How do you skin mutants in The Forest?

Once you have found a Mutant, you need to kill it and look for the skinning prompt. Once you've targeted the skinning prompt, hold down the Take Button to begin skinning the Mutant. For each Mutant skinned, you will receive 1 piece of Creepy Armor that will automatically go into your Inventory.
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How do you get rid of mutants in The Forest?

When fighting creepy mutants, fire makes a very good weapon on normal mode. It allows the player to damage them without being too close for too long. Torches, flare gun shots, fire arrows , molotovs or explosives are the safest bet.
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How do you skin cannibals in Sons of the Forest?

Kill creepy mutants and skin them, you can't skin cannibals. When you kill a creepy mutant, you walk up to it and hold 'E'. You can only butcher cannibals for their limbs and burn them for their bones.
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What is the best weapon against mutants in The Forest?

The Shotgun is the most reliable for defeating the Fingers mutant, as it can only handle about two shots before falling. If players don't have any ammo or explosives, then a Molotov is an excellent alternative for an easy takedown or a melee weapon like the Katana.
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How do you stop mutants from destroying bases in The Forest?

Start small with your base and immediately stick a wall of logs all the way around it to create a barrier. For each one of the logs, you're going to want to aim your axe at the top and chip away at it to create a spike. These spiked defenses can slow cannibals and mutants down, especially if you create a raised base.
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Can you scare away mutants in The Forest?

Passive/Fearful. Red paint, burning Effigies and Fires, hand-thrown Flares and fighting back against cannibals during an attack can force neutrality and passive behavior between the player and mutants of every kind, except Creepy Mutants.
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How do you make cannibals fear you in The Forest?

How cannibals react to a player with red paint on is almost exactly the same as how they react with effigies. It will cause most cannibals to fear the player and avoid them, though there are a few that will still attack the player. The reason for this is actually done on purpose by the developers.
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Can you befriend the cannibals in Sons of the Forest?

It will not be possible to build mutually beneficial relations. Cannibal AI adapts to the player. If you actively feud with Cannibals and ravage their villages, kill their relatives, they will more actively seek battles with you.
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Can you play The Forest without killing cannibals?

It is also possible to "tame" the cannibals (Have them not attack you/be more docile). This is done by taking something with decent block and blocking their attacks, until they eventually show signs of neutrality towards the player.
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Can you trap mutants in The Forest?

Traps are effective agains mutants as well, but I strongly recommend to deal with them outside of your base. Throwing spears are your best friends. Craft a bag for them.
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Are mutants blind Sons of the Forest?

They are the most common enemy found inside caves, serving as a replacement for the gray cave cannibals from The Forest. These mutants cannot see the player or other entities due to their lack of eyes, but instead they use hearing and sense of smell to find its prey.
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What attracts mutants Sons of the Forest?

All mutants are aggressively hostile towards humans, be they cannibals or the players. They are not hostile towards other mutants even if they are of a different variety, with the except of Virginia and John 2.0. They are attracted to player built structures similarly to the cannibals.
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What does the Creepy Armor do in the forest?

Creepy Armor in Sons of the Forest is a layer of protective Mutant skin that will shield your health bar from damage as long as you are wearing one piece or more.
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What does creepy Armour do in the forest?

Creepy Armor

This armor is currently the most robust set of armor available. It will provide 80 points of defense, double the amount achieved from a single piece of Bone Armor. No crafting is required with Creepy Armor. It can be equipped immediately.
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How do you get Creepy Armor in the forest?

Creepy armor can be obtained from skinning dead Virginias, Armsies, and Cowmen. Also, when killed, the Girl mutant will drop 3 pieces of creepy armor at its place of death. However, Mutant Babies do not contain creepy armor. It currently provides an armor rating of 80 per piece.
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What happens if you don't eat in Sons of the Forest?

If you're playing Sons of the Forest in Peaceful, Normal, or Hard mode, you can't starve to death. Your food and water indicators will empty and start flashing, and your stamina bar will become roughly a third of what it once was. However, you won't take any health damage.
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What happens if you destroy a cannibal camp in Sons of the Forest?

There seems to be a war between cannibals and mutants as well. So destroying the camps seems to lead to them getting taken over by mutants faster.
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Who is the girl with 4 legs in Sons of the Forest?

Extra limbs aside for a moment, Virginia is the adult daughter of the esteemed Puffton family, the same family that owns the island filled with deadly mutations that you find yourself unfortunately stuck on. Virginia is around 20 years old, and from what's seen in the game it seems she has a passion for Ballet.
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What color attracts cannibals in The Forest?

The circle artifact added on The Forest in the latest patch is used to either repel or attract the cannibals. Right click (blue light) repels the cannibals and left click (red light) attracts them to the person holding the artifact.
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What are the big red cannibals in Sons of the Forest?

Red Cannibals are rather fast for their size and stature and will charge at the player if they get too close. They randomly attack the player's base in raids and prioritize attacking buildings instead of the player by ramming themselves into structures. However, their damage to the structures are low.
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How do you trap cannibals in The Forest?

The Noose Trap is a trap that catches cannibals by their feet and hangs them upside down. This trap is the only one that is guaranteed to catch a cannibal that trips it, but it also leaves the cannibal alive. While animals can trip this trap, they are not caught by it.
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Do bonfires attract mutants in the forest?

Though all fires attract cannibals and mutants during the night, the bonfire is by a very wide margin the best at attracting them, causing droves to approach from a large distance around. Only light a bonfire if you want a fight, as nights are considerably more dangerous while one is lit.
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Can the mutants in the forest swim?

The player can swim or row a boat to the edge, but the player will take out a picture of Timmy and row backwards if they travel too far. After the alternative ending, the player will just hit an invisible wall. Cannibals and most mutants cannot swim, though occasionally they can enter the water and not die.
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