There are 47 files to find in Resident Evil Village, and we’ve found the locations for each and every one of them, so you don’t miss a single collectible. Below, you’ll find the exact locations for each file, chapter-by-chapter, ensuring that you won’t miss a single one during your playthrough.
We’ve got descriptions of the locations, along with a visual guide placed on the map and in front of you so that you quite literally can’t miss the treasures that await you. Whether you want the achievement or the lore, we’ve got you covered so you can have both.
Resident Evil Village: All Goats of Warding Locations
Here’s a full list of locations for all 20 Goats of Warding in Resident Evil Village so you can easily get to 100% completion.
This guide lists all files in the order in which you can find them, chapter-by-chapter, so that you won’t miss out on any.
All Files in the Prologue (Resident Evil Village)
File #1 – Fridge Memo
The first memo can be found on the fridge in the kitchen, which can be viewed while holding Rose.
File #2 – Old News Clipping
Head upstairs and take a left into a dusty room, where you’ll find newspaper clippings that contains your second file.
File #3 – Ethan’s Diary
After you’ve put Rose to bed, look opposite her crib to find an office, where you can interact with Ethan’s laptop for the next diary.
File #4 – Medical Checkup Report
In Ethan’s office, look at the drawers to the right of the laptop and open them to reveal the next file.
File #5 – Mission Briefing
After a cutscene where you wake up in the snow, look at the crashed vehicle and interact with the file on the floor.
All Files in the Village #1 (Resident Evil Village)
File #6 – Scribbled Note
After the lycan attack, follow the old woman until your objective becomes “Look for Rose”. Now, to the left of the Maiden of War statue, you can find a building adorned with candles, and inside, is this file.
File #7 – Goat of Warding Placard
In the Graveyard, look towards the Church where you can find a podium that houses a Goat of Warding. Below the Goat statue, you can find a Placard that holds the file.
File #8 – Dangerous Creatures
After unlocking Luiza’s House, east of Fallow Plot, head inside and look to the chair on the right before following Luzia deeper into the house. On this chair is a file.
All Files in Castle Dimitrescu (Resident Evil Village)
File #9 – Guest Book
As you first enter Castle Dimitrescu past the Carriage Gate, you will be within the Entrance Hall. You can find this file by a lit table to the northwest wall.
File #10 – The Labyrinths
From the Hall of the Four, enter the Merchant’s Room in the south, where you can find this file sitting on a small table by the Labyrinth Puzzle.
File #11 – Winemaking History
After crossing through the Main Hall, you can enter upstairs to go north into the Wine Room. On the central table, you can find this file.
File #12 – A Maid’s Diary
After you drop down into the Basement of Castle Dimitrescu, you can find this file on the middle shelf of the serving tray, just before you enter deeper into the bloodied waters and prisons.
File #13 – Treatment Candidates
Continue through the Basement past the Hall of War, where, in front of the room in the east, with a bunch of medical equipment and pills, you can find a metal tray that continues this file.
File #14 – Observation Report
Enter the prison cell area of the Basement. In the center of the room, head into the east cell, where you can find this file on a table.
File #15 – A Cook’s Diary
In the Kitchen, after your boss encounter with one of Lady Dimitrescu’s Daughters, you can look to the wooden shelf on the southeast side to find this file.
File #16 – Alcina Dimitrescu’s Diary
Continue progressing through the castle until you can reach 2F, where you’re allowed to climb through the window into Dimitrescu’s Chambers. Inside this room, sitting on a couch, is the file.
File #17 – Grand Chambermaid’s Notice
Between the Library and the Opera Hall on 2F, you can find a set of drawers that contains this file.
File #18 – Further Observations
Inside 2F, head to the southeast corridor that leads to the Opera Hall, where you will find yet another file located on a desk with a lamp.
File #19 – Insect Observations Journal
Now, inside the main Opera Hall on 1F, stand in the center of the room, facing the piano southwest, where you can find this file on a round table with some seats.
File #20 – Rumors of a Dagger
Progress through Castle Dimitrescu, where you will then reach the Attic. Head south, but just before the second room, through to the Rooftop, grab the file that’s on a green cloth on a wooden table.
All Files in the Village #2 (Resident Evil Village)
File #21 – Craftsman’s Note
After you escape from Castle Dimitrescu, you’ll find a small cabin with a Typewriter. To the right of the Typewriter on the table, is the file.
File #22 – Leonardo’s Message
As you make it back into the Village, head east of the Maiden of War statue and enter the building here, which contains the file on a kitchen table.
File #23 – Note on the Luthier’s House
Progress through the Village, where on the south road from the Maiden of War, you can find a locked building with a wooden guitar symbol in the door, and a note to the left of the door.
File #24 – Eugen’s Diary
Through the blocked tractor, and past the garden with the chickens, you can find just another house in the south area by the Maiden of War statue, which contains a file on the table by the treasure box.
File #25 – Church Computer
Within the Graveyard of the Village, head into the Church where you can now find a laptop when facing the northeast wall.
All Files in the Village #3 / After House Beneviento (Resident Evil Village)
File #26 – Gardener’s Diary
After leaving House Beneviento, head into the north house within the Garden. By the west wall, you can find an open book on a table, which is your file.
File #25 – Vasile’s Final Testament
Use the Four-Winged Unborn Key to open the gate from the Altar into East Old Town, where in the first building, you’ll find a corpse containing this file.
All Files in Monreau’s Reservoir (Resident Evil Village)
File #28 – The Reservoir and Giant Fish
Inside the boathouse, which is opposite the boat you need to use the Boat Key on, you can find a table that contains this file. Beware the lycan inside!
File #29 – Changing the Cranks
On your way to the first windmill after a cutscene with Chris, you will find a truck just before the windmill itself. On the seat of the truck is the next file.
File #30 – Moreau’s Diary
After you have drained the water with the sluice gate puzzle, navigate through to the next area where you can enter a small shack. There is a drawer you can open in this shack that contains this file.
File #31 – Moreau’s Diary 2
After you have defeated Moreau, continue on the path where you can enter his room with the TV showing static. The file is found on a stool just in front of the TV.
File #32 – Moreau’s Diary of Experiments
With the Crank acquired through the story, head back through the elevator that takes you to the surface, where, opposite, you’ll find Moreau’s Laboratory, which is opened with the Crank. Head inside, and you can head into the rightmost house through the hole in the back wall, to find this file on the table.
All Files in the Village #4 (Resident Evil Village)
File #33 – Analysis Results
With the Crank acquired, head west of the Altar towards the Lone Road in the Village. Down the stairs, you can use the Crank on a bridge to access a boat. Now, take the boat south, where you can find a small cave, and inside is a computer containing this file.
File #34 – Ernest’s Diary
Follow towards Heisenberg’s signs that direct you northeast of the Graveyard in the Village, but instead of going forward into the Stronghold, take a left to reach Otto’s Mill. Inside, shoot the 3 locks on the red door past the giant, and find this file on a table in the meat room.
All Files in the Stronghold (Resident Evil Village)
File #35 – Officer’s Diary
After navigating through the Stronghold, you can venture down a spiral staircase. At the end of the staircase is a hole in the wall that you need to shimmy through, and after, you’ll find a scrap of paper on the floor to the east wall.
File #36 – Experiment Notes
After the boss fight in the Stronghold area, you will come into a room with a boat. You will need to take the boat west through the Forbidden Woods, where you’ll be able to dock it. Continue on the path, but take a left instead of going up the ladder, and at the end of this room, you’ll see the file on a desk.
All Files in Heisenberg’s Factory (Resident Evil Village)
File #37 – Development Note 1
Progress through Heisenberg’s Factory, where you will eventually come into MB4 and get the Cog Mold. On the same table as the Cog Mold, you can find this file.
File #38 – Development Note 2
After you have deactivated the grinder in the Grinder Shaft, you can climb up the ladder to enter into an office. Inside, by the south wall, is a table that contains this file.
File #39 – Sturm
Once you have acquired Heisenberg’s Key as part of the story, return to B1 and use the key to open the locked door with a horse crest. Inside the north room, there is another file.
File #40 – Heisenberg’s Diary
After defeating the boss fight in the large open room in B1, enter the next room to reach the Control Room. Inside, when facing the north wall, you can find this file.
File #41 – Chris’s Computer
Continue through the Control Room, where you will reach a cutscene with Chris. When the cutscene ends, look at the computer in the Scrapheap, before entering the vehicle, and you will collect this file.
For the final files listed below, it’s important that you get them all within the same room before shooting the lock on the door.
All Files in the Finale (Resident Evil Village)
File #42 – Moreau’s Medical Report
After finding the Megamycete Cave and venturing forward into the building, you can find this book on the first table. You will need to inspect the book and examine the pages to open it.
File #43 – Dimitrescu’s Medical Report
After finding the Megamycete Cave and venturing forward into the building, you can find this book on the first table. You will need to inspect the book and examine the pages to open it.
File #44 – Heisenberg’s Medical Report
After finding the Megamycete Cave and venturing forward into the building, you can find this book on the first table. You will need to inspect the book and examine the pages to open it.
File #45 – Donna’s Medical Report
After finding the Megamycete Cave and venturing forward into the building, you can find this book on the first table. You will need to inspect the book and examine the pages to open it.
File #46 – Spencer’s Letter
Continue forward into the room, and you’ll find a table with 2 pictures and a file between them.
File #47 – Miranda’s Diary
Head around the room to the back of the big table, where you can find 3 photos and a file.
- Released
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May 7, 2021
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
