Sons of the Forest: How To Make a Fire

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emphasizes the «survival» portion of survival horror, as players need to craft tools from scratch and make one of mankind's most significant achievements, a fire. Essential to cooking food, fires give players a much better opportunity to overcome hunger, perhaps the most consistent obstacle in the game. Thankfully, the tools needed to build a fire for a campsite or just in the wilderness during the exploration can be found fairly quickly as long as players have space in their inventory.

The only two items players need to make a fire are 2 Sticks and a Lighter, the latter of which may be found simply by gathering tools from around the helicopter crash site. Players can get a Lighter almost immediately after they get used to the basic controls within . Sticks, on the other hand, are found everywhere in the forested areas of the island players find themselves trapped on. While these bare twigs and branches are also used to build structures and other helpful items, players can always set a couple aside to make their fire.

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Equipping a Stick gives players two new prompts when lookingat the ground, either indicated by two small white lines or a circular mark on the surface below. Picking the first of these options breaks the stick into pieces; a step players need to select to make a fire. Players will need to break multiple sticks in the same spot to have a longer-lasting longer and, therefore, should consider sticks an essential item to get in for this task. Although a fire can be started using one stick, it won't be around long enough to cook food or illuminate a busy night.

Players can break two sticks for a decent lasting fire

Once players have broken