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Trash Picker

Trash Picker

Scavenge 40 items in a single game in Regular or Hardcore difficulty.

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How to unlock the Trash Picker achievement in Call of Duty: Ghosts - Definitive Guide

I highly recommend doing this on solo, or with a group of friends who are willingly aiding you in unlocking this achievement as randoms sometimes steal the searchables. What "Trash Picker" is having us do is search through 40 searchable items in one game of Extinction. The achievement isn't too hard, although it may be made more complicated by having to dip into the third area instead of finishing it in the first two.

Essentially you want to clear out the entire first area through the big hive. Once the big hive is gone you can freely and without worry from enemies, search the entire beginning area as well as the city. Most people claim to have gotten their 40th item sometime in the city, although myself personally, had to wait until the third and final area to snag my 40th.

Aside from that there really isn't any "set" rhyme or reason to where, or how many searchables spawn in a map. I highly suggest you watch the video provided by NGTZombies in which Spider shows a large number of possible searchable locations.

Huge thanks to NGTZombies for the video walkthrough.
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21 Dec 2013 23:26

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Pretty easy on solo, I found 25 in the first area, 13 in the second area, and had to grab 2 from the third area. Not sure how many are in the third area in total though.
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By x Slick Hick x on 30 Dec 2013 22:44
Indeed. I did it on solo myself and found it much more relaxing not having to worry about other people. I would assume there are easily 30+ in the third area give or take, but grabbing those couple necessary ones is all I could stand myself haha.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 30 Dec 2013 22:50
Im not sure if you can call it easy solo. Still quite a challenge especially last round in town. You need to really focus on easy challenges to quickly upgrade your skills which is in my humble opinion essential for last round in town. Would be a nice cheevo to finish extinction solo :) got to second round in 3rd location. Rhino always puts me down.
Anyway. Got 25 in 1st location, 14 in 2nd and almost died during barrier attack :) lucky. Got last one in 3rd location no problem.
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By Prezesmaks on 06 Jan 2014 14:07
Well my thought was that you do not actually have to do the cabin area if you are solely going for this achievement. You simply need to beat the second barrier hive and collect the missing searchables, I did not attempt the final area.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 06 Jan 2014 14:35
True - you can easily go for probably 3-5 collections in cabin without Rhino interruption by obviously not starting drilling :)
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By Prezesmaks on 06 Jan 2014 16:32
I got the achievement right after destroying the city barrier hive. There is one right behind it. Plus once you have turrets it's very easy to get to this point
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By l Archvile l on 24 Jan 2014 18:57
can anyone confirm this can be done on easiest difficulty?
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By Steviefull on 02 Jun 2014 19:27
I just tried 2x Stevie and collected 45 and nothing. So I'm thinking it isn't possible. Maybe someone can confirm the contrary?
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By ShaneKarma on 08 Jun 2014 04:46
Any able to help me boost this give me a shout please could really use the help
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By Tonicarborist on 15 Mar 2016 21:24
Check out this list of people Tonicarborist --> https://www.trueachievements.com/boostgame.aspx?gameid=4933
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 16 Mar 2016 17:10
Video is now unavailable.
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By Carbonitex on 09 Apr 2024 14:09
Looks like the link just changed, made the adjustment and re-uploaded!
Perfect. That's what the comment was meant to sort and you fixed it. Thumbs up!
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By Carbonitex on 09 Apr 2024 22:25
A friend and I tried for this tonight. While I was able to get the achievement, he was not. When I had my turn, I found 25 spots in the first area, and 15 in the second. We did not need to open up the third. We tried twice for him, and he got 23/13 and 23/12.

What seems to happen with this is that some of the spots can respawn. But, you have to "consume" what's at that spot. For example, if there's a flare there, pick it up and throw it away, then pick back up what you originally swapped for the flare to leave that spot "empty". Then, you can come back to a spot like that and there is a possibility it will have respawned. We did have that happen to us once, during my turn, at the first spot on the left in the second area (next to the truck with the turret on top). We came back around to it after the original pass, and the spot was searchable again (this was my 40th).
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By TheIcemanCometh on 01 Jan 2014 03:13
Appreciate it Carbonitex, will see if I can find us a new one.

Looks like the link just changed, made the adjustment and re-uploaded!
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 09 Apr 2024 21:14
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I got this on the DLC map "Mayday" for both xbox one and x360 versions playing solo. I'm not sure if other DLC maps work too since I didn't test them out.

On Mayday you will have to get to the second area. This is after the tentacle. You most likely will have to open both doors to the rooms in order to scavenge enough items. One room contains the schematic for the venom X weapon. Red boxes count, so you can keep picking up schematics and crafting items to help you get to 40. IMO mayday is an easier map to get this achievement on.

I discovered this by accident when playing Mayday and going for "the architect" achievement "build all schematics"

Happy Hunting
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29 Apr 2015 01:04

this is best done by playing with 2-3 friends and no randoms. around each location (motel, town, cabin, crater) you will find one of two things. one looks like an open trash bag the other is an ammo box. decide before you start playing who is getting the trophy because one of you can only get it. remember this has to be done in a single game. now not only do you have to open each item you MUST pick it up. if you already have an equivalent item, it replaces it. ie if you have a flare and find a hypo knife it switches it out. and no you cannot keep doing it to the same item 40 times. look around the edges of the map. bottom and top of motel. edges of any obstacle. when you finish the motel area you should have 20-30 items. the city should give you another 10-15. you will unlock the trophy in the cabin area. should only take 3-7 items to loot.
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18 Nov 2013 01:17

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I would just like to point out that this trophy IS possible to obtain in the city area, so you don't necessarily have to make it to the cabin. So if you're like me and can't get past the final hive in the city you can still obtain this if you're lucky.

It won't always be possible but if you are falling short by a few then just keep restarting (if you have the patience and persistence) until you get a lucky drop. I was able to get this by playing with my partner. What I did was went around scavenging in between drilling the hives in the initial area and the motel area, and I noticed that sometimes once you've cleared the final hive there if you go back and search some of the areas you'd already scavenged that sometimes the boxes/bags had respawned and I was able to search them again. This is how it made it possible for me to get my 40th in the city. When you enter the city area, don't drill anything and search the entire area and pray that you're lucky enough to get the trophy! It'll probably take quite a few restarts, but stick with it and you'll eventually be rewarded!
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By A_Tennis_Giraffe on 05 Mar 2016 07:51

Note: Do this solo as you can search all the boxes yourself then, your teammates won't be taking any.

While playing the game, you will notice these boxes and bags that you can search to find supplies. The supplies consist of ammo, attachments, SOFLAMs and Hypno knifes. All you have to do is search 40 of these supply boxes in a single game. The easiest way to do this is to get to the cabin area then just not drill anything. Keep the drill and just walk around the entire map looking for these supply boxes. If you walk around with the drill and don't place it, aliens won't spawn in. There is about 50 in total, so more than enough to get the trophy.

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It is recommended that you do this solo, or with a group of friends that is taking turns getting this achievement. Items appear as small open trash bags or green containers on the ground of random areas. They are usually well hidden. Make sure to search areas for items before placing the drill, as enemies will only spawn once drilling starts.

Sweep through all 3 areas as much as possible, and make sure to look through every corner of the map before moving on to the next zone. After clearing the final hive, you will have unlimited time to explore as long as you don't plant the bomb, so it is recommended that you do this if playing with others.

Here is a video that will show all the most common spawn points of items:

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It is recommended that you do this solo, or with a group of friends that is taking turns getting this achievement. Items appear as small open trash bags or green containers on the ground of random areas. They are usually well hidden. Make sure to search areas for items before placing the drill, as enemies will only spawn once drilling starts.

Sweep through all 3 areas as much as possible, and make sure to look through every corner of the map before moving on to the next zone. After clearing the final hive, you will have unlimited time to explore as long as you don't plant the bomb, so it is recommended that you do this if playing with others.

Here is a video that will show all the most common spawn points of items:

 

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The trophy is very easy, just one friend is enough, or you can do it with one if you play well, the main thing is to stand until the first helicopter, after the helicopter has destroyed the hive, take the drill, the entrance to the second location opens, now run and look for and collect bags of garbage and boxes. In two locations there is just the right amount of bags and boxes, exactly 40 pieces, that’s how I got the trophy and so did my friends.
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18 Apr 2014 18:30

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Clarification. The trophy is not cumulative!
When a monster kills itself or a player kills the server, the counter will reset to zero. It takes 1 player to collect all 40 pieces and the trophy will pop out.
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By Hunter-0312 on 03 May 2017 21:06
I played alone on easy level and didn't get a trophy. Available at intermediate and hardcore levels. On average, garbage is scattered on the 1st map ± 20 pieces, on the 2nd map ± 10 and on the 3rd also ± 10.
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15 Nov 2014 19:48