Chapter 1-2 Archives: All gold medals, untriggered random events, early completed challenges and collectibles
Ver 4.1 adds all of the stealable hats and letters from Chapter 2, as well as those items that were cut from the game. The "brush job" is complete. With all cigarette cards, 19/20 dream catchers, 9/10 stone carvings, and 28/30 dinosaur bones (using the puma carcass to avoid snipers, Arthur can complete the mission). The Gambler and Herbalist challenges have been completed (again, legally completed, without using a mod or save editor), and all (-1) random events can still be triggered.
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Ver 4.1 adds all of the stealable hats and letters from Chapter 2, as well as those items that were cut from the game. The "brush job" is complete. With all cigarette cards, 19/20 dream catchers, 9/10 stone carvings, and 28/30 dinosaur bones (using the puma carcass to avoid snipers, Arthur can complete the mission). The Gambler and Herbalist challenges have been completed (again, legally completed, without using a mod or save editor), and all (-1) random events can still be triggered.
Chapter 1-2 Archives: All gold medals, untriggered random events, early completed challenges and collectibles
🎮 **Welcome to this beautifully crafted collection of Red Dead Redemption 2 archives! ** The goal of this archive is to get you out of the tedious "grinding" early in the game, while retaining all of the surprising random events in the open world.
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✨ Archive core features
- **📦 Massive collections have been completed**
- All cigarette cards
- 19/20 dream catchers (only one left on the south side of Ilesia Pool)
- 9/10 stone carvings (only one left on the east side of the Elisia Pool)
- **Major Update to Version 4.1**: 28/30 dinosaur bone locations have been collected, including all of New Austin! This is accomplished by carrying a cougar carcass while evading snipers (no mod or save editor required), meaning you can complete this mission as Arthur. The two bones north of Elesia Pool and near Van Horn have been intentionally left open so that you still have a chance of getting a Quartz Block.
- **All of these collections have been completed in the Chapter 2 "Second Journey East" archive (SRDR30002). **
- **🌍 A nearly complete world of random events**
- Avoided all random and fixed Stranger Things like the plague (except for the one when Javier was forced to find you when rescuing Bill).
- Broken arms etc. in the Lackai and Lagras areas still exist, even though I have harvested the exotic flowers there for the Master Herb Challenge.
- The goal is for you to take over and still experience the vibrant open world that makes up half the fun of the game.
- *(Note: It is not certain whether random events seen or heard in the distance (such as the Night Walker or the Murphreys' trap) count as "triggers" and affect their subsequent appearance. If you have information, please let me know!) *
- **🏆 Early completion challenges**
- **Herb Master Challenge**: Completed in the "Second Journey East" save.
- **Gambler's Challenge**: Completed after completing at least 2 main quests and Half a Stranger quest, specifically in the **"The Smell of Powder" quest (SRDR300006)** in the archive.
- **🎩Added items and deleted content**
- Added all stolen hats that are immediately available early in the game, as well as all files obtained from robbing strangers.
- Added hats and files that were cut from the game using the save editor. Some of them can be read, others (like the family daguerreotype) only appear in your backpack.
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💰 Economy and Progress
- **No huge amount of cash left for you**, only a reasonable amount that matches the current game progress. Because at the beginning of Chapter 2, you will immediately get $3000 worth of gold bars (1 in the Burnt Town, 2 in the Ambarino Train Wreck, and 3 in the Statue Cave), so there is no need for additional wealth at all.
- Contains the last mission save of Chapter 1, because in order to trigger Dutch's request for a pipe, it seems that it must be saved/loaded at the beginning of Chapter 2, when he starts smoking a cigar in front of the tent.
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🎯 An experience specially reserved for you
- **Pronghorn Trinket**: Not added yet. Plan on adding it in Chapter 3 as it would be silly not to get it until the end.
- **The Last Dream Catcher**: The one near the Elisia Pool was left intentionally so that you can witness for yourself what happens.
- **The last stone carving**: Appears after talking to Francis Sinclair and starting "Introduction to Geology", right next to the Elysia Pool. T …
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