Jusant 100% guide

• One playthrough plus optional Chapter Select cleanup. Pick up every collectible as you climb and nothing needs replaying.
• 105 collectibles in six types: 44 letters, 13 of Bianca's journal entries, 20 cairns, 12 shells, 12 frescos, and 4 altars. All of them are in Chapters 1 to 5. Chapter 6 has none.
• Five running counters: stamina restores, jumps, ballast hugs, scared chocos, and the pebble freeze. Build them up during normal play rather than grinding them at the end.
• Two achievements exist only in Chapter 6. Do them before you start the tower climb (see the Chapter 6 section).

What counts for each collectible type:

• Letters and journal entries: pick them up with the interact prompt and let the text open.
• Cairns: press the interact prompt once to add a stone.
• Shells: interact to start the listening scene, and let it play out.
• Frescos: stand close to the painting and use the echo (D-pad Up). It lights up and is added to the Gallery.
• Altars: grab the altar, then hold LT and RT while pushing the left stick in the direction the prompt shows. One turn counts. Setting Interaction Mode to Simplified in the accessibility options reduces this to just LT and RT. Try that if an altar won't respond.

Several pickups sit behind optional branches: side crevices, drops on a rope, and plants you have to grow. The route below calls out each one.

Nothing is permanently missable, but each chapter is a one-way trip on your first run. Once a chapter ends, you can't go back to it until you've finished the game and Chapter Select unlocks.

• Chapter Select only unlocks after the credits. It normally appears on the title screen once the credits finish, though a few players have reported it not showing up. It always starts a chapter from the beginning, with no checkpoint select, so a collectible missed at the end of a chapter means climbing that whole chapter again.
• After the credits, never choose New Game. Starting a New Game after finishing is reported to remove Chapter Select from the menu. Collectibles you already have are kept, but cleanup becomes much harder. Let the credits finish, go back to the title screen, and use Chapter Select.
• Collectibles picked up during a Chapter Select replay are saved once you return to the main menu. You don't need to finish the chapter.
• Tracking: during play, the pause menu's Letters screen shows the letters you've read, with journal entries under the Bianca tab. Check it before you end a chapter. After the credits, the Chapter Select screen shows each chapter's collectible progress (confirmed for shells), and the Extras menu shows which letters and journal entries you have.
• Shells, frescos, and altars are reported to show up on the ballast's echo. Letters and cairns may not, so check corners carefully for those.

The opening climb teaches you to grip, rest, and jump. Your first rest on a wall starts the Fresh air count, and every jump to a hold counts toward Acrobat.

1. Letter 1: after the stamina tutorial wall, go into the cave and climb the ladder. The letter is on your left at the top, on a bench under hanging gloves.
2. Shell 1: after the wall-swing section, climb the ledges up to the stone-carving workshop. The shell is on the floor in a corner in front of the workbench, left of the ladder.
3. Letter 2: climb the ladder into the alcove. The letter is a scroll in a small carved window beside a blue door.
4. Letter 3: shimmy along the wooden structure, then take the ladder at the top down to a platform. The letter is pinned under the walkway.

1. Cairn 1: when you reach the main bridge to the two towers, don't cross yet. Go into the cave and follow the narrow rim path around the dark chasm. The cairn is on the far side, near the large opening.
2. Letter 4: keep following the path on from the cairn. The letter is on the ground by a lantern near a wall carving. The detour then brings you back to the bridge.
3. Letter 5: cross the bridge and take the side path on the right at its end. The letter is on a wooden table with a lit lantern.
4. Cairn 2: at the back of that same spot, behind the draped table, on the sunlit edge by the cliff.
5. Letter 6: go back to the tower base and take the stairs up. The letter is on the ground by a decorated blue door. It's usually to the right at the top of the stairs. Look for the blue door.

1. Journal Entry 1: inside the tower, use your carabiner to lower the bridge from the upper window, then cross to the small room. The entry is on the table.
2. Letter 7: wall swing further up the tower to a small room with a ladder. The letter is on a stool behind the ladder. Grab it before you climb the ladder.

Your ballast is now awake, so hugging and the echo are available.

1. Fresco 1: after the zipline, use the echo to grow the nearby plants and climb them until you reach a crack in the wall with a glow behind it. Squeeze through the crevice into a small chamber with glowing stones and echo next to the painting.
2. Cairn 1: on the next level up, go forward and turn right. The cairn is on the overhanging boards at the cliff corner, looking out over the two towers.
3. Shell 1: past the echo plants and hanging boats, climb or double jump up the wall to the left. Drop into the old restaurant alcove with tables, chairs, a step stool, and toys. The shell is on the floor among the tables, below an anchor signboard.
4. Cairn 2: this is a wooden plank jutting out like a diving board, just above and beside the restaurant. Expect several attempts, and maybe more than one piton. From above (easier): keep climbing past the shell. Where the vine forks, take the left branch to the platform above the plank. Attach your rope or place a piton at the edge, let out plenty of rope, and swing under and up onto the plank. From the restaurant: with your back to the shell, hang from the carabiner point on the left and place pitons along the curved wall to wall-run over to the plank. If both fail: from the village ahead, take the elevator up to the cliff, anchor to the wall, and rappel and swing down to the same plank. This last chance is gone once you move past the village cliff.

1. Letters 1 and 2: two letters a few steps apart at the village entrance, in either order. One is a note pinned on a wall to the right, between some wooden steps and a house, across a short wooden bridge. The other is at the yellow door of the round white-domed house on the left.

1. Fresco 2: take the elevator up and climb on to a narrow crevice on the main path. Shimmy through it, then attach your rope to the anchor slot beside you and lower yourself into the chamber below. Echo at the painting, then climb the rope back up.
2. Shell 2: on the cave platform with mud flats, a small watermill, pottery, and musical instruments, with a raised drawbridge ahead. The shell is on the ground on the left. Grab it before you lower the drawbridge.
3. Letter 6: lower the bridge, cross, turn right, and squeeze through the crevice. The letter is on a shelf in the small room.
4. Fresco 3: back on the main path, clip onto the hanging anchor before the chasm swing, but don't swing. Lower yourself a little and turn the camera around. There's a small opening beside a plant in the wall behind you. Swing into it and follow the steps down to the temple chamber. Echo at the painting, then come back out the same way.
5. Letter 7: after the long vine and anchor climb, it's in the crate blocking the door of a small building on top of a platform.
6. Cairn 4: after the third swing across the chasm, on the cliff-edge side of the platform, right of the doorway. This is the chapter's last collectible. If a cutscene starts, you've gone past it.

1. Journal Entry 1: right at the start, turn around and check just around the corner behind you. It's on a table at a shaded dead end.
2. Cairn 1: on the main path, follow the left wall into a side tunnel. The cairn is at the end, by a half-broken gate. Get it before riding the first zipline, which is one-way.
3. Journal Entry 2: after the zipline and the next wall, this is an optional detour. At the carabiner point by the plants, take the ledge and blue rope to the left instead of growing the plants. Climb into a small shaded settlement with a bed, stacked books, and a blue door. The entry is on the step in front of the door.
4. Letter 1: in the same settlement, next to a lantern lying on the ground.
5. Cairn 2: back on the route, climb to the very top of the second wall of wilting plants. Place a piton, hang down, and swing to the ledge on the right with the caved-in doorway.
6. Letter 2: climb on, then swing to the rock-carved building with patios and ladders. Lower yourself floor by floor all the way to the bottom. The letter is pinned to a door frame around the corner.

1. Fresco 1: climb to the top of the building and take the stairway into the mountainside, the first indoor area with broken blue tiles. Don't climb the next stairs. Of the three windows on the left, one is open. Attach to the anchor above it, lower yourself in, and echo at the painting.
2. Shell 1: after two ladders, go back outside and left to the branches sticking out of the wall. Place a piton at the ledge and rappel down into a hidden alcove with toy boats and stuffed animals. Grow the nearby vine to climb back up.
3. Journal Entry 3: climb across the first pebble-covered wall and go through the opening into a dark, cluttered room with a large blue door. The entry is on the table with the books.
4. Letters 3 and 4: in the sunlit area up the stairs, in either order. Letter 3 is in the crate beside the cliff-side house. Letter 4 is pinned on the wall opposite.
5. Cairn 3: drop down the terraces to the lowest ledge. There's no rope needed here. Climb back up by the nearby ladder.
6. Letter 5: inside the mountainside, in the stockroom full of pillows and sacks.
7. Letter 6: after the broken windmill climb, behind the large white tree in the long outside corridor.

1. Altar 1: from the tree, go into the building at the end of the path. In the room with a hole in the floor, attach to the anchor on the ceiling and rappel down through the hole into the altar room. Afterward, grow the vine to climb back out.
2. Cairn 4: back at the white tree, grow the vine by the pillar behind it and climb to the top. Turn left past the white tanks, and hop across the ledges with your rope attached to the far ledge with a fallen stick. Then come back to the vine and take the elevator. Get it before using the elevator. Taking the upper swing route after the windmill also reaches this same cairn.

1. Fresco 2: use the anchor and rope to swing over the gap in the broken bridge. On the far side, go to the left edge, place a piton, and lower yourself to the level below. Go into the temple chamber and echo, then climb back up.
2. Letter 9: up the stairs to a house near the boat. The letter is on a workbench with a lit lamp, by a blue door.
3. Cairn 6: on the cliff-edge ledge by the perched boat, on the main path.
4. Letter 10: climb the next wall to a door at the top. A piton wall-run helps reach the wooden platform. The letter is by the door.
5. Cairn 7: squeeze through the gap in the wall to the left of Letter 10 and reach a doorway. Clip onto the anchor beside the doorway and rappel down to the cairn, then climb back up. This is the chapter's best-hidden collectible.
6. Fresco 3: go through the doorway and follow the corridor to the hall room. Echo at the painting.
7. Shell 3: below the corridor are some animal pens. Drop down to the lowest level and check the left pen. A ladder in the corner by the big gate takes you back up. You can do Shell 3, Fresco 3, and Cairn 7 in any order, but do all three in this one visit.
8. Journal Entry 5: up the ladder, on a small stool in the corner by the fence near the cave mouth.
9. Letter 11: take the stairs down to the wooden platform. It's on the ground beside a door.

1. Letter 12: on the zipline tower platform, sticking out of a pocket on the side of the white round house overlooking the chasm.
2. Letter 13: don't take the zipline. Take the stairs and two ladders up to a corner with flipped-over tables. The letter is on a stool by a door.
3. Journal Entry 6: in the plaza at the chapter's end by the huge stone wheel (the sundial), on a table next to a lantern. Check both sides of the plaza. Grab it before you turn the wheel.

1. Letter 1: at the fork just after the start, swing left, go through the opening in the wall and down the stairs. The letter is on a shelf at the end. Use the echo for light if it's too dark.
2. Cairn 1: past the first gate, take the ladder on the left, go around the stones, cross the plank, and turn left into the blue-lit room. The cairn is in the middle of the floor.
3. Shell 1: take the other ladder, go through the doorway into the big hall, and head right. The shell is on the doorstep of the shop, beside a half-open door.
4. Letter 2 and Journal Entry 1: these are nearby and can be collected in either order. For Letter 2, use the sparks on the wall to reach a ledge, then cross the plank to the blue door. Journal Entry 1 is on the desk at the end of the hallway.
5. Fresco 1: with your back to that desk, take the pink-lit hallway to the fresco chamber.
6. Letter 3: in the main room, climb using the sparks, then the wall ladder. It's right in front of you at the top.
7. Journal Entry 2 and Letter 4: lower the bridge and cross into the bright study room. These can be collected in either order. The entry is on the table by the chalkboard, and the letter is on the steps by the door with a symbol.
8. Letter 5: swing from the ceiling fan, call up the sparks, and grow the plant on the left (not the right). Follow the seeds into a hidden alcove. The letter is pinned to the wall by a crate.
9. Letter 6: next to the door wheel on the main path. If you walk past it, jump up the broken stairs behind you.

1. Fresco 2: turn the wheel to open the door, then go straight ahead into the big orange-lit room. The fresco is on the wall. Get it before you ride any zipline.
2. Cairn 2: ride the zipline, take the elevator up, and turn left. The cairn is in the left corner between blue mushrooms, at a dead end blocked by boats and debris.
3. Shell 2 and Letter 7: these can be collected in either order. The shell is in the front seat of the tipped-over boat beyond the lock gates. For the letter, take the nearby ladder, go right, and jump the gap. It's pinned to the wall.
4. Letters 8 and 9: in the big room with the central fan. Letter 8 is on the right wall under the blue mushrooms. Letter 9 is up the stairs, beside the lit door.
5. Letter 10: swing from the ceiling fan to the only platform. It's on a stall under an awning.
6. Cairn 3: this is in a small alcove at the end of the short beam bridge near the white round hut. You can reach it on foot: near the hut, take the ladder down and cross the bridge to the alcove. Or, from the fan, swing to the opposite wall, climb, echo the plants, and follow the vine right. Let go directly above the beam bridge and drop into the alcove.
7. Letter 11: on the deck at the right side of the white round hut.

1. Altar 1: after the long plank bridge, climb the pebble wall and cross the narrow ledge. Before the next passage, clip onto the anchor slot and rappel down to the cave opening below, then swing in to the altar room. Grow the vine to climb back up.
2. Cairn 4: as you arrive in the green-glowing fungus area, turn left right away.
3. Fresco 3: in the cavern with red jellyfish, go right the moment you see them and follow the path down to the chamber.
4. Letters 12, 13, and 14: Letter 12 is on the wooden platform where the zipline starts. Letter 13 is on your left after you land from the zipline. Letter 14 is pinned on a wall before the next grapple point, after you lower the plank.
5. Shell 3: after the chasm swing, lower yourself and swing to the nearest hanging platform. Follow the edge to the shell, by some blue pots.
6. Letter 15: on the wooden platform there, next to a chair on the ledge to the right.
7. Cairn 5: ride the elevators up. At the top, don't take the spiral staircase. Use the hanging anchor on the left to swing across the gap to the ledge.

1. Shell 1: at the second of the two stacked windmills, go right, wait for the wind to ease, and jump to the vine. Climb the ledge and ladder into the abandoned settlement, walk up the ramp, and turn right. The shell is inside a broken pot.
2. Cairn 1: up the steps behind the shell, beside a pillar.
3. Journal Entry 1: deeper in the settlement, near the spinning wheel on the steps of the fan house.
4. Fresco 1: in the room to the right of the fan house.
5. Shell 2: go back down to the windmills. Use the wall to the left of the top windmill (a piton on its left side works), and time your swing so the wind carries you to a small ledge with a wooden door. The shell is on the ground in front of the door. Use the hanging anchor to get back.
6. Letter 1: climb up into the mountainside doorway above the windmills. The letter is on a door in a corner at the top of a short flight of steps.
7. Fresco 2: in the same area, go through the door, turn left, and head down the stairs to the chamber. You can do this before or after Letter 1.
8. Letter 2: back outside, shimmy along the wall. The letter is in the crate in front of the door of the building at the end.

1. Journal Entry 2: climb the next wall to the upper cave and squeeze through the crevice at the back. Drop down the hole in the floor on the left using your rope or the ladder beside it. The entry is on a table with stacks of books in the room below.
2. Fresco 3: at the bottom of the ladder hole, turn around and go through the makeshift opening in the collapsed wall. Follow the path to the chamber and echo, then climb back up the ladder.
3. Journal Entry 3: at the top of the ladder, walk forward to the tent by the cliff edge. The entry is on the table.

These three can be collected in any order. Grab all of them before you leave this pocket.

1. Shell 3 and Altar 1: from the tent, head to the cave mouth and turn left to a hanging anchor. Climb into the headwind until you reach the first relay, under a flag. Attach to the relay and lower yourself down to the hidden opening with a blue vine and a wind chime, then swing across and go in. The shell is on the floor to the left, just before the altar. Grow the vine to climb back up afterward.

Anything missed can be collected through Chapter Select. Per chapter, the collectibles are:

• Chapter 1: 7 letters, 1 journal entry, 2 cairns, 1 shell.
• Chapter 2: 7 letters, 1 journal entry, 4 cairns, 2 shells, 3 frescos, 1 altar.
• Chapter 3: 13 letters, 6 journal entries, 7 cairns, 3 shells, 3 frescos, 1 altar.
• Chapter 4: 15 letters, 2 journal entries, 5 cairns, 3 shells, 3 frescos, 1 altar.
• Chapter 5: 2 letters, 3 journal entries, 2 cairns, 3 shells, 3 frescos, 1 altar.

Cleanup steps:

1. Check the Chapter Select screen for chapters with collectibles still missing.
2. Use the Extras menu to find which letters and journal entries are missing.
3. Replay that chapter, grab the item, and return to the main menu to save.

Chapter 6 is short if you need to replay it for A faint glimmer or Awakened memory.

• Delayed unlocks: achievements can pop up to a day late. Give it time and check the Xbox app before replaying anything.
• Hug counter stuck: patch 1.06 fixed reload-related unlocking problems for Acrobat, Fresh air, and Restored connection. If a counter still seems stuck, close and reopen the game as a precaution, then keep going (for hugs, hug again somewhere else).
• Bogeychoco not unlocking: replay Chapter 2 or 3 and keep scaring chocos, including different ones than before. This is a safety net, not a confirmed fix.
• A faint glimmer not unlocking, or Chapter 6 stuck: the ballast hold has been reported not registering, and the game soft-locking while you hold the ballast. On your first playthrough, use Load Last Checkpoint from the pause menu and try again, since Chapter Select isn't available until after the credits. After the credits, you can also replay Chapter 6 from Chapter Select, which is a short chapter.
• Altar won't turn: switch Interaction Mode to Simplified in the accessibility options and try again.
• Sound archeologist not unlocking at 12 of 12: this has been reported, including on Xbox, usually when the flag-ledge shell in Chapter 5 was the last one collected. First wait a day for a delayed unlock. Re-listening to shells in Chapter Select isn't a known fix. A community-reported workaround, not a guaranteed fix, is to start a New Game and listen to the first shell or two, since collectibles carry over to a new game. Do that only after every other achievement is done, because New Game removes Chapter Select.
• Collectibles not counting: Don't Nod's own advice, from its End of Service notice, is to make sure every requirement is met and, if that fails, start a fresh save. Only do this as a last resort, since it means another full playthrough.