Before and after the quest appears on the left-hand side of your Home Desktop there will only be one way to find the item (the Regular location, if the item has one).įor example, if an item is normally found in Night Garden once you reach detective level for Night Garden, but a quest appears for that item asking you to search Crashed Plane in Silhouette mode: Winning an item from a regular play location during a quest asking you to find it in a quest location will still complete the quest, so while the quest is open there will be two ways to find the item and thus complete the quest. At this point, the item will go back to only being available in the regular play location. That is, once the quest is active the item will be found in two locations, until you find the item, and the quest completes. When this is the case, the item will always be available to win in the regular item location, but for the duration of the quest, it will also be available to win in the quest location. It is possible for the conditions specified by a quest to be different from the regular play locations for that item. "Play Misty Shed in Morphs mode" or "Scatter the Lost Time anomaly". Often, the quest for a particular item will ask for very specific requirements to win the item e.g.
Note: If a quest is open for any collection item, you can still get the item in the 3 ways listed above, and as a gift from a friend (if it is a green plus sign item), and gaining a collection item in any of these ways will automatically complete the quest. In the case of quest only items with no green plus signs there are only 3 ways you can get the item before you activate its quest or after you have completed its quest: 1) as a reward for discharging the collectors desktop award, 2) as a random item that drops when you open a Pandora's Chest or 3) as a item that drops randomly when you are charging a friends home desktop when visiting them. However, if a quest only item does not have a green plus sign next to it, then it cannot be gifted between friends. If a quest only item has a green plus sign and/or a gold friends icon next to it in the collections tab, then it can be gifted and/or requested between friends, so if you are looking for it you can ask your friends to send it to you. These items can only be won when the quest for that item is active, and once the quest is complete it will no longer be available to win in the location the quest specified. Others can only be found when playing in a certain mode, for example, night mode, but can be won in any picture as long is that picture is played in night mode.Ī few items cannot be won in any picture or puzzle. Some items can be won in multiple pictures and puzzles, and some items can only be found in one location. This will bring up an infobox for that particular item. If you are trying to win a particular item in order to complete a collection, you can find out where to get it by pressing its icon in the collections tab. This list changes depending on what level you have advanced that picture/puzzle to, or in the case of pictures, depending on what mode the picture is currently in. You can scroll through this list either by swiping or by using the arrows either side of the list. The "Can be Found" list is located above the Research button and contains photos of all the items available to win.
In the research window, there is a "Can be Found" section, which contains all collection items and combining elements that potentially can be given out as rewards for winning the picture/puzzle game. You do this by opening the research window of the picture/puzzle by pressing its icon on your home desktop. If you are unsure whether you are at the right picture/puzzle level or you are playing a picture in the right mode to win a particular collection item, you can check to see if it is available to win before you begin the game. Other items can only be won when playing a picture in a certain picture mode. Some items can only be won when you have advanced the picture or puzzle's level to a certain point, and will not be available to win there until you reach that level of progress for the picture/puzzle. You win collection items for each successful picture investigation or puzzle game you complete. Most, but not all, items needed to make collections can be won through normal game play. 3 List of Collection Item Locations (Notes).