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How to Claim a Spot for Your Base

How to reach the Plains for the first base quest: the cave route down, clearing the rubble, and placing your first Flame Altar. It costs 5 Stone.

GameWith Enshrouded EditorialGuide review teamGame version: Update 8 / v0.9.1.2
How to Claim a Spot for Your Base

Getting Down to the Plains

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    Leave the starting building and take the left path

    The left path leads into a cave that takes you down the cliff.

The terrace outside the starting building, with the left-hand path marked and the quest tracker showing Reach The Plains

The Chest on the Way In

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    Loot the chest on your right

    On the left path leading to the cave there is a chest on your right. It holds two items: a Bandage and a Torch.

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    Equip the Torch before you go in

    The cave is dark. With the Torch equipped you can see the path.

The open chest showing a Bandage and a Torch, with the Take all prompt and the Bandage item description
ItemWhat it does
BandageConsumables. Healing Per Second +4%
TorchAttack, or hold E to throw it

Fighting in the Cave

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    Pick up the sword further inside

    A sword lies deeper in the cave and becomes your starter weapon.

The cave interior with the sword pickup highlighted and the on-screen combat instructions

Clearing the Rubble at the Exit

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    Pick up the Explosive Powder Balls

    The exit is blocked by rubble, and crates of Explosive Powder Balls sit next to it. You can pick them up near the skeleton.

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    Throw one at the rubble

    Select them from your hotbar and throw one at the rubble to open the way.

The blocked cave exit with the crates of Explosive Powder Balls marked and the on-screen explanation of the two explosive types

Gathering What You Need

  • Stone, 5 of it. That is the whole recipe for a Level 1 Flame Altar
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    Collect small stones off the ground

    Small stones lie around the map. Walk up to one and press E to collect it.

A cluster of small stones on a slope with the E Collect prompt showing
A bush on a rocky ledge with the E Harvest prompt showing
The player swinging a sword into a bush, with damage numbers floating over it

Crafting the Flame Altar

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    Open the crafting menu with V

    Press V to open crafting, pick Flame Altar, then press Space to craft it.

The crafting menu with Flame Altar selected, its recipe listing Stone as the only resource

Placing the Flame Altar

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    Put it on your hotbar and select it

    The building interface opens on its own and the view pulls back a little.

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    Pick a spot and place it

    Line up the spot you want, then place it.

Building mode with the blue placement preview on the grass and the rotate and snapping controls listed
ItemWhat it does
RotateR turns it by 90°
SnappingX toggles snapping on and off
WhenWhat to do
The placement preview turns redMove somewhere else. A red preview means the Flame Altar cannot go there

Sources & version notes

Official pages support game-mechanic and version claims. Recommendations and route priorities are GameWith editorial judgments.

Steps, item names, and material costs marked as a playtest were confirmed in-game on the listed version, not taken from an official page.

  • GameWith playtest (Update 8 / v0.9.1.2)The cave route down, the chest contents, the starter sword, clearing the rubble, and the 5 Stone cost of the Flame Altar were all confirmed in-game on this version.