Learn how to get Enshrouded Oil in Enshrouded fast. Unlock requirements, materials, and crafting steps explained clearly.
🧪 What is Enshrouded Oil?
Enshrouded Oil is a mid-to-late game crafting material in Enshrouded used for some of the most important upgrades in the game.
You’ll mainly use it for:
- Huge Magic Chests (mass storage 👀)
- Ghost Glider (optional if you craft it)
- Lightning Channel (Wizard builds)
🔓 Requirements to Unlock Enshrouded Oil
Before you can even craft it, you need to unlock a few things:
✅ Required Unlocks:
- Alchemist unlocked
- Grinding Stones unlocked
- Laboratory unlocked
- Quest completed: “Scientific Instruments for a Laboratory”
⚙️ Why You Need Grinding Stones
This is where many players get stuck.
You need Grinding Stones because:
👉 You must craft Coal Powder
And once you:
- Convert Charcoal → Coal Powder
💡 This triggers the unlock for Enshrouded Oil
🧱 Enshrouded Oil Recipe
Once unlocked, you can craft it in the Laboratory.
🧾 Materials Required:
- 5x Brittle Shroud Flakes
- 5x Shroud Particles
- 5x Coal Powder
- 1x Sulfur
⏱ Crafting Time:
- 2 minutes
📦 Output:
- 5x Enshrouded Oil
📍 Material Notes (Quick Tips)
- Brittle Shroud Flakes
→ Check our dedicated guide for farming locations - Shroud Particles
→ Found in Shroud areas (you’ll naturally stack these) - Coal Powder
→ Crafted from Charcoal (see charcoal guide) - Sulfur
→ Mine in Kindlewastes. (see guide here)
💡 Best Use for Enshrouded Oil
Let’s be real — most players farm this for ONE reason:
🧰 Huge Magic Chests
- Massive storage upgrade
- Essential for base building
- Huge QoL improvement
👉 If you’re tired of inventory management… this is your solution.
⚡ Other Uses
- Ghost Glider (if crafting route)
- Lightning Channel (Wizard builds)
💡 Tip: If you already grabbed the Ghost Glider through exploration, you can save oil for more important crafts.
🧠 Final Thoughts
Enshrouded Oil is one of those resources that feels annoying at first…
but becomes essential once your base and builds start scaling.
👉 Unlock it early
👉 Stockpile materials
👉 Craft in batches
You’ll thank yourself later.
