Any% Video Tutorial (w/glitches)

This is a guide to help you get started with running the game from start to finish! This includes various tips and tricks as well as the route in it's entirety! Below are time-stamps for the video so you can get all kinds of helpful information and jump around as needed! (Though I would recommend doing the time-stamps on YouTube so they actually work). If people want a written guide, I could do that as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nflkSbkTA

Timestamps:

Intro - 00:00

Basic Movement (How to move quickest) - 00:34

Hotkeys - 2:03

Basic Navigation (Finding the caves when you spawn) - 02:36
~Helpful Landmarks - 03:47
~How to get from cave to cave (or to sinkhole) - 04:23
~Getting from the keycard to the rebreather
~Getting from the keycard to the sinkhole
~Getting from the rebreather to the keycard
~Getting from the rebreather to the sinkhole

RUN START
~Before Starting a run - 06:09
~Beginning the run - 06:43
~Waking Up On Plane - 7:24

After Exiting the plane - 08:00
~Safety Pills - 08:02
~Heading to your first cave (Rebreather in this case) - 08:51

Rebreather Cave - 09:40
~ Entering the cave (Rope skip) - 09:58
~Navigating to the rebreather - 11:08
~Exiting the cave - 12:44

Heading to second cave (using sodas/extra safety pills) - 13:52

The Keycard Cave - 14:37
~Entering the cave - 14:38
~Getting to the keycard - 14:52
~Getting down to the card safely - 15:55
~Exiting The Cave - 16:43

Heading to the sinkhole (2 sodas) - 17:49

The Sinkhole - 18:45
~Arriving at the sinkhole - 18:45
~Getting down - 19:20
~Entering the sinkhole - 22:10

The Sinkhole Cave - 22:52
~Rope/Climbing Axe Skip - 23:30
~Final Part of the Cave - 24:12

The Lab - 25:15
~Safety Pills - 25:23
~Don't Get Stuck - 25:47
~Grab Some Food - 26:36
~Small Jump To Skip Babies on Normal - 28:44
~Wall Clip - 29:15
~Post-clip Navigation - 30:25
~Rock Pedestal - 30:58
~Jump the Bodies! - 32:00
~The Final Stretch - 32:39

Ending and Important Links/Shoutouts - 33:31

Co-op Glitchless FULL ROUTE GUIDE, New Boss Fight, and Zipline Strategy.

Hey guys, created a guide on both perspectives for co-op glitchless speedrun. With this route my partner and I got a 15:55 time and we hope others will compete using our route or possibly create a better one!

Created a timestamp comment and I fully explain how to run it mainly from my perspective (person getting the keycard) but I do explain the zipline positioning and how to place them which is most of what they have to do. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ajv_lXUeQ

Creative Any% Speedrun Tutorial [2023]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FglhdLKQZ8c&t

Creative Bombless Any% Guide (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNfvSwsdII

How to download and play older versions of The Forest

This is a guide to downloading and installing either for experimental purposes or in the future if the older version is faster.

Step 1, enabling the console and allowing depot downloads.

You're going to want to first type in "steam://open/console" in your web browser of choosing, for me im using chrome.
https://i.imgur.com/HQbOn1T.png

You will be greeted with this message, go ahead and hit 
"Open Steam Client Bootstrapper"

You'll now notice you have a new tab on your steam client.
https://i.imgur.com/F48hMtF.png

This will allow us to download the depots later, but first we need to enable this feature using Cheat Engine. Go ahead and download it if you dont already have it. There are other ways of enabling this feature but for us we'll focus on cheat engine because of how straight forward it is.
https://i.imgur.com/M2EaquN.png

Go ahead and follow these steps to enable depot downloading.
1. Run Cheat Engine.
2. File -> Open Process -> Steam
3. Set the right-hand settings to the following:
- "Memory Scan Options": steamclient.dll (just keep pressing S when the drop-down is open to iterate through each and find it quicker)
- "Value Type": Array of byte
- "Hex": checked
- "Writable": unchecked (!)
- "Array of byte": D0 84 C0 0F 85 2E FF FF FF
4. Click "First Scan". You should get a single Address and the searched Value next to it.
5. Right-click the Value -> Change value of selected address(es)
6. Enter new value: D0 84 C0 E9 2F FF FF FF 90
7. Click OK.

You're good to close cheat engine and this should stay in effect until you exit steam.

Go ahead and head on over to Steamdb.info and search up "The Forest"
on the top bar.
https://i.imgur.com/1jiYHbH.png

Go ahead and scroll down until you find Depots on your left.
Click on that and then click on the 242761 Depot.
https://i.imgur.com/BiiIXI4.png

Scroll down again and on your left you should have a manifest tab.
https://i.imgur.com/tQgK86f.png

These are all versions of The Forest released by the developers to the public steam version.
https://i.imgur.com/lG1QEeu.png

But these numbers dont really mean anything to us and the dates dont help that much either.
So now open a new tab and head on over to https://theforest.gamepedia.com/Updates
https://i.imgur.com/CrpfcZm.png
This is really helpful tool to tell us which version was released what date.
so for an example lets go ahead and pick "V0.55"
Scrolling down we can see V0.55 was released February 16th, 2017.
https://i.imgur.com/gJ46dMx.png

now going back to the steamdb manifest we can see two different versions that were released February 16th.
https://i.imgur.com/x8F38vR.png

The older version, ID 429974~ was released earlier which would translate to being our V0.55, the later one 180309~ is no doubt the hotfix patch, V0.55b

So now we have our information we go back into the steam console, and will be using this command: 
"download_depot "App ID" "Depot ID" "Manifest ID"
"242760" is The Forest's App ID. "242761" is the main branch depot ID and 	
"429974931570940864" is our target version, V0.55's Manifest ID

so our command should be:
 download_depot 242760 242761 429974931570940864

if done correctly you should see Steam downloading the depot.
https://i.imgur.com/SL6jk5t.png

if not and you are getting the error "Manifest not available" you did something incorrect in cheat engine or this option may not work for you and will need to investigate alternatives.

once finished steam will download the data to the target location:
Program Files\(x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_242760\depot_242761
depending on what drive your steam install is.
https://i.imgur.com/dfRNDlP.png

Copy all files in this folder and then head over to your main installation folder.
which should be:
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Forest
Go ahead and paste all files and hit yes to all overriding files.
and you're pretty much done! Go ahead and test it out by going into your library and launching the game. if done correctly you should see your work.
https://i.imgur.com/YtiNRXj.png

Some side notes: THIS WILL NOT ERASE YOUR SAVE DATA.
That data is kept in your %Appdata% folder.

if you need to undo everything you did and reupdate to the latest version of the forest, go ahead and right click the forest in the steam library. Click Properties, and locate the local files tab and hit "Verify Integrity of Game Files" this will override what you did and allow you to play the most current version of the game.

How To Wall Clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXgIUAnWbw

Lab Skip Tutorial

Thanks to Buu we have an... interesting guide on how to do the Lab skip haha. Just wanted to get it up on here as well to help people find it! THANKS BUU!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCZwxnQZ0c

The Forest Any% Glitchless [Full Guide] 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgwGW-FSje4

Gortern

IAmTheChezz

fruich

TheTaipoe

sxczurass

yirequ

The Forest

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EUR / PAL

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Normal

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Creative

Any% Bombs

Any% (No Explosive Glitch)

Coop Any%

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Inbounds%

Any%

New saves coming soon due to technical recorded issues around specific files. (especially glitchless). Be alert for these drops. 

Name	Autor
Any% Video Tutorial (w/glitches)	IAmTheChezz 9 years ago
Co-op Glitchless FULL ROUTE GUIDE, New Boss Fight, and Zipline Strategy.	TheTaipoe 7 years ago
Creative Any% Speedrun Tutorial [2023]	fruich 3 years ago
Creative Bombless Any% Guide (2025)	sxczurass 10 months ago
How to download and play older versions of The Forest	Gortern 6 years ago
How To Wall Clip	Gortern 5 years ago
Lab Skip Tutorial	IAmTheChezz 9 years ago
The Forest Any% Glitchless [Full Guide] 2026	yirequ 5 months ago