As an avid Sons of the Forest player with over 100 hours exploring the island, I‘ve compiled what is to my knowledge, the most complete item reference available. This guide details every single item currently in the game, split into intuitive categories with tactical tips sprinkled throughout.
Let‘s get started!
Table of Contents
- Overview
- General Items
- Tools
- Weapons
- Weapon Attachments
- Ammunition
- Materials
- Armor Sets
- Consumables
- Berries
- Keycards
- Beginner Tips
- Final Thoughts
Overview
Sons of the Forest features a sprawling number of items totaling over 150. By getting intimately familiar with everything the island provides, you can tailor optimal loadouts to overcome obstacles. This spans tools facilitating cave traversal, armor mitigating attacks, andconsumables relieving debuffs. Mastering items transforms arduous survival into methodical progression.
While individual playstyles may favor particular items, learning them all proves invaluable. Situations constantly shift in dynamic weather, enemy behavior, and environmental hazards. Adapting your equipped items to counter emerging threats rapidly is what separates novice survivors from seasoned experts.
So whether you prefer stealthy infiltration or aggressive domination, there lies power in flexibility. Use this guide to inform your itemization decisions as dangers arise!
General Items
General items have utility purposes like storage, lighting fires, crafted resources, and bizarre novelties.
Arm – A severed arm from cannibals. Mostly comedic value but can be cooked.
Spawn Sources: Chopped off cannibals.
Album Cover – Collectible music memorabilia.
Location: Digsite Maintenance A bunker.
Cash – Paper currency only used as tinder currently.
Spawn Sources: Skin pouches, cave crates.
Emergency Pack – Given automatically at game start containing lighter, axe, book, and map marker. critical starting equipment.
Golf Ball – Can be used with the Putter weapon. Search the golf course.
GPS Locator – Deployable map waypoints helping navigation.
Spawn Sources: Across island, bunkers.
Head – Another bizarre collectible from dead cannibals.
Leg – Yet another choppable cannibal limb with nutritional value.
Printer Resin – Crafting material for 3D Printers. Essential for advanced items.
Spawn Sources: Bunker labs, cave crates.
Seeds – Plant these to grow renewable berries and medicinal aloe.
Skin Pouch – Possible random loot source from slain cannibals.
Tent – Mobile shelter quickly crafted with common materials.
While not overtly combat-focused, keeping these items in your inventory helps starting fires, storing goods, leaving map breadcrumbs and harvesting materials. Their advantages become more noticeable the longer you survive!
Tools
The right tools overcome numerous survival challenges. I can‘t stress enough the value of collecting them all!
Shovel – Unearth hidden bunkers and passages exiled to dirt and snow. There also lies a strategic tunnel on the west shore…
Location: Northwest shoreline cave.
Air Tank – Replenishes oxygen supply for the rebreather allowing extensive underwater exploration.
Spawn Sources: Lab bunkers, underwater caves.
Binoculars – Crucial for scouting distant areas safely. Spot cannibal patrols before they notice you!
Location: Stranded kayak, northwest shore.
Can Opener – Gain access to canned foods which last longer before spoiling.
Location: Tent near mountain river.
Chainsaw – Rapidly chops trees and demolishes structures. Frightening weapon as well!
Location: West bunker recreational room.
Firefighter Axe – Most damaging axe in the game albeit sluggish in speed.
Location: Northwest snow mountain bunker.
Flashlight – Standard illumination tool with special mutant-slowing UV beam.
Location: Body west of yacht beyond anchored rope.
Katana – Very fast slash attacks make this my personal favorite melee weapon.
Location: Submerge underwater north of yacht.
Modern Axe – Balanced chopping tool and weapon. Reliable starter axe.
Location: Next to corpses near black tents northwest of mountain.
Painted Masks – Camouflage from cannibals as one of their own. The gold variant especially can turn hostile enemies docile.
Crafting: Combine artifacts, skins and bones.
Rebreather – Enables underwater exploration without risk of drowning.
Location: Underwater north coast cave.
Repair Tool – Crucial for fixing structures and weapons on the fly preventing waste of resources.
Crafting: Combine rope, stick and rock.
Rope Gun – Fire ropes attaching to surfaces to create ziplines. Excellent cave navigation.
Location: West coast cave high up on unclimbable rock face.
Turtle Shell – Hardened protection when holding it. Also used to collect water which slowly fills over time when placed.
Source: Skinning sea turtles.
Weapons
While skill over sheer firepower wins battles, having the most effective weapons for playstyle proves invaluable. Different tactics demand appropriate weaponry – bludgeoning, chopping, throwing, and more.
Bows – Silent ranged weapons facilitating stealthy hunts and tactical engagement. Indicates whether arrows strike targets when zoomed. Craft standard bow with sticks and rope, then upgrade parts later.
Crossbow – Improved bow with greater damage at cost of reload speed.
Location: Southwest plane crash, inside sunked cockpit.
Pistol – Decent short to mid-range sidearm with common ammo. Found inside suitcases across island camps.
Revolver – Slow firing pistol with highest damage. Intimidate cannibals by firing warning shots.
Location: Skeletal remains deep inside fertile lands cave clutching the revolver still.
Shotgun – Devastating short range spread shots. Special ammo types like incendiary and explosives available.
Location: Cattleman‘s bunker, southeast of mainland.
Tennis Racket – Unconventional bludgeon tool knocking back cannibals. Entertaining humiliating them with sports equipment!
Location: Abandoned tennis court naturally.
Throwing Items -Including spears, molotov cocktails and dynamite. Excellent learning manual accuracy leading targets and utilizing terrain/environment dynamics against enemies.
Weapon Attachments
Enhancing weapons further optimizes their capabilities. Attachments like laser sights, silencers and rail systems provide tactical advantages demanded for particular situations.
Laser Sight – Projects visible red beam where shots land, vastly improving aim. Attach to pistol.
Location: Bunker armory west of yacht.
Pistol Flashlight Brightly illuminates targets. Stuns mutants. Attaches to pistol.
Location: Cave systems near cliffside cannibal villages.
Shotgun Rail – Permits attaching flashlight and laser sight to the shotgun.
Location: Underground bunker northeast of fertile lands.
Silencer – Massively reduces noise and muzzle flash exposure when firing.
Location: Fertile lands multiple small island plane crashes.
Experiment constantly swapping attachments based on upcoming trials. A silencer and flashlight may aid initial infiltration, while lasers and incendiary rounds conquer boss battles! Adapt, evolve and overcome.
Ammunition
What good are firearms without ammo! Ensure perpetual scavenging to maintain suitable reserves for intense clashes. Ammo cases commonly spawn across bunker floors and shelving. Mutant issued firearms utilize unique energy cells automatically restored over time.
Pistol Bullets – Standard pistol ammo. Abundant until mid game where smart conservation tactics should already be exercised.
Shotgun Shells – Potent up close, these tear through mutants and wildlife faster than cannibals dodging them. Special variants set enemies ablaze!
Bow Arrows – Either recovered or crafted entirely from gathered materials like feathers and sticks. Most economical ammunition but limited damage.
Materials
While mundane on their own, materials compose into crucial craftables enabling survival infrastructure. Hunt creatures for hides, scout trees for sticks, gather rocks off the ground – no effort wasted! Stockpiling materials allows promptly rebuilding demolished bases so have storage surplus for projects.
Duct tape, electronic scrap like circuit boards and bits, cloth, rope, booze, canned food – everything offers some potential purpose eventually. Hoard items compulsively and revisit them later once their application becomes apparent. Some initially useless artifacts reveal hidden potential uncovered only through investigation at high tech 3D printers!
Just started out? Focus chops on skinny long trees yielding lots of sticks, and rocky terrain producing stones. Leave no corpses or suitcases unsearched! Materials turn up anywhere imaginable.
Armor Sets
Donning armor absorbs attacks that would otherwise damage health. Even basic covers mitigate harm ensuring longevity. Slaying mutants permits crafting dreadful flesh vests intimidating neighboring cannibals! Tribal leader armor obtained later game withstands outrageous harm – perfect for brazen assaults.
Here are properties for all armor sets from weakest to strongest:
Leaves – Woven leafy foliage. Slight protection against bites and abrasions.
Crafting: Combine cloth and leaves.
Hide – Toughened animal skin. Withstands basic weapon slashes but vulnerable to blunt cannibal clubs.
Crafting: Sew pelts to cloth.
Bones – Macabre yet effective skeletal structure defense tying bones together. Better protects vitals against attacks compared to hides.
Crafting: Arrange bones across cloth, secured by ropes and tape.
Creepy – Vile skin torn from cave dwelling mutants. Average defense bolstered by terrifying visage.
Source: Kill creepy mutants.
Stealth – Sleek tactical gear stolen off special forces remains. Balances mobility with defense.
Location: Deep cavern bunker, SE corner of fertile lands.
Tribal – Intimidating armor ripped from cannibal chieftains. Impressive resilience against all harm.
Source: Slay tribal club wielding cannibal leaders.
Golden – Enchanted gold material worn by island deities. Near immunity to attack at cost of movement speed.
Consumables
Ingestibles replenishing depleted health, stamina and hunger supplies revitalizing you in times of need. While well fed on meat and berries, always carry emergency rations when exploring deeper parts of the island less nourishing flora may reside.
Pay attention to debuff indicators like bleeding or poison afflictions, curing them promptly with medicinal plants. Certain regions house hostile vegetation – remember their effects!
Aloe Vera – Purifies food poisoning and treats infections. Critical for cavern traversal.
Energy Bars – Packed nourishment substitute when wildlife proves scarce.
Health Mix – Rapidly heals wounds preventing further bleeding. I produce these abundantly so have reserves available always!
Medicine – Ultimate pharmaceutical grade treatment curing all status ailments and instantly restoring health. Extremely rare!
Potent Resin – Secret concoction boosting physical capabilities immensely but with unforeseen side effects…
Knowing appropriate food and chemical solutions in response to each debilitating symptom matters more than strength alone!
Berries
Several berry species color the island, providing sweet delicious nourishment! Grazing flora supplements hunting, especially when first stranded. Familiarize edibility – a couple types actually poison instead!
Blackberries, blueberries and salmonberries offer safe berry sources. Twinberry and snowberry plants inflict harm however, so beware their deception…
Cultivating renewable food via planter boxes mitigates environmental dependency when wildlife runs scarce. Having steady berry harvests prevents desperate resorting to toxic fauna!
Keycards
Keycards unlock bunker doors and storage units harboring equipment and information! Reaching these areas often proves challenging alone – what wonders or horrors lurk inside?
Black – Provides bunker access across the fertile forest lands.
Location: Deep underground central forest mines.
Blue – Grants passage through utilitarian maintenance sectors.
Location: North frozen bunker, down forested mountain slope.
Gold – Highest clearance inaugurating administrative and control facilities.
Acquiring keycards becomes imperative later game when artifacts and secrets hide deeper underground. While doors confine contents from you initially, the mysteries and power within ultimately shall be yours!
Beginner Tips
Beginning survival seems straightforward enough – gather, build, eat, hydrate repeat… But beyond satisfying immediate needs lies intricate preparation vaulting you ahead of basic subsistence!
Here are key starting tips:
Stockpile First – Accumulate mass reserves of sticks, rocks, cloth and leaves before worrying about constructing anything major. Having excessive materials allows rapidly rebuilding important items like beds instead of gradually gathering each time they decay or randomly combust!
Duplicate Save Files – Back up your save file in another slot! As amazing as this game remains in preview, occasional glitches losing entire inventories still occur. Protect progress.
Explore Cautiously – Get familiar with passive wildlife habits while judiciously avoiding contact with tribes. Learning limits takes experience – excursions maximize knowledge safely gained.
Log Defensive Weak Points – Fortifying a main base against attack is paramount. Scout patrol routes and document incursion locations by cannibals or mutants by sleeping overnight. Establish protective countermeasures like traps, fences and explosives at identified vulnerable areas. Try luring enemies to base peripheries first to observe attack behaviors.
Print Arrows In Bulk – Reliable access to arrows ensures hunting continuity if ever protecting meat stockpiles. Configure a chest next to the 3D printer and print arrows over time directly into storage. Set infinitely repeating the crafting queue!
Hope these tips better prepare budding survivalists on their exciting dangerous journeys! Ready now with keen mind armed by this vaulted island knowledge, go forth and conquer!!
Final Thoughts
Sons of the Forest presents an immense diversity of items to discover and master across idyllic treacherous landscapes. This all-inclusive catalog indexes known weapons, tools, consumables, materials and beyond – over 150 entries! From necessitating basic shelter and sustenance to uncovering esoteric artifacts, maintaining such itemized knowledge pushes further progression.
What items changed your survival strategy the most? Any proved peculiarly useful for specific situations or opponent encounters? What gear reigned best supporting your preferred playstyle? Let me know your own thoughts and experiences below!
Now fully briefed on equipment, venture forth bold explorer. Conquer the island‘s sweeping vistas and subterranean depths decisively!
