Hi! I just joined the game today :]!! I'm very happy to be here and I like exploring the forest, but I keep running into an error whenever I try to log in. It keeps giving me "!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" whenever I try and log in on the game. I've made sure that all my info is correct, so I don't think its a matter of mistyping anything, I'm not really sure what to do. If someone could help me or give any advice on how to fix this I'd greatly appreciate it!!! Thank you ^_^

Hello! I'm new here and I want to find some guys/deers from today's online (27 of September 2025). You changed my skin so much times, omg. But I like to make it red by the river's idol
It was so funny to played with you! Hope, will see you next time!

P.S. sorry for my English

Hello! I recently downloaded this game to play it with a friend so i'm quite new, a moment ago we were having no issues playing the game as normal and running around before laying down to go afk. I clicked the minimize window button[i play windowed. 1920x1080 resolution], which crashed the game, and when I reopened it I was logged out, and the game constantly tries to reconnect, only to display an error. I tried turning off the "connect automatically" and doing it manually, didn't work. I tried restarting the game, didn't work. Turning my wifi on and off, also didnt work. I've sat around waiting a really, really long time, and nothing. The network status just says it's connecting, and then says error. The only solution i could dig up to my near exact problem on here was someone saying to make sure directplay is turned on, and I can confirm it is. I'm running windows 11 if that's any help. I'm kind of sad because I wanted to keep playing with my friend and I dunno what to do or if this is the right place to ask for help, but any help would be very appreciated.

Hey good morning, are there any active TEF discord servers around? I’m working on a novel series inspired by my stories on the TEF community site and wanted to keep in touch.

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!

Idk if i'll find an answer in 2025, but i'll write it anyway
I can't reply to comments or comment on blogs

"You have to specify a valid author.43297"

Also i can't set an avatar to my profile

Hey guys, I hasn't been logged in to the game like.. 1 year idk. So people still just sitting around in afk? Also I have a question, when I was playing there were many people and they just laying down, not moving. Were they offline or online? If they're online, then I don't understand the point of just sitting afk and doing nothing (Stuped me complaining about old game and community again lol)

Wanna return to the game, maybe i'll draw some people that I'll find interesting (they're all interesting)


(Didn't used translator this time. Hope your brain and eyes still working after this blog)

P!!! I found you! We've played together!!! Today! Is that you? https://postimg.cc/GTnQ3PwT :3

Hey! I'm glad to see this community has an active forum. I've had my eye on this game ever since I was very young, never really getting the chance to play it properly. Once, when I was 14 on my crappy laptop yearsss ago, and now as an adult with a PC. Unfortunately both times having trying to download and play it, it made everything on my desktop huge and impossible to navigate, and just never closed or ruined it for a good amount of time unless I restart.

About 5 months ago I had made this account, fully expecting it to run smoothly. But despite changing the graphics settings, resolution, etc., I couldn't get it to run past 2 to 5 fps, if it wasn't entirely frozen not allowing me to close it that is. So I'd uninstalled it shortly after.

Is there a fix for this? I've always been excited to play but it's a bummer I kept running into these issues. I saw a video of somebody recently trying the game out who had to go through the settings and mess with it for a good 30 minutes or so just to get his to run smoothly. (which is good to know it's possible!)

Is it just because it's an old game, or would it have something to do with my PC? Sorry this is such a long winded post. The TLDR of it is;

The past few years I've been attempting to try TEF, but I've run into performance issues and desktop layout issues each time. Not sure if there are any fixes or if it's normal...

But thank you to anybody who would have an answer..!

hello! I used to play yeaaars ago (omg over 15 years) and no longer have access to my old email.
so im back! I look forward to seeing the art and writings again <3