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A Healthy Alternative

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A Healthy Alternative

健全替代

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Condition evidence

Start, completion and failure conditions are separate. Unverified rules are not treated as mandatory prerequisites.

  1. Start conditionQuest status
    One Less Loose End

    Required status: Started

  2. Failure conditionQuest status
    One Less Loose End

    Required status: Completed

Task giver
Therapist
Location
Any map
Task type
Discover
Faction
PMC
On this page
  1. Brief
  2. Objectives
  3. Prerequisites
  4. Rewards
  5. Task Guide
    1. <p>By completing <a …
    2. <table> <tbody> <…
    3. Lab journal Icon
    4. <p>The journal can b…
    5. Laboratory location marked on map
    6. Entrance to the laboratory
    7. Spawn #1: In the first room on the trolley
    8. Spawn #2: In the first room on the chest of drawers next to the glass cabinet
    9. Spawn #3: In the second room in the bottom compartment of the right industrial shelf
    10. Spawn #4: In the second room in the small fridge on the floor
    11. Spawn #5: In the second room on the right desk
  6. Task Dialogue

Brief

Hello. I understand that you were tasked with finding the laboratory log from the polychemical plant. Apparently, TerraGroup is willing to pay handsomely for the extraction of their documents. I urge you to reconsider. If the corporation cares so much about this material, it must be hiding something valuable! Obviously, I mean valuable to the city and its citizens. Just leave the journal in my care.

Objectives

1
  1. Hand over the lab journal

Rewards

Awarded on completion

Experience +3000幸运Scav垃圾箱Lucky Scav Junk box ×1

Task Guide

Guide available

A Healthy Alternative Guide

By completing One Less Loose End, you will lose access to this quest.

By completing One Less Loose End, you will lose access to this quest.

Related Quest Items Icon Item name Amount Requirement Find in raid Notes Lab journal 1 Handover item Yes This quest item can only be found if the quest is active. When picked up, this item is transferred to the player's quest item inventory. If the player fails to extract with this item, they will lose it.

Lab journal Icon

The journal can be found in the laboratory on the second floor of Factory. There are multiple spawns throughout both rooms.

Laboratory location marked on map
Entrance to the laboratory
Spawn #1: In the first room on the trolley
Spawn #2: In the first room on the chest of drawers next to the glass cabinet
Spawn #3: In the second room in the bottom compartment of the right industrial shelf
Spawn #4: In the second room in the small fridge on the floor
Spawn #5: In the second room on the right desk
Author: Escape from Tarkov Wiki contributorsUpdated: Jul 31, 2026Reference: escapefromtarkov.fandom.comReference revision: 347188
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Task Dialogue

Task complete You picked the right side! This journal will be very useful to my acquaintance in his experiments.... I mean, research! This way we can alleviate the suffering of the Tarkov citizens who are still in the city.

Task failed You've decided to return the journal to the corp? You don't seem to care much for the people of this town. I'm disappointed in your choice.