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Where to farm Special Plastic in Once Human

Here are the best spots for farming Special Plastic in Once Human.

The player stands beside the Disassembly Bench at their base in Once Human
Image credit: VG247/Starry Studio

Once Human is an ambitious survival game with an immense amount of detail, and as a result, this means you’ll spend an equally immense amount of time farming for various resources as you try to survive the world of Nalcotta. One item you will need for crafting various facilities at your base is Special Plastic.

An item acquired by disassembling Plastic scrap you find across the map, Special Plastic is quite easy to get your hands on, but getting the resource in abundance can be rather time-consuming. To help you out, here’s where to farm Special Plastic in Once Human.


Where to farm Special Plastic in Once Human

Special Plastic is a resource that you can get by disassembling scrap you find across various points of interest in Once Human.

To know whether a specific POI has plastic for you to loot, hover over it on the map and hold ‘Ctrl’ to pin the POI details in place. You can then hover over the rewards; anything labeled ‘Plastic’ is a POI you want to visit.

You also want to look out for ‘Random Scrap’ rewards, as this also includes Plastic.

The rewards for the Blackfell Oil Fields are shown in Once Human, including Special Plastic
Look at the rewards for POIs to see if they provide Special Plastic or not. | Image credit: VG247/Starry Studio

To help you out, the below image shows five different reward icons used for Plastic in-game; Special Plastic is the orange icon.

Five different types of Plastic in Once Human are shown, including Special Plastic
When hovering over a POI, Plastic rewards will show as these icons. The orange icon is Special Plastic. | Image credit: VG247/Starry Studio

Some POI’s that you can expect to loot Plastic from — listed from lowest to highest based on the recommended level for the area — are as follows:

  • Hearst Industries, Broken Delta
  • Sutherland Chemical Plant, Broken Delta
  • Junkyard, Broken Delta
  • Refinery Pollution Point, Iron River
  • Dayton Hospital, Iron River
  • Greywater Industrial Zone, Iron River
  • Blackfell Oil Fields, Red Sands
  • 73 Source Extraction Point, Red Sands
  • Sunshine Farm, Red Sands
  • Furnace Lair, Chalk Peak
  • Rotten Saddle, Chalk Peak

There sadly isn’t a more reliable way of farming Special Plastic, and you will have to farm Plastic and other scrap at these POI’s to later hopefully disassemble into Special Plastic back at your Disassembly Bench in your base. The higher-level that the POI is that you’re looting, the better loot you are likely to retrieve.

While places like the Junkyard and Refinery Pollution Point are great for farming standard Plastic and do provide small amounts of Special Plastic, I recommend primarily focusing on the three, bolded Red Sands POIs listed above when farming Special Plastic.

The player disassembles scrap into Special Plastic at a Disassembly Bench in Once Human
Image credit: VG247/Starry Studio

Specific pieces of scrap to look out for, that will produce Special Plastic once disassembled, are as follows:

  • Custom Tool Set
  • Dual Purpose Binoculars
  • Enhanced Welding Mask
  • Grease Gun
  • Multi-Purpose Monocular
  • Versatile Screwdriver SeT

You’ll also find Special Plastic as an item in Storage Crates in high-level POIs.

It’s also worth remembering that loot at POI’s does reset every four hours, so you can revisit any places you have looted after this time to loot them all over again.


For more on Once Human, take a look at our Once Human codes, how to farm Crude Oil, and how to farm Stardust Source.

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