Enshrouded: Building Controls and Hotkeys and Construction Tips

To build in Enshrouded, craft a Construction Hammer and place it on your hotbar. Use the hotbar key for the hammer, then press Tab to enter building mode. This opens the voxel construction interface, where you can select materials, change block shapes and sizes, and place or remove blocks. The game uses a voxel building system: every square in the world can be manipulated, and each filled square consumes one block. That means even a stack of 100 rough wood blocks may only cover about two walls, so gather far more material than the final structure appears to need.

Building Controls and Hotkeys

Once you are in building mode, the controls below let you place, remove, adjust, and undo construction actions.

The same key hints are displayed in the bottom-right corner of the screen during building mode, so you can check them there if you forget a binding.

How to Unlock Construction Blocks

All blocks are crafted at the Workbench. Recipes unlock in different ways: by collecting or crafting a related ingredient, by picking up certain materials, or as rewards from quests and exploration. Because there are 37 building blocks in total, check your crafting menu after each new material or quest milestone.

Wood Blocks

• Rough Wooden Block: unlocked after chopping wood and obtaining a tree log.
• Tarred Wood Block: unlocked after creating tar in the furnace.
• Dead Wood Block: unlocked after obtaining wrapped wood.
• Processed Wood Block: unlocked by creating wooden planks at the circular saw station.
• Palm Wood Block: unlocked after obtaining a palm tree log.
• Coniferous Wood Block: unlocked after obtaining a coniferous tree log in the Albaneve Summits location.
• Woven Block: found in an unmarked location southwest of the Ancient Spire Black Mire and the settlement of Vukah Threepeaks. Look for a chest behind a fallen hollow tree trunk above the Shrouded Ravine.

Stone Blocks

• Rough Stone Block: unlocked after obtaining stone.
• Common Stone Block: obtained from the quest "Mixed Stones" in the location Ruined Bridge, which leads to the Lupine lair.
• Rough Silicon Block: unlocked after mining silicon.
• Rough Sandstone Block: unlocked after mining sandstone.
• Castle Wall Stone Block: obtained from the quest "Fortifications" in the location Miner's Rift in the north of the map.
• Elegant Stone Block: found in the location Raven's Keep, a castle inhabited by scavengers.
• Burnt Brick Block: unlocked by creating burnt brick.
• Half-Timbered Block: obtained from the quest "Diadwin and Building Blocks." Found in the carpenter camp of the town of Diadwin in the northwest of the map.
• Limestone Block: obtained from the quest "Caravan Raid" in the location Suret's Rest in the south of the map.
• Mycelium Block: unlocked after mining mycelium in the Shroud.
• Processed Sandstone Block: unlocked after mining sandstone.
• Processed Stone Block: unlocked after completing the quest to obtain mason's tools.
• Common Sandstone Block: unlocked after mining sandstone.
• Old Stone Block: obtained from the quest "Incident in the Catacombs" in Bone Court (northwest of the map). The block is in a silver chest at the end of the catacombs, before the Stormbreak of the Fallen.
• Red Marble Block: found in the Halls of the Dead in the Merry Forest (northwest of the map).
• Halls of the Dead Block: found in the Halls of the Dead in the Spring Lands (southwest of the map).
• Polished Stone Block: looted from the corpse of the Scavenger Matron in the enemy camp Heart of the Ocean.
• Desert Temple Block: found in the location Southwest Sun Temple.
• Desert City Wall: found in the town of Brittlebush (east of the map).
• Well Block: found in the Elixir Well with the Fallen Monster in the northeast of the map.
• Rough-Cut Stone Block: found in the village of Netherton, shrouded in the Shroud (southern direction).
• City Wall Block: found in the enemy camp Frontier "Lani's Song" (slightly south of Pike).
• Obsidian Block: found at the very top of the Obsidian Forge in the Albaneve Summits, the biome located in the northeast of the map.
• Polished Marble Block: found north of the location Stormy Lake, east of the map.
• Vukah Temple Stones: found in the Vukah Tree Settlement, west of the Ancient Spire Black Mire.

Metal Blocks

• Metal Block: unlocked by creating metal sheets at the forge.
• Copper Block: unlocked by creating copper ingots.
• Bronze Block: unlocked by creating bronze ingots.
• Iron Block: unlocked by creating iron ingots.

Other Material Blocks

• Glowing Block: unlocked after obtaining a glowing growth.
• Bone Block: obtained from the quest "Search for Secret Tombs." Unlocked by visiting the Hidden Tomb.
• Green Glowing Block: unlocked by creating purified slime in the ectoplasm press.
• Warm White Glowing Block: unlocked by creating warm white glowing substance at the alchemist's table.
• Ectoplasm Block: found in the Halls of the Dead in the Nomad Highlands.
• Yellow Glowing Block: unlocked upon first obtaining the saffron spice.

Roof Blocks

• Plant Fiber Roof Block: unlocked upon obtaining plant fiber.
• Tarred Roof Block: unlocked by creating tar.
• Stone Roof Block: found in the town of Woodgard (quest "Hidden Building Blocks") or unlocked by mining silicon.
• Roof Block: unlocked by creating burnt brick in the industrial furnace.
• Thatched Roof Block: unlocked upon obtaining straw.
• Tarred Straw Block: unlocked upon obtaining straw.

Construction Tips

• For tall structures, craft and use scaffolding. It is made at the workbench from ordinary wood, and pieces can be placed on top of each other to reach higher areas safely.
• Use the X snap tool to align walls, floors, and roofs. Snapping is especially useful for keeping large builds straight and connected.
• Because Enshrouded is voxel-based, sometimes turning snapping off gives you more control for custom layouts. Experiment with both modes depending on the shape you want.
• You can build underground. Many players use this for hobbit-style homes, and circular doors and windows were added in an update, so underground builds can still feel open and decorated.
• Floating islands are possible. Start building from the ground with earth blocks, then remove the unnecessary lower blocks to leave the desired surface suspended.
• You can also dig out a whole hill and keep only the surface you want for building, rather than constructing from the ground up.
• Remember that every filled voxel costs a block. Plan large walls and floors carefully, and keep a generous stock of the relevant material before starting.