Endnight Games’ The Forest is a horror survival game that drops you on a mysterious peninsula filled with cannibals and other creatures. These creepy human-eaters try to devour you at any chance they get. To deal with them and progress further, you’ll need to keep your health up.
While exploring the forested island, your character can take damage from enemies or get hurt in many other ways, like falling off high cliffs or suffering from thirst. This can lower your health, and might even lead to death. So, it’s important to recover fast. Read this guide to learn how to heal in The Forest.
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How To Heal In The Forest
There are plenty of ways to heal in The Forest. Some of the best options include:
Consume Meds
One of the quickest ways to restore your health in the game is by taking meds. You can find these pills at the plane wreck or in suitcases at the start. Later, you’ll come across them in caves, near cannibal villages, or in various locations, especially where there are dead bodies.
When you find meds, press the ‘E’ button to add them to your inventory. If you spot a suitcase, hit it with an axe or rock to open it and access the items inside. Just keep in mind that spawns are random and limited, so it’s smart not to use them all at once.
Eat Fresh Meat
Another way to heal faster is by eating fresh meat. Thankfully, there’s a variety of raw meat available in the wilderness, including:
- Raw Fish Meat
- Raw Rabbit Meat
- Raw Deer Meat
- Raw Turtle Meat
- Raw Small Meat
- Raw Oyster
Raw meat comes from hunting wildlife like turtles, rabbits, deer, fish, birds, and more. Once you have the meat, you’ll need to cook it by setting up a basic fire pit using seven leaves and two sticks. After you eat meat, your character will heal and gain some health back. Like in the real world, eating spoiled meat will hurt your health, so make sure to stick to cooked fresh meat only.
Restore Health From Plants
You can also pick certain plants to regain health, like Coneflower and Aloe Vera. These herbs are pretty rare, but you might find them deep in the forest, around the yacht, in coastal areas, or near where Marigold and Chicory grow. Once gathered, just left-click on them from your inventory to munch on them. You can even collect their seeds and plant them in a garden at your base to keep a steady supply.
Craft Herbal Medicine
In addition to eating herbs, you can also combine them into herbal medicines to help with healing in The Forest. Here are two types of medicine you can make in the game:
Health Mix
Health Mix+
- 1 Marigold
- 1 Aloe Vera
- 1 Coneflower
To craft these, open your inventory, place the ingredients in the center, and click on the gear to start the process. Once done, you can either consume the medicines immediately or save them in your inventory for later use.
- Released
- April 30, 2018
- Developer(s)
- Endnight Games