The adventure of The Last of Us Part I takes Joel and Ellie, and by extension you, to the darkest, most brutal and terrifying places. You will agree with me that you want to be prepared, so you must find all the Training Manuals to improve your skills. Here’s where to find them all.
Training Manuals in The Last of Us Part I
Throughout your adventure in The Last of Us Part I you can find up to 12 Training Manuals that will help Joel improve his skills with weapons and item creation.
- Training Manual 1: Dagger: Sharp, in Bill’s safe house (bar) in Bill’s City: Search the bar counter. Also, you should get the Self Help trophy.
- Training Manual 2: Health: Splinting, Pittsburgh Industrial Zone: When you get to that hallway, turn right and look at a dirty mattress. Remember that at the bottom (gray door) you can find a Workbench.
- Training Manual 3: Dagger: Reinforcement, in the lobby of the hotel in Pittsburgh: Find the reception area and open Strongbox 3 to get the manual.
- Training Manual 4: Dagger: Reinforcement, Upper Pittsburgh Hotel Lobby: after meeting with Ellie, just before the piano room. At the table you see right in front of Joel in the picture.
- Training Manual 5: Molotov Cocktail: Making, in the Pittsburgh Apartment District: Search above a counter in a kitchen. It is not a place of obligatory passage, so check well all the floors and the rooms that you find.
- Training Manual 6: Bomb: Containment, in the sewers before reaching the suburbs: Go forward until you find the sawed-off shotgun on a table (it’s IMPOSSIBLE) not to see it. Look straight ahead and you’ll see this metal bookcase.
- Training Manual 7: Melee: Techniques, Suburbs: Look for the ice cream truck and enter the house to the right of the garage where the Workbench is, go up to the second floor and look for a rope to access the attic. Ellie will download the manual for you.
- Training Manual 8: Smoke: Chemistry, Hydroelectric Dam (Tommy’s Camp): Search the same place where Artboard 6 is.
- Training Manual 9: Health: Sterilization, The University: when you get to a big square jumping a barricade (where the monkeys are running around), go to the right and go up the blue garbage can you see in the image to enter through a window.
- Training Manual 10: Molotov Cocktail: Utilization, Science Building at The University: behind the Closed Door 10 that you must open with a dagger.
- Training Manual 11: Smoke: Form, Supplements, at Camp Lakeside cabin complex: While searching for Ellie, open Locked Door 11 with a dagger to get the manual.
- Training Manual 12: Bomb: Shrapnel, in the Underground Tunnel behind the Bus Station: look on the second truck you see in the image (right of the central column). Watch out for the enemies because there are many.
Upon picking up Manual 12, if you haven’t skipped any, you should get the Something to Live For trophy. Also, picking up the first manual should have earned you the Self Help trophy. You just scored a 2×1!