss. So first, collect 34 leaves, and then go to the final boss.
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31 Oct 2021 14:16