Overview
Text guide for Bookworm Achievement
Insert Boring Intro Here
Hello, everyone! This is my first guide, so please bear with my corny humor. Hey, as long as I deliver the goods, right? Like the description says, this is a guide on how to earn the “Bookworm” achievement, which requires you to find all 56–count ’em–56 files scattered throughout the Resident Evil 3 Remake (2020).
First, a few notes on files (pun fully intended):
- Probably the most important: the game will actually track your progress toward this achievement outside your playthroughs. What this means is, you could find File X in Playthrough 1 but miss it in Playthrough 2, and you’d still earn the achievement, so long as you eventually find and collect all 56 files. Thanks so much to “MMWHD”aC° for drawing my attention to this!
- This guide and its author naturally assume you’re OK with mild spoilers, which are really only included in some descriptions for clarity (“after watching this scene,” etc.) Hey, you’re playing the game anyway, right?
- Rooms on your in-game map will be marked blue once you’ve obtained all ammo and other items–files will not show up on this map, and thus do not count toward item completion. But then if they did, you wouldn’t be here reading this guide, so…
- In the interest of being as in-depth as possible, this text-based guide also includes in-game screenshots of all 56 file locations, along with short descriptions of how/where they can be found.
You’re welcome.
Jill’s Report
Location: Apartment
Easily found right at the beginning of the game, on the big evidence wall (after Jill wakes from her nightmare).
Investigation Notes
Location: Apartment
Same place as the previous file, on the big evidence board at the beginning of the game.
Message from a Colleague
Mmm…mega meat!
Location: Apartment
On the table by the open pizza box.
Unsealed Envelope
Location: Apartment
On the dresser, by the stereo and stack of CDs.
U.B.C.S. Ammo Crafting Guide
Location: Redstone Street Station
After following Carlos into the subway and watching the scene with Mikhail, you will find this file on a bench, just outside the subway car.
Tabloid Front Page
Location: Redstone Street Station
After picking up the previous file, proceed up the stairs toward your current objective. This file will be found at the newsstand just in front of you.
U.B.C.S. Herb Field Manual
Location: Downtown
Technically-speaking, you are still in the “Redstone Street Station,” but per the in-game map, this file is found in the “Downtown” area, in the Subway Station.
You’ll find it on a table just past the U.B.C.S. ammo cache.
Drugstore Owner’s Journal
Location: Downtown
This area is completely optional, hence the lengthy explanation to follow:
1. After examining the hydrant in the alley that’s on fire, go down the newly-opened path (where the zombies broke down the barricade).
2. Proceed down the stairs to the plaza where the donut shop is, and take a right onto a long, metal catwalk.
3. The left path will bring you to a storage room, where this file can be found.
*Note that this building can also be entered from the street where the Kite Bros. Railway is, accessed via the donut shop.
Kite Bros. Railway Manual
Location: Subway Office
On a chair in the office of the Kite Bros. Railway building, where the subway controls are.
Subway Employee’s Memo
Location: Subway Office
In the Kite Bros. Railway building, this file is on the table in the main office (the one you see through the glass window as you enter).
The door to enter is in the back of the hallway, near where you pick up the fire hose.
Training Log
Location: Downtown – Garage
After putting out the fire in the alley, you will enter the garage. Pick up the bolt cutters in the office, and proceed through the door locked with a chain.
After the scene with poor Murphy, this file will be found next to his corpse.
U.B.C.S. Suicide Note
Location: Downtown
After exiting the garage into the alleyway, take a right. You will find this file on the ground, next to the dead U.B.C.S. soldier.
Electrician’s Notice
Location: Downtown
From where you found the U.B.C.S. Suicide Note, proceed down the other end of the alley. You will come across this file on a nearby brick wall.
Appropriately, it’s right before another alley, containing a pair of zombie dogs and an electric generator!
Fax from Substation Chief
Location: Subway Power Substation – Control Room
On a table to your left as you enter.
Green Herbs: They Work!
Location: Subway Power Substation
After exiting the control room into the outdoor area, proceed down the stairs to find this file on a shelf, near a pair of green herbs.
Substation Internal Memo
Location: Subway Power Substation
After picking up “Green Herbs: They Work!”, turn around to find this file on the wall, next to the padlocked gate leading to the high-voltage area.
Chad’s Notes
Location: Subway Power Substation
After activating the nearby circuit breaker (it should put you at 3/4), head through the nearby gate–the ladder will bring you up to the metal platform where this file can be found, next to a wooden crate. This is also how you reach the 4th and final circuit breaker.
Your Charlie Doll
Why yes, that is Nemesis staring creepily through the window. He won’t follow you in, but he’ll definitely wait for you to come back out, in true stalker fashion!
Location: Downtown
After obtaining the lockpick at the substation, return to the main Downtown area and use the lockpick to enter the “Toy Uncle” toy store. You will find this on the wall.
Increased Sewer Security
Location: Sewers
Shortly after entering the sewers, you will find this file next to the first of the electronically-locked doors, at the end of the metal walkway.
Research Assistant’s Logs
Locations: Sewers – Office
This file will be on a table to your right as soon as you enter the office.
Invoice from Gun Shop Kendo
Location: Sewers – Office
Also in the office, further back from the “Research Assistant’s Logs,” on a stepladder near the grenade launcher.
Sewer Worker’s Notes
Even in death, he couldn’t miss a chance to photobomb.
Location: Sewers
After exiting the office, take the lefthand path at the first fork. Then, take the righthand path at the next fork.
Yes, I do mean the one that requires you to run through a waterfall of raw sewage.
The file will be found in a small, out-of-the-way area, near a corpse.
A Love Letter?
Location: Sewers – Lab
On one of the desks in the lab; upon entering, do a U-turn around the test-tube cases to your left.
Notice of Demolition Delay
Location: Demolition Site
After escaping Nemesis–who now has a giant flamethrower–you will find this file next to the typewriter in the “safe room.”
You know, the one atop a burning building that had been scheduled for demolition.
Raccoon Times Reader’s Column
Location: Downtown
After defeating Nemesis atop the Demolition Site and meeting Kendo at the Gun Shop, you’ll pass through an alleyway, and then a house, to return to the main Downtown area.
This file is on the bed upstairs.
Email Outbox
Location: Police Station – Entrance
After killing Zombie Brad, don’t head straight into the station just yet.
Instead, turn around and go back toward the cemetery area, then proceed down into the tunnel. You will find this file in the old storage save room from Resident Evil 2’s Leon B campaign.
ID Card Security Protocols
Location: Police Station – Reception
You’ll see this file immediately as you enter, next to a storage box requiring Brad’s ID card.
Sept. 20 Arrest Report
Location: Police Station – West Office
You will find this file on Marvin Branagh’s desk.
Internal Memo
Location: Police Station – Darkroom
You will see this file immediately as you enter (easier to see with the lights on).
3F Locker
Location: Police Station – Safety Deposit Room
Immediately to your right as you enter, on the whiteboard.
Note to a Friend
Location: Police Station – Shower Room
Right in front of you as you enter, on the bench. Easy to miss in the dark.
Report on the Mansion Incident
This office has an air of the diabolical, with just a whiff of sunglasses fetish…
Location: Police Station – S.T.A.R.S. Office
Upon entering the room, turn left and enter the smaller office. You will find this file on the desk (guess whose?)
U.B.C.S. New Weaponry Notice
Location: Subway Tunnels – Dilapidated Shelter
Upon entering the save room, you will see this file on a bench, between a stack of Mine Rounds and a First Aid Spray.
Clock Tower Brochure
Location: Clock Tower Plaza
After leaving the Subway Tunnels, but before crossing the bridge, head toward the river. You’ll find this file on a red bench nearby.
Nurse’s Journal: Sept. 25
Location: Hospital – Lab Reception
You will see this file on the receptionist’s desk as you approach the doors to the lab.
Nurse’s Journal: Sept. 27
Location: Hospital – Records Room
On a shelf near the item box.
Nurse’s Journal: Sept. 29
Location: Hospital – Staff Room
On a corner of the table in the center of the room.
Memos from Administration
Location: Hospital – Staff Room
On the wall next to the Locker Room door.
Note about a Tape Recording
Location: Hospital – Nurses’ Station
On the desk of the nurses’ station, near the telephone and computers.
RE: Lost Items
Location: Hospital – Operating Room
Found behind the operating bed.
Banquet Invitation
Location: Hospital – Lab
Found on the nearby desk, next to the corpse of Dr. Bard.
Email from Nathaniel Bard
Location: Hospital – Lab
Found on Dr. Bard’s computer–look for the Umbrella logo. Required to advance through the story.
Spencer Memorial Pamphlet
Location: Hospital – Reception
In a brochure basket next to the door to the underground. Can be picked up as either Jill or Carlos.
Elevator Notice
Location: Underground Storage – Office
In the first save room you come to after entering the hospital’s underground and taking the giant cargo lift down, this will be on the desk between the hip pouch and the typewriter.
Employee Memo
Location: Underground Storage
This file can be found on a stack of disused computer servers, in the room right next to the save room.
The room is initially locked, and only accessible by making your way around the larger storage area using the lifts. The file itself is rather easy to miss in the dark…especially as your attention may be diverted by two zombies and a Pale Head!
Unfinished Activity Log
Underground Storage – Surveillance Room
Found at the control panel in the underground storage facility, after obtaining all four fuses and restoring power. Required to advance the story.
Nest 2 Employee Regulations
Location: Nest 2 – Storage
After the scene with Tyrell (R.I.P.), proceed through the Sterilization Room and continue down the hallway to the save room at the far end. The file will be on a stainless-steel handcart.
Isaac Graves’ Diary
More zombie photobombing glory!
Location: Nest 2
From the Storage save room, go back out into the hallway and up the stairs. The previous file included a map of the area, so take the first left down the L-shaped hallway. After dealing with a couple of zombies, you will find this file inside one of the wooden crates at the end of this hallway.
Essay on Vaccine Synthesis
Location: Nest 2
This file will be found inside the big room with the vaccine synthesizer, on one of the green hospital beds.
Shipping Notice
Location: Nest 2
After obtaining the Override Key, you will find this file on a stainless-steel handcart, in the room behind the electronically-locked door.
You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see the giant, hanging body bags…
Weaponry Authorization Request
Industrial yellow miniature crane-claws–a classic Resident Evil trademark!
Location: Nest 2 – Lab 1
You will find this file on a desk in one of the laboratories, near a microscope. It’s the same room where you find the Antigen Sample.
Scientist’s Dying Message
Don’t get up…don’t get up…don’t get up…
Location: Nest 2
After passing through the big, body bag room, turn to your right as you step out onto the metal walkway. The file will be found with a dead scientist.
Expression of Concern
Location: Nest 2 – Incubation Lab
This file will be on a desk in the lab with the Adjuvant Sample, after passing through the long room filled with Hunters and Tyrants.
Disposal Center
Location: Nest 2 – Workers’ Break Room
After escaping from Nemesis (again) and entering the save room, you will find this file on the wall, next to the valve-operated door.
Weapon Spec Sheet
Location: Nest 2 – Staff Break Room
Easy to miss if you get caught up in the story, and just rush through the game’s final save room after Nicholai. This file is found on a shelf in the corner, near a can of First Aid Spray.
Suspicious Contract Memo
Now, who could have dropped this…?
Location: Nest 2
VERY easily missed. After finally killing Nemesis for the last time (Nemesis down!!!), you will find this file on the floor of the metal platform above (stroll through Nemesis’ flaming remains to find the ladder).
The file will be right in front of the sliding electronic door.
So Long, RC…
And that’s all, folks! Assuming you’ve been following this guide, you have now claimed a grand total of 56–count ’em–56 ragged, blood-stained, likely radioactive files from the ashes of Raccoon City, and should receive the Bookworm achievement even before the credits roll!
Hope you had as much fun trudging through the zombie-filled ashes as I did!