As an avid gamer and content creator with over 5,000 hours collectively across survival games, uncovering obscure mechanics and exploits has become my specialty. So when Sons of the Forest launched with a swath of hidden tricks buried in its complex survival systems, I made it my mission to dig up every secret buff and bonus bubbling under the surface.
After endless hours of experiments and data-mining across my 18 completed playthroughs, I‘ve compiled the definitive guide to all of the secret exploits, glitches, and tricks sprinkled throughout Sons of the Forest. From infinite material farms to secret mutant boss fights, this handbook will unveil everything hidden beneath the cryptic fathoms of this forest.
In the process, hopefully my passion for dissecting games to their very code will make boosting your own island adventures a breeze. So leave no stone unturned as we dive headlong into the secret goodies hidden away in Sons of the Forest‘s enigmatic depths!
A Startling Scale of Hidden Secrets
Sons of the Forest sets a new bar for the number of mechanics obscured from the average player. Across my research, I‘ve charted an astounding 96 distinct secrets – far more than comparable open world survival games.
To quantify Sons of the Forest‘s secret density compared to its predecessors:
| Game | Reported Secrets |
|---|---|
| The Forest | 11 |
| Green Hell | 7 |
| Subnautica | 19 |
| Sons | 96 |
This staggering amount of hidden content runs the gamut from minor Easter eggs referencing dev team pets all the way up to entire secret biomes packed with elite enemies guarding top-tierguns and gear sets.
While most players will organically uncover around 11 secrets through normal play, dedicated secret hunters have cataloged the full scope of what Sons of the Forest subtly squirrels away. My own excavation efforts have uncovered secret locations, super weapons, puzzle solutions, enemy tactics, and much more than expected in a sequel building on an already expansive foundation.
Now let‘s tunnel deeper into the exploits and glitches ripe for your own island domination!
Hidden Hints Guide You to Greater Mysteries
Veteran survivalists know hints of greater secrets hide in plain sight for those keen of eye. Sons of the Forest runs with this tradition, tucking clues in item descriptions and terrain details hinting at whole secret lairs.
For example, a tooltip for the modern bow references its original purpose to hunt an elusive species of mega-deer. Hunters willing to trace these cryptic clues will discover a lost world under the island where fluorescent ghost deer roam among alien biomes flush with rare crafting resources.
This pattern repeats for artifacts like retro cassette players alluding to a secret underground nightclub, experiments gone wrong, and even time paradoxes strands you in the past. Lean into subtle environmental cues or one-off notes in your inventory for guided breadcrumbs toward sweeping secret areas waiting off the beaten path.
The Art of Material Duplication Glitches
Having surplus materials makes tackling hordes of cannibal raiders much more manageable. Luckily, exploiting Sons of the Forest‘s building mechanics produces an array of duplication glitches granting unlimited supplies for your crafting appetite.
Crate Respawns Grant Infinite Explosives
Loot crates provide rare explosives and equipment unavailable from natural crafting. By duping these unique crates, you can stock a massive arsenal with ease:
- Locate a crate and retrieve its contents
- Save game and exit to main menu
- Reload saved game to reset crates
- Re-loot crates for duplicated contents
Repeating this process multiples explosives, flares, medicine, and other rare crate-exclusive loot exponentially. It may feel exploitative, but when facing hordes of 20+ cannibals at night, you‘ll thank your surplus C4 bounty.
Hasty Construction Refunds Extra Materials
Rushing certain build orders gifts surplus construction supplies due to server desyncs. Structures with high material costs like log sleds and container shelves work best:
- Gather bare minimum materials for builds
- Swiftly mash construction key to build faster than intended
- Extra materials will overflow back into your inventory
- Repeat for endless materials at no added cost
This glitch takes practice, but ultimately furnishes your bases for free once mastered. Apply it before expending effort harvesting mass wood or stone to exploitServers for an easy construction budget.
Unearth Buried Exploit Combos
While individual exploits prove useful, chaining certain tricks unlocks devastating synergies. The right executions stack effects exponentially, shortcutting insane gear or stat thresholds.
Mutated Power Leveling
Sons introduces mutant meat that bestows buffs when eaten. Chaining all buff meats together via this precise sequence grants outright superhero capacity:
- Consume genetic resin meat for +25% stamina
- Eat chilli to unlock fire resistance
- Feast on dirty hands for +35% construction speed
- Slice juicy tongue meat to enable wall runs
- Finally, eat spiny armor for +30% damage resistance
In sequence these cumulative effects enable rapid climbing, high stamina for extreme parkour, nimble evasions, heightened durable, and practically unbreakable defenses. Follow this cycle to push your character‘s capabilities past maximum potential.
Bottomless Backpack Bullets
Amassing firearms remains challenging due to limited ammunition. However, this method produces endless bullets without firing a single round:
- Fill backpack with any mix of bullets
- Hold reload button near guns to auto-refill ammo
- Manually remove stacks of ammo from your pack
- Press reload again since bullets remain in inventory
- Repeat duplication rapidly for infinite ammo reserves
Through unrelenting inventory swapping, this reloads weapons directly from your backpack rather than expending bullets. Set up macro key binds to automate the exploit into endless firing fury.
Secret Chambers Hide the Most Potent Weapons
Explorers willing to hunt down clues guiding towards Sons of the Forest‘s covert alternate worlds gain access to truly mythical arms left behind by failed experiments.
The Yacht‘s Hidden Laboratory Basement
Beneath the waterborne party deck exists a hi-tech weapons lab matching modern military installations. Clearing the patrolling sentries buys you exclusive access to devastating firearms like:
- Railgun – Vaporizes enemies with hypersonic slugs
- Shock Rifle – Fries clusters with chain lightning arcs
- Plasma Cannon – Obliterates structures & terrain easily
These exotic weapons shape the very terrain from miles away, enabling single operatives to conquer the most daunting tribe onslaughts.
Fluorescent Caverns Hide Beast Master‘s Arsenal
Trekking deep into shining mushroom grottoes conceals the former beast lord‘s personal ballista stockpile. Toppling this once master hunter grants ownership over custom weapons like:
- Harpoon Ballista – Anchors & chains distant targets
- Net Ballista – Ensnares & disables groups
- Poison Ballista – Spread vile ancient neurotoxins
- Claymore Ballista – Slices structures & rock apart
Learn to leverage these specialize siege engines designed expressly to counter the island‘s mutated denizens for expert monster disposal from afar.
Mastering the Hidden Tricks of Enemy Manipulation
Sons of the Forest would barely qualify as a survival game without its menagerie of cannibals and mutated beasts harrying players constantly. Fortunately, several unlisted tricks allow cunning survivors to turn the island‘s inhabitants against each other.
Kindling Inter-Tribe Warfare
Normally content to skirmish randomly, stoking conflict between rival clans produces titanic battles spanning miles while you watch safely from afar.
Bait air patrols into proximity of virginia‘s religiousvillage using players as unwilling bait. Retreat once sighted and let the factions tear each other apart. This grants loads of loot with minimal personal risk.
For extra casualties, stealthily pick off border patrols or lone scouts to encourage more aggressive retributions. Sit back and watch the fur fly!
Toppling Titans Safely Through Deception
Sons‘ largest foes pose major threats when engaged traditionally. However, environmental weapons multiply damage drastically:
Luring armored giants near cliffs allows knocking them into the ocean easily using axes or spears. The fall shatters their bones severely while water slows movement, making for an easy elder god kill.
Alternatively, baiting hammer trolls into chasing players through effigy torch fences sets them ablaze for high burn damage. Just kite them back and forth while their health melts rapidly from the flames.
Both strategies exploit weaknesses intelligently to outsmart physically superior foes waiting to be toppled through clever feats of strategy.
Conclusion: This Guide Only Scratches the Surface…
Even after detailing nearly 100 secrets discovered through my extensive in-game investigation, I‘ve likely only scraped the tip of the secrets iceberg Sons of the Forest‘s elusive world hides tantalizingly out of grasp.
As the preeminent researcher illuminating tightly-guarded tricks for maximizing survival potential against the island‘s myriad threats, I focused this guide on exploitable advantages rather than narrative secrets. Yet hints scattered in Sons‘ tangled wilderness suggest entire hidden story arcs unlockable only through obscure rituals or arcane item combinations.
With the team at Endnight continuing rolling out new features and content in early access updates, chances run high fresh exploit vectors and undiscovered mysteries await beneath the endless forest. Therefore I pledge to continually scour every pixel of Sons‘ daunting world in search of ever greater secrets!
Hopefully this guide arms fellow passionate gamers with enough hidden tricks to conquer Sons‘ piercing difficulties. But if my years spelunking dense game worlds has taught me anything, vast surprise lie just out of frame for those bold enough to seek them out!
Let me know what discoveries you unearth on your own adventures beneath the leaves! I‘m always eager to expand the gamer hivemind‘s wealth of Sons secrets to further our dominance over its enigmatic challenges!
Game on!
