Trinket
A trinket (or shiny trinket) is a round shiny collectible item in VVVVVV. There are 20 in total in the main game, and collecting all of them will unlock the Secret Lab. Trinkets also unlock songs in the ship's jukebox.
Trinkets are usable in custom levels; before 2.3, only 20 were able to be placed at a time, with undefined behavior occurring when additional trinkets were placed. Starting with 2.3, up to 100 trinkets may be placed at a time. In custom levels, scripts can check the player's trinket count and jump to another script accordingly, thus allowing for progression based on amount of trinkets collected.
Placement
In Dimension VVVVVV, the trinkets are evenly spread out through the map, with 2 in Space Station 1, 5 in Space Station 2, 4 in The Laboratory, 1 in The Warp Zone, 2 in The Tower, 1 in The Final Level, and the rest spread out in the overworld. The overworld trinkets do not usually require much skill to acquire, most of them lying at the ends of long caves. The trinkets in each of the other zones usually do not require any backtracking to get back to the main path, but they do require a little more skill to obtain.
List of Trinkets
| ID | Room coordinates | Room name | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (14,4) | It's a Secret to Nobody | Space Station 1 |
| 2 | (13,6) | Trench Warfare | |
| 3 | (11,12) | One Way Room | Space Station 2 |
| 4 | (15,12) | You Just Keep Coming Back | |
| 5 | (14,11) | Clarion Call | |
| 6 | (18,14) | Doing Things The Hard Way | |
| 7 | (11,7) | Prize for the Reckless[note 1] | |
| 8 | (9,9) | The Tower | The Tower |
| 9 | |||
| 10 | (2,18) | Young Man, It's Worth the Challenge | The Laboratory |
| 11 | (7,18) | The Tantalizing Trinket | |
| 12 | (6,1) | Purest Unobtanium | |
| 13 | (17,3) | Edge Games | The Warp Zone |
| 14 | (10,19) | N/A | Dimension VVVVVV[note 2] |
| 15 | (5,15) | ||
| 16 | (1,10) | ||
| 17 | (3,2) | ||
| 18 | (10,8) | ||
| 19 | (2,10)[note 3] | The Ship[note 4] | |
| 20 | (54,53) | V | The Final Level |
In other languages
 | To do: Add other languages once more translations of the game are finalised. |
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan | Lluentó, lluentó brillant | Means “(shiny) spangle”. |
| Dutch | Artefact, glanzend artefact | Means “(shiny) artifact”. |
| Esperanto | Kolektaĵo, brila kolektaĵo | Means “(bright/shining) collectible”. |
| Italian | Gingillo, gingillo luccicante | - |
| Japanese | トリンケット, 光り輝くトリンケット Torinketto, Hikarikagayaku torinketto |
Used in the Nicalis Japanese localisation. |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Treco, treco brilhante | Means “(brilliant) thingy”. |
| Russian | Штучка, блестящую штучку Shtuchka, blestyashchuyu shtuchku |
Means “(shiny) bauble” or “thingy”. |
Notes
- ↑ Also known as "Imagine Spikes There, if You Like" in Time Trial mode and "I Can't Believe You Got This Far" in No Death Mode.
- ↑ Trinket 15 is considered part of The Laboratory in Time Trial mode.
- ↑ Given by Victoria, or alternatively by Vitellary in case Victoria is the only crewmate that the player has not rescued yet.
- ↑ Can also be obtained in Secret Lab using glitches.