The Forest Caves
Pick a cave on the map or in the cards: all 11 named caves of The Forest with their 18 surface entrances, the 5 passages that join caves, the key items inside and the 97 enemy spawners that hold up to 209 enemies. Cave numbers are the community's (they match the game-file ids): the Chasm is cave 7 and the Sinkhole cave 8.
Data from the game files (pre-1.10 build). Icons: rendered by PinDrop from the game's 3D models. © Endnight Games.
Pick a cave on the map
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Open the full cave mapCave map: rendered by PinDrop in Blender from the game's cave geometry and textures. Drag to pan, tap a marker for its details.
All 11 caves
Counts are data from the game files (pre-1.10 build). Enemy numbers are the most each spawner can place, not a promise of what you will meet. Open a cave for what to find, who lives there, the ways in and what to bring.
Dead Cave · cave 1- Items
- 86
- Enemies
- 8
- Entrances
- 3
Hanging Cave · cave 2- Items
- 72
- Enemies
- 11
- Entrances
- 2
Wet Cave · cave 3- Items
- 12
- Enemies
- 10
- Entrances
- 2
Baby Cave · cave 4- Items
- 9
- Enemies
- 6
- Entrances
- 1
Submerged Cave · cave 5- Items
- 17
- Enemies
- 10
- Entrances
- 3
Lawyer Cave · cave 6- Items
- 16
- Enemies
- 34
- Entrances
- 3
Chasm Cave · cave 7- Items
- 44
- Enemies
- 13
- Entrances
- 1
Sinkhole Cave · cave 8- Items
- 30
- Enemies
- 67
- Entrances
- –
Ledge Cave · cave 9- Items
- 5
- Enemies
- 25
- Entrances
- 2
Waterfall Cave · cave 10- Items
- 8
- Enemies
- 2
- Entrances
- 1
Hell Cave · cave HC- Items
- 6
- Enemies
- 23
- Entrances
- –
The caves in a table
| Cave | Entrances from the surface | Joined to | Items | Enemy spawns | Key items |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead Cavecave 1 | 1 walk, 2 climb | Wet | 86 | 8 | Katana |
| Hanging Cavecave 2 | 1 walk, 1 climb | Baby | 72 | 11 | Modern Axe |
| Wet Cavecave 3 | 1 swim, 1 walk | Dead, Ledge | 12 | 10 | Chainsaw |
| Baby Cavecave 4 | 1 climb | Hanging | 9 | 6 | — |
| Submerged Cavecave 5 | 1 walk, 1 swim, 1 climb | — | 17 | 10 | Rebreather, Rusty Axe |
| Lawyer Cavecave 6 | 2 walk, 1 climb | Waterfall | 16 | 34 | Keycard |
| Chasm Cavecave 7 | 1 walk | Sinkhole | 44 | 13 | — |
| Sinkhole Cavecave 8 | none placed | Chasm | 30 | 67 | Air Canister, Broken Toy |
| Ledge Cavecave 9 | 2 climb | Wet | 5 | 25 | Climbing Axe |
| Waterfall Cavecave 10 | 1 climb | Lawyer | 8 | 2 | — |
| Hell Cavecave HC | none placed | — | 6 | 23 | — |
Where the entrances are
The files place 18 surface entrances across 9 caves (walk, climb or swim). Caves joined by a passage can be walked between: Dead–Wet, Hanging–Baby, Wet–Ledge, Waterfall–Lawyer, Chasm–Sinkhole.
No surface entrance is placed for Sinkhole Cave and Hell Cave. The Sinkhole is joined to the Chasm by a passage. All cave entrances on the map
Cave numbers and names
Numbers 1 to 10 follow the community's numbering, which matches the game's own scene ids (Cave_1 … Cave_10); the last cave is the Hell Cave. Guides that say "cave 7" often mean the Sinkhole: the community page for cave 7 is titled "Cave 7 - Chasm Cave (north) / Sinkhole Cave (south)". Here the Chasm is cave 7 and the Sinkhole cave 8.
Not caves
- The endgame bunker holds 100 items and 18 enemy spawns in the files. It has no plan here. See the Gold Keycard.
- A scene labelled "Snow" has geometry but 0 items, no entrances and 0 enemies in the files, so it has no page.