Enshrouded Craftspeople & Unlocks
Rescue the Blacksmith, Alchemist, Hunter, Carpenter and Farmer, then build the equipment that opens their next recipes. Find their quest leads, the tools worth recovering and the requirements that can leave a station or recipe locked after a rescue.
Blacksmith
Oswald AndersStart metalworking, craft equipment and get your first production stations running.Click to collapse
Rescue Oswald Anders
- Quest
- Find the Sleeping Survivor
- Quest giver
- The Flame
- Destination
- Ancient Vault - Blacksmith, Springlands
- Track Find the Sleeping Survivor and follow its marked route through the Shroud to the vault.
- Find and awaken Oswald, then return home. Make a Summoning Staff in manual crafting from 1 Twigs if you do not have one.
- Use the staff to place him at your base. Waking him in the vault is not the final quest step.
Charcoal Kiln
Rescue Oswald and pick up Stone. Craft at the Blacksmith with 20 Stone.
- Craft and place the Charcoal Kiln, then open its own production menu to choose a recipe.
Processes wood into charcoal-related materials. This is not the Carpenter's pottery Kiln.
Smelter
Follow Crucible Needed For A Smelter from the Blacksmith.
- Retrieve the Crucible from the Scavenger mine at Mark of Sameth in Revelwood.
- Return to the Blacksmith and craft the Smelter with 50 Fired Bricks and the Crucible. Place it at home before trying to process ore.
Turns mined ore into usable metal. Fired Bricks require the Carpenter's Kiln, so this job crosses crafting chains.
Why is a metalworking recipe still unavailable?
Check the exact recipe's shelter, Forge and Flame requirements. A rescued Blacksmith does not automatically provide every equipment tier. Missing armor recipes are covered separately below.
Why armor recipes aren't unlockingAlchemist
BalthazarOpen potion and magic crafting, then recover equipment that expands his recipes.Click to collapse
Rescue Balthazar
- Quest
- Powerful Alchemy
- Quest giver
- The Flame
- Destination
- Ancient Vault - Alchemist, Springlands; west of Egerton Salt Mines
- Track Powerful Alchemy to the Alchemist's Ancient Vault.
- Recover Balthazar and summon him at your base with the Summoning Staff. Speak to him for his crafting and quest options.
Mortar
Take The Alchemist's Mortar quest from Balthazar.
- Go to his old tower at Lone Thistle and investigate the basement.
- Find the button in the tower above the basement to open the laboratory door, then recover the Mortar.
- Return home and place the Mortar near the Alchemist.
Adds recipes to the Alchemist's crafting options. Check the crafter as well as any separate production station.
I found the Mortar. Why haven't the recipes opened?
Complete the placement step. Carrying the recovered Mortar is not the same as placing it near the Alchemist. Later equipment, such as the Laboratory, opens separate recipes.
Hunter
Athalan SkreeMake survival equipment and start the fur, leather and textile crafting chains.Click to collapse
Rescue Athalan Skree
- Quest
- Hunter Becomes The Hunted
- Quest giver
- The Flame
- Destination
- Ancient Vault - Hunter, Springlands / Low Meadows
- Track Hunter Becomes The Hunted and use the journal's vault marker for your current world.
- Recover Athalan from the vault, return home and place her with the Summoning Staff.
Drying Rack
Rescue Athalan. Craft through the Hunter with 10 Wood Logs and 6 String.
- Place the rack near the Hunter and inspect its processing recipes. Gather Salt and raw fur for fur drying, not just the materials used to build the rack.
Provides early fur processing. The Tanning Station is a separate later unlock.
Tanning Station
Follow In Need Of A Tanning Station from the Hunter; this chain also involves the Carpenter.
- Talk to the Carpenter, then investigate Raven's Keep in the Nomad Highlands.
- Follow the trail to Lupa's Lair and obtain the Tanning Station.
- Return home and place it to complete the unlock.
Opens further Hunter recipes. This is not a station you should expect to obtain during your first Springlands gathering trip.
Why doesn't my Drying Rack make Leather?
The Drying Rack and Tanning Station do different jobs. Check the required output's station and ingredients rather than treating all fur-processing equipment as interchangeable.
Carpenter
Cade HawthornExpand building and storage options, make a Kiln and recover the Table Saw.Click to collapse
Rescue Cade Hawthorn
- Quest
- Carpentry Assistance
- Quest giver
- Balthazar, the Alchemist
- Destination
- Ancient Vault - Carpenter, Springlands / Low Meadows
- Rescue and summon the Alchemist, then follow his Carpentry Assistance quest to the Carpenter's vault.
- Reach the sleeping survivor at the end of the vault and recover him.
- Summon Cade at home. Provide shelter and a sheltered bed; rescuing him does not build his equipment for you.
Kiln
Rescue Cade. Craft at the Carpenter with 50 Revelwood Stone, 10 Lump of Clay, 10 Metal Scraps and 2 Twigs.
- Gather Revelwood Stone specifically; do not assume ordinary starting Stone fits this recipe.
- Craft and place the Kiln, then use its production menu for Fired Bricks.
Supports pottery and brick production. Placing it nearby also adds Carpenter and Decoration Workbench recipes.
Table Saw
Follow Table Saw For The Carpenter from Cade.
- Investigate Thornhold, then follow the road clues toward Fawnsong Frontier.
- Recover the Circular Sawblades from the Scavenger camp.
- Craft the Table Saw at the Carpenter with 8 Wood Logs, 10 Nails and the Circular Sawblades. Place it near the relevant crafter.
Expands Carpenter and Hunter crafting. Finding the quest item alone does not supply the finished saw.
Why did recovering the sawblades not finish the Table Saw unlock?
Circular Sawblades are a crafting ingredient, not the completed station. Bring them to Cade with the other materials, craft the Table Saw and place it nearby. The saw also unlocks recipes at the Hunter.
Farmer
Emily FrayStart growing ingredients and build toward a steadier food supply.Click to collapse
Rescue Emily Fray
- Quest
- Growing Stronger Together
- Quest giver
- Athalan Skree, the Hunter
- Destination
- Ancient Vault - Farmer, Springlands; east of Withered Encampment
- Rescue and summon the Hunter, then follow her Growing Stronger Together quest to the Farmer's vault.
- Recover Emily and summon her at your base. Speak to her for food, farming and further equipment quests.
Seedbed
Rescue Emily. Craft at the Farmer with 10 Wood Logs, 2 Metal Scraps and 10 Farm Soil.
- Craft and place the Seedbed, then open its seedling recipes.
- Check the selected plant's ingredients and water requirement before queuing production.
Produces seedlings for planting. Crafting the Seedbed does not provide the ingredients for every plant.
Why don't I have every cooking recipe after rescuing Emily?
The Farmer and her production stations have different crafting menus. Later cooking equipment and quest tools add their own options; check which station the recipe actually uses.
Still missing a recipe?
The recipe is missing
Check the correct crafter, current Flame level and named unlock quest. Armor tiers changed in 1.0; collecting an ingredient is not a universal way to reveal every recipe.
The recipe is visible but blocked
Read the unmet conditions: shelter, nearby equipment and ingredients are separate requirements. A station sitting in your backpack does not count as placed equipment.
The survivor is rescued but absent
Use the Summoning Staff at your base and select the recovered survivor. Finish the summon objective, then check their shelter, bed and food needs.
Start with the Blacksmith for the opening base quests. Follow the Alchemist's lead for the Carpenter, and the Hunter's lead for the Farmer. The cards are not a mandatory rescue order for every world.
Give rescued survivors a sheltered bed and food as well as a place to work. Keeping a survivor happy and meeting a particular recipe's crafting conditions are related jobs, not the same check.
Sources and version notes
This resource covers the five early craftspeople and eight selected station or tool unlocks, not every survivor or recipe. Quest objectives and recipes were checked against game-data references for build 25988036. The Tanning Station chain extends into the Nomad Highlands. Follow your current journal and crafting requirements if an update changes them.
- Oswald Anders: crafting and quest reference
- Balthazar: crafting and quest reference
- Athalan Skree: crafting and quest reference
- Cade Hawthorn: crafting and quest reference
- Emily Fray: crafting and quest reference
- Survivor placement, shelter, bed and food requirements
Sources are fan-maintained game-file references, not official Keen Games walkthroughs. Precise vault markers conflict in some source pages; no coordinate-level route or puzzle walkthrough is claimed here. Game Pelt has not gameplay-tested these rescue routes. Game artwork belongs to Keen Games.