All Enshrouded 1.0 Changes & Features for 2026

Latest Update: September 28, 2026 – Categories: Enshrouded

Enshrouded 1.0 is the biggest change to the game ever, with many new features and quality of life upgrades, plus a Playstation 5 release! Learn about every confirmed feature coming in the massive Enshrouded 1.0 Update!

🏹 More Enshrouded

Enshrouded is leaving early access on October 15, and Keen Games has started rolling out details on what actually changes when the game hits 1.0. What follows comes straight from the developers’ own preview videos and articles as well as blog posts, giving us the first real look at how the 1.0 Update build differs from what you have been playing for the last two years in early access. Check out our video version of this post or read on!

Enshrouded 1.0 Changes Explained

The biggest confirmed changes for Enshrouded 1.0 include a new Lava biome, increased level cap, new spells and magic upgrades system, new enemies, floating islands and much more. Read about this massive update below.

New Lave Biome and Completed World

The biggest news for early access players is that Enshrouded 1.0 will introduce a significantly overhauled world with redesigned existing locations and a brand-new lava biome located between the mountains and water biome. The lava biome will be larger than the water biome and feature numerous floating islands, creating more opportunities for vertical exploration. These islands range from small areas to massive locations containing dungeons and large groups of enemies. Furthermore, the 1.0 release will also add new bosses, dungeons, enemies, equipment, locations, and the completed Hallowed Halls for the mountain and water biomes.

The large red boundary wall that previously marked the edge of Embervale in Early Access will be removed, with the developers considering the world map essentially complete at launch. While no DLC or expansions have been officially announced, there are hints that future updates could take players to entirely new realms, maps, or parts of the world through new methods of transportation. Such separate areas could also help performance by preventing Embervale from becoming too large and hardware-demanding while allowing the developers to introduce mechanics distinct from the existing world.

New Level Cap

With the full release of Enshrouded 1.0, the level cap will increase from 45 to 50, alongside a major rework of the Mage class. Mage progression will be more consistent, with additional spells available between major level milestones. Necromancy is also being expanded through the new Advanced Necromancy skill, which unlocks a spell that summons a skeleton to fight alongside the player without requiring a proc or weapon gem. Upgrading the skill/spell increases the number of allies you can summon. Several other spells are also being added, including ice, fire, and root-based abilities, while elemental totems such as Lightning, Ice, and Fire Totems can be placed to attack nearby enemies before expiring.

The 1.0 Mage changes will allow for much deeper specialization, letting players focus on Fire, Ice, Lightning, or Necromancy builds with more spells available within each damage type. All magic spells will also receive Eternal versions, expanding options for sustained spell use. Wands are gaining additional combat options as well, with regular and small wands receiving heavy attacks, dodge attacks, and jump attacks.

Combat and Magic Rework

Enshrouded 1.0 brings nine new mage spells, a wand rework built around piercing heavy attacks and new skills, three new archer skills, three new eternal arrow types, and a fresh level cap of 50 for players and 55 for equipment. Mages are getting the most attention this update, with new crowd control and summon spells alongside 22 tier 7 eternal spell versions that skip ammo costs entirely. Wands and staffs also get new combo potential through a skill that rewards switching between them mid-fight. New spells include:

Entangle – A root-in-place spell with area of effect potential, capable of trapping multiple enemies in vines at once and holding them in place long enough for a spellcaster to reposition.
Blizzard – An area of effect ice spell that applies a damage over time effect and appears to slow or freeze enemies caught inside it.
Ball of Lightning – A direct damage spell that adds another burst option to the mage’s offensive spell list.
Pillar of Flames – A second direct damage spell, giving mages another straightforward offensive option alongside Ball of Lightning.
Mana Drain – Siphons a fixed amount of mana per second from an enemy and adds it directly to your own mana pool.
Summon Hollow Skeleton – Calls a skeleton into battle using a staff, forming the base of the game’s new necromancy-style summons.
Summon Fire Totem – Places a fire-based totem that fights alongside you, expanding the summons category beyond skeletons.
Summon Ice Totem – An ice-based totem summon that adds elemental variety to a totem-focused build.
Summon Shock Totem – A shock-based totem summon rounding out the new set of elemental totems.

New Enemies and Bosses

Enshrouded 1.0 will also introduce several new robotic enemies, each with distinct combat mechanics. These include types such as a flamethrower-equipped robot, a heavily armored tank-like machine with drills for arms, and a missile-firing robot that requires well-timed dodges and mobility to defeat. Additionally, the update will also add new enemy types to existing biomes, including new Scavengers, Shroud enemies, and werewolves, meaning early access players will encounter fresh threats even in areas they already know. New bosses are also being added, including a final boss, while the existing dragon boss fight in the mountain biome will be reworked.

One of the new robotic bosses will be a massive spider- or crab-like robot featuring an energy ball on its head as a key target. The fight will have multiple phases, including a shield phase where the boss can only be damaged when its shield opens. It can also fire a powerful laser that players must either dodge or avoid by using the environment for cover.

Quality of Life and Base Building

The full release of Enshrouded will also add several quality-of-life improvements for building and inventory management. Players will be able to label chests and map markers, while upgrading crafting chests will no longer require emptying and then replacing everything inside. Resources and materials harvested in the world will also have an auto-pickup option. Furthermore, the update will introduce new building materials, increase the Flame Alter cap from 10 to 16, and allow players to extend their builds into the Shroud by placing a Flame Altar near its edge.

Another major addition is the new electricity or logic system, which lets players connect switches, levers, pressure plates, and timers to things such as lights, doors, and traps. This allows for more complex automation—for example, one switch could activate all the lights in a base, while timers could create delays between different effects. The system can even spawn regular enemies, and an item-spawning system will allow players to create custom encounters and dungeons. In theory, players could build an entire dungeon, trigger a boss fight at the end, then provide spawned loot as a reward.

Game Performance Improvements

Enshrouded 1.0 is getting major performance improvements aimed at making the game run more smoothly, particularly in large, detailed areas and on lower- and mid-range hardware. A new brick renderer replaces a major part of the previous voxel-to-mesh process, allowing the game to stream and cull world geometry more efficiently while maintaining detail at long distances. Shadow rendering is also being optimized so the game spends less time processing areas that aren’t actually visible to the player.

In short: the biggest gameplay-facing improvement is that Enshrouded 1.0 should be able to maintain its large draw distances, detailed player-built environments, forests, lighting, and effects with substantially less CPU/GPU overhead.

Voice Acting

Many Survivors, NPCs, and written notes will receive voice acting in Enshrouded 1.0, adding more spoken dialogue and narration throughout the game. Additionally, players who find the Survivors’ ambient grunts and small vocalizations annoying while they are at their base will also have the option to disable those sounds in the settings.

The update will also introduce more flexibility for consuming lore. Players will be able to pause lore entries as they are being played and return to them later through a new playback option in the journal.

The Fell Dragon Youngling Rework

The fell dragon youngling has been the final boss in Enshrouded since early access launched, and Keen Games is open about the fact that this boss has been extremely frustrating for players. The 1.0 changes target both the bugs that made the fight feel broken and the underlying difficulty curve.

On the bug side, the developers are fixing two specific issues: the boss resetting to full health mid fight, and the boss getting stuck in an unresponsive state. Both of these have been common complaints, since either one can turn a near win into a wasted attempt through no fault of the player.

The arena itself is getting deeper so players fall off or get knocked off by the dragon’s wind gust less often. Keen Games is also adding a new phase where the dragon lands and melee builds can attack it directly without needing to land a stun first, which opens the fight up to weapon types that previously struggled to get consistent damage in.

Note: melee players can already reflect the dragon’s rock projectiles back at it to stun it, and the game does explain this, but Keen Games says a lot of players are not doing it based on player feedback they have collected. If you have been struggling with this fight, parrying the rock throws is worth practicing now before 1.0 changes the numbers around it.

Finally, the number of stunning hits needed to trigger that full stun is going down, normal damage taken is going up, and the weak spot on the dragon’s back will now work for every weapon type instead of a subset of them. Once stunned, the dragon will stay stunned longer, though it will take somewhat less damage during that window to balance out the extended duration. Its hitbox is also being refined to be easier to hit consistently. On top of all of that, the dragon’s overall health pool is being significantly reduced.

That’s a lot! Hopefully now this fight becomes an actual challenge instead of a chore!

Review our Fell Dragon Youngling Boss guide.

New Player Character Proportions

Long time players have jokingly called their Flameborn characters hobbits, since the default proportions give characters a slightly oversized head, hands, and feet. For 1.0, Keen Games is adding new player proportions meant to look less like a halfling out for second breakfast and more like an adventurer built to save the realm.

If you already have an existing character and want the updated proportions, you will be able to visit the Barber NPC Elio Richi, who can use his scissors to adjust your Flameborn’s look without starting a new character.

Updraft Charge Speed Settings

Update 8 added a charge up time to Updraft and changed its movement strength, and the community response was largely negative. For 1.0, Keen Games is introducing a new setting in the game’s options tab that lets you choose between the original instant Updraft and the slower, charge based version introduced in update 8. If you think gliders are overpowered with instant Updraft, you can pick whichever version suits your own game.

NPC and Pet/Livestock Pathing Fixes

Players who build large, densely populated bases have reported NPCs and pets getting stuck in awkward spots around their builds, whether that is a pet wandering somewhere it cannot get out of or an NPC wedged into a corner of a base. Yaks are by far the worst culprits of this!

Keen Games says there is no single fix for this since there are multiple separate causes, but every cause they are currently aware of has been addressed for 1.0. If new instances of NPCs or pets getting stuck show up after launch, the studio has committed to fixing those as they are identified.

Fishing Rework

Fishing is getting a rework aimed at cutting down on player frustration. Bait now primarily attracts fish from the same biome the bait’s source came from, and improved fishing bait guarantees that the fish which bite will match the tier of the bait you are using. Location itself no longer affects your base chance of catching a fish at all, since that job now belongs to bait choice.

Certain fishing spots increase your odds of pulling up treasure or trash, the same way some fishing rods already do, while other specific spots increase the chance that fish bite in the first place. Keen Games says attentive players will be able to tell these spot types apart by paying attention to how each location behaves, though they did not go into exactly what visual or behavioral cues to look for.

What Else Is Coming to Enshrouded 1.0

Keen Games has been slowly teasing features and updates coming to Enshrouded 1.0, so keep checking back as we will continually update this guide! Enshrouded releases out of early access on PC and PlayStation 5, including PS5 Pro, on October 15, 2026. Xbox Series X|S players will have to wait longer, with Keen Games targeting a spring 2027 release for that version so the studio can focus on getting each platform right rather than rushing a simultaneous launch.

We recently broke down the Enshrouded 2026 Roadmap which discusses a few additional features the Devs are planning for 1.0. This includes:

Combat Improvements
- Greater tactical depth
- Smarter enemy behavior
- Better balancing
- Increased enemy variety
New Content
- Exciting new locations to explore and challenges to overcome (Floating Islands is expected)
Adventure Sharing Version 2, including:
- Logic Elements
- Logic Gates
- Enemy spawners
- Traps

Other than what’s listed in the Roadmap we expect this to be a huge update. Keen Games has hinted at hundreds of changes coming in this patch, both small and large.

What Is Enshrouded?

Enshrouded is an action RPG and survival game built and published by Keen Games, a German studio previously known for Portal Knights. You play as one of the Flameborn, exploring the voxel based open world of Embervale solo or with up to sixteen players total in co-op. Combat blends real time action RPG mechanics with base building and full terrain destruction, all running on the Holistic Engine, a proprietary system Keen Games built in house specifically to support total terrain manipulation rather than licensing Unreal or Unity. That choice means digging, building, and destroying terrain feels seamless, since the Holistic Engine was designed around that mechanic from the ground up instead of being adapted to fit it afterward.

Enshrouded launched into Steam early access on January 24, 2024, and found an audience fast, passing one million players in its first week and reaching three million by August of that same year. Over the following two years, Keen Games shipped eight major content updates, adding three new biomes and their monsters, a dynamic water system, new weapons and armor, and expanded base decoration options like weapon racks and feast tables, all while patching bugs and rebalancing systems based on player feedback. By early 2026 the player count had climbed past five million, and Keen Games used that momentum to lay out a public roadmap toward a full release.

That full release lands on October 15, 2026, when Enshrouded leaves early access on PC and PlayStation 5, including PS5 Pro, with an Xbox Series X|S version following in spring 2027. The 1.0 launch folds in the fell dragon youngling rework, the new death and enemy health system, the Updraft toggle, and everything else covered above, marking the point where Keen Games considers the core game complete rather than a work in progress. If you have been waiting for Enshrouded to be finished before diving in, October 15 is that milestone.

Enshrouded 1.0 FAQ

1. When does Enshrouded 1.0 launch?

Enshrouded releases out of early access on October 15, 2026, for PC and PlayStation 5, including PS5 Pro. Xbox Series X|S is not launching alongside those platforms and is currently targeted for Spring 2027.

2. Do I need to buy anything extra to get the 1.0 update?

Based on what Keen Games has said publicly, 1.0 is the full release of the game you already own if you bought it during early access, not a separate purchase or DLC. Keen Games has noted that the price of the game itself may be higher after 1.0 launches, so if you already own it on Steam, you keep it.

3. Can you already stun the fell dragon youngling by reflecting its rock projectiles?

Yes. Melee builds can currently reflect the dragon’s rock projectiles back at it to stun it, and the game does explain this mechanic. Keen Games has said a lot of players are simply not using it, so if the fight has felt unfair, try parrying the rocks before 1.0 changes the stun thresholds.

4. Will my existing Flameborn character automatically get the new proportions?

No. Existing characters keep their current proportions unless you choose to change them. You will need to visit the NPC Elio Richi, who can adjust your character’s proportions using his scissors.

5. Does fishing location still matter after the 1.0 rework?

Not for your base chance of catching a fish, no. In the reworked system, location no longer influences whether you catch something. Instead, bait determines which biome’s fish you attract and what tier of fish bites, while specific fishing spots affect your odds of pulling treasure, trash, or getting more bites overall.

Get More Enshrouded!

Looking for the BEST info on Enshrouded? HTM has you covered! Check out our hand-crafted Enshrouded guides below!