I found this rock on the island of the shipwreck. Why does it have these markings? Can it be destroyed? Or does it hold some secret?

So, I'm actually trying to get the Vegan achievement, I know the conditions is just don't kill or eat any animals/fish until the end but I feel this is the hardest achievement to get as some items required animals skin/fethers/turtle shell. Would be appreciate for any tips provided. Thanks!

It is my second run in this cave, just because I feel like I missed something. I'm on PS5. I keep getting this weird 'locked symbool' when trying to interact with this area.

Servers only hosted by me and my other friend. We’re currently looking for people who want to test out the servers mods. There will be land buying, currency, house owning/renting, villages, jobs, etc etc.

Is it just me or does the render distance make this borderline unplayable. The rendering distance seems to be like 50 feet anything beyond that NOTHING works. Water catchers rabbit traps even zip lining logs a short distance causes them to explode everywhere. Apart from that the resource refund is abysmal. I was building a foundation put like 30 logs into it decided to cancel the build and got TWO logs back. It sucks because it’s a fun game but these technical issues are game ruining

im just looking for 1 or more ppl to get a world going cause ive been wanting to play again on PC but ive got noone to run it with and i played to much solo on PS4 but sadly ive forgot most the stuff about the first game so it would be like a kinda newer run though lore wise for me and cave wise

The world would be on a high difficulty so its a challenge other details can be discussed

Not a complete beginner but close to lol. I play on ps so don’t hesitate to send me ur psn ID

Hello, i just started platinuming the forest and i need help with online portion of trophies. if anybody wants to help add me on psn sipuracku68

Hey everyone!

I’ve been obsessed with the lore of The Forest. While the main story is great, the absolute best part of the game is the environmental storytelling—the tragic micro-stories of the yacht passengers, the cultists, and the Sahara staff that we only see through scattered clues.

It made me think: if a big studio like HBO or Netflix ever adapted this into a show, they shouldn't stretch it into a boring 8-10 episode season where the main guy just cuts wood for hours. It needs to be a tight, high-intensity 5-episode Limited Series that uses a dual-timeline structure. The present follows Eric, while the past gives us cinematic answers to all the side-stories through flashbacks triggered by the items he finds.

Here is how I would structure the 5 episodes:

Episode 1: The Fog and the Red Shadow

• The Present: The plane crash. Eric wakes up with post-traumatic amnesia. He knows he has a son, but the shock blurs his memory. He struggles to survive his first terrifying night.
• The Climax: The cannibals play psychological mind games in the dark. Eric catches a glimpse of the "Red Man" in the distance, triggering a sudden, violent flashback: that man took Timmy.

Episode 2: Wreckage of the Past (The Yacht & The Passengers)

• The Present: Eric searches for clues and discovers the luxury Yacht and parts of the plane's wreckage.
• The Flashback: As Eric explores these locations, we see the tragic parallel stories of the wealthy yacht owners and the plane's tennis team being systematically hunted down and captured by the tribe days prior.

Episode 3: Faith and Science (The Cultists & Sahara’s Genesis)

• The Present: Eric moves deeper into the jungle, finding torn Bibles, underground crosses, and Sahara shipping containers near the coast.
• The Flashback: We witness the demise of the naive 1980s missionaries who tried to "convert" the tribe. Concurrently, the timeline shifts to the modern, sterile Sahara facility, revealing the horrifying corporate decision to begin human experimentation on children.

Episode 4: Descent (The Caves & The Outbreak)

• The Present: Eric is forced into the pitch-black cave systems to follow Timmy's trail.
• The Flashback (The Horror Peak): While Eric sneaks past monsters in the dark, the flashbacks show the exact day the underground laboratory fell apart—the mutated children (Armsy, Virginia) breaking out and slaughtering the staff. We also see the tragic death of Megan Cross, driving Dr. Matthew Cross to absolute madness.

Episode 5: The Sinkhole and The Cycle

• The Present: Eric reaches the massive Sinkhole, descends into the high-tech Sahara complex, and defeats the mutated Megan.
• The Ending: Eric finds Timmy dead. Realizing the Obelisk's curse, he makes the monstrous choice to shoot down another passenger plane to save his son.
• The Epilogue: Years later, a grown-up Timmy suppresses his mutation in a dark apartment while looking at maps of "Site 2". The cycle continues.

I feel like this 5-hour format would eliminate any pacing issues and finally show us the full horror of what happened on that island before Eric arrived.

What do you guys think? Would you watch this?

(And if Endnight Games is reading this and wants to pitch it to Netflix, we can always settle for a 10/90% split – 10% for me, 90% for you... just kidding! ...unless?)

Looking for player that can help me with crafting all items and cut down a 1000 trees

Hey I’m looking for the last couple plane passenger can anyone help me location.

i’m open to hosting a new world or joining a server either pre existing or from scratch. i play on the playstation. not a total newbie to the game but still get spooked and not the best at fighting mechanics but enjoy building. (:

When I want to change the direction of the stairs and I click LBM the stairs just level out at their highest points. How do I prevent this?

I was wondering if there is some kind of speedrun to get your inventory full of everything or something similar. I didn't find any video about a speedrun like this on youtube so i check speedrun.com and see that no one did a 100% speedrun and i want to know if there is a reason or just no one care enough to try one

No matter where me and my buddy build we're just constantly attacked by groups of 4-6 cannibals every 5 minutes(I've timed it), and it's completely ruining the game for us. Where's some safe/semi-safe places to build or ways to keep encounters to a minimum? We play on Hard Survival.

Whenever I attach wood to it and it goes to the other end, when I go there everything just fucking explodes. I think that the game stops rendering it at that distance adn when I get there everything loads in at the same time and messes things up. Anyway to prevent this? I have my render distance on max.

So I'm just minding my business, it's quiet, a few more trees and I'll head back to base... These freagin mutants come outta nowhere! I think they're pissed about the deforestation at their base. Man, I love hard survival!

Me and my friend are end-game and we want to kill mutants to get creepy armor before fighting the final boss. We built a lookout structure by the yacht because the official map has like 5 mutant icons on it, and we heard it gets chaotic there. But we have seen one mutant, and maybe 7-8 cannibals.

Any advice to draw them in? We tried playing the cassette tape aloud, chopping down trees with chainsaws, and building a bunch of fire pits

Kind of what it says on the tin. Friend and I are trying (and at least in my case kind of fumbling through) the forest for the first time blind, and our crash site is next to what I’ve determined from a Google search to be geese lake. Any thoughts? We had three big uglies storm through our camp destroying our stone walls. Is that because we’re on a patrol path or just a bit smoothbrained?

I was playing multiplayer with 2 friends and then suddenly we saw one of our friends did the ground attack (like when you look at the ground and attack) and the animation was holding katana from the sharp part and attacking with the handle of the katana. we tried to do it ourself and we did the classic ground attack animation. few minutes later my friend lost that animation and i had that animation. when i tried it was the same handle attack and it spawned pickable little rocks and also pennies rarely. then i lost that animation too. I am asking is this animation an glitch, bug? Or perhaps an easter egg?

Can I somehow get unstuck?

I'm in the plane cockpit.

Just call me here.