The “Find a Way Into the Forest” step in Ghost of Yotei appears twice during the Kitsune questline: first as a lantern-and-pedestal lock at the big tree, then again as a three‑statue alignment on the ridge beyond. Here’s the exact sequence for both, with the minimum actions you need to open each gate.

Find a Way Into the Forest (lantern and pedestal)

At the large tree with fox statues and a pedestal, you must light a specific set of lanterns before anything else will happen.

  • Grab a torch from the brazier on the left side of the tree.
  • Light exactly three lanterns:
    • The lantern immediately to the left of the tree.
    • The two lanterns just to the right of the locked door behind the tree.
  • Do not light any other lanterns. If you did, interact again to extinguish them.

When these three are lit, an interaction prompt appears on the pedestal.

Unlock the first forest gate

  • Return to the pedestal under the tree and press the new button.
  • The door behind the tree unlocks and opens.
  • Head through to continue into the forest.
Tip: If the pedestal doesn’t offer a button, you have an extra lantern lit somewhere. Blow out any others until only the three specified above are burning.

Find a Way Into the Forest (three fox statues on the ridge)

After passing through the first door and fighting the ambush up the hill, you’ll reach three rotatable fox statues. Turn each to the correct facing to open the next path.

Statue position Pose Set facing
Left Lying/resting Right
Middle Sitting Backward (looking away)
Right Right paw raised Left

Setting all three correctly unlocks the next gate and reveals the way forward.

What happens next

Continue along the new path. Watch for traps in the following section and stick close to your companion’s route cues. You’ll hit additional fox‑locked doors later in the Kitsune questline, but the pattern remains the same: read the nearby clues, match the statues or lanterns precisely, and only interact with what the symbols indicate.

The key takeaway: for the tree pedestal, light one lantern to the left of the tree and two to the right of the door, then use the pedestal; for the ridge statues, set left → right, middle → backward, right → left. Everything else is noise.