Best Tips To A Strong Defence Sons Of The Forest Guide

hello guys and welcome back to another sons of the Forest guide this time we're talking about defenses as you can see in my twitch live stream world at the moment we've started working on a small little base to Keep Us Alive but this is by no means the best system that we can Implement to keep ourselves alive in Sons of the forest so in today's video we're not only going to show you how to build the best defenses available in the game but we're also going to be talking briefly at the start about picking the right location for your defensive spot because that's as important as the defenses themselves and they can greatly help you obviously the first tip when picking a base is not to build in the enemy camps because you may find that you have lots of enemies nearby also stick away from the roads I think we're going to get out of here before we trigger them also if the water is running and it's deep enough to swim in generally speaking you're pretty safe from enemies trying to attack you as well because they can't swim and sometimes will even drown attempting to get to you the trick with this though is to find a spot where water continues running during the winter such as here in fact I talk about many of my favorite spots for building and outposting in a video I'll put a link to that in the top right hand corner now do check that out if you're looking for the perfect spot this is one of them I also want to mention defensive positioning this ties in because if you have few access points ideally one or two at most entrances then you can trap the area for example down out down here we have an access point to this hill and then on the other side it has another Steep Hill this is perfect because it's a bottleneck which forces the enemies to go go through this area another thing to consider is also whether there are Scavenging points nearby such as crash sites this will give you plenty of ammunition as well as food and water for you to get yourself started with and you can grab these every time you spawn in and finally the last thing that you really want to think about is whether there's food and water readily available regardless of the Season that it's in for example here we can easily get a hold of some food and drink even if it is winter time that way you don't have to go out and search for it which maybe you don't want to be dependent on if there are loads of mutants or cannibals outside with base positioning out of the way let's talk about the actual building of a defensive structure firstly there are two parts we have the inner building or the keep should you like if we want to refer to like medieval castles I mean it's very similar and the second one is the outer defenses or the outer wall both require fire a bit of thought for the sake of this video let's take this tiny little island here and we're going to make this a defensive base the first thing that we are going to do is to work out where we need to build our defenses and here you can see that we have Oceanside unfortunately it's quite shallow goodness me it's very shallow so we will have to build a defensive wall from about this location all the way across to about here so knowing that we have to have at least one wall we can then look at the rest of the build and start planning out what we want we have a fair amount of flat ground here which is useful for building we can build our little base structure in the center so we'll start off with that we're going to just use the blueprint this time because we don't need to spend too much time on that we just need to make sure that we have a bit of extra space available should we wish to extend and also to bear in mind if there are any kind of updates in the future we may want to have some space for possible extra buildables I highly recommend that your central base you keep small at the beginning you don't want to start building a really big base only to find that you're under attack constantly so start off with something small even if it is this little log Hut and from there you're going to want to start focusing on your outer defenses now with this I have cleared a lot of the area from all the trees I'm going to clear some more of the foliage out of the way so that we have a good view over the surrounding area and the other thing I should probably mention is you quite often ask where this is this is on the south east side of the map so from here we're going to start working on the walls so the basic wall outer defenses you're going to want to place these down and then from here we can cut the sharp points on these and this will stop cannibals from getting into your base however they will attack this and break this down and once they do they can walk into your base so we're going to be talking about a much better method of Defending against enemies using these and combining them with the Hedgehogs and before I get ahead of myself a hedgehog is simply a stick and then if you grab your ax you can whack those down and from here we can place some Stones down to reinforce this and then if you walk into this it's gonna hurt so that's a really good defensive item however it's even better when paired with the wall when it comes to building this what we're going to want to do is place a plank down ideally in a straight line roughly where we're going to want it to be built to so let's head out as such this is going to be such a big wall today so we can build it out to about this spot and what we're going to do first of all is just run a straight line all the way along of the staked walls so let's grab some more logs and we want these to be placed just behind the log that we've just placed the problem with this is that the mechanics of the game will force the log whereas at this first to place the log on this as a buildable we don't want that so we're going to walk slightly further away find a spot and then start placing our wall so I'm going to start building out this wall and then once this section is done I'll show you what to do with this at this point you can see we've built the wall a fair bit along and now we want to push this across to here and it's very difficult because of this well what we're going to do is place down our logs along here can do it like this so we're going to build off of that we can see that this is just in front and it is in line with the wall but from here I'm going to now that we've got rid of this piece we can start building outwards again with this and we're going to do that just to the end here once you've started filling out your wall you want to make sure that you can place these logs so that there is a I guess a horizontal log through the wall itself there may be times where it doesn't allow you to place the log in front as we've just been doing if that's the case you can just try and manually place them so that they're in roughly the same spot or alternatively we can attempt to build this up so that you can continue placing it along it doesn't matter too much just make sure that this section doesn't get too wide I think we're slightly yeah we're getting gradually further and further away from the wall which we don't want so what I'm going to do here is make life a little bit more difficult for myself and we're going to place this once again in line with this but slightly on a slant towards the wall that we've got hopefully this won't affect us too much at this point our wall is ready for the sake of this I'm not going to do the rest of this simply because it's taking forever and I just want want to show you what to do but here we're going to grab full logs and place them behind we're going to do this all the way across if for some reason it's not letting you like actually this perfect opportunity not showing you that you're able to place it it's needs to be placed against one of these and then from there we can place this once again on top you can remove this after that's not an issue and then once this is done all the way along we can then start placing these so they go through the wall and as you can see what we're doing is creating a little ramp on this side which is going to be really useful for us when it comes to defending these so from here we're going to place these down and we're going to start adding a ramp and at this point once you've placed them all along here you can grab your sticks and then place them on the lower section first of all and the gray thing about this is you can place as many of these down as you want on here at this point we have the first layer of our sticks and from here we're just going to go around the outside and we're going to search for the right position if we're against the wall you'll see that we can start snapping these until we have these all facing down as we wish at this point we can go around the outside and we can start adding the rocks to reinforce this and I guess it looks a bit like we're creating a stone wall here I can't wait for them to bring stone walls to the game once they do we will be doing no doubt another guide on this but this is just reinforcing those spikes so that anything that walks close is going to take a lot of damage and we can do this All the Way along and better yet we can add a lot more so make sure while you're doing this you start with the lower level and then you can jump up and here you have to wrestle with the ramp if you're not happy with the placement or you want to to place it closer and just go around to the other end then snap these down into their reinforced positions and you should be able to go back around and place down your sticks into the position that you want them like so and here you go a fantastic defensive wall if you want you can place the sticks on the bottom level first on on the actual floor and then from there do this if you want extra protection but this should be perfectly fine I just need some cannibals to attack now they don't seem to like this area this is probably the easiest way to knock down the wooden Pikes just running along the top of the wall but more importantly once you've filled these out the other great thing about this is that you already have pretty much in line with this wall supports and so from here should you wish with this we can set up a little walkway along the wall which will allow us to have a height Advantage when we're trying to take out the enemies so I'm going to continue doing this and then once this section's done I'll show you what I've done here you can see what we've done so far we have the piped wall followed by the defensive wall which will stop anything trying to get over it and then behind this at the moment we have just a little Rampart for us to be able to look down on and potentially take out anything that's trying to to get it to us if the the Pikes don't work which they shall the next thing that we want to look at is defensive Gates now these have recently been added and once you've got I think it's four pieces together you can create a door a gate and we can do the same on this side to create a double gate the only problem with these is that they are probably the weakest part of your build and that's because you don't want to have any hedgehogs in front of it because this is where you're going to be probably running back and forth from so what I recommend here is to create a V shape of these once again so I'm going to do that quickly we're going to take the same kind of system here and you'll be able to see what we've done here's one side of the V that we've done you'll notice how this is really well presented you you cannot get through this you can only go around it which leaves us with what will be a defensive wall here for them to fight with or to go through this one and we will be protecting this section however at the moment it's very easy for any cannibals to jump across here which is where this comes in so we're going to create firewood now and the great thing about the firewood if we can stop this is that we can stack these and you want to make sure that the arrow is facing away from you and that'll ensure that the lifted section will be facing to your left so you'll have to rotate using QR for this but if we place that there and we grab another we can now place this here and this has created another kind of Step or ramp for us which we can place these uh porcupines I guess we should call this a porcupine rather than a hedgehog at this stage it's a little bit more advanced thinking about it doing it this way actually allows you to aggro the enemies to come attack you in this spot without actually hitting you because the sticks are going to be forcing them away and by the way if you guys are finding this helpful please do hit the thumbs up and obviously if you do want to see more guides like this or builds then make sure to subscribe we will be doing some more big builds shortly so let me know in the comments below what you'd like to see next and perhaps we will cover that just hoping that we're going to get an attack by some cannibals soon as none of them seem to be interested in attacking us all the way out here so we have now covered our offense our gate area and have free access to that we're going to start working on the rest of the wall now and we'll probably add a little Watchtower this is just going to give us extra height over the walls so that we can see what's going on and we have positions to choose to fight to give us better angles it will also give us the next important point with doing a build like this which is an Exit Plan you don't want to be stuck in one given spot so we're going to use either a zip line or perhaps have a glider ready so that we can escape should we need to the next thing that I wanted to talk about is how to escape if you've built a fortress because you never know what might happen obviously you can have the most impenetrable Fortress and then you end up throwing a grenade and blowing up your own wall and letting everyone in well in that case you need to have a way of Escape firstly there are two here so we've just added a very simple zip line in order to get to the other side a nice Quick Escape or failing that if for whatever reason we can't use that we do have the glider as well and so this would be just a simple case of grabbing the glider giving it a run and then a jump and yes it is pretty low but I am pretty certain that we can make this work for us we just need to work on us swooping skills and build up a little bit of height and you can see where we're off now we can we can pretty much at this point fly wherever we want to without any kind of worry so those are the two systems that I've got currently obviously when they bring boats to the game which I'm pretty certain they are bringing them then we'll also be able to have a boat in Harbor so we have plenty of ways to escape but you can see the wall is pretty much completed I've only done the spikes on the ground side where it goes to the water I've noticed that cannibals generally speaking do not go via the the ocean where possible and so I'm hoping they're going to attack here when they next come the other thing is that I'm going to do a little quick little test as well and there's one section of the wall here which we've left unspiked on top and I want to see if the cannibals are going to prioritize this spot but I do need to do a few more lines of spikes along the front before we do that the next thing though that I want to talk about is trapping in the game currently we only have these two traps available we have the fly swatter trap and the bone maker trap both of them are great however expensive in terms of resources you're looking at 10 sticks three rocks and rope minimum ideally you want to make some bow makers which set them on fire using alcohol as well now the reason why these are so good is they pretty much kill on one shot at least the cannibals but these work great in two locations of your base first if there are any bottlenecks leading to the front say for example here we know that we're going to have enemies coming through this way to get to the gate we could trap this area with relative probability of success then from here all we need to do is place the traps the other option is to place it in your weakest defenses as a way of reinforcing them until you you have time or the resources to work on on this say we need to harvest more logs out sticks and rods then perhaps we want to set up a few of these just to make it slightly easier for us for the time being and the other thing is leading to here maybe you have some natural bottlenecks well this is again a perfect opportunity to use them perhaps there's a few big rocks in between you and your your base you can place them there in the pathway knowing that the enemy has to go up through there to get to you so traps can be really useful but obviously the cheapest system available for defense are these spikes the other thing is you do want to ensure that they are facing the right way I believe it's this way with the stick facing us there we go I mean it'll work either way let's jump in the water quickly the other great thing is you don't have to replenish the resources once you're resetting the Trap you can just place them and then reset them as you need the last thing that I've added is a a little Watchtower up there which we can access via rope and I've added a few more spikes we're gonna see how this lasts against the series of enemies at the moment but it should be pretty safe in fact nion impregnable let's find out I sent 50 cannibals to attack our camp the the bodies are actually disappearing slowly the traps took out a good few of them and then the rest have been butchered on these spikes one of them started attacking the gate and we managed to shoot him and and he started to run away but the rest are pretty injured there was one exception I think he jumped over in this spot here but he ended up running over to the ocean I haven't seen him since so you can see this is pretty impenetrables certainly against cannibals was spawn in a few mutants now and reset the traps and see what happens this time you can see we've got a load of fingers coming they're just wandering into the defenses they don't seem to be doing that much damage and we haven't repaired any of these yet we will need to go over with a hammer at some point just to check and this fingers we've got to be careful of because he's yeah he's doing what he shouldn't do [Music] but you can see we've had no problems defending against these either they're uh they're just killing themselves and of course in doubt you always have molotovs and providing you repair your gate at the same time as any damage is being done you should be pretty safe but there you are guys you now know the secrets to building an impenetrable Fort obviously this is just for this area that we've had to use this but you can use the systems in conjunction with other pieces in order to create your own perfect Fortress uh if you did like this video please do hit the thumbs up and if you want to see more don't forget to subscribe and let me know what you'd like to see in the next build in the comments below but guys we are going to leave it there if you're wondering what to watch next why not check out my waterfall build I'll put a link to that next we're going to leave it there special thanks does go to all of our amazing supporters most notably our solo Eclipse patrons James Owen 5less and treble as well as our Lunas the Calamity Ben star and choku the amino wolf and that dude aw as well as our blood moon of the day which today a is the city rat until next time as always ciao for now

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Length: 20min 58sec (1258 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 22 2023