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FAQ

Click the button related to the marker in the sidebar.
The website will remember your toggled markers for the next visit.
If you are logged in, you can go to Options > "Save Settings" to save the state of toggled markers to your account.
It's the difficulty level of surviving here.

Green: Easy (no natives, plenty resources)
Orange: Medium (some natives, less resources)
Red: Hard (many natives, no resources)
First of all, you have to be registered and logged in.
Then click on the map where you want to add the marker.
You have two options: Marker and Screenshot

Marker: Select your marker. Most markers are auto-placed with ingame coordinates and cannot be placed by users.
Screenshot: Drag and drop your screenshot to the area and wait for the upload to finish.
Your screenhots are usually stored here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[id]\760\remote\[id]\screenshots

Description: (optional) You can describe this marker. It should add more informations to the marker
Good: Marker "Good Spot" - Description: "Much water, no enemies, many fish, close to boat"
Bad: Marker "Good Spot" - Description: "My base"


READ THE RULES BEFORE ADDING MARKERS
You have to be logged in to do this.
Go to "Options" (sidebar) > "Flag markers".
Click on the marker you want to report.
Reasons may be: Wrong marker type, wrong position, dublicate, inappropriate, ...
Enter your reason.
If it fails, it may be an auto-placed marker that cannot be removed.
In collaboration with Souldrinker, we proudly present a map mod for the ModAPI!

  • Can be opened and closed with a key (standard: M).
  • Drag the mouse to move the map.
  • Use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom the map.
  • Forest & Cave map
  • Filter markers
  • Displays your current location
  • Displays current enemies position

Download ModAPI & Map Mod



Alternatively Alt-tab to your browser or use the Steam browser.

How do i install it?

  1. Download ModAPI (link above) and check the Map mod
  2. Start it.
  3. Check "Map" on the left side.
    Make sure you are using version >=1.5.
  4. (optional) Change the key bind under the tab "Settings"
  5. Start The Forest by clicking "Start game" in the lower right
  6. Ingame: Press "M" to toggle the map.
Registered users can upload in-game screenhots.
To view them click on this icon:
Click on the map.
Copy the url in the address bar.
Format: http://theforestmap.com/#x,y
The map will automatically pan to the location.
Especially "Plane", "Sailboat", or "Animals".
The plane has a random crash site. You can land in a small radius around the marker.
The sailboat has a random spawn position near the south coast.
All animal markers are spawn zones. Animals have a chance to spawn around that marker.

Donations

If you like to support this project, you may send me items via trade offer:

Steam tradeoffer

... or donate 5€ (~5.6$) via PayPal:


Thank you!

TFM News

What's new? Changes, Infos, ...

  • 2018-03-23 Removed old login - replaced with STEAM
  • 2018-03-23 Coop removed/replaced with dedicated servers
  • 2017-05-04 Added Chainsaw & Fuel
  • 2017-05-03 Added Wiki - Developer Console
  • 2017-04-28 Dedicated server list
  • 2017-04-11 Sidebar rework
  • 2017-04-10 Toggled markers are saved in cookies - no need for an account or saving them manually
  • 2017-04-10 Added HD map toggle (options)
  • 2017-03-28 Fixed missing markers (oysters, berries, tents, ...)
  • 2017-03-25 Added Wiki - Weapon Stats
  • 2017-03-20 Added new Native markers (Cannibal, Mutant, Babies)
  • 2017-02-12 Added "Where am i?"
  • 2017-01-08 Added Wiki - Color Grading
  • 2017-01-08 Added Wiki - Mutant Types
  • 2017-01-08 Added Wiki - Mutant Spawns
  • 2017-01-08 Added Wiki - Number Trivia
  • 2017-01-08 Added Wiki

Downloads

This is the map of the island without markers.

Download Forest

Download Caves

For personal use only. Regard to copyright.

Download ModAPI & Map Mod

Top Contributors

  1. jterhaar - 437
  2. Mihalych - 71
  3. Svemirski Otpad - 34
  4. Satori - 29
  5. Xenoit - 28
  6. Gatsby101 - 28
  7. Kpa6i - 28
  8. Persianman - 25
  9. OSTGREN - 21
  10. VanionLOT - 20

Mentions

  • Locations by theforestmap.com users
  • Thanks to Souldrinker for ModAPI
  • G. Hiller
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Statistics

  • 21426 registered users
  • 2267 markers*
  • 476 screenshots*
* since version 0.28