Increasing Your Follower Amount And Flame Level

Increasing Your Follower Amount And Flame Level is a main quest with one objective, Acquire Happy Villagers And Upgrade The Flame. The Journal says the Flame needs more followers to grow stronger, and that to get more followers you have to find stray souls of villagers.

1. 1

   Assign Beds to Survivors

   Place your Survivors and assign them beds. From Flame Level 2 to 3, the upgrade window at the Flame Altar asks for 2 Survivors with Sheltered Beds assigned.

2. 2

   Gather the Materials

   Collect Wax, Salt, Spark, Shroud Wood, Flintstone, Mycelium and a Scavenger Matron Helmet, and carry them in your backpack.

3. 3

   Use the Flame Altar

   At the Flame Altar, press E Commune with the Flame, choose Strengthen the Flame and finish the upgrade once every requirement is met.

The Journal says to give the villagers shelter and food to make them happy. The upgrade window at the Flame Altar lists Survivors with Sheltered Beds assigned as a requirement, and from Flame Level 2 to 3 it asks for 2.

In our playthrough, when we held Elio Ricci, one of our Survivors, as an item, a hint told us to place them and then target a bed to assign them.

In our playthrough, a villager without an assigned bed had a red bed icon above their head.

At the Flame Altar, press E Commune with the Flame. The FLAME ALTAR window offers Upgrade Altar, Strengthen the Flame and Reskill. Choose Strengthen the Flame to open the upgrade window.

From Flame Level 2 to 3, Altar activation capacity goes from 4 to 6, Shroud Passage Level from 2 to 3, Character Attribute bonuses from 1 to 2, Craftable Lore Item Level from 6 to 11, and Time in the Shroud from 6min to 7min. Water source capacity stays at 1.

The upgrade needs the following. The words in parentheses are based on the line shown under each name in the window.

In our playthrough, the window counted only the materials in our backpack. With the Wax still in a chest at our base, it showed 0/10, and after we moved the Wax into our backpack, it showed 37/10.

In our playthrough, when every requirement turned green and we finished the upgrade, FLAME LEVEL UP 3 and RECIPE UNLOCKED! Fenrig's Axe (+1 more) at Blacksmith appeared, followed by QUEST COMPLETED! Increasing Your Follower Amount And Flame Level.

The upgrade window says Spark is found at a Flame Shrine or a Flame Sanctum. On the map, a Flame Shrine is a small golden flame icon, and selecting one shows Send Ping and Set as Waypoint.

In our playthrough, WAYPOINT REACHED, Location discovered XP +25 and FLAME SHRINE appeared when we reached a Flame Shrine we had not visited before. The prompt E Collect appeared at its fire bowl, and collecting from it showed a Spark notice without a number. The fire in the bowl became smaller afterward.

The Scavenger Matron Helmet is an EPIC material. The boss of The Alchemist's Rumors is the Scavenger Gorger Matron at the Hill of Scavengers, and in our playthrough, the helmet was in the loot it left behind. See The Alchemist's Rumors walkthrough in the related quests for how to defeat it.