There are new powers beyond “hit the pink thing with the thing on a stick”. Everything you do feeds into the XP pool, so chopping trees and/or limbs gradually builds up your abilities. It plops a typical RPG bar on the bottom of the screen, showing off your XP and hotbar - and yes, The Forest now has a hotbar instead of forcing you to rummage through your backpack while that legbeast kicks you. Even so, for everything Champions of The Forest undermines in the basic design, it adds a ton of ridiculous stuff. The fuzziness of The Forest’s logic is a deliberate decision to make everything you do fraught with peril. Survival games are basically RPGs without the instruction manual. It’ll reacquire any modded files, resetting the game for you. If you want to cleanse your game of all your tweaks just verify the files on Steam. If you want to add more mods, you can download them from their specific mod page on ModAPI and add them to ‘mods’ > ‘TheForest’ folder. You just tell the program where to find your game, enable the mods in the menu, and it’ll patch it with the new files. When you’re happy, just download the package and extract the zip somewhere and run ‘modapi.exe’ to run the program. The most popular mods appear at the top, and you can extend the list with the ‘Load More’ button. From there, you can select a mod or number of mods to add to your download from the list below. It will automatically select the base package to install. To start with, you select The Forest from the list of mods at at ModAPI. The Forest’s modding platform is a sort of all-in-one mod downloader, loader, and updater. We also tell you how to actually go about modding The Forest with our step-by-step guide on how to use its modding platform.Ĭhampions of the Forest Forest Map Better Blueprints No Limits Tree Respawn More Crafting Day22SpawnChange Tides Inner Clock How to mod The Forest # Alternatively, you can just carry on reading the whole thing. The Forest mods come in all shapes and sizes and add all manner of different features to the game, so we’ve split this list into sections so you can hop directly to the kind of mod you’re looking for.