Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate Locations and Cleanup Guide

Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations total 68 across the campaign, and collecting every one unlocks the Crate Collector trophy.

How Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations work

Example mission	Material Crates
Homecoming	2
Strays	1
Something Much Stronger	4
Knock Knock	2
Mutant Detected	4
Bad Blood	4
Hell Followed With Him	4
Sinister Tidings	1
Way Down Low	4

The crates are more important than ordinary completion pickups because their materials are used to craft suits. Crafting enough suits raises Logan’s maximum health, so a player who ignores crates can reach the late game with fewer health upgrades even if their Technique level is high.

Use the tracker instead of searching blind

The pause menu tracks collectibles by mission, which makes Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations much easier to clean up. If a chapter shows a missing crate, replay that mission from the Nightmare Cabin after the story and use Enhanced Senses while checking side rooms, rooftops, trucks and breakable routes.

There is also a Crate Finder Adaptation later in the progression system. It extends Enhanced Senses so Material Crates can be detected from farther away and through obstacles, making post-game cleanup significantly less irritating.

Crates are spread through the main regions

Canada, Madripoor and Japan all contain clusters of crates, while some short or boss-focused missions contain none. The game often places them a few steps away from the story line rather than at the end of huge open-world detours. Watch for side rooms immediately after combat arenas and for alternate paths before climbing to the next objective.

Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations can also appear inside vehicles, behind breakable barriers and on small vertical routes. If the objective marker is pulling you forward, sweep the current room before crossing a one-way traversal point.

Material Crates and the health upgrades

Suit crafting is the reason to prioritize the crate set. Health rises as the crafted-suit count reaches six, 12, 16 and 20, eventually doubling Logan’s base health. The Adamantium Armory trophy is attached to that progression rather than to simply owning a Deluxe costume pack.

That makes Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations one of the best collectible sets to finish first. More materials mean more craftable suits, and more crafted suits mean a bigger health bar for later Nightmare Trials and cleanup fights.

Best post-game crate route

Finish the story, open the Nightmare Cabin, and note only the missions where the collectible tracker is incomplete. Replay those chapters in story order so you can clear a region in one pass. If a chapter has several missing items, collect the bottles and Nightmare Doors during the same replay rather than returning yet again.

Once all 68 Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations are cleared, Crate Collector should unlock and you will have the material pool needed to finish the suit-crafting health milestones.

Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations: Pair crate cleanup with suit crafting

Do not wait until every crate is open before visiting the suit-crafting menu. Spend materials as you go, check which health milestone is next, and then return to crate cleanup with a clear reason for collecting more. That turns the 68 crates into a progression route rather than a box-ticking exercise.

If a chapter still shows missing collectibles, clear its crates before moving to the next mission so the remaining total steadily shrinks instead of becoming a scattered endgame hunt.

Marvel’s Wolverine Material Crate locations matter most when you connect each cleanup run to the next suit-crafting or maximum-health milestone.

Why Material Crates are worth opening early

Material Crates are more than a completion counter. Their resources are used for suit crafting, and crafting enough standard suits increases Logan’s maximum health. That makes crates one of the few collectible types that can directly improve the rest of your playthrough rather than simply filling a menu.

If you miss crates during a mission, do not restart the campaign. Finish the story and use Mission Replay from the Nightmare Cabin to revisit the relevant chapter. The Collectibles and Interacts Shader under Visuals is also worth enabling during cleanup because it makes interactable collectible objects easier to distinguish from the environment.

Official Marvel’s Wolverine information

For official game information, visit the Marvel’s Wolverine page on PlayStation.