TOP 6 BASE LOCATIONS! The Forest

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Hi there I'm Broadbent and I upload videos about a game called The Forest. The Forest is an open world survival horror game where you can craft, build and hunt in the fight for survival.

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[tristanvautour]

For the island you can actually put a zip line connecting the island to the cliff for transporting logs. This also gets rid of the need to connect the island to the main land, thus making it impossible for the cannibals to get you.

[ddj]

My favorite location is on the main village very peaceful

[joelsean]

When building on an island, first build a small raft. Then place a log holder on the small raft. You can also place a stick holder and a rock holder too. Ferry stuff across the water with the raft.

[michaelrusso]

⚠️FOR THE TREE SPOT⚠️ down on the rock wall edges, if you have a cowman (which you most likely will bcs it is a patrol area) if he starts running it can actually run up the wall and get into the base... I learned that the hard way. So just make sure to block off the sides too

[KalakCZ]

Make "TOP X WORST BASE LOCATIONS!", I want to see if my base location will be there xD

[lkmarune]

I did my base in the middle of the sinkhole!

[Jonnosummit]

My favorite place is the high ground in the fertile lands - above the cliffs north of the east end of the river. With a couple ziplines going to and fro across the river it is not far from the main village. Blueberries, trees, sticks, deer, rabbits, lizards, fish, coons, and defensive ground abounds. The drawback is that it's far from most of the map.
My most recent and favorite fort location is on the river lake on the northeast side of the Hole (the middle lake). I built a fort out on the water with "custom foundation" and built it 3 stories high with a restaurant, bar, inside/outside dining, storage area, wrap-around patios, and my private room upstairs as owner of this resort. (I built it with "custom walls" with an extra layer of rock wall to make the ceilings a bit higher). Business is not good, however, as no people are around.
That's a great central location in the map with lots of traffic for bones and big game (mutants). The entryways go from the building to boulders on the shore, that Cannies will bypass sometimes, but not usually. A good central location is great for getting to & from anywhere on the map. Remember that water is similar to cliffs, as it is a natural barrier to Cannies and Mutants.

[davejones]

You can overlap storage units as long as they're still unfinished, so you can get like 7 log holders on a small raft. Just helpful to know if you build on an island. Also, log sleds are buggy af. I've had them launch a thousand feet in the air, clipping and sticking into every object, and they're apparently indestructible, so if one is stuck in your building zone you're done for.

[Tsniper]

My favorite location so far is the upper left-hand side of the map, there's a cliff that separates the swampy lower area from a snowy upper area between two small lakes. I have a co-op game where my buddy and I have built a fortress that goes up the cliff, and it's incredible. Plenty of food, a good amount of logs, no real issues, and turtles for days a little ways away. Just saying, having nature and the map be your defenses makes life a lot easier, especially for newer players.

[xBloodxFangx]

0:32 first time playing i spawned right there by that beach. With out even knowing, I started building there thinking it would be safer, and it was! Very helpful, you can build walls or traps to block or deter cannibals from coming down, and they probably wont anyway. Lots of room, turtles spawn regularly, so do seagulls which can give you feathers. Also right by the main cannibal village for you to raid a TON of cloth and goodies (or if you are unlucky like me and die, its just a short hike back home) Only cons I have are you need to go back up for supplies like logs, but you can zip-line them down (make a log catcher!!! I lost a few that rolled off into the ocean) and if you really want to make sure the cannibals don’t come to say hi, dont build stairs, use the natural rock “steps” there, but they can be a pain to get use to using... also the view is sort of dull, just a lot if water and bare land.

[Bull_RR]

the last location, i actualy made a base with a friend in the village.. we walled it off with defensive walls... but left the lake side clear, with a house by the water... its an escape route.. this is an amazing location.. very few attacks, constant cloth and rope spawns, drinks, snacks etc..

[khajiittrader]

(i know that i am late but i hope that this helps someone) Best place is in the fertile lands or near it.
So much trees, berries, mushrooms and animals.
Not that far away from caves and
Cannibal villages so not too isolated.
On my save games (difficulty on normal) there were almost no cannibals on my base spot but outside of my base areas vicinity there are a lot of cannibals and there is an mutant spawn near the location.
It is near the empty cannibal camp near the fertile lands

[telamonleaf]

I recommend mostly building in open spaces, because there you have an advantage. The advantage is - you can clearly see the cannibals, and it will be hard to miss them unlike the forest where there are tons of trees and unexpected mutants or cannibals that mix up with trees. Also about the mutants, high grass in forests can be a good camo spot for babies that come out I believe on day 7. So take my comment as an advantage too and try that technique. (Also I realized just today that my base is on a cyan patrol near the big sinkhole, thta terrified me as I have rarely saw any cannibals. But now I will move to that beach on 0:32 to avoid mutants which are starting to get closer and closer to my base.) (your incredible and have a lot of free time if you read this)

[frostysimo]

My favourite spot is that big island, something you didnt mention is that you can just make a zipline from the trees above to the island below and youll be able to make sure that the logs get to the island very quickly

[LinuxxLin]

this was a great and very helpful video! I love these kinds of videos please make more of those top 6 or 10 video's they're really helpful!

I learned something today!

[Admiralofthedeeps]

I'll be honest, ive built a base on the island thinking there is no way for cannibals to get me but they frequently spawn on it in ones and twos. No monsters as of yet. The logs werent much of a problem i built a house boat with log holders on it and just loaded it up and sailed it over. Its slow but safer than a bridge.

[muffinman]

0:33
Not to mention you can make a cliff base just hanging from the side of the cliff.
Also a good way for transporting logs down a more reliable slope.

[jaxta]

Main cannibal camp my fave. Build rockwall joining all tents gives alot of space in the middle to make a base, alot of trees around small pond, sticks, deer, dynamite, soda rope cloth

[joshuaakester]

My preferred build spot is at the cockpit. On the map from the cockpit if you go east there as a huge cliff and if you build at the bottom of it you barely get attacked but there is a mutant spawn point right on the ramp which goes down to you're camp but if you build not to close to it the mutant wanders round the cannibal camp and then leaves and despawns it's a great spot with loads of trees it has a small pond for hunting fish and there is an abundance of animals running round 👍

[NOOObadapples]

You can put log holders on boats to help with building in the water.