Water collectors are no longer invulnerable against mutants, though they are invulnerable against cannibals. Stick trees can sometimes be cleared when you build over though, though you have to build low on them for them to be cleared, the collision on them stops about half way up, meaning the wont clear and they’ll poke through your floor boards if your floors are too high on them, best to avoid them.
For easy gaming, build near the yacht. Lots of trees, lots of sticks, lots of anything and you can sleep in the yacht. For beginners it is the best place to be. That is what I did in my first playthrough. If you want to have a save spot, build near the ocean. You can always jump in the water if it is getting to crowded. But watch out for sharks.
actually, the patrol route is right above the beach. if you wonder to get tree's only then you can get attacked. almost no chance of them gooing thought the beach. I've build on the beach infront of the yacht
DoXy DoXy I built on the beach near the yacht and I'm getting attacked with like 15-20 cannibals per day., and was getting like 5-8 per day on day 4. Also if you look at the patrol route map there is the green line that goes right over the beach, depending on where you build on said beach really matters. In my game they are coming from two main directions, from the path to the beach from the tree with the gun part and from the direction of the patrol route that heads towards the main village.
@@wetdoorhandle4566 i build at the bridge between the two islamds and its a decent spot. You get free meat from turtles you have the forest near you for sticks/logs and theres also a pond nearby main downside is that around 5 patrol routes go there so you get attacked around every 5 minutes
ok, first time playing the game few hours ago. and I built my house in a village, tought it might be cool, but there was so many canibals there. Afetr some yt vids I found out that I buildt my base in the main/biggest village. litterly the place with moste patrols....
I built in the west below the shipping containers and right next to lawyers. I think it’s a hard spot but a good one. All it has for natural defenses is water tho.
5:10 I build my first base here without looking any tutorials and soon I realized that it's middle of a cannibal highway. Though later, I can't think of a better place to build because of the great amount of action, bones, sticks, birds, logs, effigies and rope. There is also a great cave ( entrance seen in the video) which supplied beer and watches.
The best place ive found is at -1100 550, right next to a little fresh water fish pond, just south of it. Don't get attacked too much plus it has a Huge natural defense cliff behind around, and deer everywhere. The main cannibal village is just a zip line and a little jaunt to the southwest.
Do you think you would make a combat based guide for dealing with types of Cannibals/Mutants? I don't think you've made a video covering this part of the game. Just a suggestion! :)
I've seen some of his trap videos. Our game, the traps kept glitching through the ground when activated. We had the most success building near water deep enough for them to drown in (like the big pond in the snowy area).
I just started playing The Forest about 3 days ago, and my spot actually lists everything to me on the list. I'm on the beach next to the yacht. Someone else said it in the comments but I indeed slept in the yacht until my defenses were up. And if enemies appear I just jump into the water. It also only has 3 entrances and I noticed that the cannibals never enter through the left side of the beach. And the other 2 I simply blocked off and it has worked out great so far for me. Only a skinny cannibal will rarely get through but once I jump into the water they lose sight of me and walk straight out of my base, and thus straight into my traps, killing them :p
I build on the island at 3:04, just because I don't want my base getting messed up. It's great because I use a zipline to get logs to it from the cliffs across the water, and there's 2 deer and a lot of lizards in the little bay area from your latest season where you made the elevator and giant roof-ramp, and four turtles every morning. It does get boring though not actually fighting much.
Lol way ahead of you I left my server open for like a week and had 3 villages and assigned people houses and what not. Had the max players, no mods, and it always feels good being the default mayor :)
Build off or near cannibal rotes but not on them, away from the things they set down as they'll just respawn when you log back in. Build near the sea within the green area for sticks and with trees nearby. Then finally a place that calls out to you. Perhaps southeast? I don't have a PC, I just enjoy watching people play. But when I had a PC before it broke I played the alpha, tiny island but the cannibals still scary af.
We've just started the game with my friend and I gotta say we hit jackpot with our base, judging by this video(if it's still relatable). At 2:04 below the sinkhole on the right, there's a pond and a small waterfall, we've secured that place. Easy to cut the passages with walls, we have water, a lot of trees and stick bushes, deers, rabbits, it's not a in a patrol route, but close to them, so we can engage if we wanted to, there are villages and caves nearby. Plus the scenerey is amazing aswell. :)
When first learning the game, places that were not busy and preferably had no spawns. Last game we built all over the map. We started in a place we hadn't built before and did a tree house near a pond. Then we took over various villages and turned them into resort campsites. We named each one based on what type of camper it was set up for (business retreat, family, romance, scout training). We were going to do every village and interesting view site, but our server updated and deleted the game. High traffic villages kept us in bone armor. We all learned that soloing those places was a skill we had neglected. I don't know if you've tested multiplayer cannibal attacks. In our game the cannibals didn't attack me and went after the players that hit them. I would get jump scares but it was very rare to be hit. I did my best not to fight them for as long as possible. Eventually I'd have to start killing them as it was the only way to keep the other players alive.
I really like that you take into account that some people want their land and base to look good. That's the first thing I tried and I can't seem to find a good looking enough area to build so it kind of helps to know that pros like yourself still see that people are gonna want to build on land that looks visually pleasing. Makes me feel less like a picky asshole and more of a visionary lol
I found a place by the beach it's awesome. Also if u have ps4 u can do stick glitch i usually wouldnt ptomote this but its geta rediculas hiw many sticks u need all u do is put 10 sticks in a bag then hold left and right trigger at same time then left trigger quick stick will multiply
I'm still waiting for the Sons of the Forest release, and now im binge watching forest videos after i came across one video w/ the comment section stating your channel... I finished the game w/ my lil sis and boy, so much bugs but so much fun... we built on the island on our 1st play through and took it all in peace and finished the story... We NEVER expected to have so much fun on this freaking game... and we're still waiting in pain for the sequel... And of course, loving your vids! subscribed and hope to see future videos from the sequel (after we finished the story)...
Best location I have found so far is taking over Cave 3(Modern Axe Cave) and the outside area. It covers every single criteria listed here and it is easily defensible with liberal use of deadfall traps and building a cover for the area outside of Cave 3. Once set up it is easy mode and you can even farm mutants for creepy armor by luring them down into a kill zone from the main cannibal village.
I built on a cliff pretty far south on the map that has TONS of Sticks, Logs, and animals. My only problem is that it’s slightly unappealing I do get attacked pretty occasionally but it adds to the fun, plus I’ve gotten good at hiding from them
I wanted to find my own good base and I think my base will be at the spot where if you start at the big lonely dead tree on the hill next to the yacht and go straight down the hill till you hit the pond and turn right about 2-3 o’clock and head to the little pond. It is close to a patrol route apparently according tot his video but it has so much sticks and fish and rabbits and lizards and trees and aloe and it’s nice and flat land with pockets of places almost like a Glade where it’s clear land. Plus there is a pot right next to it so every time I spawn in I should have a new pot. I was thinking there or this open glade behind cave 4 and before cave 2 (the main cannibal village) not as many sticks right there but they would be close enough to get , there’s deer, rabbits, lizards and expandable place, has a cliff so somewhat Natural defenses, close to the modern machete and the cannibal village to raid. But pretty big to defend and definitely on a patrol route.
I like to build a series of HUGE zip-lines which lead to my main base so that way i can toss large quantities of logs down my line and when i finishes plopping a few hundred logs down em i can build my cabins and defense walls with ease and then worry about other resource gathering and build a few animal magnets around my base for ease of food gathering.
my favorite place to build is usually the western beach, just a bit south of the shipping containers. I reason it's near the cloth cave and the arrow camp (looking it up, it's Submerged Cave and the Film Crew Camp), a steady supply of turtles for water collectors if they're needed, and the beach provides a good amount of space to build. It just takes a bit of a walk to get into the forest for trees and sticks.
There's a large tree to the south between the yacht and cargo container is where I built my first base. Some annoyances with patrols so you'll probably need to get a wall up, but with the ocean and cliffs, you'll probably only need to build 3 sides. Lots of marigold in the area. As I've explored, I've built numerous bases through the map. I'm nearly 200 days and I haven't even progressed at all of trying to see my son. Just finding areas to wall off just to build more bases. Use terrain to your advantage, try building walls where your base is uphilil, makes it harder for cannibals to jump over them (Although that's pretty rare). Seal off all avenues they can enter, you'd be surprised how much land you can have for yourself to build just by sealing off a few accessible areas, although get the chainsaw before you do this as it can get pricy with logs. Finally, once you get some experience, start building more custom housing, its pretty fun!
I set up my home on the small little strip of land you can swim out to in the southwest corner, the one not too far off the shore. I set up a very makeshift dock to transport logs across (still beginner, didn't realize the boat thing) and basically things are going pretty well!! it's just annoying getting the logs over there. I'm not directly on a patrol path but rather I'm close to one so if I wanna go hunt some cannibals down, I sure as heck can. I'm pretty proud of it.
5:40 that's where I'm building my base at the moment (just above the pond), I've built a lift next to the rock side so it's easy to get loads of logs, and I have the chainsaw which makes it even easier. Also I'm on about day 8 and I have not seen a single cannibal/mutant from where I am, I can hear this weird witch type scream every now and then but I have no idea where it comes from.
a bit late but there is an area in the fertile lands in the southeast corner of the map that personally meets all these criteria. its right next to a green stick area which also has a bunch of trees, sits on a patrol route, has a cliff you could build up against, is pretty in my opinion because there's the river and you can see the mountains, has two nearby ponds, is just above sea level, and its right next to the main cannibal camp too so cloth, arrows, paint, meds, bones, and so on are easily farmable. Also because it's the fertile lands, rabbits and one of every plant type spawns there.
I built my massive base right next to the main cannibal village on the cliff near the edge of the village. Resources are plentiful there and since we are directly on a few patrol routes, creepy armor is plentiful (provided you have the weaponry, i would reccomend molotovs as they are the best weapon against mutants) and there is water nearby. I would highly advise you to base there.
In our first playthrough with friends, we did not know about the enemy mechanics like the patrol routes etc. We built a base next to the yacht because it seemed like a good place. Then we wanted more meat and moved elsewhere and built next to a beautiful pond. It was the pond right next to the baby cave... Every night we were visited by the cannibals and every now and then Armsy, Virginia and Cowman trio would visit. Luckily we turned off building destruction so we kind of cheated and killed them from behind our safe walls. :D
There is a cliff with a decent sized area at the bottom of it near the largest cannibal village, you don't have to build anything to get up or down and there are loads of trees and sticks at the top, there is also a destroyed boat that will spawn rope on every world load, it's in my opinion one of the best locations in the game (although a decent amount of enemies spawn at the top, i didn't get anything other than Base cannibals until about day 15) The area also spawns lots of deer and the building space at the bottom spawns lots of turtles
I built my main base around the plane and my spawn point was pretty great, next to geese lake so within my walls I have the camp with all the arrows and every time I go into the save everything respawns. I haven't had much problem with cannibals yet and I haven't seen a single mutant weirdly enough. TONS of sticks and it's pretty heavily forested surrounding - well not anymore, I have contributed to deforestation. I built a perimeter all the way down to the lake and a decent way around the plane too so I have a ton of space. A lot of blueberries within my walls too
Whenever I play this game, I always build in this one spot of beach that cannibals are unable to reach naturally (except if you're playing on the hardest mode that has the flying mutant). Only way cannibals can reach it is if they fall down when they lunge at you while chasing you there. The spot I'm talking about is on the lower end of the map, right below the spot where the gun part is buried next to a boulder, trees and a cliff.
Thank you ] I immedeately fell in love with SW bit between yacht, anchor and white tree [yellow zone on your sticks map] near the small cascade waterfall to the beach. Not gonna leave any soon. Have good supply of bones, fish, tortoises, rabbits, birds, sticks, logs, etc. there. Built a stone route to plane tail and walk it down once in a while to see whats up there and hunt. But its just first day of playing, so I havent seen more than 10% of the map I guess. TGS
I'm actually installed in the middle of the geese lake, and after 60 days, I still had no problem at all with the mobs. And it's on hard mode. There's no direct connection to my house, so, cannibals can't reach it. And mutants usually drown before they reach the foundations of my house. Of course, it means either swimming or ziplines to reach and leave my house. The only real issue is that I spent so much time building my house that now, leaving it to find some ropes is super hard. The house is a safe zone (until the worm spawns), but the moment I go a bit further, there are patrols everywhere, since it's late game. And mutants appear regularly, too.
The place infront of the cliff on the opposite side of the katanga cave is the best area. No cannibals spawn there, its near a village so lots of effigies pop up for easy cloth, and the katanga cave is stocked full of soda, bomb parts, food and bataries. Plus it's near a lil pond for water, near the ocean for turtle shells, and by the waterfall is a dense forest packed full of sticks and trees. Just need to build a Dock to get across.
Goose lake. on the water. EZ mode and can have ziplines in and out of the base, and access to soooo many areas nearby. patrols can be lured into the water using the rocks to instantly kill them
I built right in front of the cargo containers. Built my house kinda in the ocean/beach and the main wall taking up most of the beach into the ocean. They can't swim around, so it's great. Logs, sticks and my plane crash aren't far off and the patrol route in front means bones for days. Great location, I think anyway.
I built my base on the cliff east of the bay the yacht is in. It's a horrible base spot, as patrols are very frequent there and it's quite far from water. The good news is that its reasonably close to cave 2 (very useful for dynamite, sodas, meds and circuit boards), the main village (for gasoline, flares, arrows, dynamite and sodas), and the yacht (for snacks, ropes and air canisters)
In my current game I'm building a Fort on the Eastern Plateau area (I don't know the official name, but it's that plateau far east with the two lakes on it) I found out the hard way it's difficult to get sticks. That was until I built a zipline to cross the southern river. I often import sticks from there, 78 at a time.
I just realized my base is right next to THE MAIN CANNIBAL CAMP. Also it`s day 33 and I still haven`t seen a single cannibal near the base. Oh, and I thought that bonfires scare away cannibals so I lit 3 of them every night, but still nothing :D
9/10 times I play the forest, I build on the beach to the left of the little peninsula with the big tree, where the climbable little lookout tower is, because I can just build a giant defensive wall from water to water and I'm safe. xD
I'm on first play through and I built near the airplane SE of the butthole...bad idea. I headed due east by the two level cliffs...tons of logs, sticks, rabbits, turtles, lizards. Good isolated area. I've now been there 20 days and not once had a patrol come by. I build drop log traps along the entrance, but never used once yet. Main cannibal base is SW of my location very close and still nothing. Nice view of the ocean, resources galore, I love it.
Safe beach on the far east coast or geese lake for beginners. Ample resources, relative safety and ease of access to most caves. For more advanced players, the sheer cliffs of the snow biome or isolation island for a fortress build. Arctic lake is also always good for more experienced people.
For my first playthrough, my plane crashed right outside the main cannibal village. I set up camp there, then wondered why I always seemed to get swarmed. Seeing the patrol routes, I now understand why.
Very nice and interesting video. I want to start playing The Forest with my friends and these guides helps alot. Just wanna say you've done a great job with explaining and making tutorial videos ;) Smahing that sub button!
I built my main base literally on the ocean. I used the yacht as the center and build from there. I don’t get attacked by cannibals nor by the super mutants. However establishing small camps during the first phase of construction will be vital to building a large successful base out at sea.
Yeah sticks, that stick map is nice. Just yesterday I was looking for a place to build and I looked at some maps which pointed at good places to build, the most appealing location to me was on a cliff close to the sink hole (marked on this map as orange) and there were no stick trees in the area... And to make matters worse on myfirst night there I saw a mutant patrol with 2 virginias and an armsy like right next to it (but below the cliff) so running over to the green areas to gather sticks is not going to be very fun... or safe... I do know of one really good spot to build however that has both natural defenses and easy access to resources. On the top right edge of the green zone on that stick map (where there's a little V shape where it meets the ocean) there's a an area where you can build in various fun ways, and it's also a pretty beautiful place. There is I think one mutant spawn somewhere in that general area though. But if you're feeling ambitious it can be turned into quite a pretty fortress.
I've built a base around the containers and it has a good 'balance' between good defense and regular attacks, mostly from cannibals, for bone farming and stuff..
my favorite spot to build is 341 211 it has fresh water with the tiny stream it has rabbit spawns close by isnt on any patrol routes but is close to some and even on day 30 im only getting attacked by mutants maybe once every 4 days there is a route that mutants like to take behind the house but since you have the pit you only have to defend 3 sides of the house from them it also has lots of sticks and logs and plenty of deer
I chose a clearing that’s literally just north of geese lake, right next to the entrance to Lawyer’s Cave that you have to squeeze through a gap to get into which has a tent in it so I placed a bunch of skull lamps through the cave to the tent and used it as a temporary shelter while I was building my base
I chose the clearing right next to the village that you can get a gun part from.I havent had any issues yet and the deer and fish have me pretty well stocked up.
In my first play through I'm currently on, my plane crashed literally 20 feet from the main village. Ended up currently building on the peninsula with the big tree you showed a few times. However gathering logs can be a chore- and dodging the constant mutants now that I'm near day 30 is a massive turn off. Cowboys and virginias almost daily.
i built my base near that one plane spawn where you spawn right next to the sea and near the yacht i think that was one patrol route you showed and yes it’s hard on day 13 i came across a grey armsy with a grey virginia and a chungy guy (i forgot the name) all three in a group but i chose it cause i like that spot and i’m pretty experienced i’m rn trying to get the 100 day achievement and i’m on day 49 rn so i’m making progress
My build is gigantic and I did every thing except exploring a few plants. And my build is at the see part of the Natural Bridge (fun area) as soon as you build a wall at the north part of there which I call the mutant area, you only get attacked from the east side. I live in peace in a valueless place. Plus : I survived +100 days and got the Get Closure achievement. 100% done with the achievements.
Seems there is a patrol route through the 'fertile lands' now... is a shame as it was one of the few places I could go when not wanting to be constantly bothered as I have a small setup there for collecting rabbits etc. Although it could be just targeted attacks as the aggression level seems quite high now haha
There might be, the fertile lands became very popular as a safe place to build so they may have made a patrol there. Though I think your right in that its targeted attacks. Don’t keep a fire there and also keep buildings there under 50. Might help.
I'm just up the way from the main cannibal camp on a cliff to the north. Got defensive walls surrounding my basic cabin and yard, two custom wall locked doors on north and south side. I turned off building destruction because I'm a total baby
Near the shipping containers, there’s a clearing on the coast that is pretty nice. You’ll encounter a couple patrols a day, but if you build a treehouse, you’ll be fine.
My tip is always building a base around a squeeze-in cave. When shit gets real bad, you can enter the cave and nobody else can follow you, and your base is pratically protected from destruction. I always build my base around the Submerged Cave. Only 2 cannibals respawn inside and they are after a wood barricade, so the previous space until them is 100% enemy free. There is also another exit by a climbing rope. You can build inside the cave like garden for mushrooms, bed, chair, fire and so on. When the need emerges, flee to inside the cave, save your game and wait for the things calming down. There is about 3 lakes near the Submerged Cave entrance, and another with a waterfall that is deep enough to wash yourself, and there is also water inside the cave for bathing.
I think either yacht or plane is the best place because 1 I don't think enemies go near yacht(I'm getting the game soon) and the plane always respawns stuff when you log in
I built west of the main camp next to a smaller camp with like 5 to 8 suit cases and on ps4 the suitcases respawn when ur asleep we turn structure damage off and made huge wood walls around our area there's a patrol fruit so plenty of bones great spot
Water collectors are no longer invulnerable against mutants, though they are invulnerable against cannibals.
Stick trees can sometimes be cleared when you build over though, though you have to build low on them for them to be cleared, the collision on them stops about half way up, meaning the wont clear and they’ll poke through your floor boards if your floors are too high on them, best to avoid them.
Did you say 1300 hours of in game time? O.O
@Samuel Stanley They're making a sequel, the trailer premiered in Decemeber of last year. Its called Sons of the forest if you wanna check it out.
@Samuel StanleyAs of now, no, they're pretty hush hush about the game.
11: cannibals.
when somebody like to fight cannibals, he need to built closer of them...
For easy gaming, build near the yacht. Lots of trees, lots of sticks, lots of anything and you can sleep in the yacht. For beginners it is the best place to be.
That is what I did in my first playthrough. If you want to have a save spot, build near the ocean. You can always jump in the water if it is getting to crowded. But watch out for sharks.
CosmicVoid except there is a patrol route right next to the yaght
One of the Farket videos suggest build house near the yacht for beginners. So far thats the perfect one for me.
CosmicVoid i feel like the problem is by night 13 an armsy patrol that area
actually, the patrol route is right above the beach. if you wonder to get tree's only then you can get attacked. almost no chance of them gooing thought the beach. I've build on the beach infront of the yacht
DoXy DoXy I built on the beach near the yacht and I'm getting attacked with like 15-20 cannibals per day., and was getting like 5-8 per day on day 4. Also if you look at the patrol route map there is the green line that goes right over the beach, depending on where you build on said beach really matters. In my game they are coming from two main directions, from the path to the beach from the tree with the gun part and from the direction of the patrol route that heads towards the main village.
anyone ever see a spot in this video and be like "hey im close to that!"
Loll
Every time.
I built near the shipping containers and get attacked constantly.
Omg yes
@@wetdoorhandle4566 i build at the bridge between the two islamds and its a decent spot. You get free meat from turtles you have the forest near you for sticks/logs and theres also a pond nearby main downside is that around 5 patrol routes go there so you get attacked around every 5 minutes
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Farket: Rabbits
Also Farket: **Proceeds to show us a crocodile
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I see you've played Bunny-Croccy before!
Viciously holds crocodile by neck and jams it in a rabbit cage
ok, first time playing the game few hours ago. and I built my house in a village, tought it might be cool, but there was so many canibals there. Afetr some yt vids I found out that I buildt my base in the main/biggest village. litterly the place with moste patrols....
Leon ouch tough luck
Rip
I dunno I found all the heads on spikes and mutilated corpses and stuff in that village a deterant and built somewhere else lol
Lmafo
I built in the west below the shipping containers and right next to lawyers. I think it’s a hard spot but a good one. All it has for natural defenses is water tho.
4:24 Water sauce 10/10
even in 2020 and this game is still a solid and fun game to enjoy with your friends
5:10 I build my first base here without looking any tutorials and soon I realized that it's middle of a cannibal highway. Though later, I can't think of a better place to build because of the great amount of action, bones, sticks, birds, logs, effigies and rope. There is also a great cave ( entrance seen in the video) which supplied beer and watches.
The best place ive found is at -1100 550, right next to a little fresh water fish pond, just south of it. Don't get attacked too much plus it has a Huge natural defense cliff behind around, and deer everywhere. The main cannibal village is just a zip line and a little jaunt to the southwest.
Do you think you would make a combat based guide for dealing with types of Cannibals/Mutants? I don't think you've made a video covering this part of the game. Just a suggestion! :)
I've seen some of his trap videos. Our game, the traps kept glitching through the ground when activated. We had the most success building near water deep enough for them to drown in (like the big pond in the snowy area).
Haha, water sauce
Water Ketchup!
I just started playing The Forest about 3 days ago, and my spot actually lists everything to me on the list. I'm on the beach next to the yacht. Someone else said it in the comments but I indeed slept in the yacht until my defenses were up. And if enemies appear I just jump into the water. It also only has 3 entrances and I noticed that the cannibals never enter through the left side of the beach. And the other 2 I simply blocked off and it has worked out great so far for me. Only a skinny cannibal will rarely get through but once I jump into the water they lose sight of me and walk straight out of my base, and thus straight into my traps, killing them :p
I build on the island at 3:04, just because I don't want my base getting messed up. It's great because I use a zipline to get logs to it from the cliffs across the water, and there's 2 deer and a lot of lizards in the little bay area from your latest season where you made the elevator and giant roof-ramp, and four turtles every morning. It does get boring though not actually fighting much.
I really wanna see someone make a village on the entire island.
Even the boss area/ caves?
Lets do it our self
You on Playstation?
@@imusik_7731 yeh
Lol way ahead of you I left my server open for like a week and had 3 villages and assigned people houses and what not. Had the max players, no mods, and it always feels good being the default mayor :)
Build off or near cannibal rotes but not on them, away from the things they set down as they'll just respawn when you log back in. Build near the sea within the green area for sticks and with trees nearby. Then finally a place that calls out to you. Perhaps southeast?
I don't have a PC, I just enjoy watching people play. But when I had a PC before it broke I played the alpha, tiny island but the cannibals still scary af.
I just starting playing , first day i biuld my shelter on a beach , and turns out I was on a patrol route xd
We've just started the game with my friend and I gotta say we hit jackpot with our base, judging by this video(if it's still relatable). At 2:04 below the sinkhole on the right, there's a pond and a small waterfall, we've secured that place. Easy to cut the passages with walls, we have water, a lot of trees and stick bushes, deers, rabbits, it's not a in a patrol route, but close to them, so we can engage if we wanted to, there are villages and caves nearby. Plus the scenerey is amazing aswell. :)
What do you consider when choosing a place to build?
Resources
Materiels
I do like to build in beautiful places
Scenery
When first learning the game, places that were not busy and preferably had no spawns. Last game we built all over the map. We started in a place we hadn't built before and did a tree house near a pond. Then we took over various villages and turned them into resort campsites. We named each one based on what type of camper it was set up for (business retreat, family, romance, scout training). We were going to do every village and interesting view site, but our server updated and deleted the game. High traffic villages kept us in bone armor. We all learned that soloing those places was a skill we had neglected. I don't know if you've tested multiplayer cannibal attacks. In our game the cannibals didn't attack me and went after the players that hit them. I would get jump scares but it was very rare to be hit. I did my best not to fight them for as long as possible. Eventually I'd have to start killing them as it was the only way to keep the other players alive.
I really like that you take into account that some people want their land and base to look good.
That's the first thing I tried and I can't seem to find a good looking enough area to build so it kind of helps to know that pros like yourself still see that people are gonna want to build on land that looks visually pleasing.
Makes me feel less like a picky asshole and more of a visionary lol
I found a place by the beach it's awesome. Also if u have ps4 u can do stick glitch i usually wouldnt ptomote this but its geta rediculas hiw many sticks u need all u do is put 10 sticks in a bag then hold left and right trigger at same time then left trigger quick stick will multiply
I watch farkets Forest viedos while playing the Forest.
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Me too
Anyone who doesnt isnt a gamer
I do
I'm still waiting for the Sons of the Forest release, and now im binge watching forest videos after i came across one video w/ the comment section stating your channel... I finished the game w/ my lil sis and boy, so much bugs but so much fun... we built on the island on our 1st play through and took it all in peace and finished the story... We NEVER expected to have so much fun on this freaking game... and we're still waiting in pain for the sequel...
And of course, loving your vids! subscribed and hope to see future videos from the sequel (after we finished the story)...
damn those were some fearsome rabbits
cool video, i've noticed nice camera shots, this one is good also if we are talking about quality
Cheers, thanks for the feedback
Best location I have found so far is taking over Cave 3(Modern Axe Cave) and the outside area. It covers every single criteria listed here and it is easily defensible with liberal use of deadfall traps and building a cover for the area outside of Cave 3. Once set up it is easy mode and you can even farm mutants for creepy armor by luring them down into a kill zone from the main cannibal village.
Thejollydodger1 isnt modern axe in 2?
awesome camera angles! looks amazing :)
Cheers Lizz
Man this channel is so good.
I built on a cliff pretty far south on the map that has TONS of Sticks, Logs, and animals. My only problem is that it’s slightly unappealing
I do get attacked pretty occasionally but it adds to the fun, plus I’ve gotten good at hiding from them
I built on the edge of the sinkhole with my mate, right next to the small waterfall used 350 logs for the custom foundation.
I always build on the northern parts of the map its much more visually appealing
I wanted to find my own good base and I think my base will be at the spot where if you start at the big lonely dead tree on the hill next to the yacht and go straight down the hill till you hit the pond and turn right about 2-3 o’clock and head to the little pond. It is close to a patrol route apparently according tot his video but it has so much sticks and fish and rabbits and lizards and trees and aloe and it’s nice and flat land with pockets of places almost like a Glade where it’s clear land. Plus there is a pot right next to it so every time I spawn in I should have a new pot.
I was thinking there or this open glade behind cave 4 and before cave 2 (the main cannibal village) not as many sticks right there but they would be close enough to get , there’s deer, rabbits, lizards and expandable place, has a cliff so somewhat Natural defenses, close to the modern machete and the cannibal village to raid. But pretty big to defend and definitely on a patrol route.
I like to build a series of HUGE zip-lines which lead to my main base so that way i can toss large quantities of logs down my line and when i finishes plopping a few hundred logs down em i can build my cabins and defense walls with ease and then worry about other resource gathering and build a few animal magnets around my base for ease of food gathering.
Satisfying voice :)
my favorite place to build is usually the western beach, just a bit south of the shipping containers. I reason it's near the cloth cave and the arrow camp (looking it up, it's Submerged Cave and the Film Crew Camp), a steady supply of turtles for water collectors if they're needed, and the beach provides a good amount of space to build. It just takes a bit of a walk to get into the forest for trees and sticks.
There's a large tree to the south between the yacht and cargo container is where I built my first base. Some annoyances with patrols so you'll probably need to get a wall up, but with the ocean and cliffs, you'll probably only need to build 3 sides. Lots of marigold in the area. As I've explored, I've built numerous bases through the map. I'm nearly 200 days and I haven't even progressed at all of trying to see my son. Just finding areas to wall off just to build more bases. Use terrain to your advantage, try building walls where your base is uphilil, makes it harder for cannibals to jump over them (Although that's pretty rare). Seal off all avenues they can enter, you'd be surprised how much land you can have for yourself to build just by sealing off a few accessible areas, although get the chainsaw before you do this as it can get pricy with logs. Finally, once you get some experience, start building more custom housing, its pretty fun!
How about mutant spawns?
For me stick trees going thru floorboards do respawn but they are instantly destroyed when rendered.
I set up my home on the small little strip of land you can swim out to in the southwest corner, the one not too far off the shore. I set up a very makeshift dock to transport logs across (still beginner, didn't realize the boat thing) and basically things are going pretty well!! it's just annoying getting the logs over there. I'm not directly on a patrol path but rather I'm close to one so if I wanna go hunt some cannibals down, I sure as heck can. I'm pretty proud of it.
Thanks Farket, I've learned a lot with your videos.
Cheers, glad I can help
You an outtermiddleshow (mad vlad) are my fav forest video makers... you guys would be dope doing a video together
5:40 that's where I'm building my base at the moment (just above the pond), I've built a lift next to the rock side so it's easy to get loads of logs, and I have the chainsaw which makes it even easier. Also I'm on about day 8 and I have not seen a single cannibal/mutant from where I am, I can hear this weird witch type scream every now and then but I have no idea where it comes from.
Been watching your vids for years and are the easiest to watch and enjoy. Cant believe i am just now subscribing. Keep up the good work my friend
a bit late but there is an area in the fertile lands in the southeast corner of the map that personally meets all these criteria. its right next to a green stick area which also has a bunch of trees, sits on a patrol route, has a cliff you could build up against, is pretty in my opinion because there's the river and you can see the mountains, has two nearby ponds, is just above sea level, and its right next to the main cannibal camp too so cloth, arrows, paint, meds, bones, and so on are easily farmable. Also because it's the fertile lands, rabbits and one of every plant type spawns there.
I built my massive base right next to the main cannibal village on the cliff near the edge of the village. Resources are plentiful there and since we are directly on a few patrol routes, creepy armor is plentiful (provided you have the weaponry, i would reccomend molotovs as they are the best weapon against mutants) and there is water nearby. I would highly advise you to base there.
In our first playthrough with friends, we did not know about the enemy mechanics like the patrol routes etc. We built a base next to the yacht because it seemed like a good place. Then we wanted more meat and moved elsewhere and built next to a beautiful pond. It was the pond right next to the baby cave... Every night we were visited by the cannibals and every now and then Armsy, Virginia and Cowman trio would visit. Luckily we turned off building destruction so we kind of cheated and killed them from behind our safe walls. :D
Made my builds around the plane back and back of the yacht. Got the warm suit and made a sweet little cabin on the front of the plane
I love this mans voice / accent
There is a cliff with a decent sized area at the bottom of it near the largest cannibal village, you don't have to build anything to get up or down and there are loads of trees and sticks at the top, there is also a destroyed boat that will spawn rope on every world load, it's in my opinion one of the best locations in the game (although a decent amount of enemies spawn at the top, i didn't get anything other than Base cannibals until about day 15)
The area also spawns lots of deer and the building space at the bottom spawns lots of turtles
I built my main base around the plane and my spawn point was pretty great, next to geese lake so within my walls I have the camp with all the arrows and every time I go into the save everything respawns. I haven't had much problem with cannibals yet and I haven't seen a single mutant weirdly enough. TONS of sticks and it's pretty heavily forested surrounding - well not anymore, I have contributed to deforestation. I built a perimeter all the way down to the lake and a decent way around the plane too so I have a ton of space. A lot of blueberries within my walls too
Whenever I play this game, I always build in this one spot of beach that cannibals are unable to reach naturally (except if you're playing on the hardest mode that has the flying mutant). Only way cannibals can reach it is if they fall down when they lunge at you while chasing you there. The spot I'm talking about is on the lower end of the map, right below the spot where the gun part is buried next to a boulder, trees and a cliff.
0:55 Is where I built my first base nice
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I immedeately fell in love with SW bit between yacht, anchor and white tree [yellow zone on your sticks map] near the small cascade waterfall to the beach. Not gonna leave any soon. Have good supply of bones, fish, tortoises, rabbits, birds, sticks, logs, etc. there. Built a stone route to plane tail and walk it down once in a while to see whats up there and hunt. But its just first day of playing, so I havent seen more than 10% of the map I guess.
TGS
I'm actually installed in the middle of the geese lake, and after 60 days, I still had no problem at all with the mobs. And it's on hard mode. There's no direct connection to my house, so, cannibals can't reach it. And mutants usually drown before they reach the foundations of my house. Of course, it means either swimming or ziplines to reach and leave my house.
The only real issue is that I spent so much time building my house that now, leaving it to find some ropes is super hard. The house is a safe zone (until the worm spawns), but the moment I go a bit further, there are patrols everywhere, since it's late game. And mutants appear regularly, too.
The place infront of the cliff on the opposite side of the katanga cave is the best area. No cannibals spawn there, its near a village so lots of effigies pop up for easy cloth, and the katanga cave is stocked full of soda, bomb parts, food and bataries. Plus it's near a lil pond for water, near the ocean for turtle shells, and by the waterfall is a dense forest packed full of sticks and trees. Just need to build a Dock to get across.
Goose lake. on the water. EZ mode and can have ziplines in and out of the base, and access to soooo many areas nearby. patrols can be lured into the water using the rocks to instantly kill them
I like you farket,you’re my hero .
I built right in front of the cargo containers. Built my house kinda in the ocean/beach and the main wall taking up most of the beach into the ocean. They can't swim around, so it's great. Logs, sticks and my plane crash aren't far off and the patrol route in front means bones for days. Great location, I think anyway.
I built my base on the cliff east of the bay the yacht is in. It's a horrible base spot, as patrols are very frequent there and it's quite far from water. The good news is that its reasonably close to cave 2 (very useful for dynamite, sodas, meds and circuit boards), the main village (for gasoline, flares, arrows, dynamite and sodas), and the yacht (for snacks, ropes and air canisters)
I love it ! The only thing is that you dont really need all those materials once your on your boat 😅
Can I get ur cannibal patrol route map lol that's awesome ones I have seen on google are horrible to look at
In my current game I'm building a Fort on the Eastern Plateau area (I don't know the official name, but it's that plateau far east with the two lakes on it) I found out the hard way it's difficult to get sticks. That was until I built a zipline to cross the southern river. I often import sticks from there, 78 at a time.
I just realized my base is right next to THE MAIN CANNIBAL CAMP. Also it`s day 33 and I still haven`t seen a single cannibal near the base. Oh, and I thought that bonfires scare away cannibals so I lit 3 of them every night, but still nothing :D
As always, a great class! we thank!
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9/10 times I play the forest, I build on the beach to the left of the little peninsula with the big tree, where the climbable little lookout tower is, because I can just build a giant defensive wall from water to water and I'm safe. xD
Put building destruction and you won't be
The best place to build:middle of the map,its and island,around it has lot of bunnies lizards and deers,its near sticks and logs :)
I'm on first play through and I built near the airplane SE of the butthole...bad idea. I headed due east by the two level cliffs...tons of logs, sticks, rabbits, turtles, lizards. Good isolated area. I've now been there 20 days and not once had a patrol come by. I build drop log traps along the entrance, but never used once yet. Main cannibal base is SW of my location very close and still nothing. Nice view of the ocean, resources galore, I love it.
Safe beach on the far east coast or geese lake for beginners. Ample resources, relative safety and ease of access to most caves. For more advanced players, the sheer cliffs of the snow biome or isolation island for a fortress build. Arctic lake is also always good for more experienced people.
I fucking love your vids, there's nothing i dislile about them.
Thanks man, guard route explains why I'm having such a bastard time!! I'm about 100yrds off the main canni' camp 🤦😂
For my first playthrough, my plane crashed right outside the main cannibal village. I set up camp there, then wondered why I always seemed to get swarmed. Seeing the patrol routes, I now understand why.
Very nice and interesting video. I want to start playing The Forest with my friends and these guides helps alot. Just wanna say you've done a great job with explaining and making tutorial videos ;) Smahing that sub button!
I have a perfect place to build thanks to you
I built my main base literally on the ocean. I used the yacht as the center and build from there. I don’t get attacked by cannibals nor by the super mutants. However establishing small camps during the first phase of construction will be vital to building a large successful base out at sea.
Yeah sticks, that stick map is nice. Just yesterday I was looking for a place to build and I looked at some maps which pointed at good places to build, the most appealing location to me was on a cliff close to the sink hole (marked on this map as orange) and there were no stick trees in the area... And to make matters worse on myfirst night there I saw a mutant patrol with 2 virginias and an armsy like right next to it (but below the cliff) so running over to the green areas to gather sticks is not going to be very fun... or safe...
I do know of one really good spot to build however that has both natural defenses and easy access to resources. On the top right edge of the green zone on that stick map (where there's a little V shape where it meets the ocean) there's a an area where you can build in various fun ways, and it's also a pretty beautiful place. There is I think one mutant spawn somewhere in that general area though. But if you're feeling ambitious it can be turned into quite a pretty fortress.
I wish there was a tool to break up the boulders into stones and rocks
I've built a base around the containers and it has a good 'balance' between good defense and regular attacks, mostly from cannibals, for bone farming and stuff..
my favorite spot to build is 341 211 it has fresh water with the tiny stream it has rabbit spawns close by isnt on any patrol routes but is close to some and even on day 30 im only getting attacked by mutants maybe once every 4 days there is a route that mutants like to take behind the house but since you have the pit you only have to defend 3 sides of the house from them it also has lots of sticks and logs and plenty of deer
I chose a clearing that’s literally just north of geese lake, right next to the entrance to Lawyer’s Cave that you have to squeeze through a gap to get into which has a tent in it so I placed a bunch of skull lamps through the cave to the tent and used it as a temporary shelter while I was building my base
I chose the clearing right next to the village that you can get a gun part from.I havent had any issues yet and the deer and fish have me pretty well stocked up.
2:50 i built there, although i do get cannibals on the beach sometimes i dont know how because it is just a massive cliff to get up and down
Farket - i literally had to subscribe, coz it's lovely to watch u doing out YT: i mean u shall try for other things as well! greetings
I haven't played this game yet but I've been watching your videos and it looks good and they help Alot so thanks
In my first play through I'm currently on, my plane crashed literally 20 feet from the main village. Ended up currently building on the peninsula with the big tree you showed a few times. However gathering logs can be a chore- and dodging the constant mutants now that I'm near day 30 is a massive turn off. Cowboys and virginias almost daily.
i built my base near that one plane spawn where you spawn right next to the sea and near the yacht i think that was one patrol route you showed and yes it’s hard on day 13 i came across a grey armsy with a grey virginia and a chungy guy (i forgot the name) all three in a group but i chose it cause i like that spot and i’m pretty experienced i’m rn trying to get the 100 day achievement and i’m on day 49 rn so i’m making progress
My build is gigantic and I did every thing except exploring a few plants. And my build is at the see part of the Natural Bridge (fun area) as soon as you build a wall at the north part of there which I call the mutant area, you only get attacked from the east side. I live in peace in a valueless place.
Plus : I survived +100 days and got the Get Closure achievement. 100% done with the achievements.
I'm so glad they changed it all now and you don't need no where near as many sticks
Seems there is a patrol route through the 'fertile lands' now... is a shame as it was one of the few places I could go when not wanting to be constantly bothered as I have a small setup there for collecting rabbits etc. Although it could be just targeted attacks as the aggression level seems quite high now haha
There might be, the fertile lands became very popular as a safe place to build so they may have made a patrol there. Though I think your right in that its targeted attacks. Don’t keep a fire there and also keep buildings there under 50. Might help.
I'm just up the way from the main cannibal camp on a cliff to the north. Got defensive walls surrounding my basic cabin and yard, two custom wall locked doors on north and south side. I turned off building destruction because I'm a total baby
Near the shipping containers, there’s a clearing on the coast that is pretty nice. You’ll encounter a couple patrols a day, but if you build a treehouse, you’ll be fine.
My tip is always building a base around a squeeze-in cave. When shit gets real bad, you can enter the cave and nobody else can follow you, and your base is pratically protected from destruction. I always build my base around the Submerged Cave. Only 2 cannibals respawn inside and they are after a wood barricade, so the previous space until them is 100% enemy free.
There is also another exit by a climbing rope. You can build inside the cave like garden for mushrooms, bed, chair, fire and so on. When the need emerges, flee to inside the cave, save your game and wait for the things calming down. There is about 3 lakes near the Submerged Cave entrance, and another with a waterfall that is deep enough to wash yourself, and there is also water inside the cave for bathing.
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There are a few stick trees & stick bushes on the hills near the biggest island in the game.. Which you categorised as "red" ..
This video is so relaxing 😌
Im new to the forest and your videos have help alot
I built mine in stick heaven on the border of the snow area with my friend and it is amazing
I think either yacht or plane is the best place because 1 I don't think enemies go near yacht(I'm getting the game soon) and the plane always respawns stuff when you log in
Build primaryily where you have enough sticks and some reliable way to het to clean water.
I recommend building near Geese Lake. Even though there is patrol route, from that place you have close spot to every important place in the game
‘Tis a good spot. Building on the lake itself makes for a safe game.
I built west of the main camp next to a smaller camp with like 5 to 8 suit cases and on ps4 the suitcases respawn when ur asleep we turn structure damage off and made huge wood walls around our area there's a patrol fruit so plenty of bones great spot
Great video! You spent so much time in game... Can you make video about your favourite places to build ?
I just found out my whole base is on a patrol route and we keep getting attacked by mutants
Same 💀😭