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Enshrouded 1.0: How to Get Linen

Spin Flax into Linen at the Hand Spindle, Spinning Wheel, or Spinning Machine, each with its own conversion rate.

Spin Flax into Linen at the Hand Spindle, Spinning Wheel, or Spinning Machine, each with its own conversion rate.

Linen is a cloth material made by spinning Flax, and it feeds into dozens of recipes across your base. Its item text reads, “The natural fiber won from the processing of Flax. The first step of cloth creation.” You produce it at one of three spinning stations, each tied to the Hunter.

Quick answer: Collect Flax (the blue-flowered plant in the Revelwood), then spin it into Linen at a Hand Spindle, Spinning Wheel, or Spinning Machine.


Collect Flax and spin your first Linen

Travel to the Ancient Spire in the Revelwood, then glide into the forest beneath it.
Gather Flax, the plant marked by small blue flowers.
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The blue-flowered Flax plant in the Revelwood is the source material for Linen. Shown at 00:45 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH
Get your first Hand Spindle by finishing the Hunter’s quest “The Hunter’s Hand Spindle“. You recover the lost spindle from a spider cave in the Revelwood, then place it near the Hunter. After that, the Hunter can craft more spindles for you.
Open the Hand Spindle, load it with Flax, and queue Linen. The Hand Spindle turns 2 Flax into 1 Linen.
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The Hand Spindle menu, where Flax is spun into Linen. Shown at 01:11 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH
Once the station is done, remove the Linen from it.

Spinning stations and their Flax-to-Linen rates

All three stations are crafted at the Hunter. They differ in conversion rate, so the Spinning Machine produces the most Linen per batch of Flax.

StationConversionCrafting cost
Hand Spindle2 Flax = 1 Linen3 Fossilized Bone, 4 Wood Planks
Spinning Wheel1 Flax = 1 Linen2 Wood Logs, 2 Wood Planks, 3 Fossilized Bone, 2 Bronze Bars, 5 Nails
Spinning Machine10 Flax = 15 Linen3 Conifer Logs, 5 Metal Scraps, 1 Linen, 1 Spinning Wheel

The first Hand Spindle comes from the quest reward, not the crafting menu.


Linen drops from Vukah enemies

Several Vukah enemies can drop 1 to 2 Linen each when defeated:

  • Vukah Rangers
  • Vukah Bonehunters
  • Vukah Bonebreakers

What Linen is used for

Linen appears in 54 recipes, among them numerous armor pieces. You can also use the Loom to turn it into Fabric: 2 Linen make 1 Fabric. The Loom is crafted at the Hunter and takes 30 Linen to build.

Craft (station)LinenOther ingredients
Fabric (Loom)2Makes 1 Fabric
Advanced Glider (Carpenter)46 Shroud Wood, 4 String, 8 Shroud Sack
Bronze Axe (Blacksmith)34 Bronze Bars, 1 Hardwood
Water Well (Carpenter)20100 Revelwood Stone, 1 Wooden Bucket
Padding (Hunter)23 Fabric, 1 Leather, 2 Resin