The Forest: Starting Out (UPDATE 0.55)Cheats Added!

Whats up guys so basically this is just a beginner guide for all you guys and gals out there playing The Forest. This is a very basic guide i do go into crafting and building bit but its mainly focused on surviving your first few days in The Forest. As new updates and patches are developed i will also be updating the guide so follow me if your interested.

Starting on the Plane

After You Crash

So as soon as you have completed the plane crash you will wake up on a broken ass plane. The first thing you want to do is eat all the food you can on the plane. Then collect all the soda and alcohol and other various items scattered throughout the plane.





At the rear of the plane is a passengers list that tells you all the passengers on board the plane (you need to pick that up).


After you have collected these items you will then proceed to off the plane. As your walking off the plane you should pick up a plane axe that is stuck in a woman.



This plane axe is your key to surviving the first few days. That concludes waking up on the plane. Check out the next section to really get started.

Your First Steps In The Forest

Shelter and Warmth.

The First thing I like to do is break open the luggage.




All you gotta do is swing at it with your axe. The luggage will contain a number of various items such as cloth, soda, candy bar, watch, batteries,and a tennis ball. Just various useful items that are hard to find elsewhere.

Next you want to collect leaves,sticks and rocks for basic building.



Sticks can be farmed by cutting down twig like trees. You will NOT get an sticks from cutting a full tree down you will only recieve logs. Leaves can be collected by cutting bushes and tall bushes. And well stone you can find literally anywhere stone is the least of your concern.

Next up you want to start building a hunting shelter. And to do this you need to press B and open your survival handbook. Click shelters and then place your hunting shelter wherever you please.




I like to start with the hunting shelter because its generally fast to make. You will then need to go and chop down a couple trees and collecting 7 logs, 7 sticks, and 6 rocks. Pretty simple right? After you do that the second most important thing is a campfire. Always try to build a fire pit instead of the simple fire because the fire pit last quite a bit longer. Yes indeed it does take more material to make a fire pit, but trust me when i say its worth it.

Heres what you should have by now:



Congrats you have learned how to make a shelter and a firepit the very basics of your training is almost completed. Check out the next section to learn about gathering food and water to survive on!

Surviving in The Forest

Gathering Food and Water

If you've made it this far in the guide I just want to say thank you for your support and lets continue with the guide.

So how do I collect food and water so i can survive CannaKing? Oh great question indeed. There are multiple ways to get water and food.

If you happen to spawn by the ocean the easiest thing to do for water is kill a few turtles and make some rain collectors as shown below:




In order to kill these turtles successfully you will need to chop at their heads. After you have "skinned" the turtle they will leave behind some meat and a head. You dont really need the head but you will need the meat thats left behind because that is food. In order to eat the food you must go up to a campfire and press R till you see the meat option. Press C to place the meat on the fire to begin cooking it. After the meat is finished cooking you can then eat it by holding E to restore a portion of your health. The size of the meat determines how much food is restored. So like a bird or a fish would only restore it a little bit. While a deer or a cannibal arm or leg would restore it greatly.

Another way to get good water is to find an old campsite and take the Old Pot. Then find a small pond and fill the pot by holding C. Then take the pot full of water to your campfire and place it on the fire. (The fire has to be lit first) Wait for it toget done boiling then simply drink the fresh clean water. Check out the screenshots to see what I mean:






Finding food is easy there are lizards and other animals everywhere. Im not going to go in depth about how to kill and collect the meat afterwards because its pretty simple. Use a spear for easier kills. In order to make a spear you just need 2 sticks. Once youve killed the animal and skinned it then you can cook the meat on a fire and thats literally all there is to filling your hunger. You can also eat candy bars to fill your hunger as well.

Folks thats all there is to eating and drinking really not to hard tofigure out but he some people need help every once in a while right? Anyways thank you for making it this far through my guide i hope you retained some relevant information from this and can use it in your next game. This basic guide will keep you alive in The Forest I might create a more advanced guide if there are enough people who use and like this one. Thank you for your time and support

-CannaKing

Base Locating and Crafting

Base Locations

Alright as we begin keep in mind one thing: What are the two most important things i need to survive? The answer is simple, Food and Water. So when you begin to look for a spot to build you need to look around and try to find a small pond. Once you've found the pond look around it and make sure there are a decent amount of wildlife such as rabbits and lizards and deer in the area. Think you've found a good spot? Great now look around and see if there are any berry bushes near you. If there is congrats because you've found a decent place to start. Now not all berries are good to eat. These 2 are safe to eat:

BlueBerries


BlackBerries


While these 2 here are not so good to eat and may just poison you.

SnowBerries


Black Twin Berries


Okay so after you've found a decent place with water and food. You want to then kill a couple deer to make a water skin. It only takes 2 deer hide and 1 rope and you can carry around water when you need it. Also you need to make a berry bag. So you can carry an extra source of food with you.
Another good thing to know id cannibals will not attack you if your in water. So if you were to build a house or something of that nature in the water then you would have to focus so much on defenses. (The water has to be deep enough to swim in).

If your having trouble finding the perfect place to build you can check out the map by visiting https://theforestmap.com/ It will show you where to find certain items and also decent building locations.

Now on to healing yourself if you end up injured. There are a few different ways to get back to full health. Either you can eat and drink till your needs are full and you will begin to start healing or you can simply take meds. But there are 2 different kinds of meds, one comes in bottle form and the other type of meds can be crafted. Now to craft these meds you need 1 Marigold and 1 Aloe. You can make Meds+ which gives you 100 health by crafting 1 Marigold 1 Aloe and 1 Coneflower. So this sums up the very basic needs to survive in The Forest check out the next section on weapon upgrades.

Weapon Upgrades

Upgrading your weapons

Upgrade Weapons

More damage
1 Weapon + 1 Teeth + 1 Tree Sap

More damage+
Add glass shards.
1 Weapon + 1 Booze + 1 Tree Sap

More speed
1 Weapon + 1 Feathers + 1 Tree Sap

Burning weapon
Add cloth to your weapons and set them alight
1 Weapon + 1 Cloth (Hold L to light weapon on fire)

Burning weapon+
Add booze (after cloth, as a second upgrade) to triple burn duration and slightly increase light intensity
1 Weapon + 1 Cloth + 1 Booze

Upgraded spear
1 Spear + 2 Cloth + 3 Bones

Incendiary spear
Burn targets when spear is thrown. One time use. Use the upgraded spear in the recipe.
1 Spear + 1 Booze + 1 Cloth

Fire arrow
Multiple arrows can be upgraded at once with a single bottle of booze
x Arrows + 1 Cloth + 1 Booze

Poisoned arrow
Poisoned arrows (can be batched) (Poison lasts longer but does smaller damage per tick than fire)
Poisoned players can cure it with aloe vera.
Enemy movement is slowed and damage output is reduced for a short time
x Arrows + 4 Twinberries

There is a limit on how much you can upgrade. Currently it is set to 30 for all weapons. You can choose to have either 30 teeth or 10 teeth + 20 Feathers, or 10 teeth + 10 Feathers + 10 booze etc.

You can attach 10 parts to a weapon at once.
Example: 10 feathers/booze/teeth + 10 tree sap + weapon

Video Tutorial

Its not the best video by far by i do cover the fundamentals.

If you like the tutorial make sure to like comment and subscribe thank you!

Armor and Weapons

Welcome to the Armor and Weapons section fellow Cannians!

Lets get started!

Ok so currently there 3 types of armor that i know of they are as follows:

Bone Armor
6 Bones and 3 Cloth wil make 1 bone armor which will take 40 damage


Stealth Armor
1 Lizard Skin and 1 Tree Sap added with 15 Leaves will give you stealth armor which takes 20 damage


Lizard Armor
1 Lizard skin will give you Lizard armor which takes 20 damage as well.


Dont qoute me on this but i do believe you can equip deer skin the same as lizard skin im not 100% if it gives you armor ill test it soon and update the guide and let y'all know.

Now on to weapons!
First lets start with the axe's available in game. There are cureently 5 different types of axe's in the game they are as follows:

Modern Axe- Most damage, comes in 3rd on speed and 2nd on defense


Rusty Axe- 2nd in damage medium speed with 1st on defense


Crafted Axe- Slowest swinging, cureently 3rd in damage and a tie with the modern axe on defense.


Plane Axe- 2nd fastest swing with 1 step above climbing axe on damage. Bad defense.


Climbing Axe- Fastest swinging axe used for climbing cave walls, bad defense and damage isnt that good. (Dont use this for defending yourself)


Now on to the explosives!

Head Bomb- 1 Timed Explosive + 1 Head
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Dynamite- Found in the large village and in cave 2
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Timed Explosive-1 Booze + 5 Coins + 1 Circuit Board + 1 Wrist Watch
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Sticky Explosive- 1 Timed Explosive + 1 Tree Sap
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Molotov- 1 Cloth + 1 Booze
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Cheat Codes

Cheats for The Forest!

Regrow Mode
At the title screen, type in regrowmode to activate or deactivate the effect. When it is enabled, 10% of the trees you have chopped down will grow back overnight. In a multiplayer game, the effect is only in place if enabled by the host. Stumps will turn back into trees as part of the effect, but you can prevent that from happening by eliminating stumps in locations where you don't want the trees to return.

Reset Holes
Start a game and type in woodpaste to reset the floor and roof holes in a saved game. The effect will reset when you return to the title screen, and has no effect on multiplayer clients.

Bloody Forest
If you type in rawmeatmode at the title screen, you'll enable permadeath mode, which deletes your save when you die. You can toggle it back off by entering the code for a different mode.

Disable Active Cheats
Type in meatmode in the title menu and you'll cancel any other cheats that you may have activated previously.

Nocturnal Enemies
Enemies will only appear at night if you type in vegetarianmode on the title screen.

Unlimited Items
Find an item that you want to duplicate. Hold a stick and turn it into a weak spear. Now pick up the desired item and you'll have an unlimited quantity at your disposal.

The Calm Forest (v0.0.3)
On the title screen, type in veganmode and you can play without fearing attacks from cannibals. When you save your progress and play again without that mode activated, you'll retain any items and your structures will remain in place.

[Jetsey]

happy 4:20 :)

[CannaKing]

When the berry bag is equipped just go to a bush and hold e and you will start collecting them. The waterskin you can hold in over a boiled pot of water and collect clean water or hold e near a rain collector

[-shhfiftyfive]

i equipped water skin and berry bag. no clue how to use them though...

[󠁳⁧⁧ johnny]

You can equip deer skin like you do with lizard skin and get something called Cold Armor which basically defends against getting super cold if you adventure in the mountains.

[Bacon | CHEIF]

good.
Now I know how to survive

[CannaKing]

Thank you very much sir!

[Phyrexian]

This is by far one of the best guides ive came across. Due to its spacing and simplicity it is one of the greats. Good work hope to see more.

[CannaKing]

Please rate 5 stars guys im really trying hard and check out the video tutorial!

[CannaKing]

Your right im trying to make this the ultimate guide that has every single thing in the forest but with the new .53 update coming out in less than 20 hours its hard to keep up with the grind. Gotta start some where and i do thank you for the advice i will take it under consideration as i continue to further update the guide

[iPsykosis]

I already know where that stuff is, I even made a guide on where to find the modern axe. I'm just suggesting you should add as much tools as you could for end game ;p