DERELIKT Documents and Shriver's Notes: Full Checklist
Every document type, the 13 Shriver's Notes and the Bookworm and Librarian achievement thresholds, organised by level.
DERELIKT tracks documents as a single collection, but it uses four names: Shriver's Notes, Mission Reports, Science Reports, and logs. The achievements only care about the total. Bookworm (55.9%) fires at half, Librarian (55.4%) at all of them.
The odd part is the numbers. Librarian is only 0.5 percentage points rarer than Bookworm, which means the second half of the collection is not where players get stuck. The bottleneck is finding the collection at all; once you are reading documents, you tend to finish.
Cleaning up the document list is easiest after the achievement run→, which shows what Bookworm and Librarian actually require.
The four document types
| Type | Count | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Shriver's Notes | 13 | The lead researcher's descent, one note per slab of story |
| Mission Reports | 5 or more | The excavation team's last days |
| Science Reports | Several | The lab's work on the glyph and the samples |
| Logs and misc | Several | Crew personal logs, manifests, notes |
Shriver's Notes are numbered on the page (2/13, 3/13, 6/13 and so on), which makes them the easiest set to audit. Mission Reports are numbered but the numbering is not continuous in the levels we have mapped, so treat the numbers as lore, not as a checklist index.
Shriver's Notes by level
| # | Level | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2/13 | 1 Von Neuman Outpost | Shriver's room, on the sofa |
| 3/13 | 1 Von Neuman Outpost | Restroom, on the sink counter |
| 6/13 | 3 Anomaly Surface | Lower cliff ledge, below the Insight bridge |
| — | 4 Exo Laboratories | Survivor room, upstairs |
| — | 5 Central Security | Open cell, cell block |
| — | 8 Coolant Reservoir | Middle cooling tower platform |
| — | 10 Nuclear Reactor | Station B control gallery |
| — | 11 Maintenance | Supply room, before the boss lift |
The unnumbered entries are notes we have verified in place but whose page numbers we did not record. The remaining four sit in the levels between these, and the most common misses are the Executive Suites on Level 5 and the flooded control room on Level 8.
Mission Reports
- Mission Report 1: Anomaly Surface, crate at the landing zone, before the first drop.
- Mission Report 4: Anomaly Surface, on Dr. Seligman's body on the upper trench walkway.
- Mission Report 5: Anomaly Surface, crate beside the excavation gear before the monolith.
Reports 2 and 3 are not on the surface route. They are in the station levels, and the most likely spots are the Operations office and the Exo Labs reception. Check both desks before you leave those levels.
Science Reports and logs
- Kraft's Log: Anomaly Surface, tunnel left of Kraft's body.
- Science Report: Anomaly Surface, derelict campsite table.
- Science Report: Exo Laboratories, worm lab desk.
- Science Report: Coolant Reservoir, first basin catwalk.
- Gregory Gold's log: Level 1, crate in the cargo bay.
- Marching Orders: Level 1, Shriver's room table.
- Firepower Magazine: Level 1, Armory desk beside the Chief.
- Personal Log: Level 1, your ship's coffee station.
The Personal Log is the one players miss most often because it is before the first airlock. Check the coffee station before you leave the ship.
How the achievements count
Both Bookworm and Librarian count every document type, not just Shriver's Notes. The game does not show a counter, which is why the two achievements are usually unlocked without warning.
There is no in-game collection screen for documents. The only reliable audit is the achievement itself:
- If Bookworm has not fired, you are below half.
- If Bookworm has fired but Librarian has not, you are between half and all.
Because there is no counter, a missed document in a one-way level is unrecoverable. The levels with one-way exits are Anomaly Surface (until the rescue completes), the reactor and Maintenance. Collect before you leave.
The reactor section locks the hub. Any document left in Exo Labs, Central Security or Living Quarters is gone once you enter the reactor.
Document hunting order
If you want Librarian in one run, do the levels in this order and clear each before the exit:
- Level 1: ship, Mainframe, Operations, Armory, restroom, lower maintenance.
- Level 3: landing zone, trench, campsite, cliff.
- Level 4: reception, worm lab, sample room, server room, survivor room.
- Level 5: checkpoint, cells, executive suites.
- Level 6: bunks, bar, kitchen, gym.
- Level 8: pump room, basin, towers, control room.
- Levels 10 and 11: gallery and supply room.
FAQ
How many documents are there? The game does not publish a total. The 13 Shriver's Notes are the only numbered set.
Does reading a document matter, or just picking it up? Picking it up is enough. The game logs it on pickup.
Can I check my count? No. The achievements are the only feedback.
Is Librarian missable? Yes, if you leave a one-way level without the documents in it.
The Steam store page lists Bookworm and Librarian but not a document total, which is why this checklist is organised by level rather than by count.
Sources and further reading
The pages below are the sources this guide checks against. The store page and the developer's post are primary; the reviews are secondary and are used for enemy names, weapon names and the state of the game at launch.
- DERELIKT on Steam ↗ — the store page, system requirements and the 27-achievement list.
- Visuwyg's announcement post ↗ — the developer's own description of the outpost and the PS1 rendering work.
- DERELIKT on Steam ↗ — the store page, system requirements and the 27-achievement list.
Official source: Visuwyg — DERELIKT announcement post ↗, 8 September 2025.
"grafted onto an anomalous derelict asteroid in orbit around Saturn" — Visuwyg, DERELIKT announcement post, 2025