Curios Tab
Inventory sub-section that stores collected notes, diaries, and maps. Essential for tracking Exquemelin journals and quest lore.
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May 23
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The Curios tab is an inventory sub section in Windrose that stores the notes, diaries, documents, and maps you collect while exploring. It is the reading room of the inventory menu: once a lore item is picked up, it is archived in Curios for permanent reference, even after the paper itself is consumed by a quest.
Open the inventory (default keybind Tab or I) and switch to the Curios sub tab. It sits alongside the main inventory, equipment, and crafting panels but has no dedicated hotkey of its own, so it is easy to overlook early on. The opening hours of the game do not point it out, which is why many players take a while to notice the tab exists at all.
Curios collects readable items from across the world. The main categories are summarised below, each with an example of where it first turns up.
Category | What It Holds | Example Source |
|---|---|---|
Journal notes | The seven Alexandre Exquemelin journal pages | Traveller's Camps in every biome |
Lore diaries | Fragments feeding the Columbus's Book of Prophecies and Supernatural Forces plotlines | Ancient Ruins, Pirate Camps, named dungeons |
Quest letters | The Letter to a Good Friend, which starts the Underground Network quest line | A Smuggler Camp chest |
Maps and sketches | The Blurry Sketch that begins Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest, plus Blackbeard Treasure Maps | Pirate Remains and Blackbeard camps |
If the game tells you that you "already have a note" when picking one up, the Curios tab is where to re read it. This clears up a common point of confusion: after the first read the game does not always pop the note open again on pickup, but the full text stays available in Curios for good. If you cannot find a specific buried treasure note or quest clue, scroll through Curios before assuming the pickup failed.
There is no built in checklist showing which Alexandre Exquemelin journals or Blackbeard Treasure Maps entries you have found. Players chasing full completion of a trail usually keep their own tally on the side. The Curios tab confirms whether a specific note has been picked up, but it does not tell you whether every note in a given trail has been collected, so a manual count is still the reliable way to track progress.
Open Curios after every Traveller's Camp or Ancient Ruins visit to confirm the note or map actually recorded.
When a quest text references an item you cannot find in your main inventory, check Curios first; most quest readables live here rather than in your bags.
Re reading a Curios note before a fast travel jump is a cheap way to refresh a dig site description or lore clue, and it never consumes the note.
Curios is shared knowledge per character, not per stack, so reading a note does not use it up the way a consumable would.
Exploration: where Curios fits in the wider exploration loop
Buried Treasure: how reading a note can trigger a dig marker
Blackbeard Treasure Maps: the Blackbeard map chain stored in Curios
Columbus's Book of Prophecies: a lore thread many Curios entries feed into
Alexandre Exquemelin: the seven part journal trail