Rapture Historian (BioShock Remastered)

Find all 122 collectible Audio Diaries in BioShock with this quick guide and a more extensive walkthrough, including screenshots of the locations, maps, and step-by-step instructions.

BioShock Remastered Audio Diaries

Uncover the shadowy secrets of the forsaken City of Rapture; a once beautiful and technological advanced utopia, now consumed by the cold dark corruption of the ocean floor, and Man's blackest ambitions. Follow the stories of its residents and their steep fall into madness and murder, though the messages they left behind.

There are a total of 122 audio diaries in BioShock Remastered. Collecting every one will unlock the Historian achievement. Other the the two in the first level "Welcome to Rapture," most Audio Diaries can be obtained by returning to their respective level through a Bathysphere.

Welcome to Rapture

Welcome to Rapture is the first level of BioShock. 2 audio diaries are available. {001 - 002}

NOTE: Make sure to collect both diaries before going through the hole in the restroom wall, as you will not be able to return after. Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{001} New Year's Eve Alone		On a table under the Atlas statue in Kashmir Bottom Floor.
{002} Hole in Bathroom Wall		On a pile of rubble in the woman's restroom of the Kashmir Restaurant.

Medical Pavilion

Medical Pavilion is the second level of BioShock. 17 audio diaries are available. {003 - 019}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{003} Released Today		On the reception desk in the Foyer.
{004} Adam's Changes		On a desk past the security bot in the door on the way to emergency access.
{005} Higher Standards		Pinned to the wall past the ghost screaming at the entrance to surgery.
{006} Parasite Expectations		On the counter of the Enwell Life And Health Group across from the turret.
{007} Love for Science		In an alcove near a health station.
{008} Limits of Imagination		Pinned to a wall to the left of the Twilight Fields Funeral Homes entrance.
{009} Vandalism		In a flooded alcove on a chair next to a Circus of Values.
{010} Surgery's Picasso		Under a memorial in the reception to Eternal Flame.
{011} Freezing Pipes		Frozen in a wall of ice in the corridor leading to Kure-All and Dandy Dental.
{012} Enrage Trial		In the corner of the main room of Kure-All in a puddle of blood.
{013} Useless Experiments		On the floor in front of the entrance to Dandy Dental.
{014} Testing Telekinesis		Next to the activation switch in the testing area for Telekinesis in Dandy Dental.
{015} Plasmids Are The Paint		On a table in the back corner of Painless Dental.
{016} Symmetry		Pinned to the wall past the blocked entrance to Steinman's surgery.
{017} Aphrodite Walking		On a cabinet in the northern operating room.
{018} Not What She Wanted		In the inventory of the body Steinman is seen cutting in Surgery.
{019} Gatherer Vulnerability		Next to the Gatherer's Garden in the northern part of the map after dealing with the first Little Sister.

Neptune's Bounty

Neptune's Bounty is the third level of BioShock. 19 audio diaries are available. {020 - 038}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{020} Fontaine Must Go		In the Lower Wharf under the metal grating on the way to the Upper Wharf. The entrance, if looking down at the diary, is around the corner further up the corridor toward the Upper Wharf.
{021} Bathysphere Keys		In the lower corner of the main area of the Lower Wharf, under the wooden walkway, and behind the turret.
{022} Finding The Sea Slug		On a table in the Upper Wharf across from the entrance.
{023} Picked Up Timmy H.		In the inventory of the body in the middle of the Upper Wharf and near a Little Sister Vent. This diary contains the door code to access Audio Diary {037} under Fontaine Fisheries.
{024} Masha Come Home		On the floor of the Upper Wharf and next to a Little Sister Vent. This diary contains the door code to access Audio Diary {034} in room 7 at Fighting McDonagh's.
{025} Watch Fontaine		Next to a Circus of Values in the northern end of the Upper Wharf.
{026} Have My Badge		On a desk in the Wharfmaster's office.
{027} Adam Discovery		On top of a crate past the Security Bullseye Plasmid and under the Wharfmaster's office and.
{028} Eden Leaking		In an alcove on the way towards Jet Postal and Fighting McDonagh's.
{029} Fontaine's Smugglers		On a bench in the glass tunnel towards Jet Postal and Fighting McDonagh's.
{030} Death Penalty in Rapture		On a table just inside the entrance to the Jet Postal.
{031} Smuggling Ring		On a table by the center column in the main room of Fighting McDonagh's.
{032} Working Late Again		On a table along the window of the main room of Fighting McDonagh's.
{033} Arresting Fontaine		On the floor by the bed in room 6 of Fighting McDonagh's.
{034} Saw Masha Today		On the floor by the bed in room 7 of Fighting McDonagh's. The lock on room 7 can either be hacked or opened with the code from Audio Diary {024}. 7533
{035} Rapture Changing		On a desk in the basement of Fighting McDonagh's.
{036} Meeting Ryan		In the basement of Fighting McDonagh's, there is a flooded ventilation shaft leading back to the entrance, coming out by the Gene Bank. Audio Diary {036} is floating near the exit of the shaft.
{037} Timmy H. Interrogation		In the locked cell under Fontaine Fisheries. The lock can either be hacked or opened with the code from Audio Diary {023}. 5380
{038} Putting The Screws On		In the Freezer Lower Floor in the back of the freezer to the left of the upgrade machine. The ice around the door must be melted to gain access.

Smuggler's Hideout

Smuggler's Hideout is the fourth level of BioShock. 3 audio diaries are available. {039 - 041}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{039} Meeting with Fontaine		In the Storage Cave against a pile of crates.
{040} Kraut Scientist		In a storage cell behind a locked gate down the path after the control room.
{041} Offered A Deal		On the bridge towards Arcadia.

Arcadia

Arcadia is the fifth level of BioShock. 17 audio diaries are available. {042 - 057 , 66}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{042} Seeing Ghosts		In on the ground in the Tea Garden.
{043} Big Night Out		On the ground next to a bench in the Tea Garden where two ghosts can be seen.
{044} Mass Producing ADAM		In the Tea Garden across the room from the ghost bench.
{045} Arcadia Closed		On a table next to a Gene Bank in the upper maintenance area of the Tea Garden.
{046} Shouldn't Have Come		On a rock just past the rocket turret near the stairs between Upper and Lower Rolling Hills.
{047} The Saturnine		At the entrance to a cave that appears in Lower Rolling Hills after the trees are killed. The diary spawns as you leave.
{048} The Market Is Patient		On a bench just inside the entrance to Waterfall Grotto.
{049} Heroes and Criminals		In a locked maintenance room, which can be opened using Electro Bolt, in Waterfall Grotto.
{050} Early Tests Promising		On a create near the water wheel in the flooded area of Waterfall Grotto.
{051} Offer A Better Product		Next to a body in the flooded area of Waterfall Grotto.
{052} What Won't They Steal?		On the floor just inside the entrance to Research Laboratories.
{053} Teaching An Old Hound		On a table in Research Laboratories.
{054} The Lazarus Vector		In the inventory of Langford's corpse in her office.
{055} Lazarus Vector Formula		In the wall safe in Langford's Office.
{056} Arcadia And Oxygen		Next to a create at the entrance to the Tree Farm.
{057} Maternal Instinct		On the ground at the top of the steps leading towards the Farmer's Market.
{066} The Great Chain		On a bench in the Arcadia Metro Station. This Audio Diary can only be found after returning from the Farmer's Market and lifting the lock-down.

Farmer's Market

Farmer's Market is the sixth area in BioShock. 8 audio diaries are available. {058 - 065}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{058} Bee Enzyme		In the room that the airlock from Arcadia opens into, and lies next to the pneumo.
{059} Pulling Together		In the first area of the Farmer's Market on the counter of Paddon Meats.
{060} First Encounter		in the back room of the lower Market. NOTE: Due to a bug, it may be listed under "Neptune's Bounty—Smuggler's Hideout" in the in-game list.
{061} Hatred		On a table in the flooded area of the back room of the lower Market.
{062} Desperate Times		In a freezer crawlspace behind a counter in the upper corner of the market.
{063} Water in Wine		On the ground in front of the tunnel leading to Winery and Apiary.
{064} Functional Children		On a table in the northeastern corner of the Winery.
{065} Adam Explained		On the counter in the Apiary.

Fort Frolic

Fort Frolic is the seventh level of BioShock. 15 audio diaries are available. {067 - 081}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{067} Stood Up Again		At the top of the main staircase in the Upper Atrium.
{068} Musical Insult		In the Projection Room of Fleet Hall.
{069} Come To The Record Store		Between the Lower Atrium and the Cocktail Lounge, sitting on a table outside of the restrooms and next to the burning chairs.
{070} The Wild Bunny		Behind a plastered corpse in the backroom of a shop between the Lower Atrium and the Cocktail Lounge.
{071} Artist's Feud		On the bar of the Cocktail Lounge.
{072} Fancy Cigarettes		In-front of a corpse in the downstairs area of Le Marquis D'Epogue.
{073} The Doubters		On a small table in Cohen's Collection in the Upper Atrium.
{074} The Iceman Cometh		Frozen to the wall in the Frozen Tunnel.
{075} Fontaine's Army		Sitting in a crate next to the stairs in the lower level of Sir Prize.
{076} Guns Blazing		In Robertson's Tobaccoria, which is in the lower level of Poseidon's Plaza between Sinclair Spirits and Eve's Garden.
{077} It's All Grift		Spawns on the bar of Eve's Garden after entering the back room.
{078} Pregnancy		Under the bed in the back room of Eve's Garden.
{079} Ryan's Stableboy		Behind the counter of Rapture Records.
{080} Bump Culpepper?		On a pool table in the upper level of Pharaoh's Fortune.
{081} Requiem For Andrew Ryan		On a table in the Fleet Hall Projection Room after finishing Cohen's masterpiece.

Hephaestus

Hephaestus is the eighth level of BioShock. 17 audio diaries are available. {082 - 098}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{082} Ryan Takes F Futuristics		In a crate beside the second Circus of Values.
{083} Scoping The Gate		On the floor between a Circus of Values and Vita-Chamber, in the room before reaching Central Control.
{084} Stopping Ryan		In the inventory of the corpse on the first right column in Central Control.
{085} Going To Heat Loss		In the inventory of the corpse on the third right column in Central Control.
{086} A Man Or A Parasite		On a desk in the room on the right in Central Control.
{087} Fontaine's Legacy		At the end of the upper level, just above the security camera, in the Core.
{088} Running Short On R-34s		On an overturned cabinet under the security camera in the Core.
{089} Assassin		Next to the Gatherer's Garden in the Core.
{090} Impossible Anywhere Else		On a desk in the bottom walkway of the Core.
{091} Kyburz Door Code		On the floor in the corner of Upper Heat Loss Monitoring .
{092} Genetic Arms Race		On a desk in the flooded area of Lower Heat Loss Monitoring.
{093} Getting A Break		On the desk near the Gene Tonic in Lower Heat Loss Monitoring.
{094} Device Almost Finished		On a desk next to a Gene Bank in a small room across from Kyburz's Office.
{095} Market Maintenance Code		Next to the entrance to Kyburz's Office is a small access door to a crawlspace that leads under the stairs. Audio Diary {095} is under the base of the stairs leading down to Kyburz's Office and Lower Workshops.
{096} Great Chain Moves Slowly		On the desk in Kyburz's Office.
{097} The Dream		In the inventory of a body in the Lower Workshops.
{098} Assembling The Bomb		On a table across from the bomb in the secret room of the Lower Workshops.

Rapture Central Control

Rapture Central Control is the ninth level of BioShock. 3 audio diaries are available. {099 - 101}

NOTE: These will not be accessible after passing them, and can be permanent missed. Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{099} The Vita Chamber		On a table in the corner of the Control Room.
{100} Mind Control Test		On a table in the room after crawling through the vent.
{101} Baby Status		Next to {100} on a table in the room after crawling through the vent.

Olympus Heights

Olympus Heights is the tenth level of BioShock. 6 audio diaries are available. {102 - 107}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{102} Mozart of Genetics		On the bar in Bistro Square near the Gatherer's Garden.
{103} Fontaine's Human Jukebox		In the room to the left after entering Suchong's Apartment in Mercury Suites.
{104} Mind Control Antidote		On a desk in the flooded laboratory area of Suchong's Apartment in Mercury Suites.
{105} Artist Woman		In the entrance hallway of Culpepper's Apartment in Mercury Suites.
{106} Fontaine's Breakup		On a crate on the highest accessible level of in Mercury Suites.
{107} Sad Saps		On a table in the room to the right in Fontaine's Apartment in Mercury Suites.

Apollo Square

Apollo Square is the eleventh level of BioShock. 6 audio diaries are available. {108 - 113}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{108} What's Happening Here?		On the ground by the entrance to Apollo Square from Olympus Heights.
{109} Atlas Lives		Next to the Gatherer's Garden.
{110} Protection Bond		On the ground next to the drilled body in Suchong's clinic in Artemis Second Floor.
{111} Meeting Atlas		In a steamer trunk to the right just inside Hestia Chambers (Fontaine's Center For the Poor).
{112} The Longest Con		On a desk on the Hestia Fourth Floor.
{113} Today's Raid		In the inventory of a corpse on a table on the Hestia Fourth Floor.

Point Prometheus

Point Prometheus is the twelfth level of BioShock. 9 audio diaries are available. {114 - 122}

NOTE: Audio diaries are numbered in order of availability.

Audio Diaries	-------------------------Location------------------------	----------------Notes--------------
{114} Why Just Girls?		On on a desk in the upper balcony area of Little Wonders.
{115} Changing Employers		In a trashcan in a small storage room to the right of the entrance to Optimized Eugenics. The door is blocked by ice that must be melted.
{116} Marketing Gold		On top of a machine in the Test Subject Storage area of Optimized Eugenics.
{117} Extra Munitions		On the ground near the RPG Turret in the Plasmid Prototyping area of Optimized Eugenics.
{118} Protecting Little Ones		On top of a filing cabinet in the east room of Suit Assembly Upper Floor in Failsafe Armored Escorts.
{119} Mistakes		On top of a machine next to the Gene Bank in Suit Assembly Upper Floor.
{120} Protector Smell		On top of a machine in the west room of Suit Assembly Upper Floor.
{121} Missing Boots		On a desk in the back of the Candidate Conversion area in Failsafe Armored Escorts.
{122} Cheap ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥		On a table next to a Circus of Values in a sealed room in the back of Failsafe Armored Escorts. The door is blocked by ice that must be melted.

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Great companion while playing through the game for the first time in many years. I wanted to immerse myself in Rapture again and get every single audio log, so it was awesome to see this being one of the top rated guides for the remaster.

[nativecoruscant]

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[3n1gma]

Best guide I've ever seen for this achievement, but is there a way to see all the audio diaries you've already collected from a past game via new game plus?

[Amogitymogus]

Thank you so much for this guide, I appreciate you. I went back in my New Games Plus playthrough and decided to get the missing ones (I had maybe 10 missing). Unfortunately, I missed two in Welcome to Rapture. Can I make a New Games Plus mode of my New Games Plus to get the other two or do I have to start a new game...?