Supplements are items in the form of plants and pills in medication bottles that can be collected in The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II single-player campaign by scavenging. They can be used by Joel, Ellie, or Abby for skill upgrades.
Overview[]
In single player, Joel can find supplements throughout most of the game. The pickups are small bottles or potted purple flowers. These are worth 5, while bigger bottles or potted flowers are worth 10. Supplements can be picked up whenever the or icon appears on-screen. Additionally, shiv doors always contain at least 1 supplement in the bottle form.
Supplements allow the player to upgrade any of Joel's 6 different skills: Maximum health, listen mode distance, crafting speed, healing speed, weapon sway and shiv master. Shiv Master upgrades are not available on Easy difficulty and cannot be purchased while playing on the setting. Upgrading Listen Mode Distance is disabled on Survivor and Grounded difficulty.
Supplements locations and quantities, like parts, do not vary between different difficulty settings. There are a total of 800 supplements that need to be collected in order to fully upgrade all of Joel's skills. While this cannot be done in a single play through, players can start a new game of the same difficulty with New Game Plus, and find the remaining supplements previously missed. Any supplements a player does not use will already be in Joel's inventory as soon as they pickup his backpack upon the start of a New Game Plus.
Locations[]
Below are the locations of the supplements found in each chapter of The Last of Us single-player campaign.
The Last of Us[]
Chapter 1: "Hometown"[]
There are no supplements found in this chapter.
Chapter 2: "The Quarantine Zone"[]
There are no supplements found in this chapter.
Chapter 3: "The Outskirts"[]
- Location #1: After the cut scene where Tess tries to convince Joel that what Ellie says is true, the player will have to pass under a bridge. On the other side, there is a second bridge that has fallen. To the left, there is a small gap that the player can use to crawl under the second bridge. On the other side is a flower pot worth 5 supplements.
- Location #2: While traversing the destroyed office building the player has to remove a dead Clicker blocking a door. After that, look for a shelf on the right before crawling and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: After being attacked by a Clicker for the first time, go to the room Tess and Ellie head to. Then enter the room on your left and you will see a white door in front of you which is actually a shiv door. Open it and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #4: Eventually Tess will talk with Joel about taking it easy for a little while. After that you will pass a really old skeleton. Continue on until you see a large sign with a red background and gold letters saying “OLIVER LLF”. Instead of going down, head up the left side and then hug the wall near where the floor has collapsed and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5: Continue a short distance past the previous Supplement until you drop down into the Subway Station. Check the phone boxes to your left as you drop and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #6: After you escape through the metal door, when a hand is left attached to Joel's foot, search the back of the large truck. Inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #7: After you get separated from Tess and Ellie after lifting a large wood beam, make your way to the room you last saw them in (a cafeteria actually). There is a shiv door here. Open it and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #8: After the cut scene inside the capitol building, head upstairs to the second floor until you reach a room from where you can only advance by jumping from one part of the building to the other through a hole. Before jumping, check the speaker podium. On top of it there is a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #9: After jumping to the other window, you will see four soldiers searching for you approaching. Take a left on the first room you can, and then exit through the right. You will see another door almost directly in front of the one you were in. Enter it and on top of a large desk you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #10: When you enter the Subway, with the military shooting behind you, you will have to avoid or kill 2 soldiers. If you take a right from your entry point to the train tracks, right again to the trains; search behind the concrete pillar nearest the furthest train and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #11: As you progress through the subway tunnels, you will reach a bit where Ellie cannot swim. Continue forward until you see a small platform with a corpse to your left. You can find an Artifact next to it but if you search under the water behind the corpse and surface to the other side, you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
Chapter 4: "Bill's Town"[]
- Location 1: Right after entering the small forest you will see a white bird (a crane). Take the right trail from where the bird was and halfway through it you will find a plant worth 5 supplements.
- Location 2: After you cross the plank, eventually you will drop down into a small area with two hidden clickers (one inside a shed). Search the building that is in front of the shed and in the second floor's hallway you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3 & #4: Before boosting Ellie to open the locked fence, check your left and you will see a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements and a second one worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5: After opening the fence, take a left and another one, until you see the small fenced garden with fairy and gnome statues. Get inside, look to the right and next to some pots you will find a plant worth 10 supplements
- Location #6: When you are going down the street you will see to your right a pickup truck with a safe behind it. To open it you will need an artifact called "Note to Bob" which is found attached to some wire in the barricade at the end of the street. With the artifact in hand open the safe and inside of it you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #7 & #8: After seeing the Clicker getting killed by a nail bomb, check the back of the music shop building and you will find a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements and another one worth 10 supplements.
- Location #9: After Joel tells Ellie to stay underneath the nail bomb's wire; take a left and Ellie will hear a sound coming from a building. Enter it and in the second floor bathroom you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #10: After leaving Bill's bar, head upstairs and immediately take a right. Check inside the room and on top of the kitchen you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #11: While on the church's altar before heading out through the window, search the room on your right and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #12: While traversing the church's cemetery, you will eventually reach the last section which has a fountain statue on the center. Check the left and you will find a plant worth 5 supplements.
- Location #13: After you climb on the RV and jump out of the tree house take an immediate left. In the corner you will find a plant worth 5 supplements.
- Location #14: Straight after the previous one, head inside the house and go to the second floor. Search the room with the crib and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #15: Inside the house you find Frank's corpse, search the kitchen and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
Chapter 5: "Pittsburgh"[]
- Location #1: After defeating the Hunter ambush and going past the metal door, when you get to the next floor take a right on the first room you see. Inside an open red suitcase you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #2: Immediately after Joel points out that the far away bridge is their way out of here, you will drop to a big area with lots of broken cars, including a bus. As soon as you drop look in front of you and you will find a plant worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: While on the bookstore's first floor, find the room with the stairs that have a burning barrel next to them and go all the way to the top. Go to the corner that's to your left after exiting them. You will find a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #4: After exiting the bookstore, you will eventually see three dead FEDRA soldiers (skeletons actually). Immediately after that you will have to get up some stairs and drop down on a blue truck. After dropping check the side of the truck and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5 & #6: After the cut scene where you see a Hunter with a plank, you will pass a yellow taxi. Immediately look to your left and you will see a door with a red “X” painted on it. This is a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements and another one worth 10 supplements.
- Location #7: A little bit after the previous one. To cross the plank Ellie laid for Joel you will have to enter a flooded coffee shop. Check the second floor and on a shelf you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #8: Immediately after dropping on the hotel lobby, go to the right. On top of the reception desk you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #9: After using the ladder in the hotel lobby, the next area you will be in has three floors (not counting the hotel's lobby). The first and second are filled with hunters, and the third one has the exit from where you continue. To reach the second floor you have two options: Going through a hole in the ceiling in one of the rooms or using the stairwell. Go through the one that has the hole and immediately after you are on the second floor, keep going until you see a bathtub that has two really old corpses in it. Open the right drawer that is opposite the tub and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #10: A little bit after the previous one. After getting out of the bathroom with the old corpses, keep going until you find yourself in a large area with lots of suitcases lying on the floor. Enter the second room to your right (the one that is past the red painted sign that says “SJ TP”). Inside the room, go to its bathroom and open the drawer below the broken mirror. (NOTE: The prompt to open the drawer sometimes seems to only appear if you are viewing it from the corner that's furthest from it. To open it stand in said corner until you can view the prompt to open it, and quickly sprint to it while pressing triangle many times. Eventually Joel will open it.) Inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #11: After the elevator falls with you on top and you find yourself in the hotel basement, you will eventually see a large swarm of rats running towards you. Keep going straight to where they came from and go up the stone ramp. Afterwards, take a left and then a right to enter the laundry room. Inside there is a wall that has one table and two shelves with clothes sticking to the wall. The first shelf has a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #12: After leaving the hotel basement through the keycard door, on the right there is a room with a workbench and a bottle worth 5 supplements in it.
- Location #13: After the part where Ellie helps you with her rifle, continue until you have to lift the gate and use the small cart to boost yourself. When you are on the other side (there is a workbench very close) you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #14: In the part where there are many nail bombs with tripwires attached to them, before boosting Ellie so she can reach the ladder, enter the near building that has a sign that reads “RATIONS DEPOT” on its main entrance. Go to the backroom and you will find a shiv door. Inside you will find bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #15: When you are running from the Hunter's Humvee, you will eventually get into a window and an apartment. As soon as you enter check the dormitory bathroom and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #16 & 17: After the cut scene where you meet Sam and Henry, keep going until you go down some stairs and stop until you see a door in front of you. This is a shiv door. Open it and then search the kitchen. You will find a bottle worth 10 supplements. After that search the right bedroom and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #18: After reaching Henry and Sam's safe house, go to the kitchen and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #19: After you narrowly escape the Humvee by lifting a metal door, you will find yourself in a bar. To get out of this area you will need to move a cart and crawl under a chain, but before doing so, check the small coffee vending cart and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 6: "The Suburbs"[]
- Location #1: A little bit after entering the sewers, keep going until you find a door blocked by a red box. Open the near grate so Ellie can let you in. When you are inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #2: After Ellie turns on the generator so the platform can start moving and you have made it to other side, keep going until you see an entrance to your left. (This is before going through the door with children's paintings). Enter it and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: After you trigger the sound trap, continue until Ellie tells Sam to stand near the posts so she can shoot a penalty at him. Open the green lockers that are nearby and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #4: After getting attacked by 3 Runners and 1 Clicker, go up the stairs and enter the room to your left. Near some corpses covered by a blanket you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5: Right after a gate falls down and you get trapped with Sam, keep going until you see a Stalker roaming on your right. Keep on its trail until you see a small elevated room to your left. Get inside it and nearby you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #6: After escaping the sewers and Henry points out the radio tower in the distance, keep going until you can enter the first house to your right. Search in the kitchen for a cupboard you can open and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #7: Check the second house to your left past the blue pickup that's near the ice cream truck. In the living room, open the cabinet door below the T.V. and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #8: In the same house as the previous one. On the second floor there is a room with a safe. To open it you will need an artifact called "Matchbook" which is found in the third floor. With the artifact in hand open the safe and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #9: During the section where a sniper is shooting at you, check the last house to the right which can be entered (not counting the last three lined houses in which the center one is where the sniper is shooting you from). In a room on the second floor you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
Chapter 7: "Tommy's Dam"[]
- Location #1: When arriving at the dam, before the first turn-wheel there is a nearby shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #2: When you are near the power plant's entrance, check the other side of the yellow bulldozer and you will find a plant worth 10 supplements.
- Location #3: After you split with Ellie in the power plant, head straight up the stairs and check the room on your left. You will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #4: When you are in the power plant's control room, on top of the table where the two engineers are viewing a schematic you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5: Inside the ranch where Ellie escapes to. Immediately after you enter the house open the door on your left and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 8: "The University"[]
- Location #1: When you get control of Joel, keep following the road ahead and enter the University through the last entrance. From there take a left and search behind the blue tipped car to find a plant worth 10 supplements.
- Location #2: After entering the University's campus, keep going ahead until you see the car workshop to your right. Immediately after entering the car workshop check the far right corner and on top a wooden crate you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: In the part where you must activate a generator to open a gate, take the left staircase from your entry point and in the hall on a couch you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #4: Before jumping the small concrete barrier with barbed wire on top, look to your right and you will see a blue dumpster below a wall with a hole. Hop on the dumpster and check the room. You will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #5 & #6: After jumping the concrete barrier, stick to the right building until you see a small entrance. Climb the stairs and exit to the roof, and then enter the building through the next window. As soon as you enter open the drawer to your right to find a bottle worth 10 supplements. Then search for the bookcase and you will find another bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #7: After reaching the second locked gate that requires a generator you will have to crawl to enter a room. Immediately after doing so check the small table in front of you and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #8: Right after the previous one. When you get to the second floor, keep going ahead and enter the second room on your left (room 202). Open the left drawer and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #9: After the section with four Clickers and one Bloater, go up the stairs and enter the first room to your right. Inside open the cabinet below the computer and you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #10: After entering the science lab through a hole in the wall, take the left door and then the right one. Keep searching the left side of the room until you can open a cabinet door and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #11 & #12: Right after the previous one. In the end of the hallway there is a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements and another one worth 5 supplements.
- Location #13: After hearing the noise and heading upstairs, as soon as Ellie opens the door you will see a door to your far left. Open it and go check the desks
that are the furthest to your right upon entering. There is one drawer you can open and inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #14: Position yourself again in the door Ellie opened when you initially arrived. Almost in front of it there is another door. Head inside and on a shelf you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 9: "Lakeside Resort"[]
- Location #1: When you are using Joel for the second time in this chapter, you will eventually come to a gas station to your right. Across the gas station there's a motel. Go into any of the motel's rooms and into their bathrooms, and then get out through the window. Immediately after getting out to your left there will be a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 10: "Bus Depot"[]
- Location #1: Keep going down the highway until you see the RV. Inside you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #2: Immediately after exiting the highway (when you are past the yellow bus to your left), head right towards the grassy area and you will find a plant worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: When you are in the bus station, go down the stairs and check the right set of orange lockers to find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #4: After exiting to the large open area with many tents, enter the second tent to your left. Inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
- Location #5: After entering the room with the final workbench in the game, immediately after exiting the room, look to your right and you will find a shiv door. Open it and inside you will find a plant worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 11: "The Firefly Lab"[]
- Location #1: Right after the cut scene, two Fireflies will come looking for you. From where you start, keep going to your right down the hall until you find the large room with the X-rays and two large tables. On one of the tables you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #2: Keep advancing and eventually you will see a Firefly burst through some double doors looking for you. Before heading through these doors, check the chairs to your left and you will find a bottle worth 5 supplements.
- Location #3: After getting to the next floor, you will immediately see a counter in front of you. Check behind it and you will find the last shiv door in the game. Open it and inside you will find a bottle worth 10 supplements.
Chapter 12: "Jackson"[]
There are no supplements found in this chapter.
Long guns | Assault rifle · Bow · Flamethrower · Hunting rifle · Military sniper · Shotgun |
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Short guns | 9mm pistol · El Diablo · Ellie's pistol · Revolver · Shorty |
Melee weapons | 2x4 · Baseball bat · Hatchet · Lead pipe · Machete · Switchblade |
Craftable items | Health kit · Melee upgrade · Molotov cocktail · Nail bomb · Shiv · Smoke bomb |
Supplies | Ammunition · Crafting materials · Food · Parts · Supplements · Tools |
Other items | Armor · Backpack · Bottle · Brick · Flashlight · Gas mask · Weapon holster |
Miscellaneous | Safe · Shiv door · Workbench |
Long guns | Bolt-action rifle · Bow · Crossbow · Double barrel shotgun · Flamethrower · Pump shotgun · Semi-auto rifle · Silenced submachine gun |
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Short guns | Hunting pistol · Military pistol · Revolver · Semi-auto pistol |
Melee weapons | 2x4 · Baseball bat · Baton · Club · Crowbar · Felling axe · Fire axe · Hammer · Hatchet · Kukri · Lead pipe · Machete · Pickaxe · Scythe · Shiv · Switchblade · Tomahawk · Wrench |
Craftable items | Arrows · Explosive arrow · Health kit · Hunting pistol ammo · Incendiary shells · Melee upgrade · Molotov · Pipe bomb · Shiv · Silencer · Smoke bomb · Stun bomb · Trap mine |
Supplies | Ammunition · Crafting materials · Parts · Supplements |
Other items | Armor · Backpack · Bottle · Brick · Flashlight · Gas mask · Weapon holster |
Miscellaneous | Safe · Workbench |