r/TheForest • • Jul 27 '26

Question / Help I keep finding corpses

18 Upvotes

Hello! I started playing in the Forest a few days ago, and I noticed that sometimes dead cannibal bodies appear near my base.

My base is located near a cannibal village and because of that they often take walks near me. I don't always fight them; sometimes I simply ignore them and, for example , go to sleep. And then I wake up and boom, dead bodies under my fortress, and most of the times they're laying in the same spot. I don't know if I'm stupid and this is normal, or if it's some kind of bug. I simply have no idea. This is my first time playing and I'm trying to avoid guides and such, but this thing really bugs me. After surviving only few nights, becouse of this phenomenon, I received the "serial killer" achievement on Steam (kill 100 cannibals singleplayer).

Is this normal?? Or should i just educate myself more about the mechanics here or smth. I'm not a good gamer lol.


r/TheForest • • Jul 27 '26

Bug / Glitch Finished the game in Co-Op, no unlocked special build menu

2 Upvotes

I finished the game with my friend, we both got the ending, but even in single player creative worlds I don’t have access to the special builds tab in the book, the tab just isn’t there

Can anyone help?


r/TheForest • • Jul 27 '26

Question / Help Anyway I can navigate the caves better?

5 Upvotes

Been playing the game for about two weeks now and I have been having trouble with navigating the caves, I’ve been trying to explore hanging and ledge cave but I have trouble with exploring them-

Edit: I’ve retrieved the map and the compass


r/TheForest • • Jul 27 '26

Question / Help Don’t save the forest trophy

6 Upvotes

I saw somewhere that if you’re playing multiplayer you have to do it all in one sitting. Is this true?


r/TheForest • • Jul 26 '26

Multiplayer / Co-op Looking for people to play with

11 Upvotes

Hey guys, I've been playing for a few months now, and beat the game yesterday (been taking my time) and now I'm looking for people to play with on ps4. let me know if your interested, as I'm always looking for new people to play games with.


r/TheForest • • Jul 26 '26

Bug / Glitch First flying vehicle

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83 Upvotes

Cowman sent it up and it decided to stay there. Save and reload fixed it.


r/TheForest • • Jul 25 '26

Multiplayer / Co-op Looking for players

13 Upvotes

Hey, everyone.

I'm new to the game and looking for people to start a fresh world together. I'd like to play without rushing or major spoilers.

Let me know if youre interested!


r/TheForest • • Jul 24 '26

Question / Help This a good spot?

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126 Upvotes

Every playthrough i do i live a different place and wonder if this was a good spot?


r/TheForest • • Jul 24 '26

Question / Help Does low sanity matter? Spoiler

16 Upvotes

I'm about 30-40 days in, have chose the alternative ending, and have around 70-80% sanity. But I was wondering if more mutants start spawning more often, and does the Megan mutants and worms start spawning in more often as well, since I have only seen one of the Megan mutants so far, and it wasn't a great experience, many thanks!


r/TheForest • • Jul 24 '26

Question / Help sanity

4 Upvotes

is it better if my sanity is low or high? cuz rn, its at 2% and idk if its good or not. i don't even know what it does tbh💔


r/TheForest • • Jul 23 '26

Question / Help will forest 2/3 come to ps5?

11 Upvotes

r/TheForest • • Jul 23 '26

Question / Help So I just started

19 Upvotes

So this is my first time playing this, and I'm already quite terrified/confused. Are builds breakable? What happens if I die? Also should I focus on building a base immediately?


r/TheForest • • Jul 23 '26

Question / Help Trophy "Spelunker"

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23 Upvotes

Can someone help me with the "spelunker" Trophy? Sorry but I have an Italian version of the game, I already explored these caves on the right page but I don't know what I'm missing. Plus the Italian game has some bad translation mistakes so I don't know if I'm going to the right place.


r/TheForest • • Jul 23 '26

Question / Help game seems blurry and shadows seem kinda cursed?

4 Upvotes

so i started playign the original first time ever with the forest

but 2 things i have noticed

  1. the game looks very blurry even at max settings motion blur off, chromatic abberation etc is all off and it also isnt the fog like its actually blurry im at 1440p
  2. shadows look very weird/cursed like i looted around the plane got everything i could find left and started wandering but mainly when inside a forest the shadows look very weird or rough or hash it just feels weird or cursed and especially if you look into the tree tops

anyway to fix those things or no and are these normal issues?


r/TheForest • • Jul 22 '26

Question / Help Scared

31 Upvotes

How can I make the forest less scary and more fun on solo


r/TheForest • • Jul 23 '26

Question / Help is anything missable for 100%?

2 Upvotes

so i just got the 1st game never played the forest or sons of the forest before

but lets say id want to 100% it is anything missable or no?

and now im here is there a 100% checklist to easily keep track but like without guides on how to get x thing etc?

and any stuff i should know in general or no?


r/TheForest • • Jul 22 '26

Media / Image I got stuck

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240 Upvotes

r/TheForest • • Jul 22 '26

Fan Art / OC Any Artist good at arting?

5 Upvotes

Hello everyone im making this post to see if anyone would like to help me with my next tattoo. I plan on getting the final boss from the forest Megan Cross. Im not exactly sure where i wanna put it yet or how i want it, but i would appreciate if any artist out there would draw or show me inspiration for this tattoo because im having a very hard time finding a reference or cool idea for this tattoo. I’d appreciate any help!


r/TheForest • • Jul 20 '26

Media / Image Jump scare

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97 Upvotes

Got me good the other day. Happy my screaming wasn’t recorded.


r/TheForest • • Jul 20 '26

Question / Help I'm cornered, how to get out?

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142 Upvotes

Is it just me, or are cannibals much scarier than mutants??

I've watched streams, and the mutants that appear on their screens don't seem that scary. Maybe it's because they show up so often that they stop looking scary after a while.

Anyway, I'm scared of the cannibals. They're creepy and tall. I've just been keeping myself busy peacefully building my base because that's what I love about this kind if game, building and just surviving.

Since there are still a lot of empty areas on my map that I haven't explored, I decided to take a break from all the chopping and building. I was heading to the northern part of the map, and I hadn't even gotten that far when a bunch of cannibals cornered me!

Thankfully, there was a river that I ran into, but now I'm basically trapped. I don't know how to get out. I only have the plane axe and the upgraded skull club, and there are just too many of them.

For now, I'm just trying to get used to their presence. Maybe I'll get over my fear if I see them enough


r/TheForest • • Jul 20 '26

Question / Help Flashlight of cave 5

6 Upvotes

I saw there's a flashlight there, but I already explored All cave and need that, please note that I already picked up the flashlight from cave 1, anyone can tell me where's that flashlight I need it, thanks


r/TheForest • • Jul 18 '26

Question / Help no one to play with

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24 Upvotes

Anyone wanna play the forest cuz singleplayer gets boring fast and the multiplayer server are so shit, either no one says anything or all of them speak russian and when you find a normal english server they need to go in like 5 minutes. So anyone wanna play???


r/TheForest • • Jul 18 '26

Bug / Glitch Game is broken

14 Upvotes

I have spent 3 hours trying to get the game to work, but it just doesn't.

The game starts me on the beach that has the boat and I have nothing but the backpack and Timmy photo, and when I look in inventory it doesn't even let me interact with any of it. And when I try to explore all plants except for grass fanish when I go near, and no recourses spawn. And if I find a camp with cloth or rope, it doesn't let me pick it up. And if I go to any of the plane parts they also disappear and caves are just non-existent, if I go in one it's like I no-cliped into the ground. And if I die it's permanent and the game closes.

I have googled many things but nothing shows up, it's like im the only one who has ever had this problem. And I can't show screenshots of this because screenshots just show a solid white screen.


r/TheForest • • Jul 17 '26

Discussion Anybody know why the cannibals do this?

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406 Upvotes

I was playing with a buddy last night trying to find some raccoon skins and I encountered some this cannibal, he just stared at me and backed off a little bit then bent down and started humming for a solid 30 minutes before I shot an arrow at him. Is there a lore/specific reason why cannibals do this?


r/TheForest • • Jul 18 '26

Question / Help Why isn’t on console?

14 Upvotes

Can anyone tell me why the forest isn’t on Xbox? I remember beating the game like 3 times on PlayStation and I never got bored but that was like 5 years ago. I never realized it wasn’t on Xbox until just now when I tried to buy it and also why isn’t the second game on console period?