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The Last of Us Part I: The Last of Us Part I 100% Completion Guide

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Hometown and the Quarantine Zone

The story's opening, then Joel and Tess go around the closed checkpoint to the edge of the market.

How the walk works. This guide is one way through the game. Take each pickup as its row comes up before moving on, and if you miss one, it can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select. This stretch starts with Hometown, which has nothing to collect: what Sarah can look at counts for nothing, so simply play it.

Hometown: find Joel in the houseQuest step
Location
Hometown · Prologue – You start as Sarah in her bedroom. Look in the bathroom, then go into Joel's bedroom and up to its window. Head downstairs, answer the ringing phone and enter the side room to start the next scene.
Summary
Sarah gets out of bed and looks for Joel around the house.
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Hometown: escape the town with TommyQuest step
Location
Hometown · Prologue – When the drive ends, work the on-screen prompt to break out, then stay close to Tommy: straying gets you killed, and a prompt shakes off anything that grabs you. He leads along the street, past the fire truck, down the alley on the right, through a restaurant and to the end of the hill. A scene and the title sequence close the chapter.
Requires
Summary
A drive, then a run through town behind Tommy.
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Walk with Tess to the checkpointQuest step
Location
The Quarantine Zone · 20 Years Later – After the opening scene, follow Tess through the alley and out onto the street that leads to the checkpoint gate. Stay clear of the guards, and stop short of the gate for the next row.
Requires
Summary
Twenty years on, Joel and Tess set off through the Boston zone to deal with Robert.
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Conversation: Couple on the StreetOther
Location
The Quarantine Zone · 20 Years Later – As you near the gate, look to the right of the street: a man in a grey cap and a woman in a denim jacket are by a red newspaper stand next to a bus shelter. If he is still crossing the street, give him a moment, then take the prompt and let them finish. The checkpoint scene ends the chance.
Requires
Summary
The first of the 54 conversations for Getting to Know You. Each one needs hearing to its end.
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Before you reach the gate

Hear the couple out first: the checkpoint scene ends the chance.

Recipe: Health KitItem
Location
The Quarantine Zone · 20 Years Later – Once you are both safe inside, Tess hands it over, so there is nothing to find. Use it to heal, and craft one of your own as soon as you hold the materials.
Requires
Summary
Tess's first Health Kit also teaches the recipe. It is one of the six crafts for Geared Up.
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Take the backpack, boost Tess outsideQuest step
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – Go round the corner in the tunnel and take the backpack, flashlight and 9mm. Boost Tess, then climb through the hole in the floor into the wrecked shop above.
Requires
Summary
Joel gets his backpack, flashlight and 9mm, then climbs back out into the open.
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Artefact: Military PamphletCollectible
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – It arrives with the backpack from the row above, so there is nothing to look for.
Requires
Summary
The first of the 97 Artefacts for Chronicles, already inside Joel's backpack.
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Artefact: Boston Q.Z. MapCollectible
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – It arrives in the same pickup as the Military Pamphlet, so this one needs nothing either.
Requires
Summary
A second Artefact that comes with the backpack.
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Conversation: Tess Outside the WallOther
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – Tess walks out through the shop's front door and waits there. Go to her, take the prompt and hear her out before following her on.
Requires
Summary
A short talk with Tess just outside the shop.
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Ladder into the flatQuest step
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – Follow Tess to the building with a hole in its wall. Take the ladder from behind a car, set it against the building and climb in. Finish this floor before using the stairs, because Joel's mask goes on below.
Requires
Summary
A ladder gets Joel and Tess into a building full of spores.
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Firefly Pendant: David Michael VigilCollectible
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – From the top of the ladder, go past the broken pool table and the stairs to the bedroom with mattresses on the floor. The pendant is on the floor by the mattress on your left as you walk in. It may instead be on the desk in the same room.
Requires
Summary
The first of the 30 pendants, in the bedroom of the flat.
Trophies
  • Achievement · SteamFallen Firefly
  • Bronze · PlayStationFallen Firefly
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Conversation: Source of the SporesOther
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – From the bedroom, take the stairs down and walk the hall until Joel pulls on his mask, then crouch through the hole in the wall into the collapsed passage, and shift any beams in the way. The corpse is against the right wall and gives a magnifying-glass prompt: take it and let Tess finish. A filing cabinet beside you means you have gone too far.
Requires
Summary
Tess has a word about a spore-covered body in the passage.
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First Runners, then upstairsQuest step
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – Shift any beams still blocking the way and go on until you reach the three Runners. Stay crouched, strangle the nearest from behind, leave the two feeding on the right alone and slip into the kitchen. Still crouching, climb the stairs.
Requires
Summary
Joel's first Runners, three of them, and they can mostly be sneaked past.
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Artefact: Note to BrotherCollectible
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – At the top of the stairs, leave the planks for now and open the closed door on your left. The note is on the table by the window.
Requires
Summary
An Artefact in a side room at the top of the stairs.
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Before you cross the planks

Have the Vigil pendant, the Note to Brother and both conversations from this stretch first. The planks end in a drop.

Plank for Tess, alley to the yardQuest step
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – Go through the hole in the wall, fetch the fallen plank and carry it to Tess, then go back up and walk across it. Drop down, follow the alley and crouch under the fallen fire escape into a small yard. Stop here: Tess waits in a building ahead, and the next row comes first.
Requires
Summary
Joel fetches a plank so the pair can cross, then an alley leads toward the market.
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Before you go in

Take the Ben Glueck pendant from the tree before you enter the building where Tess waits. That door leads on to the market.

Firefly Pendant: Ben GlueckCollectible
Location
The Quarantine Zone · Beyond The Wall – As you come out from under the fire escape, look left: the pendant hangs in the tree. Knock it down with a brick, a bottle or a bullet, then pick it up off the ground. Entering the WPL store means you have gone too far.
Requires
Summary
The second pendant, hanging out of reach in a tree.
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About this guide

One run of the story and one of Left Behind, on any difficulty: no trophy depends on it. The story is one way, so take each pickup before you move on. After the credits, Chapter Select clears anything its menu shows as short, but take the Workbench Tools on the first run: the menu doesn't show them, and one taken on a replay may not count.

Last verified: Nov 7, 2026 · Patch Latest patch (PS5, PC on Steam and Epic), with Left Behind · 0 community corrections shipped

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