Sons of the Forest Cheats and Tips

Sons of the Forest Cheats, Tips, Strategy

Sons of the Forest is an open-world survival horror simulator. Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends. Take a look at our Sons of the Forest cheats. The game is available on PC.

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Sons of the Forest Cheats, Tips, Strategy

Take a look at the cheats and tips below to get help in Sons of the Forest.

Make sure you make a point of saving the game often, especially when you find key items or have just unlocked a new area. There is only one way in which you can save the game, and it requires having a tent or a bed. You will find abandoned tents scattered around the forest and if necessary one can be built using a tarp and a stick. Beds are created using a blueprint from the survivor's handbook. In order to save you simply have to approach a tent or bed and hold the 'E' key down on your keyboard.

In order to advance the storyline and explore certain areas of the island such as the underground you will first have to obtain certain items. Make sure you strive to locate them as soon as possible as the longer you are on the island the more dangerous it becomes as mutants and cannibals will start spawning. The items in question include the rebreather, the shovel, the rope gun, and the can opener. Grabbing all these items early on will help minimize the danger while exploring the island. It will also unlock useful items that make surviving much easier. Most of the items you need are marked on the map, simply hit every point of interest to find them.

Early during your playthrough you need to think about building a home base, so you have somewhere to return after exploring the island. Make sure that the location you choose has fresh water as having a river or lake nearby will enable you to easily fill your thirst meter. It will also help you to get food as freshwater typically has fish. It is important that you protect your home base, this means setting up things like defensive walls, traps, and lookout towers. Don't forget to scout the area before you start building to be certain there are no cannibal camps nearby.

Once you have built your base you will want to store food, water, crafting materials, and ammo stock there. You will be able to find all these items by searching the island, they can be picked up from containers, abandoned camps, and dead bodies found in the forest. The best place to go to get these supplies is the helicopter site. Items that spawn sparingly include meal packs, meds, and ammo so keep an eye out for them. Camps, caves, and underground facilities hidden on the island will give you plenty of resources but you need to keep in mind you will more than likely have to deal with mutant cannibals there. Make a note where containers and camps are because they all reset and can be looted again after a few in-game days pass.

Kelvin is a fellow rescue team member sent to the island to find the missing Puffton family that has gone missing. Even though the helicopter crash has left Kelvin deaf and slightly brain damaged he is still an irreplaceable asset that you need to keep alive. If you are nice to Kelvin you can get him to fish, collect sticks and rocks, and cut down trees and building structures. In order for Kelvin to continue the tasks you give him you must be nice to him and make sure he has breaks. If Kelvin feels abused or overworked he will stop working on what you have asked him to do. If Kelvin dies you will not be able to replace him. The only way you will be able to get another Kelvin is to start a new playthrough.

The second NPC that you will be given an opportunity to work with in Sons of the Forest is Virginia, the ballet loving adult daughter of multi-billionaire Edward Puffton. Virginia is a slender, Caucasian woman with fair skin and blonde hair tied behind her head. She has dark eyes and a permanent scowl. Her most prominent characteristics are her three arms and three legs. Unlike Kelvin her loyalty is not initially guaranteed, and the relationship is strictly on her terms. Virginia will keep her distance to begin with but once she realizes you are nonthreatening and trusts you she can get her to hunt for you and fight cannibals. Unlike Kelvin, she can hold and use guns. In order to keep her happy you simply have to be nice to her and try and find her clothing that will keep her warm during winter.

Sons Of The Forest has four seasons and they each last between 4–6 days. The most challenging of these seasons is winter due to the harsh weather conditions, so it is essential that you prepare for it beforehand, which means finding ways in which to stay warm. This is important because your stamina is harder to maintain during winter as the cold and wet weather drains it faster. The different ways in which you can stay warm are to sit near a fire, craft a torch using a stick, a cloth, and the lighter from the emergency pack, or find the winter jacket on the snowy mountain.

If your character dies in Sons of the Forest the game will give you a chance to continue. In order to take advantage of this opportunity and advance in the game you will need to cut yourself loose from wherever you spawned tied up and pickup your backpack which you will be able to find nearby. If however you are killed a second time in the same playthrough your character will die, and you will have no option but to restart or load back to your last save point.

Tips and Tricks Guide

The video below is a compilation of tips and tricks that will help you to survive in Sons of the Forest.

Tips and Tricks Guide for Sons of the Forest

0:00 - Intro

0:40 - Can you lock doors?

1:29 - How to build a spiked defensive wall

3:05 - The spiked half-wall

4:02 - How to zoom on the GPS

4:14 - Where to build a base

4:40 - Revenge...

5:03 - Giving Virginia guns

5:14 - Put a GPS on Virginia

5:35 - How to tame Virginia

5:55 - How to un-tame Virginia

6:25 - Kelvin can fill resource holders

7:05 - The best way to use Kelvin - Fishing!

7:29 - How to aim trees when chopping them down

7:40 - Kelvin will chop down treehouses

8:03 - Kelvin has stamina and needs rest

8:24 - Kelvin can carry radios!

9:02 - How to put logs on a zipline

9:12 - How to float logs down a river

9:41 - How to auto-fill log collectors

10:08 - How to make firewood and build reinforced fires

10:50 - How many logs can you have at once?

11:42 - How to zipline through walls

12:15 - Where to find GPS locators

12:57 - Where to find small rocks

13:15 - How to get extra feathers from birds

13:45 - Extra feathers from a birdhouse

13:58 - How to swim faster

14:22 - How to distract sharks

15:16 - Do logs despawn when you leave the area?

15:45 - How to instantly regenerate health and stamina

16:41 - How does strength work?

18:15 - Does the game get harder if you skip time?

18:50 - How to quick swap items

19:05 - How to bind items to hotkeys

19:17 - How to craft items as fast as possible

19:44 - How to build structures on ice and create floating buildings

21:12 - Things you can do with sticks

21:52 - How to set up GPS map markers

22:48 - Shelves are useful

23:07 - Outro

How To Build the Ultimate Spike Wall

The video below is a walkthrough and tutorial for building an impenetrable wooden half-wall with outward facing spikes. Suitable for base defense or gateways, this design is durable and versatile and can shred through cannibals and mutants alike.

How To Build the Ultimate Spike Wall in Sons of the Forest

0:00 - Intro

0:05 - Demonstration

0:46 - Concept

2:35 - Building the Wall

4:17 - Setting the Spikes

7:00 - Using Rocks to Fortify

9:04 - The Final Product

Complete Story Explained

The video below is a complete story of The Forest & Sons Of The Forest. It also explains the endings of the game.

Sons of the Forest Complete Story Explained

0:00 - Intro to The Forest & Sons Of The Forest

0:24 - PROLOGUE (The Missionaries, The Peninsula, and Ancient Artifacts)

1:28 - Where did the Cannibals come from?

2:09 - The Legend of The Peninsula (Missing Tourists, Abducted Children, etc.)

3:10 - CHAPTER 1 (Mathew Cross, Sahara Therapeutics, and Megan Cross)

3:40 - Jairus, Project Jarius, and The Resurrection Obelisk

4:44 - Early results of Project Jarius (Virginia, Armsy)

5:48 - Progress, Restraining Orders, and Murder of Jessica Cross

6:32 - First Death of Megan Cross

7:06 - Mathew Cross, The Power Obelisk, and The Passenger Plane

8:14 - CHAPTER 2 (Eric LeBlanc, His Wife, and the Plane Crash)

9:38 - The Red Man, Timmy's Abduction, the Locals (Cannibals)

11:29 - Early Clues (Sahara Logos, Red Paint, The Yacht, Obelisk Drawing)

12:31 - The Caves, Creepy Mutants, Timmy Drawings, and Ancient Architecture

13:45 - Red Man's Insanity & Identity (Mathew Cross)

14:39 - Sinkhole, Sahara's Laboratory, and Mathew's Rampage

15:54 - Death of Timmy LeBlanc

16:56 - Plan to Save Timmy & Hunt for Megan Cross

18:03 - Second Death of Megan Cross (The Girl/Mutant Megan)

19:17 - Failure to Revive Timmy, Death of Mathew Cross, Gold Keycard

20:10 - The Power Obelisk & Eric's Choice

22:32 - CHAPTER 3 (Timmy LeBlanc's Scar & Affliction)

23:54 - The Years Between, Parallel Universes, & Site 2

24:26 - CHAPTER 4 (Sons Of The Forest), Site 2 (The Island), and The Puffton's Disappearance

25:10 - The Protagonist, Crash Landing, Silver Jacket (Jianyu), and Kelvin

26:24 - The Journey begins (Underground Bunkers & GPS Locaters)

27:01 - Meeting Virginia Puffton and the Tribals

27:31 - The Mutants, Where they came from, & the Golden Ore

28:39 - Fate of Edward Puffton & Barbara Puffton

29:08 - Revolutionary new metal, Company Emails, & Ancient Artifacts

30:01 - CHAPTER 5 (The Reunion) Timmy LeBlanc & Eric LeBlanc

31:04 - History of Conflict between Puff Corp & Sahara Therapeutics

31:44 - The Cube, True Motive for Puff Corp buying Site 2

32:58 - Jianyu Zhang (Silver Jacket) + Ties to Sahara & Puff Corp

33:42 - Properties of The Cube & Golden Armor

34:36 - CHAPTER 6 (Befriending Virginia, Edward Puffton's Will/Estate, & Duel-wielding)

35:18 - The Last Bunker (Virginia's Room, Cube Paintings, Gold Door)

36:29 - Beyond the Golden Door, True Demons, and The Cross

38:02 - Cube Activates Every 8 Cycles (Moon Cycles), Stay Inside Cube

39:35 - Final Cutscene (Cube Activation) and Ending Explained

40:15 - The Cube Cures Timmy LeBlanc

41:23 - The Cube's Effect on Virginia & on Jianyu Zhang (Silver Jacket)

42:17 - EPILOGUE (Questions to be answered)

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