The short version
What you are collecting
There are 111 collectible objects in four groups — gemstones and mushrooms lie in the open, paintings and artefacts come out of buried trunks — plus 44 stamps that arrive attached to letters. Objects can be kept as décor, sold for Paradimes, or donated to the museum. Stamps are the only set the game formally tracks as a Collection, and they can be neither sold nor donated.
Pick a set
The five collections
Each list below is complete for the current Early Access build and carries the rarity tier and sale value of every entry.
Gemstones
Picked up in the open around town. Includes the Meteor, the single most valuable collectible in the game.
See the full listMushrooms
Foraged around town. Three will make a Para sick and one kills outright.
See the full listPaintings
Every one references a real artwork, from the Mona Lisa to The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
See the full listArtefacts
Buried trunks only. Includes a three-part map and the town's Founding Ring.
See the full listStamps
Eight themed sets delivered by post, three of them from game collaborations.
See the full listHow collecting works
The loop is short, and it is the same for every set except stamps.
- 1
Spot it or dig it up
Gemstones and mushrooms sit in the open around Melino. Paintings and artefacts are inside buried trunks, which have to be dug out first.
- 2
Decide before you sell
Anything sold is gone from the museum's counter. Check whether you have already donated a copy of that entry before cashing it in.
- 3
Donate at the museum
Donation boxes stand outside the museum entrance and inside the gift shop. Donated pieces go into the Arts & History or Nature exhibition and start filling rooms that begin a save nearly empty.
- 4
Watch the paper and your neighbours
Headlines in The New Paper can hand a Para a Life Goal built around finding or donating a collectible, and townies sometimes ask for specific ones. Both are easier to serve from a stocked inventory.
Rewards
The museum donation track
The museum pays out on how many pieces you have donated, not on what they were worth. A $30 Tin Can moves the counter exactly as far as an $800 Vermeer, which makes cheap commons the right thing to donate and expensive rares the right thing to sell. There are 110 donatable pieces in total, and the track finishes at 90 donations.
| Donations | Reward |
|---|---|
| 5 | $250 |
| 10 | Dipa (laptop) |
| 15 | Trophy |
| 20 | $500 |
| 30 | Electric Solar Panel |
| 40 | $1,500 |
| 50 | Trophy |
| 60 | Electric Wind Turbine |
| 70 | $2,000 |
| 85 | Trophy |
| 90 | Castle Miniature |
Eleven rewards are live in the current build and the wiki notes more may be added later. Stamps never count toward this track, and neither does the Meteor.
Community Center bundles want some of these too
Restoring the Community Center runs on bundles, and two categories draw on collectibles: the four Art bundles ask for paintings, and the five Food bundles can ask for mushrooms alongside cooked meals. A piece handed to a bundle is not a piece donated to the museum, so if you are working through the Community Center, hold back a few duplicates.
Three habits that cost people collectibles
Donating the expensive ones
Rewards count pieces, not value. Donate commons and sell rares — doing it the other way round is the costly habit.
Confusing buried trunks with Thursday's chests
The red chests from the weekly treasure hunt hold Build Mode furniture, not collectibles. Only the weathered buried trunks contain paintings and artefacts.
Eating what you forage
Four mushrooms in the game are unsafe, and the Destroying Angel kills a Para on the spot. Check the list before anyone snacks.
Collectibles FAQ
- How many collectibles are there in Paralives?
- 155 in the current Early Access build. 19 gemstones, 20 mushrooms, 41 paintings and 31 artefacts make up the 111 collectible objects, and a separate collection of 44 stamps arrives by post.
- Should I sell collectibles or donate them?
- Donate the cheap ones and sell the expensive ones. The museum reward track counts how many pieces you have donated and ignores their value, so a Common worth $30 advances it exactly as far as a Rare worth $800.
- Can stamps be sold or donated?
- No. Stamps are not physical objects in the game — they are tracked in the Collections tab of a Para's inventory, so there is nothing to hand over at the museum or sell at a shop.
- What is the most valuable collectible in Paralives?
- The Meteor, at $3,000. It is a gemstone but the museum will not accept it, and it does not spawn like the others: it falls somewhere in town at random, shaking the screen for about a second and posting a “Something happened in town…” notification.
- Where do paintings and artefacts spawn?
- Both come out of buried trunks scattered around Melino, which a Para digs up. They do not appear in the open the way gemstones and mushrooms do.
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Related guides
Lists cover the current Early Access build. 8 stamp sets tracked.