Winter Burrow Pinesap Quest Guide - Hood Location and Flint Boulder Route

Quick Answer: where is Pinesap

Pinesap is immediately beyond a group of Flint boulders to the left of the Fine Woollen Hood location. The final route does not begin from a generic map marker. First complete Moss's Heavy Key step and the Fine Woollen Hood objective so the task reads It's time to find Pinesap / Find out what happened to Pinesap. Return to the exact clearing where the hood lay on the snow, keep moving left, and inspect the rocks at the edge that looks like a dead end. Equip the Flint Pickaxe, break those boulders, then continue left to reach Pinesap. The Granite Pickaxe is not the requirement for this final barrier.

• Prerequisites: Heavy Key returned and Fine Woollen Hood collected for Moss.
• Route anchor: go back to the clearing where the Fine Woollen Hood was found.
• Hidden continuation: move left from the hood spot and break the circled Flint boulders.
• Required mining tool: Flint Pickaxe.

What you need before the final search

The Moss chain has several separate requirements, and arriving at the right screen too early will not finish it. Return the Heavy Key first. Continue Moss and Aunty's follow-up beats until Find more signs of Pinesap asks for the Fine Woollen Hood. The hood route uses the Flint Axe for the large vine barriers and passes the abandoned caravan. After returning the hood and advancing Moss again, the objective changes to the final Pinesap search. Bring the Flint Pickaxe for the last boulders, plus one food and one warmth item. Daylight helps because the exit left of the hood clearing blends into roots and snow.

Route through the hood stage

During Find more signs of Pinesap, follow the route from the large skull area toward the Fine Woollen Hood. Continue into the next area, clear the green vine barrier on the northwest path, and move through the darker tree screens. The abandoned caravan and another heavy vine barrier confirm the branch. Clear it, continue until the path opens into a small clearing, and pick up the blue-grey Fine Woollen Hood lying on the snow. The quest counter must change from 0/1. Return the hood to Moss and complete the next conversation before trying the boulders; finding the hood location alone does not activate the final objective.

• Confirm the objective says Collect Fine Woollen Hood 0/1.
• Use the skull-side route, northwest vine barrier, and abandoned caravan as checkpoints.
• Collect the blue-grey hood from the open clearing and verify 1/1.
• Return to Moss before attempting the final Flint boulder path.

Return to the hood clearing and continue left

When the active objective is Find out what happened to Pinesap, retrace the hood route. Stand in the same clearing where the hood was collected and walk left toward the root-and-rock edge. The Flint boulders are easy to dismiss as a decorative dead end, which is why the verified screenshot circles them. Select the Flint Pickaxe and clear the group. Continue left through the newly opened passage to find Pinesap. After the scene, retrace the route and report back to Moss rather than filling the bag with unrelated materials on a cold return.

Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers for the Pinesap route.

• Q: Where is Pinesap? A: Left of the Fine Woollen Hood clearing, behind a group of Flint boulders.
• Q: Which Pickaxe breaks the final rocks? A: The Flint Pickaxe, according to the verified Eurogamer route.
• Q: Why are the boulders not reacting? A: Confirm the final Pinesap objective is active and the Flint Pickaxe is selected.
• Q: Do I need the Heavy Key first? A: Yes. The Heavy Key and Fine Woollen Hood are prerequisites in Moss's chain.
• Q: Why use daylight? A: The left-side dead end, roots, and boulders are much easier to distinguish.

Confirm the hand-in before repeating the route

There are two separate returns to Moss near the end of this chain. The first happens after you collect the Fine Woollen Hood. Take the hood back, finish the conversation, and check that the 0/1 collection line disappears. The second happens after you pass the Flint boulders and reach Pinesap. Complete that scene, then return to Moss and let the follow-up dialogue finish. If the objective does not change at either hand-in, do not run the forest again immediately. Check inventory for the hood, confirm the correct NPC dialogue was completed, and read the exact HUD line. A screen showing Find more signs of Pinesap still belongs to the hood stage; a screen showing Find out what happened to Pinesap belongs to the final boulder stage. This distinction also tells you which tool to carry: Flint Axe for the hood-route vines, Flint Pickaxe for the later rocks. The clickable route cards below lead to the Heavy Key, map, and Pickaxe pages when one of those earlier states is missing.