New Player Guide: Collections and Collectibles

As you adventure and explore in The Elder Scrolls Online, you can acquire wondrous goods and items from across all of Tamriel, as well as call upon the services of stalwart allies and hired help. Many of these tools and aides are classified as Collectibles and can be accessed from your Collections menu.

Accessing and Navigating Collections

Mounts, costumes, cosmetics, and more can be found within the Collections menu. To access your Collections, press the “U” key on PC/Mac, or by opening the menu and navigating to “Collections” on console.

Types of Collections

Your Collections menu is divided into various categories. On PC, these include Collectibles, Stories, Houses, Outfit Styles, Item Sets, and Tales of Tribute Patrons, which are organized in tabs on the top of the Collections interface. On Console, these include Collections, Set Items, and Tales of Tribute Patrons.

Collectibles and Fragments

Many items within your Collections are contained in a general “Collectibles” section within the interface. Such collectibles come in many types. On PC these include Upgrades, Appearance, Furnishings, Fragments, Allies, Mementos, Tools, Mounts, Non-Combat Pets, Customized Actions, Emotes, and Special elements that don’t fit elsewhere. On console, the Collections section includes all these as well as Stories, Housing, Armor Styles, and Weapon Styles.

Upgrades

Collectibles of this type modify your account. These include new playable Classes, free access to certain Outfit Styles, upgrades used in the Infinite Archive, and more.

Appearance

The option to modify your character’s appearance directly (as opposed to modifying the appearance of their gear with Outfit Styles) is accessed here. You can also hide your character’s head-slot gear to show their face by looking under “Hats” here.

Hide your helmet in the Appearance tab

Furnishings

Some special furnishings for use in your in-game houses can be found here. Unlike normal furnishings, you can place these collectibles once in each of your in-game houses no matter how many properties you hold.

Fragments

Some Collectibles are acquired piece by piece, with your progress on the overall acquisition tracked here.

A notable type of Collectible that is gathered via Fragments are morphing Collectibles, acquired for Event Tickets from the Impresario or her assistant, Philius Dormier. More information on morphing Collectibles and these merchants can be found in this guide.

Allies

When summoning help like your battle-ready Companions or inventory-managing Assistants to help you manage your inventory, you can find them here. You can also place Allies on your Quick Slot wheel for easy access and swapping, since only one Ally can be summoned at a time.

Access the Allies Quickwheel

Mementos

Using Mementos causes your character to undergo customized animations. They have no gameplay effect, instead offering a fun diversion or visual display. You can place Mementos on their own Quick Slot wheel for easy access.

Tools

Collectibles with a unique gameplay effect are classified as tools, and can be accessed here, as well as placed onto their own Quick Slot wheel

Mounts

Once you acquire a mount, it becomes available to all your characters here. However, you must set an active mount from this menu to be able to ride.

You can also set certain mounts as Favorites and choose the option to summon a random mount or random Favorited mount. Additionally, you can rename your mounts for a personal touch.

Non-Combat Pets

You can summon non-combat pets of various types, from domesticated animals to Daedric beasts to travel by your side using the Collectibles menu. Should you wish to, you can also rename your non-combat pets from this menu as well.

Customized Actions

Certain common in-game actions, such as fast travel to a Wayshrine or gathering resources, can have their animations customized by access to Collectibles. You may set your character to use these alternate visuals here.

Emotes

All characters can perform many Emotes, such as dancing, sitting, or eating. Some Emotes are exclusive to those who hold the relevant Collectible. Once you have an Emote-granting Collectible, you can use it through the chat menu as normal. You can also use Emotes on a Quick Slot wheel for quick communication. On PC, you can do this by going to the In-Game Help menu and selecting the Emote tab at the top. You can set Emotes to your Quick Slot wheel on Console through the Social menu.

Special

Collectibles that do not fit into the other categories are found here.

Stories

In addition to the many hours of story content available in the ESO base-game, additional content can be acquired buying DLC game packs via the Crown Store, subscribing to ESO Plus™, or by purchasing access to a Chapter from the platform on which you play ESO.

You can track what additional content you’ve acquired in this category of your Collections menu. Additionally, you can accept a quest that begins the story of that content from here.

Housing

All in-game houses can be viewed in this category of your Collections menu, sorted by properties you have collected and those you do not.

For houses you have collected, you can use this menu to fast travel to their interior or exterior entrance, rename the house, or create a link to place in text chat for other players to use for access.

For houses you have not yet collected, you can travel to a preview version of the house to view it in a pre-furnished or unfurnished state.

Outfit Styles (Armor Styles & Weapon Styles)

You can customize the appearance of your character’s worn gear at an Outfit Station using Outfit Styles you have acquired as Collectibles. Outfit Styles can be acquired by learning Motifs for crafting, through Style Page items, or through certain account upgrades. While the items that provide Motifs and Outfit Styles are consumed by a single character on your account, they provide full access to the Outfit Style collectibles across all your characters (although the ability to craft items of a given motif is learned separately per character).