Once Human has a lot of grinding and repetitive looting to be done in order to progress to the endgame, and that includes going through weapon and gear crates that you have probably already looted before for map objectives. In this guide, I’m going to share a few routes you can take to start looting in varying zones and levels.
Best Weapon & Gear Crate Farm Guide
Long story short, gear and weapon crates have a static global respawn timer that is set to around four hours or so. This means that at certain intervals, which might vary among servers, every crate will be lootable once more.
There is not a lot of concrete information about this, unfortunately, at least not officially. Unless you have the willpower to sit there and watch crates until they respawn, you’ll just have to spread out the timings of your loot runs.
In the sections below, I’m going to give you a few quick and juicy routes you can try. However, just know that looting any point of interest normally (pretty much any place with rift anchors) will work just as well considering the respawn timers.
Also, these are not optimized paths and can be sped up even more depending on how fast you can get around these zones and how quickly you can clear mobs near crates. The orange pins in the maps below are both gear & weapon crates.
Player Levels 1 to 10 – Dayton Wetlands (17 Crates)
If you are still new to the game, you’re not going to be traveling around the map just yet. While you are still at the level 1-10 range, and maybe a bit above that, Dayton Wetlands is going to be your place to go.
This route in the map below starts at Deadsville, which is a convenient hub area that you are pretty much forced to go to early in the story. From there, you’ll just be looping all the way around to get to five different points of interest.
At the end, you can go straight up to the Monolith of Greed by following the yellow arrows to cap off your run. This is not fully optimized, so feel free to adjust the pathing depending on what’s more comfortable for you.
Player Levels 20 to 30 – Iron River (21 Crates)
As you approach the mid game phases of the game, you will find yourself roaming around Iron River and unlocking the next hub area, Greywater Camp. We will be using that hub zone as our starting area marked by the red box in the image below.
The route in the image below goes in the following order:
- #1 – Starting from Greywater Camp, head over to the East Blackfell Junction and loot all the crates there. (2 weapon, 2 gear crates)
- #2 – Fully loot Ricci Securement Point (3 gear, 2 weapon crates), which is close by.
- #3 – Proceed up the mountains to reach Clifton (1 gear and 2 weapon crates).
- #4 – Go down the hill to the teleportation tower (unlock if you haven’t yet) and then jump down to the Mirage Monolith (2 gear and 2 weapon crates).
- #5 – After the monolith, head down to the town of Alkirk to the northwest. (1 weapon and 3 gear crates)
- #6 – Finally, head west past the bridge and enter a tunnel along the cliffside, which has a lone weapon crate sitting at the end. Head back to Greywater Camp afterwards to teleport out if needed.
Once you are done with this loop, you can go ahead and loot the Greywater Industrial Zone and Refinery Pollution Point areas nearby too. They aren’t in the main loop as it feels a bit awkward to include them while starting from Greywater Camp.
Player Levels 40 and Above (29 Crates)
For this last one, you are pretty much just going to make an entire loop around the majority of the Red Sands region and dipping into one point of interest inside the Blackheart Region. These are level 40-50+ zones, and they are pretty much the endgame areas for now.
Just to remind you, this guide is mainly here to help you figure out a path to follow. Unless you have the exact respawn timer for all crates, you’re better off going on a simple loot run like this every now and then.
For this run in particular, here are the steps you are going to be following:
- #1 – Starting from Blackfell, just leave the arena and loot the entire Blackfell Fallen Zone all the way up until you reach the rift anchor (5 gear and 4 weapon crates).
- #2 – Make your way to the Blackfell Oil Fields to the east and loot the entire area (2 weapon and 2 gear crates).
- #3 – Head over to the southwest and loot the small town of Evergreen (1 weapon and 2 gear crates).
- #4 – Proceed to Fort Eyrie to the west and loot there too (1 weapon and 2 gear crates).
- #5 – Head northwest to the 73 Source Extraction Point (1 gear and 2 weapon crates).
- #6 – Leave that area and proceed west to the Forsaken Monolith (1 weapon and 2 gear crates).
- #7 – Finally, go through the bridge up north and head to Sunshine Farm to cap off the run (1 weapon and 3 gear crates).
Once you are done, there is a teleportation tower up the cliffs to the northeast of Sunshine Farm that you can use if necessary. However, I’m fairly confident that your house teleport has been off cooldown for a while now by this point.
You could also drive back down to Blackfell if you want to end the run there and check whether you got lucky and the crates have respawned again.
Miscellaneous Tips
While you are off on a looting run, there are a few things you can do to make it a little more bearable. The most obvious tip is to bring your best gear, as there will be a lot of elite enemies and just regular mobs in general that could be in the way of the crates.
Also, I highly recommend using an upgraded Retro Coupe for its high speed. The motorcycle is a nice alternative if you struggle to navigate rough terrain, but the Retro Coupe has the highest possible speed in the game as far as I know.
If you have the means to make some, Stardust Ratatouille is a nice food to bring along for these runs. This will give you 30 minutes of bonus movement speed and a reduced stamina cost for sprinting. For drinks, corn or malt ale can be nice as they both prevent sanity drain.
Stardust Energy Drink can make it a little easier to reach crates as well due to the temporary double jump ability that it can grant you. Though you will need a bunch of saffron for this.
Finally, have a weapon with a Light Striker or Portable Style calibration for even more movement speed. I run around with a baton that has one such calibration, and it will save you even more time when combined with other buffs.
Those are pretty much all of the tips and potential routes that I can provide you, so feel free to adjust them however you wish. While you are here, consider checking out this guide on how to farm and cook in Once Human for more tips on getting some of these special dishes or drinks.
