Sons of the Forest Guitar Not Spawning [FIXED]

It’s all about survival in the Sons of The Forest and you’ll need to improvise and use unseemingly objects as weapons. One of the most peculiar but cool weapons you’ll come across in the game is the guitar. It’ll riff like a beast when you plummet it on mutants. But here’s where it gets annoying, the issue of the Sons of the Forest guitar not spawning is prevalent. Players have reported that several items, including the guitar, don’t spawn for them when they reach the location. However, there are a few workarounds you can do to make it spawn for you. Let’s explore them. 

How to Fix Guitar Not Spawning in Sons of the Forest?

Since Sons of Forest is still in early access, many aspects of the game are buggy. From items clipping in and out of the environments to glitches and even crashes. But the worst kind of problem is quest items or loot not spawning where it should be. Getting to the guitar is quite the hassle and imagine not getting the reward you were promised. But we’ve come across a few fixes that will get you to spawn it. Let’s explore these fixes below: 

The Save & Reload Method

This is one of the most popular methods to spawn the guitar in the Sons of the Forest. Here’s what you need to do: 

1. When you’re in the restaurant area of the location, open your inventory and select a trap. 
2. Once you select it, drop the trap anywhere in the room and save the game. You can create a separate file if you like just to be safe. 
3. Once you save your game, exit to the main menu and then load back into the save you created just now. 
4. As you load into the, go to the bar area of the restaurant in that room and you’ll see the guitar laying on the counter. 

This is one of the quickest ways you can fix the issue of the Sons of The Forest guitar not spawning. This has worked for almost everyone in the community. However, if it doesn’t work for you, check out other fixes below. 

Revisiting The Location

If the save and reload method didn’t work out for you, you can try another popular fix for the Sons of The Forest guitar not spawning problem. Just do as follows:

1. Exit the location and go to your settlement. The farther you go the better to let things reset over here. 
2. Once you reach a settlement, sleep and wake up the next day. 
3. As you wake up, revisit the location again and the guitar will spawn on the countertop at the bar. 

This method is also quite effective as it resets the restaurant area letting things spawn back in if they didn’t on the first go. You may need to do this method a few times for it to work but this will surely work for you. 

Visit The Location with Friends

Try to team up with your buddies and visit the restaurant location. If the guitar isn’t spawning for you, maybe it’ll spawn for your buddies. Here’s how to do this method. 

1. Make sure to team up with your buddies away from the guitar location; most preferably in a settlement. 
2. Once your friends join your party, head out to the guitar location together. 
3. As you reach the location, even if the guitar doesn’t spawn for you, there’s a high chance it’ll spawn for your buddies. 
4. After one of your friends picks up the guitar, they can easily share it with you via the item trade system in Sons of The Forest. 

If you’re like me and you ain’t got friends…yeah…life’s hard…then you can also do a similar method with randoms too. You can hop into the Sons of Forest official discord and team up with people and let them help you acquire the guitar. Hey, maybe you’ll find something more valuable than a guitar with this method, friendship!

Reload the Game

This is the final resort in case no other method for you. You can simply save your game and restart it. This will reset all the lootable items in the game and hopefully fix the Sons of Forest guitar not spawning problem. If even this doesn’t work, then I’m afraid we’re out of options. You’ll have to wait for the game to receive an update or two for these little issues to iron out. 

How to Find The Guitar in Sons of Forest?

For players who’re new here and want to know where they can find the guitar in Sons of Forest, we’re here to help you out. Simply follow the brief instructions below and you’ll attain one of the collect makeshift weapons in the game so you can rock and roll while bashing in heads. 

Items You Need to Acquire the Guitar

First things first, you should know that going to the location where you can find the guitar is a really long journey. It’ll be a shame that you make this journey through the wilderness fighting through enemies only to find out you don’t have the items needed to access the location. This is why we’ve made a list of things you’ll need to get so you can access the guitar location. 

Air Tank and a Rebreather

You’ll need to get the maintenance keycard in order to access the area where the guitar spawns. However, to get the VIP card you’ll need a rebreather and an air tank. You’ll be swimming your way to the VIP card hence these items are necessary. 

You can find them towards the cave which is located in the northernmost part of the island. It’s the island you can find near the beach. Do keep in mind that this isn’t an unlimited air tank and rebreather farm, They’re available in a limited supply on this island. 

Maintenance Keycard

Once you get your hands on an air tank and a rebreather, you’ll need to get the Maintenence Keycard.

You can obtain the Maintenance Keycard quite easily in Sons of the Forest. You’ll need your Air tank, Rebreather, and Shovel to dig up the bunker entrance. All you need to do is reach the area marked on the map in the image above. The cave entrance is at the northwest part of the island. 

Simply start digging in the area shown above and you’ll uncover the bunker below. Enter it and head down the staircase to find quality loot. Among that loot will be the Maintenence Keycard on a table.

Reaching The Location to Get the Guitar

Go west of the snowy mountains, south of the river that runs in the direction of ease-west and cuts the island. You’ll find a small cave near the stream. 

Enter the cave and after a tight squeeze, you’ll enter a hallway with concert walls and tons of wiring. Head towards the end of the hallway and take a left. After following the left path, the hallways will open up to an open area with a metal door on the end. 

Once you approach the door you’ll hear a faint sound of music playing. Open up your inventory and use the Maintenance Keycard you acquired earlier to unlock the door. 

Once you enter through the metal doors, go straight and then left cutting through the gym area. Once the gym room ends go across the dead guy towards the right side of the reception desk and inside the new area. You’ll see the area marked in the image above. 

Once you enter the new area across from the reception desk, keep heading forward until you see a flight of stairs on your left. Go up the staircase and across the hall until you reach the restaurant area. You can see the restaurant area marked in the image above. 

Once you enter the restaurant area, you’ll find the guitar laying on the bar’s countertop. And that’s it, enjoy your weapon of mass destruction and rock and roll. 

Final Words

Sons of Forest is truly one of the most fun survival games packed with cool items and weapons for players to utilize. Right now since it’s in early access, some kinks are there that need to be sorted out but hopefully, the developers are working hard to get them fixed. Other than that, I hope you were able to fix the Sons of the Forest guitar not spawning problem and finally got your guitar. It might not have too much damage but you’ll look cool rocking it around. If you have any other questions about the topic, be sure to ask them in the comments below.