Whether you’re just starting your journey in Once Human or you’re a seasoned player looking for nuanced tricks, this comprehensive guide compiles 25 practical tips that cover everything from hidden mechanics and inventory tricks to powerful deviations and scenario resets. These aren’t just quality-of-life suggestions—they can seriously impact your efficiency and progression.

1. Morphic Crates Blink When Nearby

Your cradle blinks when you’re near a hidden Morphic Crate. Press Q to reveal and shoot it. Higher-level areas yield better loot—use these to stock up on Stardust and Stellar Planula.

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2. Prevent Food Spoilage With Cooking Stations

Food won’t decay if you cook it and leave it in the stove. Don’t take it out until needed. This also applies to fish: storing them in fish tanks or specimen racks keeps them fresh indefinitely.

3. Auto-Sort Crates With ‘H’

Pressing H while a storage crate is open will auto-sort your inventory into that crate, placing items into matching stacks. A huge time-saver.

4. Reclaim Furniture Blueprints via Duplicate Dismantling

If you’ve already collected a decorative blueprint, dismantling duplicates at the Designer’s Workbench gives blueprint fragments. Toys offer guaranteed fragments—perfect for blueprint farming.

5. Repair Gear Using the All-Purpose Hand

Craft the All-Purpose Hand in Eternal Land using Astral Sand. Use it to repair your lowest durability item, making it a reliable way to restore high-tier gear without much cost.

6. Save Asterism Crates for Future Updates

If your Stellar Stairway is maxed out, hold on to your Asterism crates until new levels unlock—no point using them prematurely.

7. Emergency Vault Trick Using Crates

Destroying the floor beneath a crate moves its contents into your Vault. Useful for safeguarding valuables in an emergency.

8. Decorative Flowers as Damage Sensors

Place decorative flowers on crates. If the crate or flower is destroyed, the flower goes to your inventory—alerting you of base tampering even while you’re away.

9. Use Loadout Presets for Quick Builds

Press H in the inventory to create mod, gear, and cradle presets. Press R to save. You can also do this for cosmetics, simplifying build swaps on the fly.

10. View Traits Before Taming Animals

After capturing an animal, press Shift in the inventory to view its traits before taming. Discard it early if it’s not what you want.

11. Spectral Can Mushrooms for Easy Captures

Eat Spectral Can Mushrooms to emit an aura that stuns animals every 3 seconds. Works on foot or while driving. Just walk or ride up to the animal and capture it while stunned.

12. Deviation Combo for High Uptime

Use this triple deviation setup:

• Silver Gentleman: Grants other deviations smooth while dormant.
• Moonlul’s Cat: Restores power to dormant deviations.
• Rebecca on Piano: Boosts deviation energy recovery.

Together, these maximize uptime for your territory deviations.

13. Repair Strange Doors in Terminal

You can check and repair the durability of Strange Door teleporters via your territory terminal. Arrows on the door fade as durability drops.

14. Frozen Northern Pike Blueprint Location

The Frozen Northern Pike lowers your body temperature (ideal for Way of Winter). Get the blueprint by collecting 10 Northern Pikes and visiting the dock northeast of Blackfell. The vendor also sells Asterism crates.

15. Mark Mods for Bulk Disassembly

Select mods in your inventory and press X to mark them. These marks persist at the disassembly bench, making it easy to break them down in batches.

16. View Weapon Accessories With ‘I’

In the accessory tab of your weapon, press I to view all compatible accessories for that weapon type.

17. Share Cosmetic Furniture With Friends

You can share decorative furniture in your friend’s territory. In build mode, go to Manage Share to check what’s shared and revoke access when needed.

18. Expand Eternal Land Storage

Avoid the yellow storage warning by building crates and deviation storage inside Eternal Land. Items stored here are ready for transfer and avoid cap limits.

19. Frog Boss Encounter Tip

During the Frog the Leaper boss fight, combining Spring Legs and Starless Energy Drink lets you dodge his sweeping arms without taking damage.

20. Add Map Markers With Middle Mouse

Press your middle mouse button on the map to add a custom marker. These persist between scenarios and help track base spots, crates, or deviations.

21. Transfer Treasure Hunter Effect With Drills

Craft advanced drills before scenario transfer. While the drills themselves don’t transfer, the Treasure Hunter mimetic bonus does, retaining the increased loot quality.

22. Solar Panels Work Indoors

Surprise! Solar panels function inside buildings. You don’t need to mount them outside—convenient and aesthetically flexible.

23. Preview Ore Before Placing Mining Platforms

Before claiming a territory, try placing a mining platform to preview what ore is available. Location makes a huge difference.

24. Get Fragments by Re-Unlocking Mimetic Gear

Unlocking a mimetic weapon or item (e.g., grenade launcher) in a new scenario gives you fragments instead of the item. These can be used to upgrade existing weapons of the same type.

25. Reset Mimetic Talents for Extra Energy Links

At season’s end, use any remaining energy links to buy Asterism crates. If short on links, reset your mimetic talents to reclaim them—no need to hold on since you’re transferring anyway.

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These 25 tips range from small QoL boosts to game-altering strategies that help with survival, crafting, building, and maximizing seasonal progression. Share them, try them, and integrate them into your gameplay. Got more? Drop them in your community to make everyone stronger in Once Human.