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Discover the best base locations in Sons Of The Forest
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
Looking for the best base locations in Sons Of The Forest?Sons Of The Forestchucks you onto an island that’s almost idyllic, until you come face-to-face with those nasty cannibals. They’re going to spend most of their time hunting you down, which means you need to hastily construct a nice, warm base. Of course, the safest bases make use of the best base locations in Sons OfThe Forest, which we’ve scouted out just for you.
If you’re planning on exploring the game’s nightmarish world now it’s out of early access, then here are the 5 best base locations in Sons Of The Forest. We’ll point out where to find each of the best base locations on a map, and break down their pros and cons.
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North-West island base
The island is found in the middle of a lake on the North-East side of the map. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
This base location might only offer a small island, but where there’swater, there’s safety.Enemies cannot swim in Sons Of The Forest, so the deep water around this island offers easy protection from their attacks.
Here’s the amount of building space that you’ll have on the island. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
This North-West island, which you can see on the map above, is an excellent early-game base, because the enemies roaming the island won’t be able to reach you until Winter. There are also plenty of trees on the island that you can cut down to quickly whip up a base on the first night without needing to haul logs from far away.
You’ll need to be prepared, though, because when the cold comes, the water around the island will freeze and allow enemies to finally mount attacks on your fort.
Of course, the water around this base does also offer a slight disadvantage.Kelvin, the best boy that everyone loves, cannot carry stuff over to or from the island, as he also can’t swim.
This means you’ll need to build a bridge if you want to give Kelvin easy access. This opens you up to enemies earlier, but it’s still an easily defensible chokepoint to kill baddies as they approach.
Water base
The lake we used is found on the East side of the snowy mountain. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
If you want to build a base anywhere on the water, then you’re in luck! There’s an easy way to do it, but you’ll need to wait until Winter.
When Winter arrives, head to a large body of water to find that it has frozen over. We used the large lake on the East side of the snowy mountain, near where youfind the Golden Armor, but you can use any lake around the island.
The base built on ice during Winter.The base floating on the water after the ice has thawed away.Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
The base built on ice during Winter.
The base floating on the water after the ice has thawed away.
Once the lake has frozen over (this happens immediately when it becomes Winter), you can haul logs onto the ice and start building. It seems that you cannot use pre-constructed bases on ice, so you will need to build it yourself the hard way. Take the Winter to build a base, and make sure it has floors.
When Winter passes and the lake thaws out, your base will automatically add struts underneath to support it on the water, allowing you to have a base that floats. This is one of the best base locations in Sons Of The Forest because, as with the island base above, enemies won’t be able to attack outside of Winter.
Of course, this comes with the same caveat - outside of Winter, Kelvin also won’t be able to haul items over to your water base, so you might want to build a bridge so that he can run over all year round. Just make sure to build something thin and easily defensible, so that you can quickly kill any cannibals that use it to attack.
Mountain cave base
The cave is found on the South side of the snowy mountain. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
There is one cave in Sons Of The Forest that is directly connected to the overworld without a loading screen. There’s no cracks to shuffle through here - you just waltz on in.
That means, as shown in the image above, that you can build inside the cave. That makes it one of the best base locations, as there is only one entrance/exit to defend from enemies.
Our shoddy base built in the cave. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
This cave is found on the South side of the snowy mountain, as shown on the map above. As you approach, you’ll see the usual cave symbol marking it on your in-game map. Upon entering, you should also find some wooden crates that you can smash to get a few cans of food.
Beach base
The Northern beach is one of the potential crash sites in Sons Of The Forest, and it’s also one of the best base locations. While transporting logs over to build the base might be a nuisance, the beach offers a wealth of advantages that make it a top spot for your base.
Our beach base has plenty of flat, empty land so that you can see enemies all around. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
The beach marked on the map above is largely flat land, with a creek running through the middle. This allows you to easily build structures on the beach, and they’ll be near a water source so you don’t need to worry about thirst. You can even bring Kelvin along and ask him to fish there while you build!
It’s also very open, with no trees looming over your base. This means cannibals can’t climb trees and spring out at you as you leave your base, offering a bit of extra safety. The flat land also means you’ll see any cannibals coming, so you’ll know when they’re on the attack before they arrive.
Endgame bunker base
This hill is found in the North-East corner of the map. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
Our final pick for our list of the best base locations is a hill near the secret bunker in which theSons Of The Forest endingtakes place. The top of this hill has a long, flat stretch that’s empty, with plenty of trees around the edge that you can use to build.
This flat stretch of empty land is situated perfectly near the secret endgame bunker. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games
The hill is found on the North-East side of the island, as shown on the map above. The flat land makes this an excellent spot to build a base near the endgame bunker, and there’s even a short path that you can walk down to find a creek flowing past the bottom of the hill.
This base has almost everything you’d want, with one clear caveat. Lots of key weapons and tools in Sons Of The Forest are found on the West side of the island, so making this your starting base will lead to lots of long adventures back and forth.
That’s why we recommend this as an endgame base, as it’s situated perfectly for playing through the ending whenever you’re ready.
That wraps up our guide on the best base locations in Sons Of The Forest. If you’re after some top weapons that you can use to defend your base, take a look at our guides onhow to get the Shotgun,Pistol, andRevolver. If you run out of ammo for your guns, you can alsoget Virginia as a companion in Sons Of The Forestand hand them over to her. She’s a crackshot, and has unlimited ammo with which to mow down any enemies that approach.
