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Sons of the Forest Cave Map
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Sons of the Forest Cave Map
Caves are where Sons of the Forest hides its progression gear — the rope gun, rebreather, shovel, pickaxe and the Ancient Armor all lie in cave scenes. The map below pins every cave entrance; click a marker for its name and a location screenshot, or copy a teleport command to jump straight there. Below the map, each cave's loose loot is listed item by item, read from the game's own files.
Cave order matters because some tools gate others. A common route is Rope Gun → Rebreather → Shovel → Pickaxe: the rope gun opens up zipline traversal, the rebreather lets you swim the flooded passages that lead to the shovel, and the shovel + pickaxe together unlock the buried graves and sealed walls in the deeper caves. Use the item guides linked below for the exact route through each one.
What's inside each cave
Read from the game's own level files: every item placed loose in the 10 caves and grottos, counted. Counts are pickups, not units — one ammo box is one pickup. Crates, cases and bodies roll their contents when you open them, so they are not in this list, and bones, skulls, rocks and severed limbs are left out.
Seven caves are named: Rebreather, Rope Gun, Shovel, Ancient Armor (the golden armor cave), Pickaxe, Artifact and Hell Cave. Around them sit the lake grottos and a few unnamed openings, and the map above pins every entrance we've mapped — including both ways into the Rope Gun Cave.
What is the best cave order in Sons of the Forest?▾
A reliable progression is Rope Gun cave first (for zipline traversal), then the Rebreather cave (to swim underwater), then the Shovel cave (its flooded section needs the rebreather), then the Pickaxe. That order means you never hit a passage you can't cross yet.
Which cave has the shovel?▾
The shovel is deep inside the Shovel Cave — a partly flooded cave that expects you to already have the rebreather (to swim) and ideally the rope gun. Open the Shovel Cave marker on the map for its entrance, then follow the shovel guide for the route inside.
Which cave has the rebreather and rope gun?▾
The rebreather is in the Rebreather Cave and the rope gun is in the Rope Gun Cave (it has two entrances). Both are early, high-priority caves because they unlock traversal for the rest of the map — filter to Caves above and click either marker for its exact location.
Stun GunWeapon
RebreatherGear
Artifact Piece AArtifact
Powered CrossBlueprint
Flare×4
Stun Gun Ammo×4
9mm Ammo×2
Grenade×1
Energy Drink×3
Fish×3
Vodka Bottle×3
MRE Pack×2
Meat×2
Pills×1
Cloth×4
Wire×2
Air Tank×1
Rope×1
Wristwatch×1
