Enshrouded Beginner’s Guide – 12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting

Enshrouded Beginner’s Guide: 12 Key Tips

This guide focuses on early-game survival and progression rather than the game’s storyline. Ash shares practical ways to avoid common mistakes and make exploration, combat, and crafting easier.

1. Use Flame Altars as checkpoints. They cost only five stone and can serve as temporary teleport points and base markers. The number you can place is limited by your Flame Level, so deactivate an altar when you’re finished with an area to free up a slot. Bring a Workbench, too, so you can repair gear in the field.

2. Make good use of consumables. You can have three food buffs active at once: one drink for stamina and two foods for stat boosts. Keep bandages and healing potions on your hotbar, and use elixirs for bosses or large groups rather than saving them indefinitely.

3. Try farming and animal keeping. Turn flowers into seeds, plant them around your base, and return later for a large harvest of crafting ingredients. Goats can also provide stamina-restoring milk if you keep food in their pen.

4. Build Magic Chests as soon as they become available. Crafting stations can draw materials directly from them. Press R to deposit items that aren’t on your hotbar, and add more chests when you need extra space.

5. Experiment with different builds. You can reset your skill build at a Flame Altar in your base for very little cost. Save useful weapons and armor so you can try different playstyles with a suitable gear set.

6. Fight patiently. Bait attacks, parry or dodge, and strike when an enemy’s guard is down. You can’t dodge while attacking, so learn an enemy’s timing before committing to a swing.

7. Use smart tactics when outmatched. Draw enemies in small groups, approach from the edges, and prioritize archers and mages. High ground can help against melee enemies, but clear ranged foes first. If a whole camp notices you, retreat, heal, and return from a better angle.

8. Keep your equipment upgraded and choose appropriate areas. Gear tiers provide major improvements to armor and stats. If enemies are overwhelming you, move elsewhere and return when you’re better equipped.

9. Consider delaying a dedicated mage build. Early mages have low damage, few spells, and little durability. You can still use some magic while leveling, then respec into a full mage around level 15–20, when you have more skill points and suitable gear.

10. Follow quests while exploring. Quests provide loot and lore, unlock NPCs and crafting recipes, and often point toward suitable areas. Check for green-highlighted quests if you’re unsure where to go next.

11. Seek out Shroud Roots. Destroying an open-world root grants one skill point; a root inside a Shroud Well grants three. These can boost your build much faster than leveling alone.

12. Prioritize Double Jump and Updraft. The guide recommends both for avoiding traps and enemies and climbing difficult terrain. They’re easy to test because respeccing is inexpensive.

Featured gamer/source: Ash, presenting for Gamesear.