Diary Entry

Thank you to the friendly deer known as Widmung for giving me the gift
on Halloween. My dreams have come true to carry the candles on my antlers!

It was so beautiful to see all the little flames burning all around in the night and the red flowers falling

Hey TEF community!
Not sure how active the forum is these days as an occasional lurker, but felt like posting something.
The TEF world lives with me everyday whether or not I'm in-game or on-forum --
tbh this game and forum probably single-handedly raised me. lmao.
really, truly, this game, its world, and the community attached to it has made me the creative and artist I am today.
its mindboggling to think I discovered this game 15+ years ago, without which I would
never have created my OCs -- near and dear to my heart to this day.

I'm trying to pursue art full-time after suffering some heavy detriment
to my mental and physical health.
the positive is a lot of my work revolves around creating faun and antler beanies / hats.
finally, the outside matches the inside.
Here's some of my favorites (images below the cut).
Many many more completed works viewable on my website archives.

Hey, I'm Hydde! This post is a recreation of an older one I made off of my Wald account, the oldest character of mine that saw any use on TEF. The reason for the remake is that I really wanted to have all of my deer to be consolidated under my actual chosen name, and given that I've accidentally deleted the avatar on my old account, it wasn't really worth sticking to anymore.

The rest of the post is mostly copy-pasted from the older version, with minimal edits.

I've been on here for a long time now, but have never been active in the community, a fact I regret nowadays. Much has changed since the moment I made my first deer: I finished school, university, moved across the world and got married. However, through the years, I made it a habit to log in every couple of years to see what was going on. Most importantly, I was overjoyed to see this game is still alive in 2025, and is even getting remastered. I can't overstate how excited I am for that!

Nonetheless, the forest is quieter than I remember. After logging on every couple of months this year, I managed to find my first active user! In retrospect I've realized it was Oxyinco, and it brought me so much joy seeing you! I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to try and make it a habit to update this blog with an additional screenshot every time I'm on :]

Also, thanks to old me for writing down all of my deer names on here. I was convinced I've only ever made one, so finding quite a few nice pictograms saved was a pleasure!

Thank you everyone who has given me a warm welcome before, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the forest again and again. Sorry my presence has been flaky, I have gone on a long trip that look a lot of prep, as well as gotten 1 cat richer in my life, so I haven't had time to walk the forest as much as I'd like.

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i am dreaming of getting the candles on my antlers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8apwdafTpI

<3

Met two deer, an adult and a fawn, both in Halloween looks. We hung out, I got new looks. I gave the fawn a mask. It was nice.

Hi, everyone! As a player revisiting The Endless Forest after around 10 years, I want to thank the crow (a white deer) and Rin (I did my research, lmao) for what I feel was a warm welcome I got from you both.

It reminded me about how much time I used to spend in the Forest, and how welcoming it feels to lose the boundaries of language to communicate and just be with each other.

I lost my old account, but honestly, playing as a fawn after such a long time seems like a good fit. I hope to see you both around somewhere in the near future!

Hi! I've had an account since way back when, but hadn't checked in on the game in a long time! I was surprised to see I could still get into my account!

I suggested to a friend of mine that we check this interesting little gem out, and was very pleased to find the vibes in the forest were super cool! There were a bunch of active deer and everybody played with us and showed us cool spells and secrets in the forest! It was a lot of fun and even if we don't make it back sometime soon, I would like to thank everyone for being so welcoming. I hope the people we ran into have a great day!

I've met 3 new people! One even commented on my other post. I've been enjoying the nice and chill vibe of the forest and hope to log in maybe a little earlier in order to meet more people!

P.S. I'm gonna start adding screenshots of the people I met into this blog post

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_{Hey, I'm Hydde!

I've had an account for a while, but have never been active in the community, a fact I regret nowadays. Much has changed since the moment I made my first deer: I finished school, university, moved across the world and got married. However, through the years, I made it a habit to log in every couple of years to see what was going on. Most importantly, I was overjoyed to see this game is still alive in 2025, and is even getting remastered. I can't overstate how excited I am for that!

Nonetheless, the forest is quieter than I remember. After logging on every couple of months this year, I managed to find my first active user (on the left)! I don't know who you are, but it brought me so much joy seeing you! I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to try and make it a habit to update this blog with an additional screenshot every time I'm on :]

Also, thanks to old me for writing down all of my deer names on here. I was convinced I've only ever made one, so finding 2 extra beautifully put together deer was a delight! This one on the right is Wald. My other two are Phylin and Murai.}

I have a massive headache writing this. I had lost my identity before I was even known and I almost considered shutting the game down to ignore my social experiment. I wish I had taken a picture of the brown deer with the “clown nose” who helped me find my Owl Mask back, the face I decided to outwardly project him as. The HOST. He is 1 of 5 audibly heard voices inside of my head, and could be my saving grace sometimes. He will always gatekeep 12 oclock position where his voice is projected at volumes heard even when trying to sleep. I wish we could tell this “Clown” how grateful we are to finally identify HOST into the game, as an Owl Mask. I have been feeling really really good lately, so HOST has been most audible.

Accompanied with us, I saw her. A Veteran, and possibly one of the second best encounters I’ve had in a game that feels like a TRUE HOME. “P”. Their sigil, a prominent character of their name, glowed brightly when we played around with different masks on my face, The Clown, rolling in play each mask that displayed over my face. I felt like each voice had came through all at once, greeting these deer in their own characters, just as i hear them every second. I was almost tear filled, when P bestowed a beautiful rack of antlers, White, Red, and Black tipped. It wasn't as grand as the antlers for the Angel, But the Secretary antlers fit the style of HOST’s protective aura when I talk to myself. Now, I dont have to feel alone when I never have anyone to talk to.

When the Clown disappeared, P cried. She had lots of fun frolicking around, when she bestowed a skin for me. But when I felt overwhelmed by the argument eating inside my head, i laid. And P stood over me, protecting me just like HOST.

We shall meet again.

-The Angel

Note: I will figure out to import images soon enough. For now, I hope I am a Descriptive True story teller.

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I was given candles on Halloween night <3

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