Borderlands

Originally there were two issues in relation to getting any of the four collectible achievements linked to the Claptrap DLC.

The first one was a bug that is stopping a number of the collectable achievements:

A: “What a party!”
B: “It’s so realistic”
C: “Bobble-trap”
D: “The Lubricator”

Popping when they are achieved. Gearbox released a patch to fix the problem in late 2010 so this is no longer an issue.

The second issue is that the drop rates for a number of these items are obscenely low.

The best way I have found to deal with this problem is to "actively farm" MINAC - the final boss at the end of the DLC.

Now, many people are getting to MINAC, going to hide in a corner where MINAC and the Claptraps it releases can't get at them, and going away to do something else. After 3-4 hours they come back, kill MINAC and collect a tonne of items from around the area.

This I consider to be "passive farming". I have found, after much testing, that "actively farming" MINAC is immeasurably more rewards and prompts drop rates 3-6 times better than "passive farming" on all items.

"Active farming" involves dying a lot, to be blunt. But you aren't losing money when you do so, and MINAC doesn't return to full health if you do so (unlike Crawmerax) so there's no disincentive in dying.

To "actively farm", you need to shoot out all of MINACs turrets - not his "eye", but everything else. Once that is done, you can attack a bit more confidently.

Follow MINAC when he is on the move, but stay behind it so the "eye" can't get you. When MINAC stops, it will release Divine Wind claptraps - and this is when you attack.

Actively kill the claptraps from close to medium distance. What happens when you do so is that MORE and MORE spawn from MINAC.

For example, if you get in and kill the first tow claptraps to emerge from MINACs doors before those doors close, more claptraps will spawn. If you kill them, 2 more will spawn. And so on.

What happens is that instead of 2 claptraps emerging from the doors every time MINAC stops, 6-8 emerge.

Also, I found that with these extra claptraps emerging (and the greater number of dropped items which naturally appear), actively hunting them down seems to increase the chances for special drops.

In 90 minutes last night, I gathered 10 sets of 3D glasses, 6 Clapfish, 8 pink panties, 6-8 oil cans, 6-8 bobbleheads and 5 pieces of pizza. In just 90 minutes!

Once you're finished farming, kill MINAC and gather the rest of the items. But yes, get out, chase the claptraps and actively farm - its more fun and hugely more profitable.

The fish and panties won't take long to get, but the pizza is probably the rarest drop and you need a lot of them. So be prepared to farm for a while.

There are two easy way to get collectibles.

1. In the hyperion dump, north of the entrance.
2. Farming MINAC.

For method 1 just go to the hyperion dump, head north and kill all of the claptraps surrounding the fort. Collect any rare-drops and then save and quit. Then resume game and you will be back at the entrance and you can do it again. This is not terribly difficult but rather time consuming. I was only getting 1 or 2 rare drops in a run.

For method 2 go to MINAC and immediately run forwards and to the left. On the left hand side of the road (after the really big rock) there is a smaller rock you can hide behind. From the road looking at the rock there is a red chest to the right of it. From this position you can avoid MINAC and the DW claptraps. Pop out once and a while to destroy all of the turrets. Once you've done that it is relatively safe to go out from your hiding spot. Here is where you have some options. You can either stay in your hiding spot for hours, or you can go out and chase MINAC around killing the DWCTs quickly. The faster you kill them the more of them spawn.

I decided to use a combination. After sitting for awhile I would run out, collect items and chase MINAC around. When I got bored I just went back into hiding and walked away and did something else. I was a little hesitant to leave it over night without testing it first.

On my first run I wasn't close enough to the rock and eventually some DWCT got to me and killed me. If you are situated correctly you could die a lot if you leave it over night.

Once you've left it run for a while hop out and collect your loot and then kill MINAC. The longer you let it go the more loot there will be. I only had to leave it going overnight (8hrs) to get the remaining items.

Loot Rarity
Pizza
Oil Can
Claptrap bobble-heads
Panties
Fish
3D glasses

If you are only going for the special items, you can sit and do the MINAC version, which takes a long long time, left mine on for 10+ hrs only got 3d glasses chieve and its a party. But when you are killing claptraps if they drop a special it will drop two things one normal one special, so when killing look for a double green drop to make it go a little faster. The best to farm them is the dump at the beginning go north around the Hyperion camp, then south east corner also has bunches of only claptraps.

I did this one yesterday. I hadnt seen pizza yet and I had a very little amount of bobble heads.
I started the MINAC boss again and did active boosting:( first destroy his turrets then following him and shooting to his garage or whatever it is, killing as many claptraps as possible ) but after an hour I was so frustrated because I got just two oil cans, few panties and two fish.

Still no pizza, no bobble head but after maybe 10-15 minutes I thought its my lucky day :D I have got 2 pizzas at once and then 1 bobble head.

After this moment I have got 16 pizzas, 14 bobble heads, 19 oil cans, up to 20 from panties, fish, 3D glasses in around 4 hours of boosting.

So try it maybe it will work for you too it is different for everyone.

I personally used the farming of MINAC technique. Upon entering the area where you battle it, make your way to the left corner and park yourself behind the rock, make sure you're ducked down and as close as possible to the rock. At this point, I walked away. Went to bed, to work the next day and came back approx. 20 hours later. Please note that even with your character ducked next to the rock, the turret guns on MINAC will still occasionally hit you. You may want to use the shield upgrade so that it recharges it after being hit. I came back 20 hours later and had extensive drops. Please also note that the amount of drops was so extensive that my Xbox had trouble handling it and was quite slow with movements upon picking it back up. Simply beat MINAC and collect everything you need. The landscape was almost completely green from drops. I got more than what I needed for all of the achievements. This was my method and I think it worked quite well.

This Is the quickest possible method:

- Use a Modded shield so you don't die. (Unless Ran Over)

- Use A modded gun so you can spawn trap the claptraps.(Ask anyone online, most Players have them.)

- Use Berserkers super sprint glitch to run the same speed as the MINAC. (Click LB activating Rage, Then Enter a Racer. You'll need to do this before entering Sanders Gorge, go to arid badlands through fast travel as there are no catch a ride stations located in any of the DLC. )

- And then you just chase the MINAC around for 2 Hours spawn trapping the Claptraps coming out the door on the back of the MINAC, stay as close as possible. Then you should have all 4 of these achievements. Also when you finish the DLC, you can go back to the MINAC at any point, it will respawn along with the Marcus cut scene.

In the order I Achieved,
It's so realistic!
Bobble-Trap.
The Lubricator.
What a party!

Note: If you don't want to use mods, try to play as a really high level on Playthrough one, this will is closest you can get to being invincible without mods. Passive Farming would probably take about 15 hours, So I wouldn't bother.