Here are 15 Things I Wish I Knew Sooner in Sons of The Forest; From Dssential beginner tips to advanced hunting tricks to increase your chances of survival on the island! *Enjoy my content? Don't forget to smash that like button, helps out the channel. Cheers!* Make sure to join our Discord to stay in the loop with channel updates and connect with the community: tinyurl.com/04AMdiscord

1) In multiplayer, you can harvest multiple skins from Cave Dwellers/Fingers/etc, if all players use the "cut skin" action at the same time. This also applies for getting skin from deer. If only one player skins the creature/animal, after the animation finishes, nobody else can harvest it. 2) You can place a GPS tracker on Virginia, once you have high enough affinity with her. This also lands you an achievement. 3) If you're able to get to the 3D printer cave early game and print a red mask, when the first wave of scout cannibals come to your newly established base, wear the mask to shoo them off. They won't attack. It does however disrupt Kelvin from his log hauling duties, as he will stop and point. 4) Set your base up next to a wide river with white water, where fish do not naturally spawn. From your base, tell Kelvin to "get fish" and "drop here" (at your base). Kelvin should then catch a fish (in the wide river that doesn't spawn fish) and be unable to pathfind back to your base. He will then immediately drop the fish in the river and continue fishing, then drop the fish, and fish again, rinse and repeat. Every day, check downstream (or build a dam) and you'll have 30+ fish waiting. 5) The zipline can be used to transport logs. Both ways, up and down. Very useful. 6) To avoid Kelvin and Virginia from running into walls, use a full log vertically cut, to create a step, up into your base. This should help their pathfinding. Not 100% proof though. 7) Plant a stick in the ground, then place another stick adjacent to it (following the guideline it prompts you with). This should give a meter gap between them. Use your axe to cut the sticks into stakes (spikes). Now place a vertical stick between the two stakes and another adjacent to it (following the guideline), you should now have 4 stakes with half meter gaps. Rinse and repeat this step as many times as you like to create an impentrable line of spikes that the enemy cannot breach. Amazing for protecting walls. 8) Sharks can be distracted from attacking you if you throw cannibal limbs into the water they are in 9) If you want to craft multiple arrows, don't just use 4 small rocks, 2 feathers and 2 sticks, craft, then place the same recipie again. Place 20 small rocks, 10 feathers and 10 sticks onto the crafting mat. Now spam the craft button for faster crafting speeds. This can be done for all crafting. 10) Don't be stingy with your guns and ammo. There isn't an end boss (that's not a spoiler, its a disappointment), and ammo respawns when you log out and back in. 11) You can use your shovel on ANY lightish brown terrain (that looks similar to the grave's terrain). There is a chance of finding bones and coins with each dig. Do this for pretty much unlimited coins if you don't want to cheese the respawn trick. 12) You can use quarter logs vertically cut, and add it to a campfire (it basically becomes firewood), greatly prolonging it's burn time. 13) You can stack firewood to create a firewood pile, looks cool to boot. 14) If you see a tied up Cave Dweller, or Fingers, at a cannibal campsite; you can sneak in, cut it free and watch the carnage unfurl. Cannibals and Cave Dwellers attack each other on sight. 15) Blueberries are crap. Don't waste your time eating them.

Another tip don't build near a path at start. My friend and I got jumped second day in by the villagers after they found our half finished cabin. They can hit hard.

I wouldn't recommend skipping the seasons if your starting out fresh, as the more days you get deeper into your playthrough, the harder and stronger the enemies are, it gets to a point where more cave-dwelling cannibals start roaming the surface

Don't forget Virginia. When she is your friend you can equip her with clothing, a locator, and also the second pistol and shotgun, fully loaded, though she never runs out and she defends you very well. Even against mutants.

Don’t know if anyone knows this. But you can make log transport easier by placing a post next to your base, place a post next to you (where your clearing trees) and shoot a zip line between the 2 post you place. And place the logs on the zip line :)

My advice for doors, if you find the locals breaking into your base, don't make any first floor doors. Instead, build a disconnected ramp or stack logs to jump on so that you can jump inside your base.

If you need feathers build near the coast where there are seagulls. Make a "body pile" and place bird houses near the pile. Seagulls are attracted to bodies and will leave loads of feathers. Chop bodies up as much as possible to create as many body "nodes" as you can to attract more seagulls. This also works on the original "Forest"

This is definitely those most useful beginning tips video I've seen so far

I don't know if that is permanent option but i managed to close the door by puting the paper shooting target on it :D the canibals was not able to open the door anymore :D

The number quick select is already in game rather then having to use the backpack, but it is easy to miss. Whislt in the main inventory, hover over any item and press the 1-9 key, this will bind it to that number for quick select!

I switched my inventory key from I to TAB (on PC). It makes life so much easier.

Another tip : if you have two log equip and you are trying to build a bench, the first step of the build will be totally free, you can abuse this to get unlimited wood.

In winter season, you can build a base on a frozen lake, which will last even when winter is over. Thanks to zip lines you can enter and leave the base with no problem, while enemies stay out for 3/4 year. To avoid attacks on your base in coming winters (when the lake is frozen again) you can install defense systems like sticks in the ice which you sharp with your axe after placing them. Your enemies will kill themselves when done correctly. This will also provide an easy way to get some food during the cold time (even when you realise at that moment, that you, too, are a cannibal). A locked door can be realized by putting a stick on your installed door. But enemies will destroy your door to enter your house. Using zip lines, take care to install them on trees, because enemies will destroy everything that isn't 100% natural. If you connect a zip line to a simple log which you may place because there is no tree around, you may loose your good rope because some enemy destroyed the log. Of cause you can protect your zip line carrying log with spikes, but that costs ressources and time. Fighting mutants, I'm not sure but I think that a torch is your best weapon. Set those creeps on fire multiple times will kill most of them really quick.

You anyway need a tarp shelter at base just to mark it as your base on a map. Other structures that offer save and sleep, does not visible on map. So easy to get lost after you climb out from cave and try navigate this map without a North mark, and base is invisible.

You can generate unlimited carbon arrows quicker than saving and exiting. First build a shelf to store items in your camp. Then select the carbon arrows in your bow. Place all of the carbon arrows from your inventory on the shelf. Shoot the carbon arrow that is still loaded in your bow at a log pillar (I would caution against shooting the floor as it can destroy it and your shelf as well). Then pick up the arrow and then add it to the shelf. You will still have one loaded into the bow and can just repeat this process until you have shelves full of carbon arrows. Haven't tried it with crossbow yet. This works with all the arrow types! Enjoy!

I don't use the backpack to switch items and I'll tell you why...In SPM, when you open your inventory, it stops the game (time continues to elapse) so let's say you're very low on health simply press I and enemies will not be able to attack you so long as they're not in their attack animations already. While in your inventory, you can eat to recover hp and leave it open while the hp bar fills up then, when full, you can go back to your business. Very handy...ESPECIALLY ON HARD MODE.

Here’s a really good tip that comes over from the first game! Bird nests spawn feathers for you. You can get up to 20 feathers in a few minutes without effort. You can spend this time building, hunting, or raiding and you can come back with enough feathers to create a plentiful amount of arrows.

You can put items on a hotkey (1,2,3.... and so) just went with the mouse over the item on the bagpack and push the button u want the item on. You dont see on the first time but when u leave the crafting menu the items are on the Hotkeys

if you are playing multiplayer and farming creepy armor, all players can cut the mutants at the same time so everybody gets armor from the same body. as soon as the first person finishes cutting the mutant, no one is able to do it anymore

One tip I felt so dumb for not knowing, you can put sticks face up in the ground then hit them with your axe and it pushes the stick outward along with turning the blunt stick into a spike. So in the situation where you're having enemies that keep coming from a certain direction you can put spikes along that area, while pairing that zone with traps.

If you eat food you caught raw it will only heal a little bit. If you eat cooked food you are more likely to heal more

make sure you get the zipline / ropegun first. so you can zipline from place to place. really nice and it feels like a big forrest park

There's a duplication glitch for the drying rack btw. I mainly get some fish, and when you go to hang them up, click as fast as you can. You'll end up putting two fish on, while only using one. Same for the campfire

For some reason (might just be in multiplayer) but Virginia drops the gun and it comes back to my inventory. And when me and my cousin enter a cave she and sometimes Kelvin (Kelvin doesn’t move if you put him on stay) just ends up leaving the base and appearing somewhere else on the map. Most often around where we exit the cave. Although Virginia has sometimes just gone of to the helicopter crash (we have the forest one) and stayed around that area. It’s starting to get annoying but I can live with it

If you hit a bird after you kill it, you'll get more feathers. Also, you can hotbar an item by hovering your mouse over it and pressing 1, 2, 3, ect.

Say you have been attacked by 5-7 cannibals and killed first 5 with arrows. While you will be killing last two, first 5 may simply despawn ALONG with your arrows.

great video man you have some really solid content. much appreciated on the tips

Some good advice here apart from Kelvin, There is only 3 commands you should use with him, drop logs here, drop fish here and follow me. Using the deliver to container is bad, he only operates in a small area so once the area is cleared he stops working, once he fills the container he stops working so there are 2 reasons why he will stop working, when you use the drop item command he will continue to work untill the area is clear of this item at which point you ask him to follow to a new area for him to collect again, this gives only 1 reason to stop working and its the least likely one , also sticks and stones take 30 seconds to have a full inventory making these 2 options as a bad use of his time

Hi, just ran into this video, this might be already known, however some people still might not know this, hot bar 1-0 already exists from first release, You just have to go to your inventory, hover over an item and press number You want to assign to that item, no need to use backpack, this is mostly useful for weapons, however it can be assigned to consumables as well.

Using a "hot key backpack" can cause your game to freeze so I wouldn't recommend using it unless you keep saving your progress frequently. Sleeping over doesn't let you skip the seasons. I've spam slept for 250 days and the winter hasn't gone. I then loaded the same save and played normally and the snow was gone after a few real life hours. But overall, nice tips! Definitely gonna try some of these.

Also in multiplayer with friend you can dupe items when he saves, gives you items then reconnects. A nice way to walk around with shotgun and tons of ammo.

Btw you can hit the birds 2 more times after killing them to get more feathers

To get a lot of wood, just tell kelvin to clear a 20 meter area, then run a zip line from the woods to your log storage areas

Excellent advice, thank you for finding out all of these 15 tips and more !!

Thanks for the guide! 👌

These are some of the best tips I've seen so far!

DO NOT SKIP SEASONS ! On day 1 there is regular enemies in caves...on day 50 there are 4-5 mutants with 10+ canibals.....u dont want to go empty handed in that horde....also.....they will start to spawn outside caves and raids are going to be much difficult from canibals....

If you play with a friend and you are the host, he can save and place all the stuff he has on the shelves and leave and reload and have all the stuff back but it still being on the shelves and can repeat this for more item choices per relog. I think they will fix this soon, not just this but the whole respawning of loot on game exit.

Also i might add a very very important tip, that'll make your life oh so much easier. I play on hard and Fingers are literally pain in me arse. But! Make 5 spears, see the finger, toss 4 into it's body or head and with your remaining spear, thrust into it's legs, it'll stunblock it and while it's stunned you can recover your spears you tossed and keep stabbing it, until your stamina runs out, get some distance and fill our finger boy with spears again and when you're going to stabby stabby, you will kill it easily. Also it's manageable with two or three fingers, just wee bit more running around. Also! Those weeping/sleepwalking cannibals in the cave drop creepy armor, as well as all the mutants. If you have 10 on you and 10 in inventory, you're pretty tanky and do 3-5 caves without worrying. Also modern axe is life saver against babies and weeping cannibals.

Not sure if this just got added but you can hotkey axe or other items. Just have to hover over the item and tap the number you wanna hot key it to and the box that shows when hovered over the item will indicate it’s hot keyed. Not sure if this is commonly known or was recently added. Cheers, thanks for video.

you can asing hotkeys to item by opening inventory and when you get your mouse over your item then hold the number. For example you open your inventory get your mouse to axe and hold 1. After that you can use 1 as axe.

I have had a lot of fighting experience in the first game so the second is so much more fun!

Another Tip: idk if its only on multiplayer but if you drop your rotten meat it will return to normal also on multiplayer if you take a log and place it on the corner of your cabin it dupes it only works on multiplayer tho

I'm a instant fan. I liked/subbed and I hit the notification button! I wish this channel the very best in the world. I hope one day I can be as big as you. XOXO

around the map there’s really big open areas that are amazing for bases, there might be cannibals but i destroyed the nearby camps and i never get attacked now

So at 6:50 , with the swatter trap for deers, can the trap accidentally hit the spider girl? Or does she not trigger it

all good tips thanks

There's a chainsaw. Awesome weapon and tree cutter. A cannibal has it. Not sure of location but he's near an open field with a short red triangular flag, like a golf flag. Eliminate it to acquire its chainsaw. Apparently, it's also in a cave not far from the beach, a little ways off a trail leading away from the river. Someone else made a video on how to find it there. You'll need the maintenance key and vip key cards. It's a tiny cave not marked on the map.

Holyshit! I had no idea you could equip multiple bits of armor. I was wondering why even regular mudmen were hitting me like a truck.

you can equip hotkeys. if you hover over an item in your inventory, you will see a grey box. press a number you want that item to be bound to, and itll confirm it in the grey box.

Good tip for building. Even though the log sled isn't in the game, you can still use the zip lines to send logs down to where you're building

So helpful. Thanks a lot. Am going to play this soon.

Awesome video, thank you.

Thank you for this video guide, I was wondering how to use the GPS locator

You can add items to ur “hot bar” obviously there is no actual hot bar but if u go into ur inventory you can hover over an item and click 1-0 to assign it to a number

Good video and this video help so much thx for it❤

Thanks for the tips man especially that birdhouse lol it was a pain in the ass to try and catch birds 😂❤❤

I built my base on stilts(or struts). cannibals have never gotten in and in some cases I just crouched and hid inside my base and they ran around and checked stuff out but never jumped/climbed inside my house. cannibals can potentiall knock it down but there are tons of support beams underneath and they'd have to get damn near all of them. I left the redundant ones underneath instead of taking them out once the ceiling is done inside. they are pretty much sitting ducks under there, i also had a redman get stuck under the base once. then i use one diagonal full-log near an opening (from floor to level 1 for running up, i'm current testing using a staircase with only 2 steps spaced out to see if cannibals can still use it to climb in. Otherwise I did a 3 story rope ladder but you can't carry logs up there if you're trying to make a very tall base w/o stairs.

I gotta say - I find the way you say OrmOr really cute. Great video ❤️

Awesome Tips Video 04AM!!! Has anyone figured out how to use traps on the big cannibals? They do not trigger Fly Swatter or Bone Maker Traps that I can tell. I am hoping they are just bugged and will eventually work on them.

Hotbar is here!! Such a useful update :)

Thank you, this will help

I hope they add random events like you wake up in the morning and the cannibals kidnapped Kelvin in the night and you have to find his tracker and rescue him before they eat him lol

You can stock up on small rocks and pre-processed foods by building shelves, idk about storing weapons

Can you do a video for beginner tips on a controller? It’s not very intuitive, Or atleast I’m struggling with it. See lots of good stuff about it but struggling to get into it. I play on steam deck

"You're not going to order a well done steak in a restaurant, that would be a true crime." Yeah definitely, don't you dare ruin my rotten meats by burning it! 😂

I`d say that the respawn loot with save/quit/load is on purpose since the gama isn`t finished yet and there is little to no sources for some items like cloth or ropes.

My friends and i literally put those traps there. Even before watching this! Great spot to catch deer!

Missy will become shiny 🤣Lmfao, nice one 😄

In the inventory you can highlight something and click a number key to set that item to the hotbar ;)

Best defense of base is 3-4 rows of sharpened sticks in ground at angle. (1 or 2 rows they can easily jump over with sprint). Leave space between rows so you can walk in there, but not more. In that manner you will create a wide area which they cannot jump over. Best if there somewhere will be a larger stone, which can be as your "door". Kelvin and girl can jump over these sticks without harm.

I have a question that I haven’t found an answer to yet. How do you repair damage done to the premade buildings? I have a log cabin Pre-made that had its door ripped off and I can’t figure out how to replace it.

An great tip insted of the quick invenotory. Just hover over an weopon or item in your inventory and press 1-0 on your keyboard to assign a keybind.

If you open your inventory and hover an item you can assign it to any number 0-9 and it will show in that little empty bo

thx very much

logs will automatically go into log storage if they collide with them, this also works with throwing them from holding them.

If you open your inventory and hover an item you can assign it to any number 1-0 and it will show in that little empty box

I need some fellow dads to play this with on steam!

Love the pronunciation of armour. Great video.

hi i just wanted to say that ive found out that if you shoot a bird with the grappling gun u can get infinite feathers because the grappling gun does next to no damage

1-9- hotkey is already present but I can't figure out how to swap items by using the mousewheel. Also, you cna lock the door with sticks but not worth it as foes can easily break in. Build indoor access to base roof instead.

also on the beach seagulls are super easy to kill even with just an axe and they give a lot of feathers

there is a 1-9 hotbar. you just can't visibly see it. You can set different items to different numbers in the inventory screen

To lock the door, just pull out a stick and left click the door to add the lock. Make sure it's on the smooth side not the log side

Merci 😉

for ammo management I found a great way to get feathers. First off if you kill a seagull, you can hit it a few more times to get more feathers to spawn. Now if you got the beach spawn, there is a spot just on the coast where like 6 or 7 seagulls spawn. Just chuck a grenade in the middle of them and I got around 70 feathers.

If you decide to give the guns to Virginia DO NOT add the mods to them as if you take them back from her the mods vanish. It's best to give her the guns unmodded and then get another set to mod for yourself.

good they fixed that you can't sleep instant many days away - I mean - why you play a survival game when you skip winter? - What I still never heard - what is the basic benefit to have a base? As I know so far you only have the benefit to be able to store items. Storing Sticks and Logs is not needed as soon your base is finish. - Place some shelters on a tiny island and the rest you can chill in the 3D Printer room. - A Base is just for the fun of building one and defending and repairing non stop instead being out exploring. Just my view. :)

you can send logs down a zipline, much faster than just manually moving it with kelvin

binding items from 0-9 is pretty cool but they DEFENATLY should bring ANY kind of hud to it. I want to destroy my "immersiv" setting by adding more hud and lower those we got. I absolutly need this 🤩🤩

Heyo! Best way to keep out Cannibals is to build a wall around house and make them spikes and create a Rope Bridge. They can't climb it nor the walls

You CAN hotkey items, highlight them in your inventory with the mouse, and press 1,2,3, or 4 to hotkey.

Wow new video from the Abathur Slap King xD

Me and my sister straight up took Virgina out without a thought lol. I wish they made it where she keeps coming back because they put her near you so soon in the game.

Another tip if holding the inventory button you bring your backpack for hot keys up

i didint knew that with backpack now it will help alot

my friend and i killed kelvin and virginia in the first 3 days, i thought virginia was a cannibal so i chased her down with the starter axe... and as for kelvin, well... my mate blew him up

Dankjewel

If you open your inventory and hover an item you can assign it to any number 1-0 and it will show in that little empty box,