update · July 29, 2024
Enshrouded Back to the Shroud Update Adds Difficulty Presets and Collectible Displays
Enshrouded Update 3 introduces customizable difficulty presets, wearable equipment display stands, and extensive combat adjustments. The patch also improves mage spell velocity, reworks the crafting menu, and adds new building blocks and regional content.
Keen Games released the Back to the Shroud update for Enshrouded, bringing long-requested difficulty settings, base display props, and major combat tuning for mages and melee fighters.
Difficulty Presets and World Settings
Players can now choose from Default, Relaxed, Hard, and Survival presets, or fine-tune over 30 individual game world settings. These options affect enemy aggression, resource yields, and survival mechanics like hunger and item drops upon death. Settings must be configured before launching a session and cannot be changed mid-game without restarting the server.
Base Building and Display Props
Armor pieces and weapons can now be mounted on newly craftable mannequins and weapon stands around your base. Decorative shelves are available to showcase world collectibles such as fossils. Additional quality-of-life additions include a reworked crafting menu with larger preview images, free rotation for stone fences in non-snapping mode, and the new Mixed Sandstone Block.
Combat, Parry, and Mage Adjustments
Block and parry mechanics received a backend rework to fix glitches and improve input responsiveness, allowing multiple enemies to be parried simultaneously with correct timing. Mage gameplay sees increased projectile speed and early-game damage for Fireball and Ice Bolt, alongside wand durability improvements and reduced transition times into blocking stances. Dagger damage zones were also reworked to hit small targets like rats more reliably.
World Content and Technical Updates
The Blackmire region expands with new caves, temples, and enemy tree camps, while Kindlewastes gains five new temples and improved Hollow Halls chest loot. Technical upgrades include native support for FSR3, replacing FSR2, improved global illumination in dungeons, and performance optimizations for lower-end hardware and Steam Deck.
Why this patch matters
Update 3 delivers customization options and vital combat polish, letting players tailor everything from world difficulty to mage spell speed while cleaning up technical snags.