update · January 28, 2025
Enshrouded Pact of the Flame Update Adds Text and Voice Chat
Enshrouded Update #5 introduces in-game text and voice chat, first-person building, full prop rotation, and numerous world updates.
Keen Games is releasing Update #5, titled Pact of the Flame, adding heavily requested social systems, building tools, animal taming improvements, and biome adjustments.
Social Features and UI
Multiplayer sessions now support in-game text chat and voice chat, complete with proximity and global options. Both features are toggled off by default and must be enabled by server admins or hosts. A new Social menu tab tracks all players in the world, displays server permissions, maps player locations, and houses audio and text settings. Dedicated keybinds open a new emote wheel, integrating the old sitting action.
Building Tools and Props
Players can toggle a first-person camera view while using the Construction Hammer, placing props, or equipping building tools. Decorative furniture now supports full rotation across all axes, while functional items remain locked to vertical rotation. Two crafting progression tools arrive: an overgrowth tool crafted at the farmer using Revelwood materials to add or remove ivy, and a decay tool crafted at the collector using Nomad Highlands materials for ruined wall visuals. Dinner tables can now display food items using dedicated plates and coasters crafted at the farmer. Over 70 new props debut, alongside yellow stained-glass blocks and a stone wall terrain material.
Gameplay and Combat Adjustments
Skills can now be individually reset directly within the skill tree. Enemies and projectiles display clearer visual parry opportunity indicators. Kindlewastes hosts a new tameable farming animal, the Dune Armadillo. Dodging and blinking activate earlier during wand attacks to match melee weapon timings. The build hammer can pull building blocks straight from magic chests if at least one unit of the material is in the backpack. Animal taming mechanics are adjusted so sneaking away during feeding no longer cancels timers, and terrain bumps are less likely to spook creatures.
World and Location Changes
Settlements and points of interest across Moth's Grove, Saline Quarry, Netherton, Fox Chase, Rookmore, Fenrig's Farm, Morwenna, Roostnook, Cloverbrook Farm, and Mistbury Catacombs undergo significant reworks. The Springlands gains the Midhollow enshrouded ruins, Wistful Fields farm, and new camps. Blackmire and Albaneve Summits feature improved combat encounters, and an Event Honor Hall in the Albaneve Summits records the winners of the 2024 Halloween Building Contest.
Audio and Technical Fixes
Sound occlusion ensures objects and terrain properly muffle hidden audio sources. UI elements feature material-based equipping sounds and varied notifications. Performance improvements target texture streaming, vegetation rendering, and hard drive stuttering. Network optimizations reduce rubberbanding for low and medium bandwidth connections, and the skill Bloodletting now properly spawns health orbs on magical spell critical hits.
Why this patch matters
Pact of the Flame is a massive quality-of-life drop that modernizes Enshrouded's multiplayer communication, deepens building freedom, and refines core survival loops.