Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Key Items Locations Guide

Welcome to the Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Key Items locations guide that helps you unlock the total of 20 Key Items in the PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & PC action-adventure stealth game.

Getting all 20 Key Items will help unlock the following Achievement / Trophy:
* “Collector” (30 Gamerscore / Silver Trophy) — Obtain all blueprints and key items.
* Bonus: Key Items can be used to craft new equipment (similar to blueprints).

The Timeline for all these in-game Key Items is listed below.

Index of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Guides:

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Key Items

How to find missing Key Items?:
– 12 of them will come automatically over the course of the story by just beating all missions and important (yellow) Side Ops.
2 for getting S-ranks in all missions. There are 12 hard difficulty missions that unlock one key item (extreme, subsistence, total stealth missions) and 38 normal missions + prologue that unlock another.
– 2 for Fulton extracting 1000 enemies.
2 for finding all invoices / fast travel points (there are 21 of them).
– 1 for marking 500 enemies.
– 1 for finding the first aid manual collectible.

In addition to the key items you must also obtain the 27 blueprints to unlock the ‘Collector’ trophy / achievement. None of them are missable. You can check your progress anytime in the iDroid app by opening the tabs “Mother Base” – “Database” – “Documentation”.

Does the game save each Key Items you collect?: Yes, the game will automatically save the Invoices you just collected. But as always it’s of course recommended you save your game (and thus your collectibles progress) before you quit playing.

Where to get all Key Items in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain? The unlock requirements for the Key Items are described in this detailed video guide.

The Key Items are listed in the video in the order that they can be unlocked.

Timeline in minutes for the Key Items Locations Guide:

• Key Item Location #1 – Children’s Reward – Beat Mission 18 – 0:05
• Key Item Location #2 – Conch Shell – Beat Side Op 113 (After Mission 26) – 0:38
• Key Item Location #3 – Master Certificate Marking – Mark 500 Enemies – 1:18
• Key Item Location #4 – Skulls Machete – Beat Mission 29 – 1:48
• Key Item Location #5 – Strangelove’s Memento – Beat Side Op 143 – 2:16
• Key Item Location #6 – Man on Fire Corpse – Beat Side Op 144 – 3:04
• Key Item Location #7 – Quiet’s Examination Report – Watch Quiet’s Interrogation Cutscene or beat Mission 40 – 3:49
• Key Item Location #8 – Handkerchief – Beat Mission 40 – 4:04
• Key Item Location #9 – Emmerich’s Research Notes – Watch Emmerich’s Banishment Cutscene – 4:30
• Key Item Location #10 – Star of Bethlehem – Beat Mission 46 – 5:16
• Key Item Location #11 – Master Certificate Standard – Beat all Story Missions (except hard difficulty ones) – 5:37
• Key Item Location #12 – Grand Master Certificate Standard – Get S-Rank in all Story Missions (except hard difficulty ones) – 5:46
• Key Item Location #13 – The Codename: Big Boss – Beat Mission 46 – 5:54
• Key Item Location #14 – Grand Master Certificate Elite – Get S-Rank in all 12 Hard Difficulty missions – 6:06
• Key Item Location #15 – Master Certificate Elite – Beat all 12 Hard Difficulty Missions – 6:39
• Key Item Location #16 – Master Certificate Fulton – Fulton extract 500 enemies – 6:49
• Key Item Location #17 – Grand Master Certificate Fulton – Fulton extract 1,000 enemies – 6:49
• Key Item Location #18 – Master Certificate Box – Find all invoices on one map – 7:20
• Key Item Location #19 – Grand Master Certificate Box – Find all invoices on both maps – 7:44
• Key Item Location #20 – First Aid Manual – Can be picked up in Masa Village, Africa – 8:11

There you go! All Key Items in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain are yours! 🙂

Huge thanks to Powerpyx for the guide video and tips.

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