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Master the art of survival with our comprehensive guide to conquering all 99 nights in the forest.

99 Nights in the Forest Survival Strategy Guide
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Guide Contents

🎮1. Game Overview

99 Nights in the Forest is a Roblox survival horror game developed by Grandma's Favourite Games. Players must survive 99 days in the forest while completing these core objectives:

  • Maintain the campfire burning to expand exploration range
  • Avoid the invincible nighttime creature "The Deer"
  • Rescue 4 missing children
  • Defend against periodic Cultist attacks
  • Gather resources, craft items, and build your base

🌅2. First Day Survival Guide

☀️ Critical Opening Steps

  • Immediately chop down surrounding trees, collect wood and saplings from at least 5 trees
  • Don't put wood in the fire immediately, store it first at your camp
  • Find and collect berries, carrots, and other food
  • Hunt rabbits and small animals for raw meat, cook it on the campfire
  • Explore nearby areas, search chests for better axes and tools

🌙 First Night Survival

  • The Deer monster won't attack on the first night, only observe
  • Use this opportunity to freely explore the forest and collect resources
  • Stay near the campfire, use flashlight to shine on the Deer to make it retreat
  • Never try to attack the Deer, it is invulnerable

⚙️3. Core Survival Mechanics

🔥 Campfire System

  • The campfire is your lifeline, creating a safe zone
  • Use wood, coal, gasoline and other fuel to upgrade campfire levels
  • Higher level campfires expand exploration range and clear map fog
  • The circular area around the campfire blocks the Deer from entering

🦌 Deer Monster Management

  • The main nighttime threat that cannot be killed
  • Use flashlight direct beam to temporarily drive it away
  • Use trees, buildings and other obstacles to block its movement
  • Certain positions like ladder middle, fire towers provide complete safety
  • It only locks onto one player, allowing teammates to protect each other

🍖 Food & Hunger

  • Food doesn't spoil, you can store large amounts
  • Wolf steaks are the most filling food option
  • Berries and carrots grow wild, collect as needed
  • Early game doesn't require farming, natural food sources are sufficient

🏠4. Base Building & Defense

🛡️ Wall Defense System

  • Plant saplings or build shelves around the campfire to form walls
  • This is the most effective defense strategy, completely blocking Deer and Cultists
  • Shelves require 2 scrap, crafted at level 2 workbench
  • Saplings need 1-2 nights to grow but are easier to obtain

⚔️ Cultist Attacks

  • Receive "something evil is approaching your campfire..." warning every few days
  • Attacks occur at night with multiple cultists attacking the base
  • Can defend using walls, traps, and weapons
  • During attacks, the Deer waits outside the safe zone

🚀5. Fast Progression Strategies

🛏️ Bed Multiplier System

  • Building beds provides day multipliers, passing more days each night
  • Multiple bed effects stack together
  • Example: 4 beds = 5x speed, only need 20 real nights for 99 days!

👶 Child Rescue

  • Interact with missing person poster at base to get clues
  • Follow clues to find caves, defeat nearby wolf packs
  • Use dropped key to unlock cave and rescue children
  • Each rescued child reduces required survival days
  • Rescued children also provide day multipliers

⚔️6. Equipment & Trading

🎒 Pelt Trader System

  • Appears randomly every few evenings
  • Trading sequence: Rabbit Foot → Wolf Pelt → Alpha Wolf Pelt → Bear Pelt
  • Can exchange for powerful gear: better sacks, axes, flashlights, armor, firearms

⚔️ Weapon System

  • Fast weapon switching bypasses attack delays
  • Recommended combo: Revolver → Rifle → Revolver
  • Spears can outrange cultists with axes

💎 Important Items

  • Find Good Axe to replace default axe, significantly improves efficiency
  • Bandages are rare revival items, extremely valuable
  • Ruby chests contain strongest gear like chainsaws, tactical shotguns

🧠7. Advanced Tips

🗺️ Exploration Strategy

  • Clear map fog during day, stay in known safe areas at night
  • Further from campfire = more dangerous enemies but better loot
  • Plan return routes to avoid getting trapped in wolf territory

⚔️ Combat Techniques

  • Bait enemies and circle strike, maintain distance advantage
  • Use terrain advantages like towers and ladders
  • Bullets fire from weapon tip, can shoot around cover
  • Alpha wolves have red eyes, more dangerous than normal wolves

👥 Team Coordination

  • Game difficulty scales based on initial player count
  • Difficulty doesn't adjust even if teammates leave
  • Recommended to only play with trusted friends

🏆8. Badges & Achievements

The game contains 27 badges, mostly related to game progression:

  • Surviving specific number of days
  • Number of children rescued
  • Defeating specific enemies
  • Discovering secret locations
  • Obtaining rare items

👤9. Class Selection Recommendations

Lumberjack

Overall useful, recommended for beginners

Ranger

Suitable for speedruns

Cook

Team hunger restoration

Assassin

Technically strongest but expensive

💎10. Pro Tips for Long-Term Survival

  • You can sprint but it drains hunger faster
  • Health regeneration is much faster near the campfire
  • Plant saplings close together to chop multiple trees at once
  • There's no fall damage in the game
  • You can drag hotkey items to rearrange them
  • Lock your camera with CTRL on PC for better melee combat
  • The spear outranges most cultist weapons
  • Stack saplings together as you can cut multiple trees at once
  • Food doesn't spoil, so cook and store large amounts around your base
  • Don't waste time with the default axe, prioritize finding a Good Axe
  • Each game has a different procedurally generated world
  • Traveling farther from campfire leads to more dangerous enemies but better loot

Remember:

Patience is key, avoid unnecessary risks, focus on building a solid base and collecting resources. Following these strategies, you can not only reach 99 days but even challenge hundreds of days survival records!

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