HOW TO RAISE STRENGTH & ATHLETICISM! | The Forest (2019)

In this video, I show you how to raise strength & athleticism in The Forest. Strength and athleticism are much easier to raise in the full release version of The Forest, with the exception of hard survival which is still the same. I don't cover too much about hard survival as it is much more complicated though I cover it in my season 3 play through.
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[@Wolfdings]

Well there's me, hard training for hours to gain athleticism and strength. Excercising, counting calories and slowly improving - feeling better every day. And then there is the real me sitting in a chair, grinding The Forest, eating chips. Life is awesome - somehow

[@pandamandimax]

I know lol it's so funny. Me in the forest "ugh I don't want to have to drink another Coke it's bad for my stats". Me IRL as I'm saying that - stuffing my face with chips and Coke.

[@wyft2627]

If only we could apply that effort to real life 😂

[@jeff-hd9og]

bro I’m swinging around a bone in vr

[@ymiph6802]

loser activities

[@jon1819]

@@wyft2627 you can. Gamefy life bro. There’s a bunch of apps for it I mostly use a work one, but playing on hard survival is slapping me in the face with guilt. Like why am I so good at this but lack control of my own life? Fuck that. Time to play life like the forest

[@blkreid]

Yeah I'm a couple years late, but these guides are so helpful. Also, you're slick funny as hell. farket is the man!

[@nakedpigeon2807]

Literally

[@jasonbaugher2464]

Same here. These vids are like an improved survival guide for this game.

[@kBeQ]

So true

[@fireared9244]

Im here because the forest was on sale and i need a guide

[@adamtidbury3158]

@step raid I've just got it to lol really good game but the trolls coming in and breaking all my stuff is annoying so started playing in my own lobby if my pals not on lol

[@zoned7609]

day 71. just discovered the player stats screen. i have 0% sanity and 55% strength that explains it

[@brazilianniceguy]

You are able to fuck cannibals already Females only tho

[@Tokar-eb4ts]

Whaaaattt?

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

@@brazilianniceguy come on, at 0% sanity you should be able to fuck mutants, only virginias though.

[@LyriXpress]

Keep in mind mutants are 6 year old girls

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

@@LyriXpress Actually I think virginia was a 12 year old girl originally, look at how she's grown now. I'm pretty sure the forest would have been banned worldwide if she was still 12, so she must be at least.... something more than 12... Just go away FBI! Go away or I'll call my lawyer!

[@buzzman4860]

Mentally Scarred after seeing 9:00

[@RayTC]

not my proudest fap

[@svinfot1009]

now you know where mutants comes from. :D

[@pi5272]

T H I C C

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

same

[@richardb7139]

That ass though proper love handles lol

[@Graxster]

Just to clear up something that's sort of implied but not mentioned: You can only gain a max of 2 Strength per day (as mentioned), but this limit DOES NOT apply to Athleticism. There's no limit (that I've seen) to how much Athleticism you can gain in one day.

[@nickkyriakidis1661]

I would prefer athleticism over strength. Now that I can run faster, I can use the Modern Bow to fight, can dodge or escape the cannibals more easily now (since I'll also have a lot of stamina to work with), because I'll only be using my stamina to run.

[@Apple-nf5rk]

So i you see a mutant its easier to just say "screw this, Im out." Im with you here.

[@lorcanzo2498]

@@Apple-nf5rk I feel this

[@Emily-kd2zv]

@@lorcanzo2498 just use explosives, they're down in one hit

[@bugrayediel8291]

@Split Dimension Run in the cave

[@crubrutockcsgo]

for all the people, the best strat to defeat cannibals is either use explosivs, (but this is harder to do) I personally throw a molotov, then run away, take out my bow, then bow spam, and run, if it manages to catch up then I use my modern axe, but otherwise bow

[@KRIEG1]

5:12 who saw the log just yeet it self out of existence

[@noname-yo3uk]

How Did You See That???🤣🤣🤣

[@Europas_Gone]

I thought it was the worm first time I saw it lmao

[@Kurtownia]

I bought this game a few days ago, and today I decided to figure out how to grind strength and stamina. It's great to be on the lucky side of statistics.

[@Farket]

I couldn't fit 'normal and hard modes only' in the title. Let me know if you want a hard survival mode guide, I already have the script for it as mentioned. My season 3 covers it fairly well though. If you have any questions let me know. The stats are quite complicated, I tried to keep it as informative as possible, not sure if I left out any details. Also, what do you prefer? athleticism or strength?

[@STiFFLM4sT3R]

Farket I'm 100% sure, there is a console command for raising strength.

[@VmuteV]

athleticism early game and fight with bows/thrown spears, strength late game fighting with the farket method

[@enigma8131]

Yes, please, a Hard Survival guide/explanation would be very appreciated :D Also, keep up the good work, love your videos

[@STiFFLM4sT3R]

Farket Yeah. "Setstat strength 90" is still working for me. Only problem: it will change back to your old strength level if you swing a weapon. So if you wanna keep the new strength level, you need to save and restart the savegame

[@Kadashiel]

Cheers Farket, brand new subscriber here. Thank you for your awesome guides! I would appreciate an seperate guide for hard-survival. I can't really tell what i would prefer. probably athleticism over strength for the same reason you mentioned. Even i am a player who usually prefers tankyness over mobility, quickness and endurance is more valuable in The Forest, especially on hard-survival. Last night i did an fun hard-survival playthrough with my girlfriend, just to go to the endboss. we basically did the same as you did in your 1 hour + vegan achievement playthrough, but we took our time and got some more weapons and stuff. there i could severely feel the difference between 20 and 99 athleticism.

[@loganestabrook3175]

I started The Forest a week ago with the boys. This channel definitely helped us out. Thanks for all the great content man.

[@knatspray]

Girl: I just don’t understand, why isn’t he seeing my signs? Their signs: 9:00

[@nane1912]

I guess it means "Even if you try to stay the fck away from me I will always find you and slaughter you like the rest!", but I'm not sure because I am not that experienced

[@antus37]

She's twerking for you, how can you not see that?

[@suzys937]

Just want to say thank you for all the videos you’ve put up. They are jam packed with useful information and I enjoy watching them. I started watching from season 3, I’ll continue on from there and go back. Massive thumbs up from me!! 😄

[@smcfadden1992]

8:58 , thats just wrong lol

[@blAckg0D]

7:05 "I'm terrible with meth" fortunately for you!

[@tom-hc2ib]

Math*

[@youonlyeatbacon6631]

depression 6 r/wooosh

[@Himothy19546]

2024 gang😂😂👇

[@zeeman711YT]

Here

[@Ellis-wz7uc]

Fr

[@Himothy19546]

Yoo

[@Runeraven812]

Jamann

[@Quincybuck]

Happy other people still play

[@nartron3000]

If you’re really lazy (like me) you can just bind the swing key to the enter button on the right side of the keyboard (on the number pad) and put a phone to weigh it down. Works like a charm 😉👍

[@COhlen]

6:33 - 7:05 "0 Ath 13.01 seconds to run the distance and to run out of staNina. 99 Ath 10.07 seconds to run the distance and about 27 seconds to run out of staNina" S T A N I N A

[@sebastiank153]

Thank you for the new Guide farket

[@DavesTBSS]

your voice is amazing.. Love the video btw :)

[@SamSung-tp3si]

#nohomo

[@bodbn]

Kiwi

[@commiewhacker4033]

Some of the videos I can't take seriously because of the content of the video and the voice. That's mostly in the older vids though.

[@jasoncoates9259]

Just found a glitch in one of the caves that when you walk into certain part of the wall will instantly give you the rebreather pretty neat happy to show ya anytime if ya want.

[@xavex8099]

Bro upload it please

[@Glazed1077]

I'm new to the game as I just got it for ps4 and I really appreciate your guides. Definitely enjoying the game alot more bc of you and you got a new sub for that :)

[@fusiongxge5105]

You could add me on ps4 my name is Fusion_Gxge

[@rzrking7411]

is it just me or is this game making a resurgence all of the sudden? i just started playing last week and ive seen recent top comments from on these videos like 2 weeks old. awesome

[@v9xez]

For any new players, if you are trying to get max strength, grab aloe as infections make your strength decrease rapidly

[@V6HAVOC]

Kept wondering why my strength is so low even tho i swing it to no end, figured from this comment its bcs of how often i get sick lol. Thanks man

[@aninternetexplorer4757]

So, speaking of which you need athleticism for dodging and running away from cannibals and you need strength when you want to go aggressively towards enemies as you deal more damage to them.

[@reinzai5927]

Can you make a video about how to aim the catapult and hit the enemy perfecly?

[@callum_paints_stuff]

You know its legit advice when Jango Fett is giving you the tips!

[@ljfile]

Next video idea: Tell us about the different plane crash/ spawn locations places and what is near them and what should do if you spawn in that location. You are the best : )

[@chrismackenrodt6202]

Dear farket, thanks for helping me with the Forrest. I just found the game and love it. I’m big RPG guy and just got into survival a lot. I found that after 20 days it’s kinda disappointing that it sorta gets easy. There should be more stuff to do with animal skins maybe upgrade pouches more, and it’s almost pointless to have a base cus it’s easy to survive out by yourself. I ended up building near the main village near the river just to have more action. But thanks for your enthusiasm and guides. I watched a few to get my barrings then I went

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

Raising athleticism seems like it would take an insanely long amount of time... 25 minutes of diving or 1 and a half hour of running for 1 athleticism? jesus christ.

[@Ares_Sorrow]

I think he said it counted for 10 as a stat? Could be wrong though, and yeah, that is crazy lol

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

​@@Ares_Sorrow nah, it's 1

[@Ares_Sorrow]

@@cestarianinhabitant5898 yeah, that's a bit crazy, and not worth the grind

[@aninternetexplorer4757]

Well u could just sprint while playing the game as u could play the game by an average of maybe an hour and a half while sprinting to where you need to get to everytime

[@yolonik3132]

Can it go down again

[@GageMason]

I just got the game last week and your vids have been amazing

[@jamesron5965]

tldr: Both sprint and diving stack towards an actual athleticism bonus(0-10) but only when their behind the scenes individual xp bars fill up fully and they level up. Each individual level up adds +1 to behind the scenes real athleticism bonus(0-10). The stats page just adds their total xp points together so to speak(20-99), but it isn't a good measure for how many level ups have occurred. I only checked this for hard mode. Running fills its own xp meter(out of 7200) and underwater fills its own xp meter(out of 1800). Only when the built up points are at least a multiple of their respective meter do they add to athleticism real. If Sprint is at 14400/7200 = 2 and diving is at 1800/1800 = 1 that's a cumulative athleticism of 3. If sprint was 14399 it would show up as 14399/7200 = 2 but would only add 1 to athleticism, so the cumulative athleticism would only be 2 in my example. Base athleticism behind the scenes is 0(0-10) and the base starts off at 20(20-99) in the stats page. 79 points to get to 99 on the stats page and 10 points to get to 10 behind the scenes. So 7.9 stat page points per 1 behind the scenes athleticism real point. 35.79541 is the highest number you can see without getting any real athleticism bonus, an athleticism real of: 0 [7199/7200 in sprint(7.8989), 1799/1800 in diving(7.89561)]. Just based on the diagram opening up by pressing f3 in dev mode, if Athleticism real is the actual athleticism bonus.

[@eddieglo2695]

I love the effort you put into your videos

[@Fatboy50005]

Best KZbin guide farket I jus started playing but I heard they changed it to increase strength without waiting for another day

[@jthegamer360]

re watching all your forest vids has really made me see how much you love the gyrating cowman

[@NicholasAHart]

Oh My Goodness, that Cow Man Torque just got me.... And I hate that Torquing crap, so well done Farket.

[@falnixvalencroth]

These videos are so professionally well done!

[@Xenbiotic]

Yay, I been waiting for this~

[@StoneyProductions]

Nice , you learn something new every day 😎☝️

[@999pyroboy]

hey farket, i was playing around a little with your ways of raising stats, and i found out a maybe even better way of doing it, not sure tho if its faster. but this way u can raise strenght and athleticism at the same time. What i do is i go stand in a pool of water and hit the water with a bone/katana. and every time u hit also go under the water. seem to work quite fast although u cant swing the bone as fast as u could swinging it upright. i personally like using the katana for this so i can also catch fish fairly easy this way and making the katana actually useful for anything. I thought it may be worth sharing with u, Cheers

[@VastDage]

Did anyone else see that turtle despawning in front of him at 8:10

[@dknight4758]

video cut.

[@dailytriggered]

If you have a console you can do this by putting a rubber band or hair tie around your controller

[@stonedsavage7814]

Made perfect use of my corsair mouse icue software... happy days baby

[@tizzy3842]

if youre not going to watch the video at least skip to 8:58

[@justlilly7653]

Damn this was crazy helpful thank you

[@taccine8069]

Finally, Thank you Farket

[@streamdreamvidsyt973]

Watching you in 2022 new to the game and just wow awesome

[@maestro-zq8gu]

If you don't have a fancy keyboard you can always jam a paperclip to keep a key down.

[@gamerghost_yt1610]

Bro its 2022 and this still helpful

[@Fade-07-07]

If you are on the PlayStation you can use soda to refill your energy quickly ! Hope that helps

[@_mylastname]

I subbed just because of your name, and stayed for the content, and your Stathem-esque voice.. Haha

[@kevinramirez-rq8sy]

really useful info like always

[@faterre8885]

Well done the statistic... very nice Information...

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Do you even swing bone, bruh? Great videos Farket, I've been working my way through them and have gotten lots of ideas from them, keep it up!

[@DerivativeWorker]

Hey I found some things with cannibals: Naked ferals will retreat by climbing up trees. I also encountered cannibals that wear human face masks. They are ridiculously tough and will get back up after being burned. I don't know if you've encountered this things before.

[@chickenmadness1732]

tree climbing cannibals is pretty common I'm sure it's happened in his games. I think all cannibals can do it when they're chickenning out and running away from you. The big tall cannibals get up after being burned too. Got surprised by that when I was searching the caves for weapons and it came up behind me after I thought it was already dead lol.

[@junemichaelpinero3291]

You should play multiplayer with broadbent dude! i wonder what the forest would look like xoxo what do you guys think?

[@-freddy-5310]

thank you very much i love your channel

[@goreobsessed2308]

I just started playing like last week I love your guides

[@girlgang0.0]

I love you both tha0nks for all tips

[@traviscarpenter8237]

Thank u 4 showing that mutant banging the fence

[@savageweathergaming3156]

Im actually not as confused as i was thanks man also head shots with the bow was a pain in the arse but im getting it down also im a new sub and new player

[@xclrtr5747]

dont know how much it has changed since this video if it has changed at all but the bow is my main weapon atm I'm fairly good at getting headshots with it also love using flaming arrows against the mutants

[@savageweathergaming3156]

@@xclrtr5747 Hehehe my favorite Arrow

[@noahdorroh5920]

i know this is an older video, but thanks for the guide, helped out

[@twomanarmy7291]

I got this game a few days ago for 5 dollars and it's sick I can't believe I never played it

[@mylestheweedpilesmoker2022]

there is no way to explain how on time this video is for me. thanks

[@ijfishy7444]

the athleticism running tests are the longest seconds ive ever felt

[@wolfcloud8735]

Bro you need to do some reviews on this game using a ps4!

[@lonewanderer958]

Eww he has it on pc why would he do that

[@howiehowie8230]

6:56 don’t blame you I would’ve been confused to

[@Butterkin]

Thank you farket!

[@pezus553]

OMG yes thank you for the guides

[@Dark-wn5zd]

Great vid left a like

[@Trenty_Boi]

So much grinding just for when you die you lose it all 😭 On multiplayer it does this at least, I don't enjoy single player much, but if only easy- hard mode made it so when you die on multiplayer you don't lose pretty much every single grinding aspect to zero, (upgrades, stats, one other idr rn)

[@Kododie]

The cowman outro reminded me of Mastodon's Motherlode video clip. It's equally ridiculous.

[@AznCoolDragon]

With this kind of analysis on a game, im sure if you put equal effort in a project at a company, youd make manager by 35 and ceo by 45

[@oliverpersson5301]

you earned a sub !

[@illegalsmile8625]

I never knew! Thanks

[@Atreus21]

If only real life were this easy.

[@Sleepy.Time.]

you the man

[@MysticalReaper]

This is awesome and nice and specific also you sound Australian and thats awesome

[@gearblazer]

@farket I’ve had a serious question that I don’t know if you ran across. When equipped in creepy armor, switching to your wetsuit causes you to lose 1 of the creepy armors. Seems unfair since they are pretty tough to obtaining begin with. Can you maybe get the dvs to fix this bug.

[@gearblazer]

#farket

[@metricbug1935]

It takes 5 mins 40 seconds of swinging a bone in the air to get +2 stamina. Hope this helps

[@napde5691]

MetricBug don’t u mean strength

[@metricbug1935]

@@napde5691 yep lol first one who noticed

[@ergultheelectrician4730]

I live right next to 3 cannibal camps, I have to thank my brother for that 😦

[@Hateious]

With captions on says fuckity here XD

[@marcinmichalski2226]

That's kind, thanks Farket! :) And another great video! /Dirty

[@gointman]

Can you do a video on your setup/specs and your settings for the forest?

[@IronWolf414]

"2019" "7 months ago"

[@Farket]

I changed it so people would know its still up to date. Nothings changed from 2017.

[@KasSkaitysTasGaidys69]

3:33 you can also do it by farting

[@richardblunts5953]

I know this is a 3 yr old vid. But i went to sleep a bit before sunset and i woke up in the middle of the night so yeaa, i dont think that allways waking up at the same time in the morning statement is actually real

[@2ndLastJedi]

Do I need to swing my bone 427 times in VR also to upgrade strength? This will build my own real life strength, lol

[@Farket]

Lol probably would. I’m not actually sure how strength works yet. I have to do my research.

[@ketso1538]

@@Farket makes a video on strength. doesn't know how strength works.

[@HungryHelpings]

Itll help you raise strength in real life too

[@billcipher147]

Thanks man, I've recently started playing this game and I had no idea how to raise these stats.

[@unlucky2365]

Other's voice like little kid but your voice is dope as fuck that voice deserves sub m8 gl

[@mateolandaverde7921]

cool almost to 40k then 50k and then....!

[@bennybenben6290]

213k

[@robertomorales8751]

Thanks bro

[@NidzaDzo]

Great vids man,helped a lot when i was starting,have you considered contacting the devs so we can have some info from them trough you?

[@tnty1561]

9:00 so no one finna talk about how that Potato got some CAKE???

[@jamesfujita2058]

i started swinging the bone around and all it did was lower my strength really fast

[@Disapointed_Luigi]

You prolly figured it out by now but you prolly played at hard survival difficulty and had no calories.

[@bigm8916]

The forest!!!

[@girlgang0.0]

Also watch outer middle show

[@johnnyflashdance3371]

I love when ppl ask me this... answer is simple... stop duping logs.... go cut down 300+ trees w an axe and call me in the morning.

[@faterre8885]

Funktionieren die "Schwebenden" Plattformen noch? - Farket ;-) still a fan from Germany...

[@DanielCierpinsky]

ja, die gehen immer noch

[@faterre8885]

i think now - not

[@rikkuchan121]

Anyone else think his voice is VERY attractive? 😅

[@gulaykantarceken9578]

Yeah not bad voice

[@YummySoapbar]

(Title has 2019 in it) was uploaded almost a year ago

[@edgarharo7434]

Its because its still accurate in 2019. He probably just went back and changed the title to let everyone know it still works