Utility Items - Sons of the Forest Database

The battery charger is an item found inside the files of Sons of the Forest, but, at the time of writing does not yet appear to be in game. Perhaps this will be a feature added into the game through the course of its early access period.

Can be combined with the Flashlight and Chainsaw to power these items and used to craft the Tech Armor.

Players can often find batteries throughout bunkers, cases, and even randomly inside Skin Pouches. One of the best places to get these are inside the Leisure Bunker, which is attached the the 3D printer Cave near the main lake. There are two respawning batteries near the doorway.

A lore item which players can find near the Crashed Plane. It reveals tourists coming to the island per the bunker retreats.

Combined with a Cloth to make Molotov Cocktails.

A piece of technology, often found inside laptops you break, and sometimes in containers and boxes. This item is used to create Time Bombs and Tech Armor.

Coins are an item of the distant world. These items are often found with piles of money, such as the mass grave site neat the Beach Cave and Food Bunker, the Kayak beach camp on the Food Bunker coast, and inside the Leisure Bunker, which connects with the 3D Printer.

This ingredient is often used to craft Time Bomb, and contributes to the 1% trophy.

The Cooking Pot is an item from The Forest (2018). This allowed players to transport dirty water, and then boil it to make clean water. It made a resurgence in the Sons of the Forest, added in the Patch 5, on May 11, 2023, following on from the predecessor except for the added addition of it being used to cook various meals.

To use the Cooling Pot, you first need to fill it with water from a water source, such as a lake or river. You then need to plate it on lit fireplace. Once it is on the fireplace, you can then place several meats and others food sources into, then wait a length of time for it to cook. Once its cooked, you can place the cooking pot and the meal in your inventory, and then eat and drink when required.

The sort of food you are looking for to make meals are along the lines of

• Boiled Meat: x2 Raw Meat
• Chicken Noodle Soup: x1 Ramen Noodles, x1 Raw Arm
• Cream of Mushroom: 3x Hydnum Repandum, x3 Fly Amanita, X3 King Oyster, 3x Shitake
• Egg Nog: 5x Turtle Eggs, 1x Vodka Bottle
• Greg: X2 Raw Arm, 2x Raw Leg, 1x Severed Head,
• Kelvin’s Special: 3x Fish, 1x Oyster
• Kitchen Sink: 2x Fish, 2x King Oyster, 2x Raw Meat, 2x Turtle Eggs, 1x Ramen Noodles, 2x Oysters
• Liquid Battery: 10x Blueberries, 10x Guarana Berries
• Protein Shake: 1x Aloe Vera, 3x Guarana Berries, 1x Raw Meat, 1x Meds, 1x Turtle Egg
• The Lumberjack: 3x Fish, 3x Raw Meat, 1x Meds, 2x Arms

Cooking Pot Locations in Sons of the Forest

To find the Cooking Pot locations in Sons of the Forest, you can check out our interactive map marker links as its easier. But, if you want locations instructions, you’re best following these:

1. Go to the abandoned camp near the GPS Tracker marker located in the main island. This is the one where you find the guy hanging by the rope dangling by the large cliff face. From there, you’ll find a camp on the other side of the water, near the tip.
2. Go to a beach on the very north side of the island. The beach has a very large cliff face overhanging it, along with two washed up boats. You will need to head east from the Beach cave area and follow the road along to the Golf area to reach this location.

We also found one inside a bunker, so chances are, the various bunkers also have these. We’ve not checked the Food Bunker yet, but, we reckon there’s one in there too. We know for certain there’s a pot in one of the bedrooms of the Residential Bunker.

The cross is considered a weapon in the Sons of the Forest, useful against very specific enemy mutants in the game.

Cross as a weaponShow Spoiler

The cross counters the Demon enemy, which you find inside the lava caves. These enemies typically only appear during the final segment of the campaign, after venturing through the cave in the final bunker area behind the broken pipe.

The weapon has a very low range, but will deter the Demons from attacking you, along with setting the enemies ablaze, akin to the burning of a fire weapon or Molotov. It will eventually kill enemies if they burn for long enough.

Players can acquire the cross in the Rope Gun cave.

Used to craft Crafted Spear, Bone Armor, Tech Armor and Time Bomb.

A flask useful for storing water, allowing you to drink on the go. This item will allow you to store water inside, which will contain 4 drinks before consuming its content.

To get a Flask in Sons of the Forest, you need to visit any 3D Printer, and then make on using its connected laptop. It will cost 100 Printer Resin, which each 3D Printer will have already inside it when you find one for the first time.

Read More: 3D Printers in Sons of the Forest

Hairspray was an item that was added late into The Forest. Players could equip this in one hand, and hold the lighter in the other hand. This would allow the users to spray gas, which would ignite any enemies, plants or structures caught by the jet.

At the time of writing, this is found in the Sons of the Forest datamined files, but is not yet in game. Perhaps it could be added in a later version of the game, while Sons of the Forest is still in an early access period.

The first Keycard you find in Sons of the Forest. This will allow you access through keycard doors requiring Maintenance level clearance.

You will get this item by digging up the Hatch to Maintenance Shaft A. To get this, you need to clear the three main caves at the start of the game to acquire the Shovel and all the equipment leading up to it. Once you have done that, head to the POI near the two gold caddies guarding the dig site, somewhat near the Slingshot Shovel Cave.

You can then dig it up, enter the shaft, and then pick up this Keycard via the desk in the bedroom down the corridor.

The Laser Measure Tool is an item found in the game files of the Sons of the Forest, but is not yet in game. We can only speculate this is some form of range finder, perhaps useful for constructing zip lines, guard tower ranges, and more. Perhaps this is another item that can be added to the game at a later point in the Early Access period.

Paint was an item release during the Early Access Period of The Forest, that allowed players to wear pain, to make them come across as passive threats against cannibals on the island. This item icon is one again found in the Sons of the Forest files, but is not currently in game.

Perhaps it is something hat may return in the Sons of the Forest early access period. There are enemies that wear red paint after all, so perhaps it can still be used as some AI behavior modifier, until it is washed off via rain or other forms of water.

A type of crafting item often found in very specific set spawns, such as the 3D printer in the Entertainment Bunker, or in openable boxes, like the ones you find around crashed helicopters, abandoned camps, and other points of interest.

This item is used in making Tech Armor and Time Bombs.

The Sleeping Bag is a prop players can find throughout the world. These are often fun in tents, caves, bunkers and other explorable areas of the map. They will allow players to save and sleep in areas other than their bed.

The Tin Tray is an item that was added in The Forest to enable player trading of items. The item’s icon appears in the Sons of the Forest game files too. However, their is a unique trading system for some items between NPC and player backpacks. Perhaps the tin tray could make a return later in the Early Access period as an alternative way of trading other items to players.

The VIP keycard is another security level card, which will allow players access to executive rooms found in bunkers. It is required to reach the second last POI bunker, where you can get powerful items inside. It is also used to open offices in the Night Club, which is the bunker inside the 3D Printer Cave, near the Slingshot and Miner Cave.

To get this, you need to acquire the Maintenance Keycard first, and then enter the Food Bunker, which is the POI near the beach Cave. Navigate this bunker, until you reach the office on the far end of the flooded area of the bunker. You will come across a hallway not flooded, with an accessible office door on the left side of the hallway. The VIP keycard is on the desk inside that room.

The Guest Keycard is a card given to guests of the luxurious bunkers on the islands. This keycard will provide guests access to recreation entertainment, and housing facilities.

This Keycard is required during the 3D Printer Cave Lab. You need it to escape from the Bunker and get access to the Chainsaw. You can find this in the Nightclub section of the Bunker on a party booth with several deceased party attendees.

A Golden Mask, used by the tribal cannibals on the island to display status and power over others. The player can acquire one of these to show they too are an high status individual, and one not to be messed with.

Players can find this inside the second to last bunker, which is to the south west corner of the map. You can find it in the morgue on the bottom floor, placed on a corpse in a body bag near to where you make your escape.

Can be found from cannibals. Acts as a loot bag. To open, open the Inventory Menu and Combine it to receive random items.

The Glider was added in Patch 1 for Sons of the Forest, which released on 9th March 2023. It can generally be found on high places such as cliff edges in the mountains, and you can use it to travel vast distances in relatively short periods of time as you glide over the landscape. You can control the glider using the keys. You can’t gain altitude with the glider, but you can increase your speed by moving forward and looking down, and you can land safely in any spot by pressing and holding .

At present, you can’t store the glider in your inventory to take with you as you explore. However, a good way of keeping track of the location where you leave it is to plant a stick in the ground next to it, then place a GPS tracker on top of the stick. You can customize the symbol associated with it so that you remember what’s there. It might also be a good idea to create a defensive wall around the spot, and a small shelter with a home icon where you can save your game whenever you pick it up.

The glider can be used most effectively by running and jumping from high places. However, it can be used from atop any towers that you construct for a quick escape. You’d be surprised how far you can travel at relatively low altitudes!

The Knight V is a brand new transportation method in Sons of the Forest added in the Patch 03 of Early Access on April 6, 2023.

This is a fast moving ground transportation system, which operates like a unicycle. Players can go at fast speeds, rushing through brushes. Be careful on your speed, as collision with an animal, tree, or mutant, and cannibal will result in your character being thrown forward to the ground.

Picking up the Knight V and using it will then place a marker of the Knight V on your GPS map.

You can also jump off the Knight VA by double pressing your jump button.

This is also a great tool for completely strimming an area of bushes, as it will collect leaves for every bush you drive over, and potentially seeds too if you go into any food bush.

Also be aware that the Knight Vs will run out of power.

Knight V Location Sons of the Forest

We have managed to find nine locations of the Knight V in the Sons of the Forest. The bulk of them are situated around the larger abandoned human camps in the main part of the western island, and some of the larger cannibal camps too. There’s also a few in the north and south as well. See our interactive map marker links below for more information.

A lightbulb is a random spawn inside of the gray and yellow tubs you can find in camps, cannibal camps, caves, and bunkers.

To activate a lightbulb, you will need to place it on the underside of a log in a building. You will then need to connect to log to a solar panel by using Wires from your inventory and connecting it to the solar panel which you can place on flat or sloped roof sections.

Solar Panels are a item added in Patch 03 on April 6, 2023. The item is sued to place on top of flat surfaces on your buildings, which will generate power. You can wire them up using Wires in your inventory, which will feed power to Lightbulbs.