Enshrouded 1.0: How to Get Ice and Enshrouded Ice

Ice and Enshrouded Ice sound like the same thing, but they are two separate materials gathered in two different ways. Both come from the Albaneve Summits, and both feed into weapons, armor and the Flame Altar once you are deep enough into Enshrouded.

Quick answer: Mine Ice with a pickaxe from the frozen rivers and ice sheets of the Albaneve Summits. Gather Enshrouded Ice by felling the large Shroud mushroom trees inside that biome’s Shroud and looting what they leave.

Ice and Enshrouded Ice are two separate materials

Ice is mined: you collect it by striking frozen water with a pickaxe, and it stacks up to 1000. In the inventory it reads, “Crystalline, ice-cold, and slippery.”

Enshrouded Ice is a level 33 Common material pulled from inside the Shroud. Its description reads, “Frozen, enshrouded liquid that’s cold to the touch. Commonly found in the Shroud of the Albaneve Summits biome. It’s unusable by itself, but can be processed into different materials in crafting.”

How to mine Ice in the Albaneve Summits

Use fast travel to reach the Albaneve Summits Ancient Spire. A frozen river runs below it.

arriving at the Albaneve Summits Ancient Spire — Fast travelling to the Albaneve Summits Ancient Spire puts you directly above the frozen river. Shown at 00:21 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Glide down from the spire to the frozen river below. The river and its banks are where the Ice sits.

Equip a pickaxe and strike the ice on the river. Each swing adds Ice, and a pickup notification appears on the left of the screen to confirm it landed in your inventory.

mining ice with a pickaxe, pickup Ice — Mining the frozen water with a pickaxe; the Ice pickup confirmation appears on the left of the screen. Shown at 00:51 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Keep mining the ice sheets along the riverbank until you have the amount you need. You want 30 Ice for the Flame Altar, or 25 for an Eternal Frost Arrow.

mining the ice sheet on the river bank — The ice sheets along the rocky riverbank yield Ice with every swing. Shown at 01:06 in HeRo Survival Guides’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

How to get Enshrouded Ice from the Shroud

Enter the Shroud within the Albaneve Summits. The Shroud timer begins counting down the moment you step inside, so keep an eye on it.

Find a large Shroud mushroom tree in the area and fell it using an axe.

Loot the glowing remains the tree leaves behind to collect the Enshrouded Ice. Move on to the next tree and gather more the same way.

What Ice is used for

Raising the Flame Altar from level 6 to 7 takes 30 Ice, along with 30 Spark, 30 Wool, 30 Gentian, 30 Granite, 30 Flammable Goo and 1 Fell Cyclops Head.

Ice also goes into a range of arrows, spells and processing recipes:

Eternal Frost Arrow II (Hunter) takes 25 Ice, 15 Steel Bars and 1 Enshrouded Cyclops Eye.
Eternal Frost Arrow III (Hunter) takes 25 Ice, 15 Celestium Bars and 2 Archaic Core.
Ice Bolt III (Alchemist) takes 7 Ice, 4 Enshrouded Ice and 2 Snow, and makes 20.
Ice Bolt IV (Alchemist) takes 10 Ice, 1 Sparkling Dust and 2 Ember Carapace, and makes 20.
Eternal Blizzard I (Alchemist) takes 20 Ice, 20 Snow, 15 Enshrouded Ice and 5 Obsidian Dust.
Eternal Blizzard II (Alchemist) takes 30 Ice, 20 Sparkling Dust, 15 Celestium Bars and 3 Archaic Infusion.
Eternal Ice Totem II (Alchemist) takes 30 Ice, 30 Diamond Dust and 15 Celestium Bars.
Exceptional Ectoplasm (Ectoplasm Press) takes 15 Ice, 10 Ectoplasm Cluster, 10 Torn Cloth and 1 Fabric, and makes 10.

What Enshrouded Ice is used for

Enshrouded Ice is largely an armor material. Nine trousers and pants recipes each take 15 Enshrouded Ice plus 1 Warm Padding: the Frostbite Slasher Trousers, Alpine Antler Trousers and Trailblazer Trousers (Hunter); the Mountain’s Shadow Trousers, Wolf’s Fang Trousers and Brazen Bull Trousers (Blacksmith); and the Hailcaster Pants, Pearlfrost Mentor Pants and Thaumaturge Pants (Alchemist).

Nine matching glove recipes each take 10 Enshrouded Ice, 1 Warm Padding and 1 Silver Dust: the Frostbite Slasher, Alpine Antler and Trailblazer Gloves (Hunter); the Mountain’s Shadow, Wolf’s Fang and Brazen Bull Gloves (Blacksmith); and the Hailcaster, Pearlfrost Mentor and Thaumaturge Gloves (Alchemist).

It also appears in several crafted items:

Shroud Arrow II (Hunter) takes 2 Enshrouded Ice, 5 Twigs and 1 Chitin Powder, and makes 25.
Shroud Vapor (Laboratory) takes 10 Enshrouded Ice, 15 Active Mycelium and 20 Salt, and makes 5.
Chanterelle Seedling (Seedbed) takes 1 Enshrouded Ice, 1 Chanterelle and 1 Fossilized Bone Dust, and makes 5.