Known Bugs

This page will cover all of the currently known bugs in Sons of the Forest. This is purely for documentation purposes and is not made to criticize the game in any way shape or form. The game is still in beta, please keep the comments respectful.

### Buildings disappearing

In rare cases during a multiplayer game buildings might not visible for certain players. Some players reported that they were able to resolve the issue by going into the graphics settings and temporarily switching to a different video resolution.

### Buildings with no insulation

The insulation in a player-made structure is broken when you build a two walls high (or higher) roof. Weather elements go right through slanted roofs so only one wall high normal flat ceilings count as "shelter". Weather sounds like thunder and rain go right through any other layout of ceilings and players have the cold and wet debuff during winter. Limits creativity, fundamentally destroys the building mechanics and makes practically pointless to make anything else other than a minecraft box shaped structure.

### Respawning Guns

If you give Virginia your pistol and/or shotgun she will keep it and patrol around. If you die while Virginia has both of your guns, you will respawn with your guns but Virginia will still have her copy of the guns. This creates and extra copy of each gun in the game. There would be three copies in total. Two copies of each you can find in the wild and then the glitched Virginia copy.

### Items clipping through floor

When Kelvin or Virginia stands on any placed item on the ground, they will cause it to clip through the floor. You will hear a sploosh sound. This happens a lot, especially with logs, so be careful. This glitch can also happen when dismembering enemy limbs. The limb gets pushed through the ground and you hear the same splooshing sound.

### Bunker Door Softlock

If you activate the prompt to open the bunker door but move away before the animation can play then the door will remain closed and you can no longer enter the bunker. The only way to fix it is by reverting to a previous save.

### Guitar Not Appearing

As of hotfix 3, the Guitar may fail to spawn for some players. Quit and reload the game to fix.

### Inventory Fall Damage Negation

If you open up the inventory while falling, you will take no fall damage when you land. Note that you can do the same with the sled but we believe the sled damage negation is intentional.

### Book Sliding

If you open up the right hand side of the Survival Guide while on a slope or ledge you will start to slide. You can gain massive amounts of speed and cover great distances while using this. It also negates fall damage.

### Respawning GPS Locaters

After you collect the GPS locaters and find all missing members of B-Team, the exclamation mark may appear at these locations sometimes indicating that you did not collect the GPS locater. When you arrive there, the GPS locater will have respawned.

### Kelvin Cutting Down Player Structures Built on Trees

When building a structure on a tree, Kelvin will not register that and just cut down the tree and destroy the structure. Here as some ways to prevent that:

* Don’t ask Kelvin to finish it.
* Don’t ask him to drop logs near it.
* Do get him to follow you, lead him well away from the treehouse, and ask him to drop logs there.
* Do give him a task that doesn’t involve cutting down trees.
* Do rush over to Kelvin and lead him away if he comes anywhere near your treehouse.

### Water Clipping

When falling from a great height such as a waterfall, you may crash in the water and hit the ground. You will not be swimming though, instead you will be walking underneath the water.

### Caterpillar Passing Through Structures

The Caterpillar seems to have very poor collision with other structures. Most of the time it will pass through structures like they are not even there. This causes problems.

### Skinning Clipping

When skinning a mutant in an awkward place, your head may clip through the floor and you can see everything below the map. You can also sometimes get trapped within the stalagmites on the floor.

### Log Duplication

You are able to duplicate logs in Sons of the Forest. The following steps are on how to do it.

* Grab a log and a stick.
* Place the log horizontally.
* Place the stick vertically under this log. This way, it will lift one of the log’s edges.
* Walk into this log from the side where you’ve placed the stick.
* Your character will kick this stick out of its place and the log will duplicate.

### Inventory Bug

This bug occurs at random intervals throughout the game. This glitch won't allow you to open your inventory. There is no real cause and it will fix itself after a bit.

### Item Fusing

When you equip another item than the one you are holding then it may become "fused" with your now equipped item. The previous equipped item will appear stuck on the model of your other item. It will not go away.