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The BEST Way to Raise Strength & Athleticism | The Forest Tutorial

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Still current as of v0.65b, there have been no changes since this videos release.

This video will show you how to raise your strength and athleticism in the easiest way possible. It focuses on making sure you can carry everything you need with you at all times. This way your stats will rise with minimal effort and stress. You won't be caught out without meat, clean water, forgetting to cut trees etc.

7 Habits of highly successful strength and athleticism raising.

1. Only eat animal meats that can be placed on the drying rack, which include rabbits, lizards, fish, and large generic meat. You can carry a lot of them and they don't spoil
2. Only drink clean water from water collectors, water skins, and old pots. Keep your old pot and waterskin filled with clean water as much as possible.
3. Always carry blue berries and energy mix in case you run out of clean water or meat. Use the tape player and benches as well to keep your energy up 
4. Cut down 5-6 trees per day. Don't cut down more than 9 trees per day. Use the chainsaw or explosives if you need more trees.
5. Don’t eat junk food, this includes, bars, soda, booze etc. Though eat them if you have no choice.
6. Only eat large meats when your hunger is between 36% and 49%. You shouldn't need to eat anything else with this formula if you keep your energy up with other methods.
7. Have fun, don't become stat obsessed. It will ruin your game and suck the fun out of it. It may cause you to stop playing and give up.

I was going to add another rule/habit but I felt it was too simple. Make sure you are sprinting as much as practically possible. I would assume most of you do this already. This is what raises athleticism as well as swimming underwater without a re-breather, you don’t need to sprint swim.

Other Tips:
* Save before you sleep to ensure your strength will go up. If you've missed a meat or enough trees. You can reload and try again.
* Build a routine, cut your trees at the same time. This will help you remember to do it.
* Strength increase damage up to 70% at 99 strength.
* Strength does not affect the damage of the bow, flintlock pistol, fire damage or thrown spears. They all do the same damage regardless of your strength.

Other important information:
* You may need to eat an extra large meat ONCE every 5 days. This is quite complicated and hard to remember. Its part of the 2.2 meats per day that the developers mentioned. If you find that your strength doesn't go up for any reason on one the days, check if this is the issue.
* Whilst there is no information regarding your thirst going below 50% being negative, there is negatives for hunger going below 50%. I avoid allowing my thirst going below 50% for this reason. Better to be safe, than sorry. Plus humans suffer more from thirst than hunger, so it would make sense.
* There is an apparent timer linked to tree cutting, in that the trees you cut down are timed to go down after a certain period of time of the day. This is rather confusing and I haven't seen any effects from it. If you wish to avoid this however, cut down 9 trees per day to be safe.

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