Sons Of The Forest: How To Get Crossbow [Walkthrough]

Sons Of The Forest allows players to access hunting items, crafting items, weapons, and more that are deadly towards enemies and can annihilate anyone but makes it a torturous journey to find the item, such as the Sons Of The Forest Crossbow. Players might need assistance figuring out how they can get their hands on it, as well as the items that are needed beforehand! 

What Items Are Required To Get Crossbow? 

One of the most important things that players need to keep in mind is that before they can even think of getting their hands on the precious crossbow, there are a few things that players need to get which are crucial to getting the Sons Of The Forest Crossbow. 

• One of the first items that players need is a shovel, which is needed to dig out the bunker, in which the crossbow is present, and getting the shovel is an arduous journey in itself. Therefore, it will be discussed later. 
• Another thing that you need is a maintenance key, which is crucial since there are doors present inside the bunker that absolutely cannot be opened without the maintenance key. 
• To use the crossbow, players need ammo, which can be spawned in several locations on the open-world map.

How To Locate Crossbow 

The crossbow in Sons of The Forest is essentially an end-game item that isn’t easy to obtain. Players need quite a few items before they can even get it, such as the maintenance key and the shovel. 

• Players need to start by making their way over to one of the green circles that are located on the map, and the way that players will know that they have arrived at the right location is if there is a golf cart present out in the open. 
• At a distance from the golf cart, there is also a surveyor tripod present, and players need to head over there. 
• Right behind the surveyor tripod, there is a small patch of dirt that players need to go towards, and whenever they do, a small shovel icon appears over there, which indicates that players can dig into the dirt, which reveals a bunker that contains the maintenance key. 

After that, you want to make your way over to a cave that has two buggies parked right outside it. 

• One of the buggies is white and is parked pretty far off from the entrance of the cave. 

Entrance Of The Cave

Now, when it comes to the entrance of the cave, it is hidden quite well by nature, and if players are not careful, they might easily miss out on their chance of entering the cave. 

• The cave entrance is split between two stones, and players need to travel a bit before they can make their way there. 
• Start moving through the stones that lead towards the cave, and you can interact with the entrance by holding down E. 

• Once you do so, an animation plays whereby players can carefully tread between the thin walls and safely make their way inside the cave itself. 

Inside The Cave 

Once you’ve managed to make your way inside the cave, you can encounter absolute darkness, but one way that players can easily traverse inside is by using a torch that can illuminate and light up the inside a bit so that it becomes a bit easier to see. 

• The entire inside of the cave is a long walk, and most of it leads down and keeps heading down between narrow pathways. 
• Keep making your way toward the very end of the cave, where you come across a bunker. 

Heading In The Bunker 

There is a square bunker that is located towards the very end of the cave and is protected by a steep edge. 

• Interact with the bunker by E, and it grants you the ability to hold onto the entrance of the bunker and make your way down. 

• Grab onto the yellow ladder, and start to carefully step your way down, ensuring that you watch your step, and when you do make it down, you encounter a massive room. 
• The room itself feels like a disaster-safe bunker that people would use if they were in a natural tragedy to save themselves. 

• The ladder is located between two bookshelves, and it has been conveniently placed between them. 

When you step down from the ladder and turn around, you are met with a room that seems like it has been ripped off its resources. 

• Head towards the very far end of the room and turn right to encounter a door that has a small icon towards the right of it. 

• Here, players are to use the maintenance key that they acquired, which unlocks the door and opens it for you to let you through. 
• Head through the door, and it leads you to a room that seems like it is a reserve for growing plants and herbs. 

Plant Room 

Going into the plant room, players encounter a very brightly illuminated room with tons of plants, greenery, and herbs growing in a controlled environment. 

• Head toward the very end of the plant room, which then leads you into an extension of the same room. 
• Toward the back of the second room, you should be able to encounter three lines of planters that have been spaced out from each other. 

If you take a look between planters 2 and 3, you can see a trail of blood splattered all across the floor. 

• Towards the very end of the blood splatter, there is a dead body, and the crossbow itself is placed on the right of the dead body. 

  

Players can interact with the crossbow by holding down E, and once you do, you can easily pick it up and add it to your inventory. 

Shovel Location 

Now, one of the most crucial elements that players cannot miss out on is the shovel, which is required to dig the bunker through which players can get the maintenance key which is also important to unlock doors. 

To get the shovel, players do need to have the zipline as well as the scuba gear. 

• Make your way over to a cave that is located towards the front of the snowy mountains, and the cave is surrounded by streams of water. 

• Once you’re at the location, you can see a body that is present in the middle of the stream, and if you get closer to it, players can grab onto the slingshot it. 

• From there, head further into the stream, and there is an arching cave entrance that you can head into. 

Inside The Cave 

Once you’ve made your way inside the cave, continue heading down the cave until you encounter a zipline that makes traversing through the cave a whole lot easier. Hang onto the zipline, and it should lead you to the very end and drop you off. 

• Use your scuba gear, and head to the very depths of the cave, deep into the water, and after you reach the bed of the cave, turn around and start swimming even deeper through. 

• Keep swimming until you can encounter a pocket of air where you can rise back to a part of the cave that doesn’t have water everywhere. 
• As you head past two more enemies, you start to fall down a stream of water, and it leads you toward the very bottom of the cave. 
• Once you’ve slid down enough where you can come back up from the water, steer towards the left and start heading forward. 

You want to head past the three red boxes on the ground and then keep heading down the cave, past the crystals that appear on the walls of the cave, and simply keep heading through the passageways. 

• You know you’re going in the right direction if you encounter two dead bodies of workers that are clad in orange work outfits, and one of them is sitting, and enemies are surrounding it.
• Keep going straight, and you want to follow the direction that is directly ahead of the dead workers. 
• The narrow passageway is extremely long, and players simply need to keep heading through it. 

Eventually, you reach the end of the narrow passageway, and you are met with an area that has tons of salt-water spikes. 

• Head straight from those spikes, and right at the center of the area, steer a bit to the left, and keep heading towards crawling enemies. 
• Avoid them and instead follow the path ahead of them, which leads you back to another narrow passageway. 

• Go up the path, and eventually, you go back underwater, where you need to keep heading straight. 
• Head back up to the surface, and you encounter another enemy, 

• Turn right and keep heading forth, and towards the very end of the cave, there is an orange worker’s dead body that is propped up against a stone with a shovel in its lap. Players can simply grab the shovel. 

Maintenance Key Location 

Moving on, to get the Sons Of The Forest Crossbow, the player also needs another item which is known as the maintenance key. The main use of the maintenance key is to simply grant players the ability to open up doors that would otherwise be completely inaccessible to head into. 

• Players want to start by making their way toward the eastern end of the map, and the easiest way that players can go there is by heading around the snowy mountains so and then traversing by foot. 
• After you’ve done that, you want to come across an area where there is a surveyor tripod as well as golf carts surrounding the area. 

After that, go ahead and go towards the area where there are tons of yellow leaves, and as they get closer to the leaves, they can use their shovel in order to dig. 

• Digging into the area reveals a square bunker, and the door of the bunker opens up to allow players inside. 

• Hold down E in order to interact with the bunker, which then allows players to start making their way down the ladder, and when they do so, players are able to take note of the room that is in complete darkness except for the teal light illuminating the room slightly. 
• Make your way carefully down the steps, turn to the right a bit, and you can encounter a hallway that has been lit up the same way. 

Start heading past the dead body that is propped up against the wall, and keep running past the long corridor. 

• Towards the middle of the corridor, players come across a door to the right, which is open and leads into a lavish apartment. 

• Towards the very far end of the room, there is a table that has been placed against the wall, and on the table, there is a 3D printer, and towards the right of it, the maintenance key is located. 

Summary 

And there we have it! All that players need to know about the Sons Of The Forest Crossbow, and with that, we will wrap up our guide! Make sure to read up on our Sons of The Forest Cannibals guide, which covers all types of cannibals that you can find in the game! If you want to know how to get your hands on the rebreather in-game, then our Sons of The Forest Get Rebreather guide will be just for you! 

Apart from this, another excellent weapon that you can get is the pistol, and in order to get that, you should check out our Sons Of The Forest Pistol Attachments guide! To protect yourself from enemies, you might need to get a solid armor set, which can be obtained by reading our Sons Of The Forest Golden Armor guide!

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