A stronger rifle scope for Sons of the Forest. Aiming down the rifle scope zooms 5x further than the vanilla scope and shows a full screen scope view with a crosshair reticle, mil dots and a rangefinder instead of the red dot.

Want a suppressed rifle too? Install RifleSuppressor. It used to be part of this mod and is now its own mod, so you can use either one or both.

Multiplayer

Client side only. Nothing gets installed on a dedicated server, and other players do not need the mod.

Installation

Easy install

Close the game, open PowerShell and paste:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustinOros/sotf-riflescope/main/Install.ps1 | iex

It finds your game, installs RedLoader if needed, and installs the latest RifleScope. Run it again any time to update.

Manual install

Step 1: Install RedLoader

RedLoader is the mod loader for Sons of the Forest. The game cannot load any mod without it, so install it first. You only have to do this once.

Download RedLoader.zip from the latest RedLoader release
Extract it into your Sons of the Forest folder, the one containing SonsOfTheForest.exe, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sons Of The Forest
Launch the game once and wait until you reach the main menu. The first launch takes a few minutes while RedLoader processes the game files
Check that MODS appears on the main menu, then quit

Step 2: Install RifleScope

Download RifleScope.zip from the latest release
Extract it into the Mods folder inside your game folder
You should end up with:

Mods\RifleScope.dll
Mods\RifleScope\manifest.json

Usage

Equip the rifle and aim. Once zoomed in, the rifle model is hidden and the scope view is shown. Your shot goes where the crosshair is.

The red number at the bottom left of the scope is the range in meters to whatever is under the crosshair.

The reticle has 10 mil dots in each direction. At 5x each dot is 2 mils, which covers 20 cm at 100 m. At 10x and higher each dot is 1 mil. Use them to hold over or to the side at long range.

Press F1 to open the console, then use these commands:

Command	Action
`scope`	Show whether the scope is on or off
`scope off`	Go back to the vanilla scope
`scope on`	Turn the scope back on
`scopezoom`	Show the current zoom
`scopezoom 5`	Set the zoom as a multiple of the vanilla scope, 1 to 50. The default is 5
`scopetrim`	Show the current vertical trim
`scopetrim 60`	Set the vertical trim, -200 to 200. Positive moves hits down, negative moves hits up. The default is 60
`scopewind`	Show the current windage
`scopewind 20`	Set the windage, -200 to 200. Positive moves hits right, negative moves hits left. The default is 0
`scopedebug`	Toggle a debug readout above the range

Trim and windage are angle adjustments, so a setting that is right at one range stays right at every range.

The on or off setting, zoom, trim and windage are saved to UserData\RifleScope.txt in your game folder. Setting the zoom to 1 keeps vanilla zoom and the normal scope view, without the red dot.

Building from source

Requires the .NET 8 SDK and RedLoader installed with its game assemblies generated.

.\build.ps1 -Install

Use -Package to build RifleScope.zip for a release. Pass -GameDir "path" if the game is not found automatically.

Troubleshooting

Check _RedLoader\Latest.log in your game folder. RifleScope logs a line when it loads.