The Ultimate Food Bunker Guide: What Every Survivor Needs to Know
As an experienced Sons of the Forest player with over 200 hours exploring its vast island map, I‘ve uncovered many of the key underground bunker locations essential for gear and progression. Of these hidden havens, none prove more abundantly stocked with supplies than the Food Bunker tucked away in the Northwest forest region.
In this guide, learn where you find the food bunker in Sons Of The Forest and how to navigate through it while finding the items you need.
Detailed Directions to the Hidden Entrance
Before embarking, ensure you have the necessary equipment – namely a maintenance key card, light source, and rebreather.
The entrance itself sits nestled discreetly among large boulders at the following specific coordinates:
- X coordinate: 6480
- Y coordinate: -2560
Locate the nearest recognizable landmark of a long winding canal meets the ocean. Follow this waterway directly inland approximately 300 feet while keeping an eye out on your left side for the described rock formations.
Here you‘ll discover a 3-foot tall, 4-foot wide cave opening obscured from casual view that delves straight downward into the hillside.
Navigating the Initial Hallways and Rooms
Upon entering the lightless passage with a torch or flashlight equipped, continue trekking deeper up to 150 feet, ignoring branching side tunnels. Eventually you will reach the marked outer bunker hatch requiring the maintenance key card to access.
The first room‘s modest size of approximately 15 x 15 feet houses metals shelves stocked with a variety of Food items to loot. Consumables range from sodas, snacks, and canned goods sustaining your hunger meter for days out in the wilderness.
However, our true objective lies behind the locked door on the right. The continuing hallway sports a 7 foot tall ceiling with exposed industrial piping running across it. Be cautious of stray mutants lurking in side rooms as you push forward.
The Greenhouse Gardens: A Mutated Paradise
The rooms branching off house dimly lit greenhouse gardens filled with overgrown vegetation. Trees, shrubs, vines, and plants consumed these areas as nature reclaimed control after the bunker system‘s abandonment years ago.
Prepare to stumble upon creatures like lizards that now dwell within this mutated paradise. Crouching inside these enclosures limits mobility with 3-4 feet at best between the makeshift jungle flora. Wielding melee tools or the crossbow proves most efficient when ambushed.
My first unfortunate encounter here involved getting snuck up on by a camouflaged greyLang Beast studyings led me to nicknaming them "Sneaks." Listen closely for rustling leaves and movement shuffling nearby. Their bite deals significant damage if allowed to latch on.
Swim the Flooded Halls to Special Loot
Venturing deeper leads to unexpectedly flooded rooms requiring swimming between half raised doors. Tread carefully as some enemies can pursue relentlessly even in waist deep water. I suggest packing Light Armor granting mobility advantages during submerged evasion.
Fifteen feet below the water level, a particular chamber caught my eye for later investigation. This foreshadowing pays off after locating the crucial Security Center.
Security Center: Shotgun Mod & VIP Keycard
After pulling yourself onto dry flooring, enter the left doorway to discover the Security Office. Inside the desk drawer and shelf collect two special items:
VIP Keycard – Grants access to restricted bunker areas
Shotgun Rail – Attachment increasing shotgun accuracy/handling
Both prove incredibly useful down the line!
The Upgraded Crossbow‘s Secret Underwater Vault
That suspicious room noted earlier housed a unique weapon for retrieving – the Upgraded Crossbow. This enhanced variant deals significantly more damage with better range capabilities than the standard version.
Return here to find it clutched in a deceased bunker employee‘s hands across two chairs. Retrieving it also scores you a full quiver of metal bolts. This area makes for the perfect clandestine vault storing such a powerful ranged tool!
Quest Item: The Missing CEO Wife‘s Dress
The VIP card opens another giant locked door deeper inside. The devastated hallway beyond holds the Dining Lounge to the left. Here you‘ll discover Virginia‘s dress draped neatly across a sofa cushion.
Interacting adds this quest piece to inventory for delivery to the AI companion herself. By bringing Virginia this dress found in the depths of the Food Bunker, it may impact her programmed memories of the past when she wore it.
Perhaps over time as she processes these memories, more details will emerge explaining her exact identity and connections to the island‘s history. Only time will tell…
Kitchen Arena: Puffton Family Boss Encounter
The blown out wall at the hall‘s end leads into the expansive Kitchen sector. However, displayed reservation cards hint at another human presence. Meet the Puffton Family in their disturbing new mutated forms!
Once high class citizens, the CEO Edward Puffton and his wife Barbara now appear as bulking fleshy beasts with gray sagging skin and elongated limbs. Dubbed Puffies by locals, these mid game bosses immediately attack once disturbed.
Their grotesquely altered figures somehow combine increased strength and aggression with reduced vision and intelligence. Expect relentless violent onslaughts focused on shredding you apart up close.
Boss Fight Strategies
While Edward appears largest and most intimidating, Barbara‘s attacks deliver worse bleeding wounds through unpredictable rapid strikes. I strongly advise equipping the Pump Shotgun retrieved from the Research Lab against their dense durable skins.
Flamethrowers also prove effective as they despise getting ignited by flames. Maintain distance while circling strafes around these lumbering tanks, blasting away at every opportunity. Just when you‘ve chipped enough health down on one, the other charges forth to defend their mate. Exercise extreme patience and care not to get cramped into corners!
If you somehow achieve victory over the gruesome twosome, investigate both Puffie corpses to obtain a piece of the ultra-rare Cave Suit body armor. This grotesque outfit when equipped terrifies humanoid enemies like the cave natives into fleeing on sight rather than attacking. Talk about gaining an edge on the island!
Exiting This Labyrinthine Complex
After concluding the intense showdown or simply finishing up scavenging all you can carry, locating the exit is necessary for leaving this expansive bunker.
From the Dining Hall, retrace steps backwards through flooded rooms until reaching the busted out kitchen windows. Take a deep breath and submerge wearing the rebreather. This grants 60 seconds of oxygen to swim the lengthy exit tunnel with confidence.
Around 400 feet later following several twists, a steep incline leads up to the surface near the entrance. Hoist yourself out by the rocky outcrop to overview the canal and lake beyond under the forest‘s canopy. You‘ve now successfully exited the Food Bunker alive with new equipment and items accelerating progression!
My Key Takeaways as a Veteran Survivor
- The Food Bunker‘s wealth of supplies makes visiting extremely worthwhile early on
- Pack Mule greatly assists handling the bountiful looted goods
- Enhanced weapons like the crossbow transform combat capabilities
- Exhaustively explore to uncover hidden side passages
- The Puffie boss fight rivals Virginia‘s challenging first form
Hopefully these hard-earned lessons from my multiple bunker raids prove valuable for new players. Stay wary in your travels, as even greater threats surely roam parts still undiscovered!
Let me know in the comments if this guide missed any other essential tips worth including!
