MK1 - Invasions S3: "The Cryomancer" Living Forest Mesa Guide

Mortal Kombat 1 Invasion mode looks to provide players with season content in an interesting new format for the franchise. Unlike the franchise's previous entry called Krypt, Mortal Kombat 1’s single-player focused content presents a table-top-like game for players to explore, find secrets, and eventually unlock more cosmetics through its Seasonal Koins system and chests.

Throughout these guides, we will be exploring the details of Invasions, how to complete them, tips and tricks, and what rewards you can expect in the season of the Cryomancer.

Season 3 Mesas

• Tarkatan Colony
• Fengjian Village
• Fire Temple
• Living Forest
• Shang Tsung's Laboratory
• Rampart

The Story

Seeking to turn all timelines into a freezing hell, this titan Sub-Zero's plan is nothing short of demented. Bi-Han's drive to conquer the world for the Lin Kuei has driven him mad, as he jumps from timeline to timeline, freezing entire realms over. Leaving with no prisoners, he ought to be stopped before there is no one left to attempt it.

The Living Forest

Welcome to the largest mesa of the season, the Living Forest. Before you travel here, you will need to finish the Fire Temple.

Like in the original Invasions season, your starting point is at the living part of the first, and then you slowly make your way through the winding paths of the forest. You can safely ignore most of the forest unless you want to grab a quick 200 Dragon Krystals from beating the "Leave Meow" Tower node. The only stop you must make is in the "Towering Over You" tower, which is past the boss gate at the end of the mesa, which rewards you with the key item Kashoo's Tail.

For the Living Forest, you have three Klue nodes:

• Crush It
  • Found near the start, after crossing the first bridge and before the second.
  • Klue: DEADLY TAIL.
  • You have to use Sareena's Kameo fatality.
• Step Back
  • A little after Crush It, after crossing the second bridge to the right.
  • Klue: FOR HARM.
  • Use Goro's Fatality.
• Fight
  • The positive way of the "Towering Over You" tower node.
  • Klue: HELPING HANDS
  • Use Tanya's fatality.

If you want to check all the klues in Invasions Season 3, we have this handy guide for you.

Like all other mesas, once you defeat the end-of-the-season boss, you will gain the Cryomancer Heart key item, which brings down the barriers to these locked areas. 

This area also holds one more Klue node, which is found on the very last node of the area and just requires you to use General Shao's base fatality to unlock.

You can check if you are missing on nodes by looking at the path's color. Uncleared paths are marked in green, cleared ones are in light blue, and paths you can’t move into are in red. You can also follow the green arrow for directions as to the quickest route to the end of the mesa.

After The Living Forest

Once completed, you will be over halfway through this season of invasions. Your next mesa is that of Shang Tsung's Laboratory. As always, you can take a break between the areas in the Gateway Portal to complete some of the towers, since you are probably approaching the level cap, you can also consider rounding up your character in the Wu Shi Academy.