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Where to find every supplement for upgrades in The Last of Us Part 1

There's hundreds of The Last of Us Part 1 supplements spread across the game, little pills usually in hidden areas or behind shiv doors or similar obstacles. Supplements are one of the key ways Joel can level up, using them to enhance health, listening power, crafting speed and more. With so many spread out across the game it's difficult to find them all, but we've laid out how to find every supplement in the game below, listed in chronological order, and what it takes to find them. Here's how to get all The Last of Us Part 1 supplements and ignore every cautionary tale about steroids you ever heard.

By our measurements The Last of Us Part 1 has 545 supplements in total, found in every level from the Outskirts onwards. We've broken them up into chronological order below, as they appear by level.

You can click on any of the links at the side of the page to immediately leap to that section of the game and find all the pills there, or just scroll down to find them as you encounter them in chronological order. It's important to remember that supplements can take numerous forms in how they're presented, so aside from the telltale "Pill" image that hangs over them when you get close enough, look for the following:

Any of these can be supplements, and therefore put you closer to the next perk or enhancement. Once you have them, you can use them in the track pad menu to boost Joel's skills and stats accordingly. First though, you need to find them.

There's a total of 65 supplements in this section of the game across ten locations, all between when you escape the military forces in the storm drains, and lasts all the way until you escape Washington after the Capitol Building.

The section at Bill's Town is a lot longer, with 95 supplements in total to find, and begins from the section in the woods, lasting all the way until you leave in the car. This area is a little more open-ended than the Outskirts, so prepare to do a bit more hunting in your pill pursuits.

Even bigger than Bill's Town, there's a grand total of 120 supplements spread across the hell of Pittsburgh, more than in any other chapter of the game. This covers everything from the ambush by hunters right at the beginning, to jumping in the river to escape at the end.

This whole chapter is called the Suburbs, though it'll be a while before you actually reach them. This covers everything between Joel washing up on the beach, exploring the sewers, the actual suburbs themselves, and the sequence with the sniper and the armored car's return. There's 55 supplements to be found here, mainly because it's a shorter sequence than the enormous Pittsburgh chapter.

A shorter, snackier section of the game like the Suburbs before it, Tommy's Dam extends from the cutscene wherein you leave Henry and Sam, and lasts all the way until Ellie and Joel both get on horseback to head to the university after escaping the ranch. Like the suburbs again, there's 55 supplements for players to find across this section.

This chapter is bigger than the last two, and as any student can tell you, there's a lot of pills floating around campus. There's 90 supplements at the University of Eastern Colorado, and this whole section covers everything from your arrival, exploration, and escape with a serious injury.

There's actually only 10 supplements in this entire long chapter, because you spend most of it playing as Ellie, who isn't allowed Joel's special drugs, it seems. You'll play most of it before you even find them, but here's where they are.

This is another shorter chapter, though it's got more pills in it than the last one. This covers everything between the arrival in Salt Lake City on the highway, the bus depot itself, the triage, and all the underground tunnels until you reach the hospital.

Being a hospital, the Firefly Lab does indeed have a few supplements floating around it: 20, to be exact. This technically isn't the last level of the game - there's a short sequence in Jackson afterwards - but this is the last place you can get supplements. Grab these and you'll have found every pill you can get in all of The Last of Us Part 1.

Phew! That's a lot of pills, but it'll go a long way to helping your survivability in The Last of Us Part 1, especially if you carry these upgrades into New Game+.

Yes, you can fully upgrade your skills with supplements in The Last of Us Remake, but no, you can't do it in a single playthrough. It's close, but there aren't enough pills to fully cover the costs of all the upgrades, especially if you're playing on a harder difficulty where you have to buy the Shiv Master skills too. You can get close to full skill completion, but then you'll have to start New Game+, get some more supplements in the new playthrough, and finish your skills accordingly.

Joel Franey is a writer, journalist, podcaster and raconteur with a Masters from Sussex University, none of which has actually equipped him for anything in real life. As a result he chooses to spend most of his time playing video games, reading old books and ingesting chemically-risky levels of caffeine. He is a firm believer that the vast majority of games would be improved by adding a grappling hook, and if they already have one, they should probably add another just to be safe. You can find old work of his at USgamer, Gfinity, Eurogamer and more besides.

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