Those who work a lot in Sons of the Forest and are working on the security of their home consume a lot of energy. However, not everyone can or wants to wait for the night to rest.
What is energy? In Sons of the Forest, you have four symbols at the bottom right corner of your screen, directly above the minimap, displaying the physical state of your character. On the far right, there is a symbol that looks like a crescent moon. Around this symbol is a circle, similar to hunger and thirst, indicating how much energy you have left.
If the energy is depleted, you will mainly notice it on your stamina bar. It’s significantly smaller and consumed more quickly when your energy is low.
Once your energy is depleted, the game recommends that you should sleep in a tent or bed. However, this takes several hours.
How do I regenerate energy without sleeping? If you don’t want to sleep in Sons of the Forest or don’t want to wait for night, you can remedy the situation with simple structures.
Simply build a bench or a chair and sit down for a few minutes. This will regenerate your energy while you occupy one of the seating areas.
However, sitting regeneration of your physical fitness takes several minutes, and the in-game time continues to progress. Additionally, you can still be attacked by enemies during this time – a certain MeinMMO author might have experienced going briefly to the kitchen while his character was sitting on the bench and ended up as a cannibal snack.
How do I build a bench or a chair? The building system in Sons of the Forest has two menus:
- free building
- building with blueprints
If you want to build a bench or a chair, you need to switch to the blueprint menu. You do this on the keyboard with the X key and with the controller by pressing the square (PlayStation) or X button (Xbox controller).
You can find the furniture pieces under the third point. The wooden chair is on page 1, the bone chair on page 2, and the bench on page 4.
Select the blueprint for the respective structure and place it at your desired location. Then you need to gather the necessary resources for construction:
- the wooden chair requires 14 sticks
- the bone chair requires 15 bones and a skull
- the bench requires 2 logs
What is the benefit of regenerating energy without sleeping? From our own experiences as children of the forest, there were times when we went to bed too early. This sometimes meant it was still pitch dark when we awoke.
If you still want to build something, your energy is depleted, and it’s too early for bed, then the bench appears to be a sensible alternative. And while you take a break, Kelvin can continue working – unless you have a treehouse. Then you should be careful.
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