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TLOU Part I / Achievements / Collection

A training booklet with lines of text in white on a black tile.

Image: Naughty Dog / PlayStation

Official screenshot from Naughty Dog / PlayStation.

Self Help

Self Help is the bronze trophy for picking up a single training manual. The first one is Shiv: Sharpening, lying on the bar of Bill's safehouse in Bill's Town before you set off after him, and it makes shivs last one hit longer.

Category: Collection
How to unlock: Find one training manual.
Trophy: Bronze
Players who have it: 68% on Steam

Unlocked by

Bill's TownBill's Town brings Joel and Ellie to Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town that Joel's paranoid contact Bill has rigged with traps to keep the infected out. Bill owes Joel a favor, so you team up with him to find a working car, which means a trip through a clicker-filled graveyard and an infected high school.

Requires

Training ManualsTraining manuals are 12 books that permanently improve what Joel crafts in The Last of Us Part I, from tougher shivs to stronger health kits. Finding all of them earns the Something to Fight For trophy.

Good to know

Grade: bronze.
First manual: Shiv: Sharpening, Bill's Town.
One of 12 needed for Something to Fight For.

Related achievements

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Collection
Something to Fight For
Find all training manuals.
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Exploration
In Memoriam
Pick up Frank's note after it's discarded.

Updated November 11, 2026

This entry uses material from the "The Last of Us Part I trophies" article on the The Last of Us Wiki at Fandom and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Source CC BY-SA 3.0