Silent Hill: Townfall — Every Document and Clue Location

Silent Hill: Townfall hides 85 Documents and Clues across its six story parts, and the game seals off earlier areas the moment you push the plot forward. That makes most of them missable, so a careful sweep matters. Documents fill in story and background, Clues feed into puzzles and objectives, and both count toward the same discoveries total at the end of a run.

Quick answer: There are 85 Documents and Clues spread across the six story parts. Because areas lock permanently as you advance, collect every one in a single playthrough.

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How the 85 collectibles work

Collecting all 85 unlocks the Observation and Thorough Inspection achievements. Your overall number of discoveries also feeds into which of the main endings you get, so a complete sweep does double duty.

Some entries are physical notes on doors, desks, sinks, and shelves.
Many are emails or files read from a computer, and each message counts separately.
A few need extra steps first, such as restoring power, printing a photo, or swapping a cassette tape.

Once the story moves you into a new area, the previous one is gone for good. Grab everything before you trigger a transition.

Part 1: Arrival (Shorefront South)

The opening stretch across Shorefront South, Zoe’s place, and the clinic holds 23 collectibles.

Document or Clue	Location
Boat Tour Canceled Notice	On a door to the right as the St. Amelia sign first appears in the intro.
Room Service Card	Haldane Hotel — examine the table.
Hotel Room Note	Haldane Hotel room — on the sink after unlocking the bathroom door.
Hotel Reception Notice	Hotel lobby front desk after you leave the room.
Hand-Delivered Letter	Zoe’s Place — coffee table in the living room.
Organ Transplant Card	Zoe’s Place — floor of the upstairs bathroom.
Electricard Note	Zoe’s Place — crawlspace under the staircase.
Zoe’s Email: Please Report In	Zoe’s computer after restoring power.
Zoe’s Email: Your Letter	Zoe’s computer.
Zoe’s Email: For Attending	Zoe’s computer.
Newsagents Notes	Counter inside the Newsagents, entered from the back.
Vigil and Protest Flyer	In front of the town square monument.
Shorefront Family Clinic Notice	On the front of the clinic building.
Note on Patient Records	Stevenson’s desk drawer in his clinic office.
Resignation Letter	Zoe’s office, by the Scales puzzle.
Clinic Email: Where Are You?	Zoe’s clinic computer.
Clinic Email: Reception Answer Phone Message	Zoe’s clinic computer.
Nurses Rounds Form	Clinic reception desk.
Restock Issues	Pharmacy counter.
Feeling Sick Note	Building 16’s upstairs bedroom, 1/2, is opposite Jess’s house.
Note on Jess’s Door	On the front of Jess’s door.
Task Assignment	Jess’s house kitchen.
Jess Legal Advice	Jess’s house living room table.

Part 2: Zoe (Shorefront North and the Otherworld)

Twelve more turn up as you cross Shorefront North and the Otherworld version of the district.

Document or Clue	Location
Zoe’s Email: Coming Back	Zoe’s House computer in the living room.
Water Warning	Zoe’s House living room table.
Jane Chalmers Obituary	Inside Jane’s shed.
St. Amelia Standard	Shorefront North — table in Mr. Stewart’s house.
Medical Security Note	Shorefront North — taped on a booth near the Medical Center.
Community Help Needed	After calling Dr. Glenn, check the table beside the first tent outside the Medical Center.
Exhausted Supplies	Table on the left past the body bags outside the Medical Center.
Scaffold Notice	Otherworld Shorefront — commercial road building, by the locked door.
Handwritten Note	Second floor of the commercial road building (on the left).
Press Photos Note.Txt	Locked scalpel room computer, third floor of the commercial road building.
Photo1.jpg	Print from the scalpel room computer after switching on the kitchen printer.
Photo2.jpg	Print from the same computer, then collect it from the kitchen printer.

Part 3: The Patient (St. Amelia Medical Centre)

The hospital wards carry seven items, most of them read off terminals.

Document or Clue	Location
Supply Situation Update	Computer in consult room B.
RE: Supply Situation Update	Same computer in consult room B.
Unrealistic Expectations (1098512…)	Chapman Ward computer, first floor, upstairs.
Dailies – Infusion Status	Emails on the first-floor computer.
Dailies – Records Room Code	The Office — board by the computer.
Equipment Cleanup Notice	Basement, right down the hallway.
Zoe’s Patient List	Room southeast of the Blood Transfusion Machine, entered via a vent.

Part 4: Clara Woods (Brae residences and CEG Tower)

This is the largest haul at 21, spanning the Brae houses and CEG Tower. Several sit behind puzzles: the Floppy Disk puzzle in 5 South Brae, the cassette-tape swaps in 5 Upper Brae, and the split grid codes in the tower.

Document or Clue	Location
Harbor Notice	Edge of the path before the ramp by the elevated boat, before you enter Clara Woods.
Store Staff Notice	Look in the newsagents on Clara Woods’s left for the map.
Atlas Square Apartment Note	Building opposite the phone booth.
Lost and Found	CEG Employee Locker building computer.
CEG Employee Locker List	Same computer in the locker building.
CEG Lockers Manager’s Note	Back office of the CEG lockers building.
Gaming Magazine	5 South Brae — on a bed upstairs.
Reciprocating Compressor	5 South Brae — from the printer after the Floppy Disk puzzle.
Lamenting Poem	6 North Brae — chair in the upstairs bedroom.
The Code Today	5 Upper Brae — desk upstairs.
The Code Before	5 Upper Brae — kitchen table after playing Tape: Yesterday.
The Code After	5 Upper Brae — living room after playing Tape: Tomorrow.
Current Count	5 Upper Brae — Ammonite Disk in the reader while Tape: Yesterday is playing.
Inquiry Preparation Notice	CEG Tower reception desk.
Box ID’s and Names	Podium in the room with chairs and black boxes.
Grid of Codes 1	Maintenance room trash can.
Grid of Codes 2	Security room (code 4895).
Complete Grid of Codes	Combine both Grid of Codes clues.
Out of Hours Access	Security room computer.
Urgent Message	Security room computer.
Employee File Cover Note	Inside Richard’s Box (#36), opened with code 486.

Part 5: Richard (facilities and CEG Tower)

Playing as Richard, you sweep the facilities outside the tower and then work up through its floors for 12 collectibles.

After opening the gate, head left to the small construction hut. The Construction Halted Notice is on the desk inside the office.

Open the garage door on the left of the second building. The CEG Kiosk Note sits on the desk to your right, and the CEG Memo waits in the manager’s office upstairs.

CEG Kiosk Note & CEG Memo — The CEG Kiosk Note, a Notice of Protest read on the desk after lifting the garage door. Shown at 01:29 in Gamer Guides’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Turn on the power generator, then enter the construction shack opposite it and switch on the computer. Read Facilities: Works Halted and the DONTREAD.doc email on the same terminal.

Facilities Works Halted & DONTREAD.DOC — The shack terminal holding both Facilities: Works Halted and DONTREAD.doc. Shown at 03:42 in Gamer Guides’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Inside CEG Tower, go to the third floor and enter the meeting office opposite the bathroom. The Meeting Minutes are on the table.

The CEG Tower Meeting Minutes from the third-floor meeting office. Shown at 04:11 in Gamer Guides’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Use the keycard to reach the PR room office on the third floor and read both Engineer Public Statement and Evening News from its computer.

Evening News & Engineer Public Statement — The PR computer inbox holding Evening News and Engineer Public Statement. Shown at 04:56 in Gamer Guides’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Step across the hall into the PR office opposite that room. The PR Meeting Note is in a drawer.

Finish the part with the last three. Richard’s Note is on the floor in the southeast room of the third-floor Public Relations section, the CEG Checkout Sheet is in the fourth-floor storeroom, and He’s Done is read on the tenth-floor computer using your CEO access card.

Part 6: Simon (SWDP and the shore)

The final 10 close out the run as Simon, moving from CEG Tower into the SWDP facility and back to the shore.

Document or Clue	Location
Ordell File	On the desk where you spawn as Simon.
whatdidyoudo?	Computer email after leaving the 10th floor office.
Reference Sheet	Table to the left of the console panel.
RE: Ordell Site Visit	At SWDP (Different)’s Level 1, use the computer in the room separating JOE from AUX.
RCU Refit Note	JOE room — through the gap, on the bed.
Photo of Joe McKenzie	JOE room — through the gap, on the door.
Remote Systems Control	Control room, right side of the CCTV puzzle.
Auxiliary Lines	AUX Room — use the AUX Disk on the computer.
Clamp Release Procedure	From the printer during the clamp release objective.
Crew Patch	On the shore after beating the Weight at the finale.

Unlocking the Observation and Thorough Inspection achievements

When the run concludes, the discoveries statistic records both categories. Securing all 85 triggers the Observation and Thorough Inspection achievements, and the complete discoveries total is included in the ending calculation. If the tally is short, the missing entry is in an area you already passed; Townfall prevents returning there during that run, so clearing each chapter thoroughly is the only dependable way to reach 85 in one go.