How to Get a Backpack in Abiotic Factor

This guide will tell you how to get a Backpack in Abiotic Factor after opening the Cafeteria Doors and how you can get bigger Backpacks later in the game.

You'll pick up lots of different resources as you're playing Abiotic Factor and you're going to need somewhere to store all of those crafting supplies and food you've found. A Backpack can seriously increase your inventory space — read on to learn how to get one and how each of the Backpacks work!

How to Get a Backpack in Abiotic Factor

You can get a Backpack in Abiotic Factor in the first hour of the game as long as you know where to go. First, you'll need to power up the door that allows you to exit the Cafeteria.

Next, head into the Plaza with the large fountain and the security kiosk. Turn left and walk up the stairs toward the Data Farm, a massive, open-air office. Once you're inside, you're going to look for a manager's office with glass paneling on the side.

Walk toward that office. Watch out for hostile aliens — there are many Pests and one or two Peccaries wandering around the offices here.

Head into the office and you'll find a bunch of useful items. Look to the left of the entrance and you'll see a Basic Backpack on the ground.

Amazingly, there is another Backpack not too far away from here — and it's even better.

Go behind this office and look over the ledge — you'll see a thin platform leading to a ladder.

Climb down the ladder.

Once you're at the bottom, go into a tunnel and you'll find a dead GATE employee with a Security Pack and a number of useful resources.

The Basic Backpack gives you 6 additional spaces in your inventory, and the Security Pack gives you 9 additional inventory slots. As with most equipment, your equipped Backpack will stay with your character if you die — although you'll lose everything inside of it and you'll have to retrieve your corpse to get the contents back.

You can get this particular Basic Backpack and a Security Pack a few minutes after you open the Cafeteria doors, but it won't be of much help to the rest of your team if you're playing in multiplayer. Fortunately, you can craft a Backpack for everyone using some pretty basic supplies to tide your team over until you find more Backpacks in other places.

Abiotic Factor Backpack List

Makeshift Backpack

• Capacity: 15
• Weight Reduction: 10
• Weight: 2

The Makeshift Backpack can be crafted for 2 Cloth Scrap and 1 Metal Pipe. It's fairly cheap, but it will only give you 3 additional inventory slots.

Basic Backpack

• Capacity: 18
• Weight Reduction: 15
• Weight: 3

The Basic Backpack is the first Backpack you'll be able to find in the Office Sector. There are multiple Basic Backpacks spread all throughout the Office Sector and Manufacturing Sector.

Security Pack

• Capacity: 21
• Weight Reduction: 14
• Weight: 4

The Security Pack is a rarer Backpack that has 3 more slots than the Basic Backpack. I've only ever found one in a ventilation system, but you won't be using it for very long since you're likely to enter the Manufacturing Sector soon.

Radio Pack

• Capacity: 21
• Weight Reduction: 12
• Weight: 4
• Greatly reduces Battery drain when worn.

The Radio Pack has a smaller capacity than the Military Pack, but it has an advantage — it reduces the drain of your battery-powered devices while you're wearing it (such as the Flashlight).

This Backpack is dropped by Order soldiers who are carrying it, so this is a renewable resource provided that you can successfully kill the soldiers carrying it.

Military Pack

• Capacity: 24
• Weight Reduction: 20
• Weight: 4

The Military Pack can be acquired once you've entered the Manufacturing Sector. Although you may be able to find one lying around, you're much more likely to get one by killing Order soldiers.

This Backpack is dropped by Order soldiers if you can manage to kill them, making it a renewable resource.

That's the end of our guide on how to get a Backpack in Abiotic Factor. Have a gander at our other guides below!