Enshrouded 1.0 is out: changelog, new biome and what changes for your server

🔥 Enshrouded 1.0 is out: changelog, new biome and what changes for your server

Keen Games has published the full 1.0 changelog. Here is what is new and what it means for you and your server.

Since 15 October 2026, Enshrouded is no longer in Steam Early Access. What Keen Games announced beforehand, such as reworked mages, new spells and the Sparkworks logic system, is summarized in “Enshrouded 1.0: What arrives on 15 October”. This post covers what the release changelog adds.

🌋 New biome: Cinder's Cradle

With 1.0, the whole map of Embervale is open. In the far north, beyond the Veilwater Basin, lies the new biome Cinder's Cradle: a lava wasteland full of ruins below, floating islands above. It brings a new enemy faction with 14 new enemy types. Together with new variants for the other factions, that makes 37 new enemies.

• More world: Two new Hollow Halls in the Albaneve Summits and the Veilwater Basin, plus new areas near the edge of the map, mainly in the Springlands, Blackmire and Kindlewastes.
• Main quest: It now also leads into structures in the earlier biomes whose entrances used to be locked.

📈 Progression and skills

• New level cap: player level up to 50, gear up to level 55.
• Flame Altars: New Flame levels allow up to 16 Flame Altars in the end. With the final level, Flame Altars push back the Shroud. The required level can also be lowered in the world settings.
• Building in flight: The new skill Airborne Architect lets you build while flying freely.
• New combat skills: including Advanced Necromancy, Totem Mastery, Puncture and Barrage. Details are in the preview post.

💾 Saves

Enshrouded uses a new save format with smaller files and a simpler folder structure. When you load 1.0 for the first time and the game finds a save from version 0.8 or earlier, Keen Games says it is backed up first and then converted automatically. In the selection menu, you now choose between the local folder and the Steam Cloud in separate tabs.

🧭 What changes for your Enshrouded server?

At ZAP-Hosting, game servers that get their server files from Steam are updated automatically. That includes your Enshrouded server, so it gets 1.0 without you having to do anything. For servers, the changelog lists these changes:

• Permissions: On dedicated servers, user groups with passwords work as before. Players cannot be promoted or demoted there while playing.
• Enemy count: The server setting has a new “Automatic” option. It scales the number of enemies to the party playing nearby.
• Enemy damage: The values of the slider in the difficulty settings were rebalanced.
• Performance: Server-client communication needs less memory. A weak server affects gliding less, and input stays more responsive under heavy load.
• Warnings: Server performance warnings no longer trigger too early.

The changelog does not say whether existing worlds on a dedicated server are converted the same way as local saves. So:

1. Create a backup if you have not done so before the update. In the web interface you find it under “Tools → Backups”.
2. Check your server settings, especially the “Automatic” option for the number of enemies and the enemy damage.
3. Tell your players that everyone has to update to the same version.

How to set up a server is covered in the dashboard guide, and backing up savegames in the guide “Enshrouded: Manage savegames”.

✨ Graphics and more

• Brick renderer: Terrain and buildings look much more detailed at long distances.
• Lighting and HDR: Point light shadows cost far less performance, so large builds with many lights run better. HDR is now supported.
• Voice-over: Lore notes, letters and books as well as the main crafters and quest givers are voiced in English, German and Mandarin Chinese.
• Quality of life: You can now fast-travel while sleeping in a bed, and fishing was reworked with targeted bait.

🛡️ Your Enshrouded server at ZAP-Hosting

With your own Enshrouded server from ZAP-Hosting, your world keeps running around the clock, even when nobody is online. You decide who can join and set difficulty, player count and passwords in the web interface.

📖 Learn more

• Steam: Enshrouded 1.0 is live – highlights video
• Steam: Enshrouded 1.0 changelog
• Enshrouded 1.0: What arrives on 15 October
• Enshrouded: Configuration
• Enshrouded: Manage savegames

Enshrouded 1.0 is out, Flameborn. Don't forget the backup. 🔥