Collectable Items in San Esperito

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This article is about all the collectable items a.k.a. collect missions in Just Cause (1). For any other collectable items, see Collectable Items - disambiguation.

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Description

There are about 15 different sets of collectable items in San Esperito. You can keep track of them on the PDA.

Obtaining a new one will start a "collect mission". This is not like a usual mission, so you can still save the game and do other missions before finishing. See also: Types of missions in Just Cause.

Purpose

Each successful mission will give you a different number of progress points with either the Guerrillas, or the Rioja Cartel. This will improve your rank in their armies and unlock new safehouses and different vehicles at your safehouses.

Finding them

Finding them is easy, because they're all marked on the map as blue dots.

All the different types of items look completely different: wooden crates; briefcases; realistic aircraft black boxes (link to wikipedia) and more.

List

Salt refinery... yeah right

Collectable Mission	Salt refinery... yeah right
Faction	Rioja Cartel.
Item Location	The salt refinery is located on a separate island at the northern end of San Esperito. You will get a low level of government Heat for crossing the bridge, but there's no law enforcement on the island. See the video at the bottom of the page.
Item Description	Wooden crates.
# of Items	10.
Mission Start Info	The Montanos have stashed ten packages of pharmacy-grade coca in the salt refinery next to the El Grande prison. Find them all.
Mission End Info	None, other than any faction promotion that the points give.
Points per Item	None.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

Staying power

Collectable Mission	Staying power
Faction	Rioja Cartel.
Item Location	At the El Volcan.
Item Description	Small colorful boxes.
# of Items	5.
Mission Start Info	It seems the volcanic prostitutes feed their customers with something more than just love. To topple this regime you must first steal the governmental "staying power", the potency-drug known as Niagara.
Mission End Info	The government power is already shrinking alarmingly.
Points per Item	None.
Points For Mission Completion	30.

Red Eyes

Collectable Mission	Red Eyes
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Esperito City.
Item Description	Small colorful boxes.
# of Items	10.
Mission Start Info	The Agency has dropped ten units of infrared surveillance equipment over San Esperito City.
Mission End Info	?
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

I've got the blueprints, man

Collectable Mission	I've got the blueprints, man
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Rioja 04 "Eagles Nest" safehouse. El Volcan. CASINO. Giant statue of Salvador Mendoza in Provincia Mendoza City.
Item Description	A blue rolled up sheet of paper.
# of Items	4.
Mission Start Info	A Company courier has lost four sets of blueprints for a new type of covert combat vehicle. Find them all.
Mission End Info	None.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

Rico the beachcomber

Collectable Mission	Rico the beachcomber
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Beaches on the north-eastern provinces of San Esperito.
Item Description	Cases with rifle scopes in them.
# of Items	10.
Mission Start Info	A guerrilla plane has dropped ten boxes of tactical rifle scopes into the ocean. They have been washed up on the beaches of the Isabella islands. Find them all.
Mission End Info	None.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	100.

Back-door action

Collectable Mission	Back-door action
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Santa Isabella
Item Description	Briefcases.
# of Items	5.
Mission Start Info	Help the Guerrillas find five supply briefcases that were recently stolen by some local gangsters. The briefcase are spread out among the markets of Santa Isabella.
Mission End Info	Your rank with the Guerrillas is slightly elevated.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	70.

Black is black, I want my intel back

Collectable Mission	Black is black, I want my intel back
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	In the middle of jungles, mostly near crashed Huerta SPA Ocelots.
Item Description	These look like real aircraft "black boxes" (data recorders). Reddish flat box 3" x 7" x 12", spinning on its long thin edge.
# of Items	10.
Mission Start Info	Ten Agency operatives are MIA in San Esperito. They have left their "black box" digital recording devices behind. The Agency wants the intel back.
Mission End Info	?
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

We have ways of making you talk

Collectable Mission	We have ways of making you talk
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Paradiso Bay.
Item Description	Small colorful boxes.
# of Items	5.
Mission Start Info	Five boxes of state-of-the-art interrogation drugs have been stolen from a company safehouse. They are now spread out all over Paradiso bay. Find all five boxes.
Mission End Info	None.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

The Cleavage

Collectable Mission	The Cleavage
Faction	Rioja Cartel.
Item Location	On and between the two peaks of Mount Talano and Mount Gabriel in Durango
Item Description	Crates of coca.
# of Items	8.
Mission Start Info	A small plane loaded with coca has been shot down in the cleavage between Mount Teleno and Mount Gabriel. Find all 8 crates of coca to elevate in rank with the Riojas.
Mission End Info	Your time spent in The Cleavage should be reward enough.
Points per Item	30. After collecting all of them, you are promoted (along with unlocking a new safehouse), presuming you extract to the "Eagle's Nest" safehouse directly after unlocking it.
Points For Mission Completion	None.

Slippery when wet

Collectable Mission	Slippery when wet
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	Rivers, mostly directly under or near bridges.
Item Description	Circuitry crates.
# of Items	10.
Mission Start Info	The Agency is smuggling some sensitive circuitry into San Esperito. Some of the cargo was dumped into the ocean. Retrieve the circuitry before it is damaged by the water.
Mission End Info	None.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

I want a super-potent weapon

Collectable Mission	I want a super-potent weapon
Faction	Guerrillas.
Item Location	A factory in Provincia de San Mateo. Mendoza International Airport ?
Item Description	Blueprints. For a new generation of Adler FF M-72.
# of Items	3.
Mission Start Info	?
Mission End Info	?
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

New kind of kick

Collectable Mission	New kind of kick
Faction	Rioja Cartel.
Item Location	Caballeros.
Item Description	Some blueprints hovering in the air.
# of Items	5
Mission Start Info	Some local hoodlums are spreading a new chemical party in the barrios around Caballeros. Locate five samples of the drug.
Mission End Info	None.
Points per Item	None.
Points For Mission Completion	50.

White beaches

Collectable Mission	White beaches
Faction	Rioja Cartel.
Item Location	On the beaches of the island at whose heart is El Volcan.
Item Description	Cubical crates of coca.
# of Items	15.
Mission Start Info	The Riojas have been forced to dump a cargo of coca. The shipment has now been washed up on the shores surrounding the volcano.
Mission End Info	Points reward, Rioja promotion if applicable.
Points per Item	10.
Points For Mission Completion	100.