# A speck of dust question

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**Created:** [May 14, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/a-speck-of-dust-question/525 "2017-05-14T20:50:15Z")\
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> [@ne0n](#):
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> So I would collect specks of dust, but they don´t wouldn´t count, until the entry in the journals appears.

Actually, **all** the specks of dust that you collect, including those that you collect before they appear as a task in the journal, count towards the achievement.

But I don’t know why the task appears in the journal only after a certain point.

We talked a bit about the specks of dust in the following thread:

> [@"Useless" items in the inventory](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/useless-items-in-the-inventory/268/10):
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> I just wanted to add that the most superfluous and useless item in the entire game is the speck of dust… and I mean also in a literal way: the verb “use” doesn’t work on them. The ratio “attention paid to it by players / usefulness of it” tends towards infinity. stuck_out_tongue Since collecting specks of dust even appears in the to-do lists, I even hypothesized that they could have some hidden in-game purpose or usage, but I didn’t find any.

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