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Gloomwood Forest Secrets
I Hate This Place

Gloomwood Forest Secrets

Uncover the secrets of Gloomwood Forest in I Hate This Place. This guide details the Broodmother boss fight, tunnel exploration, and key items needed for progression.

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Gloomwood Forest Secrets

Uncover the secrets of Gloomwood Forest in I Hate This Place. This guide details the Broodmother boss fight, tunnel exploration, and key items needed for progression.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Head northwest from the Forest, then north to a gate. Use a key to enter.
  2. 2
    In the spider battlefield, defeat the Broodmother and smaller spiders. The Broodmother spits tentacles to drag you in. Use weapons like the Submachine Gun or Riot Shotgun and keep your distance.
  3. 3
    After the fight, head north to find a bunker entrance leading to tunnels.
  4. 4
    Follow the tunnel path, fighting spiders and tentacle men. Navigate through splits, burning obstacles with Molotov Cocktails or explosives.
  5. 5
    Locate a first-aid kit and a Minecart Brake Lever in an electrified zone. Turn off the switch to make it safe.
  6. 6
    Continue through the tunnels, find another map, and loot containers.
  7. 7
    Return to a previous path split and head west. Use the Minecart Brake Lever on a broken mine cart and use Fuel to activate it.
  8. 8
    This activates a door leading to a Workbench, a TV save point, and containers.
  9. 9
    Use the activated mine cart to move to a new area with a previously locked door.
  10. 10
    Follow the path, fighting spiders. When the path splits northwest and northeast, go northeast.
  11. 11
    Fight enemies and loot a box. Continue along the southern path, which merges.
  12. 12
    Find a trapdoor. Loot a box north of it and open a shortcut northwest of it.
  13. 13
    Go through the trapdoor and follow the path southeast. Find a TV save point, a Crank on a machine, and a lootable box.
  14. 14
    Return to the path split and head west, crouching under supports to find boxes and a ladder shortcut.
  15. 15
    Go back up the ladder and head northeast, sticking to the left wall to find another ladder.
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    Climb the ladder and deal with a tentacle man. Loot a box southwest of the trapdoor.
  17. 17
    Head south of the trapdoor and follow the path.
Tips
  • Bring Fuel x2 and an Electric Grenade x1 before proceeding.
  • Weapons like the Submachine Gun and Riot Shotgun are effective against spiders.
  • Molotov Cocktails or Mining Explosives are useful for burning obstacles but less so for the mobile Broodmother.
  • The spider battlefield is one of the 41 locations needed for the Full picture achievement.
  • The tunnels contain several shortcuts and save points.
  • Loot all containers for essential items like Fuel.
  • Achievement: That’s a hell of a spider for defeating the Broodmother.
  • Key Items: Minecart Brake Lever, Crank.
  • Access to new areas and shortcuts within the tunnels.

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