Side objectives exist within every major mission of Dishonored, The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches. Corvo Attano and Daud must locate them within the main mission in order for them to be listed in his journal.
List of Side Objectives by Mission: Dishonored[]
Returning Home[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Hide and Seek |
Play Hide and Seek with Emily Kaldwin before going to see the Empress. | Leaning and stealth-mode tutorial. |
Dishonored[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Jelly's Share |
Open Jelly's safe. The combination is behind the whiskey bottles. | Sokolov's elixir and Moray Jewel Box (50 coins) |
Hermit Hovel |
In the final part of the sewers that contain guards, there is a hermit's hovel behind the wooden barrier. | Coin and a note. |
Sunken Treasure |
After going out of the sewers, Corvo can dive in the water to discover a chest. | Moray War Medal and Hemlock Essence (70 coins) |
High Overseer Campbell[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
The Rune | Use the Heart to seek out the rune hidden at the Hound Pits Pub. | Rune |
Granny Rags | Visit Granny Rags in her apartment. | Access to the "Gentlemen Callers" side objective and rewards. |
Gentlemen Callers |
After Corvo enters Granny Rags' residence and interacts with her for the first time, three members of the Bottle Street Gang arrive to extract "payment" from her. Granny Rags asks Corvo to deal with her "gentleman callers." When the thugs are dispatched, Granny Rags will ask Corvo to strike back at the gang by contaminating their bootleg elixir still with a plague rat viscera, which can be found at the Offices of Dr. Galvani. |
Rune Rune |
Rescue Griff | Rescue Griff from two Bottle Street Gang members who trapped him in a store. | Enables Griff to sell supplies and blueprints to Corvo. |
Spare Captain Curnow |
Thaddeus Campbell plans to murder Curnow by giving him a poisoned glass of wine. Corvo can decide to poison both glasses, switch them or break both. If Corvo alerts Curnow, he must render the Captain unconscious. He must then take Curnow to a 'safe place': a dumpster outside the Office's main entrance. |
100 coins, the Bodyguard achievement, and Callista's admiration. |
Protect Elsa and Berthold | In the enclosed section of the Backyard, the Overseer Berthold can be found arguing with two fellow Overseers who wish to imprison his sister Elsa for witchcraft. When Elsa insists that she is innocent, the Overseers attack the pair. Incapacitate the attackers and spare Berthold and Elsa. | Combination to the bunkhouse safe. |
House of Pleasure[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Slackjaw | Visit Slackjaw at the Dunwall Whiskey Distillery. | Access to the "Slackjaw's Missing Man, Crowley" side objective and rewards. |
Slackjaw's Missing Man, Crowley |
If Corvo Visits the Dunwall Whiskey Distillery, Slackjaw says that one of his best men, a thug named Crowley, has gone missing. Slackjaw asks Corvo to find him, and offers a reward in return. | Key to the Captain's Chair Hotel and access to House of Pleasure's nonlethal elimination. |
Save the Citizen | A woman is being accosted by two guards attempting to steal elixir from her, in an alley leading to the Golden Cat. Intervene before the guards grow impatient and kill her. | Backdoor key to Art Dealer's Apartment. |
The Royal Physician[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Help the Scavenger |
A Bottle Street thug named Alec has been jailed by the City Watch. He asks Corvo to free him in exchange for some river krust pearls he claims to have scavenged. In order to reach the location of the pearls, Corvo must help the thug past several obstacles, such as a colony of river krusts and a locked gate. |
One large and two small river krust pearls. |
Save the Survivor | A survivor is trapped on the lowest level of an abandoned factory on the north end of Kaldwin's Bridge. Kill the swarm of plague rats in the factory to free her. | Access to the lower floor, bone charm. |
Release the Captives | Near Anton Sokolov's Safehouse is an enclosure guarded by a Wall of Light, where two survivors are being held captive for use in Sokolov's experiments. If Corvo neutralizes the guards in the area and frees the two, they will give him the combination to a safe in the remains of a destroyed building. | Two gold ingots. |
Release the Test Subject | Release the woman held captive as a test subject in Anton Sokolov's Safehouse. | Lowers overall chaos. |
Lady Boyle's Last Party[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Pendleton's Note |
Prior to Corvo's departure for Boyle Mansion, Pendleton will give Corvo a letter to deliver to Montgomery Shaw. If Corvo gives Shaw the letter, he will be entered into a duel as Pendleton's representative. | Rune |
Return to the Tower[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Search for Emily |
When Corvo returns from the Boyle Mansion, Callista tells him that Emily is hiding from her. Search for Emily; the game will specify whether she is hiding in the streets behind the Hound Pits, inside the Hound Pits, or somewhere in the tower area. |
Rune |
Eliminate the Royal Interrogator | Morris Sullivan is in dungeons of Dunwall Tower with his trusty wolfhound. Take revenge and eliminate him. | Rune and shrine access |
Find Jessamine's Secret Room | The Empress maintained a secret room somewhere in Dunwall Tower. Find it. | Bone charm, audiograph, letter, Piero's Spiritual Remedy, Imperial Cigarette Case (150 coins) |
The Flooded District[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Tools of the Trade | Return to the Greaves Refinery and retrieve Corvo's equipment. | All previously held equipment and items. |
Creating a Safe Haven |
Help survivors escape eradication. |
None |
Settle the Confrontation Between Granny Rags and Slackjaw | Granny Rags has captured Slackjaw and plans to cook him in her lair in the Dunwall Sewers. Corvo can choose to either confront Granny Rags and save Slackjaw, or help her prepare him. | Rune, and 600 coins if assisting Slackjaw. |
The Loyalists[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Save Piero and Sokolov |
At the Hound Pits Pub, Corvo will find Piero Joplin and Anton Sokolov locked in Piero's Workshop, being assailed by a squadron of guards and tallboys. They have partially completed a next-generation arc pylon that can incapacitate all hostiles, but it is not yet functional. Corvo can choose to help complete and start the arc pylon, rescuing Piero and Sokolov. |
Elimination of all hostiles at the Hound Pits Pub. |
List of Side Objectives by Mission: The Knife of Dunwall[]
A Captain of Industry[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Granny's Recipe |
Follow the recipe found in a note in a hidden room. | Rune |
Put the Whale Out of Its Misery | A living, eviscerated whale can be seen suspended from the ceiling in the Rothwild Slaughterhouse. Daud can use an electrical device to kill the whale and end its suffering. | Whale eye |
Free the Captive Laborers | Daud can allow two laborers held captive in the Rothwild Slaughterhouse yard to escape by unlocking their cage and disabling the nearby wall of light. | Time Card |
Eminent Domain[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Granny's Recipe |
Follow the recipe found on a note in a hidden room. | Rune |
The Surge[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Free the Captured Assassins | Four Assassins have been captured by Overseers in the Flooded District. Deal with the Overseers and free the Assassins. | Advance the main mission |
Eliminate all six musical Overseers | None |
List of Side Objectives by Mission: The Brigmore Witches[]
The Dead Eels[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Granny's Wedding Recreation | Perform Granny Rags's wedding ceremony. | Rune |
Hat's Last Request | Unplug the whale oil tank from the Geezer's life support machines. | Code to the engine room |
Hatter Assassination | Jerome wants Skinflint, a Hatter who owes him money, dead. Find and kill him at the sewer entrance in the Millenary Canal, or lie to Jerome and receive payment anyway. | 50 coin |
Delilah's Masterwork[]
Name | Summary | Reward |
Page From an Old Book | Find three pearls hidden inside river krusts and swallow them along with water from a drinking fountain. | Rune |