How to Unlock Creative Mode in Sons of The Forest

Once you’ve rolled the credits in Sons of the Forest, you’ll notice a new option when starting a single-player save, Creative Mode. This is one of the biggest quality-of-life additions introduced with the 1.0 update. It allows players to use the game’s full crafting system with no cannibal raids, hunger management, or weather stress. It’s the same island, but with total freedom.

To unlock it, you simply have to finish the main story and reach an ending. It doesn’t matter which ending you pick, as long as the credits roll, Creative Mode will appear under New Game. It currently only works in single-player saves.

When the mode begins, you’ll wake up on the island with your GPS Tracker active, the same as a standard start. The purple GPS markers are still visible, but you’ll notice things are calmer. Kelvin is already conscious and ready to follow orders, while Virginia is friendly and joins you automatically.

Your inventory now contains every essential tool and weapon, including the Rebreather, Shovel, Rope Gun, and key crafting components. Press X to toggle through a full set of resources: stones, full logs, half logs, and planks. The survival pressure is gone, no foraging, no resource grind.

If you press B to open your Guide Book, every blueprint (16 total as of 1.0) is already unlocked. You can build instantly from prefabs or create your own structures with unlimited supplies.

Light bulbs, logs, and solar panels all replenish automatically. You can stack multiple buildings, flood the map with traps, or create decorative builds that would be impossible in standard survival.

This makes Creative Mode ideal for players who love the building mechanics but dislike the constant interruptions from patrols or weather. You can experiment with lighting, structure placement, zipline routes, and power systems without the grind.

If you haven’t completed the story yet but still want to experiment, there are alternate ways to simulate Creative Mode until it’s officially unlocked. You can use Peaceful difficulty, console commands, or mods to achieve the same sandbox control.

Playing on Peaceful difficulty removes all hostile enemies but keeps the normal resource rules. It’s a slower version of Creative Mode for those who still want to gather materials.

For faster results, you can use console commands. While in-game, type cheatstick, then press F1 to open the debug console. From there, you can use commands such as:

• godmode on (invincibility)
• addallitems (gives you every tool, weapon, and consumable)
• instantbookbuild on (builds instantly)
• goto hell cave door or goto demon boss (teleports to late-game areas)

Once you use these commands to trigger the ending and select your choice on the beach, Creative Mode will unlock automatically in the main menu. If it doesn’t, reload and retry from an earlier save, it sometimes needs the cutscene to play fully.

For those comfortable with modding, the SOTFEdit tool on NexusMods lets you modify your save files directly. You can change inventory, difficulty, companion status, and weather. It’s safer to use offline and in single-player, as multiplayer saves can become unstable with modded data.

Regardless of how you unlock it, Creative Mode is the perfect environment to master advanced building. If you’re designing large structures, you can also enable Skip Construction Animations under Gameplay settings. Scroll to the bottom and set it to Always Creative to make all building actions instant.

Once everything is unlocked, the island becomes a blank canvas. You can still explore caves, test power setups, or build across biomes without worrying about survival timers. It’s where creativity takes over survival.

Need help with building in creative? Check out our Complete Sons of The Forest Walkthrough Guide.