I’ve been grinding Nightingale collectibles nonstop since the 2026 Fae Wilds update dropped earlier this year, and one question I see pop up in every community forum and Discord thread at least once a day is how many pages in Nightingale players actually need to collect to hit 100% codex completion. A lot of older guides floating around online are still referencing the 2024 launch count, but the game has had three massive content drops so far in 2026, adding dozens of new pages, lore entries, and hidden collectibles across all realm types. If you’re chasing that full completion badge or the exclusive Lore Walker skin that comes with it, you’ll want to get the updated 2026 count before you start your run.
How Many Pages in Nightingale Are Available in 2026?
As of the June 2026 Sunken Fae content update, there are a total of 187 collectible codex pages in Nightingale, split across five core categories. That’s 47 more pages than were available at launch, with another 12 confirmed to drop in the final 2026 winter update coming in November. It’s easy to miss a big chunk of these pages if you only stick to the main story quest line, too: 62 of the total pages are only unlockable through side quests, creature scans, or hidden lore stashes you’ll find scattered across remote realm locations. I missed 19 of these on my first full playthrough earlier this year, mostly because I skipped the low-level forest realm side quests to rush to the higher difficulty desert and frost realms.
The count also doesn’t include temporary event pages that drop during limited time 2026 events like the Spring Fae Festival or the Halloween Haunted Realm event. Those pages are only available for 2-3 weeks at a time, and they don’t count towards the permanent 100% completion badge, though they do come with their own small rewards like exclusive base decor or temporary buff potions. If you’re a completionist who wants every page ever added, you’ll want to keep an eye on event announcements so you don’t miss those limited time drops.
Key Page Categories You Need to Unlock First
Not all Nightingale pages are created equal, and some will give you way more in-game benefits than others if you unlock them early in your playthrough. I usually recommend prioritizing pages that give you crafting blueprints or creature damage weakness hints first, since those make progressing through higher difficulty realms way less frustrating, before you start chasing the pure lore pages that only give you story context. The five core categories are:
It’s worth noting that the winter 2026 update will add 8 new lore pages, 2 new creature pages, and 2 new crafting pages to the total count. You can check which new pages are coming in the final 2026 content drop on the official 2026 Nightingale content roadmap to plan your collection ahead of time, so you don’t have to backtrack too much once the update goes live.
Common Mistakes That Stop You From Unlocking All Pages
After helping three different friend groups hit full codex completion this year, I’ve noticed a handful of common mistakes that almost every player makes when they first start collecting pages. Most of these are easy to avoid if you know what to look for, and they’ll save you hours of backtracking later on.
Skimping on side quests in low-level starting realms is the biggest one I see. A lot of players rush through the first forest realm as soon as they unlock the ability to travel to higher difficulty realms, but 17 of the total lore and crafting pages are only available from side quests in that starting forest. You can go back later, but the quests are way easier to complete when your level matches the realm difficulty, so you might as well knock them out first.
Only scanning each creature type once is another common error. A lot of players don’t realize you need to scan most hostile creatures three times to unlock their full codex page, and some rarer creatures have seasonal or biome-specific variants that count as separate entries. For example, the Fae Wolf has a standard forest variant, a frost variant, and a sunken swamp variant added in the 2026 summer update, and you need to scan all three to get the full creature page count.
Forgetting to check your base camp mailbox also trips up a ton of players. When you raise your friendship level with an NPC, they’ll often send you exclusive profile pages or lore pages as gifts through your in-game mailbox, and a lot of players never check it after their first few hours of play. I had 7 pages sitting in my mailbox for three weeks earlier this year before I realized I even had one, and that was the difference between me hitting 100% completion that weekend and waiting another month to find those pages.
Quick Tips to Track Your Page Collection Progress
Tracking your page collection doesn’t have to be a messy, frustrating process, and there are a few tricks I use to cut down on the time I spend searching for missing entries. These tips helped me cut my total collection time from 27 hours on my first playthrough to just 11 hours on my most recent alt account run.
Use the in-game codex filter to sort missing pages by realm type first. The codex menu has a hidden filter option you can toggle by clicking the small funnel icon in the top right corner, which lets you see exactly which pages are available in each biome. That way you don’t waste time jumping between frost and desert realms looking for missing pages, you can knock out all pages for one biome at a time.
Toggle the Aether Lens collectible filter in your settings menu to highlight uncollected page triggers when you’re exploring. This filter makes any hidden lore stash, un-scanned creature, or side quest that rewards a page glow bright gold when you’re within 100 meters of it, so you don’t walk right past hidden pages you haven’t collected yet. I didn’t even know this setting existed until a month ago, and it helped me find 12 missing pages in one afternoon of exploring the sunken swamp realm.
Join a collection-focused co-op group if you want to speed up the process even more. Most codex pages are shareable, which means if your group member unlocks a page by interacting with a lore stash or scanning a creature, you’ll get the same page added to your codex as long as you’re within 100 meters of them when they do it. I joined a random group from the official Nightingale Discord a few months back, and we knocked out 34 missing pages between us in just two hours of running through the desert realm.
At the end of the day, figuring out how many pages in Nightingale you need to collect is only the first step to hitting full codex completion in 2026. If you prioritize the high-value pages first, avoid the common mistakes most players make, and use the built-in tracking tools to your advantage, you can hit 100% completion in less than 15 hours of focused play, and unlock all the exclusive rewards that come with it. Don’t rush through the process, either: the lore pages are full of small, fun details about the world of Nightingale that make the game feel way more immersive, so take the time to read them as you collect.
