Once Human, similar to Palworld, has a whole lot of potential companions that will help you out in varying ways, ranging from combat assistance to a wide range of utility purposes at your base. In this guide, we will be showing you how to get a Party Monkey, which has a very niche use that people who regularly hit the purification limit might appreciate.
Where to Find Party Monkey Deviant
Getting the Party Monkey requires a whole lot of luck, and there really isn’t any better way to get it reliably other than “exploring the wilderness”, which is an incredibly vague tip. Let’s go through why that is the case.
Basically, you have to head to any refinery in the map. For those whose servers are still in phase 1, the ones available to you will be near Greywater Camp, Rippleby, and the Gaia Cliff Monolith.
SIDE NOTE: We have a complete guide for all Deviant locations in Once Human, make sure to check it out as well!
Once you’re there, you will need to start the workshop defense mode by inserting any permit that you may have gotten from looting all around the game. Just check if the Party Monkey is in the reward preview.
The level of the access card does not matter, as you will have an unknown chance to get either the Party Monkey or a different deviant regardless of which permit you use. The level seemingly only affects the amount of resources you get on completion.
Workshop Defense Mode
When anybody in the map activates a workshop defense activity, you will get a chat notification that somebody started one. This means that you don’t necessarily need your own permits, as you can simply head over there and hopefully participate before it ends.
All you need to do is protect the refinery from waves of enemies, with elites spawning every now and then. There is a five minute build mode where you can gather resources outside and build defenses within the indicated territory.
I recommend just dropping some layers of crates or log piles at the entrances and around the machine to slow down any normal mobs. In the Refinery Pollution Point, none of the elites can even enter the building even without blockers.
Once you have successfully defended the machine, you can now claim your rewards. If you look below, you will see what set of rewards are available from this run. This is not a guarantee that you’ll get the Party Monkey, it merely shows that you might get it after claiming.
What Does the Party Monkey Do?
The Party Monkey is a crafting type deviant, meaning that it will passively produce a special resource in its containment unit. This can be used to create Party Monkey objects in build mode, which will aggro nearby enemies.
This is particularly useful for whenever you are purifying some cortexes at the Stardust Resonant Filter. By placing some Party Monkeys scattered throughout some distance away from the filter, you can prevent mobs from even touching the machine.
These will help further automate the defense phase if you have turrets and some well-placed sandbags and traps all around your filter. Of course, you’ll still need to pay attention to elite enemies, and make sure that the monkeys don’t get destroyed in the first few waves.
And that is pretty much everything you need to know when it comes to getting the Party Monkey deviant, as well as a brief summary of what it is used for. If you’re still working towards map completion rewards, here’s a quick guide on all the crate locations in Rippleby in Once Human, which is also close to a refinery you can use!
