With Enshrouded A new crafting-survival RPG hybrid appears in early access and encourages us to kill wild animals and monsters in order to craft fancy boots and gloves from their carcasses.
This hamster wheel is familiar from other survival games like Valheim or Ark, but Enshrouded also places emphasis on a story including quests and NPCs. Solo players who dislike aimless crafting are better guided, even if it still takes some time to fully get into the game. Especially since in addition to collecting, exploring and leveling, you also want to build a base. Here comes the one Enshrouded guide with tips and tricks in the game. It makes it easier to get started, shows how the quests progress in the first few hours, how to craft equipment, where to find materials and much more.
Enshrouded: All tips and guides
Basics
Getting started and quests
Co-op and online
Helpful items
Starting equipment and weapons
House and yard
Problems getting started? Follow the first quests
Enshrouded is a game full of systems, some of which interact with each other. You have to look through it first. How does crafting work? Where is resource xy? How do you build this and that? Even if the survival clock runs at the familiar pace for those familiar with the genre, there are many questions at the beginning. They clear up over time. Follow the first quests that revolve around rescuing the survivors.
The first few quests teach the basics. Tutorial texts inform us about the underlying mechanics at important points, for example here about the beacons at which you are revived.
After completing each task, check whether the Flame Altar or a rescued NPC in your base has an exclamation mark over their head. This leads to new quests, which in turn unlock new recipes and options.
Most structures can be destroyed
This applies, among other things, to barrels, pillars, walls, but also terrain when you use a pickaxe to dig into the ground. The fact is, you can destroy most of the game world and deform it. Just break a wooden door. Destroy a stone wall with a pickaxe or throw a bomb at it. Break down roadblocks instead of trying to find a way around them.
Tough but doable: Destroy blockages with a weapon.
This does not apply, for example, to the walls in the builders’ crypts and some other supporting structures. Experiment and gain a feeling for the destructibility and malleability of the world.
Explore villages carefully
All over the world you will find towns with illustrious names such as Hintertann, Morwenna or Farnthal. Most of them seem abandoned, but are they really? Even though the human inhabitants of Enshrouded may have said goodbye, monsters and violent wild animals are drawn to the places.
A peaceful village? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that. Wild animals like to nest in the seclusion (and unfortunately not the peaceful ones).
As you search the houses and fields when you reach a settlement, be careful of wolves and other dangers. Never enter a house hastily, but first open the door and make sure from a distance that there are no rats or other animals causing mischief inside.
Accommodation for the survivors
The aim of the game, especially at the beginning, is to find a handful of survivors who will then be available to you in the base and offer various services. They require shelter, otherwise you won’t be able to access the full offering.
As long as everyone has their own corner, a large room is sufficient as accommodation.
If you don’t feel like building a house for each survivor, simply build a larger building with plenty of space and summon all of the survivors in it. As long as they are protected and have a roof over their heads, there are no problems.
Look for entrances and dungeons
The world of Enshrouded is full of secrets and little twists and turns, some of them very inconspicuous. For example, here in Ember Watch you can discover an entrance to a small dungeon:
If the entrance is blocked, knock down the obstacles with a weapon or pickaxe, then you can explore what appears underneath (usually a small cellar, a burial chamber or something similar). Such stairs can also be found in other places, sometimes in buildings, hidden under wooden panels. Always keep your eyes open for junctions. They usually lead to at least one treasure chest.
Gain experience: XP is available for various things
Of course you can go out and fight opponents, in the classic way. Each enemy gives you experience after they die and they always respawn in their place. Ideal if you want to farm a specific resource.
Talk to all NPCs you rescue multiple times, especially if they have an exclamation mark over their head.
There is also XP for discovering new locations that are marked on the map, mining resources (e.g. flint), completing quests and reading notes and books. All of this brings experience points and sometimes exciting insights into what happened in the world and how it was affected by the miasma.
Mountaineering like in Skyrim
In Enshrouded you can also find a way up by jumping around rock walls and take advantage of the fact that you don’t immediately slip off everywhere. The double jump is recommended for this (can be unlocked in the skills under “Survivor”). Hop around wildly with it. Small points on a rock face are always suitable for standing.
Yes, you can hop up rock faces extremely awkwardly. Not elegant, but at least it works. At least with enough patience.
With a little back and forth, a few double jumps and the glider you can (not to Outwit a steep rock face and reach areas that would have been more difficult to access the “normal” way.
What you lose when you die
If you’re unlucky enough to be killed by an enemy, it’s annoying, but it’s not the end of the world. You keep all weapons and equipment such as grappling hooks, gliders and armor (unlike in some comparable games). Even the assignment of the quick bar is retained.
Collect your stuff from the gravestones.
A gravestone will then appear at the point of death where you can collect the consumables and materials from your inventory. Unlike, for example, Soulslikes from the Elden Ring brand, several gravestones with legacies can remain in the world. You don’t automatically lose what’s at the first death point if you die a second time on the way there.
Break down doors
A small but effective tip if you don’t feel like looking for switches: Every now and then locked doors are linked to a few glowing switches that you have to find and activate to open them (especially in the “dungeons” of the game, such as the waiting rooms or Crypts of the Builders). The doors cannot be cracked with a lockpick.
For example, behind this iron door there was a high-quality shield. Don’t feel like looking for the switches? Then she lashes out.
However, you can hit them with a weapon and… do that for a while, until they have had enough and open up. The weapon takes a fair amount of wear and tear and can even break, so don’t ignore the durability bar. And then uses a workbench to repair.
Always be curious, collect and mine
If you see an ore deposit or other previously unknown material somewhere, swing the pickaxe or mine it in another way. If you see an unknown object lying around, put it in your pocket.
An unknown rock? Swing the pickaxe and see what it is.
Only when you discover new materials will new recipes be unlocked. And with new recipes, your options expand significantly.
Just sleep away the night
An acceleration over time only occurs when you sleep in a bed at night. Nothing happens here during the day. Hit your ears to drive away the slumbering darkness:
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