How to Lock Doors in Sons of the Forest

Sons of the Forest is a new survival videogame developed by Endnight, where you must survive or die on a remote island. Unlike the cliche tropical islands that are common in this type of game, Sons of the Forest takes place in a lush environment filled with danger and adventure. Searching for a missing billionaire, you must overcome cannibals and other enemies looking to take you down and ruin your game. Make sure to craft yourself some weapons and shelter along the way as you work to make it through the day.

In the game, there are plenty of structures to build and things to do as you struggle to simply stay alive. One of the things you will find yourself doing in Sons of the Forest is constructing a shelter, and that naturally comes with a door. In this guide, we will cover how to lock your door in Sons of the Forest and make sure enemies cannot break in and get the jump on you.

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How Do You Lock Your Doors in Sons of the Forest?

Is There An Official Way to Lock Your Door?

With the recent update to Sons of the Forest, players are now able to actually lock their door without relying on shoddy pathfinding and exploiting the poor cannibals and mutants. Because don’t you feel bad for those monsters that want to tear you limb from limb? In order to lock your door with this new update you can also place a stick on the inside of the door, which will close it off from the outside! Just make sure you don’t forget to do this since it can be easy if you’re in a hurry! See the original method below.

How to Use Logs to Lock Doors

For those looking to find a quick solution, there are a couple of ways to lock your door while playing Sons of the Forest. The first way is a little bit of a glitch, since it will require you to do a little maneuvering with wood logs in order to cheese the NPC hostile pathfinding. Without further ado, here is the first way you can lock your doors in Sons of the Forest.

• Firstly, you will need to have crafted and placed the door that you wish to lock.
• Next, fetch a log and position it at the base of the door.
• Make sure that it is right up against the door after you have put it down.
• This will stop enemies from pathfinding the entrance to your base, making you safe from their attacks!

What If You Don’t Want to Lock Your Door?

If you are looking for another way to avoid hostiles, simply build your base on the second floor of your building. They will not try to climb up the stairs, which means you can rest assured that nothing is coming to get you while you are up there!

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